"Father!!!" Chu Tian let out a heart-rending roar. He could no longer hold back the bloody tears in his eyes.
But in the split second after Chu Tianwang's Dao Fruit shattered, when everyone thought he was certain to die—
Clang—!!!
A phoenix cry, faint yet unmistakably clear, came from the remains of Chu Tianwang's shattered Dao Fruit!
Chu Tian froze. His Taiyi Freedom Dao Heart instantly caught that deeply hidden thread of karma.
Chu Yueyao's final Divine Soul fragment had never been inside the Corpse Lord's heart! The heart was only bait! The fragment at her very core had been attached to Chu Tianwang's Creation Dao Fruit all along!
Second Sister... was protecting Father's Dao Fruit?!
Two dark-gold pillars of light burst from Chu Tian's transparent, colorless eyes and pierced straight through the raging spatial storm.
He saw it! Among the fragments of Chu Tianwang's Dao Fruit, on the verge of utter collapse, an impossibly faint seven-colored flame stretched like a tenacious spiderweb. It held the fragments fast, forcibly preserving Chu Tianwang's last breath!
Chu Yueyao had not died! The instant she detonated the fire seed, she had turned her innermost Divine Soul into this wisp of life flame and hidden it inside their father. She had known he would sacrifice himself to hold the enemy back, so she had used her own life to leave him one last chance to survive!
"Heavenly King Emperor, you old dog! You calculated everything, but you failed to account for the bonds between my family!"
Chu Tian threw back his head and laughed, a wild sound that shook the river of stars. In it was the release of everything he had held down to the breaking point. Ignoring the so-called Corpse Lord's heart, he spun around and raised the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword