Lin Ye deliberately paused, observing Aristothos's reaction.
"That's because I was only born recently, and my level of existence has already surpassed the limits of your understanding."
"Only born recently?" Aristothos was puzzled. "But your power clearly..."
"The strength of power does not depend on how long one has existed, but on the purity and completeness of creation," Lin Ye explained. "I am a complete creator born from the perfect fusion of Conceptual Void and the will to create, not a patchwork inheritor like you."
Those words pierced Aristothos's heart like a sharp sword. He began to realize that what he faced might not be an ordinary rogue creator, but an existence that truly grasped the secret of Perfect Creation Force.
Deep within Transdimensional Space, twelve enormous pillars of light suddenly lit up at once in the High Council hall of the Creator Alliance.
This was the Alliance's highest-level emergency summons signal, activated only when it faced a crisis of survival.
"Emergency council, convene immediately!" The mental waves of Soren, the First Creator, spread throughout Transdimensional Space. "All High Council members, report here at once!"
In less than a conceptual cycle, the consciousness projections of all twelve supreme creators had fully gathered in the council hall. Each of them was a legendary existence within Transdimensional Space, ruling vast clusters of universes and wielding power that inspired awe in countless civilizations.
"Soren, what could be so urgent?" The voice of Alice, the Second Creator, carried impatience. "I was handling the galactic restructuring project in the Seventh Universe Cluster."
"It concerns what Aristothos encountered while carrying out the judgment mission." Soren's tone was exceptionally grave. "Everyone, we may have encountered the greatest threat since the Alliance was founded."
He activated the council hall's shared perception system and played back the sensory