"Tang San, Tang San! You led me astray..."
Gu Yuena screamed. Her once flawless, exquisite skin blistered beneath the emerald-green flames as dragon scales surfaced and fell away in patches. To her horror, she discovered that the reversed power of withering was madly devouring the origin of her life!
"How foolish. This crude little trick of reversing life is, in this old man's eyes, not even as clever as a three-year-old playing with mud."
A deep, hoarse voice brimming with mockery and sinister chill suddenly exploded within Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin's Sea of Consciousness.
"What? God of Destruction?!" Tang Wulin's eyes nearly split with rage. "You're not dead?!"
"Dead? If this old man were dead, how could I watch you two clowns make fools of yourselves here?"
The God of Destruction did not appear, yet his voice continued to echo in their Divine Sense. "You gave up the Silver Dragon King bloodline you were so proud of just to pick up a secondhand divine position someone else had discarded, and you really thought becoming a God King made you a player on the board? What a delusion. What is not yours will never be yours!"
"Ahhh! Wulin... save me... Your father set me up..."
Gu Yuena howled in despair. She tried to sever her connection to Life's divine position, tried to cast off this rampaging divine position, only to discover in terror that it seemed to have grown into her soul. Like a disease clinging to the bone, it could not be stripped away at all!
"Gu Yue!! Na'er!!!"
Tang Wulin's eyes turned completely red. He wanted to rush over and hold Gu Yuena, but for some reason, an invisible force of gravity pinned him firmly where he stood.
"Since I can't strip it away... then I can only..."