World Continent.
Outer perimeter.
The former Celestial Star Archipelago, now a tranquil expanse of sea.
Countless medical warships and drones hovered overhead.
Large numbers of Plague Exterminators were stationed along the outermost perimeter, forming the most tightly guarded military exclusion zone.
More than two months had passed since the day Zhou Zhi and Ruan Yin began their final plague battle.
Their frenzied fighting had even affected the continent's tectonic movements.
Only after they went beyond the heavens had the continent been preserved.
Neither of them had returned, which meant no victor had been decided.
"Could it be that the Holy Lord and Zhou Zhi..."
A descendant beside Bai Chunshan had barely begun speaking when Bai Chunshan's icy gaze frightened him into swallowing the rest of his words.
"The Holy Lord has never lost."
"She possesses the strongest Plague Extermination Art and the most Severed Limbs."
"She is invincible."
"Don't let me hear such words again."
There was a threat in Bai Chunshan's voice.
In truth, it also carried a tremor even he himself did not understand.
Never before had a Plague Exterminator been able to fight Ruan Yin for so long.
What did that mean?
The Ogre King might be able to lose.
Bai Chunshan knew that the remaining members of the [Ten Families] and the [Sterile Council] thought the same.
They wanted Ruan Yin dead.
But what they meant was for Ruan Yin to kill herself.
Not for someone even stronger to emerge and kill Ruan Yin.
"Impossible."
"Impossible."
There was a medicine known as a placebo; now, they too were consoling themselves.
At that moment.
News came from the Weng Family.
Through the pathogenized static of the [Communicator], an announcement was broadcast to the world.
"Beyond the universe..."
"The high-energy spiritual power response has ended!"
"This means... the