Lucifer's willingness to bring it up had to be a trap.
He had likely prepared a targeted divine artifact to sever the Long River of Time. If Shin rashly used the Eastern Emperor Bell and the other party cut off the Long River of Time's power, the consumption of manifesting the Eastern Emperor Bell alone would immediately weaken him.
Having seen through his intentions, how could Shin possibly fall for it?
Fortunately, he did not know which plane this universe belonged to, but its starry expanse was truly vast, leaving plenty of room to maneuver.
Without a second thought, Shin stepped backward. Space stretched at once, and he had already appeared countless light-years away.
Lucifer spread the wings behind him and hurriedly gave chase.
Countless stars glittered beneath the pitch-black canopy, serene and remote, ever-changing and mysterious, with no pattern to follow.
The stars in such a universe had formed from the convergence of all sorts of energies after the Big Bang at the birth of the plane, expanding outward from a singularity. They had expanded for an immeasurable length of time before reaching their current scale, and theoretically, there was no end to them at all.
Lucifer flashed into an unknown star system. The moment he appeared, darkness filled his vision completely. Something seemed to be hurtling toward him head-on, carrying terrifying pressure and an overwhelming sense of dread. His gaze narrowed, but Lucifer did not panic. He knew Uchiha Shin had driven a star toward him.
"Is Gaia trying to joke with me using a planet of this strength?" Lucifer laughed, then swung the longsword in his hand. With a thunderous boom, the pitch-black curtain of the sky split apart, exploding into countless meteors. The surrounding space reappeared, speckled with flickering stars.
The smaller shattered meteors were