As the rift leading to the "Health Heavenly Realm" closed completely, the "Truth Realm," temporarily compressed by the self-sacrifice of nearly a hundred million Standard Sea of Stars Lords, finally began to recover slowly.
The first to return from that temporarily compressed nothingness was naturally "Reversal-Resolute Truth Heaven," who had single-handedly stood against the "Sea of Stars' Sacrifice."
The moment her magnificent Divine Body re-formed from that twisted darkness, her gaze immediately fell upon Zhou Heng, who still stood at the very center of the slowly recovering void...
Upon her face, where a savage and terrifying radiance unique to "Reversal" beings flowed, there now appeared a trace of greed and restraint that even she could not fully suppress.
"I never expected... you... truly... found a way to escape..."
"That scream..."
"This... is good..."
"Reversal-Resolute Truth Heaven" spoke haltingly. Then she raised her slender hand, which trembled uncontrollably, as though frantically resisting some force from deep within her soul. That hand clamped onto her stunning yet savage face. Then her five fingers steadily tightened, viciously tearing away, bit by bit, the facial skin that had only just been flowing with a resolute and frenzied radiance...
Only when that facial skin had been completely stripped away, and her magnificent Divine Body once again lost the savagery and power belonging to "Reversal," did that frenzied voice, which seemed liable to spiral out of control at any moment, disappear completely. In its place came a tranquil, majestic divine voice, as though flowing slowly from the deepest reaches of the eternal laws of truth.
"Zhou Heng, you are powerful, far more powerful even than I expected..."
"But there are some things I cannot give you... at least, not now..."
Her faceless, empty visage remained directed toward Zhou Heng, and at that moment, her voice became