[You headed to the center of the [Starry Sky Federation]—[Blazing Sun City].]
[Your intelligence gathering revealed that [Purple Cloud True Lord] was the cherished disciple of that [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable].]
[And she had been so a thousand years ago!]
[In other words, she had survived that [immeasurable kalpa] of the [present] and reached the [future].]
[You immediately made your decision—search her soul.]
[Even if you were exposed, even if you alerted that [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable], it would not matter.]
[At worst, you could retreat to the [Supreme Realm], that was your cultivation domain,]
[Your home ground, a [dimension] beyond the reach of even [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable] or a [Spirit Transformation Dao Master].]
[In fact, you had a safer option.]
[Those [Nascent Soul True Lords] with borrowed attunement ranks whom you had slaughtered—you could certainly search their souls if you wished.]
[But creatures of that sort, even with access privileges, were merely captive puppets. What they knew was only the surface scraps their superiors wanted them to know.]
[All information came with a delay.]
[That had always been your creed.]
[Intelligence obtained through inquiries was all an illusion, filtered, embellished, and painted over.]
[Only firsthand experience was real.]
[Only memories that had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood were worth reading.]
[The greater the wind and waves, the more valuable the fish.]
[You understood that principle better than anyone.]
[But you did not grow overconfident.]
[You clearly remembered the last time three [Immortal Venerables] ([Nascent Soul Limit-Breaking]) had surrounded you to kill you, forcing you to retreat to the [Supreme Realm].]
[You would not make the same mistake twice.]
[You used the connection provided by the [Supreme Realm], your [life-bound divine ability].]
[Using an "other self" as an anchor, you released another "other self,"]