The Order Starry Sky was like a dark forest.
A forest had grass and trees, deep ravines, towering mountains, flowing water, even myriad beasts.
These "coverings," or rather, "terrain," also existed in the starry sky.
Shattered starfields, warped space, false light sources, torrents of tumbling rocks, shadow storms, secret-realm abysses...
All these strange things affected the progress of stellar worlds and Xinghai Divine Ships.
The starry sky had never been a void.
Besides stellar sources, countless chaotic things filled it.
Dust was merely the simplest among them.
It was also the most numerous.
Over the course of its long history, the starry sky had spawned countless bizarre things.
Remnants of many ancient eras lay piled throughout the endless starry sky like garbage.
The river of history was simply too long.
So long that traces of ancient times could remain in any starfield, and ancient secret treasures could be found everywhere.
Strange gravitational stars like the Yu Star Hidden Trove were far from rare in the starry sky.
Within this dark starry sky, astral beasts were the wild beasts of the forest.
The Order Starry Sky had a strange rule!
Whenever an ownerless stellar source was born, astral beasts would often find it before the myriad races of the starry sky did.
Many ownerless stellar sources were, in truth, the birthplaces and habitats of astral beasts!
The logic was simple.
If someone dropped a piece of candy on the ground, ants would usually be the first to catch its scent and discover it.
If stellar sources were candy, then astral beasts were the ants.
Astral beasts possessed only beast souls, and their life forms were simple, but that did not mean they were weak.
On the contrary, they could absorb the power of stellar sources more simply and directly to grow