“Whoosh—”

The Eternal soared through the endless cosmos at maximum power consumption, flying at extreme speed.

Where were they headed?

The Night King Alliance!

From what Feng Wanli had told him, Jun Changxiao could basically confirm that Ye Xingchen must have been abducted by some Night King.

“What if he was rescued instead?” the System said.

“Impossible.”

Jun Changxiao declared with certainty: “I captured a Protector from the Night King Alliance—would they be kind enough to rescue people? Even if they did rescue him, they’d definitely have ulterior motives.”

“…”

The System said: “That makes sense.”

For once, he’d guessed correctly without getting immediately face-slapped, only to be led astray by Dog Leftover again.

“Fine then.”

Jun Changxiao sneered: “Not planning to pay ransom, but instead abducting my disciple—are they planning to use him as bargaining chips?”

He was convinced the Night King Alliance had abducted Ye Xingchen, not rescued him.

This was judging a gentleman’s heart with a petty person’s mindset.

Of course, Dog Leftover had done his fair share of extortion and blackmail, almost never failing, so if the other party really used his disciple as a bargaining chip, he would definitely consider it seriously.

“Sect Master Jun.”

Gu Tianxing said gravely: “If negotiations go poorly on this trip, we might start trouble.”

To translate into plain language, that meant they were going to fight.

“Uncle, don’t worry.”

Jun Changxiao interlaced his ten fingers, his expression proud: “The Eternal Sect fears everything except fighting!”

Gu Tianxing said helplessly: “The Night King Alliance has been opposing the Heavenly Demon Emperor. The enemy of our enemy is our friend—we really don’t need to make things so tense. Why not unite together and jointly resist the demon that plagues the cosmos?”

“As long as they’re willing to merge into the Jun Alliance, I’ll treat them as brothers and friends,” Jun Changxiao said.

“After torturing their Protector worse than death, how could they possibly merge into the Jun Alliance? Stop dreaming, host,” the System mocked: “Besides, the Night King is no ordinary person—how could he willingly submit to someone else?”

Whenever it caught a good opportunity, the System would mercilessly mock him. Although it usually got face-slapped, this had become a habit.

Face?

Slap it all you want.

But you can’t deprive me of my rights.

Knowing it would get face-slapped, yet still offering up its face.

“Sect Master!”

Shangguan Xinyao, who was piloting the Eternal, brought up the star map with a grave expression: “Many energy fluctuations have suddenly appeared in the star region ahead.”

“Oh?”

Jun Changxiao stood up and walked over.

On the star map, weak energy ripples could be clearly seen, wave after wave, becoming increasingly clear and dense.

What did this represent?

There should be a rather large energy source fluctuating ahead.

Because the momentum was so vast, it spread to even more distant areas and was then detected by the Eternal.

“Can you determine the distance?”

“No.”

“…”

Jun Changxiao stroked his chin.

Unable to determine the distance meant they were very far apart. Yet obvious and frequent energy fluctuations were being detected—could it be that powerful experts on the scale of an army were fighting in that star region?

“Go around it,” Jun Changxiao said.

He needed to hurry to the Night King Alliance, so he definitely wouldn’t deliberately go watch the excitement.

“We can’t go around.”

Shangguan Xinyao shook her head: “The area of energy fluctuations is on our necessary flight route.”

“…”

Jun Changxiao said helplessly: “Then try not to be discovered, to avoid attracting trouble.”

“Yes!”

Whoosh—

The Eternal was like a lonely boat on the ocean, merging at extreme speed into the waves formed by layers of weak ripples. However, as they drew closer, the energy intensity and frequency increased.

“A very brutal battle!”

Jian Guixu said: “Could it be two top-tier planes fighting?”

Jun Changxiao was tempted.

He really wanted to see the scene of top-tier planes clashing.

But he still needed to rescue Ye Xingchen, so he could only forcefully suppress his curiosity and asked: “How long until we reach the Night King Realm?”

“Estimated…”

Shangguan Xinyao suddenly stopped speaking. Her delicate fingers tapped on the projection keyboard. The star map magnified infinitely until she obtained some certainty, then exclaimed in shock: “Sect Master, the energy is being released from the star region we’re heading to!”

“Oh?”

Jun Changxiao asked curiously: “Could it be the Night King Alliance fighting someone?”

“The Night King is elusive and unfathomably powerful. In the upper cosmos, no plane or force dares offend him, unless…” Jian Guixu’s gaze turned grave: “The Heavenly Demon Emperor!”

“That would be very interesting,” Jun Changxiao said.

From the current situation, he had a grudge with the Heavenly Demon Emperor and a grievance with the Night King Alliance. If the two fought, he’d definitely be happy to see it—he might even fish in troubled waters when he got there.

“Speed up!”

Dog Leftover said: “We’re going to watch the show!”

“Whoosh—”

The Eternal continued forward. As they drew closer, the images captured by the star map became increasingly clear.

“Holy crap!”

The high-level members and disciples in the cockpit all gathered around, shocked expressions gradually appearing on their faces.

On the light screen map, traces of warship-like vessels flying through the cosmos could be clearly seen lingering in the starry void—one trail, two trails… thousands of trails.

“…”

Jun Changxiao’s gaze turned grave.

Just from the flight traces permeating the cosmos, he could imagine there were at least thousands of warships—a scale completely comparable to when the Heavenly Demon Emperor destroyed the Gu Xuanyuan Realm.

“Looks like!”

Jian Guixu said in a deep voice: “The Heavenly Demon Emperor is determined to destroy the Night King Alliance!”

Jun Changxiao, who had originally wanted to watch the excitement, immediately became worried.

With the Heavenly Demon Emperor deploying so many warships, what if Ye Xingchen got hurt? That would be terrible.

“Quick! Quick!”

Jun Changxiao urged Shangguan Xinyao to accelerate faster.

“Boom—”

Just then, a deafening roar suddenly came from outside. Through the cockpit window, they could clearly see enormous fire clouds suddenly rising within their field of vision, gradually forming mushroom shapes.

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

In an instant, fierce winds sharp as blades pressed over, carrying violent energy ripples.

Jun Changxiao and the disciples were all stunned.

This level of explosion was simply too shocking!

While everyone was collectively shocked, only Shangguan Xinyao maintained absolute calm. She immediately waved her right hand, wildly turning the steering wheel like an old pro.

“Whoosh—”

As the fierce winds pressed over like a roaring beast, the Eternal suddenly executed an extreme drift from its high-speed flight, then flew at extreme speed toward the diagonal side, racing for survival against the powerful ripples!

At that moment,

I’m willing to call Shangguan Xinyao the Akina Mountain Racing God!

“Whoosh—”

The Eternal operated at full power, racing against time, racing against the collapse of heaven and earth.

Fortunately, they were at the edge of the explosion, and fortunately the warship had undergone multiple improvements with greatly enhanced performance. They finally successfully flew out of the aftershock zone, then stopped steadily in the starry cosmos with an extremely graceful drifting motion.

Everyone stand up!

Pour the racing god a cappuccino!

However.

After the Eternal stylishly came to a stop, everyone in the cockpit was scattered around in bizarre postures.

Some faces pressed against walls, some butts pressed against others’ faces—the situation was quite chaotic.

“Ow!”

Su Xiaomo howled: “My… my butt…”

When the Eternal suddenly turned sharply, he was thrown out and sat on someone’s face with his butt. Logically it should have been soft, but instead… it was like hitting a steel plate, and it even had spikes!

“Damn you!”

Jun Changxiao shoved Su Xiaomo’s butt away, squinting his eyes toward the cockpit window. He saw two figures gradually appearing in the boiling mushroom cloud ahead.

One of them was the Heavenly Demon Emperor!

The other…

Seeing that rather familiar back, Dog Leftover thought for a moment, then said in surprise: “Zhang San?”