Ah Yin shuddered violently, her blood, vitality, and divinity draining away without cease. Her face grew ever paler as she was forced back again and again, losing ground at every step. The self-healing ability she took such pride in was severely diminished under the ancient tree's planar suppression. Her damaged divine body could no longer mend quickly, and the circulation of her divine power grew increasingly sluggish.
For the first time, despair completely engulfed this Blue Silver Emperor deity.
For twenty thousand years, she had relied on the boundless vitality gained by parasitizing the Golden Ancient Tree to sweep across the continent and remain firmly among its foremost deities. Her self-healing and endurance had been unrivaled beneath heaven. Never had she experienced such helplessness, such despair as her vitality ebbed away.
The golden branches filling the sky were like punishments delivered by heaven's will. Each lash crushed vast swathes of the Blue Silver Domain, and each entangling coil devoured another portion of her core divinity. Under the absolute restraint imposed by the plane's origin, the life force she took such pride in had become water without a source, a tree without roots.
The harder she drove her self-healing, the more violently her essence was consumed. Translucent cracks multiplied across her divine body, and golden patterns of withering spread along the grain of her flesh until they covered her entirely, as though she would shatter in the very next instant.
Elsewhere high in the sky, Tang Hao, who was locked in a standoff with Situ Xuan, suddenly caught sight of his beloved wife out of the corner of his eye. She was trapped in a hopeless plight, wounded all over and on the verge of annihilation. His composure instantly collapsed.
The pseudo-First-Level God divine power he had barely managed to stabilize