The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Upon seeing this, Gu Xu immediately became interested and closed his eyes to examine this valuable information.

As time passed, Gu Xu's heartbeat gradually became calm and long, and he fell into a deep sleep and fusion.

In this undisturbed Izumo Ghost Realm, time... seems to have stopped flowing.

……

The real universe.

"hiss……"

A suppressed cry of pain shattered the quiet atmosphere.

Inside the spacious and bright medical room, soft white light streamed down from the dome.

Riglie's eyelids twitched violently a few times, and finally he struggled to open his eyes from that seemingly endless abyss of darkness.

The first feeling upon waking was pain.

Of course, this is not the kind of physical pain, but rather the feeling of weakness and tearing that constantly comes from within one's mental sea after one's mental energy has been greatly ravaged.

My mind was a complete blank, the things in front of me were blurry, and the terrifying roar that seemed to crush space itself still lingered in my ears.

"Where am I? Have I already fallen into the underworld?"

Amid the chaos, Rigri silently pondered to himself.

"Elder! You're finally awake!"

However, at that moment, a voice filled with ecstatic joy rang out from beside the bed.

"Um?"

Rigli's body trembled slightly, and he turned his stiff neck with difficulty, looking in the direction of the sound.

Soon, his vision cleared, and he saw a familiar face.

It was Terence, the current head of the Lucia family.

Terence looked haggard with sunken eyes, clearly having been waiting there for a long time.

"Terrence...?"

Rigley opened his mouth, and after a long while, he managed to squeeze out a sentence: "Where...am I?"

Terence quickly stepped forward and carefully supported Rigley's back: "Elder, please don't worry, it's absolutely safe here. You are now back in our Lucia family's fortress."

Have you returned to your family?

These words instantly triggered terrifying memories in Rigli's mind.

He suddenly remembered the last scene he saw before he lost consciousness.

Just when he thought that he, along with the other ruling elders, would be turned into cosmic dust in that blinding light.

The white-haired girl who called herself "Fool" casually raised her hand, tearing open space, and after that, her consciousness completely dissipated.

"Am I...am I being rescued?"

Rigley stared in disbelief at his hands, the intense pain emanating from his body constantly reminding him that what he was seeing was not an illusion.

However, precisely because of this, he simply couldn't imagine what kind of strength that white-haired girl possessed in that area where even the true form of a false god clashed with the ancient rulers, so that she could forcibly carve out a path to survival at the moment when the laws completely collapsed, and send out this group of burdens.

However, after a brief moment of shock, Rigli's sense of responsibility as a ruling elder of Ashmektin once again took hold of his mind.

He grabbed Terence's arm, staring intently at him, and asked urgently, "Since that's the case... has the battle at the Feathered Spirit Nexus ended? What was the result? That... Lord Gu Xu, did he win?"

A series of questions were posed, subtly changing the atmosphere in the ward.

Terence looked at his elder and subconsciously swallowed.

But in the end, he shook his head bitterly: "Elder, I... don't know."

"have no idea?!"

Rigli was stunned, a look of astonishment on his face.

But soon, he frowned and asked again, "The Feathered Spirit Nexus, as the center of the battle, caused such a huge commotion. Although it's impossible to get close inside, didn't you send out a fleet to scout the outer perimeter?"

Faced with Rigley's questioning, Terence shook his head and quickly explained, "Elder, such an important matter couldn't possibly go unnoticed; naturally, we sent people!"

At this point, Terence swallowed again, a deep worry flashing in his eyes: "But... Elder, you don't know this. Since you were rescued and brought back to the family, you have been unconscious for three standard days."

"During these three standard days, some changes occurred within the Divine Realm. The first and foremost change was the collapse and disappearance of the blood-red veil that shrouded the outer perimeter of the Dark Star System."

Upon hearing this, Rigli felt a sudden sense of relief.

The disappearance of the blood-red veil suggests that Zogra's initiation ceremony may have been interrupted.

It seems that the unfathomable Lord Gu Xu has at least stopped that false god from advancing.

However, before he could catch his breath, Terence's next words plunged him back into an ice cave.

"But Elder..."

"Although the Crimson Veil is gone, the Dark Star System has now become an absolute forbidden zone that the Divine Court simply cannot set foot in!"

"What do you mean?"

Upon hearing this, Rigli's pupils contracted.

"Black mist... an endless black mist."

Terence's mind flashed back to the scene transmitted from the front, and his expression turned somewhat strange: "The entire Dark Obsidian Star System, along with several surrounding desolate star sectors, is now completely enveloped by an extremely deep black mist."

"The Divine Court dispatched three elite reconnaissance fleets in succession."

"But the result is... as soon as a ship approaches within tens of thousands of kilometers of the edge of the black mist, all communication signals and energy fluctuations are instantly and forcibly erased by some unknown law!"

"No sound came out of that black fog, and nothing could get in."

"That place... has become an absolute abyss within the realm of the gods!"

Upon hearing this, Rigley sat motionless on the bed, speechless for a long time.

As someone who personally experienced the lingering power of Gu Xu's coronation battle on the Feather Spirit Hub platform, he naturally knew what those black mists were.

That was the absolute authority belonging to that human boy.

It is the land of calamity, the supreme realm where the ancient ruler used to crush all resistance.

However, it was precisely because of this that a thousand doubts arose in his mind.

Since Lord Gu Xu has successfully stopped that ancient false god, and may even have killed or banished it, why hasn't the Dark Star System returned to peace?

Instead, they were enveloped by the old authority emanating from that young man?

After all, according to common sense, once a winner is determined in such a dominant battle, the victor will restrain the external release of their own laws.

Could it be that... the battle is not over yet?

Or... in the worst-case scenario, although the human boy won, the old authority was too violent, causing him to fall into some kind of irreversible out-of-control state after killing the false god?