In that instant, all thirty-four Great Sun Territories responded.
Shattered Starfield.
The Beast Mechanism clusters that had already scattered and were devouring everything to their hearts' content suddenly contracted. At any cost, Wang Qi expended his mana and drove those Beast Mechanisms toward the Immortal Gate.
This scene occurred almost simultaneously across the thirty-three days of Hualing Patriarch's past.
Of the living beings from each day, only samples remained. All remaining mass had been converted by Wang Qi into his own mass.
Though compared to Wang Qi himself, it amounted to only a ten or twenty percent increase.
That increase was still terrifying enough.
Hai Ting, who had been helping Wang Qi gather biological samples from the shattered planets and suppress Hualing Patriarch's residual consciousness, froze. He asked, "What happened? Did that senior who sought you out for empirical proof turn hostile? Is there anything I can help with?"
Wang Qi's expression darkened. "That senior is an Ant Clan Foreknower."
Hai Ting's expression changed.
The human race had always maintained an independent position, and the Dragon Clan had never oppressed humanity. But in truth, humanity was currently under the Dragon Clan's protection. At least before humanity formed its own Foreknower group, it could not leave the Dragon Clan.
At this stage, any Foreknower truly capable of wiping out or severely crippling humanity would avoid humanity of their own accord in order to evade the Dragon Emperor.
With such a mighty being suppressing their fate, many powerful figures in the universe would even proactively avoid this race's low-level cultivators, and even its other vital interests.
For now, the relationship between humanity and the Dragon Clan still needed to be maintained.
And for humanity's own interests, riding the Dragon Clan's favorable winds all the way toward the universe's deepest secrets was the