The Taiqi Star Region was boundless. Without special powers of Sainthood or treasures, even a Half-Sage could spend a lifetime trying and still fail to cross it.
The starry expanse of the Myriad Worlds had been named by the Dragon Race in ancient times. There was nothing remarkable about the Taiqi Star Region. When the Dragon Race ruled the Myriad Worlds, only a few Ancient Demons had lived there. After the Demon Barbarians rose to supremacy over the Myriad Worlds, the Taiqi Star Region had become almost entirely deserted.
Now, after years without a visitor, the Taiqi Star Region welcomed nine Half-Sages of the Demon Race.
The nine Half-Sages hovered beside a sun in groups of three. Each group was linked by wrist-thick chains of starlight, with one end embedded in their bodies and the other attached to a fireball roughly ten feet in diameter.
The three groups stood tens of thousands of li apart. Their fireballs drew close to the sun, and surging flames poured madly into them, as though they were absorbing the sun's power.
Every Half-Sage had revealed their true form. Even the smallest, the Rat Sage, was over a li long. Had they appeared on the Saint Origin Continent, they could have frightened people to death.
An ill-tempered Lion Sage cursed, "This Sunfire Flight is going to torment this sage to death. If I lay eyes on the Bloodmang Realm, I'll smash it to pieces!"
"It can't be helped. Our Demon Realm has yet to master a means of traveling through the stars. The Ancient Demon Clan made this Sunfire Flight in imitation of the Dragon Race's Starfire Armillary Mirror. There are fewer than eight in the entire Demon Realm now. We should count ourselves lucky to have one to use," the Rat Sage said calmly.