Qiao Mian was in no hurry. She answered with a question. "Great Monarch Tai Yu, you've been studying the Two Star Gate Campaign for quite some time. Do you have a rough target range in mind?"
Tai Yu did not answer.
So Qiao Mian "helped" him analyze it. "The Great Monarchs of the Han Guang Star System back then were limited in number. Because of the Calamity Era environment, they had scarcely left the relevant star regions throughout their lives, so their influence was limited. Moreover, the Rule Environment then was vastly different from the present one..."
Wasn't that exactly right?
If they summoned the projection of a Great Monarch from the Han Guang Star System, they might incidentally bring over the Sin-Poison Environment as well... Even if he survived, the Myriad Gods Hall would never let him off.
"So?"
"So even when choosing a target, it would be best to choose someone who had experience and a record beyond the Han Guang Star System, someone with considerable influence."
Tsk. That basically narrowed the candidates down completely.
Tai Yu smiled and counted on his fingers. "At most, there are only a few: Netherworld Highness, Great Lord Zhan You..."
He deliberately paused.
Qiao Mian did not mind. Smiling, she took the initiative to suggest, "What do you think of the Gatekeeper Lord?"
Tai Yu raised a brow. "Why the Gatekeeper Lord?"
"Though Great Lord Zhan You was not among the Forty-Four Founding Great Monarchs and was somewhat less legendary, he left behind quite a few traces beyond the Han Guang Star System. He was also Zhan He's grandson, a direct descendant of the royal line, and foremost among the elders."
"For ten thousand years without change—or five thousand years by the standards of the heavens—we 'met' every day during the Ancestral