Ego's entire planet felt like it was being caught in a massive blender, slowly crushed by immense gravitational forces.
However, just as Ego was still struggling in his death throes, the fragments of Zane's divine essence and death power, which had scattered due to his self-detonation, suddenly began to reverse, as if time were flowing backward. Ignoring the pull of the black hole, they instantly converged toward the spot where Zane had exploded.
As Ego watched Zane re-form before his eyes, fully restored, opening his eyes and looking at him with a teasing smile, he couldn't help but be momentarily stunned. In that brief moment, his already diminished body was dragged even closer to the white dwarf star.
"You can resurrect?" Ego, realizing he had been played by Zane from start to finish, gritted his teeth and said.
Zane smiled at him and nodded.
In an instant, the remaining tendrils of Ego's energy, burning with boundless rage, lashed out toward Zane.
Despite the ferocity of the oncoming tendrils, Zane didn't make any attempt to dodge. He simply stood there, quietly watching Ego, his mocking smile unchanged.
When the energy tendrils were just ten meters from Zane, they suddenly halted. No matter how much divine power Ego infused into them, the tendrils couldn't advance even an inch. In fact, under the immense gravitational pull, they began to retreat, step by step.
For someone whose scale is measured in light-years, ten meters was an insignificant distance.
But in that moment, this insignificant distance seemed like an unbridgeable chasm.Ego could only roar in anger as he stared intently at Zane.
At that moment, Zane looked at Ego, and his thoughts began to wander uncontrollably.
'Should I shout now:
Hahaha, you can't beat me.
There's nothing you can do, I'm just that powerful.
Hahaha, you can't reach me.
La la la la...'
Zane suddenly shook his head, trying to shake off the strange impulse.
After all, this was a scene of the fall of a six-dimensional powerhouse; he couldn't be so flippant.
Ahem, but singing it out does seem kind of fitting...
Better not, just thinking about it feels embarrassing.
Under Zane's wandering thoughts and gaze, Ego, who had once been so arrogant, was slowly crushed into a pulp by the white dwarf star he had created.
Just before his core was pulverized, Ego suddenly stopped his futile struggle, glaring at Zane with venomous eyes.
"Kid, I'll be waiting for you in the endless void!"
"The Celestials won't let a heretic like you go!"
Faced with Ego's final vicious words, Zane waved cheekily and casually uttered two words:
"Goodbye!"
In the next moment, the core brain that Ego had heavily protected was completely destroyed by the immense gravity of the white dwarf star.
Ego, along with Star-Lord's mummified body, was instantly assimilated into the white dwarf star, causing the collapsing star, now only the size of a ping-pong ball, to expand just slightly.
Thus, the elder of the Celestials, the most powerful stud in history—Ego, had fallen!
Ego's entire planet was like being caught in a massive blender, bit by bit crushed by the immense gravity.
At the moment when Ego was obliterated by the immense gravity of the white dwarf star, a planet-sized phantom suddenly emerged from the white dwarf.
This phantom, ignoring the gravitational pull of the black hole, flew straight into Zane's body.
In an instant, the projection of a planet appeared in the soul space above the [Realm of Dead]. After the autonomous consciousness of the [Realm of Dead] crushed and restructured it, the soul space gained its first star.
The dim gray starlight shone down on the countless souls worshipping Zane's statue below, continuously strengthening their spiritual bodies.
As Ego's soul was fully assimilated by the [Realm of Dead], a pillar of faith, equal to half the sum of all other souls combined, connected instantly to Zane's divine essence.
Immediately, waves of pure, golden faith power, mixed with Ego's lifetime insights into the universe, surged into Zane's divine core.
In the black hole, Zane silently closed his eyes.
In a daze, he seemed to enter a void space. There was no starlight, no celestial bodies, only a vast emptiness and darkness.
In this entire space, there was only one thing: a brain, faintly glowing with blue light.
After an untold number of eons, this brain learned to control the molecules around it, slowly constructing a hard protective layer around itself.
First came the core, then the mantle, and finally the crust, until it had fully formed a planet.
This conscious brain, driven by loneliness, eventually created avatars outside of itself, seeking to explore unknown life in the universe.
Having been alone for countless ages, it longed for someone to communicate with. But when it finally found other life, those fragile beings brought it only one feeling: disappointment.
Compared to itself, they were far too weak—so weak that a single breath from it could destroy them.
After experiencing this disappointment, this unique being found a new goal: to assimilate the entire universe into itself.
It stubbornly believed that once everything was part of it, it would no longer be alone.
This being then began its journey through the entire universe, witnessing countless strange species and cosmic wonders.
This was Ego's life.
Zane experienced Ego's entire life from a godlike perspective, including the moment when Ego had once encountered the "Judge."
Zane could clearly feel the terror of the "Judge," as if he had lived through it himself.
The "Judge" seemed to have transcended the six-dimensional plane. Zane wasn't sure if he had reached the seventh dimension, but he was certain the Judge was no longer bound to the sixth.
Zane knew this because he saw the Judge reverse the flow of time directly in front of Ego, pulling out Ego's original brain from the very beginning of time.
Reversing the flow of time was an ability that six-dimensional beings like Zane could not even dream of accomplishing.
At present, Zane could only vaguely sense the concept of time due to the influence of the Time Stone within the [Magic Furnace].
This alone demonstrated the terrifying power of the Celestial leader, Arisham the Judge!
After Zane finished witnessing Ego's entire life from an observer's perspective, he slowly opened his eyes in the real world.
In his pupils, a galaxy flowed, and countless stars shimmered and flickered within them.
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