In the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Auspicious Beast stayed in her little den as usual.
However, the Scarlet King and the Myriad Demon King, who should have been guarding her side, could only stay in the bushes opposite her den. There was no other reason for this; the Auspicious Beast had simply been in a bad mood all along.
The reason might have been a certain person, but neither the Scarlet King nor the Myriad Demon King remembered who that person was. Di Tian could not name that person either, and neither could the Auspicious Beast.
She could no longer even remember whether that person was a Soul Beast or a human. She only vaguely remembered that she had come and had promised to visit her.
Time was the least important thing in the Star Dou Great Forest. The Auspicious Beast could no longer say how long ago she had met her. It was as though she had evaporated from the face of the earth.
The Auspicious Beast could not remember her name. Only the dishes in the necklace she had left behind told her that she had once existed, proving that she had not been a figment of her imagination.
But those dishes were bound to run out one day. After the Auspicious Beast took a plate of food from the necklace and finished it, she reached in for another, only to discover that it had been the last plate.
At that moment, a nameless fire rose in the beast's heart, and she hurled the necklace around her neck straight to the ground. Perhaps she had thrown it too hard, or perhaps something hated by the Emperor Auspicious Beast became entangled in misfortune; the necklace shattered.
Yet as she looked at the shattered necklace,