Having spent much of his time fighting inside the ship, Tianming didn't know what was going on outside. Even so, the corpse of Empress Yu was right before him. It didn't matter how the sun emperor had killed her, only that he had. While he appeared to have been flirty throughout their interactions like a crass delinquent, he didn't hold back at all when it came to striking the killing blow.

Empress Yu's body had been crushed flat by the Flameyellow Coffin. Before she died, her hardened bones, organs, and muscles had turned to mush, almost like she’d been inside a mortar with the coffin acting as the pestle. Given what Tianming knew about the power of the coffin, he wasn't surprised that the sun emperor managed to kill her, only of the amount of time he took to do it. With the two empresses gone, Grand Emperor Starvore was at a huge disadvantage. He had even failed to take Li Wudi down...