Ah Yin shuddered violently. Her blood, vitality, and divinity continued to drain away, her face growing ever paler as she was driven back, defeated step by step. The self-healing ability she took such pride in was greatly diminished under the ancient tree's planar suppression. Her damaged divine body struggled to mend, and her divine power flowed with increasing sluggishness.
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 dominate the continent and remain firmly among the highest-ranking deities. Her healing and endurance were unrivaled beneath heaven. Never had she experienced such helplessness, such despair as her vitality slipped away.
The golden branches filling the sky were like punishments dealt by the Heavenly Dao. Every lash crushed great—
Tang Hao's pupils contracted sharply, his eyes flooded with utter terror, defiance, and despair. He had fought his entire life, rising from a destitute youth to a deity of the Divine Realm, wielding the Clear Sky Hammer to suppress the ages and proclaiming himself invincible on the continent. Yet in the end, he had fallen to a junior, condemned to perish with all his cultivation extinguished.
He wanted to roar, to struggle, to strike back, but every divine meridian in his body had shattered. His divine power was exhausted, and he could not summon even the slightest trace of strength.
"No!! I am a deity! My Tang Family shall endure for all eternity!!"
Tang Hao let out one final, frenzied roar. His voice was hoarse and broken, unable to convey even a shred of might.
A thunderous explosion shook heaven and earth as the Scorching Heaven Sun struck his body with unerring precision!
The ultimate Nirvana Divine Fire instantly enveloped his