Zhou Heng sat upright.
"Huang Tian of Majestic Heaven" stood tall.
Neither spoke again. They simply gazed at each other indifferently from afar.
Across this vast world woven from yellow and white, even time itself seemed to freeze at that moment.
The breeze no longer blew, and the radiance no longer flowed. Only two magnificent figures, both seated upon divine seats, confronted each other in silence and clashed without a sound.
Until, at a certain moment, "Huang Tian of Majestic Heaven" made a move.
He slowly sat down...
At the very instant he sat down, a magnificent divine seat, larger and grander than even the "Unordered Star Seat (Vast)" beneath Zhou Heng, materialized beneath him.
Warm, weighty Xuanhuang Divine Radiance flowed throughout the divine seat. Countless ancient totems of mountains, rivers, states, the sun, the moon, and stars were branded upon its base, as though an entire ancient world had been condensed into this unique throne.
Bearing "Huang Tian of Majestic Heaven," the divine seat continued ascending into the void above with a tremendous momentum that no force could obstruct.
At the same time, a grand, magnificent divine voice echoed mightily through every corner of this world, like a great bell surging upstream from the far end of eternal space-time.
"Your level is only 1..."
"According to the rules I established for this trial, when facing a level 1 successor, I should have dueled you at your most basic speed of light, to judge whether you were qualified to inherit my legacy."
His voice paused briefly. Through the ever-growing distance, his eyes, as deep as ancient stars, calmly looked down upon Zhou Heng, who remained seated and motionless below.
"But..."
"The choice you made was to take all three..."
"I appreciate that arrogance, but the price behind it is that