In the Forty-Ninth Heaven, atop the cracked and broken Conferred God Platform—

All the powerful beings sheltered by James’s purple-gold barrier had gathered.

What had once been a grand Conferred God Ceremony, filled with countless great deities, had now become a desolate ruin.

Those who had once fought side by side—brothers in Tao, comrades in life and death—were gone. Most had dissolved into the returning energies of the Myriad Paths under Waitara Path.

The loss weighed heavily on everyone.

But what troubled them even more was this—

The Sky Catastrophe wasn’t over.