In the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed.
Beneath the illumination of the Nine Heavens Star Dome, the Great Thousand Universe stretched broad and boundless, its vast Stellar Sea without end.
On this macroscopic scale, immeasurable even in hundreds of millions of light-years, an utterly inconspicuous desolate Star Domain was gradually dimming.
A terrifying, oppressive aura silently spread through the Starry Sky like a festering wound eating into the skin, driving away the starlight bit by bit and dragging an entire Star Domain spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years into boundless darkness...
At the center of the Star Domain,
Creak—!
Space let out a wail of unbearable strain before suddenly twisting and collapsing.
A mountain of flesh so enormous it defied imagination crushed layer upon layer of void and appeared in the real Universe.
Scarlet flesh churned and writhed. Countless faces howling in agony surfaced and vanished across the walls of meat, while a gaping maw at its center exhaled and inhaled turbid bloody mist.
Blade Wielder, Evil Buddha!
"Buddha has actually arrived late?"
Evil Buddha gave a soft cry of surprise. His gaze swept over the eight savage figures entrenched in the void around him, yet there was not a trace of surprise on his face. Instead, he shook his head and laughed.
"No, Buddha has always been punctual. How could I possibly be late? You all arrived early!"
"Evil Buddha, we did not come here to listen to your nonsense!"
The voice was icy, like a sharp blade forged from ice crystals. With a "slash," it cut space into shattered mirror fragments.
Blade Wielder, Space Ripper!
"Brother Space Ripper, why the rush?"
Evil Buddha's smile faded as he fixed his gaze on the cold-faced Space Ripper, then swept it across the other seven frowning Blade