The assassination was over, but its repercussions lingered.
The assassination on Purple Thorn Island had ended in utter failure. Against a life-form with clones, conventional physical destruction was already useless. Only the complete annihilation of its soul would work; anything else was wasted effort.
Yet that human, Luo Feng, apparently had a soul Supreme Treasure protecting him. That alone nearly drove the three races to despair.
How were they supposed to kill him now?
Surely they could not actually send a Universe Master into the Ancestral God Religion to trade their life for a human World Lord. The very thought was absurd.
But to strike within the Ancestral God Religion and escape unscathed, they would have to enlist a lone supreme being of the universe. The price would be just as exorbitant: at least one Peak Supreme Treasure.
But-
Were they really going to have each race contribute a Top-tier Supreme Treasure to hire a supreme being of the universe to assassinate a mere World Lord? To kill a genius from a hostile race who had immense potential but had yet to mature?
They could not stomach it!
The enormous cost and the potential returns left the three great races wavering wildly.
As they hesitated and searched for an opportunity,
time simply slipped away.
In a strange and perilous region of the universe.
This was a region of absolute darkness. No starlight shone here, and no matter existed. There was only pure, dark nothingness that devoured everything.
At the center of this domain, where even light dared not venture, a towering divine body over ninety thousand kilometers tall rested motionless, its outline barely discernible in the absolute darkness.
He seemed to have existed here since time immemorial. Faint yet profound law patterns flowed across the surface of his divine body.