The Peril at Jade Lake
The Lightning Beast looked at him with delight. "Really? I can?"
"Why not?" Bi Fan smiled faintly. "For the past five years, you've been my only companion in this space. Even though you only appeared recently, I'd known you were in here for two or three years."
At that, a foolish grin spread across its face, and it nodded earnestly. Starling glanced at him, hesitated briefly, but said nothing.
Bi Fan looked at the stretch where space had broken apart, several dozen meters across, and took a deep breath. "Once we go in there, I shouldn't have to worry about looking after either of you, right?"
Starling didn't say a word. It simply vanished in a flash. Clearly, it was a spirit possessing the Spirit Refining Star Tome: wherever the tome was, it was too. As long as the tome remained safe and sound, it would naturally be unharmed as well.
Seeing this, the Lightning Beast transformed into a streak of purplish-silver lightning and hovered over Bi Fan's shoulder. "Don't worry. You won't have to!"
Looking at the little fellow, he suddenly thought of Dragon Sable, who often perched on his shoulder. He wondered where everyone was at that moment, and whether the space battle involving the adventure group was going well.
Bi Fan took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement that had tormented him and filled him with anticipation for five years. At last, without another moment's hesitation, he plunged into the fractured rift in space and time.
The instant he entered, an intense force of rotation and compression seemed to crush his entire body to pieces. Fortunately, he quickly regained his senses and immediately formed a layer of Soul Power defense around himself to fend off the assault.
There was no denying it: