Chapter2128: Star-Eater
Darkness.
But not the suffocating kind. Not death.
This was stillness. A peace that came not from calm… but from absence.
Caizhi sat at the edge of the broken universe, in a realm so distant it had no name. Where even the light from stars refused to travel.
She no longer needed breath.
No longer felt hunger.
No longer… forgot.
Her eyes, once soft like the sky, now held layers—rings of shifting silver, scarlet, and shadow. She stared into nothing. And remembered everything.
> "Jasmine…"
The name echoed in her mind like an ache long buried.
But it wasn't Jasmine's face she saw.
It was a throne.
Buried in a ruined sea of time.
And on it, a figure sat—robed in obsidian wind, eyes blindfolded with starlight, mouth stitched shut by laws no one remembered.
> Cessation.
The third of the Five Silent Thrones.
And she had stood before it.
Willingly.
> "You think me lost," Caizhi whispered aloud, her voice no longer quite human. "But I stepped outside the book."
Behind her, fragments of stars orbited like petals in slow motion. She was no longer just the Heavenly Wolf Star God.
She was something more.
Something less.
Her memories weren't just hers anymore. She saw through time like reflections on black water. She saw Yun Che. Jasmine. The Monster That Walks in Silence.
> "They'll come for me soon."
She placed her hand on the ground—or what passed for ground. The void rippled.
And far, far away… a pulse was felt by the other Thrones.
She didn't flinch.
Instead, she smiled.
> "I remember the end of the first war now."
> "And I remember what broke them."
She stood.
A flicker of red light streaked across her face as one of the oldest stars in the universe winked out above her.
She didn't look up.
> "I'll remind the others why we stopped naming gods."