The fall of the Great Octopus brought subtle changes to the entire Octopus Star. Some tender green plants rapidly sprouted new leaves, while the animals seemed to grow stronger as well.
Even the intelligent beings living on this planet seemed to undergo transformations they had never imagined overnight.
At the very center of the temple stood a golden wine cup, filled seven-tenths of the way with golden liquid.
It radiated an extraordinary brilliance that illuminated the entire temple! The Octopus Emperor and the other members of the imperial family gazed at the Gold Wine Cup with extreme longing. They all knew what it contained.
The Tenth Apostle was drooling as well. Who wouldn't want the divinity of the Great Octopus?
But everyone knew that only one person was qualified to distribute this divinity.
Xiao Sha sat beside Lin Qi, also staring excitedly at the divinity in the cup. This divinity was not entirely the same as the gold.
One had already been dehydrated and had ultimately lost its vitality. Although it still possessed divinity, it was clearly inferior to what had been extracted from the Great Octopus.
Lin Qi acted as if he hadn't seen the anxiety on their faces and began speaking about something unrelated to the distribution.
"Our universe is like an arena, controlled by a higher will that governs the actions of all of us."
"It makes us slaughter one another, leaving only the strongest to bear the power of ascension."
"It wants the universe to become one."
"Does ascending necessarily require the universe to become one?"
"Are the creation and termination of matter equivalent? If they aren't, then why must our ever-expanding universe become one before it can ascend?"
"If they are, then after we become one, where will the energy and matter produced by releasing