Just after Liang Ji sent out the distress signal, he heard what seemed to be an angry beast's roar from the star at the center of the system.
In the next moment, the power of Heavenly Demon Creation surged over the star. The speck of crimson he had just created and twisted with the Dragon Pearl was overturned and twisted once more, reverting to scarlet and becoming a thoroughly Red Sun.
The entire star system stabilized again under its influence, sealing itself shut and trapping them, their starships, and their Vassals inside.
Countless Void Demons came swarming from every direction, one wave after another. Even high-ranking Void Demons twisted space, unleashing natural disasters of law that bore down on them.
The star's transformation and the star system's lockdown had happened too quickly. For a moment, Liang Ji, Bian Yujiao, and the others could not tell whether their distress signal had gotten through.
But by then, Liang Ji no longer had the strength to twist the star again. All they could do was flee desperately toward the edge of the system while waiting for a rescue that might never come.
At least Liang Ji took some comfort in the fact that the star system's distortion and concealment, along with the Void Demons' ambush, seemed to be the Void Demons' own doing. They had not joined forces with the infiltrating gods or Elemental Spirits.
Otherwise, if even a few high-ranking gods or high-ranking Elemental Spirits had been hiding in this star system, their starships and Vassals would probably never have held out this long.
Hiss! Roar...
A phantom dragon-serpent coalesced again and again above the Dragon Snake, only to be shattered each time by the attacking Void Demons.
Whenever the dragon-serpent took shape, it spat out Elemental Dragon Pearls, blasting a bloody