The Shining Star Above The Heaven

The avatar kept staying in the inn after he made a mess of the city last night. He only came out when the investigators were checking the entire area and searching every establishment in detail.

He was also checked, but no one found out that he was the culprit. It was already within his expectations, as there was no way those people could identify him based on his appearance or energy.

Even if someone realized he was using a disguise technique and asked to see his true face, they still would not know whether he was one of the killers. After all, none of them had ever seen his real face. And when they checked his energy, there would be no trace of Tarius’ energy within his body.

In his mind, his method of hiding was perfect.

Now that the city had fallen into chaos, it would create confusion throughout the domain and even across the Second Heaven. Some might doubt the true culprit behind this chaos, but many more would continue to believe that it had indeed been caused by Tarius’ followers, as they were already in a hostile situation at this moment.

With the chaos spreading, combined with what happened in Su City, the attention of many powers would be diverted toward these attacks.

Many would confused, and this included Tarius’ followers themselves. Aldrian’s plan would leave Tarius’ followers confused, but they would have no way to prove anything. The hostility of the people toward them would keep increasing.

Rudraf was only one part of the plan, and there were still many places that needed to receive the same treatment. He would give those nobles fear and uncertainty. He would make all those powers increase their hostility toward Tarius’ followers.

He would make all of them kill each other more earnestly.

Luckily, he had many tricks he could use to create chaos. Although, as an avatar, he was not as strong as his real body and even a middle Immortal Saint Stage cultivator could endanger him, he had already been given a storage ring filled with many items from his real body.

Inside the ring were various talismans from Xuanji that he could use. The powerful talisman that had unleashed an attack capable of endangering a peak Immortal Saint cultivator last night was only one of those talismans.

It was a talisman that contained a powerful formation. Once activated, it would create a formation that unleashed a devastating attack.

There were also other talismans, such as concealment talismans and escaping talismans. All of them were useful for his mission.

’I’ll need to kill more tonight. Tonight will be the peak of the show, and it will give the resistance group more room for movement.’

The avatar thought with a smile.

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While the avatar in Rudraf was already carrying out his part of the mission, the other avatar had not yet arrived at the central region of heaven. After passing through many checkpoints, he decided to stay for the night in one of the cities.

He thought that he also needed to learn more about this domain before investigating the central region of heaven. As he passed through many cities, he realized that he could find a great deal of important information that might prove useful in the future war.

This domain was the place with the least influence from the resistance group. A domain that was directly under the temple’s rule was not something that the resistance group could easily infiltrate.

In this domain, temple members could be seen everywhere, and their overall power was truly impressive. The security in each city was also top-notch, with many members seemingly taking note of everyone entering or leaving the city.

Unlike other domains, where the ruler would grant the powers within their territory a certain degree of autonomy, everything in this domain was carried out according to the temple’s will. With such absolute control over the domain, there was no way the resistance group could operate here as they did in other domains.

They had to rely on traditional methods, hiding within their secret bases. The scale of those bases was also much smaller than those found in other domains.

The information gathered by them also could not quickly reach the outside domains, as they had to be careful not to get caught.

Moreover, it was rumored that this domain possessed the weakest heavenly laws in the Second Heaven, allowing Avergis to unleash a portion of his power here.

The avatar was currently in a city called the First Tower City. The city was given such a name because it was one of the cities where a tower stood at its center. The tower pierced the clouds, and it was far from an ordinary structure.

The temple members referred to it as the Tower of God’s Sovereign.

Across the Heavenly Temple Domain, there were nine such towers located in nine different cities. All of those cities were named according to the order in which the towers had been built.

Like the city where the avatar currently was, the First Tower City was named after the first tower ever built in this domain. It was located in the southern region of the domain.

The tower was one of the symbols of the temple’s power and one of the sacred places for all of its members. Every ten years, countless temple members would make a journey to these towers to demonstrate their faith and loyalty to Avergis.

It was a pilgrimage for them.

Another piece of information the avatar had learned from the resistance group was that the towers’ secret.

They were actually artifacts.

They were massive artifacts belonging to the temple from the higher heavens. Each of them was positioned symmetrically within nine cities, forming the foundation of a giant formation that covered the entire domain.

It was said that the formation functioned as a tool that helped Avergis weaken the heavenly laws within this domain specifically, which in turn also affected the heavenly laws of the Second Heaven as a whole.

It could be said that the existence of these towers helped Avergis gain control over the heavenly laws of Second Heaven much faster, and they continued to help him maintain it.

The avatar, who was watching the tower, could not help but smirk. He could sense the immense amount of faith energy contained within it. He was not surprised, as that place was one of the most sacred places for the followers of Avergis.

Moreover, the towers had become places of pilgrimage for all temple members. He understood how Avergis’ followers could help their god weaken the heavenly laws in this place.

Basically, what they did was not much different from how Tarius’ followers in the Barisan Continent had tried to weaken the heavenly laws above the continent so Tarius could descend.

In this case, however, they were helping their god gain control over the heavenly laws of the Second Heaven more easily.

’I wonder what kind of face Avergis will make if I create my domain there,’ the avatar thought.

At that time, Avergis would instantly realize that he was already so close to the central region of the heaven. He would likely send a large number of cultivators from the higher heavens to strengthen the domain.

He might even descend with an avatar of his own, just as Tarius had done in the First Heaven.

’I wonder if his avatar descends, will it be able to withstand my full power? Could it withstand the entire power of the First Heaven?’

The avatar imagined that such a battle might destroy an entire domain. But as long as the battle took place in this domain, he did not mind.

The avatar continued to walk through the streets, where every few seconds he would pass temple members. But despite the sacred atmosphere created by the tower’s existence and the large number of temple members, the activities of the common people in the city continued as usual.

They were still busy with their jobs and daily lives.

The avatar thought about how he should obtain the information he wanted while occasionally glancing at the tower in the distance. There was no better place than the temple itself to gather information. However, he could not simply enter the temple while relying only on the energy of Avergis’ followers.

In this city, he had to move carefully if he did not want something to go wrong with his disguise. If he kept displaying that energy recklessly, sooner or later someone would discover that he was not one of Avergis’ envoys from the higher heavens.

The avatar looked at the temple members walking along the streets, and suddenly something came to his mind. He wanted to slap his own face as he felt stupid for forgetting one of his plans besides gathering information.

’Didn’t I want to put all the blame on Tarius’ followers? Why am I thinking so hard about how to gather information? I can just go to the temple, and if something goes wrong, I can simply make Tarius’ followers the scapegoats.’

He felt stupid because he was too focused on the information-gathering part. If "Tarius’ followers" could appear here, he imagined that it would create even more confusion and panic among Avergis’ followers.

He decided to simply walk toward the temple, but then he entered a small alleyway where no one could see him.

He took out a talisman from his storage ring. This time, the talisman functioned as a concealment talisman. Once he activated it, his body would disappear from everyone’s sight.

Even peak Immortal Saint cultivators would not be able to sense him, and the effect would last for two hours.

He decided not to use his best concealment technique, which used death laws, as he feared that Avergis could sense it.

He was also not confident that any concealment technique less complex than that would be enough, as there were many powerful cultivators in this place.

After activating it, he instantly made his way toward the tower.