"Boundless Endless Eternity once spoke thus..."
Zhou Heng's voice was quiet, yet like an invisible sledgehammer, every syllable struck precisely at "Su Guangtian's" trembling soul.
"Pass absolute judgment upon me and my enemy in the attribute of 'light'..."
"The victor shall live..."
"The defeated shall return to the great embrace of the boundless endless..."
"Damn it!!"
The instant he heard the opening of "Thus Spoke Eternity," the expression of the hundred-and-fifty-petaled Eternity Species "Su Guangtian" changed drastically.
He let out a hysterical curse, his voice mingling terror, anger, and a trace of barely concealed... despair.
He could no longer spare a thought for attacking Zhou Heng, or even for wondering why a mere one-petaled species could unleash power on the level of "Thus Spoke Eternity."
He spun around, burst into the greatest speed of his life, and charged frantically toward the other side of the wormhole without looking back.
At the same time, Zhou Heng clearly observed an extremely familiar blackness, unique to the "Virus Source Species," beginning to surface on the burly, bare-chested divine body of the hundred-and-fifty-petaled Eternity Species "Su Guangtian."
That blackness was like viscous ink, yet also like a living creature. The instant "Thus Spoke Eternity" activated, it seeped out from deep beneath "Su Guangtian's" skin and spread madly, attempting to cover his entire body in an extremely short time to resist some form of judgment-based erasure at the level of rules.
However...
The black liquid had only just covered "Su Guangtian's" entire body and had yet to form a stable protective layer when, like lingering snow meeting the blazing sun, it let out a shrill scream that only souls could hear, peeling off his body in great swathes and dissolving.
"No-!!"
"Su Guangtian's" despairing howl cut off abruptly.
His imposing divine body, which had been