Him and their stars.

Chapter 2216 Ah, my friend, goodbye really
A cold touch swept across the fine hairs on my skin, as if to freeze every cell. A sense of pressurelessness flowed through my body, as if preparing to tear my blood vessels and organs apart from the inside.

Of course, for an eighth-ring psionicist, these were merely natural phenomena of the vacuum of space, utterly insignificant. He glanced around and found himself on a rugged, rocky terrain, where gravity was about one-fifth that of Earth, and there was no air. Yet, beneath the rocky slope before him stretched a vast expanse of thick ice extending beyond the horizon, reflecting the purple giant planet.

The purple gas giant filled most of the dark space in Yu Lian's field of vision, as if it were the master of this universe.

Needless to say, he is currently on one of the moons of this giant planet.

He quickly checked himself; his blue bar was depleted but was rapidly recovering, while his red bar was almost undamaged.

As it turns out, neither the ancient Tiyankai patriarch and his family, nor the frenzied space crystal clusters could pose a threat to him.

He looked at his undamaged wristwatch terminal, touched the golden whistle and the light hidden in his belt, felt the texture of the dimensional sword pellet hidden in his sea of ​​consciousness, and finally looked around.

"Little Gray." He spoke softly, of course, it was impossible to make any sound in a vacuum.

However, he did hear the robot lady's voice.

"I'm here." She reappeared beside Yu Lian out of thin air, still making a ghostly entrance. However, this time she was no longer dressed as a pirate vice-captain, but in a rather heavy "ancient era" spacesuit, wearing a large, round helmet. The facial features inside the visor were almost impossible to see.

But she was the only one left.

Considering the other Little Greys who were all wiped out, especially the Little Grey technician who had been working for the Masaki leader, Yu Lian felt inexplicably sad. The feeling was even more unpleasant when only the Little Grey, a passionate cosplay enthusiast, remained.

"What are you so sad about, and what are you expecting?" Little Gray, wearing a heavy spacesuit, asked irritably, hands on his hips.

Yu Lian wiped away non-existent tears before turning his gaze to the scene where the gray panda had just perished—even though it was more than 20 million kilometers away, he could still clearly capture everything there.

The Gray Panda was, of course, no longer detectable. That little pirate ship had probably been dismantled to a size smaller than an atom.

In that direction, two violent vortexes of cosmic life forms create a grand scene on the orbit of the giant planet.

The thousands of heads of the Yang Kaiqun were fully arrayed, ready to enjoy this heaven-sent feast.

The patriarchs extended enormous tentacles hundreds of kilometers long, guiding their human spiritual abilities into the galaxy, weaving an invisible gravitational net across the vast void, enveloping the surging tide of crystal clusters.

The smaller individuals began to swim, their thick tentacles gleaming with a cold light. They could shatter asteroids, destroy the armor of warships, and of course, shatter those crystals.

However, the reaction of the crystal clusters was unexpected.

They did not escape. Instead, when they were captured by the force field, the energy within the crystal clusters seemed to ignite. The colors of the crystal clusters instantly changed from cold, dark tones to a restless, sharp, incandescent white.
The crystal clusters no longer drifted with the current. As if driven by a unified, unifying will, they began to accelerate against the direction of the force field's pull!
Using their sharp crystalline structures as spearheads, they transformed into streaks of light that hurtled towards the direction in which Ti Yangkai and his group were advancing.

They transformed into a rain of arrows and javelins. Just as they had destroyed the Gray Panda before, they now seemed poised to use the same force field net that the Yang Kais had spread out, as well as those chitinous shells strong enough to pass through hyperspace tunnels.

What a spectacular scene!

Yu Lian couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

He witnessed the energy ripples generated by the dense energy collisions and the disintegration of matter, and observed how the solid gravitational barrier was disturbed and torn apart by the suicidal concentrated impacts of the crystal clusters.

He also saw that the crystal clusters that had successfully penetrated the force field or drilled through its gaps were beginning to impact Tiyang Kai's chitinous carapace.

At the moment of impact, the highly concentrated energy, combined with the high-frequency vibration of the crystalline material itself, actually carved deep pits and spiderweb-like cracks into the outer shell, which was comparable to the armor of a warship.

"So that's how it is... Power isn't important, what's needed is the subtle fluctuations at the atomic level!" Yu Lian muttered to himself, as if an electric current was running through his mind.

Yu Lian suddenly realized that the "Spirit Ruins Armament" that His Majesty the Emperor had taught him seemed to be very similar to the current setting. He looked down and watched as colorful crystals emanated from his pores, enveloping his entire wrist and palm.

It does indeed look very similar to a crystal cluster.

He raised his crystalline arm armor, obscuring the distant starry sky. The war between the behemoths continued under the cover of the crystals, yet it was shrouded in a surrealist hue.

Yu Lian clearly sensed that beneath this crystal lay a power as vast as an abyss, but it seemed to have become more docile and malleable at this moment.

With that thought, the crystal, like flowing liquid metal, fell to the ground and then solidified again into a recliner.

Yu Lian had just sat down in a comfortable position riddled with flaws when he saw Little Gray glaring at him. He shrugged and gestured, causing another chair to appear beside him.

Little Grey slumped her bulky body, still wrapped in her spacesuit, onto the chair, her face less than a centimeter from Yu Lian's, and closed her eyes to fall fast asleep. The fact that a whole ship of Little Grey had died seemed to have taken a heavy toll on her. Although there was no theoretical basis for this, Yu Lian decided to take it as fact for the time being.

Meanwhile, on the distant battlefield, the battle had entered a fierce stage.

The Tiyankai were clearly enraged by this unusually fierce resistance. They waved their tentacles, trying to swat and sweep away these frenzied prey.

More and more crystal clusters are torn, squeezed, and shattered by the immense gravity, turning into energy fragments that can be absorbed by them.

Each Ti Yangkai seemed to be unrivaled among his prey, but the crystal clusters seemed endless.

Some of the larger crystals even began to move closer together, splicing and temporarily combining into larger, sharper composite crystal structures, before being subjected to more violent impacts.

The interaction between predators and prey has evolved into a massive war of attrition.

Ti Yangkai could no longer eat easily as usual; instead, he was trapped in an endless cycle of being surrounded and losing blood.

Similarly, the crystal clusters could not inflict fatal damage on Chief Tiyangkai's massive body, but could only leave increasingly larger superficial wounds on his body.

As for the smaller Tiyangkai cubs, they had already shrunk behind the clan leaders' mushroom heads.

The two sides were locked in a violent and chaotic stalemate. The star field was filled with energy glow, shattered crystals, and churning tentacles of giant beasts, turning into a vortex.

"Is this cosmic sociology?" Yu Lian asked.

"Perhaps it's also cosmology," Little Gray said.

“However, that is not normal,” Yu Lian said.

"So, whose side are you on?"

I'm not on either side. If one of the parties involved were a member of the Edelweiss clan, perhaps I would do something. He was just very unhappy, and the thought of the Void Crown that vaguely manipulated the crystal clusters from behind the scenes made him even more upset. When he actually considered this, his rhythmic senses instantly touched upon a clear realm. Yu Lian frowned slightly, clearly "seeing" once again the ruby ​​hidden behind the sublime dimension.

The Noble Phantasm from the Age of Enlightenment still calmly looked down upon him. In the depths of its eyes, which were almost devoid of any fluctuation or aura, an endless depth and mystery pulsed.

"Come here!" That's probably what He was saying.

Although Yu Lian didn't have any evidence, he just had this feeling. He was almost certain that the thing was provoking him.

"Did you feel it?" Yu Lian asked.

"What?" Little Grey, who was fast asleep, opened his eyes and woke up instantly.

“I felt like that thing was provoking me.”

"Well... I really want to say it doesn't have that function. But while 'provocation' is an objective term, being provoked is subjective," Little Gray said seriously. "But what do you want to do now?"

As Yu Lian fell silent and began to seriously consider how to intervene in higher-dimensional realms, his spiritual sense stirred once again.

It wasn't a sound, but rather a tremor of space, a magnificent and ancient rhythm.

Yu Lian suddenly looked up, his spiritual senses extending towards the end of the tremor. He "saw" a sacred and elegant figure.

Beyond the distant band of broken stars and the halo formed by the satellites, in the deep starry sky, a group of graceful figures, draped in the solar winds of the stars, break through the waves.

Their bodies are long and slender, covered in scales that seem to be formed from starlight. These are characteristics of agile reptiles, but perhaps they are also the most magnificent reptiles in the universe.

They support wingspans far larger than their bodies, shimmering with the brilliant light of starlight. That is, of course, a characteristic of birds, but perhaps also the most majestic birds in the universe.

A flock of Star Dragons? A flock of Flame Wyverns?

Wild herds of Flamewing?
There were only eight of them—which is quite typical of a wild herd of Flamewing Dragons. They seemed to have been drawn to the distant battlefield and were preparing to hunt.

Yes, whether it's crystal clusters or Tiyankai, they are actually food for the Star Dragons—in fact, these ferocious phantom beasts will hunt all Space Leviathans equally, including even the Sky Whale and other Star Dragons.

Of course, they are also intelligent hunters, and will not easily attack targets that are large in number or individually strong. The Crystal Cluster Sea and the Tiyankai clan chieftain's group, who are currently engaged in fierce combat, have clearly exceeded the safe hunting threshold of this dragon group.

They carefully kept their distance and patiently observed this chaotic feast.

Yu Lian's gaze involuntarily fell on the dragon that vaguely occupied the center position among the dragons.

It is not the largest in size, but it is certainly the most magnificent. The scales all over its body have faintly shown a touch of elegant dark gold, with red patterns flowing around the edges like lava. Its outstretched wings do not look like the wings of a living creature at all, but more like sharp blades covered with flames. Once unfolded, they seem to be able to cut through starlight.

It may not be the oldest individual in this group of dragons, but perhaps because of some extraordinary encounter, it must be the most powerful one.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that Yu Lian felt he had vaguely seen it somewhere before.

Half a minute later, he finally dug out the information about the Star Dragon from a groove in his cerebral cortex.

"Bethus...do you still remember me?" Yu Lian's mental message silently and invisibly crossed the starry sea and gently reached the magnificent Flame Winged Dragon.

In space, the enormous Flamewing Dragon abruptly stopped its slow patrol. Its head, with its horns outstretched, abruptly turned towards the satellite where Yu Lian was located, its long neck arching warily like a taut bow.

After a moment of stillness, a look of confusion, contemplation, recollection, astonishment, and fear flashed across the dragon's eyes, which seemed to be made of molten gold.

To be honest, it's really hard to imagine a dragon making such a nuanced and layered expression.

But he did just that, and Yu Lian actually "saw" it.

Hmm, wasn't there surprise in those eyes? There must have been. It's just that I didn't see it clearly enough. Perhaps it's because I've been so tired from the recent trip that my senses have become dulled?

It must be my fault that I didn't get to feel the sincerity of my old friend right away.

But no matter what, it recognized me after all! It recognized me, its old friend.

The majestic red dragon drooped its sharp, blade-like wings and tucked its head under the force field of the light barrier, as if it thought that this would conceal its appearance.

Xiao Hui looked at the distant starry sky, then at Yu Lian: "He doesn't seem to like you that much."

“He’s just shy.” Yu Lian stood up and waved to the distant starry sky: “Come on, Bessepherus, this is fate, this is destiny, this is our friendship that has moved the spirit of the universe!”

"Besides, is this dragon really called that? Or did you change it?" Little Gray squinted and smiled, "You really don't know what that means?"

Yu Lian pretended not to hear and simply waved to the dragons again: "Want to hunt to your heart's content? Think of our dreams back then! Biceffleurs, think of your courage! Never let your shadow overwhelm you!"

Little Grey wanted to comment further, but the majestic Flamewing Dragon finally let out a silent "long cry." It spread its wings and suddenly flapped them, ultimately breaking away from the formation in full view of its companions, transforming into a streak of light and diving straight towards the satellite where Yu Lian was!

In just three to five seconds, he entered sub-light speed endurance mode, and the energy trail he left behind seemed to ignite all the dust along the way.

In just a few dozen seconds, the massive figure of Cypherus had already approached the satellite. He slowed down, gracefully circled, creating a silent turbulence of energy, and finally hovered low in front of Yu Lian. The huge dragon head slowly lowered, its molten gold eyes staring intently at Yu Lian at close range, churning with complex emotions.

Then, he finally managed to convey just the right amount of joy in his eyes.

"Why can I see the helplessness and hardship of social beings being forced into social interactions in a dragon's emotions?" Xiao Hui asked.

"What does a mere AI know about society and social interactions? You're just jealous of our genuine feelings," Yu Lian said irritably. He looked up at the Flamewing Dragon, gazing at the materialistic dragon head so close at hand. With a single open maw, it could easily swallow a rhinoceros, and of course, it could swallow him just as easily.

After several years, the size of the racer has almost doubled. He must have had some extraordinary adventure!

“We are all striving to improve,” Yu Lian said.

Biceffler nodded vigorously. Or rather, too vigorously. But he didn't know what else he could do.

(End of this chapter)