"You stirred up trouble and think you can just leave? You're staying."
Grand Wizard Yuangu's gaze was cold. His outstretched hand turned into a torrent of metal, sealing off all space and movement through time. Sharp metal spikes formed and swiftly closed in.
Grand Wizard Juefa's palm froze the atmosphere and the movement of microscopic particles, locking space-time and stilling all things.
Grand Wizard Hongye's hand became a mass of kindled heartfire, burning away the traces of Andersen's existence. The flames reached upward, searching for related individuals on other timelines and in other spatial regions, aiming to eradicate them all.
Tidal Grand Wizard smiled faintly. His body became the surging River of Life, where all things blossomed and planets were reborn in an apparition of creation. His influence was subtle and imperceptible, yet it seemed he had accomplished a great deal.
The most explosive and aggressive of them all was Black and White Grand Wizard. Some of Andersen's actions had enraged him.
With one hand, he shielded the space where Ryan was. With the other, he seized the Black and White Qi. The two energies spun together, forming a unique Chaos Rune that carried the meaning of all things returning to one and the universe meeting its end.
The Chaos Rune evolved once more, forming a wholly black spear with a white tip.
It shot forward. The tide of the universe's dark side split open, leaving a massive rift. Nearby domains and dark spaces fell back, temporarily driven away and sealed off, while the Cosmic Monsters that wandered over all turned to ashes.
A Daylight Grand Wizard who unleashed their full power was on an entirely different level. Anyone who came near would die; anything they touched would perish.
At a fundamental level, they were already worlds apart.
"Disrupting the