Aurora looked at Little Nine's body upon hearing this, then unexpectedly smiled. "Because the Divine Treasury Stones there are used to forge the nation's most important weapons. Their significance is immense. They differ from the Divine Treasury Stones elsewhere, and there are even heavy troops guarding them."
"What troops? I'll blow them all away in one breath," Little Nine said flatly.
"Little Nine, don't make things sound so simple. That's how you'll easily suffer losses out there." Aurora spoke earnestly, then patiently explained, "The Heavenly Treasury Province is guarded by the 'Divine Treasury Imperial Army' specially established by the Ganfeng Eternal Empire. That is an army from a level-three star system. Even you, Little Nine, as you are now, cannot simply seize it by force. Never mind whether you could take it down—even if you really did, causing too great a disturbance would draw powerful experts from Beacon Ruins. After all, Heavenly Treasury Province is actually quite close to Beacon Ruins."
"Close to Beacon Ruins? That really is troublesome." Li Tianming frowned slightly at this.
The combat strength at the fringes of a stellar empire and that of its capital were on entirely different levels.
In the world of cultivators, the higher one's status and position, the stronger one's personal strength and battle power tended to be in most cases.
And if something happened in Heavenly Treasury Province, it would tug one hair and move the whole body. Beacon Ruins would certainly dispatch powerful experts to reinforce it, and that would truly become troublesome.
This further warned Li Tianming that, with his current strength, seizing it by force was absolutely not an option. He had to make full use of the Heaven-Stealing Clan's supreme abilities.
"Precisely because these are vital weapons of the nation, the Divine Treasury Stone veins from