Heavenly Demon Star Domain, Zichen Star System.
A Starlight Gate appeared at the center of the star system, and Liang Ji stepped out of it.
A starship was already waiting before the Starlight Gate. A stunning, voluptuous woman stood aboard it. Seeing Liang Ji emerge from the gate, she immediately smiled and went to greet him. "Old classmate, welcome to the Zichen Star System."
"Old classmate." Liang Ji smiled back. "I have you to thank for making the introductions this time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to come here."
The old classmate welcoming Liang Ji was Cao Chanyue, who had been in the same graduating class as him in Xiushe City. After the college entrance exams, she had been accepted into Taiyi Star Palace.
As it happened, her Vassals were also Feathered Serpentfolk.
So the mentor Wang Ziqiu had apprenticed herself to at Taiyi Star Palace was also Cao Chanyue's mentor.
Cao Chanyue could be considered Wang Ziqiu's senior in the same direct lineage. The two of them were both from Xiushe City, too, and stayed in close touch, often looking out for each other.
This time, Liang Ji wanted to find a star system with a "Purple Sun" so he could collect some Purple Sun Power for experiments cultivating mutated Vassals. After searching through the Life Star Systems occupied by more than a dozen Star Alliance forces on the front lines, he had settled on the Zichen Star System.
Like the Chongzi Star System before it, the Zichen Star System was occupied by Taiyi Star Palace.
During this Pioneer War, Taiyi Star Palace had been the most active of the Star Alliance forces in the Outer Domain Star Sea. It had occupied the most Life Star Systems in the Heavenly Demon Star Domain, with the majority being Purple