Chapter 950: Dividing the Spoils and Reporting Up (Requesting Monthly Votes)

The brief four or five breaths during which the Luanxiang clan’s Emperor loomed over them were the longest, most agonizing moments of Guan Laohei, Nian Qinggui, and all other True Persons and Star Juniors’ lives.

True, Guan Laohei had teamed up with several Ninth-Catastrophe True Persons and felt confident he could resist an Emperor.

But when an Emperor’s gaze settled upon them, each felt as if they stood alone before the full crushing pressure of an Emperor.

The psychological burden was unimaginable.

One by one, sweat broke out instantly, hearts pounding in their throats.

Because they knew for certain: if this Emperor launched an attack, everyone except Guan Laohei would almost certainly die first.

That was the source of their terror.

In contrast, during those few breaths, Xu Jin’s thoughts wandered far afield.

The idea that flashed most often in Xu Jin’s mind: Should he kill this Emperor?

As the Luanxiang clan’s Emperor observed them, Xu Jin used Mingqian Sensing to sense the Emperor’s aura fluctuations, gauging his strength.

The aura radiating from this Luanxiang clan Emperor was stronger than Yin Zheng’s, roughly equal to the Yu Kun Emperor’s.

If Xu Jin and Zhu Lin Xiao unleashed their full power, and Guan Laohei, Nian Qinggui, and the other Ninth-Catastrophe True Persons cooperated without faltering, killing this Emperor was highly probable.

Of course, someone would inevitably die in battle.

Pooling their strength to slay an alien Emperor would yield immense battle merits.

Extraordinary merit, one or two times over, was guaranteed.

But in the end, Xu Jin abandoned the idea.

Greed invites loss!

Leaving aside the cost and the deaths of comrades, slaying this Emperor would yield great spoils—especially the extraordinary merit Xu Jin needed most.

But Xu Jin’s own strength would inevitably be exposed.

Simultaneously, he would be dragged into the chain reaction following Yu Kun Emperor’s and Tianfa True Person’s deaths.

That would be a nightmare.

Then Xu Jin might find himself caught between enemies, forced to flee—or even targeted by a swarm of Emperor-level enforcers dispatched by the Dongxuan Emperor or the Military Tribunal.

After much hesitation, Xu Jin made his decision.

Do not strike!

If this Luanxiang clan Emperor attacked them, he would assist Guan Laohei—but only to defend himself.

Better to avoid drawing attention.

For a moment, Guan Laohei, Xu Jin, and the elite of Changxing Star Island stood facing off against the Luanxiang clan Emperor, Luan Lan.

Even as they faced off, Guan Laohei cursed Yu Kun Emperor inwardly.

He cursed Yu Kun Emperor for being utterly despicable.

The aliens had already deployed two Emperors—why, as the Emperor guarding our side, hadn’t you shown your face even once?

Even cowardice has its limits!

Guan Laohei had already cursed Yu Kun Emperor’s ancestors back eighteen generations, unaware that Yu Kun Emperor had already been slain.

Meanwhile, Luan Lan, the Luanxiang clan Emperor hovering in the void above the Changxing Star Island elite, was also deeply conflicted.

She had absolute confidence in her own strength.

Though the opposite side had deployed a grand array, if she struck suddenly, she could certainly carry off one or two of the human prodigies who had just slaughtered her True Persons.

Yes, she considered it slaughter.

She also believed she had found the true culprits behind the fall of Chifeng Star Island.

The four human True Persons she had just witnessed possessed extraordinary combat strength and flawless coordination, eliminating six of her True Persons within moments.

It was precisely because she had discovered this that she had pursued them, driven them back—but refrained from attacking, instead observing and calculating.

The reason was simple: the unwritten rule forbidding Emperors from directly intervening in battle still held.

It had not yet been broken.

The first to break it would surely suffer catastrophic consequences.

If one had powerful patrons behind them, perhaps they could survive.

If not, they would become the sacrificial pawn triggering an Emperor war.

Fortunately, she had no great patrons behind her.

Her Luanxiang clan’s Sacred Ancestor, Luan Tian, had been ambushed and slain two centuries ago by the human commander, Kongyuan Emperor.

Since then, the Luanxiang clan had grown increasingly unlucky among the Twelve Sacred Clans.

Especially over the past two centuries, with no new Sacred Ancestor ascending, their misfortune had deepened.

They were always assigned the dirty, dangerous, exhausting tasks—and received only scraps when rewards were distributed.

That was secondary.

The critical issue: if she became the first to break the rule today, with no Sacred Ancestor to protect her, she might very well be slain by human Emperors in retribution.

“Human prodigies are the enemy of our entire Sacred Clan—not mine alone. I have no reason to risk my own Dao path for them.”

With this thought, the Luanxiang clan Emperor Luan Lan made her decision.

After gazing at the Changxing Star Island human elite for several breaths, demonstrating overwhelming pressure, she suddenly let out an piercing, deafening screech!

The sound pierced metal and shattered stone, as if it could pierce through all things, hammering directly into the mind.

Xu Jin’s Dao Embryo trembled; a wave of nausea rose in his chest—all True Persons felt the same.

Yet within the Eight-Direction Star Rain Celestial Rain Array, the Star Juniors staggered, spouting blood from nose and mouth, each wounded differently—but none died.

Yet the Eight-Direction Star Rain Celestial Rain Array, Guan Laohei’s reliance, faltered for an instant!

Just as Guan Laohei’s heart tightened, the colorful phoenix wings slowly faded, and with them, the Luanxiang clan Emperor’s aura vanished.

“Phew!”

The alien Emperor retreated; Guan Laohei and the others exhaled deeply, as if they had just escaped death’s door.

Guan Laohei, who had previously felt confident enough to resist an Emperor, now saw his confidence shattered by that single phoenix cry.