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BLACK MYTH: AFTERMATH

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The wind had died. Over Flower-Fruit Mountain, the clouds and smoke no longer danced with life; they hung in a sickly, frozen leaden gray. On the lonely peak, the stones were no longer mere stones—they were crystallized echoes of some ancient, festering grudge. Tianming sat at the cliff’s edge, the Ruyi Jingu Bang heavy in his hands, as if it carried the weight of all the karmic sins of the westward journey. He could feel the golden hoop. Though it had long since vanished from his forehead, the scar it left burned deep into his soul. With every breath, fragmented whispers clawed at his mind—the cries of countless versions of himself who had died along the way. Some perished in the fiery storms of Black Wind Mountain, others in the swirling sands of Yellow Wind Ridge, and more still had fallen within the illusion of a “perfect ending.” “This is not the end,” a voice rasped in the darkness of his heart, coarse as sandpaper scraping against dry bark. Was it the lingering spirit of the Great Sage, or merely his own madness? He opened his eyes slowly. Far off in the sea of clouds, the broken silhouette of a massive celestial crane circled, hauntingly graceful. A familiar, nauseating aura filled the air—the same lofty “Order” that had stripped Fourth Sister and countless demons of their dignity. Tianming rose. The ground trembled beneath him. This time, he no longer sought enlightenment. He no longer sought to cleanse his sins. He was here to tear a hole in the heavens itself—a wound that could never be repaired.
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