[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-the-sky-fell":3,"chapter-after-the-sky-fell-after-the-sky-fell-chapter-873":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After the Sky Fell",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2281729,4462,"Chapter 873: The Power Not of This World","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-873",873,"\u003Cp>Regardless of how wary the people inside and outside the building were of Li Yi, the proper courtesies were naturally not omitted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They received news from Zhang Yan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire department was urgently mobilized; besides armed personnel, they invited some of the most experienced individuals in Huaimu City for handling the dead, just in case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello, I’m Wang Jianming, the director here. I’m very pleased to meet you,” said a middle-aged man, walking over with a smile and extending his hand in friendliness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi glanced at him and said calmly, “Director? Fine, call me Director if you must. You may refer to me as Taiyi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taiyi?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing the name, Director Wang Jianming paused. He assumed it was a pseudonym—the man was deliberately concealing his identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to waste time with false pleasantries or roundabout talk. Save your pointless tests. Just speak plainly,” Li Yi said. “As this man named Zhang Yan suspected, I am not from your world—and I am not a dead person either.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from this world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Wang Jianming said nothing and did not rush to refute. He studied the man calling himself Taiyi intently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came here because your world’s building appeared in mine. I intended to destroy it to prevent adverse effects on my world, but I failed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I need to understand your world’s dealings with the dead, to resolve this at its root. In return, I can give you anything you desire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi spoke bluntly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alien? Or a visitor from another world? Hah, that’s a good joke—I, a living corpse, even laughed. Director Wang, this man’s either insane or a fraud. How could you all be circling around someone like this? Hah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a man beside Wang Jianming, appearing lifeless and ghastly, suddenly laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found the claim absurd, and his laughter dripped with mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is not funny. How could a frog at the bottom of a well comprehend the vastness of heaven and earth? To mock a powerful being is, in my eyes, an act of provocation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi’s gaze flicked toward the man: “And provocation carries a price. Do you wish to die?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to die, but I don’t believe you can kill me,” the man calling himself a living corpse grinned. “I’m standing right here. Use whatever tricks you have. Everyone’s watching—don’t disappoint me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet before he finished speaking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi suddenly extended one finger, and an intensely brilliant light coalesced at its tip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Split the Path into a River!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist energy surged as he slashed his finger forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifyingly concentrated Daoist energy appeared—but vanished the moment it formed, like a flash of light that came and went in an instant, for such an attack was beyond ordinary perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All they could see was a flash of light, nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the light vanished,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man remained standing, unharmed. He blinked in brief confusion, then burst into laughter: “How did you make your fingertip glow? Magic? Some special ability? I was right—you can’t kill me. You’re a fraud.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi said nothing, only gazed at him calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the man suddenly realized something was wrong—he saw Zhang Yan beside Li Yi frozen in shock, staring at his own back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just him—everyone else was the same. Even armed personnel gripping rifles now stared blankly at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing something amiss, he whirled around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pupils shrank instantly; his expression turned horrific.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, the earth had been violently split open by an indescribable force—a gap at least ten meters wide, stretching straight outward toward the city’s edge. Where it passed, rivers were severed, mountains torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ten-meter-wide fissure extended to the horizon, at least dozens of kilometers long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn’t just that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clouds in the sky had also been cleaved—a straight, unbroken rift appeared in the heavens, piercing from north to south, reaching into the unreachable distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such power—cleaving the sky, tearing the earth—could belong only to legendary gods. Mortals could not conceive of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the shock,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What followed was trembling. Shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t wish to display excessive power in your world,” Li Yi said slowly. “Your world cannot withstand such turmoil.” He had not killed the man before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For killing was not his goal. His goal was to intimidate them, to make them believe in his power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this strike had drained much of the power contained within this avatar of his, shortening the time it could remain in this world. But it didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t come here to vacation. Even the remaining time was enough to complete what he needed to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this the true power of Taiyi?” Zhang Yan’s throat bobbed as he swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power that had summoned lightning had already shattered his understanding—but this moment made him truly comprehend what a human calamity was, what power could alter heaven and earth, annihilate worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one finger slash—and heaven and earth were split apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such power—no living person could withstand it. Even the dead would have to die again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Wang Jianming’s forehead and back were drenched in cold sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now believed without doubt: Taiyi was not of this world. He was a god descended from another realm. This matter was too vast—it could alter the fate of the entire world. He, a mere director, could not bear its weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the threat of the dead, how to deal with this god was now the paramount concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, wait—what’s this joke? I just got back to the department and now I see someone split heaven and earth with a finger slash? Is this still Huaimu City I know? Am I trapped in the dead’s world, fooled by false memories?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man in a funeral robe, neither living nor dead, arrived on a motorcycle. When he saw this sight, he froze in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought his mind had broken, that he was hallucinating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A living corpse?” Li Yi glanced at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now roughly understood how this world operated: the dead interfered with the living, and these so-called living corpses were the special ones who dealt with them—somewhat like spirit handlers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they bore no malevolent spirits within them, so they were not spirit handlers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, that didn’t stop Li Yi from guessing their nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Send someone with authority to speak with me. I have no patience to waste on meaningless matters. Act quickly if you intend to do anything.” Li Yi said, then strode toward the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he were the master here, and everyone else merely guests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet no one objected to Li Yi’s brazen intrusion. Everyone felt it was perfectly natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he’s a god, he must be a benevolent one—at least he didn’t slash toward Huaimu City,” Director Wang Jianming thought inwardly, relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had been a malevolent god, he wouldn’t have even had the chance to speak—he’d be dead already.\u003C\u002Fp>",1153,"2026-06-20T01:27:08.613Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ddc99171d192c513ec801e04f24c4196b82044131f1eab6561d774fc4d9080d2","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-874","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-872",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-the-sky-fell-cover.jpg"]