Ye Bai sighed. "The hall will send domain god squads to protect you, designate a relatively safe planet, and assign several squads to take turns guarding it. People have already begun heading there.
"But your situation is unusual. Earth is too remote, so dispatching domain god squads here is difficult.
"After all, the hall won't waste manpower on one initial-tier radiant god and an outsider.
"So the hall hopes you can also move to the gathering point.
"There will be people assigned to protect you there. Even if the Five Elements Palace wants to strike, they'll have to think twice."
Neither Li Hengkong nor Xu Feng spoke. They exchanged a glance and frowned almost simultaneously.
Ye Bai noticed their hesitation and sighed. "I know what you're thinking.
"Concentrating everyone for protection sounds reliable, but it really means piling everyone together and making a bigger target.
"And if something goes wrong on the inside, even escaping will be difficult."
"Exactly," Li Hengkong finally said. "Rather than sit together with a target on our backs, we'd be harder to find if we scattered."
Ye Bai nodded. "I understand. The hall considered that approach too.
"But the universe is vast-far larger than you can imagine.
"The entire universe has 1,008 interstellar sectors. Each contains tens or hundreds of billions of galaxies and countless inhabited planets.
"Where there's civilization, there's danger. Where there isn't, there's even more danger.
"If you wander the universe alone, without supplies, rescue, or star charts, it's easy to lose even your sense of direction.
"Not everyone has the confidence and strength to travel alone.
"Even this sector, the very last one, is divided among the Four Great Powers.
"The Star Soul Hall, the Five Elements Palace, Purple Mountain, and the Chaos Sea.
"Then there are branches of the Interstellar