To be fair, the robot lady's utterly matter-of-fact attitude really was infuriating. Yu Lian had indeed been contemplating blasting her pretty "face" with a bolt of psionic energy. Of course, even if he did hit her, it wouldn't hurt her in the slightest. At most, she'd turn into a tiny cloud of nanomachines, too small for the naked eye to detect.
As a socially savvy adult with good judgment who had even learned to manage his expressions, Yu Lian declared that a real man had to learn to bend for the sake of a few coins. That was what it meant to be a mature adult!
He knew full well that people often became less dignified as they matured, but what choice did he have? He was desperate, too!
As a great... great wanderer who had roamed the galaxy in his previous life, he'd seen quite a few star charts left behind by the Enlighteners. They were all fragmented, regional charts, but he understood all too well what those skulls meant. Those enormous creatures were all galactic beasts, every one of them at the top of the food chain and capable of taking on an entire fleet!
Beside those creatures, who could chew up planets like potato chips, most Lords of the Void Realm seemed gentle and mild-mannered.
For instance, just thinking about the Star Dragon King that had blasted him into his next life made Yu Lian want to shiver. That thing had been marked with a skull on the ancient star charts left by the Enlighteners!
So unless he had some especially reliable reinforcements, he'd have to be an idiot to charge headfirst into that place.
And wasn't Miss Gray right here, ready-made for the job? She was principled, powerful, clever, capable of all sorts of transformations, and