Crushing them by force would ultimately mean his own people bleeding, which was what the Sun Emperor had been unwilling to do from the start.
But now, not only had fifty million people bled, they had also died. The means no longer mattered.
This time, the Sun Emperor had only lost due to Li Wushuang's affair, through a "fortunate coincidence." And he had not lost to the Nine Dragon Imperial Army, but to Xuanyuan Dragon Sect's foundations—to the Nine Dragon Emperor and the hundred thousand Dragon Emperors!
Following that declaration came the Sun Palace's super eruption!
At that moment, Li Tianming smelled the scent of the end of the world.
For an instant, it was as though he had lost his hearing. All he could see was the dazzling sun above his head expanding as it crashed down upon him. In truth, the power erupting from this astralship was so explosively violent that it had temporarily deafened him.
There was nothing he could do.
He could only hold onto the spirit threads of the formation, contribute his strength alongside everyone else, and resist the Sun Palace's overwhelming divine might with the firmest willpower possible.
When he had gone on a killing spree earlier and executed Candle Dragon Emperor and the others, too much Omnisentient Will had gathered upon him, causing his own will to surge wildly. Given time, he would certainly have broken through in cultivation, becoming even stronger than Ye Lingfeng. But against an enemy at the Emperor realm, this increase in power was meaningless!
He was short by a thousand years of an Emperor's cultivation.
And this sun was the Sun Emperor's territory. Everything lay under his command; even the Heavenly Palace seemed to have been cowed by him. If the number of Emperors on a single star