Along the ancient Xihe Road, embers of tribulation smoldered.
Shi Lei's skeletal figure—with a faint, floating speck of primordial Chaos light shifting in his chest, his bones bearing ferocious cracks and his aura as weak as a flickering candle in the wind—stood alongside Xiaohong (a purple-haired, golden-eyed child, with ancestral dragon patterns faintly visible across her body and her middle stage Spirit Severing dragon might restrained within) above a surging river of crimson-gold vinegar mash.
Behind them, the Door of Tribulation's End, inscribed with the ancient divine script for "Xi," had closed completely, returning to silence, leaving only the lingering wisps of vast ancestral vinegar fragrance drifting through the ancient road.
Chapter 666