Xia Chujian quickly recalled the fleeting images she had once caught from those specks of shattered starlight.
Those grotesque entities—beings that could drive one's clear-minded level madly downward with just a glance, contaminating one until the end of time.
Could they be the Great Terror Seven Lù had mentioned, the ones that existed within the Dark Side of the Dead Star Domain?
And the Extraterritorial Ancient Gods that had once descended upon Blue Star and destroyed the entire galaxy?
Huo Yushen said, "When Mother fought that oldest Evil God, she was already severely wounded. Then she opened a Wormhole, which pushed her injuries past the point of recovery."
"When we first arrived here, Mother could barely get out of bed. She spent a year recuperating before she began to improve."
Hearing this, Xia Chujian could not help asking, "...What did you live on back then?"
"Aunt couldn't get out of bed, and you still had medical bills to pay."
"Huo Yushen, you were only ten at the time, weren't you?"
"Even if you worked twenty-four hours a day as a helper or did odd jobs, you couldn't possibly have earned that much money!"
The corner of Huo Yushen's mouth twitched. Helplessly, he said, "...Mother brought a little gold with her."
Xia Chujian drew a deep breath and forced a smile. "Aunt is amazing! You planned ahead and thought everything through!"
She Zhuyin had already learned from Xia Yuanfang that when she and Xia Chujian had first arrived in the Beichen Galaxy, they had been penniless and lived in dire straits.
She felt deeply guilty. Whenever she thought of how Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian had lacked food and clothing back then, how even keeping warm and fed had been a problem, her heart ached in waves.
She hurriedly said, "money