Almost all the Morning Star wizards who participated in this meeting knew that today's solemnity and grandeur were not simply for routine matters, but because it involved the destruction of the Nightmare Rift that was enough to shake the Southern Region.

As Elder Singed spoke, revealing the hidden secrets and layers of connections one by one, the atmosphere in the entire council hall became increasingly solemn.

Among the Morning Star wizards sitting on the circular staircase, some were quietly thinking, some were frowning, and some were unconsciously exchanging glances and whispering to each other.

Finally, many confused wizards completely understood what had happened.

The Meteoric Council, a force well known to the southern regions, became the important fuse of the whole incident.

In fact, the name of the Meteoric Council was familiar to almost every Morning Star wizard present.

Regardless of whether they came from the Dark Wizarding Territory or the White Wizarding Territory, the Falling Star Council once had a relatively bright and positive history.

When a Morning Star Wizard was hunting the heavens and expeditionary planes, he encountered an unmatched enemy and had to "shatter the star" to escape.

At that moment, he will lose a part of the origin of the Morning Star, his strength will be greatly damaged, and he will also lose the convenience and freedom of traveling through the endless planes.

For many people, it is not just a weakening of strength, but more like a stigma, indicating failure.

Because of this, many "Star-Breaking Wizards" fell into isolation and predicament. They were unable to return to their glory, and were unwilling to return to the protection of the mortal world, so they chose to huddle together for warmth.

This is the original origin of the Falling Star Council, a safe haven that provides shelter and comfort for frustrated Morning Star wizards, an organization that can exchange intelligence and resources.

This idea was not resisted in the southern region, but instead received a lot of sympathy.

Even the Morning Star Wizards who have not yet been shattered rarely harbor hostility towards the Meteoric Council.

Because no one can guarantee that in that long life of three thousand, six thousand or even nine thousand years, there will not be a day when they encounter an invincible enemy and are forced to abandon part of their origin and escape.

"Today I look at them, tomorrow they may look at me."

It was this silent resonance that made the early development of the Meteoric Council in the Southern Region exceptionally smooth.

Even the Southern Region Wizard Council branch did not deliberately suppress them. Some cautious and rational Morning Star Wizards secretly maintained contact with the Meteoric Council, leaving a way out.

However, over time, the organization gradually expanded.

Internal factions began to split, and this was the beginning of the tragedy.

The faction with the largest number and the most stable momentum is called the "peaceful years" faction.

These Star-Breaking Wizards have long since recognized the reality. Since they cannot return to their peak, they simply gave up on taking risks and chose to settle down in the wizarding world.

In the safe wizarding territory, they devote themselves to studying alchemy, magic circles, and various profound experiments, or simply immerse themselves in personal cultivation and spend their long lives quietly.

After all, as long as they don't set foot on a plane expedition, these star-breaking wizards are almost indistinguishable from complete morning star wizards.

These Star-Breaking Wizards can often be seen in many small parliaments held every twenty years or so, and they have plenty of time to devote themselves to politics and governance.

However, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Falling Star Council is not just composed of the reclusive wizards of "The Good Years".

Deep within its vast and complex organizational structure, there lurks another completely different type of existence: those "rogue factions."

The name "rogue faction" is not groundless.

To understand their causes, we must start with the most fundamental practice method of the Morning Star Wizards, the Plane Expedition.

For any Morning Star Wizard, the true accumulation of power cannot be achieved by meditating behind closed doors.

Only by crossing the endless void, conquering one alien world after another, and plundering nutrients from the debris and resources of countless civilizations, can one constantly temper oneself, stride towards the brilliant moon, the bright sun, and finally reach the legendary supreme realm.

However, the plane expedition is not a solitary journey, it is a comprehensive conquest of the entire world.

Even though the Morning Star Wizard is extremely powerful, he cannot suppress the entire alien world alone, so every Morning Star Wizard will organize an expeditionary force of his own.

Some people devote all their efforts to build a huge and stable personal power, such as the Night Shadow Wizard's "Night Shadow Furnace" and the White Heart Tower Master's "White Heart Tower", each becoming a legendary fortress dominating its own area;

Other wizards choose to join larger organizations, such as the Green Wizards of Furnace Stone, and participate in the conquest with the help of powerful alliance forces.

But a legion is only one of the most basic conditions for an expedition.

To truly embark on a plane expedition, two crucial core cornerstones are required:

The first is the Wizard Tower, which is presided over by the Morning Star Wizard himself and has the Morning Star Wizard as its core, serving as the combat center of the expedition;

The second is a star gate that can connect the heavens, penetrate countless dimensions, and become the only channel for hunting and plundering.

The wizard tower is a symbol of the wizard's power and an extension of the soul.

Building a wizard tower of the Morning Star Wizard level is not unattainable in today's wizarding world. As long as enough precious resources and materials are consumed, a towering tower can be built in a short period of time.

However, the real difficulty is not construction, but maintenance.

Maintaining a Morning Star Wizard Tower is more than just maintaining the building structure. It is a huge system operated by countless wizards, alchemical creations, psychic arrays and spell nodes.

This requires countless wizards to be stationed there constantly, responsible for debugging the magic circuits day and night, monitoring the stability of the formation, and maintaining the tower spirit's operations;

It also requires a large amount of resources to be continuously invested to ensure that the countless magic nodes and array patterns in the wizard tower can release destructive power at any time in battle.

The core magic circle of the wizard tower can even provide tremendous spiritual power blessing for the Morning Star Wizard who presides over it, allowing it to mobilize stronger power when facing the alien world.

At the same time, the more wizards there are in the wizard tower and the higher their ranks, the more terrifying their overall power will be, and they can even compete with the entire plane in the void battlefield.

The establishment of a star gate is the highest investment for every Morning Star wizard on his expedition.

How many resources are needed to create a star gate from scratch that is powerful enough to tear apart dimensions and connect the heavens?

Just the first step requires an astronomical amount of materials, energy, and formations to build a plane hub.

This means that every Morning Star Wizard who wants to truly open up an expedition must have a large force that can provide logistics and maintain operations.

Wizard towers, star gates, legions, alchemy workshops... all of these are the "weaknesses" on which expeditionary wizards rely for survival. Once they are missing, even someone as powerful as the Morning Star will find it difficult to truly intimidate the heavens.

However, the "rogue factions" within the Meteoric Council are precisely the lone wolves who have abandoned these ties.

They no longer have the opportunity to go on expeditions across the planes, nor do they need to maintain large towers and legions;

They have no weaknesses and no scruples, only the desire to survive and greed for resources.

Having lost the glory of the expedition, this group of Star-Breaking Wizards, known as "rogues", have become the most difficult enemies to deal with.

They no longer manage their own power, nor do they follow any order. Instead, they demand in an extreme way and plunder directly.

They attacked other wizards' strongholds, plundered major resource channels, and even dared to attack the Shining Moon forces such as the Furnace Stone and the Seven Sacred Towers.

The wizard tower was destroyed, the star gate was blocked, and the warehouse was looted...

They were like a pack of predatory ghosts, sneaking in silently and wreaking havoc mercilessly.

But even so, these Huiyue forces often have no choice but to accept defeat.

Because if a large number of Morning Star wizards were to be mobilized to garrison the homeland in order to defend against these unpredictable "rogue factions", the price would be to give up the expedition.

Once the Morning Star Wizards are confined to the Wizarding World and unable to travel to the heavens to hunt for resources, the losses will far exceed the damage caused by these scoundrels.

Thus, the "rogue faction" gradually became a troublesome existence with a vicious cycle:

They plundered wantonly, but no force was willing to pay a higher price to eliminate them.

As time went by, the reputation of the Meteoric Council declined rapidly, but this was not enough for the Southern Region Council to take action.

What really made the Wizarding Council make up its mind and take thunderous action was another more terrifying force in the Meteoric Council, the radical camp.

Compared to the "rogue faction", these radical star-breaking wizards are more like a group of lunatics.

Not only do they refuse to admit their own failures, they even blame all the suffering and unfairness of fate on the entire wizarding civilization.

In their eyes, the wizarding world is a shackle high above them and an executioner that pushes them into the abyss.

Thus, this group of former guardians of the wizarding world began to turn against the mother body.

They broke the ban set by the Wizard Council and in order to gain greater power, they would do anything, even colluding with hostile forces from other planes.

They infiltrate the inner fabric of the wizarding world, plotting attacks and rebellions;

They take pride in disrupting order, regard wizard civilization as a cage, and vow to overthrow it.

This kind of corruption that grows from within is more deadly than external invaders. The destruction caused by a malicious Morning Star Wizard is far greater than that of an invading army from hundreds of external dimensions.

Finally, the Southern Region Council realized that this was no longer just a "trouble" but a cancer.

If left unchecked, the conspiracy of these madmen could ignite the very foundations of the Southern Territory and tear apart the very foundations of wizard civilization.

Therefore, the Southern Region Branch made an unprecedented decision to completely wipe out the radical faction of the Meteoric Parliament and eradicate this cancer completely!

It was in this context that the Southern Branch of the Wizard Council resolutely mobilized heavy troops and united the three most influential Shining Moon forces that were geographically closest to the Meteoric Council: Furnace Stone, Seven Sacred Towers, and Nightmare Rift.

These three forces are at the top of the pyramid in the southern region of the wizarding world. Each of them has His Majesty Huiyue in charge, and their power is so great that they can sweep across all the planes of the heavens.

Although the Meteoric Council is known as the largest collective organization of Morning Star Wizards in the Southern Region, it is ultimately only a "Morning Star-level force". The strongest is only a level six Morning Star Wizard, which is still a world of difference compared to the level of Huiyue.

The three major Huiyue forces took action personally and recruited many elite Morning Star wizards from the Southern Region as assistance. A siege against a few radical factions should have been easy and smooth.

At least, that's what everyone thought at first.

In just a few months, the situation in the Meteoric Council took a sharp turn for the worse.

Under the thunderous offensive of the Wizarding Council, a large-scale purge first occurred within the Meteoric Council.

The "Peaceful Years" faction and the "Rogue Faction" soon realized that the situation was not good, and decisively cut ties with the radicals. They even took the initiative to hand over the coordinates of the radicals' strongholds and hidden intelligence to the Wizard Council one by one, becoming veritable "tainted witnesses."

For a time, public opinion in the wizarding world was one-sided, and all wizards believed that the demise of the radicals was a foregone conclusion.

The top leaders of the Southern Region branch were also optimistic that this eradication operation was only a matter of time, and that the bell of victory seemed to be ringing in their ears.

However, as the saying goes, "a trapped beast will still fight", not to mention that these trapped beasts are the sinister, cunning and terrifyingly powerful Morning Star Wizards, and they may even be the source of chaos that betrays the world and civilization in the future.

When the radicals were forced into a desperate situation, they launched an unimaginable counterattack with madness, turning themselves into a sheathed butcher knife.

This counterattack shocked the entire Southern Region and overturned the cognition of countless wizards:

Not only did the radicals fail to collapse in the encirclement of the Wizard Council, but in a series of raids, they successfully overturned the Nightmare Rift, a neutral force that had stood for countless years.

A legendary place that carries the legacy of His Majesty the Brilliant Moon and once single-handedly quelled the war between black and white wizards!

This battle was like thunder exploding in the sky of the wizarding world, shaking the entire southern region.

Elder Singed's voice echoed in the solemn and dignified council hall. Every word seemed to carry the resonance of a magic circle, vibrating into the eardrums and striking the mind.

As the whole story was fully recounted, all the Morning Star members had solemn expressions. At that moment, even the usually arrogant and indifferent wizards could not help but show shock and doubt.

Lynn sat in the councillor's seat, tapping his fingers on the armrest, with an imperceptible look of deep thought in his eyes.

Although he was deeply involved in the operation and was familiar with many behind-the-scenes details, new questions still arose in his heart when he recounted the whole incident from Elder Singed as a bystander.

His Majesty Huiyue, who once made both the black and white forces in the Southern Region bow their heads... was he really just innocently involved?

"The high-ranking officials of the Southern Territory Council's branch clearly knew that His Majesty had left the Nightmare Rift Valley years ago, yet they still insisted on involving the Nightmare Rift Valley in this extermination operation...

Are you deliberately trying to use this victory to flatter His Majesty Huiyue?"

Lynn narrowed his eyes, a hint of sarcasm flashing in his eyes.

"Unfortunately, I was overconfident in my calculations, and ended up shooting myself in the foot, forcing myself into this desperate situation..."

The atmosphere in the entire hall was solemn, and every Morning Star wizard had his eyes flickering as he pondered over the events that had occurred.

But Lynn whispered to the Green wizard beside him.

"Wizard Green, I heard that His Majesty the Brilliant Moon, who was behind the Nightmare Rift, made a special trip to Furnace Stone before leaving. I wonder if Wizard Green knows anything about that?"

Hearing Lin En's question, Wizard Green paused, but after thinking about it, he finally sent a message back:

"This matter is a bit secretive. As the Morning Star Wizard of Furnace Stone, I shouldn't reveal it. But if you look closely, this matter is also related to the Qinglin Wizard. So the Qinglin Wizard is not an outsider..."

"Yes, His Majesty the Brilliant Moon behind the Nightmare Rift once went to Furnace Stone. During that time, our Furnace Stone's His Majesty the Brilliant Moon brought our teacher to meet that His Majesty the Brilliant Moon..."

"After a rather pleasant conversation, His Majesty Huiyue left with satisfaction. He left the Southern Region and returned to the headquarters of the Wizard Council..."

Wizard Green stopped there, but Lynn had already keenly understood the hidden meaning in his words.

It's related to myself and to Hercules, so doesn't it refer to just one thing?

Is it the body of the main god from the civilization of gods?

Come to think of it, the actions of the Demon Net Goddess against the Gods Civilization that the Nightmare Rift prevented were probably orders from His Majesty the Brilliant Moon...

"I once mistakenly entered a room that looked like a holographic projection in the Mechanical City's mechanical token..."

Lin En now has some guesses. Perhaps the body of the Demon Net Goddess that he gave to Hercules is very important to His Majesty the Brilliant Moon in the Nightmare Rift.

With the body of the Demonic Web Goddess, perhaps His Majesty Huiyue can complete an experiment to change the Wizarding Council and wizarding civilization?

This was not Lin En's imagination, but the message he saw when he accidentally entered that space said this.

Because of this, the Wizard Council of the Southern Region knew something, so they took the initiative to "lick" His Majesty the Brilliant Moon.

Of course, the current situation is that the Wizard Council has flattered the horse but failed miserably... (End of this chapter)