In an instant.
With both of Wu Yuan's true bodies sensing space-time, karma, and fate, they had already judged that Houtu Ancestral Witch had fallen.
After all, Wu Yuan and Houtu Ancestral Witch had been bound by deep karma. Yet now, with them so close, their karmic thread had vanished completely.
Even the source of their karma was gone.
The token Houtu Ancestral Witch had given Wu Yuan had likewise become an ownerless object in that instant.
"How could this happen!"
"It shouldn't be!"
"If I fall, it will be my choice. How could Houtu Ancestral Witch die?" Wu Yuan was anxious and furious, his heart filled with guilt.
After all,
just moments ago, even when his Body Refining True Body had faced death, Wu Yuan had been unwilling to accept it, but he had not been anxious or enraged. It had been his own choice.
He had chosen to come to the Domain of Destruction.
No one could foresee the entire future. No one had expected the Heavenly Emperor to take direct control of the Original Sword... Just as when Houtu Ancestral Witch and Dijiang Ancestral Witch first learned Wu Yuan was being hunted by the Heavenly Emperor, they had not been too worried. They had simply thought that with a Profound Yellow Dao Treasure, Wu Yuan would have no trouble protecting himself.
Back then, Houtu Ancestral Witch and Emperor Yan Tuo had both ventured into the Domain of Destruction. Though the Heavenly Emperor had been able to defeat them, he could not kill them, and had been forced to let them leave.
Wu Yuan knew this, and believed his chances of survival were even better than Emperor Yan Tuo's. That was why he had dared to come here.
No one could know every unknown.
So there was nothing