[You looked at them. This being, who had once treated you as a Chess Piece and looked down on you like an ant, had now chosen to stake everything on one desperate gamble, just as you had!]
["So this is your trump card?"]
[You murmured inwardly.]
[Once, they had been a star so far beyond your reach that you could not even look up to it.]
[But now, you stood at the same starting line, locked in a struggle to the death for the final victory!]
[You stepped forward. No more words were needed.]
[In an instant, the entire [Myriad Worlds] trembled beneath the terrifying collision.]
[The World Sea surged backward, spacetime collapsed, and more than half the worlds silently dissolved into nothingness.]
[Yet you and the [Mysterious Dao Master] tacitly confined your battlefield to the space outside the [Supreme True Realm], leaving that last Pure Land untouched.]
[The time it took an [Incense Stick] to burn passed as swiftly as a white colt flashing past a crack to mortals, but in a clash at your level, it felt as long as an entire era.]
[At last, after countless rounds of earth-shattering collisions, the [Mysterious Dao Master] abruptly halted their assault.]
["You lost."]
[Their tone was calm and certain. The Great Dao’s Voice became a torrent of Laws, resounding throughout the shattered Myriad Worlds.]
["I don't know why, but the moment I attained [Half-Immortal], I saw through your true state..."]
["You also have only an [Incense Stick]'s worth of time!"]
["And before this, you had already used up an instant, hadn't you?"]
[They were right. This cruel truth had been mercilessly laid bare.]
[An [Incense Stick]'s worth of time could never be enough for two [Half-Immortals] to truly settle a battle of Life and Death.]
[But your "countdown" was not