Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
Throughout that year, Zhou Heng sat upright beneath the magnificent hall of the "Truth Realm," like a silent, ancient stone statue.
His broad sleeves, flowing with the brilliant radiance of the Eastern Immortal Gods, had never closed in the slightest. Maintaining the posture of "Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve," he let the endless "Truth Points" pour ceaselessly into the world within his sleeves at the terrifying rate of 1eee per astronomical unit per second.
Throughout that same year, the supreme "Lord of Compassion," seated beyond the very front of the "Boundless Hall," also maintained his eternally unchanging posture of looking down, like the most patient hunter.
His majestic eyes, containing all the compassion and all the cruelty in the world, pierced endless barriers of space-time, taking in every terrifying collision between "Golden · Glorious Heaven's Will" and the seventeen "Thought Spikes" within the two expansions below.
He did not act, and therefore, the "Pure White Heaven and Earth" concealed in the shadows did not act either.
The two opposing forces remained hidden in the stillness, quietly awaiting the arrival of the true protagonist.
But at a certain moment at the end of that year, within the Ninth Chapter of the Fifth Expansion, "As Long as I, Zhou Heng, Exist, All Beings Shall Endure Eternally"...
"Damn it, we can't escape!"
"Those beasts of the Eternity Otherworldly Species-they really are the most terrifying demons and devils, just like the ancient legends said!"
"Why are you doing this to me... I don't want to be captured! Help me, someone help me..."
Deep within a stellar fortress painstakingly disguised as a black hole through extraordinarily advanced technology, countless frail beings sheltered and protected by this final refuge stared helplessly