The Boundary Sea was a special dimension. Even an Origin Realm Heavenly Venerate could not teleport through it, and could only rely on themselves or artifacts to fly.
A distance of a thousand steps—equivalent to the scale of a thousand Pseudo-Universes—was still rather far. The divine senses of both sides could perceive one another, but they were not yet close enough to attack.
Qin Heng knew the other side was powerful. One Venerable God, one True God who had established his Dao himself, plus thirty-five True Gods who ruled over laws—such a lineup could wipe out his universe ten times over.
Yet he showed no panic at all and remained composed. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Kashmor sent through his divine sense, "If you run now, there's still time."
Those who established their Dao with their own bodies were themselves Small Universes. They could wander the Boundary Sea, and even if their Homeland Universe perished, they would not die completely.
But Qin Heng clearly had no intention of running.
"If you retreat now, there's still time," he replied.
The moment those words were spoken, the gods on the other side burst into laughter.
The strongest among them, the True God Di Tian who had established his Dao himself, mocked, "A backwater savage truly does not know the immensity of heaven and earth. Even if you possess a Dao Establishing God body based on the Space Law like mine, before the great Venerable God, you are still vulnerable to a single blow."
Qin Heng smiled as well. "Backwater savage... Many years ago, someone called me that too."
Back then, he had been a backwater savage from Earth, looked down upon by the powerful figures of River Source Floating Earth.
Yet in less than four Void Ember Years,