The power of the Starlight Holy Tower is, for the most part, wielded by the self.

Only by a cultivator themselves, painstakingly building up their Starry Sky Holy Tower stone by stone, does one gain the possibility of projecting power across vast distances.

From the perspective of the Starlight Holy Tower being the human body standing in the distant starry sky, expounding one’s ‘Dao’ to the universe, it possesses the potential to project power outwards. But even this is merely a ‘potential’.

For the distant starry sky is truly too distant.

It is an immeasurable, indescribable terror of distance.

Just as Jiang Wang knew in the Seven Stars World, the stars you behold might merely be projections of stars in myriad worlds. Where exactly is the true distant starry sky?

That is a place even sages can only define as ‘distant’.

Without the main body arriving, to project power upon the present world solely through the Starlight Holy Tower, traversing the distance of the distant starry sky, specifically influencing a certain cultivator within the present world…

Even in a place as ‘close’ to the distant starry sky as Star Moon Plain.

This was a power Yue Leng had never even conceived of.

Neither Yue Leng nor Li Youjiu could possibly accomplish such a feat, nor would they even consider it. To deal with an Inner Mansion realm Jiang Wang, at most, they would dispatch a God Arrival expert to act. What else could they do?

They were indeed fulfilling their duty, watching Jiang Wang every moment.

Yet change still unfolded before their very eyes…

And if tonight proceeded smoothly, under the gaze of two God Arrival level blue cards, Jiang Wang would undoubtedly be reliable and safe. Tracing back later, tonight would not arouse suspicion either…

On Star Moon Plain, Jiang Wang was in a daze, filled with doubt.

He unconsciously lifted his head, looking up at the square star in the night sky.

His heartbeat unconsciously followed the rhythm of that square star’s flicker.

Thump, thump, thump.

Constant, long, ice-cold.

“We need an equal world!”

That intimate voice, as if filled with benevolent intent, sounded once more in the depths of Jiang Wang’s heart.

Jiang Wang involuntarily murmured, “We, need…”

“Ah…”

Just at this moment.

Jiang Wang heard a light sigh.

This sigh was very gentle.

This gentleness was not the simple kind – friendly, kind, soft-spoken – but possessed a very strong inner heart, thus capable of calmly facing all the world.

True gentleness must be born from a strong inner heart.

And the light sigh that resonated at this moment was produced by the Yu Heng star power surrounding Jiang Wang.

The suddenly dense Yu Heng star power, like a hand, gently stroked his scalp.

Could it be Grandmaster Guan Yan?

A thought thus flashed through the depths of Jiang Wang’s heart.

At the same time, that square star that had been constantly flickering, in the gap between bright and dark, bright and dark, seemed to be held back by something, stopping precisely in a state of half-bright, half-dark, no longer flickering.

Vast amounts of Yu Heng star power, like warm spring water, quietly washed and cleansed Jiang Wang’s body, also soothing his spirit soul.

Jiang Qingyang’s secret technique for absorbing star power is indeed of the highest caliber. Yue Leng, observing from afar, could not help but think this.

And Li Youjiu, who had once again ‘opened his eyes’ to look at Jiang Wang, even vocalized this praise – “Such a Son of Heaven’s Providence indeed has extraordinary encounters. One doesn’t know where he learned this. Truly wondrous!”

They had discovered nothing.

But on Star Moon Plain, a silent ‘battle’ still continued.

In the haze, Jiang Wang was already involuntary. He harbored hatred and resentment, and was filled with bewilderment and confusion towards this world. He couldn’t help but say in his heart—

“This world, it shouldn’t be like this!”

This sentence seemed to be a kind of beginning, about to lead this not-yet-twenty-year-old youth towards another outcome…

And as the Yu Heng star power flowed slowly, Grandmaster Guan Yan’s gentle voice, perceived and accepted by Jiang Wang through the star power, rang out.

“Then, how should this world be?”

Jiang Wang’s true heart was also very willing to accept this voice. This was a senior close to him, a person he relatively trusted. So, he began to think again.

Guan Yan’s voice continued, “You have your ‘should’, he has his ‘should’.”

“Everyone desires their own world. Everyone’s desired world is impossible to be exactly the same.”

“Then, who do we listen to?”

“Who gets to decide?”

“Who is right?”

“How exactly should this world be?”

These voices slowly flowed in Jiang Wang’s heart.

Like a clear spring, they extremely gently washed away the gloom, and also brought sobriety to Jiang Wang.

“Do not say how this world should be. Do not impose your will upon the world. When you produce such thoughts, when you begin to think ‘how this world should be’, you have already stepped onto the wrong path.”

“No matter how great, how brilliant a person you are.”

“No matter how kind, how compassionate a sage you are.”

“The greater and more compassionate you are, the greater the sin you will commit.”

These words of Guan Yan sounded sentence by sentence in Jiang Wang’s heart. But they were not merely spoken to him, but seemed to be in dialogue with that non-flickering square star in a form Jiang Wang could not understand.

“To demand others with your standards is already harsh; to demand the world with your standards is to be wicked without realizing it, you are a demon among demons.”

“Rather than asking what kind of world you want.”

“Better to ask what kind of self you want.”

Through the Yu Heng star power, Guan Yan finally said, “You, are the world itself.”

In the night sky, that moment of the square star dimmed in silence.

And on Star Moon Plain, Jiang Wang opened his eyes.

Guan Yan’s voice was a kind of ‘Vedic chant’, a collision of this Dao and that Dao in Jiang Wang’s heart.

That square star’s voice had already influenced Jiang Wang’s mind first. And the initial lead came from Cui Zhu during the Grandmaster’s ceremony, and Zhang Yong within the Nine Returns Marquis’ spirit shrine.

Even if Cui Zhu and Zhang Yong had not actively done this, some terrifying existence had, through them, buried a seed in the depths of Jiang Wang’s heart.

And on Star Moon Plain tonight, it was urged to grow.

Guan Yan’s formidable aspect lay in this: while using this Dao to collide with that Dao, he simultaneously stopped that square star from ‘speaking’ again.

Compared to the two individuals discussing Dao with Jiang Wang as the battlefield, that square star laid the first hand, setting a ‘fixed view’ for Jiang Wang, causing Jiang Wang to naturally lean towards it.

And Guan Yan, after saying a few sentences from the opposite side, sealed the other side’s mouth.

Then, victory and defeat were self-evident.

No matter how strong the ‘fixed view’, after that side closes its mouth, this side can slowly turn back.

“Just now, that was…”

As that square star dimmed, Jiang Wang seemed to hear a muffled hum, but it was also vague and unclear.

It seemed… to be a female voice.

Guan Yan’s voice, perceived by him through the Yu Heng star power, carried a hidden, gentle smile: “Haven’t seen you in a few days, little friend, who have you provoked again?”

This voice thoroughly washed away the gloom.

Jiang Wang’s mind was only now completely sober, and he thought clearly about the cause and effect.

A sudden sense of lingering fear rose in his heart. The Equality Country is indeed an organization capable of stirring up that kind of scale; he had almost fallen into a trap just now!

“It’s an organization called the Equality Country,” he replied in his heart.

“Never heard of them.”

Guan Yan said, “But the one who influenced you just now was not their main body descending. That person relied on the relative proximity between Star Moon Plain and the distant starry sky, projecting power through the Starlight Holy Tower, and then using a nearby expert as a bridge to influence you. When I say nearby, I mean the vicinity of Star Moon Plain. I cannot see beyond Star Moon Plain, so I cannot provide much suggestion, but it’s likely in the northwest direction… If you let your friend go search now, perhaps you can find some clues.”

My friend?

Jiang Wang was momentarily stunned, only then realizing that Guan Yan was likely referring to the experts secretly following him from the Patrol Inspection Office.

Although he didn’t know where those people were hiding, he could always find a way to contact them, it was just…

He said in his heart, “Letting people discover your existence, I’m truly sorry…”

Guan Yan’s voice seemed to smile: “Although I have no desire to step foot in the present world now, I also have nothing to hide. This starlight is like me, flowing as before for a thousand years. If they discover me, then so be it.”