Nightfall

Battle between Heaven and Human

The edge of the sword was pushed one inch forward.

Liu Bai’s sword had entered two inches of Sangsang’s isolated world.

In front of Haotian, an inch was equal to the furthest distance.

This meant his sword had traveled thousands of miles.

Liu Bai was not the first human to challenge Haotian, yet he was the first to get this close to Haotian. It was not because of his power, but rather that Haotian was present at the human world.

The Heaven was supposed to be eternally divided from the human world, with a huge gap in between. As for their battle inside the Divine Hall of Light, the gap took its shape in an invisible shield — Sangsang’s isolated world.

How did Liu Bai’s sword enter her isolated world?

It was because he had his sword that consisted of the peak from Sword Garret of South Jin Kingdom, the shabby alley from Linkang City, the memory of slaughtering the Golden Dragon and the Divine General in the Wilderness, the perception of human world provided by the Academy, his decades of persevering cultivation and mediation, and the courage to challenge the Heaven from his predecessors in hundreds of thousands years. Thus, he had a boundless universe in it.

And he had invaded Haotian’s world with the boundless universe.

Upon hearing the prayers from bottom of the mountain, Sangsang waved her green sleeve and propelled a refreshing breeze down Peach Mountain, while paying no attention to the sword pressing onward.

Liu Bai’s sword started rusting gradually. Its shiny edge became gloomy and stained with greenish red spots. The rusty spots kept spreading all over the blade.

She was the ruler of this world. Even though she could not reverse cause and effect, she had perfect control over the most basic and most powerful rules in her isolated word.

That was her weapon. She defeated Liu Bai’s boundless universe with time. Despite the flourishing of human world, the Ever Night would still fall. Despite the luxuriance of the forests, the autumn wind would bring down their leaves. The greatest, bravest, most elegant or secular would all become insignificant in time.

Liu Bai’s sword was pushed forward another inch.

The inch on the blade rusted immediately.

While his sword pressed onto her gradually, the blade was eroded by time.

For her, it was the most intimate distance with a human being ever since she entered the human world.

There were less than three inches between them.

No one knew which would come sooner: Liu Bai’s sword getting into the last inch in front of her or Sangsang eroding the strongest sword in human world to a wastrel.

A refreshing breeze descended from the Divine Hall of Light onto the front yard of Peach Mountain.

The blood that was gushing from the Hierarch’s shoulder immediately stopped. The wound was recovering at a slow but obvious speed with new flesh growing from within.

Those seriously wounded by Ning Que were all restored with new power by the refreshing breeze. The devout followers of Haotian all realized that their gashes started to heal except for Qi Nian.

Besides the people who were already dead, everyone else felt the compassion and love from Haotian and witnessed her miraculous power. Their prayers became more devout and concerted, and they were filled with awe and faith in Heaven and Light.