The Star River reversed, and dimensions collapsed.
The Black Giant Hand, vast enough to blot out several galaxy clusters, gave the Mother Goddess no time to contemplate life or lament the fickleness of fate.
It came crashing down like a moldy rag someone had flung aside, bearing a nauseating, bloody stench and overwhelming mass.
"Block it!"
Wearing Yang Yu's flawless face, the Mother Goddess let out a shriek utterly at odds with his appearance.
She formed a seal with both hands, and this Fleshly Body, built on the principle that the Body is Universe, erupted with dazzling Divine Light.
The few dying Red Giant Stars nearby seemed to answer some supreme command. The fusion reactions in their cores, already on the verge of fading, were forcibly detonated.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three Red Giant Stars broke apart in an instant, becoming three Fiery Dragons that stretched for hundreds of millions of miles and roared toward the Black Giant Hand.
It was the stars' final song, a terrifying heat capable of vaporizing a mid-level civilization in an instant.
And yet...
Before the ink-black Abyss substance...
Those flames, fierce enough to burn the heavens and boil the seas, were like a lit match dropped into the deep Pacific Ocean.
Hiss!
They did not even raise a decent splash.
The Black Mud ignored the heat on a physical level. It even swallowed the very concept of burning.
The moment the three fiery dragons touched the palm, they became dull gray-black smoke and vanished without a trace.
"How... how is this possible?!"
The Mother Goddess's pupils contracted sharply.
She knew the Abyss too well.
The Abyss was powerful, but it could never have been powerful enough to ignore the conservation of energy!
Unless...
Unless whoever controlled it was not merely acting on instinct, but knew