The Undying Supreme extended his right hand and steadily blocked the Enlightenment Prophet in front of him.
"Thrum~" A peculiar Rule Ripple spread in all directions from the point where the two clashed.
Unlike the commotion when the Blade Empress had fought the Enlightenment Prophet moments ago, when the Undying Supreme made his move, he was as silent as when he had appeared. Even the ripples of power created by their clash were remarkably subdued.
Yet it was precisely this subdued rule shockwave that pinned the Enlightenment Prophet, who had repelled the Blade Empress, motionless before Saine.
"What do you want?" the Undying Supreme asked.
The Enlightenment Prophet's expression was exceedingly complex.
He had never imagined that among the Evil Tide's Three Supremes, one possessed strength no weaker than his own!
"Could this be the true essence of Dimensional Hegemony?"
"I still underestimated the Astral Realm Rules," the Enlightenment Prophet muttered as he looked upward.
No one knew which part of the distant sky the Enlightenment Prophet was gazing toward.
But in his eyes seemed to lie his understanding of the Astral Realm Rules.
There had once been disdain; now, there was an added measure of wariness.
The balancing mechanism of Dimensional Hegemony meant that when two top-level civilizations first entered the battlefield, their respective strengths tended toward equality.
Even without Saine and the Immortal Domain's intervention later on, the Evil Tide Civilization would not have been inferior to the Decayed Civilization in the slightest!
This could be seen simply from the fact that the Undying Supreme could fight the Enlightenment Prophet to a draw.
As for the existence of the Darkness God, that was a variable utterly beyond reason!
Who could have known that a Level-9 Being could remain in the Star Realm for so long and stay hidden