Volume 8, Chapter 35 – You Can’t Kill Me

What does death actually feel like?

No heartbeat, unable to feel temperature.

No consciousness, thoughts sinking into death, everything returning to nothingness.

In the past, Tianyin had actually feared the arrival of death. Even though she had already taken countless lives with her own hands, even so, Tianyin was still afraid of her own true death.

Because she feared death, back in the beginner village, she had cried over her pitifully low HP.

However, until now, at the very moment when the true concept of “death” covered her body, Tianyin’s heart felt no fear at all.

Not only could she not sense space, even though she clearly felt the vitality in her body rapidly dissipating, Tianyin’s heart was as calm as a still lake, without the slightest ripple.

The feeling of death was painful.

Unable to breathe, her vision sank into complete darkness.

Unable to see light, unable to feel temperature.

Unable to hear sound, as if the entire world had come to a standstill at that instant.

Her heartbeat stopped, and her hands and feet gradually grew cold.

But even so, aside from letting out an indistinct, meaningless soft groan with her remaining strength, Tianyin could do nothing else.

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And after only a few short seconds, within the Abyssal Lord’s sight, Tianyin had completely died.

“A vessel is still just a vessel. How could the power of rules be so easily used by you…”

Speaking in a slightly mocking tone to Tianyin, who was already dead yet still floating in midair, the Abyssal Lord’s eyes were filled with disdain.

Yes, disdain.

In the Abyssal Lord’s view, Tianyin had already been killed by her using the power of rules. And without Abyss power, Tianyin, once killed by her, had almost no possibility of revival.

“Then… it’s time to extract the power…”

Her ultimate goal was the Original Sin power possessed by Tianyin. After all, becoming the End required not only Original Sin power, but also the Abyss power possessed by the Abyssal Lord.

And the true End could only be fully born when Abyss power and Original Sin power were combined.

Tianyin did not know this. But for the Abyssal Lord, who had understood the End plan from the very beginning, the formula for becoming the End had already been engraved deep into her soul by the passage of time.

However, just as the Abyssal Lord was about to approach Tianyin to extract the remaining Original Sin power from her body, Tianyin, who should have already been completely dead, suddenly opened her eyes.

“…”

Her cute little face still carried an expressionless look. Although she had reopened her eyes, Tianyin’s entire bodily state still remained in the state of “death”.

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Yet, despite clearly being covered by the concept of “death”, Tianyin had not truly died.

Yes, Tianyin’s heart was not beating, and she could not breathe.

Her body still had no temperature, and her blood was not flowing.

Even so, Tianyin still opened those deep violet eyes and calmly gazed at the slightly stunned Abyssal Lord with an utterly tranquil look.

“You… you’re not dead?”

“How is this possible… how is this possible. An illusion, a hallucination, or is my mind broken? Hahahahahahahahaha, impossible. Someone favored by the rule of death, how could they still continue to live like me?”

The chaotic Abyssal Lord spoke in a completely disordered tone. Her manic smile had vanished at some unknown moment, replaced instead by widened eyes and an expression of disbelief and shock.

“Death? So this… is death…”

After hearing the Abyssal Lord’s words, Tianyin closed her eyes and quietly felt the state of her body. Her voice still carried no rise or fall.

“But if death is only like this… then it can’t kill me.”

She spoke those astonishing words in an understated tone. When Tianyin reopened her closed eyes, boundless vitality began to revive within her body.

And if there were players present, they would be able to see Tianyin’s HP value recover from zero to one.

Yes.

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Tianyin’s HP recovered from zero to one.

But precisely because that tiny bit of HP returned, the rule of death on Tianyin instantly dissipated. That single point of HP was the insurmountable divide between life and death.

“If it’s only this kind of rule, it’s useless against me.”

Calmly stating the fact she had realized, Tianyin looked at the Abyssal Lord and slowly raised the blade in her hand.

“Rules can’t erase me. And I also can’t rely on rules to erase you. So… the best solution…”

Coming back to her senses from the shock, upon hearing Tianyin’s words, the Abyssal Lord’s expression gradually became ferocious.

“That is battle…”

Boom—

The air was torn apart. The Abyssal Lord standing in midair vanished from her original position. And as the Abyssal Lord disappeared, Tianyin, who had raised her blade, also vanished from the same spot.

Although both Throne-tier beings disappeared, high above the sky, an unseen battle began at that very instant.

Whether it was the Abyssal Lord’s speed or Tianyin’s speed, both were pushed to their absolute limits at this moment. In just a single second, the number of times the two clashed had already reached over ten thousand.

That meant that in one second, Tianyin and the Abyssal Lord fought over ten thousand exchanges.

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At the center of the battlefield, space collapsed and then self-repaired, only to collapse again the instant it finished repairing.

Without a doubt, the source of the space collapsing was the residual shockwaves released during the battle between Tianyin and the Abyssal Lord.

Below, Dawn’s army was still locked in bloody combat with the Inferno army. And high above, two Throne-tier beings, the ceiling of combat power in the game world, were also fighting a battle that would decide life and death.

The reason the Abyssal Lord chose to engage Tianyin in direct physical combat was because both clearly understood that relying on rule power alone could not kill the other.

And if rule power was ineffective, then the only option was to rely on bodily strength to defeat the opponent.

More precisely, the Abyssal Lord’s goal was to tear apart Tianyin’s body with her claws, and in the instant when Tianyin could not yet repair her body, forcibly strip away the Original Sin power Tianyin possessed.

Of course, Tianyin was not without the same idea. After all, even if injured, the Abyssal Lord still needed time to recover.

Therefore, the best opportunity to defeat the Abyssal Lord was during that one-thousandth of a second when the Abyssal Lord healed herself.

Bang bang bang—!

Half an hour passed, and the battle in the sky still showed no sign of a victor. And while Tianyin and the Abyssal Lord were locked in a deadly stalemate, far away from the battlefield, an ice dragon that blotted out the sky was flying toward the direction of the Northern Fortress.

And beneath the giant dragon, a densely packed sea of skeletons surged forward like a tide.