This was no illusion.

Those images carried a tangible mental shock, violently slamming into everyone's consciousness!

"Ugh!" Qingniao groaned, blood seeping from her seven orifices.

Zi Yuan propped her long blade against the ground, barely steadying herself.

Lu Duo's emerald barrier flickered unsteadily.

Yu Nian's pure heart vine trembled violently, nearly tearing itself from her embrace.

Only Bai Cheng's silver eyes swirled with a raging galaxy, the scales pattern on her forehead and the emperors imprint erupting with unprecedented light!

"Guixu, Anchor!"

A torrent of dark gold exploded outward with her as the center, forcibly washing away the invading visions of terror.

Wherever the torrent passed, cracks like shattered glass appeared in space, briefly disturbing Thousand Faces' mirror reflection.

"Oh?" Thousand Faces spoke in a voice that was neither male nor female, a composite of countless overlapping tones. "Anchor strength exceeds estimates. Interesting data."

"There's no time for you to observe."

The Rust Bone Lord Morde raised his giant scythe, and a dark green aura of decay spread out like a tsunami.

Wherever it passed, rust rapidly climbed the walls of the nearest white towers, cracking them and turning them to ash.

"Hand over the Emerald Sea core fragments, or become part of my collection."

Elune's wings of light suddenly unfurled, the pure golden light of life colliding with Morde's green tide of decay in mid-air, producing a bone-chilling sound of erosion.

"Take them to the Central Tower Base!"

Her voice transmitted directly into Bai Cheng's consciousness.

"The last echo left by the Lord of the Sky is there! Only by combining the Emerald Sea fragments with the Divine Nation's origin can the Second Judgment be activated!"

"The Second Judgment?" Bai Cheng was startled.

"It is not a punishment." Elune's light armor sparked incessantly within the decaying aura, yet her voice remained clear.

"It was the last opportunity for self-defense and evidence... prepared by the Lord of the Sky for all participants before his fall!"

"The Covenanters sealed this place specifically to prevent it from starting! Go, quickly!"

"Thinking of leaving?" The Star-Chaser Karipo sneered, the triple star rings above his head rotating rapidly.

The giant web of laws above the entire Thousand Tower Forest suddenly contracted, and countless silver chains shot out from the grid nodes, weaving into an inescapable net that descended toward the dawn!

"Tide Breaker, Open the Sea!"

Zi Yuan was the first to charge out, her blade light like a purple mad dragon, surging upward!

Azure lightning and Emerald Radiance followed closely behind; Yu Nian's vines wove into a buffering network, while Leng Ningxue's ice crystals calculated the trajectory and weakness of every chain.

The five of them and the six Star Lord projections fought desperately to clear a path, tearing a gap in the storm of silver chains!

Bai Cheng did not hesitate for a moment. The dawn's engines roared as it dove at full speed through the gap, crashing toward the Central Tower Base Plaza below!

Behind them, Elune's golden light collided violently with the attacks of the five Covenanters, the shockwave snapping dozens of white towers in half!

Amidst the rain of debris and light, Seras's emotionless declaration rang out:

"History Correction Protocol, 74,321st execution."

"Target: Eradicate the possibility of the Second Judgment's activation."

"Method of Execution: Total Annihilation."

Bai Cheng looked back; the last thing she saw were Elune's burning wings of light and the heavy entrustment passed down through the eons in those golden eyes.

Then, the dawn plunged into the dust and golden light filling the Central Tower Base Plaza.

The ship's hull shook violently, the outer shell screeching as it scraped against the ground.

When their vision cleared, they found themselves in an immensely vast circular plaza.

The plaza floor was paved with milky-white, jade-like giant stones, engraved with a massive magic circle that covered the entire ground. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The patterns of the magic circle were extremely complex, yet possessed a natural beauty. In the center was a depression, a groove perfectly matching the shape of the emperors imprint on Bai Cheng's forehead.

Directly in front of the plaza stood a pure white stone tablet, only a hundred meters tall but radiating an indescribable majesty.

There were no words on the tablet, only a flowing, nebula-like vortex.

"Is this... the last echo of the Lord of the Sky?" Qingniao wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

Bai Cheng stepped forward and touched the stone tablet with her fingertip.

Boom!!!

A torrent of countless images, sounds, emotions, and memories rushed into her consciousness without warning!

She saw the glorious era of the Kingdom of Gods, with cities rising above the sea of clouds, winged beings of light soaring freely, and the Lord of the Sky seated atop the thousand towers, looking down upon the flourishing sea of stars.

She saw the forging of the Covenant. It was not originally intended for godslaying.

Karipo, Seras, and another Star Lord named Radiance discussed strategies for dealing with the star sea crisis with the Lord of the Sky.

Vajis and Morde joined as advisors, while Thousand Faces was invited as a neutral observer.

She saw the emergence of disagreements.

Concerning the judgment of responsibility for that ancient war that affected countless civilizations, and whether to use the Root Authority to forcibly modify history to eliminate future troubles.

The Lord of the Sky insisted that judgment must be fair and history must not be tampered with.

But the Covenanters, under the subtle guidance of Thousand Faces and the whispering corruption of Vajis and Morde, gradually slid into the abyss of efficiency-first and necessary sacrifice.

She saw the moment of betrayal.

After another heated argument, Seras quietly activated the Mirror Reversal Array previously arranged beneath the base of the Thousand Tower Forest.

Star Lord Radiance tried {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} to stop it, but was strangled by Karipo's star ring orbits.

The Lord of the Sky was enraged, fully unleashing his divine authority to engage in a bloody battle with the five Covenanters.

The flames of war ignited the Divine Nation. Vajis gleefully devoured the memories of dying beings, Morde's rust spread through the cities, and Thousand Faces calmly recorded all the data.

In the end, after severely wounding Karipo, shredding part of Vajis's origin, and casting Morde into slumber, the Lord of the Sky was also struck in his vitals by Seras's Future Refraction and Thousand Faces' Existential Interference.

Before falling, the Lord of the Sky did not choose mutual destruction.

He poured his final power, along with accusations and evidence against everyone, into this stone tablet, setting the trigger conditions for the Second Judgment.

When a successor carrying the Emerald Sea fragments and a pure divine imprint arrives, the judgment will restart.

This time, the judge is not the Scales, nor any external object, but the recorded original intentions and actions of all participants themselves, revealed without concealment before the Root.

The final scene of the vision was the shattered form of the Lord of the Sky dissipating into points of light, with only a sigh echoing:

"Let those who come after... judge..."

The torrent receded.

Bai Cheng stumbled and was supported by Zi Yuan.

Her face was pale, yet her eyes burned with a raging fire.

"Did you... see it all?" Yu Nian asked softly.

"I saw it."

Bai Cheng steadied her breathing, looking at the groove in the center of the ground magic circle, then at the Sword of Conviction in her hand and the six Star Lord marks on its blade.

"I know what to do."

She walked to the groove and raised her long sword.

"You're going to..." Lu Duo vaguely guessed.