The sky wasn't supposed to bleed.
Yet here Luo Feng stood, ankle-deep in liquid starlight, staring up at a throne cobbled together from shattered constellations. The air smelled of burnt ozone and something deeper—like the scent of a freshly opened grave.
The Fox Spirit's seventh tail had gone rigid, its crimson streaks pulsing in time with the throbbing wrongness of this place. Even Li Qing, ever unshakable, had gone pale.
"This is beyond divine," she whispered. "This is anti-creation."
[System Alert: Final Check-In Location Detected]
[Mission: Confront the Original]
[Reward: Full Memory Unlock]
[Failure Penalty: Becoming Part of the Throne]
A figure lounged on the throne—a man wearing Luo Feng's face, but older, his eyes twin voids that drank the light around him.
"Took you long enough," the original Luo Feng said, flicking a shard of broken galaxy from his sleeve. "Though I suppose three centuries is nothing to a patch."
[The Revelation: Why the World Was Rewritten]
The original didn't rise. He unfolded—stretching across reality like a shadow given sentience.
"The gods didn't just rewrite history," he murmured. "They cut out the rot. And the rot... was us."
A flick of his wrist, and the memories Luo Feng had been chasing flooded in:
The Wife of Ashes hadn't been his lover. She was his executioner.
The Void Emperor wasn't his enemy. He was the surgeon.
And the Fox Spirit?
The original smiled. "Ah. You haven't figured her part out yet."
The Fox Spirit's tails lashed. "Shut up—"
"You were the scalpel," the original said. "The one who carved me out of existence. And now you've brought my spare parts right back to me."
[The Choice: Rejoin or Rebel?]
The original extended a hand.
"Merge with me. Together, we'll unmake what the gods have done."
The System—his System, the one the Void Emperor had planted—finally spoke its true purpose:
[Final Directive: Reintegration Protocol]
[Accept: Become Whole]
[Refuse: Cease Existing]
Luo Feng looked at the Fox Spirit—Xiao Jiuying, the traitor who'd doomed him. At Li Qing, who'd followed him into the abyss despite everything.
Then he reached for the original's hand—
—and drove the silver key into his wrist instead.
[Check-In Complete (The World Screams)]
The original howled as the key unlocked something deep within the throne. The stars shattered. The sky peeled back like rotting skin.
And the thing behind reality stirred.
[Memory Unlocked: 100%]
[Truth: The Gods Didn't Erase You—They Contained You]
The Fox Spirit grabbed Luo Feng as the throne collapsed in on itself. "What did you DO?"
He looked at his hands—now scarred with constellations.
"Started the end," he said.
END OF THE CHAPTER29