There was no sound.
Yet Zhou Xuan felt as though a door had been pushed open inside his mind.
The torrent of information hit harder than any of the previous times.
His body swayed. He braced one hand against the edge of the pedestal and forced himself steady.
An image unfolded.
It was still incomplete.
But this time, it was much clearer than before.
He saw a great hall.
Figures stood in two rows inside, each one's aura weightier than the last. Above the seat of honor hung an artifact.
It resembled a bronze mirror.
Its surface faced downward, reflecting no one, yet revealing the flow of laws throughout the hall.
The star-orbit patterns on its back slowly revolved. With every turn, the light within the hall grew a little steadier.
An Immortal Shadow stepped forward and raised their hands in salute.
There was no sound in the vision.
Yet Zhou Xuan could sense that the bronze mirror was operating.
It was not meant for looking at faces.
It observed laws.
And it suppressed them.
The next instant, the image suddenly warped.
Black light bore down outside the hall. The star-orbit patterns on the mirror's back lit up all at once, and its surface flipped over to shine outward.
Zhou Xuan wanted to see more, but the image abruptly shattered.
His palm went numb as the pedestal jolted it half an inch away.
The Supreme One Token shuddered violently at that moment.
Zhou Xuan looked down.
The patterns on the Command Token lit up one after another, more urgently than when it had repaired the golden slip's protective barrier.
"You recognize it?"
The Command Token offered him no explanation.
A moment later, a stream of Dark Gold light shot from the Command Token straight into the engravings on the pedestal.