In the long darkness, he heard a rumble.
Those sounds lingered by his ears, ringing without end.
The footsteps of a giant...
Drawing closer to him, step by step!
Right at hand!
In that instant, Kuafu abruptly opened his eyes. Flowing Fire Golden Eyes reignited from the darkness as he instinctively sprang upright... only to fall back to the ground.
He panted violently, drenched in sweat.
Only then did he realize the pain that nearly shattered his entire body, and even...
Lowering his head, his skull-exposed face looked down and saw his incomplete lower body slowly dissolving.
Even under the restraint and treatment of the ritual, it was irreversibly melting into blood and fluid, stripped of divinity and miracles, gradually vanishing.
"What... happened to me?"
"Calm down, Abao. Calm down."
Xue Ya, outside the ritual, pressed a hand to the bridge of her nose. This guy had nearly broken it with one punch. "Do you have some kind of grudge against me?"
"No, I still... I was..."
Kuafu muttered blankly, then asked the question he cared about most through his muddled thoughts. "How long has it been?"
An instant?
An hour?
Or...
"Regrettably, you've been lying there for an entire day."
Xue Ya held him down, having long seen through his panic and anxiety. "Don't move around yet. Otherwise, if your lower body completely dissolves, you won't even have legs to run away with."
Twenty-four hours. An entire day.
As the hall shook violently, Kuafu fell into a daze.
His memories remained at the very end.
That despairing silhouette crawling ever closer.
At the end of the road, after swallowing every calamity, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had summoned his final strength, burned away his radiance, and struck the Sea Giant with one last, mutual-destruction blow!
Yet he was