"Whoosh."
The branches squirmed.
This Half-Saint who had inexplicably entered and only come face-to-face with the Dark World was sucked dry into a human husk.
Vitality, divine soul, will... all faded away into darkness.
Even the Life Pattern that represented the possibility of resurrection turned gray and withered in an instant, then shattered and fell like a dying flower.
"D-dead?"
When Jiang Buyi died, Void Island had still mourned with a saint's wail.
This one had not even let out the sound of a saint falling. The moment he showed himself, he was gone?
The scene was nothing short of horrifying!
Sweat seeped from the soles of Xu Xiaoshou's feet as he stared blankly at the Ancestor Tree branches that had sucked the Half-Saint dry, then withdrawn after eating and drinking their fill.
That fleeting Half-Saint Godhood had also been wrapped up by the branches, disappearing without a trace.
"What a complete giveaway?"
Only now could Xu Xiaoshou not accept what he was seeing.
This was a Half-Saint!
This was Half-Saint Godhood! Had he not seen how many people on Void Island had thrown themselves into the flames like moths for that sliver of hope at sainthood, never asking what end awaited them?
Even Jiang Buyi could not resist the temptation. To protect himself, he had voluntarily abandoned his Northern Region stronghold, unveiled the long-laid scheme of the Three Aversions Eye, and entered danger alone, ultimately... successfully meeting his doom.
Had he not seen how, for a single Half-Saint Godhood, Seven Sword Immortal Gu Yu could leave his pastoral life behind, submit himself to another, and become a tiger's accomplice?
He had even chosen to go against his own free will, to turn his back on the Dao. After awakening at the end and unleashing Sword Opens the Mysterious Gate,