World Version Updates-Chapter 512 - 318: Glorious Representative

Only upon Lu Yan's second spoken word did they suddenly realize that the other party was also acquainted with this enigmatic Mr. Lu.

Moreover, seeing their respectful and submissive demeanor before Mr. Lu, it was evident that his identity and strength were far more terrifying than they had imagined.

As those who have gradually ascended to such high positions in this complex environment, Shaq and Sain were naturally not simple-minded brutes.

In their minds, thoughts whirled like flashes of lightning.

In just a moment, the two seemed to reach a tacit understanding, both revealing a meaningful smile and exchanging a glance once more.

Before today's City Council meeting commenced, both of them had been secretly worried.

Intelligence indicated that the City Council faction, nominally in control of the council, seemed to have recently recruited a large number of powerful reincarnators as reinforcements. They were likely to use today's meeting to challenge their enforcement team and the resistance, thereby seizing greater power.

They had even privately discussed whether the enforcement team and the resistance could temporarily set aside their differences, unite under some pretense, and collectively resist the pressure from the City Council.

But now, with the appearance of the mysterious and formidable Lu Yan, revered by both sides, this issue seemed to have been resolved effortlessly.

So long as they could leverage Mr. Lu's name, their alliance had the most solid, undisputed reason.

As Shaq and Sain quickly reached a strategic consensus through a brief exchange of glances,

on the other side, someone within the City Council faction finally couldn't hold back any longer.

Seated atop the council podium, a distinguished extraordinary spiritual energy user dressed in a sophisticated silver-white formal suit, handsome yet with eyes exuding an icy coldness, was seated.

His cold gaze fixed upon Lu Yan, who had just entered the hall and immediately became the center of attention, and Shaq and Sain, who stepped forward to greet him. There was a barely noticeable trace of anger in his eyes.

He slowly raised the small hammer symbolizing the authority of the chairman in his hand and lightly struck it against the table in front of him.

"Dong!"

The crisp collision sound, transmitted instantly through amplifying equipment, reverberated throughout the enormous council hall, invigorating everyone present and drawing their attention to him.

"Silence!" The chairman in the silver-white formal suit declared in an unfeeling, commanding tone.

"The council has officially commenced! All latecomers, and those irrelevant to the agenda, leave immediately! Do not disrupt the council's proper order!"

At these words, Shaq's expression instantly darkened.

He suddenly turned his head, his gaze sharp as a sword directed towards Chairman Evans on the podium, with unconcealed anger and threat in his tone: "Evans! Who did you just call irrelevant?"

Shaq was long aware of this Evans.

He was placed in City No.14 as a white glove for a high-ranking figure within the Universal Giant Corporation, ostensibly representing that senior's support for the city. In reality, he was merely hedging bets and playing both sides to maximize profits for himself and his master.

For such indecisive, profit-driven characters, Shaq had little regard.

Previously, he had kept Evans in the chairman position only to gain more intelligence about the movements of the Intelligent God from within the Universal Giant Corporation, facilitating their response.

But now, with the Intelligent God's Celestial Dome expanding, the power structure within the corporation had shifted drastically, and those once high-ranking figures saw their power diminished, barely able to fend for themselves.

In Shaq's view, Evans had long lost his original utility.

If not for the fact that Evans, in recent days, had somehow successfully recruited a group of exceptionally powerful reincarnators as a backing, Shaq would have seized an opportunity to remove him from the chairman position long ago.

Chairman Evans, however, did not personally respond to Shaq's fury.

Instead, a burly middle-aged man standing behind him stepped forward.

A faint yet terrifying aura of a Divinity Transformation Realm expert emanated from him, pressing down upon everyone present like an invisible mountain.

In this world, the path of spiritual ability users normally ended at the Authority Angel level, the limit for mortals.

Even the most powerful Authority Angel level spiritual ability users present, like Shaq and Quentin, had combat power roughly equivalent to cultivators at the Nascent Soul Stage in the cultivation system.

Yet now, the aura exuded by the middle-aged man was unmistakably that of a Divinity Transformation Realm powerhouse.

Confronted with such terrifying pressure, all of City No.14's local spiritual ability users present, including Shaq, felt a deadly threat from deep within their souls, their breathing growing somewhat labored.

More alarming was that behind Chairman Evans stood several such terrifying reincarnators possessing Divinity Transformation Realm strength.