The crowd fell silent for a moment. A dropped pin would have been heard.
Then someone shouted.
"What!?"
The uproar erupted so fiercely it threatened to shake the Myriad Emperors Ranking inside the Myriad Emperors Palace to the ground!
"It's Yu Zhao of the Formless Jade Clan! Who would've thought the first person to choose Li Tianming would be from a Guardian Imperial Clan—and one of its top talents at that!"
"Most Guardian Imperial Clan talents can become Young Emperors themselves by the time they're a few tens of thousands of years old, or head out to fight across the galaxies as disciples of Great Emperors. Hardly any would willingly join someone else's army."
"Besides, with Yu Zhao's age and strength, he should've become a Young Emperor long ago!"
Li Tianming was surprised too. "Senior Brother Yu, you still haven't passed the Young Emperor Trial?"
Yu Zhao lifted his chin and puffed out his chest. "When you saved me, I only had one floor left in the Young Emperor Tower. In theory, I could've cleared it with a few more tries."
"But all these years, I haven't gone back!"
Shock swept through the crowd. Before Li Tianming could ask, someone called out, "Junior Brother Yu, what do you mean?"
By then, everyone interested in Li Tianming's recruitment had gathered at the Myriad Emperors Battlefield.
So even without Li Tianming's dual amplification from the Lungs of Primordial Chaos and the projection, Yu Zhao could make himself heard.
"What you may not know is that I once believed a cosmic pirate's lies and nearly died at the hands of those thieves."
"Junior Brother Li saved me. I had intended to attempt the final floor of the Young Emperor Tower then, but on our way back to the Heavenly Emperor Sect, I thought