In her understanding, she had joined forces with a group of Great Sovereigns to discover this universe. That was why they had employed a series of methods, seeking to establish a foothold within the universe as soon as possible, from which they could exert force and pierce through the universe.
As for the methods they had used, all of them had been obtained from certain ancient lands. They possessed extraordinary might, but their price was immense. To that end, they had blood-sacrificed the lives of countless spacetime realms—not merely those within the Dark Domain. Even some weaker races in the Ancient Cosmos had been captured and offered in blood sacrifice.
Her descent this time was for the sake of destroying every force of resistance in this world.
Of course, at the very beginning, she had chosen another method with a lesser cost. Unlike now, when she had forcibly condensed this imprint, causing her true body outside the universe to suffer damage to its cultivation body.
Only Zhao Cheng, perhaps because an onlooker saw more clearly, sensed that something was amiss.
All manner of energies in the void gathered toward the Empress. She actually intended to refine all things into energy right here on the spot.
Even if it was only an imprint, a Great Sovereign was still of the Great Sovereign tier. Having utterly shattered the boundary between mind and matter, refining all things into energy was merely the foundation.
Now, everything was about to end.
Zhao Cheng was certainly miraculous, but so long as he had not attained Great Sovereignhood, he was destined to be weak in this barren world.
As the aura and power around the Empress grew ever more surging and terrifying, a sense of suffocation arose in everyone's hearts.
Yet in truth, that sensation did not