## Chapter One Hundred Forty-Third: A Bright Moon in the Sky

Within Maple Forest City.

Dong Ah surged forth, his fist wreathed in a radiant light.

Lu Yan, regaining his senses, met fist with fist, their exchange escalating to hundreds of blows in an instant.

No matter the outcome, even if the White Bone Venerable God’s descent upon this world were to fail this time, as long as he drew breath, and as long as the Venerable God endured, hope would not be extinguished.

Without such an unyielding spirit, a hundredfold unbroken, he could not have reached this point.

Though Ouyang Lie had led the White Bone Dao in recent years, it was he who had always been the planner.

He had charted the course of the White Bone Dao, laying the groundwork for the grand scheme unfolding today.

Now, a single misstep had led to utter defeat, leaving nothing more to be said.

Yet, there was no certainty that they could not rise again.

When they had revived the White Bone Dao years ago, their circumstances were even more dire than now.

As this thought settled within him, Lu Yan cast off his despondency and his spirit rekindled.

“Insignificant child Dong Ah, dare you seek death again?”

Lu Yan unleashed his full power, reinforced by the might of outer domain stars. His fist descended, shattering Dong Ah’s momentum.

This was not enough. He pressed close, driving his fist into Dong Ah’s abdomen.

Yet, in his nether eyes, he saw only Dong Ah’s impassive face… drawing ever nearer!

A head-on collision!

Half of Dong Ah’s forehead was shattered, while blood streamed down Lu Yan’s own brow.

But Dong Ah merely shook his head and lunged forward again.

Lu Yan fiercely broke free of the restraint, kicking him away and soaring backward.

He was accustomed to madness and felt no fear, only vexation.

Then, he witnessed the abdomen that had been broken open and the forehead that had been shattered, both rapidly repairing themselves at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A sweep of his nether eyes revealed the green divine ability seed within Dong Ah’s second Mansion.

It represented the divine ability of boundless life!

The most crucial aspect for cultivators in the Inner Mansion realm was to explore the Five Mansions, their highest achievement being the procurement of a divine ability seed.

Dong Ah was also an Inner Mansion realm expert who had obtained a divine ability seed, having succeeded in his second Mansion.

This implied that Dong Ah still had three more opportunities for exploration.

His future was virtually boundless.

Such a powerhouse, yet confined to the small domain of Maple Forest City, serving as a mere city academy principal!

Though Du Ruhui and Huangfu Duanming’s political machinations were merely a prelude, prior to today, the lower officials had been unaware.

One could see the injustice Dong Ah had endured in the past, a consequence of his character.

“Without the tempering of Maple Forest City, I could not have acquired this divine ability seed.”

Dong Ah’s face was cold as iron, his voice colder still, resonating throughout the domain: “Therefore, Lu Yan, I will surely slay you! I will surely use your blood to consecrate this domain!”

His words did not cease, and he charged forward once more.

Pain served as a crucible, tempering the strong as they pressed forward through hardship.

But Lu Yan only sneered repeatedly: “The entirety of Zhuang Country, from top to bottom, inside and out, is rife with falsehood! I thought you, Dong Ah, were different, and indeed you are.”

“You are even more loathsome, more false!”

He sent Dong Ah flying with another punch.

“Du Ruhui and Huangfu Duanming, were they not your prepared countermeasures? You knew early on that the White Bone Dao would welcome the Venerable God and refine the White Bone True Pill!”

“Yet you silently endured, speaking not a word, watching as the entire city was engulfed in slaughter!”

“For the sake of this single White Bone True Pill, you used the lives of the entire city’s common people as a stake, sacrificing them to achieve your own ends! What promise did Zhuang Gaoenvy make to you? How are you and my White Bone Dao different?”

“To speak of sacrifice? To speak of vengeance? You would do better to kill yourself first!”

An Inner Mansion realm cultivator fighting an Outer Building realm cultivator should have no chance of victory.

But relying on the boundless life divine ability, Dong Ah disregarded life and death, each move a desperate gamble. He actually managed to suppress Lu Yan for a time.

And as long as Du Ruhui on the other side thoroughly cleared the White Bone Venerable God’s imprint, he could free his hands. At that moment, facing the unblemished Du Ruhui, whether he soared to the heavens or plunged into the earth, Lu Yan would have nowhere to escape.

However, with the situation crumbling thus, Lu Yan instead calmed down, a fierce expression on his face.

“I want to see how long your incomplete boundless life divine ability can endure!”

When an Inner Mansion realm cultivator acquired a divine ability seed, it was merely a “seed,” not yet complete. Thus, although Dong Ah possessed the terrifying boundless life divine ability, it did not mean he was already an undying body.

As long as a certain limit was broken, the divine ability seed would also collapse.

Lu Yan unleashed his ferocity, fighting and advancing relentlessly.

Suddenly, his nether eyes flickered, and his momentum surged upward.

He had perceived a certain shift.

While Dong Ah remained completely unaware, he was already possessed of a strong, instinctive premonition.

The true battlefield had never been within Maple Forest City, but at the original site of Small Forest Town.

At this moment, at the location where the White Bone True Pill was being refined.

Large swathes of black peeled away, the entire space “torn open!”

An almost endless tide of nether power surged in.

The White Bone Venerable God, embodied in the Nine Nether, had abandoned his efforts to descend into this world.

But he sought to borrow the previous no birth no extinction array and the White Bone imprint to drag this entire Maple Forest City domain into the nether!

This act consumed an immeasurable amount of divine power, but once completed, Du Ruhui, Dong Ah, and the others would all perish. The White Bone True Pill could also be retrieved with ease!

“Go!”

Du Ruhui, currently clearing the White Bone imprint, made a decisive move. He suddenly appeared beside Dong Ah, grabbed him, and with a single step, departed just like that.

This also signified that he had abandoned the last wave of survivors within the Maple Forest City domain.

From this moment forward, the Maple Forest City domain would be devoid of human life, sinking into the nether!

Outside the Maple Forest City domain, a pair of siblings wandered.

They awaited an outcome, while simultaneously fearing it.

“Brother, where shall we go?”

“I… I do not know either.”

Perhaps Clear River City, perhaps New An City? Jiang Wang mused.

“Brother, shall we go home?”

Jiang Wang gazed at the Maple Forest City domain, now completely shrouded in fog, and slowly said: “We… no longer have a home.”

Little An An was silent for a while, then asked again: “What about Brother Ru Cheng, Brother Ling He, Brother A Zhan, the great master Tang Dun’s disciples, Master… are they still there?”

They are all gone, ah. Jiang Wang thought.

He suppressed his tears and comforted her: “Brother doesn’t know. Perhaps they also escaped, just in a different direction than us.”

“Oh.” Jiang An An rested her small head lightly against her brother’s back: “Then we can go find them.”

“This world is too vast. Once scattered, it’s possible we may never find them.”

“Then wait until I grow up, and I’ll go find them with you.”

“… Alright.”

“Brother?”

“Brother is here.”

“Will I still be able to drink lamb broth, eat osmanthus cakes? And the sugar figures from Fengxi Town…”

“Perhaps you will, perhaps not. However, this world has many, many delicious things to eat. Brother will take you to try others later…”

An An was very sensible, responding with a single sound: “Alright.”

Just at this moment, Jiang Wang heard that voice that shook the entire domain.

Dong Ah and Lu Yan’s voices.

Everything was understood.

Everything was clear.

Why he had reported so early, yet the Zhuang Court had shown no reaction.

Why this disaster, which could clearly have been avoided, had ultimately dragged the Maple Forest City domain into the abyss!

His most trusted teacher, had concealed everything, ah!

That Dong Ah, whom he so respected, so admired, so cherished, had delivered the deepest, most ruthless, most painful deception.

Jiang Wang no longer hesitated, no longer lingered.

Carrying Jiang An An, he turned and fled.

Though Zhuang Country was vast, there was not an inch of land worth lingering on.

From this moment forward, no more hometown!

What was a true homeless dog?

He had no hometown, nor the people within it!

“Brother, where are we going?”

“We are leaving here.”

Leaving Ling He, leaving Zhao Ru Cheng, leaving Huang A Zhan, leaving Wei Yan, leaving Zhao Lang, leaving Xiao Tie Mian…

Leaving the city academy, leaving Cai Ji’s lamb broth, leaving Su Huai Zhai, leaving Du De Wang, leaving Wang Yue Lou, leaving Gui Xiang Zhai, leaving the home in Flying Horse Alley…

Leaving the people they once loved, leaving the places they once lived.

Because they could never return again.

After this, it would belong to the nether.

The disaster continued for an entire day, the sun having already set behind the mountains.

But unlike the Maple Forest City domain, which had fallen into eternal darkness, the world outside the Maple Forest City domain still retained some light.

That was the lamp fire of the human world, that was the starlight, and that was also the moonlight.

Jiang Wang carried Jiang An An and walked away.

This heart’s safe place is my hometown, but from now on he had only Jiang An An, no longer a heart safe.

At that very moment, the star river flowed as before, and a bright moon hung in the sky.

Volume One: “A Bright Moon in the Sky,” ends.

Tomorrow, I will write a summary and my thoughts on the end of the volume, and simultaneously open the next volume.

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