Not recovery!
Nor was it rebound!
It was an essential, crushing ascension and expansion!
Like a volcano dormant for ages suddenly erupting, or a black hole being born at the heart of a boundless sea of stars, a terrifying pressure of will exploded outward with that cluster of "law-particle nebulae" at its center!
"Bzzzz—!!!"
The countless multicolored law particles floating in the air seemed to have been infused with supreme divine power, erupting all at once with an incomparably dazzling, impossible-to-look-at blazing radiance!
Every mote of dust seemed to transform into a miniature sun, spewing forth the Dao resonance of laws and destructive power.
Wherever the light reached...
Void twisted, light was annihilated, and the entire sky was dyed in bizarre, kaleidoscopic colors, as though the end of days had descended, yet also as though heaven and earth were being born!
In hellish contrast to this was the aura of Half Venerable Xuanming's faint true-spirit phantom.
The surge and annihilation occurred almost in the same instant.
There was no process—only the result.
Half Venerable Xuanming's true-spirit incarnation did not even have time to react—
Whether in shock or terror, or to activate that mysterious exotic treasure in one final struggle.
His already faint true-spirit phantom, which had only managed to invade this place through the power of that exotic treasure, at the very instant that terrifying will descended, was like a snowflake cast into the heart of a star—soundlessly, directly, utterly, completely...
Annihilated!
It was not crushed or scattered. Along with the very "imprint" of his existence, he was instantaneously erased from the most fundamental level of his true spirit by an absolutely overwhelming, incomprehensible, irresistible force!
Remnant soul? None remained.
Chance of reincarnation? Annihilated.
The true spirit was the foundation of all living beings, the anchor upon which reincarnation