Rumble—!
The Lord of the Otherworld Abyss's enormous body shook.
The next instant, incomparably intense spatial fluctuations swept outward.
Boom—
The breach blasted open in the divine ring's protective barrier nearly doubled in size.
The suddenly surging pulling force swept in from outside almost instantly.
It directly swallowed all seven God Realm Cores and the God Kings connected to them.
Everything around them began to twist violently.
The shifting space inflicted an indescribable agony upon every deity.
The weaker deities fainted outright.
Even the God Kings felt as though their bodies were about to be torn apart.
This was the effect of cosmic spatial upheaval. That powerful twisting force could neither be resisted nor evaded.
The space throughout the surrounding universe was affected, directly annihilating the vast majority of ordinary life.
Even deities could not escape it, so long as they remained within this universe.
Fortunately, their physical bodies and divine souls were resilient enough that they would not be destroyed immediately.
Even so, within this space-time turbulence on the scale of a cosmic upheaval, they could not interfere with anything at all.
They were like tiny boats adrift upon a vast ocean, swaying unsteadily and liable to capsize at any moment.
But this was not over yet.
Very soon, an incomparably terrifying aura spread through their hearts.
At that moment, something that horrified the God Kings occurred.
The seven God Realm Cores, which had originally been gradually merging together, were violently shaken by that aura.
With every tremor, the bond between them loosened a little more.
All the God Kings were frantic. They had finally escaped the black hole and welcomed a new beginning.
Yet at this crucial moment, the God Realm Cores, which had only just begun to recover, faced another crisis.
They had already expended a great