In a universe spanning forty million trillion trillion light-years, miracles and coincidences were the least scarce things.
The Cosmic Powerholders could be certain that the existing cake-shaped creatures of the Nine-Nine Boundary Heaven were absolutely not of the same race as this phantom!
The reason was simple... some of those creatures had gone extinct countless trillions of years ago, while others had evolved and emerged anew within these trillion years. Even the longest-lived existing Round Cake creature had existed for no more than ten trillion years.
It was like humanity on Earth going extinct, only for the original baboons and monkeys to evolve once more into humans with exactly the same appearance. But no matter how similar these new baboon-humans looked to the original humans, they absolutely could not be called the same race.
Then who was this Round Cake creature?
Why had it appeared within the hundredth calamity?
Who was it? Who could it be?
It... who else could it be?
"There is only one truth."
The Cosmic Lord of the Nine-Nine Boundary Heaven!
He had left behind a hidden move, a trigger-based program. Once it discovered that something defying the heavens had reached the hundredth calamity within the universe, it would activate on the spot.
Yet you all were not completely certain, because no one knew what that former Cosmic Lord truly looked like.
Even "End," the oldest leader of Faction C, had never truly met him face-to-face. His only impression was of a figure reflecting across the heavens and myriad universes, after which the universe shifted and divided into ninety-nine layers of Boundary Heaven.
Yet that figure appeared humanoid to the human race, tiger-shaped to the tiger race... myriad races, myriad forms!
Even now, no one knew which race the Cosmic Lord had once belonged to.
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