In ancient times, instinct had already been written into the genes.
The [First Cause of Life] was... [Fear].
When beasts sensed danger, they fled. That was the primal drive etched into their bones.
And when...
Something capable of threatening their lives appeared before humans.
They were no different from ordinary beasts.
No matter how powerful a Plague Exterminator was, they could not escape this instinct.
Ruan Yin.
With ordinary eyes, she gazed upon the entire world.
There was no contempt, no arrogance.
There was only ordinariness, indifference, and spiritual pressure that surpassed everything else.
Every member of the Medical Department, including the rebels of the Sterile Council, lowered their heads!
The members of the Medical Kingdom did the same!
No matter how proud they were, no matter how hard they tried to raise their heads.
Even top-tier Plague Exterminators like Zhong San and Changsun Liangye could not escape it. They could only stubbornly struggle to lift their heads, only to be forced down again by the spiritual pressure.
"This spiritual pressure..."
Tu Luming's hair hung loose.
Seated in her wheelchair, she thought back to that distant afternoon.
The earth-shaking battle between herself and Holy Lord Ruan Yin beneath Great Abyss City.
No...
It could not even be called earth-shaking.
It could not even be considered a proper battle.
"From the very beginning... from the very beginning, Ruan Yin never displayed her full strength, not even for a second."
Tu Luming spoke in a low voice.
Even twenty years later, Tu Luming remained one of the Medical Kingdom's strongest combatants, one of the very few beings who had fought the Holy Lord and survived.
Precisely because of that, Tu Luming understood the gap even more clearly.
This was not a gap between humans.
It was a gap between species.
Chen Chaoxun