To be fair.
Even now,
when Ling Wuyuan thought back to the unknown creature that had swallowed more than half of the Thorn Civilization's vast fleets and territory in a single gulp, sweeping them away like a gale scattering clouds and sending the river of stars surging backward,
he could still sense how strong it was. Even if he used Abyssal Divine Speed at a high multiplier, he could hardly claim he could defeat it.
Yet compared with the days when it had seemed like an insurmountable mountain, he had made real progress.
At the very least,
he now sincerely felt that if the creature's full strength amounted to only a few dozen or a few hundred times the destructive power it had shown back then, protecting himself would not be much of a problem.
Of course,
just how strong it truly was remained hard to say.
From the fragments of Fuge Kotse Yuli's memories, he could tell that the creature which had nearly wiped out the entire Thorn Civilization with little more than a deep breath had never come close to using its full strength. It might genuinely have done no more than open its mouth.
Even so,
it had inhaled an immense river of stars and countless fleets in one gulp, turning them into a feast in its belly.
But at that moment,
Ling Wuyuan was more concerned with the strange sense of déjà vu the creature gave him than with its strength.
That peculiar sense of familiarity...
The whole thing felt as though he had encountered it before...
"Hmm..."
"This really does feel oddly familiar..."
"This feeling... it's strange. Almost as if I've been through something like this before..."
After mulling it over in silence,
Ling Wuyuan, back in Main Spacetime, scratched his head.
He looked more