In the sky, a man with reddish-black hair looked down at the city with a mighty aura. His bony face bore traces of the auras of the demonic arts. His white eyes made him more frightening instead of making him look better.
He was a true demon cultivator.
He was 2 meters tall and wore a rather large robe. It was obvious that he had incredible muscles underneath his clothes. Not just in cultivation. He must have trained himself to a terrifying level physically as well. As he floated in the sky without a weapon, the huge laser from behind the clouds passed by him once again, hitting the barrier.
BANNGG...!!!
The barrier shook once again, and even several transparent cracks appeared where the collision had occurred. The city barrier was about to fall.
"Too bad we can't come to an agreement."
Suddenly, a voice echoed in the sky and a figure appeared behind the barrier. He was a man with black hair and brown eyes, dressed in red imperial robes. His face was flawless and he did not smile at all. You could tell how powerful he was by the way the auras emanating from his body vibrated the barrier protecting the city, along with his incredibly authoritative and noble aura.
He was the real power here. He was the real protector of this city, of this country. His nobility covered the entire planet. He inspired worship in everyone's soul.
He was none other than Emperor Laofeng.
The bone-faced man narrowed his eyes. At that moment, he spat out the name of the man in front of him.
"Emperor Laofeng! You don't seem to understand us! We're space pirates! We get what we want! There is no deal! "
Emperor Laofeng shook his head from side to side, then pointed his right hand at the bone-faced man.
"How annoying that someone weaker than me would say such words."
Emperor Laofeng's hand transformed into energy and suddenly grew into a palm hundreds of meters in size, reaching out to the bone-faced man.
Once the attack was out of the barrier, the laser from behind the clouds also hit the giant golden hand.
BOOOOMM...!!!!!
The golden hand disappeared with a huge explosion, and Laofeng frowned. It seemed like the thing behind the clouds was going to make things much more difficult for him.
***
Meanwhile, inside the palace, countless soldiers were fighting against unknown men with beards and dirty clothes. Many of them were emitting very clear space auras. This was not because they had accomplished some feat related to the Space Tao. They were space pirates. Having lived in space for a very long time, they now had a trace of the Tao of Space in their bodies.
People with deep enough comprehension to see traces of the Space Tao would see more than the aura emanating from their bodies.
Imperial soldiers were no ordinary people. Neither were these pirates. Their collisions could easily destroy ordinary buildings. But they were in a palace. Built with the most rare materials, this palace could not be destroyed even by an emperor. This palace was built by the former empress for an old friend. The battles would not have been so easy.
Collisions elsewhere in the palace would make the doors shake and even cause an earthquake inside the palace, but nothing really happened to the palace. Only cleanable traces were left.
There were more than imperial guards and pirates inside. There were 3 pirate commanders at the outer gate of the palace. One of them was a different kind of creature with 3 arms, red skin, and 4 eyes. He was a part of the power of the Infinite Realms. He was not weak. The aura emanating from his body was slightly stronger than the two people beside him. One of them was an old man dressed in black. He had a long and deep wound on his cheek. It looked like it might open at any moment. It was red, as if he was still bleeding inside. The fierceness in his eyes showed that he was more than his age suggested. He was the one who led and formed all the pirates and fought their enemies as a commander.
The other was dressed in white, his face not even visible. He looked like an assassin, shorter than both of them. His eyes were also invisible. His eyes were covered with pirate bandanas over a white mask. Pirates used to use them for one eye, but he used them for both.
How could he see with his eyes covered?
Behind the imperial soldiers were three men with white beards. The one in front had a cane in his hand, and he looked incredibly old, with black spots on his wrinkled skin. There were scars in his eyes, pain that proved he had gone through incredible events. He had suffered so much for this Empire. But like everyone else, he knew that his suffering was not enough for such a great empire. Even ten people like him were not enough.
The Empire existed for the people. But for the empire to exist, some people had to be absent.
Behind the 1st Head Eunuch was an elderly man who looked much younger, but still had a white beard that reached down to his chest. His hair was covered with a yellow bandana. There was a glint of enormous pride in his eyes.
On the other side of the 2nd Head Eunuch was Eunuch Reter, the 3rd Head Eunuch. He was a plain old man with his hair tied back and his beard still black. There was no pain in his eyes like the 1st Head Eunuch, no pride like the 2nd Head Eunuch. There was compassion in his eyes. They were formed by compassion for the 3rd prince's plight, and they were enough to prove to the 3rd prince that he could stand against mountains and seas. There was no regret in those eyes for being the subordinate of a weak man.
"Reter...?"
At that moment, light footsteps could be heard above the sounds of battle. From behind the inner palace, behind the eunuchs, an aura rose that was not even worth mentioning compared to theirs. The one who came towards them, clutching his shoulder, was a small boy with black hair and orange eyes, wearing red robes with small tears on his knees and chest. There was a confusion in his eyes that came from his inability to understand what was happening in the battle before him. He tried to hide an underlying fear, but it was evident in the eyes of the seasoned experts. He saw the bodies. The warm blood, the aura, the strength. He felt his weakness in this great sea of power and he shivered at the smell of those bodies. He was scared. This 8-year-old prince was smart, but that didn't change his age. Seeing dead people made him afraid. Especially when he was so close to them. As a prince, he could understand what it meant.
The four-armed man on the pirate side narrowed his eyes and smiled. The expressions of the other two men beside him did not change.
"We finally found our target."
Suddenly, his eyes changed along with his aura. His eyes turned completely red, including the whites. He took a deep breath, then stretched out his fingers and put them to his mouth. And then Mais saw him, with all his might, letting all the air out of him into his fingers. But it was more than that. There was something more in that breath that he didn't understand.
The breath turned into flame. It engulfed the fingers. As it advanced ten centimeters, its width stretched across the entire corridor, filling the entire room. Soldiers and pirates screamed in pain. The flames engulfed them and reached for the eunuchs, or rather, Mais.
"Know your place."
1. The eunuch frowned, tapping his cane on the ground as he stared unblinkingly at the light coming toward him. Suddenly, Mais felt something similar. And it was more understandable. Much more understandable...
The Tao and the accompanying power of the cane hit the flames and covered the whole corridor, turning the room completely white. But in the middle of this long corridor, there was still a battle going on. It was between two important Taos, between two great cultivators. Mais felt the heat of the flames disappear. The flames cooled down. His power was dispersed as if he had hit a wall. Mais watched as his field of vision was covered with bright flames. At that moment, he understood. What the 1st Eunuch had done was the power of Cold Tao.
He used his Cold Tao with a much deeper power.
He was using it by stepping into the Tao.