The rule tremors caused by the brief clash on Mercury were transmitted with perfect clarity to the other True Lords beneath this starry sky. Just as they all turned their gazes toward Mercury, the battle abruptly came to a halt.
Yuqing Star.
Deep within a magnificent palace, True Monarch Xuanqing sat quietly upon a Cloud Bed. His aura blended seamlessly with the palace's splendor and solemn majesty. His eyes were half-closed, and his mind had already sunk completely into the universe within him, evolved from his Golden Core.
At that moment, he was conducting some manner of deduction. Spiritual energy rippled continuously around him, making the exotic flowers blooming beyond the hall sway back and forth with each wave of energy. The spiritual energy flowing between the beams and pillars quietly slowed, as though it had sunk into an invisible mire.
The tremor of rules that had come from Mercury had long since subsided, yet within his sea of consciousness, it transformed into countless interwoven lights and shadows. Within his Golden Core world, they evolved into innumerable threads of karma, weaving their trajectories anew.
Those lights and shadows flashed through his consciousness without pause. At times, they blazed like a scorching sun, reflecting the mighty spectacle of Wood Spirit sweeping across the stars; at others, they sank like a frigid deep pool, revealing the frozen fractures of the far north.
After a long while, he suddenly opened his eyes. His gaze swept over the eternal rosy glow beyond the hall. The colors remained brilliant, yet now they seemed to reflect the warp and weft of an order being reshaped amid the stars.
Saturn.
At the heart of the planetary core, endless pressure intertwined with the pulse of Earth Spirit. True Monarch Diwen's true body rose and fell within, like Saturn's