Up in the sky, a figure wreathed in five-colored spiritual light had taken out a mirror and was speaking into it. It was none other than Daode Daoist Patriarch. "What? The star realm restrictions are about to be activated? This is trouble!" He looked up at the sky... then suddenly gritted his teeth and murmured, "Even if it costs me my life, I will protect the Human Race!" With that, five-colored spiritual light surged out, and he vanished from the world...
Meanwhile!
Within the boundless expanse of auspicious clouds above the Immortal Court.
There!
"Buzzz! Buzzz! Buzzz!" Earth-shaking waves of five-colored magic power erupted from Tianmei Taoren, soaring into the heavens. Boundless luminous runes of magic power surged across the entire sky...
Off to one side...
His Highness the Prince laughed wildly with excitement. "Those damned humans! They actually want to wipe out our race? Let's wipe them out first!" He waved his arms and stamped his feet, showing none of the dignity of a prince or a True Immortal...
"Exactly!" The golden-armored cultivators chimed in, looking as though they could hardly wait for every last human to be exterminated. Just then...
Suddenly!
"Huh?" One of the golden-armored cultivators seemed to notice something and cried out, hurriedly telling the Prince, "Your Highness! Your Contract Token... why has its contract light disappeared?"
"What do you mean, its contract light has disappeared?" The Prince froze at those words and looked down at the token in his hand that controlled Tianmei Taoren, muttering to himself. That single glance gave him a terrible fright, and he cried out in utter astonishment, "What... what's going on? Why has this thing broken?"
Just then...
"Whoosh...!" Tianmei Taoren, who had been deploying the formation restrictions, suddenly stopped moving. Countless formation flags hung motionless in the sky...
"Damn