The divine radiance of the Divine Realm receded completely. Agony from the tearing void swept through Lin Chen's body as he plummeted from the towering clouds like a divine emissary with broken wings, his golden divine blood staining half the sky red.
During his desperate breakout moments earlier, the aftershocks of Tang San's Asura Divine Power had grievously wounded him. His Divine Core had been forcibly sealed, and all his world-spanning Life Divine Power suppressed. His divine body had shed its divinity and become mortal flesh once more. His cultivation had plunged from Supreme God of Life to Soul Emperor, and even his Life Blue Silver Emperor Grass Martial Soul had lost its radiance, retaining only a faint thread of its original vitality.
Boom-!
He slammed into the mountain forest outside Heaven Dou City, gouging a deep crater and sending dust flying. Pain blackened his vision. Every bone in his body felt shattered, and he could hold on no longer, slipping into unconsciousness.
An unknown amount of time passed before a breeze brushed through the forest and Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes.
Familiar, lush green trees filled his vision, and clear birdsong rang in his ears. The air carried the distinctive warmth of mortal life. Gone were the Divine Realm's sacred pressure and the smoke of divine battles that could destroy heaven and earth.
He struggled out of the crater, his whole body aching and weak. Looking inward, he found his Divine Core sealed beneath a layer of pitch-black Asura Divine Power that tightly locked away every trace of divine strength. The Emperor Grass Martial Soul within his dantian lay wilted and listless, able to muster only a feeble amount of Soul Power. Forget opposing Tang San-he would struggle even against an ordinary Soul Douluo.
"The Divine Realm... my