And yet!
Beneath Island-Moving Venerable's calm mask, still as an ancient well without ripples, lurked an abyss of despair sufficient to overturn the cosmos and devour all living beings.
An icy, bone-piercing intent of death silently seeped into the last vestige of his Dao Heart.
Ten thousand years of schemes, a thousand calculations.
All those struggles spent wandering along the edge of life and death shattered against this irresistible torrent of fate, crushed into dust.
That faint glimmer leading to the far shore of attaining the Dao had, in the end, gone out.
"So be it..."
A nearly inaudible sigh seemed to drain away his last trace of vitality, and strip this shell of every remaining shred of warmth and hope.
That sigh drifted as lightly as dust, yet weighed heavier than a thousand jun, bearing all the sorrow and unwillingness of a formidable hero at the end of his road.
"Since the Heavenly Dao offers no favor, and you refuse to let me live..."
He raised his eyes. The calm gaze that had once held mountains and rivers, countless stratagems within it, suddenly ignited with a madness that would burn everything away and shatter jade alongside stone!
"Then don't think you'll get off easy either!"
Buzz—!
A destructive will even purer and more resolute than the earlier facade of self-destruction, carrying the aura of utter annihilation, erupted from the depths of his shattered Dao body like lava amassed over countless eons!
No more fleeing!
That dim escape light, symbolizing his struggle, abruptly halted, then reversed direction with a violent force that defied all reason—rather than retreating, it charged forward!
Island-Moving Venerable, this peerless titan who had dominated both races, completely ignited the last remnants of origin laws and essence of flesh and blood within his body!
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