"I know, I..."
Xiao Lin nodded and was about to say something.
Suddenly, his gaze sharpened.
Thump. Thump.
For some reason, his heart began beating in a steady rhythm.
It felt as though something was drawing him in!
Pressing a hand to his chest, Xiao Lin looked up into the depths of the starry sky.
He could feel it: the source of that stirring in his heart lay in that direction!
"Venerable Lin Xiao, what's wrong?"
Seeing Xiao Lin's strange reaction, Xuan Kongzi could not help frowning as he asked.
Xuan Kongzi was not the one experiencing it, so of course he had no idea what Xiao Lin was going through!
Meanwhile, in the farthest reaches of that starry sky, a purple-black fire dragon slowly opened its eyes and raised its enormous head.
At that moment, the dragon seemed to be gazing straight at Xiao Lin across an immeasurable distance.
That purple-black fire dragon was the incarnation of the Three Thousand Burning Flame!
Yes, at the very moment Xiao Lin sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, it had sensed his arrival too!
That was why Xiao Lin had reacted so strangely.
"Ah? Oh, it's nothing. This is my first time among the stars, so I'm just a little curious about this place."
Xiao Lin gave Xuan Kongzi a perfunctory answer.
There was no way to explain something like this.
Xuan Kongzi merely gave him an odd look and said nothing more.
"The Star Domain is riddled with spatial rifts. One wrong step, and you could fall into Void Space. Getting back out then would be difficult.
So let me lead you to where the Three Thousand Burning Flame is sealed."
With that, Xuan Kongzi prepared to fly ahead.
But before he could move, Xiao Lin stopped him.
"Senior Xuan Kongzi,