Showdown, my deck is from the East.

Chapter 1213 We Fight in a Lost Era—
Your sun has set.
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The Heavenly Dog Eats the Sun - End of Volume
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Just now, the galaxy experienced its final, most futile flash of light, before sinking completely into boundless silence and absolute darkness.

A violent, unpredictable electromagnetic storm swept through, like an invisible giant hand, brutally suffocating all long-distance communications.

Sight, hearing, touch... all senses are stripped away, and even divine thoughts, when explored, are like a clay ox entering the sea.

"Immortal Technique..." Lu Cheng was halfway through making the hand seal when a bone-chilling cold seeped into his bone marrow along his finger bones, freezing his joints almost completely, and he let out a labored groan.

He forcefully focused his mind to dispel the chill, then concentrated again: "Immortal Technique - Spiritual Fire!"

puff!
A tiny flame struggled and flickered on the fingertip for a moment, before being mercilessly extinguished by the omnipresent absolute zero energy escape zone, leaving not even a wisp of smoke behind.

"Tsk..."

Lu Cheng gave up.

To combat this cosmic-level frigidity, only the Samadhi Fire can provide the solution.

But at this moment, every bit of spiritual energy is extremely precious.

Cold? Then be cold.

He stopped trying to light it and closed his eyes completely.

Although in this all-consuming darkness, there is no difference between having your eyes open and closed.

Based solely on his last memory, he sketched the positions of Rainbow Bridge, Cloud Star, Tianzhen Twin Stars, and distant stars on the almost frozen seismograph panel.

The melody of "Sunset Over the Waves" flows in my ears and my mind, transforming into clear musical scores.

Suddenly, at the fifth syllable of the third section, a faint, discordant noise, like a pebble thrown into stagnant water, was keenly detected by Lu Cheng.

quiet!
My mind sank into absolute silence, eliminating all distracting thoughts, and even my own breathing and heartbeat almost stopped.

hum...

That faint noise was caught by Lu Cheng in the absolute silence, and he amplified, distorted, and reconstructed it infinitely...

Finally, in Lu Cheng's sea of ​​consciousness, a terrifying and ferocious phantom of a giant worm lurking in the darkness leaped out!

Cold compound eyes, sharp mouthparts, filled with a dulled restlessness and...killing intent!
"So you were here. I've finally found you." A cold smile curled at the corner of Lu Cheng's lips.

The demonic insect seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around.

It has been completely disconnected from the mothership.

The canopy is already set; there's no point in rushing over now.

From birth, it has been high above and above everything.

However, after the photosynthetic engine shut down, its immense power gradually dissipated.

The absurd fact is that if it doesn't kill the Imperial Guard cavalrymen who are like leeches clinging to its bones, it might die!

Once upon a time, its speed was so fast that even birth, aging, sickness, and death could not catch up with it; it could travel through time and space and look down on everything.

Now, I might die.

Having grasped this fact, it began to become manic.

Turn the insect around and kill it!

Without any additional power, the two air cavalrymen from both races tacitly turned around and faced each other. The last glimmer of light from their engines traced two resolute trajectories in the absolute darkness, like an ancient knightly duel.

Lu Cheng was not afraid at all.

Now everyone's powertrain systems are the same.

The Demon Insect's design, adapted to faster-than-light spacetime, is not suitable for combat in such extreme environments.

Lu Cheng was different; all his air cavalry took to the skies, believing from the beginning that his people would overcome all difficulties to complete the mission.

From the moment of launch to the moment of gliding with the rainbow bridge airflow, every movement is designed to conserve energy.

"I can start a fire, can you?" Lu Cheng's own spiritual energy, the spiritual energy stored in Goddess Peak, and Jingwei's spiritual energy all began to converge into his dantian. "Immortal Technique: Samadhi True Fire! Ignite it!"

[The spiritual energy surrounding Goddess Peak is stable!]

[The Golden Core has circulated three times, the Demon Core has circulated four times, and the True Fire Furnace Core has been lit!]

Jingwei seemed to be engulfed in flames, transforming once again into the divine bird radiating boundless light.

[All weapon systems are integrated; the Nantianmen platform is now online!]

Faced with the sudden burst of divine light, the demonic insect ceased its frenzy. Perhaps the extreme cold slowed the metabolism of the injected psychoactive drugs, and it suddenly felt fear towards the surrounding darkness, the cold, and the distant deity!

The photosynthetic engine wouldn't light up no matter what it tried. Forget about overspeeding, even maneuvering was difficult. It started calling for a wingman!
Having lost the blessing of the supreme power stolen from the origin of the universe, I now know that I am who I am.

At this moment, it finally understood who its opponent was, but it seemed too late.

"The Imperial Guards' battle flags flutter in the wind," Lu Cheng murmured to himself, while simultaneously pulling down his cavalry visor.

[Full armor deployed, spiritual energy fully supplied, entering combat stance]

[The scorpion-style hanging rack is now open.]

Those whose Heavenly Laws have collapsed have been liberated.

Phase emission cavity is ready.

[The charged javelins are charged, and the first-level Five Elements Array is ready to be ignited.]

[Thunderbolt-1 (Destroying Horse Poison Stake Warhead) is ready]

The setting sun over the long river, a lone plume of smoke rising from the vast desert.

The dormant memories slowly seeped back in.

At this moment, the identities of the Director of the Imperial Workshop, the Marshal of the Northern Army, and the Principal of the Academy all peeled away and faded away.

All his thoughts and emotions were focused, leaving only one person and one horse in the world.

"I am Lu Cheng, the Imperial Guard General. Demon General, prepare to die!"

Summer, a strange, lost era.

Its loss is not annihilation, but rather a complete erasure.

No photons carrying information escaped, no radio waves recording history diffused, and no soundprints inscribed with civilization echoed...

The vessel that carries "existence" is swallowed whole by an incomprehensible force.

Light is the measure of time.

Heat is the pulse of energy.

When light is swallowed, time freezes into eternal amber, never to flow again.

When the heat is removed, the pulse of the universe becomes lifeless and can no longer beat.

Summer is an era without light and heat... like falling into an absolute information black hole, becoming unobservable, unrecordable, and untraceable.

Even the most magnificent spectacle, the supreme demon lord who draws upon the origin of the universe, exhausting the power of time and space, could no longer find a trace of "Xia" in the long scroll of the starry sea.

Why?

There are many conflicting opinions, all shrouded in mystery.

Until… an absurd yet chilling conjecture was whispered among the Starry Sky Sages:

Did the "time" and "light" of this era resemble a total solar eclipse that spanned the entire epoch? Were they swallowed whole by a greedy, incomparably large celestial dog that stretched across the galaxy?
absurd!

How ridiculous!

But... if you hold your breath and concentrate, sinking your perception into the deepest, almost negligible background noise of the cosmic microwave background radiation...

listen!
In that abyss of absolute darkness and death, where even "nothingness" itself is almost nonexistent...

A faint, yet incredibly subtle, metallic clang pierced through the barriers of time and space, carrying out a distant sound.

That was... the war drums of the Xia army? That was... the clash of bronze swords and halberds?

perhaps.

Right now.

In that forgotten corner of the universe, dark and sunless, unobservable, and logically "non-existent".

A Great Xia army, clad in black armor and with an indestructible will like the core of a star, is engaged in an endless, bloody battle with a demonic army from the abyss, a battle that transcends the concepts of time and existence.

They fought.

Not for life, not for death.

All for the dawn that is yet to come.
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Xia Dynasty - End