After a long pause, the Nest Ancestor finally spoke. "Remember what you said. This is a trade. I'll have the other demon queens deliver the Primordial Evil Demon Rays to your cosmic starship, and you must keep your promise."
"Of course. I keep my word. I'll protect you." Li Tianming smiled faintly.
After their clash, the Nest Ancestor seemed much easier to talk to, and the deal appeared to be going smoothly.
Around them, Wu Jin, Wu Shu, Wu Hua, Wu Jiao, and the other demon queens stared in shock, struggling to accept the outcome.
But they had no other choice now. They could only swallow their resentment.
The moment they had decided to settle things with their fists, they had lost!
Now that the Nest Ancestor had been defeated, their objections meant nothing.
With that settled, Li Tianming did not linger. He headed straight for the Phantom Whale.
As he went, the golden light and aura of Dark Energy around him gradually faded.
Soon, he looked like an eighth-stage Godseed Realm youth again.
The aura he gave off now made it hard to connect him to the "fusion of light and darkness" that had just battled the Nest Ancestor.
After Li Tianming entered the Phantom Whale, the Nest Ancestor dragged its enormous, half-ruined body away.
It slowly returned to the place where it had first been resting and closed its colossal Primordial Evil Demon eye, as though it meant to sleep again.
Deep in the Demon Nest, at the center of the peculiar "red egg" formed by special cosmic rays, the radiation was stronger than anywhere else in the nest.
The Nest Ancestor spent most of its time there, using that environment to slow the loss of its vitality as much as possible. Now, though, it seemed somewhat weary.