"The Emerald Sea is a fragment. The six echoes on this sword are the unfinished karma of the Sky Island's judgment, and the divine imprints on us are the keys."

Bai Cheng scanned her companions. "What the Lord of the Sky left behind is not a killing blow, but a stage."

"A stage where all sins and controversies have nowhere to hide before the Source."

She pointed the sword tip at the groove.

"But to activate it, we all must act as the catalyst with our very existence, using the Emerald Sea star track as strings and the Divine Kingdom array as the foundation to play the overture of the Second Judgment together."

She looked ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) at each of them. "This might... drain our power, or even endanger our very existence."

Zi Yuan grinned, sheathed her long blade, yet kept her hand on the hilt. "Miss, we didn't come this far to turn back."

Blue Bird's body crackled with lightning once more. "Damn it all!"

Lu Duo and Yu Nian exchanged a smile, emerald radiance and the vitality of vines spreading silently.

Leng Ningxue's icy eyes calmed as the data streams settled, leaving only absolute composure. "Logic sound. Optimal solution. Executing."

Bai Cheng took a deep breath, her silver hair dancing wildly without wind.

"Then."

She gripped the sword with both hands and thrust it fiercely into the groove!

"In the name of the Emerald Sea Emperor!"

"In the name of the successor to the fragments of the Sky Authority!"

"In the name of the Executioner of Judgment."

"Second Judgment, activate!"

The six engravings on the blade erupted into flames! The power of Han Yuan, Forest Whisper, Chaos, Mirror Heart, Cinder City, and Echo was fully ignited, transforming into six-colored pillars of light that shot into the sky!

The divine imprints on the five of them erupted simultaneously, merging with the pillars of light!

The entire ground array of the Thousand Tower Forest lit up instantly! Milky white light, centered on the main plaza, flowed wildly along every groove toward every white tower!

"No!!!" From outside the plaza came Seras's first roar of loss of composure, along with the shocked and angry bellows of the other four Covenantors.

But it was already too late.

Every white tower, whether intact or ruined, shot out pure platinum beams from its spire, weaving and converging above the Thousand Tower Forest to ultimately form a towering, translucent phantom of a giant scale of judgement!

This scale of judgement resembled the one on Lei Hai Floating Island, but it was more ancient and majestic, with nebula-like light flowing across its entire body.

The pans on both sides of the scale were empty.

In the center of the plaza, Bai Cheng's figure slowly floated up amidst the light.

She closed her eyes. The emperors imprint on her forehead had merged with the scale patterns, transforming into a brand-new, complex insignia of judgment that embodied both correction and adjudication.

Her voice was no longer her own; it was a blend of the Lord of the Sky's desolation, the Emerald Sea's vitality, and a certain absolute justice that traversed the Star Sea, resounding through the heavens:

"Litigation reopened."

"Defendants: Star Chaser Kalipo, Mirror Heart Seras (Covenant State), Memory-Swallowing Throat Vajis, Rusted Skeleton Lord Morde, Otherworldly Observers Thousand Faces."

"Charges: Betrayal, Deicide, Civilization Massacre, Historical Tampering, Interference with the Natural Progression of the Star Sea."

"Basis: Archive No. 74,321 of the Divine Kingdom Source Records, full sequence disclosed."

"Judgment Form: Source Reflection. Comparison of original intent and final outcome."

"Now."

She opened her eyes. Her silver pupils had transformed into dazzling nebula swirls. Her gaze fell, locking onto the five Covenantors who had broken through the plaza's perimeter defenses and were charging in fiercely.

"Defendants, please face your past."

The phantom of the scale of judgement sank slightly.

Above the Thousand Tower Forest, light shone brilliantly.

The dawn's engines stalled amidst the golden light of the Thousand Tower Forest plaza, its hull covered in fine cracks from bearing the overloaded divine resonance.

Bai Cheng floated in mid-air, the newly formed insignia of judgment rotating slowly on her forehead. Her consciousness was simultaneously connected to the array beneath her feet, the scale of judgement above, and her companions scattered across the plaza.

The activation of the Second Judgment did not immediately trigger world-destroying attacks.

Instead, the entire Thousand Tower Forest fell into an eerie silence.

The figures of the five Covenantors froze at the edge of the plaza. The turbulent laws swirling around them began to evaporate and peel away unstably within the platinum halo of the giant scale of judgement, like mist exposed to the scorching sun.

"Source Reflection..." The mirror-like body of the Otherworldly Observers Thousand Faces fluctuated for the first time. Countless fragments collided, emitting a faint sound like shattering glass. "Non-offensive laws... it's information regression and logical self-consistency judgment..."

"Shut up!" The soul fire of Rusted Skeleton Lord Morde jumped frantically. He tried to swing his giant scythe, but discovered that the moment his aura of decay touched the light of the scale of judgement, it backfired on him. Rust spread along the scythe handle toward his arm. "What the hell is this?!"

"The Lord of the Sky's final joke."

Star Chaser Kalipo's blue flame pupils contracted to the size of pinpricks. "He turned judgment itself... into a story restoration system."

Seras was silent.

The crystal prism in his hand spun frantically. The future images reflected on every facet were violently twisting, overlapping, and ultimately turning into a chaotic grey-white.

He looked up. His ink-black pupils reflected Bai Cheng's figure in the center of the plaza for the first time, along with the towering scale of judgement behind her.

"You activated something that should not have been activated." His voice remained steady, but with a hint of undetectable tension. "You think this is justice? No, this is tearing open the scars that all participants, including yourselves, least want to face."

Bai Cheng's nebula eyes watched him calmly. "If that is part of the truth, the scars should be seen."

The moment her voice fell, the left pan of the scale of judgement lit up.

A beam of light shot from the pan, illuminating Seras. Within the light, countless fragments of images surged like a tide.

A young Seras, dressed in the silver robes of a Star Lord, played chess with the Lord of the Sky atop the sea of clouds, debating the governance philosophy of Star Sea civilizations.

At that time, his eyes shone with the light of ideals, firmly believing that reason and foresight could avert all disasters.

The images fast-forwarded: The ancient war broke out, and countless civilizations were drawn in.

Seras witnessed his best friend's civilization turn to scorched earth in the flames of war. He tried to use the Mirror Heart authority to deduce the optimal solution, but every time he could only see more death. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Anxiety and helplessness coiled around him like vines.

Key turning point: Thousand Faces appeared before him, its mirror body reflecting billions of possible future branches.

One branch showed: If the Divine Kingdom were sacrificed and parts of history were tampered with, the war could be ended early, saving at least three hundred civilizations on the brink of extinction.

Thousand Faces' voice was flat and waveless: "Data supports this path as the most efficient. Emotional loss: Calculable. Civilization survival gain: Significant."

Seras wavered. Reason told him this was a necessary sacrifice.

Kalipo, Vajis, and Morde were successively persuaded or eroded, and the covenant was concluded.