Chapter 678: Chapter 375: The Enemy Finally Takes Notice (Part 2)
Plus, using Gray Mist for bluffing, the odds of success aren’t low, at least over fifty percent.
However, all Shen Yu actually understand the danger in this situation.
Especially as the Association’s level continues to rise.
Gray Mist Space is indeed powerful, but it can’t remain powerful forever.
Even if there’s no enormous danger or threatening conspiracy behind Gray Mist Space, as their power escalates, they will eventually hit a wall and encounter enemies that even Gray Mist Space cannot resolve.
At that time, they will have to rely on themselves.
Yet if they form a massive dependence on Gray Mist Space, to the point of sheer necessity, then once Gray Mist Space can no longer fulfill its past roles, it will be an apocalypse for the Association.
In a sense, this is one of the key reasons why the Association attaches so much importance to this war.
They must learn to endure pressure, to achieve victory under circumstances that aren’t favorable.
Of course, this isn’t about being reckless.
After the meeting ended, all Shen Yu continued their tasks.
They refined their civilization’s war preparation system, ensuring they could actively prepare without hindering the civilization’s development, to face any potential emergencies.
Meanwhile, they accelerated their infiltration tasks into the Great Wind Empire.
Not just Daluo Golden Immortals, even some powerful Taiyi Golden Immortals were brought in.
They even started using the personnel already infiltrated to cover the inappropriate behaviors and loopholes of the subsequent infiltrating members.
This naturally increased the likelihood of the other side detecting the infiltration conduct.
However, this was ultimately the time of the Emperor’s seclusion, everything was prioritized for stability, and some infiltrated personnel were already blended into the upper echelons!
Among them, the personnel replaced by interstellar world Shen Yu, has surprisingly reached the Twelfth Realm under its enhancement!
Even though quite a bit of Gray Mist was consumed for this, it was evidently worth it.
In the entire Great Wind Empire, reaching the Twelfth Realm automatically endowed one with the identity of "King".
There are less than fifty with this status openly.
This identity, in the absence of the Emperor, constitutes the first tier of the entire Great Wind Empire’s power hierarchy.
It’s imaginable how much convenience this incarnation of interstellar world Shen Yu brought for the Association’s infiltration.
And as the focus of the Association’s infiltration, the Resource World had long been silently penetrated, riddled like a sieve.
Personnel from the Association exist at every level.
Should war break out in full scale, the Association is confident it can promptly seize the Resource World originating from Force number two.
Yet, as the Association hurriedly accelerates penetration, a few high-ranking members within the Great Wind Empire finally noticed the issue at hand.
However, since this concerns their imperial comrades, they dare not make unjust proclamations.
After all, the silent betrayal of the empire’s upper echelons, or even their control and replacement, is indeed alarming.
If it were exposed, it could easily incite chaos.
Finally, after a century of covert investigation, those top members who found clues selected a few verified loyal Kings to gather together.
There were about seventeen of them.
When the secret meeting commenced, hearing of the situation, even those terrifying existences of the Twelfth Realm were profoundly shocked.
"Is there truly a King betraying Our Emperor?" Some seemed unable to believe.
Although in terms of Realm, they and the Great Wind Emperor were on the same level, the system of the Great Wind Empire was clear.
The Emperor is supreme.
Loyalty likewise surpasses all, even exceeding any ability or power.
Under such circumstances, reaching the Realm of a King generally signifies absolute loyalty, otherwise it would be impossible to reach such a level.
But, as the host of the meeting presented a series of evidence.
Especially in the loyalty assessment, clear loopholes had emerged.
This situation made everyone acutely aware of the severity.
It’s known that there indeed are numerous issues within the Great Wind Empire, especially in management.
After all, Extraordinaries prioritize personal Mighty Power, everything else is external, only Extraordinary Level and Extraordinary Power are truly theirs, some corruption or even injustice is not uncommon.
But what prevents these problems from affecting the entire civilization is precisely the loyalty to the Emperor!
That is the core of everything, totally established in cultural creation and loyalty assessment.
Yet now, even the loyalty assessment has become problematic.
Even though the issue seems small, the iceberg hidden beneath has begun to show!
"Initially, we thought it was internal corruption." The host’s face was heavy, "So we followed clues, conducting further covert investigation, it took some time, but we didn’t expect some behind-the-scenes actors sacrificed some personal interest for no personal gain."
"Is it the enemy?" Some participants of the meeting could already perceive the implication.
Though not explicitly named, for the Empire today, there is only one entity that qualifies as "enemy".
It’s precisely the All Heavens Forces behind the High Tower World.
"Precisely due to this possibility, we must be cautious." The host glanced around at the others, the pressure he carried already surging, "We all know the might of the All Heavens Forces behind the High Tower World, ever since discovering the High Tower World we’ve conducted three proactive probing attacks but all resulted in failure, before we didn’t understand why the opponent didn’t counterattack us, so there was some hope, but now, if the betrayal traces we found internally are their doing, it will be extremely dire."
This series of remarks all point to one thing.
They misjudged the strength of the All Heavens Forces behind the High Tower World!
Though every series of attacks before was unsuccessful, they maintained the initiative in offense.
Just waiting for the Emperor’s emergence to launch a new attack.
And the opponent showed no retaliation, representing insufficient strength regardless of reason.
But now, the opponent’s retaliation tactics have arrived, and so stealthy that the truth is hard to distinguish.
This indicates that it’s highly likely the opponent was preoccupied with other matters, and only now truly begins preparing to deal with them.
"Caution is warranted, but no need to scare ourselves." A strong participant in the meeting wasn’t as pessimistic, "Since we discovered the opponent’s traces, let’s dig deeper along them, see their infiltration depth and intelligence, unless necessary we shouldn’t disturb the Holy Emperor’s training, but if the situation worsens beyond our capability to resolve, the Holy Emperor will naturally be alerted."
This view was widely accepted by many.
Ultimately, they’ve confronted All Heavens Forces before.
Within such a system, the Emperor always becomes their source of courage.
When the upper echelons of a civilization maintain absolute loyalty, internal chaos and panic rarely arise.
Therefore, this meeting marks the moment the upper echelon of the Great Wind Emperor starts dealing with the Association’s infiltration.
And as their investigative measures deepen and intensify, the Association quickly becomes aware.
"In the past decade, we’ve lost thirty consciousness incarnations of infiltrators." Shen Yu also convened an internal meeting and announced the situation, "And it’s gradually expanding, everyone, the opponent has noticed us and apparently intends not to alarm their Emperor."
