Chapter 1003: The Fifth Son of the Stars (1/2)

A total of eight ancient starships returned from the Dead Star Sea. Star banners hung high on each and every one of them.

All of them seemed to have suffered heavy blows, as their hulls were covered in cracks and multicolored blood. All eight of them sailed directly towards the floating land where Nie Tian was.

Moments later, they berthed right outside it.

After a brief moment, one of them left the starship group and flew towards the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s quarters.

“It’s Fang Yuan!” Han Wanrong’s voice suddenly echoed out from the grand palace. Nie Tian could see her worried face from afar.

Numerous members of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace were bustling about on this floating land, along with people like Quan Zixuan and Qu Mingde, who were subordinates of Sons of the Stars.

Many of them seemed to recognize the ancient starship and its owner by the star banners they hung.

People started whispering in each other’s ears.

“It’s Fang Yuan! The fifth Son of the Stars!”

“He led his subordinate forces into the Dead Star Sea quite a while ago. From the look of it, things didn’t go well.”

“Countless powerful outsiders cruise the depths of the Dead Star Sea on their ancient starships year-round. It’s definitely not easy to win a battle against them, even for him.”

“If I remember correctly, he left with thirteen ancient starships. But he only brought eight back...”

WHOOSH!

A strapping young man suddenly leapt from the ancient starship.

More than a dozen dead Demons could be seen bound by glittering Starchains in his star-lit domain as he flew towards the palace where Han Wanrong was.

After pondering for a brief moment, Nie Tian also flew towards the palace on his Star Boat.

BOOM!

The Starchain-bound Demon corpses hit the ground heavily in front of the palace. The young man didn’t have the slightest delight on his face as he said in a sullen voice, “Would you please count these Demon corpses for me, Aunt Han?”

Han Wanrong looked heart-ached as she asked, “What happened?”

Just as Fang Yuan was about to answer, he noticed the Star Boat. Taken aback, he asked, “Who’s this?”

“This is Nie Tian, the seventh Son of the Stars. He has only just finished his path of stars and received our sect’s acknowledgment recently.” Han Wanrong gave him a brief introduction of Nie Tian. “You’ve spent far too long fighting in the depths of the Dead Star Sea where we can’t get word through to you. So you probably don’t even know about his existence.”

Fang Yuan nodded slightly. “I did stay a bit too long in the Dead Star Sea this time.”

SHEW!

The Star Boat descended. Nie Tian jumped off it.

Han Wanrong beckoned to him. “Nie Tian, this your senior martial brother, Fang Yuan. Like you, he’s also a Son of the Stars, the fifth Son of the Stars.”

Immediately afterwards, she turned to the others that had gathered to this place and said with a cold tone, “Nothing to see here.”

Then, she showed Nie Tian and Fang Yuan into the palace.

Standing in the spacious hall, Fang Yuan and Nie Tian measured each other up.

Starlight filled Fang Yuan’s pupils, as if two starry rivers were flowing in the depths of his eyes, with countless tiny stars drifting about in a mysterious way.

Under his piercing gaze, Nie Tian had a feeling that he couldn’t hide anything from him.

Fang Yuan frowned. “You distract yourself with far too many incantations. As a Son of the Stars, you were given our most valuable legacy: star power incantations. Why would you still waste your time practicing flame power and wood power incantations?”

Nie Tian smiled. “Unlike you, I was already practicing those incantations before I gained my fragmentary star marks from a Heaven Gate trial.”

“But you could have given up those incantations after you won our sect’s acknowledgment.” Fang Yuan said with a curious expression.

“I thought it would be a huge waste, so I did nothing about them. Then, as time passed, it just didn’t seem to matter anymore...” Nie Tian didn’t want to continue this subject, and thus asked, “What did you run into in the Dead Star Sea?”

At this moment, Han Wanrong shot a glance at the Demon corpses Fang Yuan had brought back with him, and rapidly determined their grades. Then, she signaled for Fang Yuan to put them away.

As soon as Fang Yuan lifted his hands, the Starchain-bound Demon corpses disappeared into his ring of holding.

Afterwards, the three of them leapt into the air and entered a secret room on the top floor. The inter-domain teleportation portal in the hall was still operating, bringing in new arrivals and sending away those who had finished their transactions and wished to return.

Han Wanrong was one of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace’s twelve elders, and the overseer of this realm. Both Nie Tian and Fang Yuan were Sons of the Stars, whose statuses were as lofty as hers, if not loftier.