Time ticked away, and as the last second passed.

"Hum——!"

An invisible yet grand fluctuation of rules centered on the ascension pillar of light swept across the entire Blue Star Void Realm.

The fourth-layer restriction, which represented the Powerful God's control seat anchoring and suppressing the rules of the Blue Star Void Realm, completely collapsed like hard ice melted by the sun under the pervasive penetration and erosion of the Freedom Authority!

Freedom Authority successfully broke through the fourth-layer restriction!

Meanwhile, Qi Ye felt that his innate core trait—Free Contract—had undergone a qualitative leap!

As the Ascension Ritual progressed and the Fusion of the Freedom Authority, his other traits such as Follower Summoning, Follower Dispatch, and Authority Sharing had successively been strengthened.

Now, it was time for the most fundamental Free Contract.

A refreshing power surged from his internal Origin, instantly spreading throughout his entire body.

Qi Ye let out a refreshing sigh of relief, felt a wave of joy in his heart, and quickly checked.

【Free Contract: You can sign contracts with any intelligent creature to unlock a brand-new growth path for them. Free Contract does not require Divine Power consumption. If the contract's scope of effect is within the region you control, no Divine Power is consumed at all.】

【The more intelligent creatures you contract, the higher the strength of the Freedom Authority, and your maximum Divine Power will grow synchronously.】

The description was concise, but the implications were extraordinary!

First, zero consumption within the controlled region greatly reduced Qi Ye's Divine Power burden, allowing him to use Free Contract at any time.

Now Blue Star also belonged to his controlled region.

This meant that with just a thought, he could expand the contract's scope more willfully, covering even the globe and all dungeons managed by his subordinates!

Second, the number of contracts enhancing the strength of the Freedom Authority formed a positive feedback loop with extremely high growth potential!

Qi Ye had already sensed that his maximum Divine Power had expanded from 15 million to 30 million through the Freedom Authority breakthrough and his own accumulation, and it was still growing naturally at an extremely slow pace.

The injuries to his internal Origin were also recovering rapidly.

"If it were me now, facing the God of War who wields the 'proof of destruction' and burns his lifespan, even if I met his full-strength strike 'Chaos Annihilation' head-on in the The Void, I should have more sufficient certainty to withstand it, rather than being severely injured like before." Qi Ye evaluated his own improvement. This was a nearly doubled combat power increase, enough to make him stand at the absolute Peak of Powerful Gods.

Qi Ye's confidence instantly increased a hundredfold.

However, he still shook his head, his gaze remaining solemn:

"Doubling my combat power is still not enough. This fails to solve my most fundamental problem of how to deal with a group of Rule Guardians; I still need to consider how to safely evacuate with Blue Star."

Pure increases in force still had limits when facing higher-level rule encirclements and numerical suppression.

After all, his Freedom Authority failed to break through to the rule level, lacking just that final kick.

Still not enough.

For this, he needed more trump cards, or a viable retreat route.

Right at this moment, Qi Ye's mind shook violently!

To his astonishment, his perception, through the ascension pillar of light connecting heaven and earth, had actually formed some subtle connection with the countless masterless dungeons within the entire Blue Star Void Realm!

Realizing something, Qi Ye hurriedly sank his mind into the ascension pillar of light.

At this moment, his vision seemed to be infinitely elevated and expanded. No longer restricted to a corner of Blue Star, he transformed into an existence even higher than deities, overlooking the mortal world and taking the entire Blue Star Void Realm into view!

He saw in a tiny forest dungeon, a fawn timidly sipping dew on leaves;

He saw a three-tailed yellow-spotted leopard cat lowering its body, its amber eyes locked tightly onto a plump-bellied giant-toothed mole foraging on a large plain;

He saw a huge stone Puppet sitting silently in the center of an ancient ruin dungeon, waiting for the next batch of Adventurers who might arrive at an unknown time, eager to battle them and obtain Otherworld energy.

This perception was a rule-based connection, allowing him to discern the most subtle life activities and rule flows within these dungeons.

Subconsciously, with a tentative attitude, Qi Ye softly called out to one of the fawns through this connection: "Hey!"

The fawn drinking dew shuddered all over, abruptly raising its head. Its clear, large eyes looked up at the sky with a mix of fear and curiosity, its four hooves uneasily pawing the ground, before finally darting into the nearby bushes with a swish, revealing only half its head to look around tremblingly.

It heard it!

Not only it, but Qi Ye's voice simultaneously appeared above all the dungeons he perceived. Many keenly perceptive monsters or animals seemed to have heard a faint call from the nether, reacting differently.

The three-tailed leopard cat scampered about in fright, giving up its soon-to-be-acquired prey.

The stone Puppet blankly looked up at the sky and scratched its head, causing stone dust to rustle down.

Qi Ye smiled with a bit of mischievousness.

Accompanied by the Freedom Authority's breakthrough of the fourth-layer restriction and continuous penetration, the entire Blue Star Void Realm seemed to be gradually turning into a part of the extension of his divine domain!

With a single thought, he could cast his consciousness into any corner of the Blue Star Void Realm and perceive everything clearly.

In his eyes, the Blue Star Void Realm was like a miniature sandbox that could be freely scaled and positioned.

The The Void controller was gone; under the effect of the Ascension Ritual, he had become the proxy of the The Void controller.

This sense of control undoubtedly greatly enhanced his home-court advantage and information-gathering capability.

It was precisely under this god's-eye view that Qi Ye immediately noticed a tremendously glaring foreign object in the Blue Star Void Realm.

That was a huge, constantly writhing pitch-black sphere located in the distant The Void, emitting a necromantic aura so dense it could not be dissolved.

The strength of this necromantic aura had even solidified into a physical, hard shell, tightly wrapping everything inside.

"That side should be the place where the God of War Legion collectively perished."

After the God of War perished, his legion was buried along with him due to the influence of the proof of destruction.

Qi Ye instantly recognized what that was.

It was precisely the masterpiece of the Necromancer God!

He was right there, frantically digesting the heritage left behind after the annihilation of the God of War Legion.

Hundreds of deity corpses, fragments of collapsed divine domains, and tens of millions of monster corpses flowing out from the divine domain!

Through a rough estimate by the Appraisal Eye, Qi Ye's heart sank slightly.

The total amount of necromantic aura accumulated within that pitch-black sphere was so mighty that it was heart-palpitating.

If he were to use breath of life to neutralize and purify these necromantic auras, the Divine Power required would probably have to be calculated in the hundreds of millions!

The gods had various methods to recover Divine Power, and the Necromancer God obviously possessed the terrifying ability to efficiently convert massive amounts of necromantic auras into Divine Power, and vice versa.

This meant that at this moment, the Necromancer God's Divine Power reserves had likely reached an extremely terrifying level, second only to Qi Ye, who possessed a Divine Power channel capable of connecting millions of followers!