"It was all hers to begin with," Yun Lintian stated, his words falling like stones. "The Creator. The one you betrayed and killed. The power you used to scheme, to manipulate, to end countless lives... it was a gift from her. A fragment of her authority that you twisted for your own ends."
He straightened up, his gaze sweeping over the devastated cosmos. "And now, it's time I took it all back. On her behalf."
Nian Shi could only watch, paralyzed, as Yun Lintian's hand reached out. It did not touch Nian Shi. Instead, it hovered over the Blade of Eternity, which had fallen from Nian Shi's grasp and lay floating nearby.
The mighty weapon, a symbol of Nian Shi's power across countless timelines, began to tremble. Then, with a sound like shattering crystal, it cracked. Fracture lines spread across its length before it exploded into a million glittering shards of silvery light. The shards hung in the air for a moment before dissolving into nothingness. The Blade of Eternity was no more.
