Invest in Liu Shen at the beginning! I kill my way through the perfect world!

The fortune of the Primordial Dao seemed to reach its peak at this moment. Following Huo Ling'er and Qingyi, Xia Youyu and Qin Zhuyue also ushered in an opportunity for breakthrough.

Xia Youyu chose to go into seclusion under a vast starry sky.

A crystal-clear stone floated in front of her, its interior seemingly containing the birth, death, and flow of countless stars—the Star Stone.

This stone, also a gift from Lin Shu, contains the supreme secrets of the movement of the stars in the heavens.

"The stars serve as a guide, illuminating eternity..."

Xia Youyu recited softly, her hands slowly pressing onto the star stone.

In an instant, the star stone shone brightly, and countless starlight burst forth from it, transforming into a boundless starry sky around her.

The sun, moon, stars, Milky Way, and nebulae are all clearly visible, as if a real universe has been moved to this place.

Xia Youyu sat cross-legged in the center of the starry sky, her soul leaving her body and merging with the stars and sky.

She intends to use her own divine soul to draw upon the primordial star domain within the Star Stone, thoroughly refining it to control the power of the celestial stars and attain the Quasi-Immortal Emperor status through the Way of the Stars.

This process may seem calm, but it is actually extremely dangerous.

The origin of the star field is vast and magnificent, and the stellar will contained within it is ancient and powerful.

Under the impact of the star field's origin, Xia Youyu's soul was like a small boat in a storm, which could be assimilated and devoured by the enormous will of the stars at any time, becoming a part of the starry sky and losing its self-awareness.

Her face turned pale instantly, and her body swayed slightly, but she held fast to her Dao heart, recalling the calm yet profound look in Lin Shu's eyes when he gave her the stone, and boundless power surged within her.

Using her own understanding of the Great Dao of Stars as an anchor, she gradually sorted out and refined the violent origin of the star field, extracting the laws of stars from it and integrating them into her own Dao Fruit.

As time went by, the starry sky around her became more and more real and vast, and her aura became more and more in harmony with this starry sky, as if she were the master of this starry sky.

When the last trace of the star field's origin was completely refined, she suddenly opened her eyes, and it seemed as if billions of stars lit up in her eyes at the same time!

"boom!"

The Quasi-Immortal Emperor Tribulation has arrived!

Within the endless thunderclouds, there was not ordinary lightning, but stellar lightning formed by the condensation of countless illusory stars!
Each bolt of lightning was like a real star falling, carrying world-destroying power as it struck Xia Youyu.

Xia Youyu stood up, her body radiating starlight. She seemed to have transformed into the master of the starry sky, controlling the power of the stars and colliding fiercely with the star lightning!
Starlight and lightning intertwined, bursting forth with dazzling brilliance, illuminating the entire void as if it were daytime.

In the end, Xia Youyu successfully survived the tribulation of lightning, surrounded by endless starlight, her aura as vast as the starry sky, and successfully stepped into the realm of Quasi-Immortal Emperor!

Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Xia Youyu, accomplished!
Meanwhile, in another completely isolated secret realm, Qin Zhuyue's breakthrough method was even more peculiar. She did not trigger any external celestial phenomena; all the changes occurred within her own body.

There was nothing in front of her, because the path she was walking was an unprecedented path that Lin Shu had pointed out in his early years—the Inner Universe Cultivation Method.

This method does not rely on external means or external objects, but rather creates an independent and complete universe within oneself!

It is itself chaos, creating heaven and earth, evolving all things, forming its own path and its own realm!
Qin Zhuyue sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, focusing all her attention on her body.

Deep within her dantian, there was originally a chaotic and undeveloped scene, with only her Dao Fruit floating within it.

At this moment, she used her supreme will as an axe and her own Great Dao as a foundation to unleash a world-shattering strike against that chaos!
"Crack!"

It was as if something was broken.

Chaos was split open, purity and turbidity separated, and yin and yang were first distinguished!

A tiny, yet complete and independent nascent universe was slowly born within her!

However, opening up the inner universe is going against the will of Heaven, and its danger far exceeds any breakthrough method that relies on external means.

The birth of the inner universe requires an unimaginable amount of origin and soul power. If one is not careful, everything may be drained, and one may die and perish.

Moreover, the nascent inner universe is extremely unstable and may collapse at any time. Once it collapses, the destructive energy it generates will be enough to blast the creator to pieces, leaving not even a true spirit.

Qin Zhuyue's face turned deathly pale instantly, and her body withered away at a visible speed, a sign that her vital energy was being rapidly depleted.

But the light in her eyes grew even brighter. Her Dao heart was unbreakable. She did her best to maintain the stability of her inner universe and continuously infused it with the laws she had comprehended, perfecting this nascent universe.

This is a race against death.

Finally, when the inner universe completely stabilized and began to operate on its own, generating the most basic rules and energy, an unprecedented force returned to Qin Zhuyue's entire body!
Her aura began to surge wildly, instantly breaking through the limits of a Celestial King!

Her Quasi-Immortal Emperor Tribulation also descended in a unique way—not from the outside world, but from the nascent inner universe within her body!
The laws of the inner universe clashed violently with the laws of the outer universe, giving rise to endless calamities within her!
Earth, water, fire, and wind raged, spacetime was in turbulent flow, and there were even invisible mental tribulations formed by the backlash of the laws!
Qin Zhuyue groaned, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, but she remained as steady as a mountain, suppressing the turmoil within her inner universe with her supreme will and reconciling the conflict between the internal and external laws.

After an unknown amount of time, when the universe within her body had completely calmed down and reached a mysterious balance with the external universe, Qin Zhuyue slowly opened her eyes.

In her eyes, it seemed as if the sun, moon, and stars were being born and dying, and all things and spirits were evolving.

A vast, all-encompassing, seemingly self-contained, and independent aura of a quasi-immortal emperor emanated from her.

Quasi-Immortal Emperor Qin Zhuyue, accomplished! (End of Chapter)