Li Qing's Past Body and Future Body would be trapped within a small semicircle.
Then the Logic Network only had to keep moving toward them to steadily compress the space they could move through.
Eventually, it would drive them out of the Dark Ocean, stripping them of their ability to travel vast distances in an instant.
The seven councilors would then tear through spacetime and descend. The two gods would be turtles in a jar, with nowhere to hide and no way to escape.
At least, that was how they saw it.
But the Hundred Great Worlds were not like the Spiritual Essence World.
Beyond the Dark Ocean, they had the support of the world formation and the power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation. Those, too, could transport them across vast distances.
The reason the Past Body and Future Body kept leading their pursuers in circles through the Dark Ocean was to draw on its power and back up Li Qing's Present Body in the Spiritual Essence World.
Their expressions remained calm. Three breaths remained before their auras fell below the level detectable by trajectory prediction.
Three breaths were enough for them to provide one final round of support.
At the Spiritual Essence World, the sixth-to-last breath began.
Haoran Sage, Purple God, and the others began another three-sided encirclement.
Li Qing's Present Body and his decoy faced danger at the same moment.
The first interception by trajectory prediction succeeded.
Li Qing and the decoy changed direction together.
The second interception by trajectory prediction succeeded.
Li Qing and the decoy surfaced from the Dark Ocean almost simultaneously.
Their auras were as overwhelming as Heaven's wrath.
Haoran Sage and Namo Nirvana Light-Dark Buddha launched another joint strike. Power that tore through spacetime descended silently.
The instant it arrived, it enveloped Li Qing.
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