Watching the figure in motley robes disappear from sight, Sun Ying let out a heavy sigh.
The moment she turned around, she saw Balgon emerging from the Rift.
"You... really picked your timing."
"Hm? What happened?" Balgon froze for a moment before looking around.
When he failed to find that familiar figure beside Sun Ying, he immediately understood and continued:
"Black Star has already left?"
"Yeah. He left just before you arrived." It was as if all the energy had been drained from Sun Ying, leaving her utterly dispirited. "In the end, I still couldn't persuade him."
Balgon raised his short, gray-white eyebrows and casually replied:
"Even if Elder Mite, with all his silver tongue, came here, he probably wouldn't be able to change Black Star's mind."
"He has already fulfilled every condition for ascension to godhood, and he even obtained part of a divine spark from the Myriad Realm Trader."
"If we don't seal him with the Mythic-quality unique item [Time Scar Pocket Watch], he'll directly enter the God Realm."
"It's not as urgent as you make it sound..." Sun Ying muttered softly. "Black Star has had that divine spark from the Myriad Realm Trader for quite some time already. Hasn't he been staying perfectly fine in the Endless Great Forest all this while...?"
"You said it yourself—he's been staying in the Endless Great Forest." As Balgon adjusted his equipment, he answered, "This place is redundant data that the 'Forest of Rules' failed to delete in time, a sandbox environment that has yet to be fully isolated. Naturally, it differs from both the current Demon Domain and the real world."
"The reason Black Star has managed to hold out this long without entering the God Realm is half due to his True Demon Sacred Body, and half due to