"It has been so long... so very long... since any living being reached this place."
"To cross the Majestic Boundary I established before my fall at Level 1, pass through the endless ruins and the successive blockades of the Eternity Species' minions, and stand before me, Huang Tian..."
"You are not bad..."
As the voice of Even-Handedness, laden with endless worldly weariness, rang out, the statue's stone shell began peeling away inch by inch, turning into golden Light Dust that danced through the air.
Amid the Light Dust, a magnificent figure slowly solidified.
He was a magnificent man dressed in a yellow star robe.
Countless ancient, profound star maps were embroidered upon the robe, as though he had draped an entire galaxy over himself.
His face was not young, yet it bore a scholarly grace and composure that had only grown warmer and more polished through the ages.
He made no unnecessary movements. He simply gazed quietly at Zhou Heng, who sat upon the "Unordered Star Seat," like a kindly elder studying the junior he was proudest of.
"I sensed it..."
"That power called 'Chaos'..."
"But Chaos... is hardly an affix worth showing off."
"It is too chaotic, too uncontrollable, too easily regarded as a thorn in the side by those beings on high..."
"But... precisely because of that, it holds a sliver of possibility of breaking the game."
The magnificent man who had transformed from the statue chuckled softly.
His laughter was even-handed, without the slightest disdain or arrogance of a "Heaven" powerhouse. There was only an unburdened ease and leisure, as though he had laid down every burden and was simply enjoying these final moments.
"Successor, as a reward for enduring such dangers and successfully gaining an audience with the great Huang Tian..."
He slowly raised the ancient