Chapter 111
[When the stars fall and all things come to an end, the return to the void descends, countless worlds step into death, and the Principle of All Things withers.]
Bai Yi clearly knew this was a dream.
He plunged into that boundless dark sea, yet surprisingly felt no suffocation. Instead, he opened his eyes with ease, seeing countless star fragments in the deep sea converging towards his direction.
Each star fragment emitted a faint glow, illuminating the pitch-black ocean with countless specks of light.
He saw flashes of images within the star fragments. They were traces of the lives and deaths of countless beings from innumerable worlds. Even as the worlds returned to the void, remnants of their original existence lingered.
There were sky-piercing towers connecting earth and heaven, where mages invited far-traveled guests to marvel at magical miracles. They studied, researched, and held gatherings in these towers, while ordinary people lived and worked outside, providing endless resources for the construction of tower after tower. Magical items and research findings from the towers, in turn, influenced the lives of common folk…
There was a vast desert continent where extreme surface conditions precluded the survival of living beings. Thriving underground kingdoms developed beneath the continent. In underground tunnels stretching in all directions, steam trains whistled, giving birth to a unique technological civilization system of the underworld…
There was a prosperous dynasty ruling over vast territories, where top generals could single-handedly face thousands of troops, and scholarly advisors could calculate astrology and fate with a wave of their fans. The emperor carried the fortune of the nation; in times of prosperity, all evil retreated, and those with ill intentions could not approach. In times of national downfall, when all people under heaven shared their grievances, even the ruler of a nation could not escape death…
There were demons commanding the world, where all manner of sinister and strange occurrences were rampant. Great demons divided up states and prefectures, establishing demonic dynasties and nations, nurturing an alternative form of civilization…