Li Tianming's exchange with Zi Zhen had not escaped the people around them.
At that moment, they were all moved.
None of them had expected Zi Zhen to choose this way to help Li Tianming.
But the bearing of an empress she had shown had stirred them too.
Especially Granny Yin, who belonged to the Ghost God race.
She stared at Zi Zhen in astonishment. The purple-clad Ghost God possessed a presence that made even Granny Yin want to bow before her. It was something the Ghost God bloodlines had inherited from birth, a feeling buried deep in their blood!
With that decision, Zi Zhen had resolved the immediate problem before them.
But the situation remained dire.
"Time is short. I'll have to take this Grandlight Illumination to the Zhantian Emperor Star and absorb it there," Zi Zhen said.
"I'll take you there first." Li Tianming nodded and led her to the Nine Dragons Imperial Tomb.
The Flameyellow Divine Path opened!
It was the fastest way to travel through the universe. Before long, it brought Zi Zhen near the Zhantian Emperor Star!
Of course, opening and traveling through the divine path still took time.
In a battle, even that brief delay could bring a drastic change. A plan to send reinforcements between the two fronts was out of the question.
Beyond the exit of the Flameyellow Divine Path hung an emperor-class astral source: the Zhantian Emperor Star!
Dense, violent astral-source power swirled around it, steeped in the aura of hellish evil ghosts!
Its emperor-class defensive formation was now active.
Countless black, hellish evil ghosts swept and darted beyond the astral source like one savage storm after another, their ghostly wails enough to chill the blood.
Before leaving, Zi Zhen looked at Li Tianming.
At that moment, her slender purple figure