It was a seemingly unremarkable stretch of the Boundless Starsea, with nothing special about it.
Here, starlight was tranquil and the void stable, as though no one had set foot here since time immemorial.
Yet at the very instant Zhou Heng slew "Su Liuxing" and violated the "Eternity Ordinance," ripples abruptly spread through this unremarkable void of the Sea of Stars.
At first, those ripples were extremely faint, like a breeze brushing the surface of water, but in an instant they spread violently, and the entire Star Domain trembled slightly to an invisible rhythm.
Then, a towering being formed entirely from pure starlight slowly emerged, coalesced, and took shape from nothingness at the center of those ripples.
The being had no distinct facial features, only a humanoid outline coursing with endless star radiance.
Yet this outline, its very existence, radiated an absolute coldness and majesty that no living being could question.
"Who was it..."
"The one who violated the Eternity Ordinance..."
"Under the supreme laws of the 'Boundless Court,' you shall face judgment..."
Its voice had no emotional inflection, like metal scraping in extreme cold, or legal statutes mechanically reciting a verdict.
This was the starlight being known as the "Supreme Holy Guard Army."
It slowly raised its head, its eyes formed from pure starlight surveying the entirety of the Fourth Expansion's Eighth Chapter, "Gods' Ancient Will."
Its gaze swept across boundless galaxies, passed over countless civilizations that were unfolding or had already perished, and penetrated layer upon layer of space and dimensions, searching inch by inch like the most precise sieve for the source of the violation of the "Eternity Ordinance."
Soon, its gaze locked onto "Auspicious Cloud Star City," finally settling on the ongoing extra-large event, the "Trial of the Will of the Gods."
"The 'Trial of the