More than a dozen eighth-ranks struck at once. Though crossing dimensions had greatly weakened them, and though their power possessed only energy level, not essence—making them inferior to true eighth-ranks—their sheer force was still unimaginably terrifying.
Let alone more than a dozen such dreadful beings attacking together—even a single one would have been enough to shatter an ordinary dimension to pieces, reducing everything within it to bubbles bursting into nothing, clouds of smoke scattering away.
Such was the terror of an eighth-rank Celestial Venerable, even with its power weakened layer upon layer.
And that was without the essence of a Celestial Venerable.
As for a true eighth-rank Celestial Venerable, its most formidable aspect was not its destructive power, but its power of creation.
The domain of the seventh rank was infinity—true infinity, the ultimate limit of what existed.
The eighth rank, meanwhile, was creation from nothing: creating inexhaustible energy and matter from thin air. Beyond that, there was creation from nothing on the informational level as well, directly bringing forth information that had never existed before!
These entirely new things could give rise to all manner of incredible phenomena and transformations.
These special lifeforms before them possessed power but lacked essence. In truth, they could only be considered half an eighth-rank Celestial Venerable.
But at such a juncture, under such circumstances, this power was invincible—the true ceiling of power in the calamity before them.
Yet this dimension was ultimately special. Its past, in particular, involved reincarnation, while its future had also undergone immense changes. Heavenly Origin's dimensional fragment suppressed time and space alike, even connecting to some miraculous phenomenon.
Thus, even the combined blow of more than a dozen eighth-rank lifeforms merely annihilated a stretch of the dimension. Its vast spatial expanse, together with a span of time measured in