Chapter 525 — The Return of the Heaven's Chosen
When the Ghostfire Old Demon perished, the vast tide of black mist he had summoned dispersed as though the world itself exhaled in relief.
But before the air could settle, dark clouds began to coil and converge overhead.
From their depths fell a soft, sorrowful drizzle—each drop light as silk, yet laden with melancholy. The faint chill that came with it stirred the heart with inexplicable grief, as though the heavens themselves were weeping.
Fang Luo and his two companions stood in silence beneath the grayened sky.
They understood at once what this omen meant.
This was no ordinary storm. It was the Heavenly Mourning, a phenomenon that appeared only when a cultivator of the Emperor Realm fell.
They had witnessed it once before—when the eminent monk Kongjing of the Western Buddhist Domain perished. That same somber rain had veiled the skies then as well, a requiem sung by heaven and earth.
