Chapter 489: 463 Shatter

Ling Baoyu had originally come to Yutang with great caution, but now she returned to Mingzhu Bay at lightning speed, clutching a Time Jar in her mouth.

As long as she disregarded the dangers around her, Ling Baoyu could be very fast; one could only see a white figure in the darkness shooting out like a sharp arrow.

The further she traveled, the more she could feel the Chaos of the Qi in the sky, with air currents from all directions clashing to the point of near-explosion; Ling Baoyu knew well that this meant danger was imminent, and she could not help but quicken her pace.

An unimaginably great upheaval was coming!

Was this truly caused by Tang Zhao?

With a heart full of trepidation, she finally rushed to the lakeside; unable to spare the time to step onto the water's surface, she released the Time Jar from her mouth and shouted directly, "Aqin, come and receive me quickly!"

No sooner had the words left her lips than Aqin's reflection had already slid over.

Seeing Ling Baoyu, she surfaced happily and said, "Auntie, I have good news..."

Ling Baoyu said hurriedly, "What good news could there be at a time like this! Hurry and take me across!"

Aqin asked curiously, "Did you guess it? I was going to give you a surprise."

Without delay, she grabbed Ling Baoyu, and with a *whoosh*, they were already at the center of the lake.

Ling Baoyu took one look and was left dumbfounded—

On the surface of the lake, surrounded by ghosts, were rows upon rows of... coffins?

Aqin pointed at the coffins as if presenting a treasure and said, "Look, everyone is here. When I was pulling you up along the line just now, I pulled your coffin up first, but as soon as I did, I discovered another line connected to the corner. Then I pulled up along that line and pulled up another coffin. Then there were more underneath; pull one up, and there's another, pull one up, and there's another. I felt just like a farmer at harvest time, haha. And then everyone came up."

Ling Baoyu listened in a daze, feeling bewildered: Could it be that everyone's coffins were connected together at that time?

It was no wonder she didn't know; after her true form entered the Shelter and the white fox was cast down into the Human World, the affairs of Baiyujing had nothing to do with her, and she did not know what had happened afterward.

Was it the Highness who connected all the Shelters together in the end?

That made sense; everyone was a partner akin to a sibling, so even in burial, they should be buried together—how could they end up like that Dongjun Envoy, dying all alone out there?

This also helped resolve a knot in her heart, and Ling Baoyu was quite happy; for a moment, she cast her worries to the back of her mind and said, "You..."

Before she could finish, Ling Baoyu felt a sudden chill, her white fur standing on end; she sensed the Qi not far away beginning to collapse, crumbling like a landslide, and seeing it was about to crush down upon her head, she disregarded everything else and shouted, "Quickly stuff the coffins into the Time Jar!"

Aqin was startled, and just as she was wondering how to stuff coffins into a jar, she saw Ling Baoyu flick her claw, and one of the coffins slid smoothly into the jar as if by magic.

Aqin suddenly understood; although she didn't know what Ling Baoyu's order meant, she immediately began moving the remaining coffins with her.

Seeing that the moving was going quite smoothly, both of them felt a fierce, bright light above their heads at the same time; they looked up and were both dumbfounded.

Aqin stammered, "The sun... the sun is falling..."

Above their heads, a massive fireball was plummeting. The intense light made it impossible to keep one's eyes open, and the heat wave rushed toward them, as if it would evaporate all of Mingzhu Bay.

Such a bright, such a scorching, massive fireball—commonly known as: the sun!

Ling Baoyu's voice turned shrill as she yelled, "Quick—stuff them into the jar."

The two of them scrambled to push the last few coffins into the jar; the heat was already about to singe their eyebrows—though neither of them had any.

Ling Baoyu shouted, "You get in too!"

Aqin crawled into the jar, and Ling Baoyu hugged the jar, throwing herself and it down into the water with a heavy splash!

Underwater, Ling Baoyu struggled to crawl into the jar as well, and the jar continued to sink rapidly to the bottom of the lake by its own momentum, moving further and further away from the intense light in the sky...

The sun finally fell!

The sun landed within the Shadow, the Shadow instantly dissipated, and only the light of the sun burst forth abruptly—

Boom!

Waves of light submerged Yutang, submerged Zhugong, submerged Zibeique...

The Sancong City at the center of Baiyujing instantly turned into a sea of light, and everything else seemed to be reduced to nothing in an instant.

A sphere of light swelled above the clouds; inside the sphere was a world of absolute light.

Outside the expanding sphere of light was a wider shockwave, air currents sweeping outward, sweeping past Mingzhu Bay, sweeping past Qianqiu Tower, sweeping past Haiqiao City...

Beyond the brilliance and the shockwave were sound waves and heat waves, one after another, each wave higher than the last. They raged through the Five Towers and Twelve Cities, and countless tiny blades of grass were flattened in this wave of impact...

The setting sun was mighty in its momentum, as if striking a heavy blow against the world of Shadow, causing the indestructible Shadow to show a trace of wavering.

However, this was only the beginning.

Just as the light was about to fade, it was as if a trigger had been pulled, a magic box opened, releasing even more powerful forces from beneath the ground.

Boom—boom—

The sounds were not just one, but they were so close together that they nearly overlapped, the noise pushed to the point of shattering the heavens and splitting the earth. Yet, the moment a living creature heard the first sound, their ears would fall into a ringing, unable to hear the sounds that followed; all they could feel was vibration, vibration!

The sound was merely the most inconspicuous part of this eruption, and even the light rising from the ground, which was more dazzling than the setting sun just moments before, was not the most important thing.

What rushed out from beneath the ground was erupting energy!

Massive, tyrannical, indestructible energy!

The energy shot into the sky, exploding in a three-hundred-sixty-degree surge; wherever it reached, everything collapsed, and where the power pointed, only the firmament was the limit!

The earth could not block it, the clouds could not block it, and the Shadow could block it even less!

Seen from the outside, the Shadow wrapped around Baiyujing in every direction, like a pitch-black egg, like the world before the separation of Chaos. The previous setting sun, seen from the outside, was nothing more than a firefly flying inside an eggshell, carrying a bit of light, visible as a blurry bright spot through the shell.

At this moment, the energy erupting from beneath the ground was like a giant hammer, striking the black shadow eggshell—

The eggshell cracked!

Cracks appeared on the Shadow; if one looked closely, one could see that those cracks were not in just one place, as if it had been struck densely several times, but because they were so close, the cracks connected into one, and finally—

Scattered wounds began to appear.

Those wounds were like opened windows, and the light and dust within could not wait to spray out mixed with the energy, rushing out of the cage; and those energies, in the process of rushing out, wantonly destroyed the cracked windows, causing the cracks to widen and expand to the entire eggshell...

Finally, it reached a certain critical point.

"Pop."

At most, there was only such a faint sound, like the sound of a flower blooming, or perhaps there was no sound at all.

In a silence completely at odds with the cataclysm, the Shadow collapsed.

The Shadow, which clearly had no substance, shattered into millions of pieces just like a broken eggshell, and then fell down like splashing shards of glass.

Below, it was also the firmament, still ten thousand zhang of space away from the Human World.

Most of those Fragments completely dissipated before they could fall to the ground, while a small portion passed through the long expanse of space and splashed onto the land.

But they could not remain for long, because the East in the distance had already turned white, and a touch of gold appeared on the horizon.

The sun of the Human World was about to emerge!

Ding, ding, ding—

A burst of bell ringing rang out loudly.

On a nineteen-story high building, the dense rows of bells hanging under the eaves of the top two floors suddenly rang out in unison, the bell sounds alternating and ringing into a single piece.

Inside the building, several sets of footsteps followed, treading on the high-quality wooden floor, da-da-da, quite noisily.

Clearly, the sudden ringing of the bells was no small matter, causing even more Chaos.

"Calm down!" Following a loud shout, a middle-aged man wearing a high crown and a pale yellow robe came upstairs, his gaze like lightning, instantly acting like a ballast stone to settle everyone down.

"Running around in the Tongming Tower, what kind of decorum is this?"

Following his angry shout, a row of young people in white robes walked out from inside the building, coming before him together to salute: "Protector Mo."

Protector Mo nodded slightly and paced under the eaves; that row of fist-sized copper bells was still ringing incessantly, the frequency of their trembling as if it were about to shake out a phantom image.

"Such a powerful reaction; at the very least, a Grade B avatar has emerged."

He raised his head slightly, the bell sounds from the floor above pouring into his ears, the noise even more piercing than on this floor below.

"The floor above has them too; with both floors sounding at the same time, the probability of it being the same avatar is high. So, a Wangliang avatar has appeared on the border of Yunzhou and Liangzhou? A Grade B avatar spanning two provinces—the calamity is not small."

His expression gradually turned cold, and he said: "Liangzhou is one thing; it is a barren land with no one in charge, so it is inevitable that some slips will occur. But Yunzhou, hehe... Gaoyuan Marquis has such great prestige, holding Yunzhou so tightly that she won't let anyone intervene, acting as if she has some heaven-reaching and earth-shattering ability. To actually let a Wangliang run so rampant, it is truly laughable and shameful!"

At this moment, a person walked down from the floor above, also wearing a pale yellow robe, younger than Protector Mo, and said: "Protector Mo has come too? Have you seen the disaster in Yunzhou? I heard long ago that Yunzhou has been under martial law for a while now, and I don't know what big move is being made; they haven't reported it to the Imperial Court, and they won't even let anyone Ask. It seems a great chaos is about to begin."

Protector Mo sneered: "Gaoyuan Marquis can toss and turn in her own territory; no one can manage that. Whether the people of Yunzhou suffer or not has nothing to do with us. Only the Wangliang is a matter of great importance concerning the safety of the world; how can she hold onto her feudal lord airs and repeatedly refuse the Tongming Hall? It is nothing more than relying on her past seniority and the protection of the Imperial Preceptor. When I report back to the Hall Master, I will certainly have a Guangming Envoy sent down."

Having said this, he turned and went downstairs.

The other person followed and said: "I will go with you. This time, even if we don't send a Guangming Envoy, we must send a few Dongfeng Envoys to investigate." As he spoke, he pointed to a few young people among the group of white-robed youths, telling them to follow along.

Protector Mo glanced back at him, clearly displeased with his colleague's approach of leaving a retreat before even trying, but in the end, he said nothing and took the young people downstairs together.

Not long after the two went downstairs, as the sun gradually rose higher, the bell sounds became lighter and lighter, eventually stopping altogether.

The group entered a great hall under the high building to report the matter to the current Hall Master of the Tongming Hall.

This report lasted for nearly two hours, during which the arguments never ceased, and the people outside the hall waited anxiously.

Finally, when the hall doors opened, four young people walked out first, packing their luggage and bringing their identification and mounts to go down to Yunzhou to patrol as "Dongfeng Envoys" of the younger generation of the Tongming Hall.