One Step from the Summit

"I just hope this war comes later, after I become a Star Realm Overlord! Otherwise, once it starts, our lives will be in someone else's hands..." Heavenly Decline said nervously.

"Why assume it has to come to war?" Huang Ji suddenly asked.

Heavenly Decline stared at him. "Do you even have to ask? Gu Lan Ba Tuo dealt with every descender and even struck back against the higher dimension. You saw it too, didn't you? He's close to ascending. Once he succeeds, war will sweep across every dimension."

"Didn't you say so yourself? The lower dimension has been gathering strength and preparing an all-out counterattack."

"Then we stop it," Huang Ji said as though it were obvious.

"You and Gai Yu have considered only the possibility of war. You think winning is what matters. But to the countless lesser civilizations in the Milky Way, it makes no difference who wins."

"All that changes is who rules over them... To beings as insignificant as dust, it makes no difference. But once war begins, attacks they cannot even understand could wipe out billions of stars at any moment."

"So the best outcome is not to fight."

Gai Yu gave him a strange look. Huang Ji's technology was so advanced, yet his thinking was this naive?

He could not help saying quietly, "War is inevitable. It cannot be stopped. This hatred has built up for ages!"

"Hatred can be resolved. Having reached the pinnacle of a dimension, what could they possibly be unable to let go of? You underestimate Star Gods. Without an extraordinarily open mind, the capacity to accept others, and fearless courage, one could spend any number of years trying and still be only a Star Realm Overlord," Huang Ji said calmly.

Heavenly Decline felt his scalp prickle. What did he