Of course, because the other dimension had taken the Stone Man Path, it was rather special. Everything had condensed into a single point, becoming a stone body and attaining a kind of permanence in a certain sense.
This permanence was not addition, subtraction, multiplication, or exponentiation—those were merely analogies. Differences between dimensions would cause increases and decreases, but such changes all had upper and lower limits.
This was the benefit brought by the transformation of Real Essence.
It was also what the word "real" attested to.
No matter what, compared to a dimension measured in tens of trillions of years, a mere hundred billion years was truly not worth mentioning.
Relatively speaking, this Gray Beast was indeed terrifyingly "weak."
Yet that weakness was ultimately only relative to other Gray Beasts.
To the lifeforms of this world, a lifespan of several hundred billion years, coupled with the Gray Beast's transcendent status—even a single claw was still an irresistible force of destruction.
Wherever that beast claw passed, everything was shaken into powder, into particles countless times finer than powder, an empty state infinitely close to nothingness.
Even the final Emptiness in the four calamities of Formation-Existence-Destruction-Emptiness was not as empty as this void!
What kind of terrifying power was this?!
It contained no rules, no laws, no order—only pure force!
Pure and invincible!
Within the spacetime dimension opened inside the altar, Zhao Dong watched the descending beast claw without a ripple of emotion. Though he was about to die, his heart remained calm and steady.
He was merely about to be sacrificed to Heaven again. No big deal.
Still, he could not help but wonder. Normally, sacrificing a supporting character to Heaven was meant to fuel the protagonist's hatred—but with Zhao Cheng's leveling speed, who knew what realm his mind and state