225: Chapter 225: Power and Authority, [Causal Sundial]

Villa No. 079.

Lin Yuan gripped the rhomboid crystal as Divine Power poured in. The miniature galaxy inside the crystal accelerated its rotation.

He packed the memories, images, and aura frequency regarding Chen Fu from the Blood Crow's memories and shoved them into the crystal.

Space rippled, and the information followed the True God anchor, crossing dimensions to transmit deep into Starry Sky University.

After finishing all this, Lin Yuan put the rhomboid crystal back into the Star Key space.

He sat cross-legged on the futon once again.

With Senior going to investigate Chen Fu, he was more than happy to enjoy some leisure.

When the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up; his most important matter right now was to convert the resources he had just seized into tangible combat power.

As for the turbulent upheavals of the outside world, whoever wanted to kill him or plot against him—

Once his strength rose, he would naturally use his fists to reason with them one by one.

...

Deep within Starry Sky University, inside an independent sub-space.

Inside, mountains undulated and stars surrounded the area.

Su Jin closed her eyes and leaned back on the sofa. The rhomboid crystal materialized before her, rotating slowly.

The information packaged by Lin Yuan followed the traction of the True God anchor, turning into a stream of data that surged directly into Su Jin's Sea of Consciousness.

The images unfolded.

In a dim underground secret room, a Soul-Summoning Altar built from unknown beast bones flickered with an eerie red light.

At the other end of the altar stood an emaciated Elder with a gloomy and sinister gaze.

The Elder wore a gray butler's uniform, keeping his posture very low, yet the scheming in the depths of his eyes could not be concealed no matter what.

Su Jin opened her eyes.

One million blocks of pure Divine Power crystals.

One complete living planet.

A share of divine art Legacy.

What a lavish gesture.

Su Jin picked up the black tea on the coffee table and drained the slightly chilled tea in the cup in one gulp.

She stood up, her casual home clothes fluttering without any wind.

Moon-white radiance seeped out from beneath her fair skin, instantly illuminating the entire living room.

Su Jin's consciousness broke through the shackles of the material Realm, reaching directly into the high dimensions of the Astral Realm.

In the extreme depths of the Universe.

A vast moon-white nebula slowly rotated amidst the dark matter tides.

At the center of the Divine Kingdom, a True God avatar tens of thousands of zhang tall stood proudly amidst the sea of stars.

The avatar's face was identical to Su Jin's, its eyes tightly closed, its hands forming seals, surrounded by countless brilliant Law divine chains.

Ever since igniting the divine fire and lifting the Divine Kingdom into the sky, she had stood tall in this Astral Realm for several centuries.

The reason True Gods were called True Gods was because they had already branded the Laws they comprehended into the underlying operational logic of the Universe.

They no longer borrowed power; they themselves were the source of power.

Su Jin descended upon the throne at the center of the Divine Kingdom.

She raised her hand.

The vast Divine Might radiated outward from the Divine Kingdom toward the Star Domains in all directions.

Su Jin exercised one of her authorities.

[Karma Astrolabe].

The True God avatar abruptly opened its eyes.

Two beams of starlight, practically tangible, pierced through the Void Realm.

The nebula boiled.

Countless stars arranged and combined according to specific trajectories, rapidly condensing beneath the avatar's feet into a gigantic sundial covering the entire stellar System.

The surface of the sundial was carved with intricate underlying Universe Law divine patterns, and every single divine pattern contained the mysteries of Karma.

Su Jin tossed Chen Fu's aura frequency, along with that memory footage, into the center of the astrolabe.

"Trace the source."

Su Jin parted her red lips slightly and spat out two words.

The huge pointer of the astrolabe began to rotate in reverse.

The Karma threads materialized within dimensional space, turning into glowing filaments.

Crossing vertically and horizontally, they wove into a boundless giant web.

Su Jin raised her hand, her slender fingers gently plucking in the Void Realm.

She precisely extracted the one belonging to Chen Fu from among hundreds of millions of Karma threads.

Peeling away the disguise and traces of time on Chen Fu layer by layer.

A massive amount of information flashed across the scales of the astrolabe.

Chen Fu's real-world coordinates: Sirius Star Region, the third trade route, the shattered star meteorite belt codenamed "Reef".

Chen Fu's surface identity: Sirius Star Region Oceanic Trade Chamber of Commerce, Advanced Deacon.

Responsible for handling bulk Ore transactions between star regions, managing more than a dozen interstellar transport fleets under his command.

A legitimate merchant.

Wearing a glamorous skin on the outside, while engaging in the business of hiring murderers on the inside.

He hid deep enough.

Su Jin continued to pluck that Karma thread, deducing upwards along Chen Fu's connections.

Chen Fu was merely a running dog handling errands; she wanted to drag out the mastermind behind the scenes who offered the hefty bounty.

The Karma thread extended toward a higher dimension, yet the astrolabe's pointer began to tremble violently.

Ahead of the clear Karma thread, a thick fog of Chaos appeared.

Interwoven within the fog were tyrannical Laws of destruction and a certain ancient Bloodline Restriction.

This power was extremely exclusionary, frantically disrupting all probing methods attempting to get close.

Su Jin furrowed her brows slightly.

Someone was deliberately concealing the heavenly secrets.

The opponent had used an extremely high-grade shielding Divine Artifact, or a True God of the same Realm had intervened to interfere with agent Karma deductions.

Forcibly tearing open this layer of fog would inevitably trigger a direct collision between two high-dimensional powers.

By then, not only would it trigger spatial-temporal tremors across the entire Sirius Star Region, causing countless civilian casualties,

but it might even startle the snake and cause the opponent to completely erase Chen Fu's existence.

Su Jin stopped the deduction.

The avatar in the Astral Realm dimension closed its eyes once again, and the astrolabe turned into starlight all over the sky, fading away into the depths of the nebula.

As her consciousness returned to reality, Su Jin let out a cold laugh.

It did not matter if the person behind the scenes could not be investigated.

As long as Chen Fu was still around and his coordinates were known,

Su Jin had hundreds of methods to pry open Chen Fu's mouth.

Catch the person.

Soul-searching, soul-refining, lighting heavenly lamps... The methods of a True God were simply unimaginable to a Mortal.

"Wanting to touch my people right under my eyelids, you better be prepared to be sliced into a thousand pieces."

Su Jin stepped forward.

The space beneath her feet began to collapse and fold.

Shrinking the ground into an inch, traveling across Realms.

With every step, she could cross the distance of several galaxies.

The moon-white figure turned into a stream of light tearing through the sea of stars, charging forward across the Federation's Star Domain territory with an unreasonable posture.

...

At the edge of the Sirius Star Region, the third trade route.

A heavy patrol ship painted with the Federation military insignia was conducting routine patrol.

Inside the bridge, the atmosphere was dreary.

Radar operator Richard yawned.

He was a rookie who had just graduated from the military academy, full of passion and wholeheartedly wanting to achieve military merits at the border.

Yet he was assigned to patrol this bird-forsaken meteorite belt, facing nothing other than stones and Universe garbage every day.

"Beep—Beep—Beep—"

The highest-level alarm suddenly resounded through the bridge.

Richard gave a violent shudder and looked at the radar screen in front of him.

On the screen, the red numerical values representing the energy tier were rising exponentially.

From the Third Turn Demigod, it skyrocketed all the way to the Ninth Turn Demigod, and finally directly broke through the detection upper limit.

The entire radar screen turned into a sea of scarlet, the alarm red lights flashed back and forth, and the crew members' faces were reflected pale.

"Captain!" Richard roared, slapping his palm toward the red interception button on the main console.

"An ultra-high energy level target detected! Spatial curvature has suffered severe damage! An unknown powerhouse is forcibly crossing the Federation's directly controlled route!"

A calloused hand stretched out from across the air and grabbed Richard's wrist.

Captain Lao Wang had an unlit cigar clenched in his mouth, and with a backhand slap, he struck the back of Richard's head.

"Are you fucking insane?!" Lao Wang cursed loudly, spraying spit all over Richard's face.

Richard was beaten into a daze, holding his head as he shouted grievance: "Captain, the other party illegally tore open the route space. According to Federation military regulations, we must activate the tractor beam to intercept and question—"

"Intercept your grandmother's leg!" Lao Wang kicked Richard's chair, sending him flying two meters away along with the chair.

"Open your dog eyes wide and see clearly what kind of energy level that is!"

Lao Wang pointed at the radar screen, which was glowing deep purple-red, his fingers holding the cigar trembling slightly.

"The detection upper limit has even blown up! That's a True God! This aura is so heavy it could crush this broken ship of ours into an iron pancake!"

Finished speaking, Lao Wang turned around and roared into the whole-ship broadcast: "All departments listen up! Turn off active radar! Turn off weapon Systems!"

"Run engines at idle speed! Enable the highest level of optical stealth!"

"All crew members, stand by in place, no one is allowed to make a sound!"

Richard climbed up from the ground with a look of astonishment: "Captain, this is a Federation directly controlled route; even a True God cannot—"

"Shut up!" Lao Wang clamped his hand over Richard's mouth, lowering his voice in a roar, "A True God traversing a Star Region means something huge has happened! To an existence of this level, crushing us to death is even easier than crushing an ant."

"Federation military regulations? In front of a True God, fists are the rules!"

Outside the bridge.

In the gloomy Universe space.

A stream of moon-white light swept past at a speed surpassing conventional understanding.

Wherever the stream of light passed, space left behind a pitch-black rift tens of thousands of kilometers long.

A massive amount of spatial turbulence surged out from the rifts, grinding several surrounding small meteorites into powder.

The patrol ship bumped around in the aftermath of the stream of light, and sparks flashed everywhere in the cabins.

Lao Wang looked at the fleeting stream of light outside the porthole, cold sweat soaking the military uniform on his back.

Until the stream of light disappeared into the depths of the Star Domain and the radar values slowly receded, Lao Wang finally loosened his hand covering Richard's mouth.

"Remember this, kid." Lao Wang spat out the cigar in his mouth and slowly said:

"In this starry sky, the first Law of survival is to never provoke those who can walk sideways in the Universe."

...

Deep within the shattered star meteorite belt.

This place was filled with strong magnetic field storms year-round, making it a natural cover favored by smugglers and space pirates.

Su Jin's figure materialized at the center of the storm.

A moon-white Divine Power shield propped open, blocking all the raging magnetic storms outside.

Following the coordinates deduced by the astrolabe, she locked onto a hollow meteorite ahead.

The interior of the meteorite had been hollowed out and converted into a covert temporary stronghold.

Su Jin raised her right hand and flicked it gently.

A moon-white beam of light blasted out.

The outer shell of the meteorite vaporized upon impact, revealing the metal alloy cabin inside.

The cabin door was wide open, and the inside was completely empty.

Su Jin's gaze turned cold, and with a flash of her figure, she entered the cabin.

The inside of the cabin was in complete disarray.

Communication equipment had been violently destroyed, storage lockers looted clean, and traces of high-temperature burning remained on the walls.

On the metal floor in the center of the cabin lay a corpse.

Chen Fu.