The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

He turned and went back inside, closing the balcony door behind him.

I walked to the entrance hall.

Xiaoyue is gone.

Sanqingniao is no longer around.

Three years. No one fed them. They went to find food on their own.

Chen Hao didn't think any further.

He sat on the sofa for a while.

It was only a very short time.

Then he stood up and walked out of the house.

He didn't lock the door.

Chen Hao's figure rose from the rooftop of Baotian City.

Without the power to drive flight, the remaining six Great Daos were still there, but their foundations were crumbling, so he didn't waste them unnecessarily.

He simply used the principles of space to fold the distance beneath his feet, taking a single step out of the atmosphere.

Lunar orbit.

There is no wind, no sound in the vacuum. Beneath my feet lies the blue planet, but it is no longer blue.

The clouds turned grayish-white, the sea surface turned black, and no green could be seen on the continental plates. The entire planet looked like a dusty marble, hanging darkly in the void.

The only light source was the distant sun. But that light was wrong; it was a dark red, no longer the normal white or yellow.

The sun's outer layers are being stripped away by the Kuroshio Current, causing it to shrink in size and lose brightness.

Chen Hao hovered in lunar orbit, facing the blue planet.

He looked at it.

a thousand years.

He has lived on this planet for ten thousand years. He cultivated from ancient times to the Celestial Immortal Realm, from an ignorant youth to a Dao-merging being.

From here, we set off for the Realm of Return to Nothingness, and from here, we sent the civilization of cultivation to another world.

Here, I fought a life-or-death battle with Blind Gu. Here, I ate hotpot with my sister, watched the sunset, and even had a fight.

Now he stands outside it, watching its final appearance.

enough.

I've seen enough.

Chen Hao turned around.

Facing the direction of the Kuroshio Current.

That boundless darkness was not black, but something deeper than black.

It devours light, devours laws, devours all matter.

Its boundaries are shrinking, pressing down on the blue planet in a silent and irresistible manner.

Chen Hao unleashed the Dharma Body of Heaven and Earth.

The power of the laws surged into every meridian in his body, causing his Dao foundation to tremble.

The six great paths—space, time, yin and yang, life and death, reincarnation, and destiny—respond simultaneously.

His body began to swell.

One zhang. Ten zhang. One hundred zhang. One thousand.

On the surface of the blue planet, the first person to notice was an amateur astronomer living in an underground air-raid shelter.

He pointed his telescope at the moon, then took his eyes off the eyepiece, rubbed them, and then looked at them again.

"What...?"

Next to the moon, a shadow appeared.

And the shadow was getting bigger.

getting bigger.

It's as big as the moon.

Then it's bigger than the moon.

Then, it became larger than two moons.

The news spread much faster than expected. On the blue planet in the eternal night, people had nothing to do; most stayed at home, either dazed or waiting to die.

When the first message spread across the remaining communication network...

There's something in the sky.

"Come out and see."

"Look at the sky..."

Lights came on in one building after another.

The door opened.

The person came out.

They looked up.

In the eternal night sky, a gigantic humanoid silhouette stretched across the horizon. Taller than the moon.

Larger than any known celestial body. The figure stood outside the blue planet, facing into the distance.

The light was too dim to make out facial features. But that figure...

Someone recognized him.

"It's a god..."

A voice came from a window of a building. It was trembling.

"It's a god! Look! It's God Chen Hao!"

Across the planet Earth, amidst ruins, on dilapidated streets, in underground bunkers, and on floating refuge platforms at sea, survivors emerged from every corner, craning their necks to look up at the sky.

"The Supreme God is still alive?!"

"Didn't the High God perish together with Blind Gu...?"

"He's back! The god has returned!"

The sounds grew more numerous and denser.

Chen Hao's Dharma Body had fully unfolded. His body was so large that from the ground of Blue Star, one could only see a silhouette that blotted out the sky.

But he couldn't hear the sounds below.

There's no need to listen anymore.

He faced the black tide, slowly spreading his arms.

Then...

The method of offering sacrifices and returning to the ruins.

Six Great Paths: Space, Devouring, Bloodlust, Corruption, Invisibility, and Substitute.

All.

The last six pillars were all removed.

It's not stripping.

This time, it's not like the Five Elements, where each element is pulled out one by one.

It means to ignite.

The six avenues within his foundation were simultaneously ignited, like six oil-soaked wicks being lit at once by a single flame.

Chen Hao's body began to glow.

It's not a surface glow. It's a golden-red light that emanates from the depths of the bones, from the core of the Tao, from the very bottom of the soul.

The light spread outwards along his meridians, first the traces of the meridians appeared on his body surface like red-hot iron wires.

Then the light penetrated his skin, penetrated his clothes, and radiated outward from his entire body.

He is burning.

The scene seen from Earth was that the enormous figure in the sky suddenly lit up.

It wasn't the kind of brightness where just one lamp is lit. It was the brightness of the entire sky.

Golden-red light poured out from the humanoid silhouette, illuminating the blue planet that had been shrouded in eternal night for two years.

Shadows appeared. Every withered tree, every dilapidated building, and every person standing outside looking up at the sky cast long shadows behind them.

I'm back during the day.

Shenzhen. A young mother holding her three-year-old daughter stands on the balcony, feeling the warmth of the sunlight on her face.

It was warm. Not hot. It felt like someone was cupping your face in their hands.

Her daughter pointed to the sky: "Mommy, the sun."

It's not the sun. But children don't understand those things.

All she knew was that the sky, which had been dark for a very long time, finally brightened.

The mother covered her mouth. Tears rolled down her cheeks.

In an underground air-raid shelter somewhere in the north, the iron gate at the entrance was pushed open, and soldiers poured out.

The lieutenant in the lead looked up for three seconds, then stopped, stood at attention, and raised his hand.

A standard military salute.

His hands were trembling. His lips were trembling too. But his salute was perfectly straight.

The soldiers behind him stood at attention one by one. No one spoke. No one gave an order. They just stood there, facing the light, hands raised.

Further away, an old man who had been slumped by the roadside slowly knelt down.

His knees slammed into the cracked concrete, his hands braced against the ground, and his forehead pressed against the floor.

People around them began to kneel down.

The light in the sky grew brighter and brighter.

Chen Hao's body was dissolving. This time, he had burned and sacrificed the Great Dao. From this point on, he would perish completely, and even the Great Dao would cease to exist. He would never be able to be reborn.

As golden-red light spread outwards from his body, his silhouette gradually faded.

Like an ink block soaked in water, its edges begin to blur, dissolve, and spread out.

The light broke free from his silhouette, transforming into countless streams of light that surged toward the Blue Star.

Each streak of light is his life.

Each streak of light is the remnant of a great road after it has burned out.

They didn't destroy anything. There was no shockwave. There was no explosion.

They gently but firmly enveloped the blue planet.

One floor. Two floors. Three floors.

Countless golden-red light threads intertwined, coiled, and overlapped, weaving a massive barrier around the blue star.