"Since blazing day could not blot out starlight, and clear skies could not snuff out the night, then let this venerable one act instead."
Night Empress's return, along with Immovable Supreme's glowing praise, suddenly stirred Undefeated Supreme—who had remained hidden beyond the Nine Heavens Netherworld, indifferent to the outside world—to take action. With barely restrained eagerness, he said, "Unfallen, your extermination will not do. Why not try my sealing? To seal an outstanding Seed with immense potential forever, letting her savor loneliness through endless ages, with imprisonment and confinement as companions for the rest of her life—would that not be a triumphant feat?"
Unfallen Supreme snorted upon hearing this. "You are indeed more skilled at sealing, but there is no need to trouble you this time. This is my battle!"
After being refused, Undefeated Supreme
fell silent for a long while.
Then his voice emerged from the Nine Heavens Netherworld. "I'll give you half a day, Unfallen. You have already wasted far too much time."
"At most two hours. Perhaps one will be enough for a perfect seal." Unfallen Supreme looked at Night Empress, who was still gathering starlight before him, and made his estimate. Sealing was unlike extermination; it could not be settled in a move or two. A perfect seal especially required time. Moreover, Night Empress's astonishing return just now had caused Unfallen Supreme to raise his assessment of her strength again and again. He had initially intended to say he could finish it within ten minutes, but out of caution, he extended it severalfold to an hour.
"I'll wait and see." Undefeated Supreme did not think highly of even this severalfold increase in time.
His twenty-meter-tall mighty body erupted with divine power that soared into the heavens.
Like flames burning the sky.
Countless bolts of thunder and