"Farewell, Old Ancestor, as you ascend!"
The thunderous cries of farewell, like mountains roaring and seas crashing, still seemed to ring in his ears, yet gradually faded with the slapping waves beneath his feet.
Luo Chen gazed over this unfamiliar sea. There were no birds in sight, only mist everywhere, and it somehow felt faintly familiar.
"This is... the Southern Ocean?" Luo Chen muttered hesitantly.
Suddenly!
"Hm..."
With a muffled groan, Luo Chen's expression changed slightly.
Only now did that extreme sense of weakness suddenly surface.
His Divine Sense swept over himself, and as he looked inward, the terrible state of his body became instantly clear.
His Nascent Soul was listless, and his mana was depleted.
Intense pain radiated from his limbs, bones, internal organs, and even every meridian and acupoint.
These were injuries sustained during the previous battle in the Yin-Yang Remnant Realm!
It was merely that, during his brief time with Divine Lord You Li, the other party had suppressed them with a Grand Divine Ability, so he had not felt them.
Now that he had left that Cloud Sea Summit and lost the suppression of another, they immediately began to backlash against Luo Chen.
The only good news was that his nearly exhausted Source Power had silently increased by quite a bit, leaving Luo Chen with roughly thirty percent of his ability to protect himself.
Source Power differed from mana. Mana was sought externally and gathered into oneself. Source Power, however, was physical strength refined from powerful flesh and blood; as long as the body remained intact, Source Power could flow forth without end.
The "source" in Source Power referred both to the Origin Power of the fleshly body and to its unceasing flow.
Of course, true inexhaustible power did not exist in this world.
The price