Unlike its previous appearances on the Civilization Battlefield, after the Death God descended upon the Demon Territory Middle Part this time, it seemed... to no longer carry the slightest trace of life.
Nor had the Death God appeared this time through any interstellar teleportation channel or summoning array.
Its appearance this time was solely because of a rule—the ultimate rule of death!
The Death God's image slowly transformed from illusion into substance.
When its skeletal body appeared on this battlefield, Ming He, the Tenth Pharaoh King, as its apprentice, sensed it profoundly. Yet the Death God itself... from beginning to end, did not cast a single glance toward where the Tenth Pharaoh King stood.
This was what happened after a Peak Half-Level-9 Being embarked upon the path of becoming rule-based: completely embracing rules, merging into rules, becoming rules!
This was, in fact, the ultimate fate of the vast majority of powerful beings who pursued paths of extreme Rule Attributes.
Even if they did not complete this step in the Star Realm, once they reached a Higher Dimensional Plane in the future, whether willingly or unwillingly, they would encounter similar—or exactly the same—circumstances.
The advantage of making the choice early in the Star Realm was that they could directly merge into the rules of this Star Realm. It meant remaining in a place familiar to them, although their intelligence and memories might be completely annihilated in the process.
But if they waited until ascending to a Higher Dimensional Plane before making their choice, what awaited them was often the unknown.
The unknown was what people feared most.
This was also why supreme-level beings did not dare rashly advance to Level 9, or why the very few individuals who had already advanced to Level 9 stubbornly remained in the Star Realm, or