For now, military camps and fortresses still vastly outnumbered everything else in the divine kingdom. But as time passed, this would inevitably change.
For now, however, believers and heroic spirits alike bowed toward the Golden Throne. They knew that, after more than a decade, the sleeping Emperor had awakened once again.
He had grown another hundred kilometers or so, and Lin Zhichen gladly accepted the gift. He hadn't even had time to open the Loot Sphere when a new development caught his attention—
Just as he had slain the Evil God King with a single blow and absorbed its Origin Power, more than a dozen Dimensional Rifts linking the two realms opened along the edge of the Milky Way. A flood of Chaos warships poured through them, streaming from the Fallen God Realm into the Material Realm and swiftly assembling into vast combat formations.
"Looks like Tzeentch is behind this again." As he thought this, his gaze settled on one of the rifts. Unlike the other Space-Time Rifts, which continuously disgorged Chaos Fleets, this one remained eerily quiet. The silence was so unusual that he immediately noticed something was—
amiss.
"It seems there's some Big Guy behind it."
He thought as much and reached out without hesitation. His arm expanded infinitely, and in an instant, his hand loomed over a vast stretch of space like a giant holding up the sky.
The massive hand plunged deep into the rift, entering another world. Feeling the faintly corrosive blood mist, he immediately locked onto his target—a hundred-kilometer-wide Evil God King.
Compared with the Big Guys he had encountered before, this Evil God King was far too small. The giant hand formed by his Star Spirit Body squeezed lightly, and the twisted monster let out a series of shrill, chittering screams.
He gave