"I only wanted to stay alive." Exotic Crystal's unusual structure gave both Dongguan and Yifeiya, who surrounded it from different directions, the sense that they were facing its "front." "Since you won't let me live, you can die with me!"
Cracks appeared across the Infinite Great Serpent Statue.
Exotic Crystal's imitated humanoid form vanished, returning to its original polyhedral shape.
Then it collapsed, turning into a stream of energy that poured into the statue.
The statue shattered completely into countless fragments, and those fragments continued to crumble into dust, then particles.
But amid them, the phantom of an enormous Bronze Gate emerged.
The enormous Bronze Gate had originally been blank, without any designs.
Now, however, the image of an ouroboros grew increasingly clear upon it.
At the same time, the illusory gate became solid.
Then the gate grew and replicated, finally becoming seemingly endless Bronze Gates, with the original gate at their center the most solid, and the surrounding rings spreading outward, growing increasingly illusory.
Though it took time to describe, the process happened very quickly.
"These fluctuations aren't something high-tier Hunyuan beings could possess." The confidence Yifeiya had shown upon her arrival had already vanished.
The phenomenon caused by Exotic Crystal's death was clearly not something she could handle.
Meanwhile, Dongguan looked even weaker.
He tightly gripped the Space-Time Crystal in his hand, constantly drawing energy from the "avatar" inside, until that avatar was somewhat "depleted."
"Go! We can only return to the Dark Sacred Realm first. With the array formation, we can hold out for a while longer. Then we'll wait for help!" Yifeiya grabbed Dongguan and immediately flew toward the Dark Sacred Realm.
Though their current position was somewhat far from the Dark Sacred Realm, it remained within sight.
But even their hope of returning was wishful