For a moment, Banruo's face was filled with confusion, his thoughts in disarray. He both hoped that Ma Ran really was a brainless brute who would knowingly step into a trap, and worried that Ma Ran had found a way to break the trap in that extremely brief span of time.
But...
Regardless of the truth, it no longer had anything to do with Banruo.
He could only be a bystander, a spectator. His emotions changed with the development of events, but he could not decide how the story unfolded.
That was because the pitch-black seed the Unified Will of the Infinite Planes had given him was just as Ma Ran had said. There was no way to actively draw even the slightest bit of power from it. It could only counterattack passively, activating on the spot after certain conditions were met.
So...
The person who truly decided the outcome was still Ma Ran!
Banruo's divine body had been cleaved apart by a single slash. His Divine Soul trembled faintly, but it did not immediately shatter. It was still quite far from dissipating. The most crucial point was...
His True Spirit Imprint was completely intact and had not suffered the slightest damage.
It was as if Ma Ran had deliberately held back!
Regardless, Banruo still retained a clear consciousness.
His eyes widened as he stared intently at the pitch-black seed that had flown out from between his brows.
The seed swelled madly as though it had absorbed water, transforming into a black-hole-like sphere. Its properties in every respect also seemed somewhat similar to those of a black hole. Whether sound or light approached it, they would be distorted and absorbed.
Yet Banruo could see that its essence had not the slightest connection to a black hole. It would not cause