The terror brought forth waves of horrified cries. When the massive apocalyptic-level beast, the Razorback Crocodile, rushed to within a mere hundred meters of Beichuan North District Hospital, the shadow of death once again descended upon everyone.

    Yet, just when people subconsciously believed that the very next moment they would be torn apart by the crocodile''s razor-sharp scales or crushed under its massive body,

    something changed. The Razorback Crocodile, as though sensing some horrifying force, began to retreat at an alarming speed.

    The birds swooping down from the sky reacted similarly. Once predatory like vultures hunting for prey, they now scattered in a panic upon nearing a certain vicinity.

    No one understood what was happening. Confused, they reflexively thought it might be Tang Jing, but soon they witnessed an awe-inspiring sight.

    Countless white dots of light, resembling stars, spread across the night sky.

    The night was suddenly and indescribably radiant.

    As people gazed at the resplendent sky, they became momentarily entranced but quickly realized that this luminous phenomenon might be the very thing that terrified the beasts.

    Burrowing creatures emerging from underground raised their heads, only to tremble in fear at the sight of the glowing points before retreating swiftly into their tunnels.

    To humans, these points of light adorned the night like a celestial river.

    But to the beasts, these lights were like the piercing gaze of death itself.

    The beasts attempting to breach the defenses of the Judgement Knights also began retreating in utter frenzy.

    But it was already too late.

    Li Xiaoyu felt a faint realization come over her, and at that very moment, she saw a figure not far from Tang Jing.

    The originally pitch-black night made it difficult for her to discern clearly. The beasts, the mechanical army, and the humans—all crammed into the small corner of the North District.

    But this time, Li Xiaoyu saw him.

    She covered her mouth and wept with joy.

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    If Tang Jing were the king of this battleground, holding off the mechanical army and the beasts with sheer force of will,

    then Tang Xian was nothing less than the absolute deity of this war.

    The stars scattered across the dark sky began to emit dazzling light. In an instant, the night turned as bright as day.

    Thousands upon thousands of stars connected into lines,

    each line as sharp and fierce as a blade slicing through the void.

    Each line, too, was the deadliest threat imaginable to life.

    In the Twilight of the Gods centuries ago, even the Beast God had perished beneath these very rays of light. What chance did these sub-orange-tier beasts have?

    Compared to the Judgement Knights'' Exhaustive Ray, the speed and precision of the light beams from these stars left the beasts no room to react!

    In only a matter of seconds, people witnessed a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

    Thousands upon thousands of stars transformed into thousands upon thousands of beams of light. These beams pierced through the birds in the sky, the beasts darting across the land, and even the creatures cowering within underground tunnels.

    This was genuine Divine Punishment.

    The searing white light illuminated Tang Xian''s wrathful face, his eyes bloodshot with fury.

    Surveying the battlefield littered with carnage, his Divine Sense swept over the entire area. Tang Xian sensed countless familiar yet lifeless presences.

    Zhong Xiuran, Gu Luo, Ye Feng, Qi Xun, Lin Jue, the One-Eyed King... and many other hunters had fallen in this war.

    Among them, some had only fleeting connections with Tang Xian. In the ruins of Eden, Tang Xian hadn''t even hesitated before inscribing some of their names on signposts.

    But there were also those he could never bring himself to forget.

    In this battle, though—those he cared for and those he didn''t—Tang Xian wished for all of them to still be alive.

    He blamed himself, knowing he had ultimately miscalculated the Eden Lord''s aim.

    Just as Qi Yuan had failed to predict that the Eden Lord would forgo the more fortified mining districts and instead target the world of men.

    There were debts owed by the world that could never be repaid.

    Tang Xian could not forgive himself, but he could repay blood with blood, end violence with violence.

    The ultimate Exhaustive Ray struck with such speed that the beasts didn''t even have time to wail. Each of its thousands upon thousands of beams unerringly killed a beast with unmatched precision.

    But the stars in the heavens did not vanish.

    As Tang Xian''s Divine Sense swept across Baichuan City and sensed countless fallen comrades, those lights in the sky resembled memorial torches in honor of the dead.

    The glowing embers multiplied, expanding rapidly until, before long, the night sky resembled a breathtaking, solemn galaxy.

    But to the invading beasts, this was utter annihilation.

    What they saw was not a beautiful, glittering starlit sky—but a Nether River reaching up from hell.

    Tens of thousands of beams of light cascaded from the heavens like scythes wielded by death itself!

    The immense pressure imposed by the countless beasts crumbled with terrifying speed as thousands perished each second.

    The invading beast army rapidly disintegrated, and none of Baichuan City''s inhabitants could have imagined that this battle would end in such an overwhelming fashion.

    The world grew quieter by the moment.

    The once deafening roars and agonized screams of the beasts dwindled with their ceaseless deaths.

    Even the tremors of the earth gradually subsided.

    The stubborn dust that had refused to settle now began to slowly return to the ground.

    By the night of the fourth day, the battle was over.

    Though daylight had not arrived, the land was bathed in light.

    Tang Xian stood silently amidst it all, showing no joy at his own immense power.

    Months ago, he had told Li Wanye that he would bring an end to this cursed chaos.

    So much had transpired over these past months.

    The mysteries of the Beast Gods were gradually unraveled.

    He had reunited with his mother and father.

    The Eden Lord''s schemes had been exposed.

    And his former greatest enemy had ultimately joined forces with him out of necessity.

    Life was unpredictable, and Tang Xian knew that this battle would lead to a major upheaval in the mining district.

    The Eden Lord''s long-prepared strategy had surely reached its moment of execution.

    But for now, he had no mind to dwell on such matters.

    As his Divine Sense swept the battlefield, Tang Xian immediately located Li Xiaoyu.

    Amidst the crowd, he spotted Li Xiaoyu at a glance, and she was already looking back at him.

    What would the future hold for Baichuan City?

    Could this city, weathered by centuries of devastation, truly come alive again?

    These questions did cross the minds of the two who owned Baichuan City, but in the next instant, they stopped mattering.

    To live is to have hope.

    After the Eden Lord had taken Tang Xian''s body, Li Xiaoyu had lived on in despair. But now, seeing Tang Xian again, her expression no longer carried the feline-like wariness of before.

    Tears as large as beans fell in streams. The girl began to sob uncontrollably.

    She cried hysterically, every tear carrying joy, fear, anger, and sorrow.

    Crying is a powerfully infectious sound.

    Only when the beasts'' voices were entirely silenced did people finally recover from the shock of the battle and realize how many dear comrades had been lost.

    Qi Yuan watched everything with both anguish and bewilderment.

    The desire to cry began to take root in her heart.

    This feeling perplexed her.

    She stood by Li Xiaoyu''s side, looking like a mischievous little girl wearing a mask.

    Tang Xian noticed her immediately, and in that moment of recognition, he understood who this girl was.

    As a Keeper of Order, he possessed an acute awareness of beings like her.

    In that moment, Tang Xian finally understood the words Qi Yuan had spoken in the ruins of Eden:

    "You''ll understand once you see her."

    Tang Xian did not approach the young girl right away. Instead, he walked over to Li Xiaoyu.

    Though people revered heroes, there were still countless wounded in need of attention and much left to be done.

    Humanity might indeed have won this battle—perhaps even the first large-scale victory against the beasts in centuries.

    But no one felt the joy of triumph.

    Tang Xian stood before Li Xiaoyu, imagining how this girl had saved his life in the Keeper''s Kingdom of Order and how, in the Eden Lord''s Divine Realm, her name had kept him holding on until the very end.

    Gently, he wiped the tears from Li Xiaoyu''s face and said:

    "I''m back."

    Li Xiaoyu burst into even harder tears, burying her face into Tang Xian''s chest and choking out:

    "Welcome... home..."