The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Nihility and chaos, as vast as the cosmos... where Star Cores twinkled.

One could see various brilliant points of stars.

And many High Sequence beings were in that nihility, looking down at everything.

Some hid in the void, while some forces manifested their own Totems within the void.

"The Present World has never been a new place."

Though countless eons have given birth to many new worlds and struggling life forms, traces of various ancient eras seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

But in fact.

Most are continuations of ancient powers.

After the great war of yesteryears, what remained... the ancient surviving forces, some were still developing, accumulating Strength, continuously growing.

And a large part chose to hide themselves.

After the Ancient Battlefield shattered, the era of great chaos arrived, many ancient forces lost their protection, and would inevitably be coveted, so they could only hide... accumulating strength, waiting for the moment when their mighty ones would awaken again.

Or to start anew, appearing with a different identity.

In any case.

To sum it up in four words:

Someone's up there.

They're just still sleeping.

"The Paradise System has already ended the day of the Audience...."

At this moment, the people of Paradise were also within Deep Space, quite populous, each with a somewhat solemn expression... Most of their strengths were around Sequence five, considered the backbone of force.

The real Paradise management layer, those High Sequence beings, also did not show their faces.

Mostly it was the middle and high ranks of the forces waiting here, the real High Sequence beings could be absent, but they couldn't be totally uninvolved.

At this very moment.

A rip was torn in the nihility, and the dazzling aurora penetrated from the dark space of Anxious Land!

"They're coming out..."

Countless gazes turned towards that direction, Anxious Land was the publicly known trial ground of the Gods Palace, but it contained many secrets, many knew it well, with extreme risks, and yet a vast number of people were scrambling to get involved.

After all.

Although in the long bygone ancient years, Gods Palace had fallen into ruin, into silence, its treasury possessed the stuff of countless people's dreams.

With a loud bang!

An array of auroras formed the Rainbow Bridge, instantly piercing through the darkness of nihility!

Numerous Audience members appeared on the Rainbow Bridge!

"...So many people...?" someone's eyes flickered.

And some noticed a little something: "The aura on them seems a bit different...."

"It seems they've gained more than expected..." some could see through the void and speculate further.

"One can only say... there's going to be competition this time...."

A plethora of forces, like the heavens themselves, were observing everyone.

Since it was the last Audience Day of the new era in these silent years, whether it was the Eye of Destiny making selections from the Ten Thousand Realms, or the mighty descendants sent by various major forces, their scale far exceeded any before.

Crowds of Audience members were looking in amazement at the numerous deep space forces.

"Quite the naive new era..."

"Their... bewildered eyes, it seems they need guidance."

"Let's start... the selection... then."

The higher-ups of the many forces were calmly watching this scene.

For them.

Other than the people sent in, the new stars selected by the Eye of Destiny from different worlds, 99% of them had no background at all.

And that played right into the hands of countless forces.

They could bring them into their forces, offer Sanctuary, entice, shelter, and cultivate, and so on.

These new stars... all had decent potential, and with resources spent on their cultivation, could grow very rapidly.

But...

There was another significant possibility—plundering. Many forces only needed the items obtained from Anxious Land, not the person.

Investing resources in them was less appealing than taking the rare treasures they had obtained for the use of the force.

In short.

Methods were complex and entangled, and intentions varied from one to another.

And the next moment.

The traces on the Audience began to burst forth, the expressions of the countless forces showing subtle changes.

Suggesting surprise, or sympathy, pity!

Looking at the bewildered Audience members, as if looking at ants.

"....Hahaha..." someone laughed lightly, a strange laugh:

"I told you this time it was different."

"Every contact trace on their bodies has burst forth, meaning all the items they acquired can also be deduced from these illusions...."

Many of them were already flipping through ancient books and records.

The expressions of the numerous forces began to turn to extreme shock:

"... there... there's a Divine Dragon Seal..."

"...And that piece of black bone... belongs to an epic figure from a demigod clan..."

"The bloodline of the extinct Double Pupils clan... is also manifesting..."

"The lost Abigail's Pearl, it's also among them..."

"....."

Most of the upper echelons were taken aback, some in disbelief!

The treasury of the Gods Palace was immensely rich, and naturally of extraordinary value!

But... in this manner, as far as the eye could see, most of it was capable of stirring many people's hearts, items that could change destinies, this truly was an opportunity that comes once in a blue moon!

"Why... what on earth has happened at Anxious Land this time?"

"How could the items from the treasury of Gods Palace have been obtained by so many?"

This was too preposterous, and it shifted the thoughts of all forces.

What they did not know was...

This time Anxious Land had been breached, and many had been forced into the last level, alterations in the acquisition of points happening under the rules.

Su Qi was aware of this as well, but he didn't think he had caused all this.

He knew in his heart.

The Master of the Present World... was subtly influencing everything, every move it made had been through countless iterations of destiny's evolution.