As the Overgod's hand erupted in an earth-shattering explosion, the terrifying Overgod pressure shrouding a million miles of sky vanished completely in an instant.
The thunderous roar gradually faded, and the entire world sank into an eerie, deathly, absolute silence.
It was as though the explosion had deafened the world for a million miles around.
There was no wind, no flow of Laws, no trembling of the void.
It was as though that world-upending Overgod strike, which had lasted more than a year, had never happened.
All color drained from the world. Mountains, rivers, void, lingering clouds, and shattered rocks all turned a monotonous, desolate black and white.
Cold, deathly still, bleak.
Just like Shiheng's heart, frozen through at that moment.
Smoke slowly drifted away, and two solitary figures finally emerged at the center of the devastated battlefield.
Shiheng stood motionless in the void, his posture straight, yet steeped in bone-deep exhaustion and desolation.
Beside him, the Life Divine Tree's Earth Clone was covered in wounds, its branches cracked and its source radiance dimmed to almost nothing. After a year of fierce battle against the Overgod, it had long since exhausted its strength and was on the verge of collapse.
Across the vast battlefield, everything lay broken, and the world was empty and silent.
This was not the triumphant finale of a victorious powerhouse at the height of his glory.
It was a sorrowful ending in which he had won against heaven and earth, only to lose someone dear.
Kailin was gone.
To shield Shiheng from Lingmeng Overgod's annihilating killing strike, she had burned through her ten-thousand-year Supreme Elves Bloodline and sacrificed the vast source of her Divine Soul. At the cost of everything she had, she had forcibly held back the Overgod's killing move for a moment, buying Shiheng