Book 1: Chapter 82: Invitation and Calamity

Zi Zhen looked up at the sky. Watching as calamity nearly ended all of existence around them. The world had nearly depleted itself of all Qi, sucking away at the life-force of all living things in an attempt to power an attack that was beyond anything he had ever had the misfortune of experiencing.

Then it disappeared. Something stopped the process. Mending the damage that nearly shattered existence as they knew it. The damage to the dimensional barriers that prevented other calamities from entering this plane disappeared. The Qi that had started to siphon away returned unceremoniously. The frozen world returned to life as though nothing had happened.

As though death had not been had.

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