The general mood among the assembled cultivators was nothing less than wariness, vigilance, and perhaps just a tiny flicker of anticipation.
Yu Ci knew why this was, and he wanted to laugh, but in the end he just shook his head.
"When there are too many people, things get troublesome."
What Yu Ci meant wasn't just the few dozen or hundred people present right now, but rather all the countless cultivators, numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, who wanted to use the "Death Star" as a transit point.
As the person most likely to claim the Death Star, in a sense he also directed the outer-realm cultivation progress of this entire crowd.
Perhaps a single policy was all it would take to have all these people driven out.
In fact, for a time before this, Yu Ci had genuinely thought that the Death Star here was merely an outer-realm stronghold for Shangqing Sect cultivators and had nothing to do with anyone else.
At that moment, he heard Xue Pingzhi ask, "Does Fellow Daoist know where the Death Star's greatest value lies?"
Without waiting for Yu Ci to reply, Xue Pingzhi answered her own question: "It's a stronghold, and a stronghold far removed from the True Realm, completely detached from the sphere of influence of the demon tribes outside the True Realm. The straight-line distance from this star domain to the True Realm is unimaginably vast. If one doesn't take the Void Tunnel, even people like Chu Yuanxiang and Yu Qing Xuan would have to spend several hundred or even a thousand years using their Void Teleportation divine ability at full blast just to return."
"Those fiends outside the True Realm have a very hard time crossing the True Realm to enter this place. Therefore, for those of the