Chapter 609: The Empress's Retreat
"Mr. Director?"
"Tell me, what happened?"
"We observed—" Zhao Changkong calmed his mind and said in a deep voice, "The star realm is flickering!"
There was a big fish taking the bait under the lake, the fishing line kept sinking, but the old man remained sitting firmly.
The stars flicker?
It turned out to be not a big deal. These young people just like to get startled and are not steady at all.
He guessed that some lingering eighth-level god had been resurrected through special means. He remembered that the last time the Wanhua Star Domain flickered, it was the Peach Blossom Star God, the coward, who had reincarnated through the divine calamity.
“Whoosh—”
The fishing line that fell into the lake suddenly became empty, rising up with splashes of water. Two black and gold fish could be vaguely seen under the surface of the lake, quickly separating and disappearing in an instant.
"It's still a yin-yang fish. Looks like my luck is really bad."
The old man clapped his hands, stood up, and sighed. Well, he would go back and see what these little brats were so scared of.
As the thought came to his mind, only a grayish-white shadow was left on the spot. The Director of Astrology crossed the distance of thousands of miles in a few seconds and quickly returned to the courtyard.
Taking a step forward, the old man appeared out of thin air behind Zhao Changkong and raised his head indifferently.
Then he was stunned.
"Um?"
"Um?!!"
The star map matrix was flashing non-stop as if it was having a seizure. At first glance, he almost thought the matrix was broken.
But when he looked at the lower left side, which originally belonged to the Sirius region, there were 22 terrifying stars shining brightly as if they were about to explode, as if they were about to drag the entire boundless starry realm into hell for burial and return to its origin.
Director of the Astronomy Bureau: “?!!!!”
Fortunately, he soon discovered that the 22 terrifying stars were not stars, but 22 Sirius stars.
Um.
Sirius.
Sirius? The old man stared blankly at the star chart, his eyes dazzled by the blazing starlight, his head spinning.
He has lived for so many years and has already had one foot in the coffin. It is normal for him to have some hallucinations on a daily basis.
Suppress the fear in your heart, close your eyes, regulate your breathing, and stabilize your mental state.
Zhao Changkong, who was standing beside him, saw that the director had finally returned. He calmed down and asked doubtfully, "Director, you are very knowledgeable. What should we do now?"
The old man opened his eyes and glanced at the Sirius region again. The light was still dazzling. Now not only did his eyes hurt, but he also had a headache.
Well, he has lived for so many years and has never seen such a situation!
I have to admit that the older you get, the more ghost stories you see, and each one is bizarre.
But the strangeness of today's situation is indeed a bit beyond common sense.
The simultaneous appearance of two world-destroying disaster stars is already outrageous enough, but twenty-two... it's impossible no matter how you think about it.
Of course, out of rigor, the Astrology Bureau will not categorically reject this possibility.
But the most likely possibility now is that the remaining living Sirius No. 1 has some means of deceiving the heavens and falsifying the astrological signs, which is why he has repeatedly avoided the monitoring of the Astrological Bureau.
But this time, perhaps because of his promotion, he could no longer hide his astrological reactions, so he did the opposite and stopped hiding them. Instead, he increased the number of his astrological reactions.
The director of the Astronomy Bureau pondered and speculated in his mind.
However, what the Director of Astrology didn't know was that the person who was killed in the siege by the Empire last time was Sirius No. 1 Xia Feng. What he didn't know even more was that Xia Feng didn't deliberately hide his astrology at all.
The reason why No. 1 Sirius only appeared once in the Star Realm before becoming a Venerable was because that day was the day when Xia Feng bound himself to Mu Shen.
After binding with the God Mu, Xia Feng's corresponding star became Sirius, but there was no reaction due to the upgrade.
But now that he has become a Venerable, the spiritual foundation and spiritual essence brought by becoming a Venerable have been sublimated, allowing his original star and the replica of Sirius to completely merge into one.
At this moment, Xia Feng truly became the second Sirius.
That is why, when he became a master, the stars corresponding to him and Mu Qingtong, as well as the star projections, illuminated the starry sky at the same time.
The Director of the Astronomy Bureau didn't know the truth, but he did guess half right. He sighed and said, "Can these wolves be tracked down?"
"Director, there are 22 Sirius. We really don't know where to start with this number."
Zhao Changkong shook his head bitterly, "So I had no choice but to ask them to first estimate the approximate area that each Sirius corresponds to in the present world."
"But fortunately, the energy level reactions of the 22 Sirians all showed signs of becoming a master. This means we have at least a week to accurately locate the target. Finding the target shouldn't be difficult—"
Zhao Changkong's voice stopped abruptly, and he looked up at the star map in shock.
The starry sky that was originally flashing wildly suddenly became quiet, and the Sirius region also instantly became dark. The star mist like thick fog gathered again, covering the Sirius region in a few seconds.
The boundless starry sky once again returned to peace and silence.
It was as if nothing had happened.
Zhao Changkong's face turned grim as he glanced at his watch. "Two minutes and eight seconds? This guy only took two minutes to become a Venerable?!"
For a normal person, the ceremony of becoming a Saint would take a month or even several years to prepare. After drinking the promotion liquid, he would have to meditate in seclusion for another month or so.
"You've been dealing with Tianlang for over a year now, don't be so alarmed." The old man patted the middle-aged man's shoulder. "He's even more talented than Huang Ye Zhuguo. It's normal for him to become a master in two minutes and eight seconds."
Normal? Zhao Changkong's eyes twitched slightly. Normal at all!
The old man made a casual move with his hand, and the spirit particles in the star map matrix flickered, quickly condensing into a star-like light ball, floating to the old man's palm.
There seemed to be thousands of stars in the light ball, among which 22 Sirius stars corresponding to the approximate range of the present world were circled out and spread throughout the empire.
"Haha, it looks like some people are going to be busy."
If we want to search so many places across the empire, the Wolf Hunting Squad and the Apocalypse Knights alone are not enough.
Perhaps we have to ask the Angel Legion and Yama Legion at the third pillar to take action.
Full wolf hunting!
"Master Director, should this matter be reported to the Council and the Four Pillars?"
"Just tell those old guys in the parliament. As for the Pillar State, there's no need. They will see such a huge phenomenon in the Star Realm themselves."
"yes."
*
Temple of Apocalypse.
The magnificent starry sky stretches across the sky.
Countless illusory pale golden long steps lead up to the temple, and two figures are hanging on the steps to the gods.
A tall and strong man in a black and gold robe stood with his hands behind his back, his red-gold pupils gazing into the distance at the other side of the starry sky, his gaze calm and indifferent.
Not far away, a kind-looking old man in a bright yellow monk's robe was walking down the stairs. He also looked up into the distance, and the golden holy pattern between his eyebrows flickered.
"Even divine consciousness cannot penetrate the essence of the stars. This technique is quite interesting." The old man's doubtful voice seemed to come from the vast wilderness, the dusk was deep, and it was ethereal and distant.
The man in the black and gold robe did not say anything, but slowly withdrew his gaze and looked back at the temple.
At the entrance of the temple, a towering silver-armored knight stood with his sword at attention, looking down indifferently:
"Shang Jue, the Empress has just awakened and needs some time to recuperate. If you wish to see her, please come back in three months."
"Oh?" Shang Jue narrowed his red-gold pupils. Still needing to cultivate?
(End of this chapter)
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