1225 Eater of Stars
"You know, you basically got bought out by him." Dragon Goddess Yeyou said to Feng Yuming shortly afterward.
"So what? I will gladly sell myself out for a billion-year-old Smoldered Phoenix Egg. You may not understand its importance to me right now, but you will in a hundred thousand years when I become so strong that even you cannot touch me." Feng Yuming sneered.
"Oh? So you think you'll be stronger than me after eating that egg? I cannot wait to see your defeated face in a hundred thousand years…"
"Who said I'm not stronger than you now? The egg will only make the difference that much larger and more obvious."
"Why don't we put that nonsense to the test right now, then?" Dragon Goddyess Yeyou's eyes flared up with killing intent.
"It'd be my pleasure…" Feng Yuming's body began releasing flames.
"Dragon Goddess, this isn't how you should welcome a new companion. I promised you that I'd spar with you after this, so you can release your anger on me." Tian Yi quickly interrupted them, as he did not want to lose one of his traveling companions so soon after getting another one.
"Hmph. Forget it, I don't feel like it anymore. If you want to travel with this dumb pigeon, you can do so alone." And without saying anything else, Dragon Goddess Yeyou flew away, disappearing into the starry sky.
Feng Yuming looked at Tian Yi and asked him, "Why didn't you try to stop her?"
He smiled and said, "Because she had every right to leave whenever she pleased, as do you. But I have a feeling that she won't be gone for long and will eventually return to our side once she calms down."
"You're a weird human— unlike any other human that I've come across before." Feng Yuming said.
"I will take that as a compliment."
"Well, what do you plan on doing now?"
"I'm going to find the Divine Serpent known as Eater of Stars and have a chat with them." Tian Yi said.
"Eater of Stars? Are you insane? What do you hope to achieve from contacting that monster?" Feng Yuming had a look of disbelief on her face after hearing such an ominous name.
"You are familiar with the Eater of Stars?" Tian Yi looked at her glistening eyes.
"Of course. She is a notorious entity that does nothing good for the world— an unreasonable monster with an insatiable appetite that constantly consumes stars as though it is always on the verge from dying of hunger. I wouldn't get close to the Eater of Stars if I were you, as you would most likely get eaten by her before you could even say anything. In fact, I don't even know if she has the ability to communicate like I do."
"The Eater of Stars is female, as well? Have you ever spoken with her?" Tian Yi asked, his gaze filled with interest, almost as if he was a child before an amusement park.
"No, I have never spoken with her before, nor do I have the desire to do so. I have seen her consume stars from a distance a few times, but that's about it."
"If you've never spoken to her, then how do you know that she's consuming stars without reason?"
"Because she's been doing it since the Primordial Era, and nothing has ever come out of it."
"Fascinating… How fascinating! I must speak with the Eater of Stars, and if I am lucky, I might even find out why she is doing what she's been doing for eons."
"..." Feng Yuming was speechless. The more she gave him reasons to not approach the Eater of Stars, the more he seemed to be interested.
'He might actually have a screw loose in his head…' She thought to herself.
'Whatever. If he dies, I will just get my hands on the Smoldered Phoenix Egg sooner…'
"Do you know how we can find the Eater of Stars?" Tian Yi then asked.
"No, but it shouldn't be too hard to follow her trail, especially considering that she always leaves behind a trail of destruction."
"Alright. Then let's get going."
Thus, Tian Yi and Feng Yuming began their journey in search of the Eater of Stars.
Just like how he found Feng Yuming, Tian Yi would speak to everyone that crossed his path in the starry sky.
And in the blink of an eye, a thousand years passed.
"So that's the Eater of Stars, huh… She's definitely not an ordinary divine beast…" Tian Yi mumbled in a dazed voice as he watched a massive white, snake-like figure in the distance swallowing stars with a single bite, his gaze filled with fascination.
"The way it consumes the stars without hesitation makes me shudder no matter how many times I see it." Feng Yuming sighed.
"..." Tian Yi became silent.
"What's wrong? Are you having second thoughts?" Feng Yuming asked him with a teasing smile.
He shook his head and sighed, "I don't know how to say this, but she appears to be in profound anguish."
"Anguish? The Eater of Stars?" Feng Yuming chuckled at such words.
"I doubt she even has any emotions, much less anguish. Even if she does have emotions, what could she possibly be anguished about? The stars that she consumes endlessly? The mess she has made in the starry sky?"
"We may never know if we don't try to understand her."
"Good luck with that." Feng Yuming shrugged.
"I will. You can stay here while I try to speak with her."
And without hesitation, Tian Yi began flying towards the monstrous being in the distance.
"You…" Feng Yuming held herself back from trying to convince him to stop, as she had failed for the past thousand years.
'Nothing I say will change his mind now…' She sighed inwardly.
She then turned to look in a certain direction and smirked, "When are you going to stop watching us from the shadows like a stalker?"
A moment later, Dragon Goddess Yeyou's figure appeared before Feng Yuming.
"How long have you known?" Dragon Goddess Yeyou asked with a deep frown.
"Whenever you first realized that we were searching for the Eater of Stars, I guess. Even though it was just for a brief moment and you quickly hid your presence again, it was so obvious that I almost died from second-hand embarrassment."
Dragon Goddess Yeyou's face flushed with redness after hearing such words.
"To think you'd be worried enough to let your guard down. Is the human that important to you?"
"You wouldn't understand it even if I told you." Dragon Goddess Yeyou sneered.
"Then are you going to stop him? He's essentially walking straight into his own graveyard right now."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Dragon Goddess Yeyou spoke, "You've been with him for a thousand years now, yet you don't seem to know anything about him. You are just as dumb as I thought."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"The Eater of Stars may have immense prowess, but it only knows how to eat. He won't be threatened by something like that."
"You sure have a lot of confidence in him."
"You would too if you ever fought him."
"..." Feng Yuming turned silent after that, as she was mainly focused on Tian Yi, who was just a moment away from reaching the Eater of Stars.
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