However, there was no Level 40001 there at all.
After reaching the round 40000 checkpoint, that winding gray Star Path came to an abrupt end, as though an invisible divine sword had severed it at the waist.
In its place was a seated phantom of such indescribable grandeur that it seemed to hold up the entirety of "Heaven Realm Max."
It was the "Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm" whom Zhou Heng had seen before!
His boundless divine body sat quietly at the end of that gray Star Path, as though he had been there since the beginning of time, waiting for this moment to arrive.
"Come before me..."
"Defeat me..."
"Only by defeating me can you find an opportunity to leave 'Heaven Realm Max'..."
"Survive... successor... take the great sublimity with you and seek the contemplation that has been hidden away..."
"God's domain should not perish..."
A majestic, indifferent voice, like contemplation spanning eternity, pierced the barriers of space and time from where that towering phantom sat and reached Zhou Heng's ears with perfect clarity.
There was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in that voice, yet it held an authority that brooked no defiance, as though it were stating the final clause of some ancient covenant.
At the very instant Zhou Heng observed the "Sublimity Realm Master of Heaven Realm," his gaze instinctively swept toward the other side of that towering phantom.
With a single glance, he saw the "Supreme Holy Guard Army," likewise seated high in the heavens, wildly sweeping the battlefield with its own endless order radiance.
That towering existence, whose body was the "eternity ordinance" and whose blade was the "supreme" affix, radiated a pressure like countless Judgment Spears piercing through the space and time of all ages. Even across that vast distance, it made Zhou