In the Grand Council Hall on the Central Star of the Creation Secret Realm, a venue reserved for Puppet Masters to gather and discuss affairs, more than twenty Puppet Dao Masters had arrived by invitation.
This setting could accommodate over a hundred concurrent online users, but the Creation Sect had clearly invited only those concerned. Perhaps for the sake of secrecy, everyone present was involved in the subject under discussion, and all held ranks of Puppet Dao Master or higher.
Li Chen spotted the Sect Master of the Golden Sun Gate, nodded slightly to him, and took a seat beside him in the observers' section on the left.
They were not members of the Creation Sect, merely holders of the Grandmaster Artisan rank and honorary elder status. They had come to offer their counsel, but had no corresponding voting rights.
Simply put, the Creation Sect would give their opinions full consideration, but would not necessarily adopt them. They were peripheral figures.
Of course, nothing was absolute. History had seen no shortage of highly influential honorary elders, and in the present age, there was even a Grandmaster-level expert who had risen from the underworld.
If he attended, he would surely be able to sway the Creation Sect's decisions.
This time, however, Li Chen did not see him. Only Great Elder Shen, Shen Longcheng, whom he had met before, stood on the dais presiding over the meeting.
After several years of recuperation, Shen Longcheng seemed to have recovered completely. He gave a concise account of the situation in recent years, and only then did Li Chen learn that the Azure Sea and Changing Sea, two of the Nine Domains of the Star Sea, had suffered further Outer Dao attacks. Their scale simply fell short of the previous war in the Vast Sea.