At the center of Ring Island, a silver-white One-Eyed Owl lay sprawled atop a tree, its head tucked beneath its wings, with only a few messy feathers sticking out.
It suddenly opened its single eye.
"Coo?"
The owl turned its head from side to side as if it had just woken from a long sleep. A few breaths later, several silver-white streaks of light lit up across its chest.
The light patterns passed through its feathers and gathered into a silhouette on the branch.
A One-Eyed Owl identical to it stepped out of the light patterns, shook its wings twice, and quickly solidified.
The original yawned.
"Coo coo."
After calling out, it tucked its head back beneath its wings and went back to sleep.
The clone stood beside it and turned toward the Caspian Sea.
A vast amount of text surfaced in the depths of its single eye.
Forty-eight circular pathways overlapped one another, enclosing an altar at the center. On the low platform behind the altar, over ninety percent of the pathways had already lit up.
Outside those pathways was another row of system text that only Bai Zhu could see.
The owl tilted its head.
The next moment, it flapped its wings and left the treetop.
The leaves did not so much as stir.
The Nen Ability users stationed around the island swiftly detected the anomaly within Ring Island, but in the instant they noticed it, the owl had already crossed the island and vanished beyond the horizon.
The Caspian Sea Joint Fleet's alarms went off at the same time.
"High-energy signal detected southwest!"
"Speed cannot be calculated!"
"The signal is expanding. Estimated to enter the fleet's defense zone in twenty seconds!"
Inside the fleet command room, the radar screens were flooded with silver-white static.
Several detectors