The instant Zhou Heng's divine voice fell silent...
The vast Extra-Large Event, "Abyss VS Sea of Stars VS Real Universe VS Pure White VS Negative Numbers VS Positive Numbers VS Health," fell so quiet that a pin could have been heard dropping.
All fighting stopped, all howling stopped. The madness of every Chaos Subject, the resistance of every Standard Sea of Stars Lord, every allied charge and enemy retreat-all froze in that instant.
The entire world seemed to be waiting for someone's answer.
"Lord of Compassion·...%￥%...￥·(*^▽^*)·(•́へ•́╬)" looked at the "Time-Space Cat" delivered before him.
The tiny cat lay curled up, held quietly in his palm, but his compassionate, half-lidded eyes revealed neither joy nor anticipation of completing a particular stage, but an indescribable contemplation and conflict.
Zhou Heng had willingly given him the "Time-Space Cat."
What did this mean?
A crucial piece that had taken five hundred million years to obtain, one capable of changing the course of the entire game, had been casually tossed over by Zhou Heng like a pebble.
This was not surrender. This was some deeper calculation, one he could not yet fathom.
And just as he considered whether to accept this "Time-Space Cat," complete the count of 9999e9999w9999, and unlock the Fourth Expansion's Ninth Chapter, "All Beings' Ten Million Heavens," prompts belonging to Zhou Heng slowly appeared on his retinas...
[You consumed one drop of "Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption of the Heart."] [Player "Zhou Heng" detected to have completed Truth First Transcendence, Second Class Advancement, Third Class Advancement, and Fourth Turn.] [...] [Player detected attempting to recover the lost, severed "Epic" Divine Energy.] ["Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption of the Heart" effect officially activating...] [Extending the completion mechanism for the fifth stage of your boundless foundation stone...]
When the "Boundless Endless Transcendence Exemption of