Chapter 2129: The Wolf Beyond the Stars
The skies above the God Realm had barely begun to heal.
Dimensional cracks flickered like silent thunder, glowing faintly as the aftermath of the Celestial Sin Resonance faded. Below, Yun Che stood with Jasmine at the edge of the Vanishing Moon Domain.
Neither of them spoke.
Not yet.
> "Where do we start?" Yun Che asked finally.
Jasmine turned toward the horizon. Her scarlet eyes shimmered.
> "We don't find her," she said. "We let her find us."
She reached into her sleeve and drew a shard of crystal—a sliver of an ancient star map. Old, shattered, and dormant.
Until now.
As her energy touched it, the shard pulsed once… then released a thread of blood-red light. It slithered into the air and pointed—not toward the north, east, or any realm Yun Che knew.
But upward.
> "She's outside the god realms?"
> "She's beyond all realms," Jasmine replied quietly. "The last trace of her divine signature is drifting in the Deep Void."
Yun Che blinked. "Isn't that—"
> "Where the World Needle collapsed," she finished.
They both remembered it. A forbidden, chaotic dimensional fracture sealed by the Ancestral Will itself. A place that devoured light, time, and memory.
Yun Che clenched his fists.
> "She went there alone?"
Jasmine nodded.
> "No one followed. Not even me."
Yun Che's voice dropped.
> "Why not?"
Her expression didn't waver, but her voice was softer than he'd ever heard it.
> "Because I was afraid… I wouldn't come back."
A silence fell.
But the shard pulsed again—brighter this time.
And then a whisper—not from the shard, but inside their minds.
Soft. Too soft to be speech. But not forgotten.
> "Don't follow me unless you've changed."
Yun Che staggered.
Jasmine looked up sharply.
> "That was her."
It wasn't a memory.
It was now.
Caizhi had sensed them.
> "She doesn't sound lost," Yun Che muttered.
> "She isn't," Jasmine replied. "She's evolving."
The shard shifted again—this time forming a map not of space… but of a pattern. A route through cosmic resonance points, each one tied to ancient laws long erased.
Jasmine inhaled slowly.
> "She's leaving a trail. Not for us…"
She turned to him.
> "But for something else."
> "We need to reach her before they do."