Imminent?

Yuqing Domain, Domain Lord's Great Hall.

The starlight of the Star Chart flowing across the dome was currently focused on the central Light Screen—a coded communiqué from [Formless General · Li Qingshan].

Its words were concise, yet they struck every heart like a heavy hammer:

[By imperial decree, patrol the heavens and purge the Universe. The General will soon arrive in Yuqing Domain to investigate evil corruption. All departments, stand by. There must be no mistakes.]

Tap, tap, tap...

Qu Hongwen sat upright upon the Domain Lord's throne at the head of the hall, his fingertips rhythmically tapping the armrest, his usual composed smile hanging on his face.

Below him, the sixty-seven Speakers who controlled Yuqing Domain's various Supergalactic Clusters stood in rows on either side, each wearing a different expression.

"Everyone, you saw it?" Qu Hongwen swept his gaze around the room, pausing briefly on Yang Song.

"Xiao Yang's concerns earlier were not wrong. It seems our General Li truly is young and hot-blooded, willing to waste a thousand years crossing hundreds of millions of light-years just to come to my Yuqing Domain..."

"Ahem!" Yang Song coughed lightly and cautiously reminded him:

"Domain Lord, the communiqué says 'soon'!"

"Soon?" Qu Hongwen raised a puzzled brow, speaking as though it were only natural:

"A thousand years is no more than the blink of an eye to people like us. Isn't that 'soon'?"

"Er..."

Yang Song paused slightly. Out of the corner of his eye, he swept his gaze over the other colleagues around him, only to discover that quite a few wore similar expressions. His face could not help twitching.

Indeed, by ordinary reasoning, a thousand years truly amounted to nothing for "humanoid Celestial Bodies" like them. Qu Hongwen's words were not wrong.

But when had the name "Li Qingshan"