The two of them walked all the way to the Transmission Zone. Su Wenjing stepped onto the Teleportation Array, but then he froze.
Something seemed off. Where was he supposed to teleport to again?
Su Wenjing turned to look at Li Yunxian, only to see Li Yunxian below, muffling her laughter the whole time.
Su Wenjing: “”
Seeing Li Yunxian’s reaction, Su Wenjing suddenly realized he’d made a fool of himself.
At this time, none of the cities across the stars had even begun any urban reconstruction.
Even if they planned to implement it, that would be years away—right now, there wasn’t even a reason to start.
What Li Yunxian had just mentioned was merely a concept, not something to be acted upon immediately.
Yet he had only caught the sentence “the Merit Golden Light will be enough very soon” from Li Yunxian.
How could he make such a dumb mistake?
Su Wenjing’s mouth twitched, and he glared angrily at Li Yunxian, who had been laughing all the way: “So you’re just going to stand there and laugh at me?!”
And after all, he was doing all this for her!
Li Yunxian still couldn’t stop laughing.
There was no helping it. Watching a smart person make a fool of himself was the hardest—and most entertaining—thing to resist.
Of course, as a righteous cultivator, Li Yunxian still had a conscience.
“My bad,” Li Yunxian apologized with utter smoothness.
As she spoke, Li Yunxian stepped forward, raising her right hand in a gesture to help Su Wenjing off the Teleportation Array.
Though the smile on her face wouldn’t quit, her posture was absolutely sincere.
Su Wenjing, feeling anything but pleased, stared speechlessly at Li Yunxian, then finally dropped his gaze to the hand before him.
That hand—slender, with clear joints and powerful—was a textbook swordsman’s hand.
Su Wenjing stared for a few seconds, then placed his own hand in hers, turning his eyes away from Li Yunxian.
He followed her down.
“No next time,” Su Wenjing said coldly.
“Oh.” Li Yunxian replied obediently, “Then next time I’ll switch to something else.”
Su Wenjing:
“…!”
Li Yunxian didn’t care about this fox pretending to be serious. She grabbed the hand Su Wenjing had just offered, tugged him over, and pushed and shoved him out of the Transmission Zone.
“Alright, don’t worry about these details, let’s go see what Duan Qiu and the others are up to.”
“Where are they again?” Li Yunxian asked.
Su Wenjing was speechless again: “How should I know? Haven’t I been with you these past two days?”
Li Yunxian was speechless too: “Aren’t you the team leader? Didn’t you make arrangements when you brought them to Kuixing?”
“Kuixing has two Nascent Soul cultivators around—what could possibly happen? Let them do as they please,” Su Wenjing said. “With you here, nothing will go wrong.”
Li Yunxian:
She felt she was being slandered!
It was just a bit of teasing, was he really such a petty fox?
Still, both of them quickly took out their Lianluo Qi and checked their group chat.
During the day Su Wenjing was absent, the official story was that he was communicating with Kuixing’s two Nascent Soul cultivators. Li Yunxian was still disguised as Sheng Yu.
Sheng Yu happened to lead the group to experience Kuixing—the most prosperous place in the entire Xingxi—for their cultivation.
They weren’t experiencing Wanwuwu.
Wanwuwu currently only supported up to Golden Core cultivators. There was still a long way to go before higher-level cultivators could enter.
Most of Duan Qiu’s group were already past that limit.
Instead, they were trying out an interstellar-featured system that offered personalized analysis and training suggestions based on one’s cultivation level.
These recommendations were comprehensive and systematic, but rather textbook-like—lacking innovation and room for growth.
Still, for Shenzhou cultivators who’d never tried such things, it was a pretty decent experience.
But that leisurely time only lasted up until just now.
Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing had just checked the group chat when they saw a newly posted message:
“@Li Yunxian Boss Boss, Little Sheng said that four hours ago in the Yinhai Star System, seven of the top ten powers were attacked!”
After a month mixing around Qingxing, the group had fully adopted the local nicknames.
“How did they do it? So many places hit at once! That’s incredible!”
“Captain! Boss! You’re doing something huge and you really didn’t bring us!!”
Those from Shenzhou knew Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing were up to something big, so they’d cooperated with the cover-up.
But they hadn’t expected Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing to pull something on this scale.
They’d thought it was just a show of force.
Beat up the ringleader as a warning, shake things up a bit.
But this? They’d torn down everyone’s house.
When the news broke, the entire interstellar network exploded.
At first, people from different planets, having heard the commotion, began posting online.
“At coordinates X, something big happened. Heard a huge noise, but no disaster or invasion notices in my alerts.”
Similar posts quickly flooded the star network.
Everyone’s first reaction was another planetary disaster, but looking closer, the coordinates for “X” were all over the place.
That was serious!
A massive disaster spreading instantly to more than a dozen planets—unheard of!
How could people not be shocked?
A crowd rushed in, asking for details and confirming everyone’s safety.
But as people compared notes, they realized that most responses said nothing was happening in their area—just that far away, somewhere specific, there were loud rumbles.
It seemed there were high-level cultivator fights—possibly Nascent Soul or above—and collapsing buildings.
But the effects hadn’t spread, the battles were isolated.
The more they checked, the more confused they got.
Other than Bo Xing, where the whole central city seemed about to fall, on other planets, only specific places had trouble.
Naturally, people began asking what was special about those places.
Strength in numbers—soon, the answer appeared.
A string of victimized factions was listed.
Seeing the names on that list, the entire interstellar community fell silent.
Why did all these names sound so familiar?
It felt like they’d seen them somewhere before.
The time between the two lists wasn’t even a month.
Yes, back when Qingxing’s populace had united to go after Li Yunxian, it was the same sort of internet crowd that’d compiled that list.
Now, these two lists matched at least ninety-nine percent, if not completely.
The only difference was at Bo Xing.
In Bo Xing’s central city, aside from the residential area, every public facility—from schools to Dengxiantai—was wiped out.
And everyone knew that the power which’d put the most effort into targeting Li Yunxian before was the Bo Hai Chamber of Commerce.
As the name suggested, it was a faction based on Bo Xing.
The netizens across the stars:
Come on! Even if you want revenge, do you have to make it so obvious?!
This operation was basically branding “we did it” on their foreheads, as if they couldn’t wait for people to find out!
Way too brazen!!
Sheng Yu, being an active netizen herself, immediately shared the news with the Shenzhou group.
Which was exactly what Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing saw in the chat.
Sheng Yu didn’t know the full story about Li Yunxian’s group. She truly thought Li Yunxian led some mysterious power.
Especially after she and Su Wenjing were teleported to Kuixing—proof, in her mind, of a powerful background.
Otherwise, why would they have used the public Transmission Zone instead of a private one reserved for Nascent Soul cultivators?
Then Su Wenjing was even received by Nascent Soul elders.
That took some real power!
Sheng Yu had just started feeling like she’d found a truly solid backer, but hadn’t even enjoyed a day of peace when she saw these stories blow up online.
Sheng Yu:
Sure, she knew they were planning something big, but she hadn’t imagined it’d be THIS big!
Now everyone was gathered in Kuixing—under the watchful eyes of two Nascent Soul cultivators!
So bold—did they really plan to make it out alive?!
If they didn’t plan to survive, she sure did!!!
She, Sheng Yu, could risk her own life, but the entire Sheng Family still wanted to live!
Was it really wise to challenge the official authorities of the stars like this?
Those authorities had nearly twenty Nascent Soul cultivators across several Xingxi!
No matter how strong a faction was, they couldn’t possibly compare with that many Nascent Souls!!
Watching the heated online discussion, Sheng Yu, who’d unwittingly aided and abetted, felt like she was going to die.
If you’re going to stir things up out of spite, at least hide your identity a bit! Wuwuwuwu!
As Sheng Yu relayed the news, she was almost in tears.
But the Shenzhou side knew they were working with the authorities and felt pretty at ease. While comforting Sheng Yu, they also howled in the group chat, only regretting not being part of it themselves.
Li Yunxian ignored the noisy chatter in the group and logged onto the interstellar net via her communicator.
Now she was no longer limited to Wanwuwu, having to hear news secondhand!
But what Li Yunxian saw wasn’t people discussing which powers Lishi had hit.
That topic was already old news.
Now the hot topic was—
A certain Lishi faction, whose real name wasn’t confirmed yet, had launched such a large-scale action, and not a single person had been caught by Dengxiantai—everyone had escaped together!!
How did they do it!!
Li Yunxian wasn’t surprised at all by their shock.
Of course they’d all escaped.
After all, those places’ Dengxiantai were empty. The ones acting were the very people in charge. How could they arrest themselves?
Li Yunxian watched as the network began speculating on the terrifying power of Lishi, then quickly veered into analyzing the losses suffered by the factions who’d offended Lishi.
Many speculated that those powers must have been dealt a heavy blow, maybe even ruined forever.
The schadenfreude in their words was obvious.
After all, Lishi weren’t the only ones bullied by those factions over the years.
Of course, plenty of people with vested interests in those factions spoke up online, loudly denouncing Lishi, claiming that using violence was unrighteous and shameful.
But not many paid them any mind.
Technically, yes, it should be condemned.
But everyone knew who started it.
Who could accept only being hit, never allowed to hit back?
After digging through the details, everyone found no innocent parties had been hurt, and even more voices emerged, openly hoping these factions would go under.
The people had suffered under them for far too long.
Then, official announcements from various planets were released.
First, they declared the incidents on their planets were caused by various levels of foreign tribes!
The actions of these foreigners were disgraceful!
Strongly condemned!
Although the ringleaders weren’t caught, plenty of accomplices were, and—fortunately—all stolen money was recovered and returned to its owners.
Next, every city would conduct a thorough inspection to root out any hidden foreigners!
The interstellar netizens didn’t even have time to react to these statements when they saw a fresh notice about advertisement reforms.
—Due to nonstandard ads in new shops, especially some licensed outlets with excessive noise, a unified adjustment would be made across all stores.
The savvy netizens:
They all remembered how a certain Li-named boss had loudly protested this before.
Something’s not right.
Something is very, very off.