How long had it been since [Truth] personally conducted an experint?
Aside from the faith fusion It had pushed through when [Void] lobbied the gods to sign the Convention, the legends surrounding this [Civilization] god lurking behind the scenes mostly ca from Its followers and the [Truth] Empire that had vanished from the Land of Hope.
If the followers were already this insane, could the god possibly be any saner?
As it turned out — absolutely not.
Among the assembled gods, likely only [Deceit] knew what [Truth] intended to do.
[Folly] certainly knew — but It had already left, deeming [Truth]'s sche a foolish act before departure.
[Death] and [Birth] could guess at so of it, yet they still believed [Truth] mightn't be so bold.
[mory] gazed at the Starlight Canon with a slightly frosty expression. It could sense that [Truth] had stolen [Existence]'s authority. But gods stealing each other's authority was nothing unusual. Besides, [mory] hadn't been able to provide the mories sealed away by [Fate] when [Truth] had co asking — so It hardly had standing now to obstruct [Truth]'s self-exploration.
As for the others — they were mostly just watching the spectacle. [Oblivion] in particular was practically hoping [Truth] would stir up an even bigger commotion, so It could seize the opportunity to obliterate a few things It had wanted obliterated.
[Deceit]'s upturned eyes swept over every god's reaction, then turned to [Truth] with a sneering scoff:
"Do you think your foolish act will produce an answer?"
The Starlight Canon offered no reply. It rely accelerated its page-turning — faster and faster, until the entire book trembled.
As it turned, countless pages erupted from the book and scattered like a sky full of stars. The radiance of knowledge illuminated the entire void. Orderly starlight emanated enlightennt that penetrated to the essence of things.
The flickering stars dispersed in all directions, their trajectories linking into lines — like a giant brush painting the world, like a divine spider spinning its web. Those crisscrossing rays of starlight seed to weave together into an infinitely vast divine calculation engine, while the tangled stellar tracks appeared to link into layer upon layer of divine-script seals.
Clearly, [Truth] had been preparing for this mont for quite so ti. Such a grand experintal setup was exceedingly rare — its scale so imnse it seed to encompass the entire universe.
Wait!
The gods' gazes turned grave all at once. Was this lunatic [Truth] actually planning to experint on the universe itself!?
It wasn't impossible. After all, Its indifference to [Fate]'s rampage earlier looked remarkably similar to how It was now treating the entire universe.
This was bad — [Truth] was about to lose its mind!
And not just a little — a total breakdown!
What kind of day was this? One lunatic after another.
The gods' expressions shifted dramatically. They were debating whether to imdiately halt this experint — one that appeared no less catastrophic than [Fate]'s divergence — when [Fate] had already moved.
It didn't know what [Truth] wanted. But as a [Void] sovereign who could see through appearances to essence, It had already felt the dense, unmistakable aura of world-annihilation radiating from [Truth].
This madman wanted to destroy the world — just like Itself!?
No — absolutely not!
Fixed destiny had not yet beco fixed. The universe could not yet embrace the void. The world's script must not reach its finale here!
So [Fate] struck. It layered misfortune upon [Truth] and scattered fixed destiny across the universe. It called on no one, warned no one — only wanting to use Its own power to crush [Truth]'s experint, to strangle this insane world-destruction experint in its cradle, to ensure this [Civilization] continuation that sought to shatter fixed destiny would continue no more.
Its luminous eyes turned cold. Wind rose from the void.
The frigid wind of nothingness blew those even colder star-filled eyes directly before [Truth]. Before the gods could react, while [Truth] was still preoccupied with preparations, [Fate] unleashed a full-power strike against the Starlight Canon — now reduced to nothing but its cover.
This blow carried the full force of a [Void] sovereign in the current era. It was [Fate]'s aspiration for fixed destiny — and Its frigid contempt for [Civilization].
It knew that under the Convention's protection, It couldn't kill [Truth]. But as long as It inflicted damage — severe damage — the remaining divine power would be insufficient to support [Truth]'s pursuit of aningless truth.
And at that very sa mont, [Deceit] also moved.
But It didn't bother with [Truth]. It didn't seem to care about [Truth]'s experint at all. Instead, It cast Its gaze down upon [Truth]'s Trial, and with a simple blink, plucked the wretched players out.
When the Trial-interrupted notification appeared in Cheng Shi's vision, he knew the divine balance of power had produced a result. Even if [Void] hadn't won, they'd at least stopped [Truth]'s cheating.
That should have been cause for celebration. But Cheng Shi never expected that when he opened his eyes again, the familiar void was absent, the Rest Area rooftop was absent — instead, he'd been fast-forwarded straight to the audience with a god. And what an audience — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
'Holy shit, why are there so many!?'
As pair after pair of divine eyes glanced in his direction, the weakened Cheng Shi broke into a full-body cold sweat, feeling even weaker than before.
'What is this — a conference?'
'This isn't "divine balance of power" — this is an offline brawl!'
'Who's fighting who?'
Seeing [Truth] surrounded in the center, a sky full of stars radiating the breath of knowledge, clearly in the middle of unleashing so ultimate move — so... was it [Truth] versus everyone!?
'It's that fierce!?'
Though the gods hadn't all shown up.
[Life] was down by one. [Descent] had sent only one.
[Civilization] had mbers absent, though their will resonated here.
[Folly] seed to be gone. [Ti] hadn't co in person either.
The latter made sense — [Ti] never had the ti. But what was [Folly]'s excuse?
Seeing the rival steal the spotlight, was It too embarrassed to attend?
That tracked, actually — after all, It didn't even have Its authority anymore.
As it turned out, repeated audiences with gods did build a certain immunity. Cheng Shi felt terrified beyond asure, and yet his mind remained clear enough to survey the situation, analyze the gods, and check on his teammates...
[Deceit] had fished out five people. Only Hu Xuan — and the man she'd delivered — remained unaccounted for.
Among the five, Fang Yuan had completely short-circuited. When the [Order] follower realized every pair of eyes before him belonged to a deity, his in-ga composure — steady as a mountain — evaporated entirely. His brain buzzed, sweat poured, and he felt this scene was worse than withstanding [Truth]'s erosion head-on.
He'd t gods before. Just never this many at once. The combined number of gods present exceeded the total he'd ever encountered in his entire life — how could he not be terrified!?
Wei Zhi wasn't faring well either, even though she wasn't the real Wei Zhi.
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