The path of law fusion they had spent thousands of years painstakingly refining, pouring their hearts and souls into it, was forcibly severed at this very moment, cut off completely!
Violent, deathly still death currents swept across the entire valley, their raging aftershocks crushing the final glimmer of laws.
The clamor ended, and the dust settled.
Within the vast Silent Valley, not a single manifestation of clashing laws remained. Only the most fundamental, most fragile Saint Domain True Bodies of Ryder and his younger sister Linor hovered desperately in midair, utterly bedraggled.
Their Saint fleshly shells were covered in countless fine cracks, like glass on the verge of shattering. Dense destruction patterns spread wildly along their flesh, penetrating deep into their marrow.
Their Saint Souls, rooted in their bodies, shook and collapsed completely. Their disordered fundamental auras scattered, dissolving rapidly at a visible rate.
Their fundamental soul power poured out uncontrollably. They teetered on the brink, as though they would be utterly annihilated in the next second.
What little vitality remained within them drained rapidly, drying up layer after layer. The siblings' condition had deteriorated to the utmost.
Like guttering candles without root or support amid a raging storm, they clung to life on a final, exceedingly faint wisp of breath. Their bodies, souls, and vitality collapsed on every front. At any moment, their souls could be extinguished and their lives and paths ended, bringing their thousand years of cultivation to a complete end.
In the dark shadows outside the valley, two figures stood quietly, watching the miserable scene within with indifference.
As they watched the Ryder siblings' lifelong paths come to nothing, their road to the summit severed completely, and their powerless forms hovering on the brink of death, the meekness and humility they had feigned for years vanished