High-Rank Battle Resumes; Agreement to Join

On Three Saints Star, in the vast desert of the northwest, Wu Shanshan led the ghosts, Vassals, and flying boats to seize two oases. She then received Liang Ji's order: stop pursuing the Scorpion Country natives and launch attacks to expand into the desert's other oases.

Likewise, Liang Ji was aboard the Dragon Snake, ordering the Ship Spirit to rein in the various attack arrays aboard the starship. He would launch no further attacks from the Void.

He was waiting to hear from the Three Saints of this star. If they chose to cooperate with him and accept the Star Alliance's invitation, then with the Three Saints' aid, establishing a foothold here would naturally be easier than fighting and expanding by force.

But if the Three Saints were unwilling to accept his goodwill and refused the Star Alliance's invitation, he could simply resume his attacks and expand afterward.

With the Dragon Snake holding the skies above and Wu Shanshan, the Second-Generation Poison King, and the armies of ghosts and Vassals waging war below, Liang Ji felt no fear at all—even facing seventh-rank natives on a seventh-rank star. On the contrary, he was quite confident.

That confidence came from the strength of the Star Alliance, and from the strength of a Star Lord.

He also believed that after seeing the jade slip's account of the Star Alliance's power, the Three Saints of this star would certainly not refuse its invitation.

Aboard the starship, Liang Ji watched Three Saints Star turn beneath him, one rotation after another. In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.

Blue Scale Saint did not return, nor did he send any reply.

Just then, the starship's detection array suddenly discovered that the mists shrouding a third of Three Saints Star were rolling violently once more. They