Jin was once dust on a mining star. Xing Yao was the only warm light in his frozen years. They clung to each other amid blood and fire, and risked their lives in a world of betrayal. Before the filthy tide pouring from the Source Remains Broodmother in the Thornstar Domain, Xing Yao burned away the very source of her soul to protect his broken body. She became the final searing warmth around the back of his neck, then vanished inch by inch before his eyes. Only a few strands of silver hair remained, frozen against his sword bones.
At that moment, "Jin" died. The ashes of his beloved ignited the fire of the end.
His right arm was annihilated, and his star core mutated into a cold singularity. He trampled the Thorn King's Court, devoured the Source Remains Crown, and forged the filth of the Eroding Abyss, the ending of the Bone Corridor, and the sacrilege of the Lamenting Star Ring, along with all his pain and Xing Yao's cold mark, into ultimate fuel. The Black Iron Pact became a charred scar, and his humanity was stripped away completely. Wielding the Sword of the End, he became a pilgrim wandering the cosmic tombstone.
Where his blade pointed, stars went dark and civilizations sank into oblivion. Corrupted star clusters were silently erased within the dark singularity, and fragments of the Source Remains returned to nothingness. Every time he brought something to its end, it was a funeral pyre offered to her.
Love had been tempered into a bone-eroding poison, and affection burned into the fire of the end. He no longer spoke. Only cold logic drove his remains: **Burn the heavens, bury all worlds, and use this body as kindling to fuel an eternal inferno of calamity. All things in the universe shall be kindling for Xing Yao's funeral pyre.**
