At the time, however, he was locked in a deadly battle with Supreme Being Jia Kong, and it had already reached its final stage.
If he had chosen to come, he would have missed the perfect chance to swiftly kill Supreme Being Jia Kong with thunderous force, allowing him to react and ruining everything. The entire situation would have completely fallen apart...
Perhaps if he had rushed over directly then, he could have saved her before the Heaven-Opening Battle Axe fell.
But there were no ifs in this world.
No matter how one put it, he had silently made a choice between the greater situation and her safety. That was the source of the guilt buried deep within him now.
By the time he arrived, the Heaven-Opening Battle Axe had long since fallen, and Chi Yao had already been harvested by Supreme Being First Light.
All he could do was kill Supreme Being First Light at lightning speed. At the instant First Light fell and was blood-sacrificed to the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, when the Dao laws scattered apart,
he used the Soul Pearl's marvels to capture that faint glimmer of divine soul that had yet to completely vanish amid First Light's "flesh and blood,"
then forcibly gathered it together. Only then had he barely managed to recreate this fragment of her lingering consciousness.
But that was all.
Her body had been destroyed, her primordial spirit had collapsed, and her Origin had been refined.
This fragment of lingering consciousness, or perhaps divine soul radiance, was now merely rootless duckweed, like the last candle flame in the wind, liable to disperse completely at any moment.
Even with the Immortal Divine Medicine in hand, there was no turning things around. She no longer had a "vessel" capable of bearing its medicinal power, nor