Chapter 1868 — The One Who Shepherds the Gods

After a moment, one after another Ancestral Court Great Luotians lit up in the dark cosmic void. Without their power, the Primordial Cauldron became a scroll of boundless breadth.

Those Ancestral Court Great Luotians formed self-enclosed microcosms. Within those microcosms life continued. Jingping's Dao Achievers used their final strength to guard one pure land after another.

*When the sky goes dark, do not go out.*

This was the warning the Dao Achievers gave to the living beings dwelling in the sealed microcosms.

In the dark void, these lights flickered bright and dim. With the void's extension, the lights grew fainter and fainter, farther and farther apart, until at last they could no longer be perceived.

After eight hundred billion years, the Seventeenth Epoch's universe sank into complete darkness.

Matter no longer changed, for all matter had been torn apart by the void. The entire universe was spread infinitely open, without any trace of life.

No light, no sound, no color.

Only the boundless, cold, silent void.

Within that despairing cold silence, the Chaotic Space too gradually grew hazy, as if about to dissolve with the void.

Without matter, time too vanished.

Suddenly, in the boundless darkness, a light came, illuminating the voidified universe.

It was the light born when countless Chaos Dreams within the Chaotic Space exploded—like a final swan song. One after another Chaos Dream shattered and perished, gorgeous as fireworks.

The Chaotic Space had finally burst open.

A figure walked out from the place of the Chaotic Space's destruction, walking through the vast, boundless darkness. He looked around and saw nothingness everywhere, only darkness.

Only darkness.

He walked upon the membrane of the void and cried out loudly.

Is anyone there?

Is anyone still there?

I have returned! Is anyone still there?

No light remained in the void.

Lingyun, I have returned.

Yuxiu, I have returned.

Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, I have returned.

Shen Ye, I have returned.

...

He walked for a long time, calling out again and again, and still there was no response.

Just as he was about to despair, in the dark void, a single point of light lit up—a Dao Achiever's Ancestral Court Great Luotian, solitary yet tenacious in the void, flickering bright and dim.

His footsteps halted. His withered Dao heart gradually revived.

Then, in the dark void, one light after another, like lamps in the darkness, lit up one by one—points of radiance, scattered like stars.

He broke into a smile.