The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

A terrifying, abyss-like spacetime vortex, with its absolute gravity that transcends all physical rules for a short period of time, sucked Song Gua, who was almost within reach, into it.

This refers to the instantaneous energy generated from the moment the crack comes into contact to the moment the crack is filled, spanning two dimensions.

This energy comes quickly and goes quickly; it's just that it's extremely powerful.

The Song hexagram could not avoid it because it was so close.

Moreover, this inescapability is absolute, because the energy collapse between dimensions transcends all rules.

In that brief moment, all abilities become ineffective.

And so, under the surveillance of the Heavenly Army warships.

The scene of countless Song Gua clones filling the dimensional rifts, and Song Gua being sucked into a spacetime vortex after the rifts were filled, was broadcast to the whole world.

At this moment, the world fell silent.

Until someone squatted down on the ground and sobbed softly.

"What are you crying about! Song Gua is a god-like being! He won't die!"

"Yes! He's the bandit leader, and he's immortal!"

"Earth has just been revived, how can God Song perish now? He hasn't even seen us rebuild Earth's civilization!"

"Come back quickly, Song Shen!!"

Amid the calls from people all over the world.

Song Gua is back.

But what returned was a stone statue.

A colossal stone statue hundreds of meters high.

The stone statue reveals the outline and shape of the Song Gua, depicting hands raised in a lifting motion.

The stone statue burned violently as it passed through the atmosphere, shrinking in size, but it still stood tens of meters tall after landing and retained its original shape.

"boom!!"

With a loud crash, the stone statue plunged into the American Ocean, causing towering waves to surge and splashing water thousands of meters high.

The tsunami triggered by this impact swept across the globe.

"Gurgle..."

The stone statue sank into the deep, dark seabed.

With a dull thud, silence fell.

The warships of the Heavenly Army and the Celestials arrived swiftly, and the giant engineering spaceship extended long chain grappling hooks, plunging deep into the seabed and quickly retrieving the stone statue of Song Gua from the seabed.

The Americas collapsed due to a massive earthquake caused by the Twelve Ancestors, turning into the American Ocean, but some areas can still be found above the surface.

Miss Butterfly directed the Heavenly Army to carefully transport Song Gua's stone statue to the nearest island.

Looking at the stone statue standing on the island, dozens of meters tall, still in the posture of holding up the sky with its hands, Miss Butterfly stood at the foot of the statue and burst into tears.

"Dad, I'm sorry, my brother sacrificed his life."

On Mars, Zhou Tak sat on the ground, saying nothing.

Before long, Yue Sheng arrived at the scene. His hands trembled as he placed them on the stone statue. The cold, damp touch of the stone made Yue Sheng's vision go black, and he almost fainted.

This scene was broadcast live globally.

I saw that the Song Gua had really turned into a stone statue.

Moreover, as time went on, there was no sign of recovery whatsoever.

Even those who still believe in miracles are gradually losing hope.

"He's really dead..."

"Why did they turn into stone statues? Is there still a chance for them to be resurrected?"

"His achievements were so great that they became a monument after his death."

"Is there absolutely no hope left...?"

The Song hexagram, like a dazzling meteor, pulled the Earth out of the Dark Ages with lightning speed.

But he was like a shooting star, fleeting and ephemeral.

During the short span of three or four years he suppressed the entire era, and even most of the time, no one knew that the leader of the bandit organization that roamed the earth was none other than Song Gua.

In the end, he saved all of humanity and the entire Earth, but he couldn't save himself.

He turned into a stone statue, standing forever on the earth.

♫A fleeting glimpse of lifelike shadows reflected in the palace.

♫Wrongly asked what year it is tonight

Where do the lanterns of the light-hearted Hu Xuan dance now lie in eternal slumber?

♫ Accompanied by countless stars reflecting across the heavens

Snow-covered, myriad lights, bell chimes, and Buddhist shrines.

♫ This journey is fraught with dust and revelry.

♫Where have the once-brilliant cave paintings gone, their crimson hues faded?

♫But upon waking, he remained an observer.

……

Fifty years later.

Because the Americas are not naturally formed oceans.

As the global catastrophe gradually subsides, the impact of the Twelve Ancestors' Dimensional Opening on Earth is slowly recovering.

More and more islands are emerging in the Americas, stretching into a continuous expanse.

This area is now known as the American Islands.

"Waaah—"

The cruise ship's horn boomed as it slowly approached the shore.

Tourists disembarked in an orderly fashion on their individual drones and gathered on the shore.

The tour guide, carrying a flight bag and holding a guide flag, smiled professionally and addressed the crowd from mid-air.

"Dear tourists, welcome to our heroic island, Songgua Island!"

As we all know, our Song Dynasty ancestor sacrificed himself so that the earth could continue to exist, and he turned into a stone statue that stands on this island.

I believe that everyone comes to this island to pay homage to the heroic spirit of our nation's founding father.

Therefore, during the upcoming viewing period, please turn off your phones or put them on silent mode, remain serious throughout, and refrain from horseplay or laughing.

I must remind everyone that the island is garrisoned year-round by one of the most elite 10,000-strong Southern Army units.

General Ye Chen would never show mercy to anyone who offended the statue of the nation's ancestor.

As you may have heard in the news, someone was watching short videos on a multi-functional device under the statue of the founding father of the nation and laughed out loud. He was shot dead on the spot by a general for crimes against humanity.

Everyone must take this as a warning!

After the tour guide finished speaking, he landed.

According to the rules of the Southern Army, no living creature taller than the stone statue is allowed to appear in the skies above this island.

Once the laser interceptor is scanned, it will be directly located by fire control, and a high-energy laser beam will be launched instantly to shatter everything.

The tourists dared not cause any trouble.

They all had solemn and dignified expressions.

Many people are even a little nervous at this moment.

Because in the past fifty years, the Song hexagram has already been mythologized by humankind.

People today prefer to believe that the Song divination was performed by a deity descended to earth to save humanity.

Even though history books say he was the leader of a bandit organization, a very capricious person, and even used robbery of global families to expand his power.

However, later generations dismissed this interpretation, explaining it as the Song hexagram eliminating the oppressive class for the common people.

There are many similar cases.

The whole thing is like saying, "Great scholars will naturally defend the classics for me."

Yuwen Hao was already old.

However, thanks to modern medicine, he remains energetic and robust, looking no different from a middle-aged man in his forties.

Yuwen Hao arrived at Songgua Island with a tour group, holding the hand of an eight- or nine-year-old girl.

The little girl was wearing a red dress, had her hair in pigtails, and had a round, chubby face; she was very cute.

"Grandpa, is this the Island of Heroes?"

"Yes, this place is of extraordinary significance to us humans."

"I know, the teacher said that the great hero Song Guozu (Emperor Song of the Song Dynasty) is sleeping here!"

With tears in his eyes, Yuwen Hao gazed at the enormous stone statue in the center of the island.

The stone statue still holds its hands to the sky, as if it was still fighting until the moment of its death.

"Yes, we all want to believe that he is just asleep, that he is not dead, and that he will wake up again one day."

[The End of Part 1 of "Let the Doppelganger Fly for a While"]