Chapter 987: Gathering the Divine Power of the Physical Body

Pang Jian's physical body perished. The fragments of his shattered Divine Persona were annihilated with it.

Only blood-colored light and phantom shadows remained, scattering waves of turbulent energies in every direction.

Gone.

Just like that.

A faint sense of loss welled within Pang Jian. His Immortal Divine Soul was rooted to his physical body, and the loss of that anchor caused his mind to grow restless.

"Quickly! Gather every fragment of your body! Brother, you can do it!" Pang Lin shouted urgently.

Her cry dispelled the emotions stirring in Pang Jian's heart.

Pang Jian's gaze settled upon that field of blood-colored light and phantom shadows, hastily establishing resonance with those pieces of himself.

"Gather!"

His divine sense surged forth, enveloping that region and tightening its resonance with the blood-colored light and phantom shadows.

A chaotic starry expanse suddenly formed beneath his Immortal Divine Soul, radiating a magnetic pull. The scattered blood-colored light and phantom shadows rushed forward like fledgling swallows returning to the nest, plunging into that strange starry expanse before flying straight into Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul.

The blood-colored light seeped into each of his five viscera, while the phantom shadows either settled into the celestial bodies in his chest or the crystalline bones that concealed the fragments of his soul.

Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul had gathered in every remnant of divine power spilled from his fallen body!

Although his physical body was gone, his Immortal Divine Soul still remained! Moreover, after absorbing the remnants from his physical body, he felt as though his divine power swelled without limit.

The cultivation realm of his Immortal Divine Soul climbed steadily!

The traces of the fallen Dao Sources he had etched into the fragments of his Divine Persona now shone brilliantly within his five viscera, crystalline bones, and the celestial bodies within his chest.

It was as though his Immortal Divine Soul and physical body had fused into one!

The annihilation of Pang Jian's physical body and the shattering of his Divine Persona had fueled his Immortal Divine Soul!

Meanwhile, Bai Zi's body had not been able to withstand the full force of Pang Jian's giant blade.

Her body, already pushed beyond its limits, finally succumbed when the supreme will of the starry skies unleashed those two beams of light to clash against the blade's dazzling might.

Blood soaked her body, oozing from the hideous, gaping wounds and cavernous gashes. The injuries fissured outward, multiplying and widening until they covered Bai Zi's entire body.

Her silver eyes burst like fragile crystal orbs, and her body exploded. The traces of the myriad Dao Sources manifesting around her were obliterated as streams of gray-white light scattered, cascading into the gray bizarre mist.

The mysterious Soulstream, which had been about to be drawn into her silver eyes, briefly awakened from the control of the supreme will of the starry skies. The Bee Sovereign, too, roused.

The Bee Sovereign did not hesitate. Maneuvering the Hall of Gods, he plunged straight into the Soulstream and headed for the other Bee Sovereign within.

At last, the two bodies fused.

The Bee Sovereign ascended as a Sovereign-level being.

High above, the colossal storm of ice shards abruptly halted, its advance stalling right before the Divine Court of Thunder.

The Duke of Thunder gasped violently, his human form slumping with the relief of one narrowly escaping certain death. He had believed himself doomed. The storm's annihilating might would have destroyed both his high-ranking godhood body and the Divine Court of Thunder.

Even the Ruin Realm, forged from the skull of God King Yan Hao, likely could not withstand the storm's destructive might.

After all, that vast storm held not only the Heavenly Daos interwoven with traces of the fallen Dao Sources, but also the stars and moons it had consumed from the Primordial Chaos Starry Region.

That calamity would have resulted in the extinction of all life, regardless of which starry region it appeared in. It was a catastrophe no Sovereign could endure, let alone a high-ranking God like him.

"Bai Zi—or rather, the will within her—is gone?" Pang Ling muttered in disbelief.

Cautiously drifting out from the World Tree's canopy, she stared blankly at the place where Bai Zi had perished. As expected, she could no longer sense even the faintest trace of life, nor Bai Zi's divine consciousness.

Bai Zi had truly fallen.

"Father..."

Sorrow welled up in her heart.

Pang Jian's physical body—the version of him that she was most familiar with—could no longer be sensed either. That Pang Jian would likely never accompany her again.

"For it to descend into a mere Sovereign, yet wield such power..." Pang Lin mumbled on the shoulder of Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul. "It's not defeated yet. Bai Zi simply couldn't draw out the full measure of its power.

"Brother, your true trial has yet to come. It still has yet to descend into Yi Hao."

Pang Lin raised her head to gaze at the silver canopy above.

Unfortunately, it did not vanish with Bai Zi's death. The silver eye high above maintained firm control over the silver canopy's descent, continuing to drive out the bizarre mist from the Primordial Chaos Starry Region as it pressed inexorably downward.

"I understand," Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul said with a deep breath.

The might that had erupted through Bai Zi had already shaken him to his core. Bai Zi's death had come only because the supreme will of the starry skies had pushed her body to the brink of collapse.

The strike of the black-gold blade had only pushed her past that threshold slightly earlier than it would have. It was not a real victory.

A beam of silver brilliance streamed down from above, pouring into the halted storm of ice shards. The storm, which had paused in the wake of Bai Zi's death, drank in that light before stirring to life once more.

The battle was not over. The storm was advancing yet again!