Outside the Sky Patrol Immortal Boat, in the endless void, several phantom shadows that were exceedingly difficult to detect with either the naked eye or divine sense silently pierced through layer after layer of warning formations at speeds surpassing conventional starships. Like venomous snakes slipping into water, they infiltrated the heart of the star sea. They were the vanguard reconnaissance units known as the "Cleaners," dispatched by The Finality Council.
Before the Myriad Stars Mirror in the deepest reaches of the Cardinal Hall aboard the immortal boat, Xuan Nü, Li Wuyang, the Inspector, and the others stood in focused silence. The enormous mirror had been polished from an entire Void Star Core, with the trajectories of countless stars engraved within it. It could reflect energy flows and spatial anomalies in distant starfields. At that moment, several extremely dim, ever-shifting points of light flickered along the mirror's edge. They were the unidentified intruders that had been marked.
"They're here." Xuan Nü's voice was cold and calm, without a trace of emotion, but her eyes held an icy chill. "Their concealment methods are exceptional. Their energy fluctuations are nearly nonexistent, blending into the background of the void. If the Myriad Stars Mirror could not monitor the subtle ripples of the Origin Laws, they would have almost deceived us."
Li Wuyang stared at the points of light in the mirror. His Chaos Nirvana Domain began to operate on its own, allowing him to vaguely sense an ominous premonition. "The aura they emit... comes from the same source as that puppet core, but it is colder, more... pure. As though they are tools that exist solely to carry out orders, devoid of even the slightest emotion of living beings."
The Inspector's expression was grave as he pointed at the stream of data emerging along