"At last... it was over!"
A faint sigh echoed through the simple, almost shabby rental room.
Li Qingshan slowly opened his eyes. There was no wild cheering, no thrilled excitement—only a faint smile that dispersed the numbness on his face, as though a weight had finally been lifted from his shoulders!
His consciousness sank into his body, gazing at the chest of the Universe Body.
An Azure Sun hung alone above the Starry River, radiating blazing brilliance and shrouding countless stars.
It had transformed from illusion into reality!
There was no earth-shattering spectacle, nor any shock that rocked the cosmos...
After all, the process of condensing the Azure Sun had never been accomplished overnight!
He had spent hundreds of billions of years, tempering it bit by bit through countless explosions!
"A Natal Great Star?"
Li Qingshan carefully sensed this newborn star, a hint of confusion appearing between his brows.
He had seen quite a few Natal Great Stars—Zhihui's, Fu Shan's, and the high-hanging stars that occasionally flashed beneath the Nine Heavens Star Dome...
Yet this "Azure Sun" before him differed from every Natal Great Star he had ever seen!
It was not merely a matter of power or size. The aura contained within its blazing radiance did not resemble the stars raised by the Venerables. Instead, it was more like those stars originally embedded in the Nine Heavens Dome.
Or that round... Cold Moon of Deep Space!
"Cold Moon came from the Eternal..."
Li Qingshan seemed to grasp something as he murmured,
"So... condensing the Azure Sun itself meant drawing closer to the Eternal?"
"Ancient Ones were likewise drawing closer to the gods, drawing closer to the Eternal..."
"Could it be that I've already become an Ancient One?"
Li Qingshan let out a soft cry of surprise. A chessboard spanning