Like brothers and sisters, yet closer still.
"I missed you too. We all missed you."
Li Tianming gently stroked Ji Ji's short pink hair, his heart aching for her.
"Thank you for everything you did. Get some good rest now."
He truly had not expected a child like Ji Ji to fear loneliness.
With so many companion beasts around him, things were always lively. None of them had ever felt the pain of separation.
It made him think of Little Six.
Little Six had chosen solitude from the start and had never appeared again.
Li Tianming could not predict what would happen in the future.
But he knew that everyone in this family, human or beast, cherished it without a single regret.
Jiang Feiling, Yinghuo, Xianxian, Miaomiao, Lanhuang, and Silver Dust all welcomed Ji Ji back.
Soon, they were playing together again.
By then, the grotto-class sun had flown into the Myriad Star Field!
"Let's begin!"
Li Tianming went straight to the most important task!
There were quite a few unclaimed divine-ruin-class nova sources in the Myriad Star Field!
There were hundreds of unclaimed grotto-class nova sources!
The remaining nine thousand or so were heliacal-class.
Of the unclaimed nova sources the Star Hunters had stolen, only two were grotto-class!
Most of the Infinitum Bodhimanda's wealth was still there.
A grotto-class sun entering the Myriad Star Field, concealed by its veil of stellar mist, was like a pebble sinking into the sea. It raised not the slightest ripple.
"Everyone! Our home, the sun, is about to begin a new transformation. It will become a world more than a hundred times larger, more glorious, and more advanced than it is now!"
"Our children and their descendants will all become gods, or even higher beings—gods of the astral sea."
"They'll surpass us. They'll