The heavier the body, the greater the damage from a fall. An Ascension body was certainly tough, but it had its limits—and this was only the basic model, modified using just one-year-old Evergreen Wood. If he really did fall apart by accident, at most he would only have to wait for a new body. But if the impact damaged the Ascension Chip, it would lead to injury to his Divine Soul!
To make snow pile atop frost, as his tension and fear mounted, the child's synchronization rate with his body was also plummeting—he could no longer control his body or curl up to lessen the impact.
This was also a weakness of the Mingjing Sect's Ascension bodies. Unlike Tianyuan Realm, which strove for perfection and custom-made Ascension bodies for each individual, they manufactured simple, widely accessible Ascension bodies. Once someone grew tense and their Divine Soul became unstable, their ability to control their body would decline as well.
The child shut his eyes in terror. His mind was completely blank at that moment; he could not even remember what he normally feared most—being scolded by the acting chieftain and thrown into confinement.
But at that very moment, an invisible force reached out and gently caught the falling child.
Feeling himself enveloped by a gentle force, the child opened his eyes in confusion, only to be softly placed on the ground moments later.
Deep within the planted forest, on the road leading toward the center of distant Chenli in the heart of the mountains, two figures appeared.
Amid the fragmented light filtering through the woods, the figure in front could vaguely be seen to be a young woman. She wore a jade-white robe, and her distinctive long hair was like emerald highlights streaked across a black base—like tender green vines amid