Shi Ge Mu's heart went cold.
She had poured every last bit of Manifestation Power her civilization had left her into the attack, yet it had been utterly useless.
The worldview and values she had built over countless hundreds of millions of years were nearly collapsing...
Manifestation Power held a supreme place in her heart. It was her civilization's greatest wealth—one could even say it was the language of her civilization!
Back then, the many races had communicated and planned with one another through Manifestation Power. Every major exchange came with sacrifices! This unique form of "language" had formed a unique culture, and culture was the soul of a civilization.
That was what had allowed so many civilizations to merge together, forming the vast, unique Rebel Civilization that spanned countless years.
Manifestation Power was the absolute core of the Rebel Civilization, its very totem!
At the same time, it was one of the universe's greatest powers.
Yet before a Root-level being, that greatness was worth less than nothing.
Zero damage... The disparity and despair left her dazed.
"Strange. Where is your soul?" Yuan Shen spoke again, seemingly having discovered something unbelievable...
Shi Ge Mu ignored her. She was already in the midst of rebuilding her entire worldview.
Yuan Shen's avatar walked up to her, examined her over and over, then reached out and directly extracted Shi Ge Mu's Soul Origin.
In an instant, Shi Ge Mu dropped in level, falling from Twelve Yuan back to Eleventh Origin! Even her Dimension Sense declined! She lost her seventh-dimensional vision! To ascend from the sixth dimension to the seventh, one needed a Soul Origin! The destruction of one's origin would not cause dimensional descent, but she would no longer be able to survive in that dimension.
The Soul Origin in particular was of