—Whoosh!
Inside the great hall, the mist abruptly stilled, and the stars froze in place.
The two immortals looked at each other for a moment.
"Worthy brother, then who do you think... could this great power be?"
Marshal Yang gave a bitter smile. "Brother, how would I dare make a rash judgment on a specific name? But however I calculate it, aren't there only a handful capable of such a thing?"
Yin Marshal sucked in a breath. "Worthy brother, could it have been a coincidence?"
"Brother, at that level, what coincidence could there possibly be? Besides, if it truly were a coincidence, why open the Emperor's Light and obliterate the heavenly secrets? Wouldn't that be superfluous? Even without releasing the Emperor's Light, such great powers have always lain beyond the Heavenly Court's surveillance—even immortals like you and me cannot spy on the slightest trace of them."
Marshal Yang shook his head.
Yin Marshal's brows furrowed into the shape of a river. "Then you mean He deliberately let us see it?"
Marshal Yang pondered. "Perhaps not us. Looking across the Heavenly Court, only the Four Duty Merit Officers can record such phenomena. The Four Duty Merit Officers belong to our Tai Sui Department as [Tai Sui Merit Officers], which is why, after our investigation, we noticed the clues. But in truth, someone else was the first to see through this matter."
Yin Marshal's pupils suddenly contracted, and he lowered his voice to an extreme. "You mean—the Great Celestial Venerable?!"
Marshal Yang drew a deep breath but still neither confirmed nor denied it. "But that is precisely the strange part. Earlier, we secretly guessed whether this lad's uncanny divine powers might mean he was an incarnation of one of those few. Yet the path his powers took seemed to carry the Dao's