In the damp, chilly underground chamber, a faint glow stick gave off a sickly green light.
Several figures who had originally looked like city guards or wealthy merchants sat together, but now, eerie reflections of cold lotuses had appeared in all their once-normal pupils.
"Everyone... it's been eighteen whole years."
A female "Soul Eternity Species" in a gray hooded robe slowly raised her eyes, which no longer held any human warmth. She kept her voice extremely low, her tone carrying a gravity she could hardly conceal:
"According to the causal determination the Court previously provided in the supreme protocol..."
"If the 'Boundless Endless Heaven' we've searched so desperately for truly exists in this Novice Village sector of ours..."
"Then at this point today, with the completion of her life cycle, she should be fully awakening the Heavenly Fate that belongs to her!"
Her gaze swept over the others as she spoke gravely:
"Now... what should we do? Should we act immediately and begin a map-wide purge?"
In any other Novice Village in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, faced with a mission of this importance, these infiltrators who commanded high-level aberrant powers would probably have slammed the table and risen without restraint long ago, launching an uprising outright and unleashing a frenzied massacre throughout the city.
But...
Here, on this utterly ill-fated "Obossis New Land."
That towering white divine figure, a full light-year in size, who had sat cross-legged on High Heaven from beginning to end, was like an ancient mountain pressing down on everyone's souls. He was an absolute deathtrap they could never get around, one that made them tremble all over at even a single upward glance!
An oppressive, deathly silence settled over the chamber.
Only after a long while did a scar-faced man sitting in a shadowy corner