Epilogue: The Sky Tears Open
Just as I settled into the feeling of absolute victory, a horrific, grating sound echoed directly inside my skull. It wasn't the crisp, mechanical chime of the Supernatural Famine System.
It sounded like static. Like grinding metal and tearing flesh.
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I stiffened, dropping Ye Chen’s hand. "System? What's going on?"
The brilliant blue sky above the World Tree suddenly flickered, like a broken television screen. The bright, sunny daylight began to peel away, revealing a pitch-black void underneath.
From the mountain of grain, Emperor Xiao Zheng suddenly began to laugh. It wasn't his withered, weak voice anymore. It was a guttural, layered, demonic resonance that made the blood in my veins run cold.
"Did you really think," the entity possessing Xiao Zheng's body mocked, his eyes glowing with a sickening, crimson light, "that a mortal famine was just about politics? Just about a throne?"
Ye Chen drew his sword, stepping in front of me. "Princess! Something is wrong!"
The sky violently tore open. A massive, jagged rift in reality appeared above the Capital. Through the rift, I didn't see clouds or stars. I saw a massive, floating island made of white marble and gold, suspended in a sea of cosmic blood. Standing on the edge of that island were hundreds of figures radiating auras a million times more oppressive than the Usurper's.
"We are the 'Blood Lotus Immortal Sect' of the Upper Realm," the demonic voice echoed from the sky. "This mortal world is our livestock pen. The Famine was our harvest. We feed on mortal suffering to cultivate our immortality. Xiao Zheng was merely our farmhand."
I gritted my teeth, feeling the sheer, crushing pressure descending from the rift. My God-Tier Dragon Qi was violently suppressed, pushed back into my body.
"You ruined three years of harvest, little girl," the cosmic voice sneered. "So, as punishment, we will refine your entire planet into a blood pill. Starting with you."
A massive hand, the size of a mountain, reached through the rift in the sky, hurtling directly toward the Capital.
[DING! SYSTEM CRITICAL FAILURE! LOWER REALM LAWS SHATTERED!]
I looked up at the descending hand of a literal god. I felt the terror of the citizens behind me. I looked at Ye Chen, who was holding his sword high, prepared to die against a force he couldn't even comprehend.
But I was Lin Xi. I didn't know how to surrender.
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A slow, vicious smile spread across my face as my golden Qi mutated into an blinding, violent crimson.
"So, the heavens want to eat my world?" I whispered, my eyes locking onto the giant hand descending from the rift.
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"Then I guess it's time to butcher the heavens." [THE END]
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