The final battle between the Witches and Demons raged as the heavens shattered. Seeing his elder brother Di Jun fall, Donghuang Taiyi looked around at the scattered remains of the Ancestral Witches and mountains of Demon corpses. The last warmth in his eyes gave way to resolve. He summoned the Innate Supreme-Grade Spiritual Treasure that had accompanied him for half his life, the Chaos Bell. Its peal shattered the universe, and he exploded along with it. In an instant, blood and fragments of the bell flew together, annihilating several surviving Ancestral Witches. The Primordial World fell silent.
When the ashes of the calamity had settled, only a wisp of a fading remnant soul remained, drifting in the chaotic currents.
Just as the soul was about to be extinguished, a streak of light suddenly raced out from the depths of chaos. It was a pearl, entirely the color of chaos and shimmering with Hongmeng energy. Ignoring the barriers of space and time, it precisely enveloped Taiyi's remnant soul, then plunged into the surging river of time and swam upstream, breaking through the barrier of billions of years.
When he sensed the world around him again, the Dragon-Han Calamity had just begun.
In a dark nest, a Golden Crow egg floated quietly, the patterns of the sun, moon, and stars beginning to appear on its shell. It was himself, not yet transformed. Like a bird returning to its nest, Taiyi's remnant soul instantly merged into the egg. The shell gave a sudden tremor, and faint echoes of a bell mingled with the aura of the Chaos Pearl.
The Chaos Bell's self-destruction had been the full stop of fate; the river of time flowing backward became the dash that marked a new beginning. Starting anew from the Golden Crow egg and wielding the Chaos Pearl's power, this “reborn” Donghuang would lay his plans early, make up for past regrets, and turn the tragic tale of the Witches and Demons around. At the dawn of the Primordial World, as myriad races fought for supremacy, a brand-new chapter would begin, one that belonged to him!
