Xiang Qian's "Borrowing"

The dark phantom shattered without a sound, but Wanda, who had broken the shadow, cried out and collapsed. The damage caused by the destruction of the Soul Realm rapidly manifested, affecting both Wanda's soul and consciousness.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, the destroyed Soul Realm was like the vast crown of a great tree, while the dark magic coordinate and Chthon's projection were its roots. Wanda's core consciousness, meanwhile, was roughly equivalent to the leaves and branches at its crown.

The damage now was like forcibly uprooting a great tree from the earth without any protection. The tree would certainly not survive, and it would leave behind a huge pit in the ground that desperately needed repair.

The girl had only been exposed to magic for a few days and had not even experienced a dimensional war. Though her magical power and techniques had advanced by leaps and bounds, her soul and consciousness were far from sufficiently tempered. Not to mention that wounds of the soul were far harder to heal than filling a hole in the ground, and the dark magic coordinate was far more deeply entrenched than any tree.

Under the sudden severe blow, Wanda's consciousness lost control immediately after crying out for Chthon's projection to be expelled. After falling to the ground, her consciousness not only ceased reacting to the outside world, but even Wanda's face and figure gradually began to blur.

A consciousness had no appearance of its own. So-called human faces and forms were merely projections of the physical body's state. Her face and figure becoming blurred meant that Wanda's consciousness could no longer maintain the projection of her own "image."

Simply put, Wanda's consciousness was losing consciousness.

Beneath the starry sky of the Soul Realm, Xiang Qian stood guard beside Wanda. Yet instead