The air was quiet.
This was not the emptiness after a battle, but an intensely restrained tension.
Ever since he had drained the Divine Vein and forcibly slammed the Origin Realm into the Origin Continent, the surrounding laws had been constantly manipulated by outside forces.
The Dominion-Level Shadow Law spread an extraordinarily subtle web of perception around Qin Chuan.
Things were hidden in the shadows.
Dozens, hundreds, perhaps even more perceptive tendrils silently rested along the edges of the battlefield.
The owners of those gazes did not conceal their ranks.
The several hundred auras at the outermost edge all belonged to Upper Gods. In lower planes, they would have been overlord-level beings, but on the Origin Continent, they were merely insignificant.
In the layers of space slightly farther in, more than a dozen Main God Tier fluctuations lay concealed. Their hiding techniques varied wildly; some borrowed starlight refraction, while others directly blended themselves into the wind.
And in the deepest reaches were three unusual auras.
True Gods.
These people had been present ever since Heaven Country's Expeditionary Army descended.
They had watched eleven True Gods form their array, watched Qin Chuan kill them with a single arrow, watched him drain two tubes of their blood, and finally watched the Archon's finger get forcibly shattered by the Law of Causality.
Not a single person spoke throughout.
No one helped, and no one kicked them while they were down.
They had dryly watched the entire scene play out, and they still remained hidden, observing.
Qin Chuan knew it as clearly as a mirror.
The Origin Continent was too vast for Heaven Country to be the only dominant power.
This Heaven Country Outpost stood at the edge of the Seventh Star Domain. Normally, it was likely a border zone serving as a buffer