A Chain of Schemes, One Link After Another: The Ninth-Rank Heavenly Demon as the Target
Having secured a Seventh Tier God Crystal, Liang Ji didn't waste a moment. He immediately led his Seventh Tier Retainers in a charge toward the next nearest Seventh-Tier deity.
The Star Alliance had set this trap to draw in most of the high-tier Void Demon Race, deities, Elemental Spirits, and others who had infiltrated the starfields behind the front line. But this was still territory that the Star Alliance had explored and occupied, so the number of enemy infiltrators was limited.
Meanwhile, the Star Alliance had plenty of high-tier Star Lords. If Liang Ji didn't act quickly, there wouldn't be enough infiltrating deities, Elemental Spirits, and others for all the high-tier Star Lords to divide among themselves.
Especially since opportunities like this—where high-tier deities, Elemental Spirits, and others were trapped and suppressed, their strength greatly weakened, and they could be easily slain for God Crystals, Spirit Crystals, and other materials—were rare indeed!
Under normal circumstances, hunting these Seventh-Tier deities and Elemental Spirits was an exceedingly dangerous undertaking for the Star Alliance's high-tier Star Lords, whether in the Outer Domain Star Sea or on battlefields like the Void Sea and the Chaos Sea.
It was never as easy or safe as this.
So Liang Ji wasn't the only one acting in haste. Nearly every Star Alliance high-tier Star Lord taking part in the operation was moving at top speed, hunting down the Void Demon Race, deities, Elemental Spirits, and others as quickly as possible.
At a glance, it seemed less like a life-and-death battle against the enemy and more like a mad scramble to harvest resources and plunder spoils.
But to the Star Alliance Star Lords, the Void Demon Race, deities, Elemental Spirits, and others trapped