The Starry Sky Beast Swallowed Them

Lin Yi and Ye Xing swept along the main street, their gazes searching every stall, as if they wished they could dig some buried treasure out of that pile of broken copper and scrap iron.

An hour later, the two silently walked out of the city gates, released the Flying Boat, and left the ancient star.

"What a waste of time." Ye Xing glanced back at the city, his voice full of disdain. "Such a godforsaken backwater. It didn't even have a single decent spirit herb."

"Here's the star map. Keep controlling the Flying Boat." Lin Yi tossed the scroll of star maps to Ye Xing.

"How about you control it, Big Brother?" Ye Xing caught the star map and asked tentatively. "I've been piloting this thing nonstop for more than ten days. Let me rest a little."

"Since when does the big brother pilot the Flying Boat while the little brother rests?" Lin Yi lightly kicked him. "Get to it properly."

Ye Xing rubbed where he had been kicked and began controlling the Flying Boat with a wronged expression.

Lin Yi turned and returned to the resting room. Sitting cross-legged, he took out a low-grade Spirit Stone, held it in his palm, and circulated his cultivation art to absorb it.

A few breaths later, he opened his eyes and lowered his head to look at the Spirit Stone in his hand.

The spiritual energy was pitifully sparse, seeping into his meridians strand by strand at a pace so slow it made one anxious.

The spiritual energy Lin Yi drew from the void through his cultivation art alone was greater than what this Spirit Stone contained.

"Forget it. No need."

He tossed the Spirit Stone back into his storage bag. Perhaps Ye Xing was right. Those high-grade Spirit Stones really