Chapter 1288: Another Cube.

’With all 72 of them upgraded to Cosmic Dao, I have a total of 1,944 units of commonality instead. So I’ve been able to activate the 35th cube and obtained 1,890 units of divinity.’

’I need 1,998 units of Divinity, so I need 54 units of commonality to activate the 36th cube. That’s just 2 more Supreme Metacs.’

’I’m sure I can manage that in the few days I need to push the Devouring Supreme Metac and the Seal of Death Supreme Metac to 20% conversion efficiency,’ he thought, nodding his head in assurance.

All in all, everything was going well with him. But that wasn’t the case for the rest of the world.

In the Blessed Heaven World, for instance, the sky suddenly lit up. An explosion happened in the divine constellation, causing a second sun to appear in the sky.

The explosion came from the projection of a Supreme Metac. It was the Formation Supreme Metac.

The Formation Supreme Metac was in a group of three stars in the divine constellation. But two stars in this section suddenly went dark, while the star representing the Formation Supreme Metac exploded with blinding light.

Just then, several stars in the divine constellation also went out. The stars representing the Pill Refinement Pathway, Talisman Pathway, Seer Pathway, Enslavement Pathway, Emotion Pathway, Lust Pathway, Sword Pathway, and Killing Pathway all went dark.

In this wave of laziness, when 8 stars gave up on shining, the star of the Formation Pathway decided to do extra and shine with enough light to make up for the absence of the other eight. But this didn’t last.

The star of the Formation Pathway became zealous and decided to leave the divine constellation to come to the ground. The star fell from the sky into one of the Domains of the Blessed Heaven World. Then the entire Domain began to shake and rumble as it detached from the Blessed Heaven World.

Billions of people lived in this Domain. Their numbers were even in the tens of billions, and the bulk of his sect’s power was in this Domain. But Tepid Scholar still decided to withdraw this Domain from the world, potentially killing every living being in the world.

To be fair, Tepid Scholar didn’t want to do this. He always preferred avoiding bloodshed when he could.

But this time, he couldn’t avoid killing these tens of billions of people. He had to seek refuge in this Domain because the Will of the Blessed Heaven World is his friend and the strongest being right after Loki.

Tepid Scholar needed assurance that his exit would be protected, so he chose to hide in the only world he trusted could protect him. What he was doing could only be called hiding.

Not only had the Pill Refinement Pathway and the Talisman Pathway disappeared from the Sea of Worlds, but the Formation Pathway was also disappearing. These three pathways would not be seen for a very long time.

During that time, traces of the three pathways would slowly disappear. The Core Metacs and Branch Metacs of the three pathways would stop appearing, and cultivators would stop awakening them.

The Core Metacs and Branch Metacs of the three pathways would slowly disappear without replenishment. Then the materials for upgrading them would also disappear, cutting off the pathways and making it impossible for cultivators to advance in them.

After a long time, the three pathways would disappear forever and become forgotten history. The only recourse would be if Tepid Scholar returned one day and reascended as a Dao Lord.

It could also happen that the three pathways would disappear today, never to return, if a certain Mountain Lord were to take action to kill Tepid Scholar forever.

"That damned Ragnarok," Tepid Scholar screamed inwardly with both fear and anger. "I am sure he did this. Or he must be behind it somehow."

"He definitely planned for it when he established his Domain on every super world. Now there is a place to escape that his control doesn’t reach."

"I knew we shouldn’t have allowed him to establish Domains everywhere. Now that things have come to this, I can only hope the Blessed Heaven World would protect me," he said, his heart stuck in his throat.

He was currently in the ground, hiding like a rat and hoping Ragnarok didn’t come looking for him.

To ensure that he would be safe, he said to the Will of the World, "Protect me, or I take down the formation I built to help you grow."

He didn’t want to threaten his greatest helper right now. But he had to because he needed the assurance.

If Loki hadn’t established a Domain in Alpha Peak’s super world, he would have chosen to hide there. In that case, Loki wouldn’t be able to create an avatar to descend directly into Alpha Peak, so he would be able to hide Kong before Loki could send an avatar from the nearest super world.

Unfortunately, Loki was now sharing every super world with him. His attempts to block Loki’s incursion into his territory had failed. Now he was paying the price for having no refuge and threatening the only entity who could help him resist Loki until he managed to hide the entire Domain from the world.

As for Heavenly Eye, she chose to do the opposite. When she saw that Tepid Scholar had chosen the Blessed Heaven World, she hid on other super worlds, hoping Tepid Scholar would attract Loki’s attention.

She didn’t put her four Supreme Metacs in one super world, though. She sent them into four different super worlds.

For the three Supreme Metacs without a Domain, Truth, Illusion, and Perception, she had them anchor in three super worlds with her Domain in them. Then, before the Domains could expand, she sent them down to the ground to hide.

Since Ragnarok could only make two avatars at a time, she hoped he wouldn’t be able to reach all her Supreme Metacs before she could hide them.