A towering mechanical lifeform rose from the ruins of the Divine Kingdom filled with soaring science-fiction buildings behind Zhou Heng.
The mechanical lifeform was constructed entirely from some long-lost ancient alloy, its surface rippling with a cold, dark-silver radiance that seemed to hold some immortal will.
Its body was intricate and complex in structure. Countless gears, bearings, energy circuits, and unknown mechanical components meshed and operated silently within it, every rotation sending faint tremors through the surrounding void.
It had no face, only a single eye that occupied two-thirds of its entire head-in that eye, a crimson mechanical radiance pulsed slowly like a heart. With every pulse, it unleashed an ancient will powerful enough to pierce the void, interwoven with destruction and reason.
It stood above nothingness in a posture of looking down upon all things, coldly directing its single crimson mechanical eye toward the Frontier God Lord, "Boundary Setting."
At the same time, its mechanical body began to surge upward with unstoppable momentum, growing taller and taller, just as Zhou Heng had when he unleashed the "Boundless Star God" moments earlier.
And it was not alone. From the countless previously deathly silent Divine Kingdom ruins scattered throughout the "Heaven Realm," equally towering phantoms of lifeforms, exuding overwhelming might, emerged at that very moment.
Within an ancient Divine Kingdom constructed entirely from trees...
At the center of that Divine Kingdom, an ancient, sky-reaching tree rooted in nothingness, its crown seemingly able to blot out the Sea of Stars, abruptly burst with endless emerald radiance.
That radiance held an immensely powerful aura of life, every thread of light seeming capable of nurturing an entire forest.
The ancient tree slowly stretched its branches, its crown swaying gently with a rustling sound, as though singing an ancient elegy.
Within a desolate Divine Kingdom