The battlefield did not pause just because Ethan had learned the truth.
Inverse humans continued to move with care, their formations bending and shifting like cautious predators. Normal cultivators pressed forward with roaring techniques, unaware of how fragile the balance truly was.
Ethan stood apart from both sides.
For the first time since stepping into the Emperor Realm, he felt uncertain.
The warmth still lingered in his body.
It was not violent. It was not overwhelming. It was…just right.
That single evolved cell pulsed faintly inside him, like a quiet heartbeat. Compared to his vast cultivation base, it was insignificant in size. Yet Ethan instinctively understood something terrifying.
If that cell continued to spread.
If his body began evolving cell by cell…
He would no longer be a normal being. He would become something entirely different.
"Unknown superior being," Ethan murmured.
