Rendezvous

"Origin Monarch."

At the sight of the figure aboard the Flowing Light Flying Boat, Star Slayer Venerable greeted him with polite respect in his voice.

Respect was earned through strength.

With Li Pin's record of facing four alone and crushing the four Monarchs of the Divine Race's Blood Blade Group, no one in the astral realm dared to look down on him in the slightest anymore.

Li Pin nodded to the former Hall Master of the Humanity Holy Hall. "Thank you all for coming to meet us."

"It is only proper."

Infinite Monarch hurriedly added, "Origin Monarch, this place cannot yet be considered absolutely safe. We should leave this region first and return to an area closer to human territory. I will pilot the flying boat behind you and escort Origin Monarch along the way. Please travel without concern."

"No need. We can return together."

Li Pin said, "Unless the Divine Race or Skyfire Race dispatches a Heavenly Emperor, anyone else who comes will merely be delivering themselves to death. And if a foreign-race Heavenly Emperor makes a move, humanity's Supremes have never stood idly by. As long as we can hold those Heavenly Emperors off for a brief while, the only thing awaiting that foreign-race Heavenly Emperor will be a dead end."

He spoke with extreme calm, as though he were merely stating a fact...

No!

He was stating a fact.

Even the Blood Blade Group, which had hopes of surrounding and killing a newly ascended Heavenly Emperor, had been driven back—indeed, crushed—by him and his Dao Protector. If the foreign races merely sent some Monarchs and Saint Emperors to hunt them down, what else could that be but delivering themselves to death?

Having understood that fact, Star Slayer Venerable, Infinite Monarch, and Emperor Mo Monarch were all deeply