Black figures hovered silently before the Abyssal Rift in the East Sea, their auras completely restrained, without the slightest trace leaking out.
Any outside Transcendents who saw this scene would have been shocked.
These people were all core members of the Dark Moon Organization.
At the front, a man in a black robe stood before the rift.
His face was hidden beneath a black mask, revealing only a pair of cold eyes.
He was Ye Wuhen, chief of the Dark Moon Envoys, a Half-Step Divine Domain expert.
He held the highest position in Dark Moon beneath the Moon Lord and was the one truly responsible for carrying out its plans.
"What is the condition of the rift's seal?" Ye Wuhen asked calmly.
A black-robed member behind him immediately answered.
"Chief, we have finished examining the seal on the East Sea rift."
"After thousands of years of depletion, the sealing power left from ancient times has now weakened to its limit."
"Under the current conditions, it can hold for another three years at most."
Ye Wuhen watched the Abyssal Rift before him, his gaze unchanged.
Three years was a long time for ordinary people.
But for those like them, who stood at the pinnacle of the Transcendent Stage, it was merely a single period of secluded cultivation.
"Three years is still too long," Ye Wuhen said slowly.
"The Moon Lord has already waited far too long for this opportunity."
A Dark Moon member beside him asked quietly:
"Chief, are we really going to open the rift now?"
"Lin Jin has only just suppressed the Weird Domain in the Rocky Mountains, and Asura Hall is riding high."
"If we trigger an upheaval in the Abyssal Rift now, Transcendent factions around the world will certainly notice."
At the mention of Lin Jin's name,