Choosing to stop and giving up on perfecting the final Origin Star.
Interrupting the process of perfecting the Dao Fruit would cause a flaw to appear in Holy Mother Zi Guang's Dao Fruit.
Once a flaw appeared in the Dao Fruit, the consequences could be either minor or severe.
In mild cases, it would not affect her future attainment of sainthood. In more serious cases, Holy Mother Zi Guang's Dao Path would end there.
After painstakingly cultivating for countless ages, what she pursued was the supreme Great Dao.
Seeing that she was already close to touching the Chaotic Primordial Great Dao, how could Holy Mother Zi Guang be willing to give up?
Sometimes, having one's Dao Path severed was even harder to accept than dying and having one's Dao destroyed.
Especially for a top-tier Innate Sacred Being like Holy Mother Zi Guang, who had both talent and an excellent Foundation and originally had hope of attaining sainthood.
To have her Dao Path destroyed, leaving her able to do nothing more than cling to life with the cultivation of a Peak Quasi-Saint.
That would be even more painful than killing her.
If there had been another choice, Holy Mother Zi Guang would rather die than abandon the Dao to seek survival.
From inexplicably being struck by backlash from her Fortune to making up her mind.
It had happened in the span of a single instant.
Holy Mother Zi Guang decided to seek life from certain death. Even if her Dao body shattered, her Spirit Platform dimmed, and she died with her god annihilated, she would still perfect her Dao Fruit first.
As long as her Dao Fruit did not fall, whether she died today or survived with grievous injuries,
she would have a chance to return someday and continue her Great