"As soon as he breaks through the Infinite Universe and enters, he'll discover this battlefield. Knowing his nature, he'll force his way into the fight and disrupt their attack."
"Then I can strike from within while he attacks from without and break free of this calamity."
"But I was careless. I'll have to be more vigilant from now on. I mustn't underestimate the heroes of the world."
"A plan years in the making has fallen apart at the final step. What a blunder."
Pensive, the Mysterious Unknown reviewed everything that had happened.
Outside, Dead Silence and the others felt an unseen pressure bearing down on them. It came from the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and the entire universe, suppressing them as outsiders.
They could wield no more than seventy percent of their full strength.
Now that the five Unrecordable Gods and Devils had taken control of the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Authority, the universe's suppression of them had vanished completely.
They had returned to their peaks, each wielding the power of a full-fledged evolution-level powerhouse.
Even the Six Great Kingdom Lords and the Root of the Indescribable combined could match only four evolution-level powerhouses.
Together, the True Nature Daoist and his two companions could originally have held off nine evolution-level powerhouses. Suppressed by the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, they could now hold off fewer than six and a half.
The power of the broken universe's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, amassed in full, could barely match four evolution-level powerhouses.
The combined force facing the Mysterious Unknown now amounted to roughly nineteen and a half evolution-level powerhouses.
That was nearly equivalent to two powerhouses who had spread their teachings to almost three thousand universes.
Against such overwhelming power, the Mysterious Unknown had lost all chance of breaking through.
Li Qing silently calculated the disparity in strength,