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December 1, 8942 of the Xinchen Era.

Starry Sky Outlook, front-page headline.

"Explosive Truth Behind Li Qingshan's 'Heaven-Defying Comprehension'! Sucking Dry Director Gu's Five Hundred Thousand Years of Accumulation, Paving a Fast-Track Path with a Thousand Grains of Time Sand!"

Beneath the headline, two photographs stood side by side.

One showed a deeply wrinkled, drooping old man.

The other showed a high-spirited, handsome young man.

Beneath the photo of the old man,

Five hundred thousand years of steadfast guarding, the silent devotion of an iron-fisted director

Gu Feng, director of the Demon Subjugation Division's Reconnaissance Office, investigated countless evil god cases and terrified the stellar region for five hundred thousand years under the name of "toughness and iron fists"...

Yet, time had slipped by, and Director Gu was now nearing the absolute limit of his lifespan!!!

Line after line of vivid text painted the image of an aging hero who had dedicated his entire life.

Beside it, beneath the photo of the youth, there were not only words but also a series of screenshots.

Li Qingshan, peerless heaven's chosen of Horn Sector and deputy director of the Reconnaissance Office.

In his single year in office, "devotion to the public" was known to all under heaven.

"Devotion to the public" was enclosed in quotation marks, accompanied by the widely circulated "pay-to-win eyes" meme.

Below that were more screenshots of discussion threads.

On the screenshots, similar words repeated constantly.

Insatiable, ruthless, heartless, killing to silence witnesses...

All screenshots came from major forums, without a shred of falsehood.

This was our Deputy Director Li!

Time sand could accelerate the passage of time tenfold and was a critical resource for breaking through the eighth stage; a single grain was worth over a hundred billion Azure Dragon Coins.

One thousand grains of time sand were