"The blind one is by the river."
"I saw the blind one."
"Is the blind one fishing again?"
A burst of chattering came from the nearby grass.
The voices sounded rather dull, like knuckles tapping against wood.
Yet they carried a childish quality, as though they belonged to underage children.
Accompanied by the voices, a group of figures less than four feet tall cautiously poked their heads out of the grass and looked toward a figure sitting on the riverbank.
"Splash~"
The gentle murmur of the river seemed to cover the children's hushed voices.
But the figure's two pointed ears visibly twitched.
The children immediately noticed this tiny detail and cried out in alarm.
"The blind one heard us."
"Run!"
Every one of the little ones looked terrified, as if they had encountered some dreadful monster. They immediately scattered in all directions.
The riverbank fell quiet again.
"Ah~"
The figure seated by the river gently shook his head and sighed.
It was Cheng Han.
However.
His appearance was quite strange at the moment, completely unlike that of a Myriad Radiance person.
Both he and the children shared the following traits:
Their skin was blue-brown all over, rough-looking like tree bark, yet somewhat smooth to the touch.
Their ears were thin and long, rising above the tops of their heads, with rather pointed tips.
Their hands had six slender fingers, and a short tail trailed behind them.
These physical traits gave this race two names.
One was the Pointed Ear Race.
The other was the Short Tail Race.
As for how Cheng Han came to this place, it was rather bizarre.
Half a month ago.
Just as the Star Realm of Gods was completely swallowed by the "Calamity," the laws of the Celestial God Star Sea utterly collapsed, and the entire