"Life..."
"No... my life..."
"Don't..."
The instant "Virus Source Species" was sent into the "Health Ancient Tree," the "Death Ancient Tree," eroded by Infinite Infiltration until it had almost lost all self-awareness, let out its final lament.
That voice was no longer the mad, greedy howling from before, but a despair bordering on pleading that burst from the deepest reaches of its soul.
It was as though, in the final moment before Infinite Infiltration completely swallowed "Kamoer's" consciousness, the true "Kamoer" had exhausted everything it had to struggle out of the endless darkness and utter the last sound of its life.
"Why are you doing this to me..."
"Why..."
"Zhou Heng..."
"Answer me..."
Amid those hysterical cries, black liquid began surging ceaselessly out of the "Death Ancient Tree's" trunk.
The liquid gushed out like pus and blood from a wound, staining the surrounding void pitch-black.
Then, as if by instinct, it charged toward the "Health Ancient Tree" undergoing reversal. With a frantic speed bordering on self-destruction, it tried to burrow into the "Health Ancient Tree" and take complete control of it before "Virus Source Species" finished its transformation.
If it could devour the "Health Ancient Tree" before the reversal was complete, everything could still be salvaged. It could still complete its transcendence and approach the "Lord of Death," even if "Kamoer's" consciousness no longer existed.
But just as Infinite Infiltration was about to touch the "Health Ancient Tree"...
Brilliant radiance bloomed from the "Health Ancient Tree."
That was not the power of the "Health Ancient Tree," but Zhou Heng's other open palm.
There, the "Truth Realm" under Zhou Heng's control hovered.
At that moment, the "Truth Realm" unleashed the majestic might of "truth," blocking Infinite Infiltration's erosion of the "Health Ancient Tree" like an insurmountable transparent barrier.
The pitch-black liquid