After collecting a large batch of delicacies, Chen Lin returned to Oddity Island.
He sat in his room, lost in thought.
Big Mouth Marquis had given him quite a lot of information. Some of it he already knew, while some was new to him, and he needed to sort through it carefully.
Only then could he plan his next move.
According to her, Starry Sky Stowaways like them were all special "fish," caught by the Lake-Fishing Old Man and raised in the Seven-Star Realm until they were fat enough to devour.
Chen Lin reviewed his own circumstances.
Yet he could think of nothing special about himself.
If his soul was special, that had only happened after he became a Starry Sky Stowaway. Or rather, his soul had become special precisely because he had become one.
In his previous life, he had merely been an ordinary man.
As ordinary as could be, unremarkable even among ordinary people.
His destiny talent, meanwhile, had seemingly come from the Star Emperor.
That, too, had nothing to do with his original self.
But Chen Lin believed that the Lake-Fishing Old Man could only have chosen him for one of those two reasons.
All his other abilities had been learned after he came to this world and had nothing to do with being fished out.
He turned it over in his mind.
In the end, Chen Lin still felt that his destiny talent was the more likely reason.
If the Gourmet Guardians had spoken the truth, the Lake-Fishing Old Man would never let a remnant soul of the Star Emperor slip away.
And the Mysterious Fiend was one of the Star Emperor's remnant souls.
According to the memories in his soul blemish, he had obtained his talent when the Star Emperor's remnant soul tried to possess