"Ye Ling!!!"
Upon hearing the Overseer's words, A Yun's expression also changed drastically. She quickly looked at Ye Ling and asked via telepathy, "Should we escape?"
"No! Don't make any rash moves!" Ye Ling quickly told A Yun. He calmed down rapidly, his gaze sweeping across their surroundings. He noticed that everyone else was also experiencing intense emotional fluctuations, which slightly relieved him.
Then, Ye Ling transmitted his thoughts to A Yun again, "The Overseer said there's a mole among us. There are two of us, so it might not necessarily be us they've found."
A Yun exclaimed in surprise, "Are you saying someone else has infiltrated the Central Sky Tower?"
"Perhaps... We can only hope it's not us who were discovered. Don't make any rash moves, hold your breath and focus your mind. Let's not communicate with each other anymore!"
Ye Ling instructed A Yun via telepathy, then severed his connection with her and stood tensely in place.
Now, the atmosphere in the entire ninth-level space had become incredibly eerie.
Ye Ling enveloped his heart with spiritual energy, enduring the sharp pain as he squeezed his heart, forcing his rapidly beating heart to slow down.
Fine beads of cold sweat appeared on Ye Ling's forehead.
The Overseer's gaze swept over everyone on the ground. Ye Ling felt as if needles were piercing his soul, making him incredibly uncomfortable.
The ninth-level space was deathly silent.
A Yun, who was beside him, had also been very scared. But when she sensed Ye Ling's heartbeat becoming steady and his emotions showing no fluctuations, her own heart gradually stabilized, and her emotions became more composed.
The Overseer's gaze lingered on A Yun and Ye Ling for a moment before moving away. He then declared loudly, "Mole hidden within, reveal yourself. I will grant you a swift end, and you will suffer less pain."
Ye Ling pretended not to hear the Overseer's words, continuing to squeeze his heart with spiritual energy, enduring the sharp pain to control his heartbeat.
A moment of silence followed in the ninth-level space.
Still, no one responded to the Overseer.
The Overseer's gaze fell upon the area where Ye Ling was standing and said, "Since you refuse to come out, I will personally drag you out."
A laser beam shot out from the Overseer's eyes, heading towards Ye Ling's location!
A Yun's expression changed slightly as she saw the laser beam descending from above. But before she could react, the laser beam zipped past her and Ye Ling, heading towards a white-clothed maiden not far away!
Clang!!!
Just as the laser beam was about to pierce the white-clothed maiden, a large purple sword materialized in her hand, deflecting the laser beam!
"Blocked the Overseer's attack?"
Ye Ling's pupils contracted as he saw the white-clothed maiden directly opposite him deflect the laser beam fired by the Overseer. A storm of shock surged within him!
Ye Ling's eyes couldn't even track that laser beam just now!
If that laser beam had been aimed at him, he would likely have died on the spot!
The white-haired maiden who deflected the laser beam also realized she had been exposed. Her expression turned extremely grim. She immediately sprouted six wings from her back, transforming into a white light and soaring into the sky, cleaving the ninth-level space open with a single sword strike!
Quite a few white-clothed youths and maidens around the stone tower, seeing the six-winged woman dare to resist the Overseer, all rose into the air and attacked the six-winged woman.
"Severing the Illusory!"
The six-winged woman let out a cold snort, swinging her greatsword in a circle. The ninth-level space was once again shattered, and those who charged towards the six-winged woman were all sliced in half by the sword energy she unleashed, turning into dust!
After killing a large number of island residents, the six-winged woman did not stop. She flew directly towards the space she had cleaved open!
However, before the six-winged woman could escape into the space she had opened, another laser beam shot out from the Overseer's giant eyes, piercing directly through the six-winged woman's chest!
Before the six-winged woman could even scream, her aura rapidly dissipated, and she plummeted from the sky.
Subsequently, a large amount of black energy surged around the six-winged woman. She was enveloped by the black energy and disappeared mid-fall.
The shattered space slowly healed, and the ninth-level space gradually returned to its calm state.
Ye Ling stared blankly at the clear sky, the scene from moments ago replaying endlessly in his mind.
Who was that six-winged woman?
Could it be that besides him, someone else was secretly resisting the Overseer?
Were those people friends or foes?
Did Shan E know about the existence of those people?
For a moment, Ye Ling's thoughts were in utter chaos. He realized that he might have only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of this grand scheme!
"Ye Ling!"
At this moment, A Yun's voice echoed in Ye Ling's mind, interrupting his thoughts and bringing him back to reality.
"Ye Ling, the Overseer has issued a new command. We are to ambush in the ninth-level space and wait for your clones to ascend."
Hearing A Yun's words, Ye Ling exhaled a breath of turbid air and said, "Mm... Be careful with everything. If the Overseer discovers us, we might not even have a chance to struggle."
"Okay."
A Yun nodded, leading Ye Ling away from the crowd and into a sparsely populated forest to hide.
As for the giant eyes in the sky, after taking away the six-winged woman, they disappeared, seemingly to interrogate her.
After Ye Ling settled down, he withdrew the spiritual energy that was compressing his heart and found that his heart had developed cracks.
If he had continued to compress it for a moment longer, his heart would have shattered.
Ye Ling let out a long sigh. While using his Creation Power to repair his heart, he asked A Yun, "A Yun, who was that woman with six wings on her back?"
Ye Ling could sense that the woman with six wings, like him, did not follow the cultivation routes of Chaos Sovereign or Great Dao Immortal Lord, but a completely new cultivation system.
Her strength even surpassed that of supreme experts like Jian San Xiao, who possessed two seed sources.
That six-winged woman was practically a perfected version of Emperor Ancestor!
A Yun shook her head, "I don't know... Ever since I was born, I've been monitoring the Origin Upper Realm from Tianyun Island, but I've never seen anyone like her?"
Ye Ling said solemnly, "Could she also be Emperor Ancestor?"
A Yun replied, "The Overseer said that in the entire world, there is only one Emperor Ancestor. Ye Ling, you are already Emperor Ancestor, so she cannot be."
"But what if there's more than one world?" Ye Ling asked again.
"More than one world?" A Yun said in surprise.
Ye Ling looked up at the place where the space had closed and said solemnly, "Although I don't know why... I have a feeling that the spatial rift the six-winged woman opened leads to a place that doesn't belong to any part of the Origin Upper Realm, nor any Origin Lower Realm."
"She... seems to be from a more distant world."