My divine beast is a foodie.

The clouds over the Pacific Ocean were dyed a dark purple, and twelve starships formed a defensive matrix on the outskirts of the ionosphere. Lin Fan stood on the deck of his flagship, the star core of his double-bladed sword resonating with the scales of the Taotie, tracing ghostly blue trajectories in the night. As the vortex of the seventh eclipsing energy point expanded to cover the entire sea level, he saw a sight he would never forget - tens of thousands of starfall chains rising from the bottom of the sea, each chain with a spirit beast skeleton tethered to the end.

"Energy readings breaking through the Pluto Star Realm threshold!" Su Yuqing's voice trembled over the communication channel, "These skeletons... All of them are Mythic-level spirit beasts!"

The Taotie suddenly stood up as a human, the fifth sealing chain straining into a full moon shape on its chest. Through the contractual connection, Lin Fan sensed that a massive amount of memory fragments were impacting its consciousness: the green dragon penetrated by the chains was wailing in the starry sky, the phoenix's tail feathers were burning in the sealing array, and the unicorn's severed horns were stuck in the center of the Starfall Altar...

"So it is." Taotie's pupils cracked into a hexagonal diamond shape, "The so-called Eclipsing Energy Points are stargates built from the corpses of fellow countrymen."

The sea suddenly boiled. Seven starfall main chains with a diameter of over a thousand meters broke through the water, with the runes of the seven stars of the Big Dipper embedded at their tips. As the chains began to rotate clockwise, the Star Chain Monitor on Lin Fan's wrist suddenly blacked out-the curvature of space-time in the entire Pacific region was being rewritten.

"Star Chain Liberation-Fivefold!" Lin Fan's double-bladed sword erupted with a glow of dark gold intertwined with star blue. The ripples of energy generated by the dual contracted bits actually temporarily propped open the space-time distortion field, "Attention all, prioritize destruction..."

His command was interrupted by a shocking dragon roar. Nine star coffins rose from the bottom of the sea, the starfall runes on their lids fitting perfectly with Chen Tianming's presidential insignia. When the first star coffin opened, the figure that stepped out of it made all the imperial beastmasters fall into a freezing hole - it was clearly a younger version of Chen Tianming, only with the dark red runes unique to the Starfall Sect flowing through the pupils of his eyes.

"Cognitive filter lifted." The fake Chen Tianming raised his hand and flicked it, and the flagship's quantum shield instantly vaporized, "To reacquaint myself, I am the Seventh Priest of the Starfall, and the Eclipsing Energy Core that you are talking about is nothing more than a stargate initiator."

The real Chen Tianming suddenly leapt out from the bridge, his star chain actually splitting into nine branches, "Been waiting for you traitor for three hundred years!" Nine mythic level spirit beast silhouettes manifested behind him, each emanating the pressure of the Pluto Star Realm.

Taotie suddenly let out a hiss of pain. Lin Fan turned his head to see a frightening scene: countless transparent tentacles were sticking out of the star coffins, and they were converting those spirit beast skeletons into liquid eerie energy. When the fifth star coffin opened, he saw the image he least wanted to believe - Lin Xiaomeng was suspended in mid-air by chains, with Star Fox's star core stuck in her chest.

"Surprised?" The Seventh Priest stroked the edge of the Star Coffin, "This girl has been tracking the Starfall Sect for three years, but it's a pity that at the Arctic Altar..."

Lin Fan's star chain suddenly stormed. The dual contracted bits were overloaded, and the devouring vortex of Taotie merged with the power of the stars out of control, tearing open a dimensional rift across the sky over the Pacific Ocean. When his consciousness was about to be engulfed by the torrent of energy, Lin Xiaomeng's remaining star power suddenly transmitted an encrypted message - it was the cracking code that Star Fox had inscribed with his last strength.

"Star chain reorganization!" Lin Fan thrust his double-edged sword into the crack. Taotie's fifth seal snapped with a sound, and starry veins emerged under the dark gold scales, "Nine ghosts return to the market!"

Heaven and earth suddenly lost their voices. With Lin Fan at the center, the space in a radius of a hundred kilometers began to collapse inward. Starships, chains, vortexes of eclipsing energy, and even light particles were all sucked into the black hole-like singularity, with only the nine star coffins struggling to hold on under the protection of the runes. The Seventh Priest's perfect mask finally shattered, "Impossible! How could humans control..."

His scream came to an abrupt end. Taotie's body was completely liberated in the singularity, and the giant beast's silhouette that stretched across the heavens and earth showed the true stance of a mythological spirit beast for the first time - the horns on his forehead ran through the dimensions, his tail scales flowed with a river of starry light, and every breath triggered a tremor of space and time.

When the collapse reached a critical point, Lin Fan saw the ultimate secret of the Starfall Sect: in some mirror dimension, the Star Coffins of the Nine Priests were extracting the spirit beast origin of the Twelve Star Realms, and their goal was actually to restart the Cosmic Chord.

"It's time to end it." The real Chen Tianming detonated the nine spirit beast silhouettes. The ancient sacrifice ritual was reversed, and the Starfall Master Chain began to reverse its energy delivery. Amidst the roar of time and space collapsing, Lin Fan grabbed the Seventh Priest's Star Meteorite Ring and injected the cracking code into the core.

The Pacific Ocean suddenly fell into absolute silence. All Ember Energy creations began to quantum dissipate, and the star coffins fell apart in dimensional turbulence. When the first rays of morning light pierced through the clouds, Lin Fan knelt on the wrecked deck holding the unconscious Lin Xiaomeng, the Taotie shrunk into its puppy form and lay on his shoulder, the unextinguished starfire still pulsing from the cracks in its scales.

"The core of the Star Fox... In the Star Coffin..." Lin Xiaomeng suddenly grabbed Lin Fan's sleeve, "The North Pole... The altar..."

Chen Tianming stumbled, only three of the nine star chains remaining in tatters, "The Starfall Sect has altars on all seven continents, we must..." His words were interrupted by a sudden spatial tremor.

Taotie suddenly pricked up his ears, "Mortal, something is approaching."

Above the clouds, twelve Starfall Chains emerged once again. But this time, the ones chained at the end of the chains weren't spirit beasts, but twelve humans clad in star robes-their faces were identical to the top Imperial Beastmasters of the various countries.

"Cognitive contamination begins." The remnants of the Seventh Priest's shadow twisted in the air, "When you can't tell reality from illusion..."

Lin Fan's double-bladed sword suddenly flew up on its own, and the star core bloomed with supernova-like light. In the glare, he vaguely saw the figure of a certain white-clothed girl, and the star staff in her hand was resonating with her own star chain.

"Beware of the cognitive filters." The young girl's voice came across the dimensions, "What the Starfall Cult does best is to weave the truth into..."

The communication was interrupted here. When Lin Fan regained his vision, only the wreckage of the starship remained on the surface of the sea, as if the duel had never happened. The only thing that was left was the sixth star chain shackle added to his wrist, proving that some transcendent dimensional encounter had taken place.