Outside the Imperial Ruins lay a desolate starfield.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
A gigantic Cosmic Starship, shaped like a purple-black pillar that held up the heavens, streaked through space at tremendous speed!
In the realworld dock, this heaven-supporting pillar was probably over ten billion meters long. Like an infinitely enlarged club-shaped eonic artifact, it was cold and rigid, its surface glittering with the dazzling, sumptuous black-gold radiance of origin divine patterns.
This was the Northguard, a renowned vessel belonging to the Divine Tomb Cult's Northguard Bureau. As the bureau's starship for transporting nebula offerings, both its offensive power and its defenses were top-notch.
Both its primary construction materials and the astral sea formation at its core had reached the lesser light-trillion grade, making the Northguard a light-trillion-grade Cosmic Starship!
The Northguard Star King was a tenth-level destiny eonic god. His ability to command a light-trillion-grade Cosmic Starship came purely from his position. Once he left that exceedingly lucrative post, he would certainly have to surrender the Northguard.
In other words, the Northguard itself existed to protect the Divine Tomb Cult's wealth. It was not his personal possession.
Within the Imperial Ruins, the relationships between the Imperial Dynasty's power structure, the clans, and the Divine Tomb Cult's upper ranks were tangled and complex. The Northguard Star King cultivated friendships far and wide and moved easily among them. Naturally, he had plenty of tricks up his sleeve and was willing to go all out.
At that moment, inside the Northguard!
In the main hall, where an alluring atmosphere hung amid soft, colorful lights, a tall, thin old man with a hooked nose and an air of lofty authority sat firmly in the seat of honor, his legs spread.
Before him stood more than fifty young beauties, without a single man among them. Their