Meet?

To contend with the "Network"?!

Xue Yan's mouth twitched, and while he desperately wanted to echo those sentiments, he could not force out a single word.

Countless gods stood tall across the starry skies, commanding the myriad clans to clash with humanity while inciting believers to wreak havoc within human territory.

Yet had anyone ever heard of a deity personally stepping foot into human territory to slaughter everything in sight?

Was it because they didn't want to?

No, it was because they didn't dare!

For wherever human territory extended, it was entirely covered by the "Network"!

As the blasphemous thought flashed through his mind, Xue Yan looked toward the refined, confident-looking middle-aged man, yet he did not dare voice his doubts.

That eerie Bone Tree was a fortuitous encounter he had personally salvaged from the Return Sea.

Not only was the Return Sea difficult to cross, but due to the erratic and unpredictable turbulence of its laws, ordinary communication methods in the starry skies were completely useless.

Yet as long as a Soul Tablet was hung among the branches and leaves of the Bone Tree, messages could be transmitted via spirit and trunk, which was why Grand Elder Xue Xing had always used it as a communication tool.

However, Xue Xing did not know that...

Hidden inside the Bone Tree was actually a person.

Beiao, avatar of the Fallen One, and an equal to Your Eminence Youming!

Or rather...

The eerie Bone Tree itself was a dark move cast into the Return Sea by the Fallen One from the very beginning!

"Your Eminence Beiao!"

The avatar of a god, even if merely a backup, was not something Xue Yan could afford to offend, but while respectful, his face remained filled with hesitation.

"You must understand, if I were to forsake