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After the meeting adjourned, everyone filed out of the conference room.

Liu Yunshan walked at the front with his bamboo cane, Yang Shuyan beside him as they quietly discussed the construction plans for the cultivation base.

Gu Beichen and Wang Shuang walked side by side behind them, discussing the newly occupied territory along the northern front.

Xu Wuyi was at the very back when Jiang Muzhou caught up from behind.

"Grandmaster Xu." Jiang Muzhou spoke in a low but clear voice. "While I remain stationed at the northern front, I'll continue researching the application of spatial laws to Star Realm passage defenses. When I broke the formation in that stretch of void outside the Feathered Human Homeworld, I sensed something."

Xu Wuyi stopped and looked at him.

"What was it?"

"A very strange energy fluctuation." Jiang Muzhou's brow furrowed slightly. "Its intensity was extremely weak. An ordinary Divine Intent Grandmaster's perception wouldn't be able to detect it at all. But my spatial laws are far more sensitive to energy fluctuations than ordinary laws, so I caught it."

He paused before continuing.

"The fluctuation was in the void outside the Feathered Human Homeworld, a few hundred kilometers from the planet. Its frequency was highly unstable, as if it were deliberately hiding something."

"I was too drained after breaking the formation to track it. By the time you returned from the battle at the imperial palace, that fluctuation had already disappeared from my perception."

Xu Wuyi's expression tightened slightly.

During the battle on the Feathered Human Homeworld, his own perception had caught an energy fluctuation as well.

It had been weak and unstable. After the Feather Emperor died, it had swiftly moved away from the planet and vanished beyond his perception.

Jiang Muzhou had sensed the same fluctuation.

That meant it had