Zhou Wei, Gu Nanfeng, as well as Mr. Shan and others gathered together. These strong cultivators who had reached the Titled realm all waited at the exit of the cemetery, their expressions solemn with a touch of anxiety... In truth, the chaotic essences along the outskirts of the cemetery didn’t affect them, it was only that the power of the Golden Divine Domain lingered without dispersing. Out of respect for the Divine Throne, they chose to wait.
The previous arrival of the Sky Divine Throne was indeed worrying.
What had happened inside the cemetery?
What had Mr. Gu Changzhi been through over these years?
"Gu Shen is still inside the cemetery, I wonder how he is..."
Gu Nanfeng felt worried.
Like him, many shared similar feelings. Although the evacuation of the cemetery had been successful, many Transcendents still hadn’t been able to leave... Now that Lord Divine had awakened, perhaps they were still alive.
The leaders of the three greatest families were tense, waiting for the power lingering outside the cemetery to dissipate.
The chaotic power swirling outside the cemetery was expelled by the Golden Divine Domain.
This Divine Domain purged all the chaos and the dark clouds cover above the cemetery, restoring peace once again.
The divine light of the Battle Fire shone down on the earth.
The expressions of everyone were lifted.
However, the Golden Divine Domain didn’t open its doors to everyone but only entwined around the wrists of the few most powerful individuals, serving as a guide...
"Lord Divine, are you summoning us over?" Mr. Shan said, slightly taken aback.
Zhou Wei nodded at him, a sense of foreboding filling his heart.
The few most powerful Transcendents standing at the summit of Changye began to make their way toward the cemetery.
The Great Cold Disaster Realm had already shattered and dispersed... It was a mournful and desolate cold wind that now shrouded the cemetery. Along the way, one could witness the tragic scenes of the Divine War. To outsiders, the Divine War inside the cemetery didn’t seem to have anything unusual about it; it was merely a flash of golden light followed by waves of Divine Power. But in just over ten minutes, it all ended.
Only upon truly stepping into the cemetery could one feel the terror of the "Divine".
The air still mixed with the aftermath of the Wine Spark’s dominance, the overwhelming spiritual pressure could be felt, lingering low in the air, amidst the floating debris. The towering trees inside the Qingzhong Cemetery were more than half destroyed, the Array Patterns shattered into pieces, the scene one of utter ruin.
As for the Extraordinary Essence that had condensed above Qingzhong for twenty years, nearly half had been consumed in this "Divine War". Gu Changzhi’s revival and the burning of the Battle Fire required the burning of the essence every moment, providing the most crucial energy.
These Titled ones still did not know the true state of affairs inside the cemetery.
Until the Divine Thought of the Battle Fire led them to a man in a black robe.
It was no longer appropriate to describe him as an old man.
Bai Shu, who had assimilated the Battle Fire, was still in the early stages of familiarizing himself with this power of the Flame, but at this moment, his appearance and stature were completely different from the decrepit form he had in the bar’s basement.
Because of the transition of "life force".
His desiccated white hair had turned jet black and glossy once again.
A pair of dim eyes now seemed to burn with intense golden flames, forbidding anyone to look directly.
Unlike Gu Changzhi... his body had gathered the bloodline of Reverse Flow, sacrificed by the entire Bai Family, a mighty weapon against time itself. Now, with the Battle Fire’s enhancement, it was more profound than even Great Success. Strands of resplendent Battle Power surrounded him, intertwining present and past, almost as if, at a glance, one could see two distinct temporal domains of "Bai Shu".
Zhou Wei recognized the "young man" standing before him at a glance.
Mr. Shan’s expression was one of shock and disbelief as he vigorously rubbed his eyes.
This was a man who had died twenty years ago...
Gu Nanfeng’s expression was complex; he had certainly heard that name before.
He was the man who could vie with Mr. Gu Changzhi for supremacy, hailed as the only formidable adversary of the Divine Throne and the "chief culprit" behind the regression of the Bai Family bloodline.
"Greetings, senior..."
Apart from Bai Xiaochi, everyone else in the crowd had a disturbed expression.
Because he had anticipated all this from the start.
Bai Shu gently nodded, glancing at the current Bai Family Master. During the showdown with Gu Lushen, Bai Xiaochi had seen him, so how could he not see Bai Xiaochi?
Even before that glance.
He had remembered this "young man"!
After arriving at Changye with Gu Shen, he had been keeping an eye on the present Bai Family... Actually, during the years of cultivation in Changye, the Bai Family hadn’t treated him well, and the "bloodline inheritance" of the whole family hadn’t even been his intention.
The entire Bai Family was madly chasing the Battle Fire, pursuing it to a sickly degree.
He was hailed as the hope of the Bai Family.
The things he did were no longer under his control.
Regardless of liking or willingness, he was obliged to act.
In the end... upon learning that Bai Shu had comprehended the Great Success of Reverse Flow and still lost to Gu Changzhi, the Bai Family elders had become even more desolate than him.
There was nothing more important in this world than grasping the Flame.
Losing to Gu Changzhi, losing the Battle Fire was an unforgivable sin.
Thus... Bai Shu had chosen "death to atone" in the end.