"Do you have a solution?" Zi Zhen asked.
Li Tianming said, "When I first returned, with the Emperor's feedback, as long as I was around, their breakthrough speed would greatly increase. Compared to when I first arrived in the Upper Starry Ruins, the Yanhuang descendants in every Creation-grade world are actually much stronger now. In many Creation-grade worlds, there are already hundreds or even thousands of Eonic Gods. They've essentially taken down all the Creation-grade worlds across the Upper Starry Ruins. Most have even seized the stellar guardian formations. The only thing we fear now is the large-scale invasion of Creation-grade worlds by Eonic Gods from the Myriad Universe-grade worlds of the Eight Divinities."
"They've become that strong?" Zi Zhen was somewhat astonished.
Back when they were at the Three Midheaven Stars, she remembered that Long Star had only one Eonic God, while the Eight Divinities had fewer than twenty Eonic Gods in total.
And now, every Creation-grade world had hundreds or thousands?
"They're what I worry about most. Otherwise, did you think I'd been wasting my time all these years?" Li Tianming smiled. "To be honest, as long as I give the order now, nearly all the Creation-grade worlds in the Upper Starry Ruins can be conquered and brought fully under control. My Yanhuang descendants have been lying low and cultivating in hardship all this time, waiting for this very moment."
"Taking them is easy. Holding them is difficult," Mu Shanfeng said.
If the Upper Starry Ruins was a colossal stellar empire controlled by the Eight Divinities, then the Creation-grade worlds were villages and towns. The Yanhuang descendants were powerful in those villages and towns, able to surround the cities at any time, yet they still feared the entire Eonic God army in those cities descending to suppress them.