Given that the Adjudicator had been the one to set the time, nobody dared to stop Tianming even if he had skypole stars. Just like that, he and Lingfeng came to the Ruinless Zone as billions of cosmic gods watched.

"The Adjudicator's time limit will soon run out. If Nullity doesn't send anyone else over aside from the imperial son, does that mean they intend to give up?"

"Not participating is the same as losing!"

"They'll also earn the Adjudicator's complete disappointment."

"The Adjudicator seldom meddles in the affairs of the Realm of Chaos, so the fac that he showed up means that he is really trying to keep the peace."

"Even though Yueling and Violetblitz have both admitted to being at fault for starting this conflict, Nullity still has to give them a chance to deescalate, don't you think?"

From those hushed voices, one could tell that most of the spectators weren't worried about what Tianming would do, but rather, the point of making this bet in the first place. However, someone screamed in shock. "Look at the imperial son!" The commotion got louder and louder.

"What?!" Everyone's attention was drawn to the imperial son and the youth beside him as they entered the Ruinless Zone.

"He went inside!" This act stupefied everyone, triggering countless gasps.

"The imperial son should be over a hundred thousand years old! Isn't that far over the age limit?!" They had no idea what was going on at all. Either way, the moment Tianming stepped into the zone, the bet had officially begun!

"Mother, Grandmother!" Yueling Zhao stood between Yueling Xiao and Imperator Ji, watching with shock from outside the Ruinless Zone.

Something flashed across Imperator Ji's cold eyes as she furrowed her brows. "Maybe this has something to do with his rebirth."

"Is this the reason Li Muyang was so stubborn? Does he think that the imperial son alone would be able to crush our forces and the violetblitzians' by leading the cosmic gods of Nullity?" Yueling Xiao was stunned, but he still smirked.

"Imperator Skyplunder is far too naive. The gap between Nullity and us isn't something that a single person can make up for," Yueling Zhao said, smiling.

Imperator Ji looked closely at Tianming and then to the distance. "It doesn't seem that Nullity will be sending anyone else there." Those words stunned all the cosmic gods of Yueling Starcage.

"Skypole stars?" All of a sudden, everyone thought of the same thing.

Yueling Zhao's expression shifted. "If nobody can break the skypole stars, doesn't that mean that he can't lose no matter what?!"

"That dastardly Li Muyang..." Yueling Xiao's face contorted in an instant. This had indeed gone far out of expectations. He zipped ahead and called out to Tianming, "When is the rest of Nullity going to enter the battlefield?!"

Tianming didn't put up any front and said, "This will be all of us."

Yueling Xiao's face froze over as if he had been splashed with ice-cold water. The other spectators instantly knew what was going on and marveled at Imperator Skyplunder's guys.

"So, Imperator Skyplunder wasn't just messing around! He had something up his sleeves after all!" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Wouldn't Nullity be unable to lose thanks to the skypole stars?"

"That's true!"

"Even then, they can't win. At the very least, they can buy time, I suppose. That also means that they wouldn't have to release anyone from the Violetmoon Chaos Star Ruin either! Yueling Starcage also can't do anything against them, right?"

"Darn! So this was it all along! Imperator Skyplunder and the imperial son have really done it this time."

That tiny detail was enough for everyone in the Realm of Chaos to marvel at Imperator Skyplunder's wisdom. Li Muyang had been feigning weakness all along to get the four female imperatores to join the bet!

Yueling Xiao felt countless eyes on him as his expression grew uglier by the moment. "How dare you, Imperator Skyplunder, play such a trick in front of the Adjudicator..."

Were they really going to buy time just because they couldn't lose? Yueling Xiao descended near the Ruinless Zone and announced, "All participants from Yueling and Violetblitz, listen up! Nullity only has two participants, one of whom is the younger Imperial Son Li Tianming! Your orders are to bombard him endlessly to drain the skypole stars' energy, which has to have a limit! The moment you manage to drain them out is the moment we will seize victory!"

The primocosmic and heavencosmic gods within were even more pumped even though they no longer had to fight a large-scale battle. They had long found Tianming to be an eyesore and were unable to stand him at all. Their spirited war cries echoed throughout the Ruinless Zone. They were one billion against two, so none of them were worried.

"He's nothing but an undying turtle!"

"Once we break his shell, we'll also break the skypole stars' myth of invincibility!"

The hundred plus primocosmic gods among them had spread out with their troops and began to locate Tianming. At that moment, the Adjudicator's voice resounded across the area. "Since both sides have assembled, the battle will start. Both sides will be given their tokens."

"Yes, Adjudicator!" The countless cosmic gods listened to the voice with deep respect. Red petals immediately began to fall all over the Ruinless Zone, landing in the heads of every participating cosmic god. Anyone who had a broken petal would be eliminated! As for Tianming and Lingfeng, they each got a green leaf on their foreheads.

"The side that wipes out the tokens of the other side will be victorious. Leaving is permitted when the battle is in session, but absences shall not stretch longer than three months." These rules have been used across previous bets in the Ruinless Zone as well, allowing geniuses from both sides to cultivate even if they participated. However, previous bets had nowhere near as high stakes as the current one.

"Yueling and Violetblitz only need to destroy those two leaves to win, while Nullity needs to destroy more than a billion petals!" The unfair nature of the bet did sound weird, but the thought of this being Imperator Skyplunder's ploy to ensure that his son could extend the deal endlessly to cultivate made it palpable.

"Let's see if their numerous forces will be able to break the skypole stars..." They had a feeling that they would be here for the long haul. It wouldn't make sense for there to be an epic upfront battle after all that, and things did play out as they imagined they would. The moment Tianming went in, he had Yin Chen spread out to get eyes all over the place.