The task given to Lord Rejin was simple: locate and recover the girl with indigo hair.

Should have been incredibly easy even for a non-combat type Tier 7 deity, thus Pef plunged ahead into the Pearl Sea and began detonating shipyards and naval bases, recruiting worlds and military camps, often gigantic installations that drained stars of their energy and matter.

The Demolishers had the simple appearance of twin adamantite spheres melded together, but their inner working was fiendishly complex, with the particles of True Yin and Yang suspended in Void-locked pocket universes bridged by a secure wormhole keyed to the user's genome, all wrapped in containment runes and encryption sigils.

These weapons were the pinnacle of magi-tech arsenal available to most Tier 7 universes, and only the Tier 8 divinities produced higher ranked weapons like the Word Guns and similar artifacts.

Sadly, while these weapons worked perfectly against Tier 4 and lower cultivators, as well as material constructs like ships and installations, the Shin Admiralty had their own Universe and Elder Gods, which were let's say...mildly annoyed by the devastation spread around by a vindictive Legion Soldier.

Killing the Tier 5 squids wasn't difficult, but Pef was careful for now, avoiding their Tier 6s if possible.

"Find him and bring me his head!" an Elder Admiral shouted from the top of his four lungs. The entire Silver Yard galaxy echoed at the angry words.

Pef grinned and Blinked away, leaving behind another ticking Demolisher.

'I found her...but...' a message arrived from Lord Rejin.

'Yes?' Pef asked curious.

'Rescuing her is not possible. She is covered in an impenetrable time-locked field.' the Alchemist sent with a tone of disbelief.

Pef chuckled to himself. 'That woman has never been easy to save. I'm on the way.' he replied with a delighted tone, as he sped his Blink rate to the maximum.

In a few hours, Pef arrived beside Rejin at the Diamond Palace Anchorage, where thousands of warships were preparing to launch, under the watchful gazes of their Admirals.

He took a moment to scan and record the various ship models and capabilities, comparing them with other ships he had seen or built in the past. Without doubt, the ships were faster and better armed, although they used organic compounds for armor, making them much more fragile than adamantite hulls.

'Not the best choice for armor, I'd say' Pef murmured inward as he flicked another Yin-Yang bomb in the middle of the spaceport.

'They can grow these hulls much cheaper. Also, 14 targets marked.' the glove responded, while tracing the survivors of the detonation.

Three Elder Gods, eleven Tier 5s and a young woman covered in an indigo glowing forcefield. Everything else was disintegrated by the Yin-Yang annihilation process, from cultivators and orbital factories, to slave camps and farms.

The main planet of the Shin Admiralty, and all its academies and libraries and billions of years of history were now only space dust.

"He is here!" a panicked voice erupted from a Tier 5 squid.

"I think the demonstration is over. Don't make me use harsher words to recover my wife." Pef proclaimed in a clear voice.

"Are you insane? You obliterated our galaxy for a single female?" an Elder Admiral asked in a furious tone, while gathering his qi with murderous intent.

Pef flicked a finger, and sent a single VoidSplitter sword at the aggressive Elder God. Instantly, the void folded and shattered splitting the Tier 6 squid straight in two, through its Dantian core.

"My wife is a Veritas Legion Soldier. It seems the multiverse has forgotten about us. Should I bring out the big guns?" Pef threatened in a mild voice, that carried all over the ruined galaxy.

As the remaining squids hesitated, Pef blinked beside the frozen Yue, and calmly placed his hand on her chest. A furious Heavenly Tribulation of gold and black lightning crashed on him, and then coursed through Pef towards his frozen wife. As the glove expected, the tribulation awoke the sleeping beauty.

Yue opened her eyes and looked around in disbelief. "You really came for me hubby!"

On her left hand, a violet metal ring flared with a red glow, and a projection appeared floating beside the young goddess. "See? I told you it won't take long. You have found yourself a good husband. Not too smart though..." the animal projection spoke with obvious contempt.

"A talking dead badger?" Pef muttered with a shiver, while eyeing Yue's new companion with distaste. He really didn't like badgers, even dead ones.

"Grandpa Tao is not a badger, silly husband. He is a Taotie, and was the companion beast of the Jade Emperor, a...million years ago." Yue declared proudly.

"A million million years, girl! Sigh, I should have waited for a better host. I just had to pick the first indigo aura that entered my Master's Mausoleum, didn't I?" the Spirit Beast complained in fake outrage.

Lord Rejin floated silently beside Pef, listening to the impossible conversation taking place. The woman wasn't merely a damsel in need of saving, she was the inheritor of the Shamballa Mausoleum, and now carried a Spirit Beast of immense power and wisdom, even older than all his lives combined.

Well, maybe not wisdom. Precious few sentients ever demonstrated wisdom, and today was no surprise.

"Fine! A Taotie then, whatever that is. Perhaps a fancy way of saying talking badger..." Pef grumbled as he hugged his precious wife.

For once, he didn't mind the annoying talking ghost, if it provided his wife the means to survive any damage in that time-locked field.

"...Very touching, but perhaps resolve the ongoing conflict before you molest this young lady?" Rejin observed in a joking tone.

Pef turned towards the next Tier 6 squid. "Well? Do you surrender yet, or we talk Reason some more? I know a lot of pretty words, but you may run out of galaxies..." he inquired softly, while imbuing the word 'reason' with a tinge of logopedic dao.

His dictionary of Power Words was still very small, but the morale of the Shin Gods was shattered already. A small push was all it took. Perhaps the Tier 7 at his side helped as well, though he didn't do anything.

The remaining six-limbed Admirals crashed low and bowed. "Have mercy, Legion God!"

"...Mercy, huh? Oh well. I could use more troops for the Legion. Ships and admirals as well." Pef mused out loud, making the Alchemist's eyebrow flutter for a second.

"Don't forget about the Autumn Sect." Yue added with wide grin.

Pef smiled and patted her head. "Yeah. Them too." he allowed generously.

The Legion would need many more troops to break through the goliths and their mind-controlled slaves. Perhaps he could send this new wife on vacation again, and provide him more willing recruits.

"We can just join the Legion?" a smaller squid wondered confused.

Pef smiled gently at the naive squid recruit. "It will take a month or so, but yes. Now, line up to be blessed by the Hand of the General!"

In a minute, he passed with the glove over the grateful recruits and began the indoctrination. Meanwhile, the glove listed the remaining strongholds and bases of the Shin that needed to be brought in, willing or not.

It didn't matter anyway, as the Legion always won in the end. It was only a matter of time.