Meanwhile.
"What exactly did you agree to with those outsiders?"
Suddenly.
A mysterious will spoke from deep within Tiantian Star.
The busy Tiantian Star froze, slowly lowering the dark golden claws she had been swinging.
This was Star Chu, the guardian of the laws and order who had descended upon the Super Refining civilization more than seven thousand years ago.
If the purpose of weaker guardians like Qiongqi was to push the fragments of the Star Rings back toward the ruins of the shattered ancient Thunder Continent, then Star Chu existed to prevent comets from the depths of space from destroying this world, as much as possible.
It was a guardian of the Order faction powerful enough to stand alongside Quanzu!
However, as the world's Law Aura continued to drain away, and with the Sky Veil's blockade in place, this great guardian's strength had steadily declined. The starving, hollow Star Curtain World was turning on its own: before the apocalyptic calamity arrived, it would first "digest" some of its most peripheral guardians.
And Star Chu was one of the guardians living in the most remote reaches of the Star Curtain World as it stood today.
It was truly tragic. Though it possessed great power, under the current conditions it would meet its end sooner than guardians like Qiongqi, who were closer to the world's center.
But even in its weakened state, Star Chu was undoubtedly still a Level Five creature.
It was thanks to its power that, a hundred years ago, Mother Bean Emperor was successfully sealed by the Star Source Holy Mountain. For the past century, Star Chu had diligently guarded the mountain's innermost region, preventing any chance of Mother Bean Emperor breaking free.
When Tiantian Star gave no answer, Star Chu seemed to sense that something was wrong.