"So this is Broad Cloud Star? Looks pretty prosperous. Shame the job we took sends us into this desert where even birds won't shit. Once we're done, we've got to go enjoy ourselves in the Market District!"
As the cultivators radiating Foundation Establishment auras rapidly descended, a burly, fierce-looking man nearly ten feet tall stood suspended in the outer void above the heavens, sneering at the Boundless Earth below, which gleamed like a pearl.
He wore a black fur cloak made from some unknown beast. His skin was dark, his face bore several fissures resembling fish gills, and his sharp teeth looked like iron nails, giving him a bizarre, terrifying appearance.
Beside him stood a seductive beauty with most of her shapely body exposed beneath gauze as thin as a nightgown. A foxlike tail trailed behind her as she said, her eyes silky with allure, "You're absolutely right, my king."
"My king, trouble! They were prepared for us. Three-Star Battle Puppets and mecha have intercepted us!"
Suddenly, faint fluctuations came from the burly dark-skinned man's earring, passing straight into his ear.
"They were already on guard? Then take it easy, all of you. Don't get yourselves killed here before you've pocketed anything!"
The burly dark-skinned man roared with laughter.
Bzzz... bzzzt...
Suddenly, a strange noise like surging electrical current entered his earring. Communication spirit waves from Broad Cloud Star had taken over the channel.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, there has never been any grudge between us, past or present. Why have you come here to attack me?"
The burly dark-skinned man's face darkened. "My surname is Sha! Sha Jing, not some Fellow Daoist Wang!"
"Heh, so that's how it is." The voice that had contacted him belonged to Li Chen. "Whether you're Fellow Daoist Wang or Fellow Daoist Sha, I'll give