Zi Qing, the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan, perished. But he did not perish at the hands of the countless species. Instead, he sacrificed himself, and was melted by the gaze of Eminent Desolation. Left behind was a skull, imbued with all the defiance of a lifetime, which did not crumble into ashes. It fell down to the battlefield.0

Others departed with him.... They included all of the souls of the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan, including Bai Xiaozhuo. The day they departed... it started raining in Revered Ancient. And that rain lasted for an entire month. Brilliant Heaven filled with a churning haze that also lasted for a month.0

In the imperial capital of humankind, Emperor Mirrorcloud did not hold court. He just sat for days looking south, his gaze vacant. Eventually he sent someone to the continent of South Phoenix to retrieve Zi Qing’s skull. When he got it, he looked at it and let loose a complicated sigh filled with guilt. Then he erected a magnificent tomb for the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan, and also issued an edict stating that he would be buried alongside Zi Qing in the same tomb.2

And thus, the glorious story of the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan ended. The Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan became a thing of the past. The countless species did their best to bury the story, to the point where it became nothing but a legend. And then... it disappeared entirely. Even remote palaces attached to the kingdom turned into nothing but ruins that eventually were buried in the...0