"Eternal Eternity Supreme Boundless Light Heaven Star God" sat high in the firmament, his majestic divine eyes swirling with boundless starlight as he calmly gazed down at the intriguing hunt that ten thousand Standard Sea of Stars Lords had launched against Zhou Heng.
He did nothing. He simply watched in silence, as though enjoying a stage play whose ending had long since been rehearsed.
The Standard Sea of Stars Lords he had personally brought numbered a full one hundred million. Yet he had deployed only an insignificant three hundred thousand or so to intercept Zhou Heng head-on.
As for the remaining 99.7 million Standard Sea of Stars Lords, he had dispersed them all the instant he descended into this Truth Realm, scattering them like seeds into every corner of this vast realm.
From the outset, their task had not been to fight Zhou Heng head-on, but to attempt an unprecedented, realm-wide temporary tampering with the underlying rules of the entire "Truth Realm."
The rules of this "Truth Realm," left behind by the long-dissipated "Supreme Above All Eternal Immortal Truth Glorious Heaven," were so entrenched, its foundations so profound, that fully consuming it with that single "Eternal Civilization Kindling" alone was absolutely impossible.
Thus, he needed a second contingency.
And using these 99.7 million Standard Sea of Stars Lords, with their Sea of Stars Lord status as fuel and their eternal essence as the medium, to temporarily tamper with this Truth Realm's rules at their very root...
This was his third contingency.
Whether Zhou Heng discovered his overt first measure or saw through his second measure hidden in the shadows, once this third contingency was fully laid out, Zhou Heng would be caught in his palm, with nowhere to escape.
And reasoning backward from the results, his arrangements had undoubtedly been