147 Mao Tengzou, Xing Yuyen (1/2)

Li Yang stood up from his seated position, his narrowed eyes remaining locked on the sky as he swept it in a vigilant manner. Tian Zheng also raised his head to carefully inspect the night sky, the stars vanishing was rarely a good sign. The sky was completely free of clouds, a large yellow-tinted moon hanging high above them and casting a faint light down onto Li Yang and the others.

Li Yang's eyes locked onto a star close to the previous on that vanished, one on the left side of a rhombus-shaped star pattern, managing to observe it just as it turned dark. Li Yang clicked his tongue and turned his head to the side, shouting into the forest and after Zhao Feng.

”Oy, Feng, tie up your robes again and get your ass here, we've likely got a problem on our hands!”

The sound of low curses came from the forest after Li Yang called out, Zhao Feng entering the small clearing shortly afterward. Fang Ying had also stopped working on the food, she and Zhao Feng moving closer to Li Yang and following his gaze as he pointed at the sky.

”That rhombus over there, it used to contain 28 stars but it's now down to 22. One vanished while I was looking at it, but I'm not sure when the others started vanishing, but knowing our luck, it likely has something to do with why we haven't been able to discover any Void Born lately.”

Zhao Feng and Fang Ying didn't even have the chance to make a comment before another star vanished in front of their eyes. Another star vanished right away as they were temporarily dumbstruck, one star after another vanishing in quick succession, the entire star pattern turning dark after about a minute, resulting in Fang Ying's brows furrowing.

”Whatever is causing it seems to have sped up. If a living being is causing this, then we should consider this increase in speed a sign that it is no longer worried about being discovered, it would be best to prepare for the worst.”

Li Yang and his group had experienced something blotting out the stars before, it was rather easy for the people they fought when they were at the peak of their power. But they could see that there wasn't anything blotting out these stars, the stars themselves had simply vanished one by one as if they were swallowed whole.

OF course, the thing that made this situation a bit more special was that there weren't any actual stars here, they were still within the Ocean God's Graveyard after all. Both the stars and the moon they were looking at were most likely created by the array that should be supporting this entire place's existence, nothing more than masses of Qi brought together and molded to imitate the real world. Li Yang clicked his tongue once again as he looked at the sky, his expression sinking somewhat as the scene above them evolved further.

”Tch, seems like it was as you said, that it no longer worries about being discovered. I don't know about you, but those things give me a pretty bad feeling.”

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The places where there had once been stars changed further in front of their eyes, what looked like white lights replacing the stars. But the white lights stretched out and expanded, revealing themselves to be massive bone-white tentacles that latched onto all the other stars around them, quickly swallowing them before stretching further and seeking out more stars to eat up. Li Yang was quick to act once the strange tentacles appeared, turning his gaze onto Tian Zheng.

”The exit to this place, where is it?”

Li Yang didn't really care what the tentacles were or who created them, he just knew that they gave him a bad feeling so it was best to avoid them as much as possible. It was a bit of a waste to leave this place without getting his hands on more Divine Beast blood, but it was better than foolishly risking his life in a situation he didn't fully understand. Tian Zheng was equally quick to react, bringing out an orb of jade while responding.

”Exit's the same place we entered, we just have to get about five kilometers into the air and we'll be automatically sucked out. I'll send a message to the others, but they should have reached the same conclusion, this situation has already escalated out of our control.”