89: Chapter 89 Unexpected

Without wasting a single moment mourning the departure of Qian Mo, Xing Yaoyan immediately took out over a thousand spirit crystals and fully activated the Star Swallowing Art.

"Hum~"

Before long, the familiar golden hemisphere appeared around her.

Xing Yaoyan slowly removed the mask from her face, her eyes lighting up with a dazzling golden glow.

As the golden Power Of Will rapidly gathered in her hands, a golden longsword was formed in her grasp in the blink of an eye.

"Break for me!"

A golden slash instantly struck the Black Prison. Without the slightest resistance, it pierced directly through the outer wall of the Black Prison, its momentum undiminished as it surged forward, completely cleaving through the mine shaft.

The path of the slash left a golden corridor, and the rocks along the way were pulverized into fine dust.

Sunlight from the outside world filtered through this golden corridor into the cave, casting its rays upon the face of the White Wolf Girl, who was slightly out of breath.

"Hoo~ I didn't expect a full-power strike in this form to be so strong..."

Indeed, she had done this on purpose. On one hand, it was to get a clear understanding of her peak strength, and on the other, it was to intimidate the Vicious Beasts and Star Beasts lurking in the shadows.

Sure enough, just after she unleashed that strike, she could feel dozens of red dots with faint malice appearing one after another around her. These red dots were quite far away, and almost all of them vanished in a flash.

This meant they were unsure of her true strength and were unwilling to engage with her.

"This ensures that I won't run into any short-sighted fellows while I'm gathering things..."

Xing Yaoyan nodded with satisfaction and began to check the resources in her storage space.

This full-power strike had consumed almost half of her one hundred thousand spirit crystals, but with another ton of spirit crystals waiting for her later, this loss was negligible.

The mask Hu Wang had given her previously had been bumped a few times during the battle, and it already had a fine crack; she basically couldn't use it for combat anymore.

As for what was left in her storage space... it seemed there were only one or two sets of ordinary clothes for changing...

Perhaps due to some girl's intuition, Xing Yaoyan suddenly felt that there was too little in her storage space. Moreover, she had wanted to find a place to take a bath, but she didn't even have any soap or anything like that here.

It just felt... a little uncomfortable...

"...Navigator! Navigator!"

"Oh! Xiao Dao... what is it?"

"Navigator, aren't you supposed to have me lead the way for you?"

Only then did Xing Yaoyan realize that she had inexplicably spaced out just now, forgetting her follow-up goal.

"Right! Hurry up and lead the way!"

She knew Xiao Dao was highly intelligent, and she didn't want to give it a chance to laugh at her.

"Navigator, a few dozen meters up on your left-hand side, there is a small cave entrance blocked by stones. Go in from there, then go down..."

Following Xiao Dao's directions, Xing Yaoyan quickly discovered a hidden flat area inside the cave.

"Where are the star crystals? Where are the star crystals?"

Xing Yaoyan had already illuminated the entire space with her golden light, but apart from this empty, flat area in her field of vision, there was nothing else.

"Xiao Dao... where are the things?"

"Uh... this..."

In the sea of consciousness, the two ghost-fire eyes behind Xiao Dao's bone mask flickered unnaturally.

The next moment, the girl with a terrifying smile suddenly appeared before it.

She was holding a jade plaque with complex patterns, and from the jade plaque came a sense of crisis that made its Star Soul tremble incessantly.

"Xiao Dao... why don't you think about it carefully again? Maybe you were just in a rush and forgot. You know... your Sister Yan hates bad kids who lie the most..."

The smiling face of Xing Yaoyan's Soul body, radiating an extremely dangerous aura, pressed right up against Xiao Dao's bone mask. The jade plaque in her hand glowed faintly, ready to be activated at any moment.

"Nav... Navigator. I... I don't know... Before, when I first arrived here, I saw it piled full of shiny spirit crystals and star crystals! If it weren't for the scent of the Star Body coming from the outside world, I would have wanted to advance to the Four Marks right here!"

Xiao Dao raised its arms above its head, explaining desperately, looking completely innocent.

"You really don't know?"

"Yes!"

"You're not lying to me?"

"Definitely not."

"So... the matter of you attacking me is just going to be brushed aside like that..."

"Yes... no, no..."

The ghost fire behind Xiao Dao's mask trembled violently. It could feel a massive suction force coming from the jade plaque in the girl's hand. Its palpitations told it that once it was sucked into that thing, it would truly be finished!

"Navigator, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have acted against my superior! Please don't do it yet, I have another very important piece of information!"

It silently changed "you" to "you (honorific)", truly maxing out its survival instinct.

"Fine, I'll give you one more chance."

Xing Yaoyan stopped channeling the jade plaque in her hand and stared at it with a "nuclear-friendly" expression.

"Actually, not all Star Beasts' Star Souls can come into the Navigator's sea of consciousness like us!"

"So what?"

"But you can absorb those Star Beasts' Star Souls, and you must have our help!"

"Isn't having Little Chaos enough..."

"No!"

Xiao Dao's reaction was intense, as if its reverse scale had been touched.

"Chaos Beasts are 'sweet and silly' in the starry sky; once they are full, they don't care about anything. If you, Navigator, don't deliberately guide it, it will absolutely botch the entire absorption process, and might even threaten your life, Navigator."

"But I am different. I am a Slash-Abyss Beast, an affiliated group of your Heaven-Swallowing Star Wolves, and also your exclusive 'chef'. With me here, I can definitely help you, Navigator, successfully absorb these 'Lost Ones'."

"Lost Ones?"

Several question marks appeared above Xing Yaoyan's head.

"Yes! Some Star Beasts that have completely lost the will to go home and are truly lost in their own desires are called 'Lost Ones'. And they are usually caused by being influenced by the abyss for too long."

Xing Yaoyan silently put away the jade plaque, then rubbed her temples.

It seems these so-called Star Beasts are far more complex than she had thought.

"Then how did you, including me, come to this planet? Are there other Star Beasts like me? Why do you call me Navigator?"

"I don't know. The moment I saw you, this word just flashed into my mind."

Little Chaos on the side quickly interjected. It didn't know anything about what Xiao Dao had just said, and now that it finally had a chance to show off, it certainly couldn't let this opportunity slip by.

"Go, go, go, go play somewhere else..."

Xiao Dao pushed Little Chaos aside.

"The reason we came here is actually because..."