Ilyesia's injuries this time were far more severe than before.
A major reason was that the enemy she faced this time—Oushen—was far beyond ordinary evil gods in both technique and strength. As Tyrant Lioz's longtime nemesis, despite her thorough preparations, she still failed to defeat him during his weakest period.
The Emerald Dragon's power was not that great. Traveling through time and space did not mean one could necessarily change the future. Time and space possessed a self-repairing ability, or rather, a kind of memory. Unless certain key nodes were completely destroyed, the overall trend would never change merely because one or two people were born or died.
For a very long time, Ilyesia had been trapped within this cycle of history.
Every time, she made herself stronger than anyone else. Even when she ascended to the position of a chief god, she still could not save her people.
No one understood the memory of time and space better than she did.
For some unknown reason, ever since she first watched everything the Dragon Race possessed get swallowed by the void, ever since that unprecedented extinction descended, she had gained this ability.
The power of reincarnation.
Failure, suicide, reincarnation began.
Every time, she returned to the moment she broke out of her shell.
Numbly eating her eggshell, shaking off those dim-witted, nearly beastlike brothers and sisters from the same clutch, she dragged her newborn body alone through the Black Forest, found the witch Ariana, sought refuge under her, and learned magic.
Then, a few years later, she watched Ariana abandon her because of her tangled love and hatred with a mortal warrior and leave the Black Forest. That allowed her to naturally take all of Ariana's remaining property, enter the Abyss Realm to train, develop, grow stronger, acknowledge her ancestry,