Qin Siyang was overwhelmed with excitement as he looked at the crow before him.
At last, he could unravel the many questions that had troubled him for so long.
Seeing that the crow had not turned him down, he restrained his joy and remembered to put courtesy first.
He hurriedly asked, "Succession Envoy, if I'd like to have a long conversation with you, how should I address you?"
The crow said, "You humans have given me many names."
"The people of the European Nation call me Phoenix, those of the Bamboo Kingdom call me Garuda, and the Blacksoil People call me Bennu."
"You people of Huaguo are a little different in that regard. Perhaps because your imaginations are always so rich, you invent a new name for me every time. Your names for me are the most varied, too. Golden Crow, Phoenix, Roc, Azure Phoenix, Bifang, and so on and so forth. There are so many that even I can't remember them all. You can pick any one of them to address me."
"What?"
Qin Siyang's eyes widened at the crow's account. "You... why do you have so many names? Have you appeared on Earth many times?"
The crow looked at Qin Siyang. "Of course. How else would the [Succession Star Competition] have begun? Most of the time, though, I don't appear directly, so the number of times people have seen me can be counted on one hand."
"Especially after your human technology developed, I had to become even more cautious, lest the entire world see me and cause unnecessary trouble."
Qin Siyang asked, "So the [Succession Star Competition] has been going on for a very long time?"
"Yes."
The crow continued, "The [Succession Star Competition] existed long before the words 'Succession Star Competition' did. The current term is something