To be honest, Yin Yuelan had managed to keep his composure when Chenyinzi and Chengguang manifested their Divine Souls.
The sudden appearance of two Dao Embryo Heavenly Monarchs had indeed taken everyone by surprise, and he was no exception. But with the Grotto-Heaven backing him, he was confident he could avoid defeat. With a few tricks, he could even kick these two overwhelmingly powerful beings, along with An Jing, out of the Grotto-Heaven.
But the moment he saw the Haotian Mirror, Yin Yuelan stopped feeling nervous altogether. He even felt like laughing.
—Oh, who's this? Isn't this the Dao Court Heavens Inspection Group's Heaven and Earth Creation Divine Mirror Heavenly Venerable, the Dao Soldier Haotian Mirror? What brings you to our little corner of the world?
In the Dao Court era, Artifact spirits were naturally people too, and the Haotian Mirror was treated as a Heavenly Venerable. For a production Grotto-Heaven like the Northern Heaven Shipyard Grotto-Heaven, isolated far from the rest, the Haotian Mirror was practically an imperial inspector who would come by every hundred years or so to check things over!
It was only because the historical records passed down to him said that the 'Huaixu Great World' had fallen to the demonic tide that Yin Yuelan harbored some doubts. Otherwise, he would have thrown in the towel long ago, let his superiors call the shots, and stopped bothering with anything.
[If you say we lost, that wouldn't be wrong.]
The Haotian Mirror wasn't angered by Yin Yuelan's doubts. It calmly said: [Before the final battle of that great calamity, all the defenses around Huaixu had been shattered. The demon army swept in unopposed, smashing the Five Great Immortal Heavens to pieces and bringing the Ten Continents to the brink of total occupation. Only Zhongheng Dao Continent remained