Empress Dowager Li Feng'en and her Chief Female Official Ji Huangzhen, supported by their respective guards, watched the two figures battling in midair with trembling hearts.
Tantai Zijun's screams drifted down from above, wrenching both women's hearts.
"What's wrong with Your Majesty?"
"Does Your Majesty have a headache?"
"Why aren't you going up there to save Her Majesty?!"
"Go! Go! Go!"
"Whoever saves Her Majesty will be richly rewarded by this Dowager!"
They said it several times, but no one around them was willing to go up.
Everyone avoided their gazes. Even those called out by name merely stammered out reasons why they could not go, leaving Empress Dowager Li Feng'en and Chief Female Official Ji Huangzhen deeply disappointed and furious.
In truth, everyone willing to go up and aid Tantai Zijun had already done so.
Those remaining were all unwilling to be commanded by her.
At that moment, Tantai Zijun's agonized, head-clutching roars in the night sky were captured through high-powered telescopes and broadcast onto the Star Net.
In fact, footage of Xia Chujian fighting Tantai Zijun earlier had also been filmed and posted on the Star Net.
At this moment, everyone watching this scene on the Star Net—from the Four Great Dukes down to humanoid slaves—was paying attention.
No one could stay out of it.
When Xia Chujian had just been enveloped by the Dark Purple Abyss Soul Crystal, many people's hearts had skipped a beat. They had thought Xia Chujian was finished.
Those who had secretly sided with Xia Chujian and refused to obey the Empress's orders probably believed they were doomed as well, and had been prepared to make one final desperate stand.
But as time passed, they realized that although Xia Chujian was trapped inside the dark purple crystal, she had not died immediately.
Moreover,