Xing Huan had lost control over the stars.
The many tainted sources that had seeped into the stars poisoned and eroded His divine consciousness, leaving Him unable to use the laws of stars He had comprehended to make the stars descend upon that towering hall.
The Queen Bee's pressure immediately eased considerably.
"He already knows my origins. He knows that I am the incarnation of the Soul Sea!"
At the peak of the Hall of Gods, the Queen Bee was still pondering the deeper meaning of Pang Jian's words.
He looked around and suddenly felt that this Sea of Mist, so brimming with strangeness, carried Pang Jian's presence everywhere.
"Strange. Truly strange..."
He murmured softly within His heart.
Within Underworld Prison's inner world, the deep blue sea that belonged to Him was about to break through the Boundary Wall of the heavens, yet at this moment, He hesitated.
"Could this be a trap?"
He feared this was Pang Jian's scheme. He feared that once the deep sea responding to Him left Underworld Prison, it would suffer a devastating blow in the Sea of Mist beyond the heavens and be refined by Pang Jian through some means.
He still suspected that the Pang Jian before Him was the manifestation of the Sea of Mist's Great Dao will!
Observing His surroundings, He found that Thunder God's Court, which restrained Him greatly, had paused after failing to breach the barrier of the giant sky-covering shield. Bai Zi's tainted sources had also been moved away.
"Pang Jian—or rather, it—seems to be paving the way for the fusion of the two of us. Could it be..."
The Queen Bee could neither advance nor retreat.
"Pang Jian!"
The newly ascended Sovereign of Stars was trembling with terror at this moment.
Within an inconspicuous star, the