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Chapter 591: Chapter 590: Cross-Border Great Demon

“You don’t know about the cross-world demons?” The small vendor looked surprised. This was common knowledge.

Jiang Li calmly replied, “We are conducting interviews to investigate public awareness of certain basic knowledge.”

“Cross-world demons, they are the enemies that came to our world from other worlds. Their arrival points throughout the universe are unpredictable, and they wreak havoc wherever they land, slaughtering wildly and attacking nearby planets.”

“Every four to five hundred years, a cross-world demon appears. They come in different forms, looking like a mix of several species.”

“The cross-world demons are powerful, their aura impacting the entire universe. Only our three leaders, leading dozens of powerhouses in the Body Integration Realm, along with interstellar soldiers, can combine the strength of the entire world to counter this threat.”

“The three leaders?”

“They are the Eternal Controllers residing in the Three Mother Stars. Is this also part of your interview questions?” The vendor looked at Jiang Li and his companions suspiciously. This was such basic knowledge; even children knew it.

He wondered if they were fake reporters who were going to scam him out of his goods after the interview, remembering a news story he had seen recently.

Jiang Li calmly packed up his microphone, signaling Bai Hongtu and Yu Yin to withdraw.

“Hello, we are journalists from ‘Nine States News’. May we ask you some questions?”

Doubt wasn’t a significant problem; they would just continue questioning someone else.

Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu played their roles as journalists convincingly, indirectly digging up history about this world through their interviews.

“After some hard interviews, we finally figured out what these three controllers and the cross-world demons are.”

Yu Yin held up a history book in her hand: “Why not just read this?”

Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu were dissatisfied with Yu Yin’s shortcut approach: “Do you think we didn’t think of this? It’s about the process. The important thing is the process.”

Yu Yin rolled her eyes and ignored the two jesters.

After living together for over five hundred years, she had long understood that arguing with fools was futile, especially when there were two of them.

Yu Yin cleared her throat and began, “Let me summarize this world for you.”

“Nine thousand years have passed in the Nine States World, six thousand years in the Observer’s World.”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“The habit of observing did not form in these six thousand years. This world has loved observing everything since ten thousand years ago, as far as records indicate.”

“Six thousand years ago, the first cross-world demon appeared. Officials claim that it’s the ultimate weapon created by another world intending to invade the Observer’s World.”

“In order to resist the invasion, the three leaders led the entire civilization to fight against the cross-world demon.”

“The three leaders, born seven thousand years ago, have a power level surpassing the Body Integration Realm, where the four basic forces unite. Although we don’t know how strong this so-called Body Integration Realm is, the realm of the three leaders should be at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage. However, according to the records in the books, these three leaders are not famous for their combat power. Each time they are on the verge of defeat by the cross-world demon, barely holding their own before they manage to turn the tides and repel the demon.”

“The cross-world demons appear every four to five hundred years. It’s been four hundred years since the last cross-world demon appeared. So, within a hundred years, there should be another demon crossing over.”

“If the cross-world demons are indeed Fallen Immortals, then these three leaders should have a method to counter them.”

No symbols of national fortune or similar were found on the Ninth Mother Star.

In fact, they didn’t find anything related to cultivation.

Jiang Li commented, “It’s normal to have such a method given their tech level. The observers… maybe this world knows something we don’t.”

Jiang Li suddenly laughed, “Have you tried to observe this planet using Divine Sense?”

“Huh?”

Bai Hongtu immediately expanded his Divine Sense.”

He then realized that the Ninth Mother Star was entirely made of steel, with only a thin layer of soil covering the surface.

“Instead of calling it steel, it’s more like a weapon,” Yu Yin murmured.

Considering the power of a weapon constructed by gutting a planet and replacing it with metal, how destructive could it be?

If this was an uninhabited planet, the three of them would have been curious to see how deadly this star-turned-weapon could be.

“But if this planet turns into a weapon, can the people on it survive?”

Jiang Li pondered this thought, asking the passerby, but none of them knew that the planet under their feet was not the original Ninth Mother Star anymore, but a deadly weapon.

“Perhaps the Star Weapon is one of the methods used by the three leaders.”

“Did you notice that the history books mention ‘repelling the cross-world demon,’ not ‘slaying the cross-world demon’? Could it be possible that the Fallen Immortals knew they were no match and left voluntarily?” The three of them were puzzled, as such an instance had never occurred in the history of the Nine States.

In the Nine States, the Heavenly Demons from beyond this realm only had one fate, death.

“Strange.”

It is worth noting that the Observer’s World has sparked their intrigue.

Suddenly, a noisy commotion interrupted their conversation.

“We demand Asteroid Corp. to reveal the truth and explain why our planet is a weapon!”

“We demand Asteroid Corp. to reveal the truth and explain why our planet is a weapon!”

A few hundred people gathered at the entrance of the Asteroid Corporation, creating a ruckus.

The Asteroid Corp. was not fazed by this. They merely sent security to disperse the crowd.

“Can I ask why you just said that the planet is actually a weapon?” Jiang Li asked many people, but none of them knew that the Ninth Mother Star was a weapon.

The man looked excitedly at Jiang Li and his companions. It was a good thing that they showed interest in their cause; this meant that their alliance was about to grow stronger.

Noticing Jiang Li was about to speak, the man realized that this was not the place to talk.

“Follow me.”

The man left the main group and led the trio to a coffee shop.

“Are you interested in our demonstration earlier?”

“We are somewhat interested.” Jiang Li nodded.

“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kong One of the Truth Alliance. Those at the entrance of the Asteroid Corporation earlier were all members of our alliance.”

“What is the Truth Alliance?”

“Nothing should be kept secret in this world. The Truth Alliance was established to pursue the truth.”

Kong One spoke mysteriously, “We suspect that the business magnates and the government are hiding the truth. For example, some of our alliance members work for Asteroid Corp.; one of them accidentally learned a secret – this planet is a weapon.”

“This weapon’s power is immense; once activated, no one on the planet will survive!”

“The planet we have always lived on is now a weapon, and no one knows. There must be a huge conspiracy involved. Asteroid Corp. must know something. I even suspect that the government has become a puppet of Asteroid Corp.”

“Why don’t you expose this matter online?” Jiang Li asked.

“It was revealed online, but it was quickly deleted by either the business consortium or the government. We had no choice but to protest around, urging people to be wary of Asteroid Corp.”

“Thankfully, our protest did have some effect. Look, it attracted you three.”

“Would the three of you like to join us in uncovering the truth?”