At that moment, before Sheng Shang, cultivators at no lower than the seventh layer of Qi Refinement stood in uniform moon-white robes embroidered with gold.
Using spiritual power and true essence to sweep along terrified figures one after another, they slowly pressed toward Qi Star First Laboratory. The highest among those figures was merely at the third layer of Qi Refinement, while most were ordinary people who had not even entered the path.
They were all Sheng Shang's followers, intending to seize Heng's highest authority while Zhou Xian was absent.
The reason they had brought along these low-realm cultivators was that they had discovered Heng seemed restricted from acting against Qi Star People who had not "broken the law."
That was one of the reasons they dared to make their move.
Otherwise, even if they had been given a hundred times the courage, they would never have entertained such a thought.
Before the spiritual tide revived, the orbital cannons surrounding Qi Star could blast a Foundation Establishment cultivator into scraps with a single shot.
After the spiritual tide revived, Heng had installed spiritual-energy circuits into Qi Star's various existing weapons of destruction...
Not to mention them—even Zhou Xian, currently Qi Star's strongest, likely could not withstand those terrifying weapons of destruction.
Yet, with their minds stretched taut, they failed to notice the strange changes in the sky.
As for Sheng Shang, standing high above—
The artifacts on his person continuously transmitted Heng's warnings, but he turned a deaf ear to them.
Though he should have been overseeing the entire situation, he merely stared fixedly at the two suns concealed beneath the high clouds, a trace of dread rising uncontrollably in his heart.
Beep~!
Amid a piercing alarm, an artifact hanging from Sheng Shang's waist went dark, the spiritual-energy circuit within