As he looked at "Vastness's Compassion," who had appeared directly ahead, the "Vast Star Lord" of past and former times could not stop a smile from lifting the corners of his mouth.
He was not smiling because "Vastness's Compassion" had arrived, but because of his own conjecture.
At the same time, he was mocking the irresistibility of predetermined fate.
When Zhou Heng raised the remains of the "Merciful Holy Mother" high, intending to call upon "Vastness's Compassion," he had already acted.
According to the normal progression of events, he should have acted before Zhou Heng, imprisoning him within a String Energy Level Technology Skill and uncovering all of Zhou Heng's secrets and peculiarities through microscopic deconstruction.
But just as his move was about to subdue Zhou Heng, he discovered that he had suddenly lost control of his own body.
Another power surged within him.
At the very moment that power surged, "Vastness's Compassion" arrived, and through that inexplicably emerging power, he also undid some of the conceptual annihilation inflicted upon him.
A sliver of another version of himself's divinity had remained within his body from the very beginning.
Or rather, the "Vast Star Lord" seated within the Vast Star Nation had long foreseen the scene unfolding at this very moment, and so had planted a means within his body early on.
"Father, thank you for all your efforts..."
A soft, ethereal divine voice came from "Vastness's Compassion." As she looked at the "Vast Star Lord" of past and former times seated upon the Divine Seat, relief and bitterness at a reunion after a long separation shone deep in her eyes.
The "Vast Star Lord" of past and former times did not respond. He merely looked calmly at "Vastness's Compassion."
At that moment, a different face slowly emerged on the left