Yu Lian didn't answer right away. His gaze passed through the viewport, swept over the ruins of Fortress No. 2, now reduced to rubble, and turned toward the Heavenly Domain.
He didn't consider himself a professional soldier anymore, but he was certainly a professional navigator. The Heavenly Domain was so magnificent that even from ten thousand light-years away, he could still find his way there.
The Heavenly Domain really was a wonderful place. Too bad I hadn't managed to buy a house there in either of my two lives.
Yu Lian pressed his temple with a sigh and said to Feifei, "I saw countless possible futures in High Priest Norddos's vision, including how this expedition would end and all the different ways we might die."
"Would we be vaporized by the Empire's fleet of planet-busting cannons, or squashed into little cakes by His Majesty the Emperor's might? You've already told me about those. Compared with the monstrous crimes you've committed against the Empire, those deaths would actually be letting you off rather lightly." Feifei wasn't the least bit concerned. If anything, she seemed to be enjoying herself.
True. If the Emperor really got his hands on me, I'd deserve to be torn apart by five dragons, laid in a nine-dragon coffin, and have my head paraded through ninety-nine star sectors.
The saying that a great man should either feast from five cauldrons in life or be boiled in one after death seemed to fit the situation rather well.
Yu Lian's imagination ran wild for a second, then he cleared his throat. "What I mean is, in those visions of the future, all of you were just props in the background. Even when I died, I died like some arrogant overlord."
Feifei answered with silence, though her smile seemed to carry