Needless to say, the only one who could pop up as a spirit at a time like this was Little Gray.
But in the middle of a tense showdown between masters, you want me to look outside? Have you no common sense? That's even less reliable than grabbing the steering wheel while someone's driving on the highway!
After knowing each other for two lifetimes, I never realized you wanted to get me killed.
Yu Lian really wanted to voice his displeasure, but the emperor across from him seemed to have sensed something and actually looked beyond the dome, right in front of him.
It was an almost completely unguarded move.
The guy didn't even have physical eyes right now. What was he doing? Trying to add a sense of ceremony?
Yu Lian sensed that something was off, but His Majesty not only stopped paying attention to him, the murderous aura that had been surging just moments ago even began to subside.
Well, since His Majesty was showing such lofty composure, continuing to face off against him would make Yu Lian look like the less impressive one.
Yu Lian watched the dangerous crystal cluster disappear from the other man's hand, then put away his own light blade. Almost instinctively, he followed the faint guidance he felt, piercing through the dome of Dragon's Approach Palace and looking out into the deep expanse beyond the celestial territory.
His naked eyes couldn't see anything, of course, but his spiritual senses could.
There, beyond the dense clusters of space cities in the celestial territory, at the edge of this star system's physical bounds, an indescribable "presence" was spreading.
A grave look flashed across Yu Lian's eyes.
That fluctuation wasn't a normal mass reaction. It shouldn't have been any conventional physical phenomenon at all. It was