The Justice Chief Priest smiled gently, his gaze lingering first on Ronan before shifting to High Priest Lanier at his side. The latter had not participated in this matter, yet he now acted as the spokesman, demonstrating the close solidarity among the sect's upper ranks.
The corners of High Priest Lanier's mouth lifted slightly. He, too, nodded toward Ronan in a show of friendliness before speaking. "Just as Blood Demon said, Child, General An Dongsheng's adjutant, Major Yu Yong, and Lady Wen Huilan of the Lake City Branch..."
The two people in charge who had been named reacted differently. An Dongsheng, who rarely attended such meetings, nodded slightly, while Gao Wenfu, seated in the back row, remained expressionless.
Lanier continued without pause. "...did indeed take part in an experimental project called 'Cross-Boundary.' One major reason these three were selected was that the Transposition Cost of the Extraordinary Species 'Cross-Boundary' was too high, as some of you here already know. Through the replacement conducted by our sect's sacred artifact, the Balance of Truth, the three of them arrived in a spacetime highly similar to the planet we inhabit. Our sect calls it the 'Mirror World,' while Professor Ronan puts it more bluntly: 'Outer Earth.'"
"'Outer Earth' is good. What's with that pretentious 'Mirror' nonsense?" Black Lion, seated right beside High Priest Lanier, cursed under his breath. Anyone could hear that excitement was the cause, and he immediately pressed on. "What exactly is going on? Is it connected to that thing in the Dream World?"
High Priest Lanier took no offense, but hesitated briefly. His gaze swept around the room and paused again on Ronan. Only after seeing that Ronan had no intention of speaking did he say, "An almost... no, a completely identical spacetime environment and background. From the origins of