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Ten days later, inside the original ruins, there was now a cluster of newly built houses. Because this would be a long-term camp, the disciples of the two great forces had spared no effort in their construction.
These houses were not exquisite in design, but they were extremely practical. Living in them would be just like living in their respective Sects, except for the lacking of World Energy.
However, this was not a big problem. If one really wanted to cultivate, they simply needed to rely on Saint Crystals.
Along the roads of the former ruin, light stones were hung at regular intervals to provide a soft illumination, brightening up the originally dark and dreary space.
Yang Kai had informed Qian Tong and Ye Xi Yun about the locations of the eight mineral lodes he had already found; as for how they were mined, Yang Kai did not need to concern himself. Qian Tong and Ye Xi Yun would take charge of everything.
If they needed more manpower, they could always bring people over from Shadowed Star at any time; Yang Kai had arranged everything for them.
Not only that, once everything in the camp was in order and the disciples began mining operations, Yang Kai went out alone, and within a ten-million-kilometre radius, he arranged several Space Arrays!
Over the next several dozen years, these Space Arrays arranged by Yang Kai would allow the cultivators from Shadowed Star to move about easily within this range.
One month later, Yang Kai was ready to leave.
After all, his original intention was to open up a connection between Shadowed Star and the outside world; finding this Ore Star was just an inadvertent harvest.
Now that things were settled on this Ore Star, there was not any reason for Yang Kai to delay his trip further.ย
Standing amidst the ruins, Yang Kai summoned Xiao Xiao back!
Since arriving on this Ore Star, Yang Kai had never taken Xiao Xiao back, because this place was a paradise for him. By devouring all kinds of rare ores, Xiao Xiao could strengthen himself, and if there was enough of a particular type of ore, Xiao Xiao might even be able to acquire new abilities related to their properties.
His lava armour was a perfect example!
This was an ability Xiao Xiao gained after refining some of the Sunโs True Fire.
As soon he donned his lava armour, no one could approach to within ten metres of Xiao Xiao, as the heat he gave off was enough to force even Origin Realm masters back.
In any case, the resources on this Ore Star were extremely abundant, so no matter how much Xiao Xiao swallowed, the overall amount would not decrease. As such, Yang Kai had left Xiao Xiao to his own devices.
However, when he tried summoning Xiao Xiao, Yang Kai discovered that Xiao Xiao had dug extremely deep into the star, apparently having found something good.
Perceiving Yang Kaiโs call, Xiao Xiao began tunnelling his way back up from below.
An hour later, Xiao Xiao appeared in front of Yang Kai.
But with just a glance, Yang Kai could not help becoming worried.
Because Xiao Xiaoโs current state seemed somewhat improper.
Xiao Xiao had always appeared a bit gruff and silly because his sentience simply was not very high, a trait that was reflected by his somewhat dull outward appearance. However, at this moment, he appeared even dimmer than before, with the intelligent glint in his eyes now severely diminished.
When he walked about, Xiao Xiao staggered and swayed, as if he was drunk.
Yang Kai was taken aback and instinctually thought that Xiao Xiao had swallowed something he should not have, causing some kind of accident. But after performing a thorough check, Yang Kai was surprised to find that nothing was wrong with Xiao Xiao. In fact, his physical condition had never been better.
Additionally… Yang Kai sensed a strange, mysterious power coming from Xiao Xiaoโs body.
This kind of power was familiar to Yang Kai as it was like the World Principles he felt as he refined the Star Source of Shadowed Star to become its Star Master.ย
โWorld Principles?โ Yang Kaiโs complexion changed drastically as he quickly began investigating more carefully.
After a long, silent probe, Yang Kai took back his Divine Sense and knitted his brow.
He did not feel anything was wrong with Xiao Xiao, but it was also undeniable that he now gave off a trace of World Principles from his body. This fluctuation was quite faint, though, countless times weaker when compared to Shadowed Starโs.
However, World Principles were still World Principles, a concept that even Origin Kings were unable to touch!
The question was now, how could Xiao Xiao suddenly begin giving off traces of Heavenly Law?
After recalling all his previous experiences in search of an answer, Yang Kaiโs eyes lit up as a bold guess emerged in his heart, โDid you swallow and refine the Star Source of this Dead Star? Did this Dead Star actually have a Star Source to begin with?โ
Xiao Xiao raised his dim eyes and looked at Yang Kai with a blank expression for a while before raising his foot and began stumbling about before tripping over himself and falling to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Yang Kai didnโt know whether to laugh or cry as he realized that Xiao Xiao wasnโt in any danger, but was simply unable to completely digest the power of the Dead Starโs Source, causing his control over his own strength to become unstable. Realizing this, Yang Kai simply took Xiao Xiao back into the Sealed World Bead.
However, this entire situation was quite a surprise to Yang Kai.
That this Dead Star still had its own Star Source was a shocking discovery.
It should be impossible for a Dead Star to possess a Star Source because, without World Energy, there simply could not be World Principles, naturally meaning there was no way for a Star Source to be born. This was the same concept as a person dying and their body rotting, their essence disappearing leaving behind only withered bones.
However, there were always exceptions to the rules.
According to Yang Kaiโs own previous speculations, this Dead Star was originally an extremely vibrant Cultivation Star that had for some reason died throughout thousands, if not millions of years. As such, some of its original Source could have remained.
Xiao Xiao had obviously dug deep underground and found the remains of this Star Source and swallowed it.
This was a great blessing. If it was the Star Source of a true Cultivation Star, Xiao Xiao would never have been able to refine it.
This kind of refining was completely different from the refining Yang Kai performed to become a Star Master. Star Master and Cultivation Star were closely linked, sharing honour and disgrace. After Yang Kai became a Star Master though, Shadowed Starโs Star Source still existed, there was now just a mysterious connection between them that allowed Yang Kai to use many conveniences on Shadowed Star that others could not.
Xiao Xiao, on the other hand, had directly swallowed and absorbed this placeโs Star Source, meaning it was gone forever and would not be completely converted into Xiao Xiaoโs strength.
Various thoughts flashed through Yang Kaiโs head, making him more and more certain his guess was correct.
Since Xiao Xiao was fine though, Yang Kai was no longer as worried about this. After talking to Qian Tong and Ye Xi Yun, he departed from the Ore Star and continued his journey.
Traversing the Star Field was desolate and lonely, especially in this region where there were no Cultivation Stars at all.
Through his Star Chart, Yang Kai confirmed that the nearest Cultivation Star was at least a year away.
Not becoming irritable or impatient, Yang Kai would sometimes travel under his own strength, while at other times he would land on an asteroid and cultivate while allowing it to carry him forward.
Sometimes, he would land on Dead Stars he came across to search for gains.
However, Dead Stars were Dead Stars in the end, and despite searching a number of them, Yang Kai didnโt have much of a harvest. It could be said that his discovery of that Ore Star was simply a stroke of luck.
Such an accident was not going to happen a second time.
That being said, Yang Kai arranged another Cross-Cultivation Star Space Array on a certain Dead Star he passed by, connecting it with the previous one.
During this period, Xiao Xiao had been asleep inside the Sealed World Bead, not moving at all. However, Yang Kai was aware that Xiao Xiao was now slowly releasing a thick, impurity-like casing from his body, forming a kind of stone cocoon around himself.
This was quite similar to his original state as a stone embryo.
[Could Stone Puppets evolve?] While Yang Kai was suspicious, he was also looking forward to it, wondering what kind of changes Xiao Xiao would experience after he emerged from the cocoon.
After many days of cultivating, Yang Kai also faintly noticed a kind of barrier blocking his path forward.
This was the barrier which separated him from the Origin King Realm! Only by breaking through these shackles could Yang Kai reach the Origin King Realm.
At this time, if he could find a Cultivation Star and enter retreat for a year, or even half a year, Yang Kai was confident he could make a breakthrough attempt.
One day, Yang Kai was performing a check on Xiao Xiaoโs condition.
Because Xiao Xiao had not moved at all for the past year or so, Yang Kai would check in on him occasionally. This time, however, some faint fluctuations were coming from the cocoon, a clear sign Xiao Xiao was about to emerge from it.
Joyful, Yang Kai immediately looked for a place to stay for a while to wait for Xiao Xiao to complete his evolution.
After scanning his surroundings, Yang Kai rushed straight towards a nearby Asteroid Sea.
This Asteroid Sea was quietly suspended in the void, with no signs of movement at all within or around it, the perfect place to enter retreat for a while.
However, when Yang Kai approached the Asteroid Sea, he suddenly frowned.
He noticed that several auras were trying to conceal themselves in this Asteroid Sea. Although these people were doing their best to remain hidden, it was obvious each one was a powerful Origin Realm master.
It was only because Yang Kaiโs Divine Sense was much more powerful than average that he could notice this group.
These people sneakily hiding here were obviously plotting something nefarious.
Yang Kai felt his luck was quite bad, as he did not want to be caught up in this kind of turbid water, so he quickly turned around and left.
However, his figure had only moved slightly when a brilliant glimmer flashed in the distance, transforming into a beam of light which shot out from behind one of the asteroids.
A terrifying power radiated from this streak of light as it rapidly closed the several-dozen-kilometre distance between Yang Kai and the asteroid, causing him to feel a slight tightness on his skin.
โAn Origin King!โ Yang Kaiโs face sank when he realized there was an Origin King Realm master hidden in this Asteroid Sea! Even he had not noticed the presence of such a powerful master until just now.
Although with his current strength, Yang Kai was already invincible under the Origin King Realm, facing an Origin King still put a great deal of pressure onto him.
Origin Kings and Origin Realm masters were completely different existences, and there was a vast gap between them, which was why so many remained stuck at the Third-Order Origin Returning Realm their entire life, never able to spy on the mysteries of the Origin King realm.
This hidden master suddenly making a move obviously indicated they intended to kill Yang Kai with a single blow.
However, the master who took action greatly underestimated Yang Kaiโs strength. Faced with such a terrifying blow, Yang Kai let out a long roar, stretched out his hand, and weaved together hundreds of his Golden Blood Threads to condense a great golden shield to protect himself!
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Yang Kai
Age: 60 +/-3
Cultivation level: origin returning realm 3rd order, origin king grade low rank alchemist
Daos: space
Factions: sect master of high heaven sect, 9 heavens holy land Holy Master, soaring heaven sect disciple, Tong Xuan alchemist guild member, leader of the ancient demon clan
Special characteristics: shadowed star star master, stone puppet soul clone, 5 element indestructible sword body, spiritual star chart, coloured glass demon eye of annihilation, demon god golden blood, conflagrated knowledge sea, 7 colour soul warming lotus, heavenly yang wind and thunder wings, golden dragon spirit tattoo, yin-yang joyous unification dual cultivation, golden skeleton
Attack skills: poison dragon spirit, blossoming lotus, golden blood threads, space blade, demonic flame, Scarlet Heavenly Arrow, Punishing Heaven Spear, Heaven Covering Hand, profound heavenly sword, evil spirit soul skill, 10,000 swords technique, white tiger and divine ox seal, star mark, burning sun triple blast
Movement skills: space tear, Flickering Heavenly Shadow, self taught movement
Defensive skills: Grand Heavenly Shield, imprisoning heavenly chain, soul palace, unyielding will
Other skills: multiple pill condensing technique, monster transformation secret art, true alchemy enlightenment scripture, Shi, yuan control mastery, Capturing Heaven Net, great heavenly attraction, divine sense, beast slave seal, origin of Yang
Items: sea god bead, soul splitting saber, Insect enslavement bracelet, flame bird Liu Yan, annihilation thunder bead, small sealed world bead, feather spirit arrow, star refining art, origin king pill with clouds, life revitalising jade cream, Verdant dragon bone sword, spectral cloud array plate, Su Yan ice soul bead, sunโs true essence, origin level soul devouring insects, Xiao Xiao the stone puppet with the heaven shaking pillar, nether shadow soul string, 7 colour spirit gathering flags, saint king star shuttle, star emperor token 5/9 flying heavens shuttle, soul battle hall, mask of disguise, primordial shackles, myriad drug liquid/milk/cream, demon mystic tome
i guess YK uses his Divine Sense with space force like before or did he forget ? he couldve discovered them without him being discovered ,no?
๐คThat probably takes some extra effort to set up, and Yang Kai would’ve naturally not bothered to go through the trouble when that method actually being useful here was quite unlikely.
Hm, so should Yang not have let the other little stoner guy go out and eat? I don’t really remember that one getting fed at all, and by now it feels like it would never reach Xiao Xiao’s level…. He should have used it during this time anyway. I ddon’t think it’s instincts for eating ores were gone?
I ask is this venerable white is from amazing wechat? Anyway to our junior this queen express her warm greeting..
..as i still slumberring this mere ant cant stop guessing what real happened back in old days..dont you know that shadow star is the door to another dimention as starry field itself is a bead of sand in the shore within soul island to be specific as this queen choose this place as the door saying so this queen decide to take shadow star to guard the starry field because only mere origin king is the highest cultivation reaml they can achieve so even the next realm invade starry field is hard to defend what more emperor as myself.. when that insect invade starry field alone his insects can turn the whole starry field surrender to him but didnt expect me this queen to cross path.. some juniors guesses right.. because of the fight with that insect several and dozen of cultivation star were collateral so this queen set this world principle at the same time guarding it while healing at shadow star as to avoid further calamity..
Oh! They’re not bundits… they were people from sword union and that origin king were the current vice president they ambusing their follow sword union..you know for political use.. yk happened to cross them accidentally.. as for why they attack him they will not let any witness go alive..
This queen struggle to laugh or cry tired of instructing her juniors as they like frog in the well not knowing what under the sky not to mention the heaven above.. this queen hoping her junior to improve before yk can step the same hieght as this queen.
you got me. i am that guy
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter, Happy Birthday to our Junior brother Mathyuu. This King hopes you have a good day and birthday, Godbless
This old Ghost thaks for the chapter
xiao xiao is a Pokรฉmon and now he is evolving!!
Haha this king thanks several masters for their well wishes…and although he might be a junior, heโs still your low strengths peopleโs lord and ruler ! Hahahaha
xiao xiao has food poisoning, true enough if you eat rotten flesh you will have tummy ache.
Also anything can happen to xiao xiao but yk be like-wow he’s evolving
Right๐น man is literally staggering drunk and our boy be like โyes, this is a great blessing!โ๐น also we apparently have star bandits now ? ๐น wtf are they doing camping in an asteroid seaโ ๏ธ Even an origin king for Peteโs sake๐คฆ๐ฟโโ๏ธ
You know, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. How come they’re just camping out there? What if no one comes by?
im guessing since yk already travelling around a year, he must be close by the cultivation star that he was going to. so its reasonable to have space bandit. asteroid field near a star is like a mountain near a town. so space bandit = mountain bandit.haha
Actually, you’re right. It’s been up to a year. Makes sense.
During that arc where Yang Kai and Xue Yue were roaming the starfield she did mention groups of scavengers who lurked about dead stars and the such, remember?
They mentioned that there were 2 powerful groups of space pirates when Yang kai first came to starry sky. In fact they were the ones that attacked the ship he and xue yue were on. It was also mentioned that these pirates even had a few origin kings in their ranks.
From experience, he witnessed his bugs, furnace spirit, the old divine tree and even Xiao Xiao once when he gained his lava armor, if I remember well, they all went sleeping for long times before powering up or evolving.
What struck me out tho is that why is a place where the great emperor used to reside is so desolate and so far away from any other cultivation stars? Shadowed star was obviously so developed and was of the best cultivation stars since it allowed having origin kings by nature. I am thinking it would be logical for a place like that to be surrounded by other places that are similarly rich in energy and life.
first of all, shadowed star is a very remote place inside star field, just like tong xuan realm inside chaotic abyss. i dont think being rich in energy and life will effect surrounding star. secondly, when great emperor fight with insect emperor, well of course she would find desolate place to fight, so as not to cause destruction to any star, given the power level of both of them. since theres only shadowed star nearby, its a perfect place to fight. so when she was injured after the fight, of course she would go to shadowed star to recuperate or sleep, whatever. so its not a question why the place she reside is so desolate, its just the closes place she can go after the fight
I kind of remember the place was her home to begin with and the insect emperor was the one invading. If it is a matter of choosing place for a fight then the open starry sky would be better than a cultivation star. Tong Xuan was a dying star with low cultivation levels throughout history, so it is logical for it to be in a desolate area. I made the comparison with the rest of the starry field where life thrives in rich environments.
As I see it, Shadowed star is either the sole survivor of its region from some kind of a disaster probably a war of a very high scale or it was chosen by some high level cultivator to server as a check point with another dimension and so was man made to begin with. I feel the former is more likely judging by the ruins found in what was called ore star.
well, your theory is very interesting. hopefully, the author read you comment and write a new novel for great emperor. spoiler alert, great emperor goes into deep sleep in the last chapter.haha
on second thought, you might be right. we know insect emperor invading star field right? the author didnt say he came alone. what if he brought an army? or he did came alone and then convert the nearby cultivation star citizen into his army. with a large scale invasion, there should be a few casualties, as in cultivation star being destroy
Shadowed Star is her home! There is a god damn sect that she established there. Why are you thinking that its not her home. Besides 10k years is a long time for a star to become desolate. Not to mention it was completely hidden and people were prevented from going further than Origin Returning Realm preventing the star to increase its general world energy reserves.
Thanks for the chapter
Happy Birthday bro
You turned out to be a junior
( I’m 22๐๐)
So this friend is the same as me then.
Ah this junior brother is late again,….. Anyway I thank elders for this chapter
This king is here, now all hail this king on his 21st bday๐
happy birthday
happy birthday!
This lowly peasant thanks the king for his 21st birthday…… I hope you remember this peasants name…
You dare turn 21 3 months before me
Happy bday!
Happy Birfday young king!
Happy birthday old dog
Happy birthday, old dog. Hereโs to another year of intense competion!
You dare anounce ur birth date? You must not know how to spell the word “DEATH!
ALLOW FATHER HERE TO COURT YOU TO YOUR GRAVE!!
In your dreams
Thanks for the chapter.
Got out of class to take first place now that I have It am going back bye