Heavenly Venerable

The massive machinery began to operate.

Xuanye City, as towering and vast as a mountain range, was surrounded by a layer of fluorescence resembling a galaxy. The vermilion and purple radiance swirled with the ink-blue mist, looking like the morning glow before the sun rises, or the dimness of dusk at the end of the day.

If Xuanye City was a nest, then the large war Air Shuttles were schools of sardines circling the nest. They rose into the air, spreading out in all directions like a swarm of bees, executing the orders of the massive hive known as the Group.

Even the Evil Cloud was dispersed by the winds generated by the overly dense takeoff and landing of the shuttles, revealing the chaotic, high-speed, and frenzied stars behind it.

And in such a sky, there hung a crystalline full moon, bright and translucent, looking not like a physical object.

Bathed in the inverted movement of the stars and the strange, illusory moonlight, An Jing and Director Chen returned to Xuanye City.

On the way, Teacher Guang, Zhang Zhuo, and Xu Yue were taken away by other shuttles; they needed rest and also had to undergo questioning by the relevant departments—though, in An Jing's view, the most important thing they needed to do was memorize the script prepared for them by the Xuanye City side.

The Steel Skeleton group could be locked away in the Ancient Immortal Ruins, where whatever they said would be taken as truth, but Zhang Zhuo and Xu Yue clearly had backgrounds, so they naturally had to be briefed to ensure their cooperation.

Before entering the city, An Jing and Director Chen sat in a shuttle and received a hero's welcome.

Before this shuttle reached the airspace of the Safe Zone, twenty-four military shuttles were already