Grand Duke Zhiping called, and Tai Yu gave him a brief response, exchanged information, then hung up.
He had no intention of going to the Main Star System. Instead, he chose to stay in the Silver Screen Star System, presenting himself as uninvolved and unconcerned.
It was a bit of an act, but that was the point of taking a stance.
Actually doing anything was another matter. He wanted to stay out of it, but if the Ruin and Fall System summoned him in force and the Dawn System and Great Thoroughfare System tacitly approved, could he really refuse?
By remaining here, he was also subjecting himself to scrutiny and judgment from all sides.
Of course, Tai Yu was scrutinizing and judging them in turn. Keeping some distance often made things easier to see.
Leaving aside the reactions of the various God Systems, he watched Grand Duke Zhiping become an information node in the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure, an "unsuccessful template" for an Inner Universe Grand Monarch, mirroring the study and design underway on Wyatt's side.
Both men were building around the Inner Universe. Yet one represented an outdated, half-loose and half-decayed "past version," while the other was a "future version" that had only just begun and had yet to truly take shape.
There was barely one reasonably clear "present template," but it was Format Theory—an innate anomaly, a special case.
Of the past, present, and future versions, not one was truly complete. They could only learn from one another and hope to fill each other's gaps.
But that was precisely the most practical problem facing the Inner Universe path in the Central Star Zone today.
Even if they could obtain a "perfect version," what good would it do?
Even if the Lord of Zhanhe and the Demon Purging Grand