Time passed, year after year.
Inside the silent Main Hall, the young man sat cross-legged, motionless as a frozen statue.
A Pagoda Tree branch lay before him, its limbs already stripped bare, with only black Data Streams darting chaotically through it.
Two hundred and fifty-two green leaves had detached from the branch, circling the young man along with thirty gleaming golden coins.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Faint sounds of ice splitting rang out from time to time, breaking the Main Hall's silence.
The golden coins shattered one after another, while spiderweb cracks continuously spread across the leaves, running through the frenzied faces frozen within the Divine Kingdoms.
The Authority Fragments no longer remained stubbornly unyielding. As though smashed apart by a heavy hammer, they spewed the power originating from "Eternal" through their cracks, all converging upon the cross-legged young man at the center...
At the same time,
Outside the Main Hall, everything was empty. You Hong, who had "held his post" for over ten thousand years, had already vanished.
It was not only You Hong. Throughout the entire Nine Heavens Star Dome, aside from Yi Xing and Heaven's Mandate, thorns in the eyes of the gods, the remaining nearly one hundred members had all "been ordered" to leave the hall and scatter across the Universe.
By Li Qingshan's order, they were to gather every member and return for a meeting!
In a corner of the Universe,
The Dark Green Data Stream streaked beneath the Star Dome, tearing through layer after layer of heavenly curtains as it descended from the nine heavens and arrived in a primitive starfield permeated by a violent aura.
"The habits of the ape demon clan really have remained the same as ever!"
After a faint sigh, Beo revealed himself. Data Streams flowed around his fingertips, gathering