The starlight spacecraft raced through the darkness.
Scattered sparks of starlight followed alongside the ship.
In the boundless, pitch-black void, the spacecraft and the starlight merged as one, like a meteor streaking away.
Inside the ship, everyone watched those points of light.
"So these are all the lights from the fairies' staffs?" Lan Xiu asked.
"Yes. They're coming with us. If they stayed behind, they'd only be marching to their deaths," Gu Qingshan said.
He and Su Xue'er were piloting the spacecraft together, heading for the destination marked on the Star Chart.
The spacecraft suddenly blared a shrill alarm.
Gu Qingshan worked the console, quickly bringing up the relevant information.
A flock of Bone Birds was following far behind them.
They were being tailed.
Everyone's heart sank.
Without a word, Su Xue'er entered a long string of passwords on the screen.
The console panels slid apart, revealing a black helmet hidden within.
Su Xue'er took out the helmet and put it on.
The spacecraft's steel wings suddenly spread at a slight angle.
As the spacecraft began to roll and weave through the air, hundreds of dazzling beams shot from it into the deep darkness behind them.
The Bone Birds following them were struck by the beams and instantly burst into a shower of fireworks.
On the screen, every Bone Bird had been wiped out.
But the alarm kept blaring.
"My god, what is that..." Sha Qiang's voice rang out.
On the screen, an enormous Bone Claw, beyond compare, was slowly rising from beneath the spacecraft, reaching to grab it.
This gigantic Bone Claw looked a little like the one wedged in the hidden passage, but it was several times larger.
Beside this Bone Claw, the steel spacecraft was barely big enough to fit in its grasp.
Hundreds of beams ripped