Lin Yi's gaze lingered for just a moment on the woman standing motionless before the emerald-green spacecraft.
Though the complicated, unreadable look in her eyes stirred a faint, subtle unease in him, Lin Yi immediately forced the distracting thought aside.
Now was absolutely not the time to lose focus.
All of Lin Yi's attention was drawn as if by an invisible force, fixed firmly on the void before him, on that imposing figure radiating an aura that made his soul tremble.
His heart beat heavily in his chest. Each pulse drove the blood through his body, sending a signal of heightened alert everywhere, as though he had encountered a natural enemy.
Lin Yi was almost certain that the one before him was the Eternal Deity who had presided over Blue Star Civilization's Life and Death assessment, held the fate of billions of living beings in his hands, and could even reverse life and death!
Memories of his previous life flashed rapidly through Lin Yi's mind.
Back then, after the assessment ended, everyone on Blue Star had received only a cold announcement of the result in their consciousness. Immediately afterward, personnel from an agency under the Purple Gold Star Alliance had taken charge. The entire civilization had been appraised, registered, and assigned a place, as though it were cargo.
Even until his death, he had never learned which supreme being had overseen the examination that determined Blue Star's fate.
He had also searched for relevant information on the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network, but likely due to insufficient permissions, he had found nothing.
He had never expected that, reborn into this life and armed with a far higher civilization rating and personal performance, he would get to meet this mysterious being face-to-face.
Then, what about the woman beside him, whose aura was