"Guildmaster, you're Blue Star's big boss now?" Water God rubbed his hands, his face alight with excitement. "Does that mean Apex can do whatever we want from now on?"
"World Will's Blessing certainly gives us a huge advantage when fighting on home ground," Season Star agreed.
To her senses, Qin Chuan's stats had soared beyond what she could fully analyze.
"An advantage? It's practically an official cheat!" Water God exclaimed.
"Don't celebrate yet." Qin Chuan cut through their excitement.
He raised a hand and looked at his palm.
Becoming an Upper God and receiving World Will's Blessing had happened too quickly, too smoothly.
But Myriad Self Unification had brought him more than benefits.
Sacrificing the echo of an entire world had allowed him to advance.
But the skill's essence lay in connecting his "selves" across different timelines.
If he could absorb the power and memories of other versions of himself, then the messes they left behind could follow those same Causal Lines to him.
That despairing echo had been the first.
It would not be the last.
As he considered this, a resonance utterly unlike the last rose again from deep within his divine core.
It was not the chaotic, venomous shriek of the despairing echo.
It was a vast, holy presence carrying a cold malice.
Qin Chuan frowned at once.
He had felt this only recently.
"What now?" Water God's heart sank at the look on Qin Chuan's face.
"Something's wrong." Dawn and Mirror gripped their weapons at the same time. The siblings had the sharpest senses of the group, and they had already detected an outside force interfering with the laws of the Shadow Domain.
This time, nothing tore open.
Instead, a point of light appeared without warning against the Shadow Domain's pure black sky.
A point of