Alice's Return

"Grandpa! I knew you had another reason for bringing me here." Li Xinlan feigned annoyance as she chided him.

She protested aloud, but a trace of anticipation flickered in her eyes.

The Star Alliance gathered geniuses from across the Human Race's territory. Any young warrior chosen for its special training would surely surpass her peers on Blue Star. How could she not long to meet them?

Just then, Li Jianghai looked sharply up at the night sky. His expression turned grave. "They're here," he said quietly.

High in the black heavens, a top-tier Star Alliance warship streaked through the air. Sleek and silver-white, its hull covered in interstellar technology patterns, it pierced the clouds in an instant and came to a steady halt above the banquet venue.

Specks of starlight shimmered across its hull. Its materials lay far beyond Blue Star's current understanding of technology, while the Star Alliance emblem engraved on its side shone brilliantly. Merely hovering there, it seemed to still the very air throughout Capital City.

The hatch slowly opened. A pure-white beam of teleportation light descended between heaven and earth, connecting with the highest reception platform in the banquet venue.

Wave after wave of deep, immense power flowed down the beam. Layer upon layer of pressure swept across the venue, shaking every dignitary to the core. They instinctively suppressed their auras and rose solemnly to their feet.

No one dared show the slightest disrespect.

This was the field pressure a Star Realm powerhouse carried by nature: the pinnacle of the Human Race's higher Star Domains, a height the still-young Blue Star could not hope to reach.

Blue Star's leading dignitaries bowed. Pang Wandao and several other War God-level powerhouses stepped forward in person and stood beneath the platform, silently awaiting the Star Alliance delegation.

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