This Mountain-Range Star possessed not only mass and impact, but also the rare power of suppression and sealing.
Gu Xu was pinned beneath the Mountain-Range Star, unable to escape as he endured an unbroken barrage of impacts.
Even the Great Sage Golden Armor swiftly twisted and deformed before the complete intent of a Saint Ancestor.
Gu Xu was like an ant tied to a great iron ball, plunging downward without end, struck again and again.
The power of the entire mountain was concentrated upon Gu Xu.
Most tragic of all, Gu Xu still bore the Wind River Cage. The powers of Weak Water and Strange Wind were especially adept at eroding all other powers, allowing part of that Weak Water and Strange Wind to enter Gu Xu's body.
Then Gu Xu discovered in terror that seed after seed had appeared within him. Those seeds rapidly sprouted, grew, spread leaves, bloomed, bore fruit, swiftly withered, then formed hundreds more seeds that continued to take root, sprout, grow, wither, and scatter seeds in an endless cycle.
Those seeds were drawing away Gu Xu's source power.
Ordinary Withering Force had little effect on a powerful Half-Sage like Gu Xu, but Fang Yun, who had traveled through eternity, possessed powers that had all become unfathomable.
Within Fang Yun's Literary World stood a Withering Forest, where the trees endlessly withered, endlessly grew, and endlessly generated Withering Force.
Previously, all of Fang Yun's power had been blocked by the Great Sage armor and had not caused Gu Xu any substantial injury. Yet the Mountain-Range Star had finally Shattered Gu Xu's defenses, allowing the Withering Force to enter his body.
There were countless Sacred Way powers in the Myriad Worlds stronger than Withering Force, but few were as peculiar as it.
Gu Xu's power was draining away