Cang Hai cradled the pure white shield fragment in his hands, turning it over and examining it more than a dozen times. The calluses on his fingers scraped against the crystal surface with faint friction sounds.
"The concentration of residual order... exceeds that of the White-Winged Divine Envoy by three orders of magnitude." Cang Hai set down the fragment and looked up at Qin Chuan, his gaze completely transformed. "The Origin Essence Shield of the Archon of Radiance."
"Mm." Qin Chuan put the fragment back into his backpack.
Cang Hai said nothing more. He sat on the ground, his entire being falling into an exceptionally strange silence.
An Old Monster who had lived for tens of thousands of years, the calculations in his heart clattered away as he replayed the information Qin Chuan had just revealed over and over again.
He had killed one Void True God. Forced another Void True God to cede territory and sue for peace. Then walked into the Divine Radiance Forbidden Zone intact to grind monsters.
What the fuck kind of monster was this?
"So." Qin Chuan leaned against a broken stone pillar. "You've squatted in this hellhole for thousands of years and never even caught sight of the Judgment Archon?"
Cang Hai jolted and came back to his senses.
"No." He shook his head, his cracked lips moving. "This old man hid on this Order Crystal Continent, barely surviving by picking up scraps. This damned place has no directions, no coordinates, and even the flow of time is chaotic. Since entering, this old man has only wandered around the outer perimeter. I never dared venture deeper."
Cang Hai paused, then added, "But the Judgment Archon is different. He possesses the standing of a Void True God, so he must have entered to break through