"Eternal Night Defense Line"

The Eye of Heavenly Derivation had surveillance capabilities that bordered on absurd. If it had one flaw, it was that it could not see through objects or transmit sound.

It could not see what was happening inside a building through its roof.

But—

Inside the Strategist Pavilion,

hundreds of people had gathered. The Household Pavilion had temporarily brought them in, and they were all watching the separate feeds on the Heaven-Deriving Formation Screen, writing constantly on sheets of paper.

There were men and women among them.

But they all shared one ability: they could read lips.

They worked in pairs.

Each pair handled one feed, then compiled, compared, and consolidated the information they recorded.

The screen currently showed several views of the Night-Opening People Continent after it had split apart.

There was little point in watching the Wasteland Clan's feed.

The Strange Entity Clans discussed their affairs inside palaces. Although the private conversations indoors on the Night-Opening People Continent were just as invisible, even casual chats out in the open could reveal something.

Chen Fan was not in the Strategist Pavilion.

As he laid down the City Wall, he watched the images relayed by the Eye of Heavenly Derivation on the Endless Night Lord Panel deep within his soul. He had no need for the Heavenly Derivation Display to see them.

Some of the buildings were unfamiliar to him, and they looked anything but ordinary.

Especially—

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, took the Heaven-Questioning Bell from his robes, and began describing one.

"There's a building that should be a Cannon Tower mounted on the City Wall. Its barrel is extremely long, around a hundred meters."

"There are scarlet patterns across its surface."

"The Cannon Tower has a large base, with the words 'Heavenly Evolution' carved into it."

"It should