The Fifth Mainland lacked the time for their talents to fully grow into their own power, but Arch-Elder Zen's Progenitor breakthrough had given Lu Yin hope. So what if the four ruling powers did not approve? They had no right to rule the Fifth Mainland.

Lu Yin picked up his vibrating wireless jincan. "Dao Chosen, this is Astral-1."

"Has your Stargazing Deck been destroyed?" asked Lu Yin.

"It was the four ruling powers. They sent an Envoy. Immediately after destroying the Stargazing Deck, he killed himself by self-destruction. He left no evidence behind whatsoever."

"It doesn’t matter. It's fine," Lu Yin sent back.

Truthfully, he was not at all indifferent to the matter, but with the Stargazing Decks already destroyed, there was nothing that he could do about it. He could only continue to protect the Stargazing Deck in Astral-10.

"A pearl emerged from the ruins of the Stargazing Deck."

"A pearl? What do you mean by that?" asked Lu Yin, puzzled.

"It’s just a pearl. It looks perfectly normal, just like the ones that people wear as jewelry. The only special aspect about it is that it survived the destruction of the Stargazing Deck. I’ve contacted several of the other academy branches, and all of them also found a pearl in the ruins of their Stargazing Decks as well."

"Wait for me," Lu Yin replied. He then told Astral-10’s headmaster that he would be leaving for a bit before making his way for the other...