Him and their stars.

Chapter 2027 I Really Digged the Orange Cat's Ancestor Grave
Since everything that followed was peaceful, the only dead person at the scene became particularly conspicuous. Fei Fei's gaze then fell on the headless corpse that was still convulsing, and then looked at Yani, her eyes scrutinizing her as if she were examining a mentally unstable lunatic.

"You're the ones who used it as cannon fodder. Everyone who goes first is the first to die, isn't that an ironclad rule of movies? Feifei, you're the director, aren't you?" Of course, Yani couldn't possibly believe that this was the one in control.

"Those are all B-grade horror movies that rely on scares. They're more like props for young couples to have fun than movies. Of course, as a director, I personally don't reject this kind of subject matter."

At this moment, the headless body gradually stopped twitching, the luster on its carapace dimmed, and the reddish-brown flesh gradually turned grayish-brown before drying and withering away at a visible speed.

In just two or three seconds, the giant's body, which was estimated to be at least two and a half meters tall, was transformed into a pile of withered and decaying rotten wood.

"Poor Mimic Lord, little sister Shirley will be heartbroken, won't she?" Feifei sighed.

"Your relationship has gotten this close?" Yani asked with interest. Of course, there might be a hint of jealousy, but there was no real evidence.

"You'll have to ask him that." Fei Fei glared at Yu Lian. "Meeting this guy is my karma for this lifetime. What can I do? What can I do?"

Her gaze then swept over the red brocade pouch hanging around Yani's neck, and she couldn't help but scoff. She had not only seen Yu Lian's brocade pouch before, but had also witnessed the latter use it once.

"So, you really did scheme to this extent? This can't be described as a blessing, can it?"

"Believe it or not, Feifei, I only did a basic rehearsal. If this scene hadn't happened today, the last trick would at least have allowed you to escape," Yani said.

"Very good. This last chance to escape has been used up." Fei Fei began to applaud.

“I won’t talk about fate, but this is at least the choice of history. Perhaps, you no longer need to keep running?” She looked at Yani and once again revealed a mysterious smile.

At that moment, starlight poured down from behind the dense gray fog, once again forming the entrance to the invisible spatial passage. The blurry ripples reappeared, solidifying into a humanoid silhouette.

"Here we go again?" Yani said, both amused and exasperated. "Indeed, I estimated that the passageway constructed with the Book of the Sun God should be able to accommodate five or six people, but you really don't intend to waste a single bit of it!"

"You still have to ask him!" Fei Fei glared at Yu Lian again, annoyed.

Of course, at this moment, Yu Lian pretended that he hadn't seen or heard anything, and leaned on the railing at the edge of the tower, trying to see some special life form in the "thin gray mist" between the starlight and the academy space.

She seemed to immediately think of something: "Miss Gongsun?"

Feifei nodded, then shook her head.

“I’m really curious about what’s going on at the exit now.” Yani sighed and said seriously, “I can accept it if you sleep in the same room, but having another bug to play with is just too far ahead of its time. I really can’t accept it.”

Feifei responded with a blank smile, but then gestured with her fingers in the air.

Yani bit her lip in frustration, making a zipping motion with her lips. But even so, she only managed to hold it for a few seconds.

When she saw Gongsun Qing appear, carrying a girl who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, she was stunned.

She quickly recognized the girl's identity.

“Princess Philian of Slein? This is indeed a guest I never expected.”

"You'd never guess." Fei Fei glared at the other person, but said, "Yes, just hearing the name makes me feel a connection. Of course, it's mainly because I'm connected with someone else."

As she glared at Yu Lian, her expression even carried a hint of murderous intent.

“…Well, that’s something I didn’t expect.” Yani rested her chin on her hand, her gaze sweeping from the young woman choosing the emperor’s face to Yu Lian’s, as if she were looking at something dirty.
"again?"

Yu Lian, however, said earnestly, "Don't use the dark thoughts of capitalists to try to understand the determination of a feudal nobleman with communist tendencies."

What kind of mythical beast is this?

Even Princess Rainbow Rose took at least three seconds to process this concept, leaving everyone both amused and exasperated.

Gongsun Qing, who was new to the place, greeted everyone with a proper attitude, especially expressing his gratitude to Miss Bei. Although neither of them knew where the gratitude came from, he then introduced the girl he was leading: "She is now our exploration consultant and has been a great help."

As for the young girl choosing the emperor, she even behaved more obediently than Gongsun Qing, as if she were a middle school student acting as a mascot at an important ceremony attended by many important figures.

She stood at attention with her legs together and bowed to Princess Rainbow Rose: "Please don't misunderstand, Your Excellency. I am just a lowly prisoner of war. My life is precarious, and I have no choice in what I do. Right now, on the ruins of the palace in Schlenburg, a new King Slein may have been born. I am just an ordinary prisoner of war who wants to survive."

The girl's manners were impeccable, but her attitude was sincere, with even a hint of pitiful flattery in her eyes. Yani, surprisingly, didn't detect any flaws and became even more intrigued.

"An exploration consultant?"

“If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have been able to enter the Dragon Realm. She truly chose to progress and stood on the front line of history,” Fei Fei said with a smile.

The young woman, already feeling ashamed and uneasy, quickly said, "It's just some trivial matter. I did what I could to earn my life. This is in accordance with the 'Hua Xu Covenant' signed with the Galactic Civilization Council."

"You've already entered the heart of the Empire?"

Under the questioning gaze of his senior brother, Yu Lian explained, "We are currently in the King Star System of the Dragon Domain, which is also known as the 'Eight Great King Star System'."

Tantai Jing exclaimed in surprise, "So you really went to dig up the imperial family's ancestral graves?"

The eldest brother was truly out of control. However, upon seeing the girl's pale face, he quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, I meant no offense. However, that's a forbidden area protected by the secret treasure of the Dawn Royal Family. Even during the War of Independence, my master... and the previous generation's Black Moon Hero, were unable to find the entrance."

"That's why I thank Princess Philian. Of course, and... well, Fish, is that something I can say?" Since there were no subordinates present, Philian naturally reverted to using her nickname.

Of course, it is precisely because there are no subordinates here but there are foxes that Feifei's nickname comes more naturally.

“There are no outsiders here,” Yu Lian said with a smile.

As he spoke, Gongsun Qing's gaze swept dangerously across the neck of the chosen princess once again, but Yu Lian deliberately ignored it.

“Then we should be even more grateful for the invitation from High Priest Norddos. Whether it was his own decision or on behalf of others, we should head to the Dragon Realm. And, as Yu’er said, since we’re already here, why not pass through their ancestral graves?” Tantai Jing was even more surprised: “High Priest Norddos told you how to enter the Dragon Realm?”

Yu Lian smiled and spread his hands: "This is part of the invitation."

He seemed to have given an answer, and the senior brother exclaimed in admiration, "As expected of you! You've even won over the emperor's chief henchman!"

"It's not exactly a matter of being won over. He has some inexplicable demands, and at most we're just engaging in a tacit cooperation. Or rather, it's a mutual calculation," Yu Lian said.

"But he did tell you how to enter the Dragon Realm after all."

"Well, I've been to Dragon Domain. I even personally supervised the construction there." Yu Lian wanted to say this, but considering that it would be difficult for everyone to accept and would be troublesome to explain, he decided not to give a direct answer.

Of course, Miss Bei vaguely sensed something, but she glanced at herself with a mysterious smile, then lowered her eyelids and smiled, looking like a good girl who is understanding and doesn't want to expose someone's troubles.

Feifei then said, "The Eight Great Kings Star System is the place with the most turbulent spiritual veins within a radius of hundreds of light-years, no less than the Heavenly Domain. Very good, now I know why Ya Ni's spatial passage is so smooth."

"The same effect will occur in the Celestial Realm."

Yu Lian now understood. If he reached the Heavenly Realm, Yani could use the Book of the Sun God, engraved with spatial runes, inside the Return to City Pouch to retrieve him, essentially functioning as a Return to City Scroll.

However, this scroll has already been used. If we arrive in the Heavenly Realm…

Hey, since we've already used it, things will work themselves out.

Compared to the positive atmosphere emanating from everyone else, Herito Rivers' expression suddenly became quite complicated.

Amidst the shock of having one's worldview overturned, there was certainly a sense of exhilaration, but also a trace of inexplicable sorrow: "Having achieved victory after victory, is the empire's bottom line being constantly eroded? What... what is the Emperor doing?"

Could it be that the so-called bloody disaster will really happen?
What a momentous era of change I live in!

The Flemish stared at Yu Lian with somewhat blurred vision, as if they were on a pilgrimage.

As Yu Lian thought this, he took out a thin, dark green stone slab, about the size of a palm, which looked like a thin piece of jade tile.

However, this seemingly insignificant prop immediately stunned Tantai Jing and Yamida.

“The same spiritual energy, the same rhythm, the same cadence,” the eldest brother said.

“Yes, it’s of the same standard as this academy.” Yani pondered for a moment: “You retrieved the treasure from the ancestral tombs of the Werrent royal family?”

This academy was once called "The Swaying Royal Court," a family heirloom of the Werrent royal family. Therefore, it is quite reasonable to retrieve some similar antiques from the royal mausoleum.

“No, to be precise, it’s from the tombs of the Suliuka royal family,” Yu Lian said.

The young girl covered her face and lowered her head. If Gongsun Qing hadn't glared at her, she probably would have burst into tears.

Very good, it seems you played a very important role.

Yani couldn't help but burst into laughter, clutching her stomach: "That's fantastic! It's exactly what you would do!"

It was rare for Miss Bei to laugh so happily, so Yu Lian decided to patiently wait for the girl to finish laughing.

Half a minute later, her smile faded, and she asked seriously, "So, are you worried about some kind of trap? Because it's too much of a coincidence?"

Yu Lian played with the green tile in his hand and nodded slightly.

The so-called Dragon Domain actually refers to a special star system between the Gaiden Star Region and the Imperial Inner Ring Mainland. Twelve young and vigorous stars, with an average distance of less than 1.5 light-years, form a gravitationally stable star system here, like a string of ruby ​​necklaces hanging in the sky.

When the Tyrero people discovered this starry sky two thousand years ago, they were astonished to find that each star system here had at least three to four Earth-like planets and at least one naturally habitable planet, and that the indigenous life forms had evolved to the level of mammals. In short, it was a vibrant and thriving place where everything was flourishing.

Within the single central star system, there exists a sacred planet where even the air seems to exude a sweet fragrance.

Needless to say, the feeling of this starry sky being modified and designed was incredibly strong, but the discoverers of the empire at the time didn't seem to care. There were simply too many relics and legacies left in this universe, and everyone said they were used to it.

The discoverer was naturally rewarded, and the subsequent procedures followed smoothly. The eight princes and various nobles entered this fertile land teeming with life and began their blissful period of land grabbing.

For pioneers of any era, the initial land grabbing and expansion is naturally the most lucrative period.

Because this planet is full of magnificent scenery and large wild beasts, the royal family and nobles are more willing to turn it into manors, hunting grounds and wildlife parks, and it can even be used to raise dragons, so the population has never been very large.

In any case, the Tyrellians have been expanding, and their living space has been constantly growing. Although the lords of the Empire have seized a good piece of land and are not sharing it with everyone, once everyone accepts this situation, their mentality can be more peaceful.

Indeed, only a Galactic Empire could create such a "dedicated zone" effect by using a single star system as its tail. Such an operation requires more than just restricting the movement of ordinary residents; it also necessitates a sufficiently large scale, national power, and grassroots mobilization capacity.

This was demonstrated again a thousand years later, around 100 years before the Common Era.

Emperor Resnat, through a combination of buyout and coercion, seized all the manors and hunting grounds except those belonging to the royal family, transferring all twelve star systems to the royal family and entrusting them directly to the inner court and the royal merchant guild for management.

Thus, this starry sky came to be known as the "Dragon's Nest" or the "Dragon's Domain".

Of course, the fact that the Empire squandered such a fertile planet and turned it into a graveyard was something that happened after the outbreak of the Third Galactic War.

At least at the time, people speculated that Emperor Resnat intended to develop this place as a fallback for the Dawn Royal Family.

After all, it only has two shipping lanes connecting to the outer Gaixian Star Region and Wanfan Star Region. Although it can serve as a transportation artery, it is not unique.

In the event of internal strife or the destruction of the empire, the royal family could simply retreat into this easily defensible and difficult-to-attack starry sky and quietly develop their power.

Then, the entrances to those two shipping lanes vanished, as if they had been "erased" from the starry sky. Such rumors then spread like wildfire.