Chapter 3996

On the Forty-Ninth Heaven, atop the scarred and fissured Altar of Deification, the powerful beings protected by Jiang Chen’s purple-gold wall of light were all gathered. They had experienced a rollercoaster of upheaval—from the majestic Grand Deification Ceremony, where gods were as numerous as clouds, to the desolate, crumbling ruins that remained. Their brothers-in-arms, comrades, and confidants who had once lived and died together were now scattered or gone; many had dissolved into the myriad paths of energy that returned to the Primordial Void, leaving the survivors filled with sorrow. What worried them even more was that the catastrophe of the firmament had not ended here; they were completely in the dark about what would come next. Their only hope lay within the Void Dao Mirror suspended in the void, its whereabouts unknown, its survival uncertain. This uncertainty about the future and the gloom of their prospects constantly battered their already frayed spirits. It seemed as though the slightest gust of wind could be the straw that broke them.