One morning, eight months after leaving the Mysterious Yellow Star, Liu Changxu was admiring the beautiful starry sky with his wives on the Skyship's deck when he suddenly spotted a group of enormous, rat-like beasts in the void tens of thousands of miles from the fleet!
To make sure his eyes were not deceiving him, Liu Changxu quickly used his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes and looked again. They were indeed Starry Sky Beasts.
Starry Sky Beasts was the collective name for creatures resembling Demon Beasts that lived among the stars. They came in countless varieties, shapes, and sizes. The smaller ones fed on cosmic dust, while the larger ones could devour an entire planet!
Compared with Demon Beasts, they possessed far less intelligence and could never assume human form, but their strength was formidable. Even the weakest Starry Sky Beast possessed the strength of a Golden Core cultivator.
Living year-round in the cold, lonely depths of space had made these Starry Sky Beasts generally cold-blooded and savage. Once they set their sights on prey, they would attack with frenzy, making them a major threat to human cultivators traveling among the stars.
The Starry Sky Beasts that had appeared this time seemed to be a species called Nebula Gold-Devouring Rats.
Although they were called rats, Nebula Gold-Devouring Rats were an entirely different species from rat-type Demon Beasts. They had only received the name because of their similar appearance.
Despite being called rats, Nebula Gold-Devouring Rats were anything but small. Even the weakest and smallest third-tier Nebula Gold-Devouring Rats measured dozens of zhang and possessed strength equivalent to human Golden Core Stage cultivators. They fed on spirit gold ore, had exceptionally powerful physical defenses, and were a relatively common species of Starry Sky Beast.
As Liu Changxu observed the swarm of Nebula Gold-Devouring