"Yes, Young Miss." The twelve female figures took the keys and vanished in an instant.
Gulp...
The Aurora Divine Lord swallowed hard. So the Divine Maiden had not merely brought a Five-Tribulation Emperor with her—inside her storage treasure world, there were twelve more experts, and they all seemed to be Emperor-level beings.
"Have the higher-ups of the Beastman Race and the Spirit Willow Clan set out?"
The Zither Sword Maiden's voice snapped the Aurora Divine Lord back to his senses. He hurriedly lowered his head and replied, "They have already departed."
"How smooth." Hearing this, the Zither Sword Maiden stretched lazily.
The aged Aurora Divine Lord swallowed again, barely able to restrain the urge to lay down his life for the woman before him.
Two days later...
The teams from the Spirit Willow Clan and the Beastman Race arrived at Aurora City without incident.
By then, an enormous sacrificial ceremony had already been arranged in the great plaza before the Aurora Pantheon. The skies above the entire Aurora City were filled with Divine Shuttle Ships and the most ordinary Divine Void Ships...
Countless members of the Aurora Human Race would bear witness and welcome the descent of the Aurora Divine Maiden together.
The plaza, meanwhile, was bound with a vast number of so-called sacrifices.
Naturally...
Just as Sikong Jing had seen earlier in Yu Zhonglang's town, every foreign race within Aurora territory, along with the companions of those foreign races and the like, had all been turned into sacrifices.
They would all be burned alive, and then the Aurora Divine Maiden would descend and reveal herself from within the flames!
This was the ritual the Aurora Divine Lord had spoken of for summoning the Divine Maiden.
Led by an Aurora Divine General, the ancient, battered Divine Cosmos Ships belonging