The Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon seemed utterly unthreatened and continued drawing closer, though she slowed more and more.
Only after reaching the edge of the Seven Linked Stars did the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon stop.
A graceful youth dressed in white emerged from the blue star. Beneath his feet, a Bridge of Stars appeared, soaring upward to rest upon the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon's shell.
The graceful youth walked along the Bridge of Stars, each step carrying him across untold tens of thousands of miles. In just a few steps, he reached the shell.
There was something extraordinary about the graceful youth. While he stood on the Bridge of Stars, his body resembled a mass of starlight, his features impossible to discern.
Only the instant he stepped onto the shell did Fang Yun see the youth's face clearly, and his heart shook violently.
Although he had cultivated on Hundred Coffin Island years ago, he had never seen the Star Shepherd's actual appearance. Only today did he discover how extraordinary the Star Shepherd truly was.
The Star Shepherd's outline was indeed humanoid, and he was about as tall as Fang Yun, but in detail, he differed enormously from the Human Race.
His body seemed to be made entirely of transparent crystal. Within that crystalline body were no organs whatsoever, as though he were a person carved from clear crystal. He had no mouth, only an ordinary crystal surface where his mouth should have been, and no nose either.
He had eyes, but not a pair of them. He had eight, four on either side. The four eyes on each side formed a diamond, with each eye at a vertex and silver lines connecting them.
Moreover, his eyes were unlike human eyes. Every single one was a sun!
The flames of his eight Sun Eyes filled the heavens,