Chapter 1 What?! The Inheritances of the Seven Celestial Sovereigns are Severely Damaged, and Most of the Palace Array is Broken?

May 6th, 2019, Zheng Country, Kunlun Secret Realm.

The Miro Goddess, holding a model of the Preaching Tower, was enraged after hearing Su Zhou describe his experiences in the Nine Profound Realm. She slammed the model of the Preaching Tower in her hand onto the table: [We must eliminate Him!]

This three-eyed classical beauty was usually extremely dignified in her words and actions. Even when she gasped, she would cover her mouth. She was the very embodiment of a graceful lady.

The Miro Goddess was responsible for the inheritance of the former Central Divine Court, so she was extremely sensitive to information in this regard.

But now, knowing that many Tianhuo inheritances, including the Red Emperor's, and the White Emperor's divine metal inheritance, had been destroyed by the Star Devourer from outer space, she was immediately caught off guard and could no longer maintain her composure: [These extraterrestrial barbarians actually dare to destroy my Central Divine Court's inheritance?! My Divine Court will grind this beast's nest and all its offspring into ashes, throw them into the Ruins, and make an example of them!]

After gnashing her teeth, the Miro Goddess came to her senses and realized that she was in the Kunlun Secret Realm conference room, being watched by several Holy Seats and Su Zhou with rather strange eyes.

The Goddess blinked, understanding, and then coughed, her voice returning to its ethereal and gentle tone: [Cough... I mean, during the spiritual energy severance, the Star Devourer of the Void Cult made extremely unfriendly and malicious moves against the Divine Court's inheritance in the Nine Profound Realm, when all the Celestial Sovereigns had left. It completely lost the composure and dignity of a Celestial Sovereign, seriously undermining the tacit understanding and consensus among the Celestial Sovereigns not to dismantle each other's mountain gates, and greatly hurting the feelings of many Divine Court inheritors.]

[We must give the other party strong condemnation... and punishment!]

"Indeed."

Su Zhou, who had returned to human form and was now receiving tea from Tang Yuan, nodded slightly. He said in a deep voice: "In short, the situation in the Nine Profound Realm is like this."

"Before the spiritual energy severance, the Twilight Kindred and the Void Cult were already lurking in the Nine Profound Realm. And as soon as the Celestial Sovereigns left, these Twilight Kindred used their last strength to summon that 'Star Devourer Kroatoa,' a giant beast of the starry sky with at least the strength of a Celestial Sovereign, destroying the inheritances and backhands left by the Celestial Sovereigns, causing the Nine Profound Realm to fall into darkness."

"After doing all this, the Twilight Kindred probably felt that this was enough, and the people of Nine Profound would inevitably be exterminated, so the Star Devourer did not stay long, and just left directly, returning to sleep in the Earth's universe... until just now, my senses awakened it."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou chuckled, seemingly mocking the Twilight Cult for bullying the weak and fearing the strong, daring to act only after the Divine Court's experts had left.

But considering that the Twilight Kindred did not even value their own lives, they naturally did not care about face.

At this point, the young man said calmly: "We all know what happened next—the Nine Profound Realm stubbornly held on until now. Although the Twilight Kindred have always intended to promote a war without any bottom line between the two realms, creating a large number of deaths once again, it seems that the Xuan Emperor still managed to maintain the situation."

"Well... indeed, but their intention to invade us is not just the influence of the Twilight Kindred."

The Dao Saint, who had led the battle for the Time-Space Gate and originally planned to enter the Nine Profound Realm with Liu Li to fight against the Xuan Emperor, nodded at this time. He was the host of this battle of the Qing Province Time-Space Gate: "But currently, we have the absolute advantage. As long as the Xuan Emperor himself is not a member of the Void Cult and suddenly goes mad and perishes with us, then the impact of the Nine Profound Realm on Earth can be almost ignored."

"It can even be used for training—we've tested a lot of new weapons here!" At this time, the Military Saint interjected, the old man's tone was quite joyful: "We've even practiced a lot of new era transcendent combat methods. It's a rare opportunity."

In his words, he was hinting that the benefits of 'peace' were not the greatest for Zheng Country, but the Military Saint did not directly offer his direct opinion.

After all, he and the Li Saint were about to retire, so they would naturally not be so insistent.

The old generation of leaders in Zheng Country are now gradually stepping down from the stage, and will be completely replaced by a new batch of Holy Seats and leadership teams in the next five to eight years. But because everyone's cultivation has increased, this may be a good thing, allowing those elderly people who have worked hard all their lives to have extra time to increase their cultivation.

"Indeed, both peace and continued attrition are an option."

The Dao Saint nodded, his expression serious at this moment, looking around the entire conference room: "The problem lies here—the matter of the Nine Profound Realm, no matter how you put it, we now have the absolute initiative. The great array around the Time-Space Gate has also been formed. Even if Su Zhou doesn't take action, we can defend it."

"The future described by Secretary Bai is already impossible to happen in our universe. And under the forbearance of both sides and the effect of the electronic underworld, this war actually has no casualties at all."

"But what is truly important is not the Nine Profound civilization... but the kindred of those ancient venerable lords, and the fact that they can summon a 'Celestial Sovereign' to descend!"

At this point, everyone except Su Zhou showed a rather worried expression.

A Celestial Sovereign, and perhaps more than one, a Great Celestial Sovereign... such a powerful existence, what if it was summoned again by those Twilight Kindred?

Since the other party could destroy the Demon Subduing Bell Pestle left by Doumu Yuanjun and the great array of the Red Emperor, it proved that the other party in its prime was theoretically no less powerful than two Great Celestial Sovereigns.

Star Devourers, who feed on stars, such a life, sounds very extraordinary.

Whether it was the Dao Saint, other Holy Seats, or even the Miro Goddess, who didn't know the horror of such a powerhouse?

The information that the ancient Life Lord Great Tree might revive scared all the countries in the world to join hands. Even four years later, the strength of the entire Earth has made a leap. Su Zhou holding the Emperor Weapon and fully urging the revival of the Nation-Protecting Divine Weapon might be able to contend with it...

"Don't worry too much."

However, Su Zhou himself was obviously not afraid at all. Seeing that the atmosphere in the entire conference room had suddenly cooled down, he directly opened his mouth and said with a smile: "First of all, let's not talk about how much strength the other party can recover after just waking up from slumber... Do you really think that only our Zheng Country, Earth civilization is the enemy of the Twilight Kindred?"

"You're wrong! The Twilight Kindred, the Void Cult, they are the ones with few people. All civilizations in the entire universe are our allies!"

"You agree, don't you, Ambassador Tain the Seer?"

Although he had returned to human form, Su Zhou's realm was still that of a Heavenly Immortal. He merely turned his head, and the action of looking at the Senostian ambassador on the side shocked this ambassador who had been silent all along. After a long while, he nodded seriously: [Indeed, Minister Su... an ancient Void Cult powerhouse who has just awakened from slumber?]

Speaking of this, the ambassador also sneered, his words full of coldness: [Eliminating such an existence is the natural task of all civilizations with normal minds! Our Senostian civilization will definitely not stand idly by. There will be strong individuals from the Council of Elders who will cooperate with your actions!]

Hearing these words, the Talin and Kelo people on the side also nodded in agreement—especially the Kelo people, who said without hesitation: "We have the secret key to the information of the Trade Alliance's capital—the Void Cult's headquarters in the Milky Way is right there!"

Of course, this was definitely a bit early. Su Zhou didn't think that the current Earth civilization could directly fly across who-knows-how-many light-years to the Twilight Kindred's home and eliminate them all. This was obviously not realistic.

However, if it was just targeting a Star Devourer... that was another matter.

After all, in the Perfect World, Su Zhou had slain countless Immortals, Gods, Demons, and Devils. Although he could only exchange blows with a few Emperor-level figures with the blessing of the Hongming Nether Lord, he had at least exchanged blows. He no longer had an ignorant awe towards powerhouses at the Great Celestial Sovereign realm.

He was very clear that if a Great Celestial Sovereign's skills were incomplete and their strength was not fully restored... then in essence, a Celestial Sovereign was also a Heavenly Immortal. Rounding up, they were only at his level.

Rounding up again, had Su Zhou ever lost at his level?

Of course not!

Rounding up, victory was assured!

Of course, this was just a line of thought. In reality, Su Zhou would still be cautious.

So he continued to ask Tain the Seer: "So, Mr. Ambassador, are there indeed powerhouses in this universe who can use various means to hibernate, forcibly enduring the Silent Era?"

"How did they do it? And why would they do it? If they do so, how will their strength be affected?"

This was the most important thing.

Tain the Seer naturally did not know. He only had the strength of a peak Overlord, how could he be qualified to know these secrets that were even considered secrets among Heavenly Immortals?

But fortunately, he had already prepared for it. Relying directly on the fact that the Senostians were all spirits of the planet, he used spiritual energy communication to cross time and space and summon support from the distant Council of Elders on the spot.

After countless information clusters flashed in the ambassador's eyes, Tain the Seer, who had been directly infused with information by the elders from afar, turned his head and said to Su Zhou seriously: [Yes, and many.]

[Not all powerful existences are proficient in space-time and subspace technology, and can leave this universe and go to the other side of time and space like the powerhouses of your Earth civilization... Most of them can only stay in this universe, choosing to withstand this silent world head-on.]

[In order to do this, the powerhouses need to make many sacrifices—first of all, they must abandon all 'spiritual energy structures,' which is what you call transcendent organs, and convert their immortal bodies into flesh and blood bodies with a limited lifespan. Then, they use various technologies to maintain the activity of the flesh and blood body and even the soul, so as to endure the Silent Era for as long as possible.]

[After all, we didn't know how long the Silent Era would last—perhaps ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, a million years? Who could guess... In short, if you do this, even the strongest of the Ω-level spiritual energy users, those who are called 'Venerable Lords' or 'Spiritual Venerables' by us, which are what you call Celestial Sovereigns or Great Celestial Sovereigns, will have their strength greatly reduced as a result.]

Speaking of this, Tain the Seer couldn't help but sigh: [Most of the powerhouses of our Senostian civilization sacrificed themselves in the War of Apostasy and the encirclement and suppression of all Otherworld Evil God believers in the universe. Until the end, the powerhouses left among us preferred to pass through the seal of the Galaxy Star and go to the Otherworld to fight, rather than stay in our universe and self-seal, gradually decaying.]

[In short, those who can leave are mostly powerhouses, and those who stay, except for a few with reasons, are mostly not the strongest.]

"I see."

Nodding slightly, Su Zhou understood somewhat.

Weak civilizations would do this, because they essentially had no means of leaving this universe.

But powerful civilizations might not, such as the Central Divine Court on Earth, and the headquarters of other divine systems. Even if they were all separated, they had enough strength to leave this universe and go to the vast and boundless void of the multiverse beyond the seal.

In a sense, this was also an awkward point for the inheritors of powerful civilizations.

Their ancestors were too strong and went too far, so it was difficult for them to turn back and let their descendants catch up.

"Alright, then I will send you the coordinates of that Twilight Kindred that I sensed... After all, our Earth civilization does not have a detailed star map of the Milky Way, and may not be able to find out where the other party is."

After confirming that the other party's strength had indeed been greatly affected by the slumber, Su Zhou simply raised his hand and infused the coordinate information he had obtained from the Star Devourer into Tain the Seer: "At that time, we might need you to lead the way."

[I... our... honor!]

The human mimicry of Tain the Seer couldn't help but turn white in the eyes—he had just been remotely transmitted a bunch of information by the Council of Elders, and now he was forcibly stuffed with relevant coordinates by Su Zhou... The ambassador felt his brain tremble.

However, this was not entirely torture: whether it was the ancient secrets given by the Council of Elders, or the information about the Star Devourer given by Su Zhou, they all contained a part of information and experience that he, as a Senostian seer, would not be able to obtain under normal circumstances. These were all considered part of the resources for cultivators.

After recovering for a while, the ambassador raised his head under the gaze of everyone in the conference room. He nodded with some effort and said: [Found it... This coordinate does exist in the star map of our Senostian civilization!]

"Then we should go and eliminate him!"

Hearing such a decisive answer, Su Zhou couldn't help but smile.

Celestial Sovereign? Great Celestial Sovereign?

What's so scary about that? Strike while the iron is hot!

Who would waste time talking to the Twilight Kindred? Gathering the troops and ganging up on them is the right way!

Thinking of this, the young man then asked: "Where exactly is it? How long will it take for your Senostian fleet to set off and arrive?"

Theoretically, this was not a complicated question.

However, after recovering for a while, Tain the Seer suddenly frowned.

He raised his head and looked hesitantly at everyone present—Su Zhou was eager to try; the Miro Goddess pretended to be elegant, but was still gnashing her teeth somewhat; Tang Yuan was sitting in the back writing a meeting report, while Dao Saint, Military God, and other Holy Seats sat upright on the side, looking calm and composed, allowing Su Zhou to lead the meeting process.

Even he, an alien, could see that the Zheng Country's high-level officials had completely delegated power to Su Zhou, defaulting to him as the core of the next generation of leadership team in Zheng Country.

But in the next moment, the ambassador's words made everyone present turn their heads and look at him in surprise and uncertainty.

[That guy... is in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way... To be precise, He is next to the Earth's solar system!]

[The Star Devourer Kroatoa is only eleven light-years away from Earth!]

[He is in the red dwarf star system code-named 'Ross 128'!]