Swallowing the Stars: Heart of the Martial God

Chapter 17 Senior, you didn't want this either...

Three days passed in the blink of an eye; for Ling Xuan, who was immersed in a pleasant conversation with the cream puffs, it felt like he had just taken a nap.

"Master, Master! Look, the Candle Dragon Secret Realm is just ahead!"

Puff excitedly jumped around in the cockpit. Her once neatly tied high ponytail was now a little messy, with a few strands of hair playfully falling beside her pink cheeks. Her fluffy tail swung rapidly like a propeller, stirring up the surrounding air.

"We've finally arrived. I hope we can get some good stuff this time. The last coming-of-age ceremony ended too hastily, and we didn't have a chance to explore properly," Ling Xuan said.

Just then, the surrounding space seemed to freeze, and a vast divine power emanated from it. The Crimson Flame spaceship was restricted by a terrifying force and almost collapsed.

Just as Ling Xuan thought he was being attacked and was preparing to unleash his supreme imperial weapon to defend himself, a voice containing unparalleled divine power rang out.

"Who goes there? How dare you approach the sacred ground of my Zhulong clan? State your name."

Ling Xuan suddenly realized that they were one of their own.

"Senior, I am Ling Xuan from Manlongxing. I have come to my clan's sacred land for training on the orders of the envoy of my clan's temple."

"The Barbarian Dragon Star People?" the mysterious voice murmured, and then the power that had enveloped the entire spaceship instantly dissipated.

"That Meng Yi guy didn't even give us a heads-up beforehand. Honestly, he almost scared the little guy. Let's go in."

"Thank you, senior."

The Crimson Flame continued its flight, this time without any hindrance, and successfully passed through layers of nebulae to enter the secret realm.

"Phew~ That was close. I'm still too weak. It's really not good to have my life in someone else's hands at any time. But I haven't been cultivating for long enough, so it's hard to improve my strength in a short time."

Time is the least valuable thing in the Swallowed Starry Sky. It often takes hundreds of thousands of years to cultivate into an immortal, let alone the supreme cosmic lords and true gods.

Even Luo Feng spent hundreds of millions of years (including time acceleration within the Beast God Realm) to reach the combat power of a Universe Lord.

Even without considering time acceleration, it is still more than 100,000 years, which is undoubtedly an extremely long period of time.

"Wait, I can cultivate the Heaven-Covering Technique!" Ling Xuan suddenly remembered that when he broke through to the Stellar level, the Heart of the Martial God transmitted to him not only the Void Mirror, an ultimate imperial weapon, but also the supreme imperial scripture, the Void Scripture, the crystallization of the Void Emperor's life's work.

If he couldn't cultivate, the Heart of the Martial God wouldn't have given this thing to him.

"Give it a try." Ling Xuan immediately made a decision to try cultivating the Void Scripture to enhance his combat power. Of course, the main thing was to cultivate the laws of the Devouring Starry Sky.

After all, one cannot become an immortal simply by studying the Void Scripture. Lifespan is finite, and even becoming an emperor is difficult. The Void Scripture is the path of the Void Emperor, and it may not be suitable for Ling Xuan.

Moreover, even with the combat power of an emperor, the emperor's position in the Devouring Starry Sky is extremely awkward, comparable to a cosmic medicine. Just look at the fate of the born beast god.

If we can't find a way forward, we'll probably be hunted down by the entire universe.

However, becoming immortal would allow one to easily avoid this awkward situation.

"Puff, scan the secret realm first, mark the locations of treasures and monsters. I'm going into seclusion."

"Yes, Master."

Ling Xuan strode towards the cultivation pod. The moment the pod door closed, he sat cross-legged on the floating platform, pale golden flames rising around him.

"The Great Way is like a measure, the origin of all things, blending with the world..."

Deep within his consciousness, the golden characters of the Void Sutra slowly emerged, but when he tried to open the sea of ​​suffering according to the sutra, he felt as if he had fallen into an endless fog.

Those profound characters were clearly visible, yet they seemed to be veiled by a hazy gauze. No matter how hard he tried, he could not fathom their true meaning, as if he truly could not cultivate them.

However, Ling Xuan was, after all, a stellar-level powerhouse. His brain capacity was countless times greater than that of Ye Fan, who had just begun his cultivation journey, and his computational ability was also much stronger. In addition, the explanation in the last paragraph of the "Void Scripture" allowed Ling Xuan to find the real reason.

This is not the world of "Covering the Sky," and he is not a person of "Covering the Sky." There is no secret realm of the human body that uses the body as a seed. His dantian has already opened up nine stars. Where can he open up the sea of ​​suffering?

"Let's ask Senior Void Mirror. He's the one who knows Void Mirror best."

Ling Xuan immediately entered his own primordial core world.

A scorching heatwave swept over him, and a fiery continent, ninety kilometers long and wide, stretched out beneath his feet, with crimson magma flowing across the surface like veins. This world, before Ling Xuan broke through to become a World Lord and transformed into a true world, could not accommodate anything else.

But there are always exceptions that can break this rule.

For example, the Void Mirror standing in the void of this fiery world.

Silver threads hanging from the mirror wove together into a net, and strands of spatial power seeped into the sea of ​​fire, creating a tranquil realm amidst the flames.

Ling Xuan respectfully clasped his hands in greeting, his voice resonating through the heat: "Senior, I have long admired the Void Emperor's methods, but unfortunately I have not been able to grasp their essence. I humbly request your guidance."

silence!

Silence enveloped this fiery continent.

The mist on the surface of the Void Mirror churned slightly, but there was no response whatsoever.

Ling Xuan persisted, pleading again and again, but still received no reply.

He could only sigh helplessly, "Senior, you wouldn't want the legacy of the Void Emperor to be tarnished in my hands, would you?"

"Boy, why are you talking so strangely? I advise you to change your way of speaking to me." A cold, authoritative snort suddenly rang out.

Ling Xuan was overjoyed and quickly adjusted his words: "Senior, isn't the fact that this Void Technique can shine so brightly in this world also a continuation of the Great Emperor's Dao and life?"

"Very well, passing down the Great Emperor's lineage in this world is an achievement that other ancient emperors could never accomplish. It can also be considered a way to prove that the Great Emperor is far superior to other ancient emperors. So I will teach you how to open up the Sea of ​​Bitterness."

The deity of the Void Mirror sighed deeply.

The mirror shone brightly, and a silver beam of light as thick as a bucket crashed down.

Wherever the beam of light passed, the fiery continent trembled violently, and magma shot into the sky like boiling water.

Ling Xuan was suspended in the air by divine power, watching helplessly as the pillar of light, like a giant whale sucking in water, devoured all the flames within a ten-mile radius.

The raging flames were rapidly compressed by divine power, eventually condensing into a walnut-sized, reddish-gold seed, its surface swirling with mysterious patterns where flames and space intertwined.

"enter!"

With a loud shout, the seed pierced three inches below Ling Xuan's navel like a shooting star.

Immediately afterwards, a corresponding fluctuation also came from the Heart of the Martial God, and a certain substance flowed from its heart meridian to its dantian.

In an instant, it was as if a sun had been thrown into his dantian, and intense energy exploded in a ring.

The once solid meridians shattered inch by inch in the excruciating pain, but were rapidly rebuilt under the nourishment of the nine stars above the dantian and the replenishment of substances flowing from the Heart of the Martial God.

Ling Xuan's understanding of the laws of fire gradually flowed into his dantian, and a particle shimmering with crimson-gold light slowly took shape, its surface rippling with flame-like waves. Each fluctuation resonated in a wondrous way with his heartbeat.

Ling Xuan immediately sat down cross-legged and seized the time to cultivate. Under the Dao essence of the Void Mirror, he circulated the "Void Scripture". His inner world continuously integrated the power of flames into the Bitter Sea to help him strengthen it.

Boom~
The particles gradually expanded, beginning to resemble a sea of ​​suffering. However, his sea of ​​suffering was not the usual pitch-black color, but a fiery red. Above the sea of ​​suffering, there were nine stars symbolizing the ninth rank of a stellar system, soaring in the sky like nine great suns.

"It seems that only you in your world can inherit the Great Emperor's ultimate techniques."

The Void Mirror sighed helplessly, his idea of ​​establishing a Great Emperor lineage vanishing instantly.

"Senior, this world allows for immortality. As long as I am here, the Great Emperor's lineage will remain." Ling Xuan immediately took advantage of the situation and acted smugly.

But the Void Mirror ignored him.

Ling Xuan had no choice but to cultivate silently on his own, striving to open up the sea of ​​suffering.

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