BOOOOOOOM!
At the heart of the Crown-Star Sector, the golden dome of the Supreme Five-Crown Ancestral Temple split open as five towering pillars of purple, gold, white, azure, and crimson light erupted into the starry void!
Rising out of the shattered dome were the five supreme rulers who had terrorized the three hundred star systems of the Crown-Star Sector for ten thousand years—the Five Celestial Bloodline Patriarchs!
At the center floated Supreme Patriarch Zi Haotian of the Purple-Crown Clan, a dry-faced old monster at Half-Step Rank 9 (Half-Step Galaxy Realm) whose purple-gold robe was woven from star-silk and whose eyes burned like twin purple suns.
Flanking him on the left and right were Patriarch Huang Wudi (Golden-Crown), Patriarch Bai Cangqiong (White-Crown), Patriarch Qing Ming (Azure-Crown), and Patriarch Chi Yan (Crimson-Crown)—four terrifying Rank 8 Peak (Solar Furnace Peak) ancestors, each holding an ancient, jewel-encrusted Ancestral Blood-Chalice in both hands!
“Unforgivable! Utterly unforgivable!”
Supreme Patriarch Zi Haotian’s voice rumbled across fifty light-years of space like rolling thunder, shaking asteroids into dust.
“First, that country mayor Pei Xuan shattered ten million of our Blood-Lock Curses with a bronze school bell! Then he built a hundred thousand red-brick peasant schools and drained our floating palaces dry with his 5G Wi-Fi towers! And today, he put our twenty proudest Royal Young Masters in paper cone hats, made them compete for Little Red Paper Flowers from a seven-year-old coal-miner’s daughter, and got my own son hooked on washing cafeteria dishes for sweet-corn pudding!”
