Everyone fell silent.
After a long while, Golden Cicada spoke in a low voice: "Is there really no other way?"
"No." Tianyunzi shook his head.
The future he foresaw indeed held no miracles. The world-ending divine punishment descended upon the Celestial Domain, and Chen Lan resisted it with his own body, buying time for the people of the Celestial Domain. Alongside the vanishing of the apocalypse, Chen Lan vanished too.
That was the future. He wanted to change it, but he couldn't.
"Grandfather, what about the other failed futures you saw?" the young girl asked.
"We successfully killed the Celestial Emperor, but the figure behind him acted, bringing down a divine punishment that could destroy the entire Celestial Domain. A white light flashed blindingly from the heavens, thousands of times brighter than the sun, plunging the Celestial Domain into extreme whiteness, and the scene abruptly ended."
