Apotheosis

The Nine Li Guards returned to the Floating Island with a profound change in attitude.

Zen had learned in the Sea of Truth about the defeat of the Nine Li race and Chiyou's death. However, the Nine Li Guards had still had faith in their Grand Chieftain's ability to save them and restore their honor.

Now that Chiyou's own message had corroborated the news, the case was closed.

Timotheus, Ramzi and other Nine Li Guards had been eager to go back to the Source World to find the rest of the Nine Li race.

This goal in mind, they had all been dedicating their time to studying the Trumpet Flying Ship. Now, however, they saw no point in continuing their endeavor. If Chiyou and most of his people were dead, what was the point of traveling to the Source World?

Lorena knew she had been lucky to have had a chance to see her father one last time before he died. She had no regrets, but she grieved nonetheless, for her father and for the Nine Li race.

Mike tried to offer his support to Lorena, but it did not seem genuine to her and thus offered little solace. Mike was not, after all, related to the Nine Li race in any way. All he could do was tell Lorena to talk to Rosie.

After Samuel's death, Rosie had been released and went to live on the Floating Island.

Even though Rosie's and Lorena's physical strength was far from mediocre, their cultivation couldn't improve much further due to their loss of the support of their inner worlds.

There was a way out of this conundrum, however, and it was simple: all they had to do was reincarnate through their Memory Flames. The new physical body would create a new inner world, and allow them to cultivate and then cross the Sea of Truth to the Other Shore again.

Indeed, Rosie had spent the past few days busy, preparing to reincarnate. She had never expected that her sister would come bearing news of their father's death. Unexpected and devastating as this news was, the most they could do was stay together and offer each other comfort.

Yet, not everyone had been touched by grief. Emily, one of the powerful warriors of the Other Shore Realm, was hopeful and optimistic.

That was not to say she was indifferent to Chiyou's passing: she felt the burden of sadness as much as anyone, but her delight at learning that Chiyou's dying wish had been to send Yan to the Pear Hill overwhelmed any sense of grief she had.

Emily had been very interested in Yan when she was outside the divine land, but due to Yan's i

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It was so loud that it created a hurricane that swept through the steppe, sending wild bones flying in all directions.

By then, the man had realized that Gerald would not respond. In a rage, he stretched out his fist, his eyes filled with hatred. "You'll be lying here all your life!"

As soon as he had finished speaking, a mark of Eight Diagrams appeared on his fist. Without hesitation, he punched downwards.

"Bang!"

This time, the ground beneath the whole "prison" began to tremble.

Beneath the man's feet, the area of Immemorial Wilderness which was over ten million miles wide, began to expand and it had risen by several hundred thousand feet within seconds. It continued to expand crazily until it could stretch no more. Finally, it exploded in a burst of dazzling light, like a supernova, leaving behind nothing but ash.

His punch had not only destroyed this area of Immemorial Wilderness, but it had also created a huge crater over a hundred million feet deep!

The huge head that had been buried at the bottom of this area of the Immemorial Wilderness had finally revealed its true face!

The giant skull had been stripped of all its skin and flesh, but it still exuded a vast aura, and its empty eyes seemed to tell a thousand tales without uttering a single word.

The man in black glared at the huge skull. Angry as he was, he would not dare step on it. He turned to leave.

A long time elapsed since the man in back had left. Suddenly, the skull he had left behind began to emit a faint light from its eyes. Then, it started to move side to side, and finally it dived down, burrowing into the depths of the earth.