After leaving the Ruinless Zone, Tianming vanished.

The moment he emerged this time, it was obvious that everyone now looked at him differently.

Yueling and the violetblitzians were almost entirely filled with hatred, venom, and impotent fury. As for Nullity’s cosmic gods, their fanaticism was such that they were only lacking an omnisentient thread.

The other cosmic gods didn’t openly take sides, but their eyes were already full of admiration and respect for Tianming. At a critical moment, all these opinions could be a game-changer.

This had been Tianming’s brightest and most glorious moment in the Realm of Chaos!

Even after he left, the spectators didn’t disperse. They needed to keep watching. If Lingfeng failed to hold out, the entire wager would be over.

“If the young imperial son is escorted to the Yueling Starcage as a hostage, he’ll never have the chance to grow again.” Thus, even those who had a positive impression of Tianming couldn’t help feeling nervous.

Everyone knew that the sky plunderers were not a true native race, and could not break through within the Realm of Chaos. That was likely Tianming’s one true weakness in this wager.

At the moment Tianming disappeared, the battle within the Ruinless Zone erupted once again.

The remaining seven hundred million heavencosmic gods, after forty years of rest, launched a campaign to hunt down Lingfeng.

They destroyed the Ruinless Zone relentlessly, not sparing a single corner in their desperation.

Once Tianming left the Inverse Battlefield, the Yin Chen there had to enter hibernation.

Lingfeng only had himself to rely on, which meant the enemy did indeed have a real chance.

In a certain dim region, a black-clad youth watched silently as groups of brutal Yueling and violetblitzian warriors searched past him.

Beside him, a three-headed, six-armed black Soulfiend condensed into form. Its Anger face was front and centre.

“Wait a little longer. It’s not the right moment to fight. I need to buy him more time,” Lingfeng whispered to the Soulfiend.

The Soulfiend let out low growls and nodded.

Lingfeng blinked his right eye and said, “Di Yi knows our plan. Now that Brother Tianming has left, he’s trying like a madman to seize control of my body to wreak havoc. If he succeeds, he only needs to leave the Ruinless Zone, and Brother Tianming loses... During this period, I absolutely cannot lose to him!”

As he spoke, Lingfeng’s gaze grew even more intense. The will in his eyes was far more mature than before.

The Ruinless Zone wasn’t the only battlefield. Inside his own body, war to rule his own body raged constantly. Red and purple power clashed relentlessly, Di Yi’s harassment never stopped!

The Soulfiend let out a furious cry. It turned into a storm of black wind that plunged into Lingfeng’s body to go teach Di Yi a lesson.

The Soulfiend had helped Lingfeng gradually gain the upper hand in the struggle.

“If I don’t fight, Di Yi doesn’t have much of a chance. So I should avoid fighting as much as possible and just focus on escaping.” Lingfeng slipped back into the darkness, fleeing deeper into the Ruinless Zone.

***

Tianming was perfectly aware of Lingfeng’s situation.

So, after leaving the Ruinless Zone, he immediately activated Thousandway Blitzrun and headed toward the boundary between Order and Chaos at the fastest possible speed.

Before setting off, aside from the newly obtained thousandfold dazzling radiance, he had already absorbed all the dazzling radiances gathered at the Violetmoon Fortress.

His ten orders had grown substantially once more. Now, entering the passage and absorbing ordered nova source, he could finally see how far he could grow.

Time was tight. Tianming didn’t even exchange a single extra word with Mu Qingqing before entering a breakthrough state. He dispersed his unordered cosmoforce, ravenously drew in massive amounts of ordered nova source, converted it into cosmoforce through his cultivation techniques, before using it to induce another metamorphosis of his cosmic god body.

His middlekin astrons continued splitting, growing, and drawing in new power. Soon, he grew to ten thousand meters tall!

“I broke through consecutively again, straight into the fourth level of the Heavencosmic stage.” 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

At this stage, ordinary cosmic gods were about four thousand meters tall, but Tianming had already passed ten thousand. “By the same logic, my strength in the Realm of Order should be comparable to someone like Mushan Feng. I should be able to fight primocosmic gods.”

And in the Realm of Chaos, his ability to fight above his level would be even more outrageous.

Tianming could feel the transformation of his entire being. His new size gave him a new perspective. If he went to a sixth-level world like Ebonia now, it would likely feel similar to when he first arrived on the Sun back then.

The Lower Star Ruins couldn’t bear the current him. A single breath from him could bring the end times, and he could even inhale nova source worlds like the Aeternal Infernal Phoenix.

“The metamorphosis of life... terrifying.” Although Tianming still thought of himself as human, he wondered if he was truly the same species as the person he used to be back in Vermilion Bird Kingdom.

“After this wager, when I return to the Sun, I need to test just how far my strength has reached when paired with omnisentient threads.” Tianming glanced briefly toward the Sun, but didn’t linger. He prepared to return to the Ruinless Zone for the final battle.

“Can you beat Yueling Qian and Yueling Kun now? They’re talented and versatile fifth-level primocosmic gods,” Mu Qingqing asked.

“I’ll test it first,” Tianming said.

“I’ll have Nullity send out a fifth-level primocosmic god for you to spar with,” she said, then left.

Tianming, meanwhile, wanted to test out Xi Xi.

In space, he activated the hell-rings. He could still only open eight rings for now, but his limit for ghoul emperors reached two thousand. The five billion elite ghouls previously had also doubled to ten billion.

“The enemy has only seven hundred million left, and I can whittle them down again.”

Although he said that, he still felt it might be barely enough. “If I’m a fifth-level heavencosmic god, then I can dominate in both army strength and my personal combat strength, enough to end the wager in a single sweep.”