Chapter 1 The Galactic Center · Shining Region
【Sanctuary - Wall垒 Garden】

The grand magic circle ritual spanning time and space has come to a close, and the results of the exchange with civilizations from distant shores are now at an end.

The Therastrian Priest Elders, led by High Elder Amoroth Priest, opened his six eyes in the center of the temple. He stood on the sacred altar, looking directly at the replica of the Galaxy Star enshrined in the center of the temple, a silver star.

His height exceeded twenty-five meters, and the blue flames constantly burning around the giant's body swayed slightly, seemingly betraying the unrest in the heart of this elder priest.

At this moment, a rather puzzled voice could be heard in the soul space.

"High Elder Amoroth, your wisdom guides us forward in silence and darkness... but why compromise with that heretic?"

The Therastrian hierarchy is simple: the [Priest] class, who can come into contact with the Galaxy Star; the [Citizen] class, who can see the Galaxy Star with their own eyes; and the [Commoner] class, who can only perceive the aura of the Galaxy Star from afar and bathe in its light during the Grand Festivals.

They take their profession as their surname, and can be roughly divided into the 'Priest Elders' and 'Priests' of the priest class; the 'Scholars', 'Seers', 'Shepherds', 'Starforgers', and 'Guardians' of the citizen class; and the commoner class, who have no surname.

High Elder refers to the grand elder who, in the distant past, was responsible for directly contacting the Galaxy Star, offering sacrifices to the Galaxy Star, and receiving its feedback in return. Without the collective instructions of the Priest Council, this should be considered the highest leader of the Therastrians.

But now, nearly half, or even more than half, of the entire Priest Council opposes the previous actions of this grand elder.

"Yes, Elder, why compromise with that heretic?"

"So obvious, with such solid evidence of heresy… in their hands, there is even a Galaxy Star that has been completely corrupted, or a fragment of the sacred object! This is the greatest blasphemy!"

"Elder, I am willing to be the vanguard and embark on a distant expedition to the other side of the arm to conquer the heretics!"

"If Tাইন Seer, as an ambassador, is also corrupted by the heretics, then the inheritance of the 'Starcalling Seer' lineage, and even many of our important secrets, may be..."

Numerous different opinions surged in the soul channel—from four star regions, seven sanctuaries, more than a hundred priests, more than sixty of whom felt confused about Amoroth's previous actions.

Su Zhou, this alien existence who holds another fragment of the sacred object, although the heretical aura on his body is complex, there is no doubt that it is the aura of heresy!

Moreover, if the concentration of the aura of otherworldy gods on an ordinary heretic is '1', then the concentration of the aura of otherworldy gods on Su Zhou is at least '100' or more!

Even among the most powerful lords of the heretics in that treacherous war, such a level of aura concentration had not been seen.

If it weren't for this, they would never have easily discovered Su Zhou as a favored one of the otherworldy gods during the previous cross-temporal investigation.

As for why they think that what Su Zhou holds is not the body of the sacred object, but a fragment... mainly because the Celestial Scale does not shine like the Galaxy Star, but appears very low-key and ordinary.

In short, these priests who opposed Amoroth were extremely indignant—after a lapse of 100,000 years, they once again saw such a vivid aura of heresy, and the hatred residing in their blood and souls was awakened once again, driving their hearts and souls to burn, just to bury the enemy.

Indeed, Su Zhou is indeed very powerful, but so what? When it comes to the foundation of strength, the Therastrians have enough foundation to deal with all enemies! Perhaps it is still a bit difficult now, but in a few more years, even α-level psionics (Immortal Celestials), or even Ω-level psionics, will not be able to run rampant in their territory!

The soul channel was filled with noise.

Countless useful and useless analyses were all gathered here.

"Stop."

However, they heard a steady and dignified response.

The giant burning with blue flames closed his six eyes, and the old priest, like a titan, clenched his fists. He said in a deep voice, "Didn't you hear the warning that 'the world is about to end'?"

"But... this was said by a heretic..."

Shocked by Amoroth's serious tone, the other priests were somewhat timid even when questioning: "Heretic words cannot be trusted. He may just be alarmist..."

"Enough! Others don't know, but don't we still know that since the return of psionic power, the [Twilight Realm] has once again begun to expand rapidly?!"

Amoroth's tone, somewhat disappointed, sounded again: "At the end of the Silent Era, countless demons and heretics invaded. In continuous battles, the last force of our race burned all of their hearts and souls, and only then did they seal the Twilight Realm, preventing the continued overlap of the subspace and reality... But the Silent Era has passed, and the subspace has begun to expand again, but there are no longer so many α and Ω-level psionics in our race!"

"What's more, the word 'heretic'... when did it become so cheap?"

The Upper Being Priest's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate time and space, directly staring at the priests on other planets. He sternly rebuked, "Our hatred and anger should be used on the demons lurking from the subspace—those who bewitch people's hearts, can easily corrupt anyone, and even have entities themselves, and can create otherworldy environments!"

Having said that, the giant's six eyes were completely opened—there were no organs in the elder's eye sockets, only six swirls like stardust were rotating.

Amoroth solemnly said: "Suppressing the void demons in the subspace, and the heretics eroded and corrupted by demons, is our true duty—it is because we have been undertaking this responsibility for more than 200,000 years that we are the upper kingdom guardians respected by the entire galaxy!"

As soon as these words came out, the priests' soul communication channel fell silent.

The so-called void demons are derived from the many 'wills' outside this universe that have been trying to invade this universe.

The Therastrians have long known that although the universe they are in is infinitely vast, it is not the 'only' world. Outside the universe, there are other worlds, secret realms, and sub-spaces, which are small worlds secondary to the universe.

In the Great Universe region, it is basically impossible for all things to break free from its constraints and go outside the world, but if you enter a small world and then try to break through, the difficulty will be greatly reduced and you can try.

And the power of the Galaxy Star is to unconditionally open the passage to the other side of the void and pour out a large number of valuable high-spiritual things from it—in other words, an infinite source of resource acquisition. Perhaps the amount and time of acquisition are not so stable, but it is indeed an supreme treasure bestowed upon the Therastrians by heaven.

However, since the Betrayal War, the environment of the other side of the void seems to have changed.

Demons have begun to appear in the void—they will pass through the subspace in the form of information, arrive in the real universe, and then turn a life in the real universe into a follower of the otherworldy god through possession, parasitism, transformation, summoning, and transformation... that is to say, a heretic!

There are strong and weak heretics. The weak ones can be trampled to death by a newly born Therastrian, while the strong ones even require most of the Therastrian Priest Elders and three main fleets of the Golden Age to be dispatched together to suppress and eliminate the void nebula monster.

Sanctuary Guardian... this is the name of the Therastrian civilization in the outside world. Although they shrank in that huge disaster, they did not completely stagnate. The guardians will always pay attention to possible corruption events throughout the galaxy and be ready to send troops to suppress them at any time.

Naturally, they also guarded the largest overlapping area between the real universe and the subspace, the place where demon erosion is the most serious... that is, the place where their former mother star 'Life Ancient Star' was located, the [Twilight Star Region].

This is their duty and glory—and now, High Elder Amoroth has reiterated this point, leaving all the priests unsure how to answer.

"But... isn't that restricted civilization that calls itself Su Zhou, the individual from Earth civilization, a heretic?"

However, soon, the voice of another priest sounded, refuting the words of the High Elder: "The aura on his body has the auras of the otherworldy gods 'Unordered Chaos', 'End-of-Life Reincarnation', 'Immortal Derivation', 'Destiny Domination', and 'Twilight Walker'... even at a glance, I can distinguish so many auras!"

"Having many auras means being a heretic? Who told you that?"

But Amoroth ruthlessly rebuked this taken-for-granted remark: "Wouldn't heretics bewitched by 'Unordered Chaos' and 'Destiny Domination' start fighting as soon as they meet, and not even care if we want to suppress them?"

"But if Twilight Walkers appear, even the heretics who are fighting fiercely will quickly stop and turn to deal with each other."

"Otherworldly gods are not as close as a family... There is only one possibility for someone who possesses so many clear auras of evil gods."

At this point, High Elder Amoroth's voice became extremely solemn.

"That is, using the power of evil gods to kill evil gods, and harvesting their power to enhance yourself!"

"I don't know if you have noticed that the scale on the other party's Galaxy Star... the evil god aura overflowing from it is so pure, even revealing a kind of pure holiness—in other words, the other party is likely to be using the power of the sacred object to suppress the power of the evil god, and then constantly kill demons and heretics to improve themselves!"

"This is the path we have been pursuing!"

In fact, Amoroth's guess was not wrong.

If it weren't for relying on the Celestial Scale, Su Zhou would indeed not be able to experience so many worlds, kill so many evil spirits, and come into contact with one great existence after another, becoming tainted with their auras.

As for using the power of evil gods to suppress the clans of evil gods, and relying on the Celestial Scale to guard the evil gods... hey, that's also true. Su Zhou did use the inheritance given by Yala to accumulate his power, and then suppress the clans of great existences, those evil spirits.

At least the three imprints on the Celestial Scale prove that there are three great existences who have recognized him.

The Therastrian civilization has always been pursuing such a path.

Of course, they are the children of the stars, with incomparably powerful talents and inheritances, but the heretics and clans of evil gods after being eroded and transformed by the void demons can obtain more exquisite and powerful inheritances, and various special, extremely powerful power abilities.

The combat power of heretics is stronger than ordinary people. At the most difficult moment of the former war, the leaders of the Therastrians had thought about how to use the power of evil gods to fight against evil gods.

Just like the hatred between 'Unordered Chaos' and 'Destiny Domination', it is indeed a point that can be used. Using the power of one to deal with the other is indeed very efficient.

Using the power of evil gods to strike evil gods—can there be anything more refreshing than this?

And now, Su Zhou's body has revealed some possibility of completing this path!

"We now, even if we exhaust all our strength, cannot cross the endless starry sky to the end of the arm to launch a distant expedition against the other party... Since this is the case, why not negotiate peacefully and cooperate with each other?"

Slightly squinting his eyes, Amoroth breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes became distant: "The other party holds another 'Galaxy Star', another sacred object—the last fragment of the three sacred objects we know of. If our two sides can cooperate, maybe we can take the third sacred object from 'that place', and thus completely seal the 'Twilight Realm' and completely end our mistake!"

At this moment, there was silence in the soul communication. No priest spoke at this time.

The Twilight Star Region is the product of the overlap between the Twilight Realm, a large subspace, and the real universe. Countless heretical demons emerge from it, posing a threat to the entire universe.

And all this was a mistake made by the Therastrians themselves—they misused the Galaxy Star, bringing disaster to this world.

So they chose to bear it themselves, block those demons and heretics themselves, and regard all the demons and heretics in the entire universe as their own responsibility... that is, the Sanctuary Guardian.

In order to fulfill their responsibilities, they can do anything.

After a long silence, the atmosphere gradually returned.

"Tাইন Seer will tell us what kind of civilization that is—don't forget the teachings of our predecessors, we cannot arbitrarily determine what kind of existence the other party is without understanding a civilization and an individual."

"In short, listen to his words, observe his actions, and then see if we can cooperate sincerely."

Speaking of this, the High Priest of the Upper Being stretched out his hand, and he smiled and held up a small light curtain: "Fortunately, there are corresponding observation facilities in each colonial warship, and just now, when communicating with the strong man of that alien civilization, I have used some strength to connect to that facility—even if Tাইন Seer cannot see the truth, we can see the truth with this."

What appeared on this small light curtain was impressively a 360-degree view that could be observed centered on the warship's colony equipment!