"Junior Brother!"
Daoist Duobao was the first to react. In a single stride, he rushed to the compass, his eyes filled with horror.
"Quick! Cut off the data connection to Huyun Cave!"
He wanted to solve the problem in the simplest, most brutal way possible.
"No!"
Zhao Gongming roared, his voice already carrying a sob.
"It can't be cut off! They're using the fate of the entire Human Dao as the channel! Forcibly severing it would be equivalent to us attacking the Human Dao ourselves! The backlash of that karma could sink all of Golden Ao Island!"
"Then what do we do?" Daoist Duobao paced anxiously. "Are we just supposed to watch it collapse?"
As he watched that crack grow longer and longer, he felt as though his own Dao Heart was about to crack apart with it.
This "Process system" that he had only just begun to understand, and this grand undertaking in which he had only just become the "dean"...
Could it all be destroyed today?
The entire hall fell into apocalyptic panic.
All the Jie Sect Immortals looked toward the only figure who remained standing still.
Chen Changsheng.
He merely stood there, quietly watching the Light Screen flash frantic warnings, watching that seemingly unsolvable Registration Form.
He said nothing.
Yet everyone in the hall could sense that the aura of calm confidence and total control he had always possessed had, for the first time, become slightly unsettled.
"Dao Protector..." Shen Gongbao spoke with difficulty. "How about... we give in?"
"This disciple will head to Huyun Cave again and apologize to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors..."
"It's useless."
Before he could finish, Holy Mother Jin Ling coldly interrupted him.
"Didn't you see their final 'special declaration'?"
"They have already defined us as a paradox of 'reversed causality.'