"Soon..."
"Ten seconds left..."
"Zhou Heng, that Database Talent you're so proud of has failed to favor..."
But before Eternal Eternity Supreme Boundless Light Heaven Star God could calmly utter that final word, "you," the composed expression on his exquisitely beautiful, indifferent face abruptly changed.
For the first time, a flicker of disbelief bordering on horror appeared in his eyes, where boundless star radiance flowed.
His gaze fixed on the spot directly beneath Zhou Heng. There, a mass of power he knew intimately, closely connected to his own soul root, was surging and churning wildly.
It was his cognitive concept, the talent power unique to him that he used to erode Self-Void Truth Heaven and toy with her in the palm of his hand.
Yet now, this cognitive concept, which should have obeyed him completely and followed his every command, had broken entirely free of his control like a vicious dog slipping its chain.
It splashed and roared wildly within that hollow nothingness, inexorably connecting, bit by bit, to the Sea of Stars' Sacrifice he had painstakingly laid out long ago, constructed through the self-sacrifice of nearly a hundred million Standard Sea of Stars Lords.
"This is..."
Realizing that something beyond his control might be happening, Eternal Eternity Supreme Boundless Light Heaven Star God sharply furrowed his swordlike brows.
This time, he could no longer maintain his detached posture of sitting high in the heavens and looking down upon everything. Without hesitation, he raised his mighty divine palm, flowing with boundless star radiance, and lunged to seize Zhou Heng!
Before that unknown variable could fully erupt, he intended to use the most direct, most overbearing means to capture Zhou Heng, the sole uncertainty in this game!
Yet the instant he made that grasping motion, before his mighty divine palm, capable