And at the very instant the Lord of Compassion Yixuxi raised his eyes and looked toward Zhou Heng in shock.
Zhou Heng, seated where he was, calmly lowered his profound eyes, which seemed capable of containing the birth and destruction of all the heavens and seas of stars.
The two beings who had contended this far in a great calamity spanning several major chapters.
At this infinitesimal instant in the time dimension, their gazes once again collided squarely and solidly.
Only...
In stark contrast to their last collision.
This time.
Zhou Heng, standing at the end of the River of Time and looking down upon all things, was as powerful as an eternal, undying supreme sovereign.
Yet he, the Lord of Compassion Yixuxi, who had endured untold hardships to force his way here, had already had all his reserves stripped away by the Divine Deer, leaving him as broken as an insignificant ant trembling in a storm!
Ding!
A system settlement notification without a trace of warmth swept ruthlessly across the Lord of Compassion Yixuxi's retinas:
[You have made contact with player "Zhou Heng"'s gaze] [You have been defeated head-on by a thread of Zhou Heng's vast willpower within this world] [Attribute deduction failed. Rule adjudication concluded. Your Health has fallen completely to zero...]
Just a single glance!
Just this insignificant instant of calmly meeting his eyes!
The Lord of Compassion Yixuxi's remaining attributes, already weakened by untold billions upon billions of times, were utterly reduced to zero beneath Zhou Heng's heaven-toppling great power at this moment!
His Health bottomed out, and layers of pale glimmers began to rise along the edges of his divine body as it disintegrated and dispersed.
Yet, faced with such irreversible, certain defeat and death.
The Lord of Compassion Yixuxi, standing below,