Tianyuan Realm, outskirts of Chonggang Town.
With time and space now overlapping, Chonggang Town existed both inside and outside the ruins. Within a radius of three hundred li centered on the town, everything was encircled by a ring of Taixu rifts, through which profound Dao Patterns flowed faintly, flickering with silver-blue light.
"Report! True Monarch Jingzhe, a core-seed-level contestant has reported important information. Please review it!"
Aboard an Immortal Dao Heavenly Warship shaped like a ringed fortress floating beyond the Taixu rifts, a True Monarch stationed at the warship's Zhongshu, with indigo pupils pregnant with lightning, tilted his head slightly and replied lazily: [Who is it?]
"Reporting to True Monarch, it is An Xuan!"
At once, True Monarch Jingzhe, who had been reclining sideways in the captain's chair, sat upright. He activated his Chip in surprise and checked the report: [For such an important matter, why could he not speak to me directly? Why did he need you to pass it on? What exactly does the committee intend?]
—Isn't it because you found it too troublesome to join the committee, True Monarch?
The messenger was a junior member of the family. Though he did not say it aloud, how could True Monarch Jingzhe fail to guess what he was thinking? Annoyed, he said: [If I were one of them, they would order you and me about as easily as looking at the lines on their palms. But now, they are the ones extending invitations, treating us as honored guests, and offering resources as payment at astronomical prices.]
True Monarch Jingzhe was a newly advanced peak Golden Core cultivator of the Luofu Group in recent years. He had already attained Immortal Karma, achieving [Law Without Limit, Martial Arts Without End], the ultimate state of Entering the Dao through Martial Arts. This