Within the Star Abyss.
The Star Beast staggered up from the ruins.
Its massive body was covered in horrifying wounds.
A fist-shaped crater had caved in its chest. Scales lay shattered, and flesh and blood were mangled.
Deep-blue bodily fluid seeped through the gaps in its broken scales, dripping onto the rubble beneath its feet and raising wisps of corrosive white smoke.
But it had no time to worry about its wounds.
Its slit pupils locked onto the dazzling golden light in midair.
It could not understand it.
The Human Race cultivator it had just grabbed by the throat and hurled away—
His aura had clearly been no stronger than the Nascent Soul Late Stage. He had not even reached the threshold of the Spirit Transformation Stage. To the beast, he had been no different from a bug it could crush at will.
Yet in the blink of an eye—
That bug had erupted with the pressure of the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, a pressure far more powerful than that of any ordinary cultivator at that stage.
It had seen plenty of Human Race Spirit Transformation Cultivators and killed plenty, too.
Not one had ever made it feel this way.
The feeling set its whole body on edge, as though a being of a higher order were looking down on it.
"Who are you?!" the Twin-Horned Star Beast growled.
Ji Yuan looked down at it. Golden light veiled his expression.
Even so, contempt and indifference showed in his eyes.
"You? You aren't worthy of knowing my name."
Before the words had faded, he took a step forward.
His figure vanished from where he stood.
The Twin-Horned Star Beast's pupils widened sharply.
It had no time to think. Battle instinct drove it to react at once.
Its legs exploded with force,