Chen Guansong was an extremely senior member of the Great Zhou Army, skilled in enduring silently, deeply trusted by the Divine Empress. He had managed Star Gazing Academy for many years, had a large number of disciples in the army, and his strength was unfathomable. He had long since become half a step from the Divine, and he had played an extremely important role in the early autumn rebellion. If nothing unexpected happened, he would assuredly become the leader of the Great Zhou Army, ascending to the highest peak of authority together with Shang Xingzhou. Moreover, he would become the commander-in-chief of the Great Zhou Army's northern expedition against the demons.
However, just as victory was right in front of him, he died.
His death was wretched, burned to death by the true fire of the Heavenly Phoenix. Moreover, he had not died immediately. He had been burned for a very long time before he stopped breathing.
Before dying, he experienced the most painful torture in the human world.
Because this was the Tianhai Divine Empress's vengeance.
Before she left this world, she had avenged him ahead of time.
At the same time, she had avenged those subordinates who had been loyal to her to the death.
With a wave of her sleeve, she transformed Divine General Tian Chui's corpse into flames, bestowing upon him the glory of returning to the sea of stars with her.
Then, she went ten thousand li away, once more shrouding the starry sky. Stepping on the stream, she slapped a palm at the monk.
Countless specks of starlight fell along with her palm. They were not heavy, but they were incomparably profound and impossible to dodge.
The monk turned his palm up to meet it. The thick fog behind the stream howled over from the solitary mountain and gathered with the palm.
When the two palms met, the monk understood her intentions and asked, "Not even a seed?"
"We have our own legacy," the Tianhai Divine Empress replied.
The monk believed that she was speaking of Xu Yourong.
In truth, it was not, or perhaps it was more than that.
"My lady is truly an extraordinary person."
The monk looked at the Tianhai Divine Empress and spoke, his eyes beginning to bleed.
This was the first time he had expressed reverence towards the Tianhai Divine Empress.
Then his body suddenly vanished into nothingness, transforming into countless fragments of light that vanished along the Cloud Grave.
In another world countless li away, in that jade-like desert, there was an enormous sacrificial altar.
The monk sat cross-legged on the sacrificial altar.
Several hundred thousand believers knelt in the desert around the sacrificial altar, raising their hands and waving them at the sky. They were incomparably devout, intoxicated, crazed.
Suddenly, a spiritual force from a foreign continent enveloped the entire world and crushed down on the ground.
The monk opened his eyes. His pupils were pitch black, and two streams of blood flowed down from the corners of his eyes. Then, his entire body began to bleed.
More than ten priests around the altar exploded and died. The believers cried out in fear and began to cry.
Countless people died, and the desert was dyed red.
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In the final moments of her life, the Tianhai Divine Empress did not, as many people imagined, transform the last of her life into the most berserk strength to kill those people she did not like.
The Pope put down the Green Leaf. She did not move.
Han Qing gave up resisting. She did not make a move.
The manor of the Tianhai clan was quiet. She did not make a move.
She destroyed the Pavilion of Ascending Mist with her spear, burned Chen Guansong to death with a flick of her sleeve, and then burned the last of her life to defeat that monk.
Because that monk came from the Sacred Light Continent.
Only many years ago, when the people of this world began to interact with the other races of the Sacred Light Continent, did they understand what the Divine Empress's defeat of that monk's projection from the Sacred Light Continent signified on that early autumn night, and how much time she had bought for the people of this world.
The Tianhai Divine Empress was naturally not a good person in the normal sense of the word, much less a sage.
The reason she had made this choice at the final moment was that she had been preparing to do this for the past few years.
Although this world had already betrayed her, she still stubbornly believed that this was her world.
This is Our world.
Since it is Our world, it is only right that Us protect it.
Any hand that dares to stretch out towards Our world will be cut off.
This was what she thought, this was what she did, and it was what she had done.
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It was done.
It was done.
The Tianhai Divine Empress returned to the peak of the Mausoleum of Books.
After seeing her own world, she finally had the leisure to glance at the people at her side.
Chen Changsheng was at her side.
Since a very long time ago, Chen Changsheng, forgotten by the entire world, had always been at her side.
Perhaps it was because they were both in the same boat, but she had not forgotten that he had always been at her side.
From the moment Divine General Han Qing had thrown the Frost God Spear and ambushed her, to that conversation, to her final tour of her world, only a very short period of time had passed.
Moreover, Chen Changsheng's body was rather stiff, so he had maintained his previous posture.
His left knee was slightly bent, his left hand gripping the sheath of the Vault Sheath, his right hand gripping the hilt of the Stainless Sword.
No one paid attention to this sight.
At the very beginning, when the Frost God Spear had arrived at the peak of the Mausoleum of Books, he had assumed this posture.
At the time, the Tianhai Divine Empress's body, Dao, and soul were not present, and there was no one to protect her.
The Frost God Spear had come.
He did not even think about the so-called camps, the so-called mother and son issues. He instinctively gripped his sword, wanting to block this spear for her.
He was still heavily injured and extremely weak, but he still had several thousand swords in his sheath and that string of stone pearls.
But this was the Frost God Spear.
This was the Divine Han Qing Spear.
There was simply no time for him to react. Like a bolt of lightning, the spear pierced through the Tianhai Divine Empress's body.
He could only stare at this sight, unable to do anything.
The sword could not arrive, only the mind.
"You want to save Us?"
The Tianhai Divine Empress slightly arched her brows.
Chen Changsheng didn't know what to say.
"With just you?" the Tianhai Divine Empress jeered at him.
In the next moment, the black Phoenix wings vanished in the wind.
Suddenly, the mocking smile on her face disappeared without a trace, and she fell backwards.
Chen Changsheng lunged forward and took her into his embrace.
The Tianhai Divine Empress gazed at the vast sky of stars, an expression of loathing appearing on her face as if they were too dazzling.
He carried her and made a half circle, blocking the starlight behind him.
Just like several years ago, when they first met.
At the time, in the Imperial Palace, by the pond, when that squirrel ran past, he had hugged her and made a half circle, blocking the flower pot that had not fallen behind him.
The rain once more began to fall from the night sky, pitter-patter.
The vast sky was clearly filled with stars.
An extremely faint ray of light could be faintly seen on the distant horizon, but the peak of the Mausoleum of Books was incomparably dark.
The long night was finally about to pass and dawn was about to arrive.
Chen Changsheng could sense the Qi below the Mausoleum of Books and knew that his master had already arrived.
"I'll take you away," he said to her.
"Where can you take Us? The Garden of Zhou? "she jeered at him.
Only now did Chen Changsheng realize that the Empress had known everything this entire time.
"We definitely won't go to that damned place that can't see the sun."
The Tianhai Divine Empress gazed at that wisp of morning light in the east and indifferently said, "This place is pretty good."
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