A day later.
Blood Erosion Starfield, on the surface of a Barren Planet.
Xu Jingming stood with his hands behind his back, his 4.6-meter Demon Body appearing especially savage and imposing beneath the dark red sky.
Vera floated by his shoulder, her heart-tipped tail swaying lazily.
"Linyin said she would arrive within one Stellar Day."
Xu Jingming glanced at the starry sky. "Soon."
"Hehe, that little girl must have been overjoyed when she received your message, right?"
Vera smirked wickedly. "The Heart-Eating Mark makes her absolutely obedient.
"It has been so long since she last saw her master. Her soul must practically be flying over here."
As the creator of the Heart-Eating Mark, she knew the essence of this enslavement technique very well.
Xu Jingming neither agreed nor disagreed.
She was merely a soul slave. He did not care much about her feelings.
Just then, a purple speck appeared in the distant starry sky.
The purple speck rapidly grew larger.
It became a sleek, dark-purple spacecraft speeding toward them.
"She's here."
Xu Jingming looked up, then frowned. "Hm? Someone is following behind her? An Eternal Tier peak."
Whoosh—!!
His Divine Thought erupted outward.
His powerful Divine Thought instantly severed the Divine Thought lock the ship behind had placed on Linyin's spacecraft.
His Divine Thought had now reached a terrifying 24,000 threads.
Together with the enhancement from his two soul-type pieces of equipment,
almost no one within the Eternal Tier possessed stronger Divine Thought than him.
"Hm? My Divine Thought lock failed?"
In the starry sky, Cody, who had been trailing far behind Linyin's spacecraft, froze for a moment.
The distance between them was enormous. If not for the Divine Thought lock,
he would have had no idea where she ultimately went during the spacecraft's faster-than-light travel.
"Linyin herself definitely cannot