Nian Shi's fury overrode his caution, his logic. The plan to overwhelm with numbers had failed spectacularly. There was only one path left: consolidation. Absolute, desperate consolidation.
"Since you wish to see my peak so badly," Nian Shi snarled, his voice guttural with hate, "I WILL OBLIGE YOU! I will show you the true despair of facing a god who has nothing left to lose!"
He raised his arms high. "To me! All of you! Every last one! Converge!"
The command echoed across the timelines. The billions of Nian Shi copies surrounding him did not hesitate. They turned away from Yun Lintian and streamed towards the prime Nian Shi like rivers flowing into a sea.
They didn't just merge; they were absorbed. Each copy, a being of significant power from its own timeline, dissolved into pure, silvery energy upon contact, flooding into the prime with a torrential force. The prime Nian Shi's body swelled, his aura skyrocketing at a terrifying rate.
