“Ahh—!” Zi Zhen screamed again, her whole body trembling violently.

Not only did she fail to continue opening the nonahall eyes, but the five scarlet palace eyes she already had were beginning to dim under the severe damage. The Mayfly Brainlord had found a weak point and was now focusing all its destructive power on her!

“Thief, I’ll kill your woman first!” The voice of the Sixth's vita was mixed into the brainwave, even more grating than before.

Tianming’s eyes went blood-red as he gripped Zi Zhen’s thorned hands. His palms were already pierced and bleeding.

Zi Zhen’s body was reverting to the form of her original maiden self, her gaze growing duller and duller. Once the hall eyes vanished entirely, she would be almost defenseless and certainlydie!

The Mayfly Brainlord was no joke!

Seeing this scene, Huang Qi inwardly thanked Zi Zhen for joining the chaos—but she didn’t say that aloud. Instead, she urged Tianming even more anxiously. “Hurry! Undo the seal! All you need is to let your caeli take control of the ring. I can help you bring down this Mayfly Brainlord. I’m its greatest fear!

“Li Tianming! If you hesitate any longer, she’ll really die! And it’ll be your fault! If you can’t even protect the woman you love, what kind of Galaxy Emperor are you?”

This was Huang Qi’s best chance. She shouted again and again, her voice frantic, as if Zi Zhen’s life mattered even more to her.

Tianming held Zi Zhen tightly, looking at her weak, dying state. His heart felt as if it were being cut apart by a thousand knives.

“Shut up! I’ll release you!” Tianming finally did what he hadn’t dared to do before. His caeli dove into the ring on his handand unlocked Huang Qi’s seal. In response, the ring shot out of the skypole stars’ boundary, blocking the Mayfly Brainlord’s endless brainwaves.

It was as if Tianming, caught in a storm, had suddenly been handed an umbrella.

With that protection, Zi Zhen managed to breathe again, like someone drowning who was suddenly lifted above the water. She gasped heavily, clutching Tianming as she struggled for breath.

Their gazes turned together toward the ring.

A beam of light flared, separating Tianming and the Mayfly Brainlord to opposite sides. Then, in the space between them, a massive hive expanded rapidly, soon growing into a colossal structure over a million meters wide.

Bee-head people poured from the hive, converging on its center. The heart of the structure then tore apart, and a thousand-meter-tall woman emerged.

The moment she appeared, the Mayfly Brainlord shuddered all over and let out a shrill, terrified scream.

As for the other undying aeternal races, every one of them stared in stunned silence with bulging compound eyes.

The woman spread her arms and the bee-head people all poured into her body, their numbers impossible to count. Only then did Tianming understand: every one of those hive-dwellers was actually a part of Huang Qi’s body.

Order manifested first as a hive. Then, bee-headed people would appear, proof that bee-head people might look ordinary compared to the strange mayfly divinities, but they were anything but simple.

The woman absorbed all the bee-head people, her body swelling to a towering form ten thousand meters tall, far larger than Tianming. He had to crane his neck just to see her jade-white legs, rising like twin celestial pillars.

And above them, there was a yawning abyss of darkness...

On her flawless back, three pairs of transparent wings unfurled.

This was the freed Huang Qi. Even newly unsealed, the power Tianming felt from her was undeniably that of an Imperator from the Realm of Order.

More importantly, her identity and unique characteristics gave her an inherently dominant position within the Sea of Aeternity. The moment she appeared, all the undying aeternals froze in shock, and the Mayfly Brainlord, after its initial fright, began to retreat.

It withdrew into the ranks of its mayfly divinities, forming an army stretching over tens of billions of meters. With its tribe behind it, the Mayfly Brainlord seemed to gain confidence. It addressed Huang Qi, “So you’ve finally returned. Unfortunately for you, everything has changed. This is now the territory of the mayfly divinities.”

“Oh, really?” Huang Qi, wreathed in stormy winds, gave a cold, mocking smile.

With a single gesture, countless bee-head people, oppressed for far too long, let out earth-shaking roars and gathered. Even many other undying aeternals were roused, rushing to her side in excitement and support.

In moments, the force behind Huang Qi swelled to more than triple the size of the mayfly divinities’ army. This was Huang Qi's divine prestige.

The Mayfly Brainlord saw this and immediately realized how dire the situation was.

“She’s just been unsealed! Kill her while she's still weak and end this once and for all!” The Sea of Aeternity was a prison no one could leave. The Mayfly Brainlord understood it had nowhere to run.

“Bai Feng, lend me your strength!” the Mayfly Brainlord shouted to the body it inhabited.

“No problem,” Sixth's vita replied.

Countless mayfly divinities gathered around it, working with the Brainlord to unleash another round of yellow brainwaves.