"You guessed everything, yet you never guessed what I truly wanted to do."
"That's why you lost. Heh, heh, heh."
Li Qing's Divine Body was certain of victory. He had already calculated his odds of winning this battle.
A cold smile spread across his face as the eighteenth breath drew to its end.
Throughout the Blue Light Demon Domain, everyone felt the pressure of a storm about to break.
Every living being in the world stared anxiously at the sky, shock and terror filling their eyes. They stood silent as cicadas in winter, with no idea what would happen next.
All they saw was that, once the Investiture of Gods ended, every kind of Radiance had enveloped the world. Everything around them seemed submerged in light, and city after city appeared cut off from the outside.
A vast opening appeared in the eastern sky. Beyond it lay an immense starfield: Li Qing's Simulated Universe.
The Radiance of the Reason Embryo was fading rapidly, leaving only a thin layer of power.
Power from the three great experts had penetrated it and was tearing through it with abandon.
The Reason Embryo radiated instinctive fear. It had long since gathered every bit of power it could muster to fight the danger.
But its resistance was futile. Like a maiden awaiting marriage when a gang of bandits stormed her home, it had no power to resist.
It could only endure the coming storm in helpless frailty.
A sound of shattering rang out in the unseen. Every force the Reason Embryo had mustered was pierced through, and three terrifying powers touched it at once.
Without the slightest pause, all three powers moved to seal it. In that instant, they fell into conflict.
With unspoken accord, the Mountain River Earth Emperor and the God Emperor of