For the vast majority of Ascenders, these three days had been the closest their blood pressure had come to peaking since the War of All Realms began. Not even the fall of the Mother of Stone or the loss of control over the Three Great Blockades had been this absurdly tense.
Even when the Mother of Stone fell, it was just a giant rock dropping down. At worst, they could send a few more Natural Enemies to push it back up. But this situation? Even Natural Enemies were helpless.
At this moment—or rather, every moment—someone was looking up.
Above the Sky Dome.
The savage blazing sun cast down its light. Like the halo of a god or Buddha, it revolved soundlessly, hundreds and thousands of long rays extending from its surface, spreading outward and shrouding the entire Present Realm beneath that terrifying illumination.
Yet even the most basic instruments could detect the immense mass that had suddenly appeared within the Present Realm's system!
It was as though a celestial body dozens of times larger than the moon had appeared from nowhere, hanging above the Present Realm's sky and constantly proclaiming its existence.
The light of every star dimmed before it, and even straight beams of light warped beneath that terrifying mass.
Through the Astronomical Society's celestial disguise, one could glimpse from the outline of the blazing sun—
—the form of Heaven!
Once the illusion was removed, all that remained was a horrifying sight like a solar eclipse!
Three days ago, Huai Shi had entered Heaven. Heaven then awakened without warning, rebooted, rose into the air, forcibly seized every authority over the Present Realm, and even awakened the Three Pillars. Everyone had thought the true apocalypse had arrived ahead of schedule.
But the apocalypse silently dissipated.
Heaven returned all authority and