Shiheng's Fate Clone was still in the midst of its epiphany.
But for more than an entire year.
Shiheng had remained at the defensive line, using his own full measure of supremely perfected Willpower Might, never moving a step away as he fought desperately to protect the person behind him.
He exhausted his foundation in the Four Laws and every means his essence afforded him, erecting layer upon layer against the overwhelming divine might of the Overgod, all to protect Kailin's Divine Soul and body and hold open a small, stable pocket of space for her.
Yet the Overgod's erosion of the Divine Soul stood above all the myriad paths of the heavens, above every Paragon law.
This annihilating power penetrated all things and seeped through every opening, wearing away at the foundations of living beings day and night, without end. Under its accumulated erosion, even the most resilient Divine Soul and body eventually reached an irreversible limit.
Pfft-!
A muffled sound suddenly burst through the deathly, collapsing space.
Kailin's slender, frail body shuddered violently, no longer able to hold its rigid posture. A mouthful of rich, pure supreme divine blood, glowing with an emerald halo, sprayed from her mouth and scattered across the void.
Her fragile Divine Soul, already on the verge of dispersing, fractured completely at that moment and wavered, motes of soul-light escaping in all directions. Only a single step remained before its complete annihilation.
She could hold on no longer.
Her Divine Soul was depleted, her body overdrawn, her essence exhausted.
She had reached the absolute limit of what she could endure.
Utter exhaustion swept through her body, weakness that pierced the marrow entwined her Divine Soul, and countless unwilling feelings and regrets wrapped layer upon layer around all her fading consciousness.
Kailin slowly raised her