The Primordial Chaos, the headquarters of the Overseers.
A colossal, pure white palace, radiating blinding light, floated in the darkness. A large number of Overseers patrolled around the palace, turning the entire headquarters into an impregnable fortress.
Somewhere outside the palace, space rippled slightly, and Ye Ling and Bai Lan emerged.
Ye Ling gazed at the massive palace emitting dazzling light ahead and remarked, "This place is exactly the same as the last time I was here."
Bai Lan asked curiously, "Master, you've been here before?"
"Yes, I adventured here when I was looking for the Primordial Flame King. The moment I entered, I was discovered by Jiuyuan, one of the Seven Pillars, and then imprisoned," Ye Ling chuckled.
"Master, you were actually imprisoned!" Bai Lan looked at Ye Ling with disbelief. "How did you escape?"
In the memories inherited by Bai Lan from the will of the Primordial Chaos, the Overseers' prison was an extremely tightly managed and quite dangerous place. Once inside, there was no chance of escape!
"A lot happened inside, and I almost died there," Ye Ling recalled his experience in the Overseers' prison. "I managed to eliminate all the fellow inmates who wanted to kill me. Then, I swapped identities with a jailer and planned to escape on my own. Afterwards, my master appeared and rescued me."
"Master's master?" Bai Lan inquired, "Is it Shan'e or E?"
"It's not those two. I'll let you meet her when there's a chance. She's a great beauty," Ye Ling smiled at Bai Lan. Just as he was about to tell Bai Lan about Master Ziyou, a massive explosion suddenly erupted from the Overseers' headquarters!
Boom!!!
The entire colossal palace began to shake violently. The Overseers guarding the perimeter, as if receiving an order, rushed madly towards the direction of the explosion.
"Master, what's with that explosion?" Bai Lan, drawn by the blast, asked Ye Ling.
"I'm not sure... Could it be that the Overseers' headquarters also has intruders like us?" Ye Ling frowned and shook his head.
This sudden explosion was somewhat beyond his expectations.
Bai Lan added, "Master, should we go take a look? We might be able to take advantage of the chaos."
"Absolutely not!" Ye Ling rejected Bai Lan's suggestion. "This is the Overseers' headquarters, the location of the 'Brain.' The explosion site will not only attract the Seven Pillars and 'them,' but possibly even the 'Brain' itself. If we are discovered, we might not be able to escape even with wings."
"We will proceed according to the original plan, infiltrate from the periphery, and search for the place where the Primordial Soul King is sealed."
"Alright."
Bai Lan cast a curious glance at the site of the explosion in the Overseers' headquarters and did not insist on her suggestion. Using the Origin Text to conceal their aura, she followed Ye Ling towards the palace.
Perhaps due to the explosion attracting the attention of the Overseers, Ye Ling and Bai Lan managed to infiltrate the Overseers' headquarters with little effort, arriving at an extremely long white corridor.
The Overseers' headquarters, while called a palace, could also be considered a vast universe.
A single stone brick on the outer wall of this palace was larger than the sun. Inside the palace, there were countless departments, each with its own functions, and a large number of humanoid Overseers working in their respective departments.
After all, this was the current ruling center of the Primordial Chaos. Every universe within the Primordial Chaos had to be monitored by the Overseers. It could be said that entering any room in this palace would likely lead to the ruling center of a universe, governing everything within that universe.
"Master, where do you think the Primordial Soul King is sealed?"
Bai Lan followed Ye Ling, looking at the massive doors on either side of the corridor, and quietly asked Ye Ling.
"I'm only familiar with the prison here. As for where the Primordial Soul King is, I'll have to investigate slowly."
Ye Ling walked down the corridor, scanning the doors on both sides. He could feel a subtle connection between each door and a universe.
And in this corridor, at regular intervals, patrol teams composed of Overseers would conduct their rounds.
Even the slightest disturbance here would be detected by the Overseers. The security was extremely tight!
"No... If this continues, I don't know when it will end. We need to capture someone to question."
Ye Ling and Bai Lan had been stealthily moving through the corridor for some time but only found rooms managing various universes, with no trace of the Primordial Soul King.
The Overseers' headquarters was too vast, and under the surveillance of the 'Brain,' Ye Ling could not recklessly probe with his divine soul. If they were to explore like this, inch by inch, it might take tens of millions of years for them to even leave this corridor.
Ye Ling and Bai Lan stood in the shadows of the corridor. After a patrol team of Overseers left, they seized the opportunity, casually pushed open a door in the corridor, and quietly slipped inside.
The room was a massive control center.
The room was very large, covering nearly ten square kilometers. On the walls of the room hung numerous screens, monitoring the development progress of countless civilizations in a universe.
At the main control console in the center of the room, a shadowy humanoid figure lay on a chair, listening to music with headphones and humming a tune, completely unaware of Ye Ling and Bai Lan's entry.
On the control console in front of him, screens flickered with vast amounts of code, and those codes controlled all the laws of a universe.
As Bai Lan entered the room, she saw the humanoid Overseer listening to music and couldn't help but laugh, "This guy really knows how to enjoy himself, slacking off during work hours. I wonder if the 'Brain' cares about this?"
Ye Ling surveyed the room and said, "All the machines in this room are constructed from code similar to the Origin Text, and those codes have already merged with the universes in the Primordial Chaos."
Seeing the machines in the room, Ye Ling couldn't help but recall the garbled code that appeared when Jiuyuan, one of the Seven Pillars, went berserk, and the red garbled code controlled by Tianji today... The aura of those powers was similar to the code that constructed the machines in this room.
It was likely that the powers of the Seven Pillars originated from the same source as the code that constructed these machines.
"I estimate that the Overseers' rule over the Primordial Chaos is maintained by this kind of power."
Ye Ling walked up to a screen displaying a map of a place called "Cloud Moon Continent." Ye Ling casually clicked on a spot on the map, and the screen immediately zoomed in, displaying detailed information about the area he clicked.
Spiritual energy density, population, number of powerful individuals, number of geniuses... Countless pieces of information were available!
If Ye Ling wished, he could even precisely track the entire activity trajectory of a person in that area, and he could arbitrarily modify the data on the map!
This screen was equivalent to the Heavenly Dao of "Cloud Moon Continent."
And this screen was just one insignificant part of this room.
"With a mere flick of our fingers in this room, we can decide the life and death of a universe."
Ye Ling scanned the dense screens in the room and said, "The 'Brain's' control over the Primordial Chaos is more solid than we imagined!"