Above the central star system of the Mirage-Moon Belt, the starry sky trembled beneath the furious pressure of a Half-Step Rank 9 (Galaxy Realm) powerhouse.
The Joyous-Illusion Demon Empress—Empress Huan—floated a hundred miles in front of Engine #1 on a thirty-foot ribbon of glowing pink dream-silk. Behind her stood her last one thousand Palace Guard Elders, though half of them were nervously peeking at the train’s dining car and sniffing the air.
Above the Empress’s head hovered her supreme life-bound treasure: the Myriad Heart-Devil Mirror.
It was a ten-thousand-foot-tall antique bronze mirror framed by nine snarling demon skulls carved from black star-iron. Swirls of dark purple soul-fire danced across its polished glass surface, radiating an aura so eerie that even nearby asteroids began hallucinating and crashing into each other.
On the roof of the studio car, Hong Ling didn’t turn off the 8K Holo-Shopping cameras. Instead, she zoomed all twelve cameras straight onto the Demon Empress’s face and slapped a flashing banner at the bottom of the screen:
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“Pei Xuan!”
Empress Huan’s voice rang across four hundred solar systems, shaking with five thousand years of accumulated fury.
