There, there is a pet animal.

That was a super big bird.

But it didn't fly towards them, nor did it pass by them. It just hovered quietly in the sea of ​​stars, motionless, as if asleep, or as if waiting.

Its wings were fully extended, yet it remained completely still, not even a single feather trembled.

Even from a great distance, Xue Youyou and her group could sense that its size was probably astonishing.

It was precisely because they were so far apart that they were able to clearly see each other's majestic silhouettes.

Each feather is like a floating star, with countless silver-blue patterns engraved on its wings. These patterns flow slowly across the surface of the feathers, yet they exude an extremely dull, lifeless gray luster, like that of withered plants.

Its head was slightly lowered, and its eyes were tightly closed. The eyelids that should have been full of life now covered its huge eyeballs like two withered leaves, and a thin layer of moon-white tear crystals had accumulated at the corners of its eyes.

Its beak was half-open, as if frozen in a moment when it wanted to chirp but couldn't make a sound.

Its entire body was still; it was not breathing, not having a heartbeat, and showed no signs of life whatsoever.

Like a giant specimen that has been floating in the universe for countless billions of years, every inch of its outline tells the story of the ruthlessness of time.

No.

That's not like it.

That was a corpse.

A massive corpse that had completely lost its life force and had been drifting in the sea of ​​stars for countless years.

"That is..."

Lin Yueyao's voice trembled as she managed to squeeze out a few words: "Yue... Yue Luan?"

Meng Yanqing's pupils suddenly contracted: "How is this possible... How could Yue Luan be so big?"

If we compare Tian Yubai's body to a small star, then a single feather on his body could support a star.

This bird is much, much larger than the snow-white Heavenly Imperial White!

Xue Youyou narrowed her eyes slightly.

Lin Yueyao called it a moon phoenix, which is not accurate, but it cannot be considered wrong either.

The Moon Phoenix is ​​a major category among pet beasts. For example, Yun Wangshu, the captain of the Moon Academy in the league, has a Moon Phoenix as her pet beast.

The physical characteristics of the large bird in front of us do indeed bear some resemblance to those of the Lunaeidae family.

However, simply calling it the Moon Phoenix is ​​rather presumptuous.

Even the knowledgeable Xue Youyou, after searching through her memory bank, was unable to identify which evolutionary form of the Moon Phoenix this pet belonged to.

This is a pet beast that even Xue Youyou has never heard of before!

Let's just call it an unnamed big bird.

What bothered her even more was that when the unknown large bird came into view, she suddenly felt Guanghan Zhan's intense emotions.

Calm your mind slightly, and you can see the Guanghan Sword in the pet space trembling violently, as if it has seen something incredible.

It's worth noting that even when the Snow Woman evolved into the Mythical Snow Woman of the Age of Gods, Guanghan Zhan didn't show this level of shock.

Upon seeing this, Xue Youyou's heart stirred. She could vaguely sense that Guanghan Zhan's excitement was probably not the kind of shock that comes from seeing something unfamiliar and amazing, but rather the disbelief that something familiar had appeared here.

However, just as Xue Youyou was about to calm down and ask Guanghan Zhan about the origin of this unfamiliar pet, a sudden change occurred.

Without warning, an indescribable, incredibly powerful, and suffocating gravitational force, like an invisible giant hand, precisely seized Tian Yubai, who was cautiously hovering in the starry sky, maintaining a safe distance.

"—?!"

Tianyu Bai's frosty white pupils suddenly contracted. Its massive body, a megameter and a half meters long and capable of toying with small stars, was utterly powerless against this gravitational pull, and its entire body was uncontrollably dragged toward the direction of the unknown giant bird.

This gravitational force is extremely strange.

The surrounding stardust and the distant asteroid belt remained completely still, as if utterly unaffected. Only Tian Yubai seemed to be firmly hooked by an invisible hook, becoming the sole target of this force.

What's even more alarming is its strength. Tianyubai reacted almost instantly, crushing a snow lotus beneath its feet and struggling in the opposite direction with all its might, trying to break free from this restraint.

However, it was all in vain.

Its struggles and its strength are as insignificant as a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of this unreasonable gravity.

The entire pet was dragged along by that invisible force, drawing a straight white line in the sea of ​​stars, flying irreversibly toward the large bird's half-open, abyss-like beak at an ever-increasing speed.

Five minutes passed. Tian Yubai's struggles showed no signs of abating, but the gravitational pull also showed no sign of weakening. It drew closer and closer to the bird's beak, the dark entrance rapidly enlarging in its vision, like a gigantic maw ready to devour the stars.

Finally, everyone except Xue Youyou began to realize that something was wrong.

"Wha...what's going on?!"

Su Wanrou was the first to cry out in alarm, her voice trembling with unease: "Why did Tian Yubai suddenly fly towards that strange bird's beak?!"

As everyone watched the bird's beak grow ever larger and closer into their field of vision, and as the dark entrance gradually filled their entire field of vision, an indescribable panic began to spread within the sword formation.

Lin Jinlan gripped her sister's arm tightly, her face deathly pale.

Xue Youyou calmly replied, "They were sucked away."

"What do we do then?!"

Meng Yanqing was also anxious. She looked at Xue Youyou, hoping that this girl who could always create miracles could come up with a solution again.

However, Xue Youyou's reaction was unexpected by everyone.

She simply felt that irresistible attraction, and then, in her clear eyes there was no panic, no struggle, only a calmness of having seen through everything and given up resisting.

She shrugged and announced in a nonchalant tone, "This is an unavoidable situation; there's nothing we can do. We have no choice but to make an emergency landing in the beak. Everyone, hold on tight."

Xue Youyou has always been calm and accepting of things that cannot be changed.

Instead of making a futile struggle, it's better to conserve your energy and see what happens next.

"……ah--?!"

Everyone was shocked, their jaws nearly dropping to the ground.

A bird's beak made an emergency landing?! What kind of explanation is that?!

They came to participate in the imperial ceremony, not to be bird feed!

However, seeing that Xue Youyou had already closed her eyes and lay peacefully in Tian Yubai's palm, looking like she had "taken it all in," everyone looked at each other and could only grit their teeth and accept this absurd reality.

My first trip to space is about to crash!

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