Swallowing the Stars: Heart of the Martial God

Chapter 73 Breakthrough to Domain Lord - Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force
After distributing ten thousand Blood Crystals to the three women, the four of them boarded the spaceship that had come to pick them up from the Giant Axe Arena and headed towards their respective secret realms.

The virtual universe, the residence of the four core geniuses of the Giant Axe Arena—Tianjian Mountain.

A group of geniuses from the Giant Axe Arena gathered in the public area to discuss recent interesting events and strange tales, exchanging feelings and strengthening their bonds.

Cao Benqi sat alone in the corner, exuding an aura that kept strangers at bay.

"Have you heard? Some of our students have already started taking on cultivation missions," a young man with red scales on his forehead said loudly.

"Who is so bold?" Some people found it hard to believe. They had just left Chaos City and were all focused on refining their cultivation techniques and improving their combat abilities.

Someone has actually started accepting cultivation missions! You should know that the death rate for cultivation missions is much higher than when killing Chaos Beasts in Chaos City.

A moment's carelessness could lead to certain death.

"Of course, it's the undisputed champion of this year's Genius Battle, Flame Demon Ling Xuan!" the ape-man youth shouted.

"I heard that even his three wives went with him. The geniuses from the Divine Origin Secret Realm haven't seen them in the last few years."

“No wonder. With Ling Xuan’s comprehension of the laws, even ordinary domain lord-level experts are no match for him. He can indeed start taking on cultivation missions.” Hearing that it was Ling Xuan, some people felt it was only natural.

He's already conquered all twelve levels of the Heavenly Bridge, so wouldn't a cosmic-level cultivation mission be a piece of cake for him?

"You just said that Ling Xuan has started accepting cultivation missions?" At this moment, a tall figure cast a shadow under the light, obscuring the figures of those discussing the matter.

"Yan Shen?" When these geniuses looked up and saw that it was Cao Benqi, they all stood up respectfully.

"You just said that Ling Xuan has started taking on cultivation missions? Which mission did he take on?" Cao Benqi continued to ask to himself.

"This……"

The conflict between Ling Xuan and Cao Benqi was no secret in their year, and for a moment they didn't know whether they should talk about it or not.

What if the two of them clash in the mission world?
"Tell me, which mission did he take?" Cao Benqi stared intently at these geniuses, as if they would become his enemies if they didn't speak.

"Gulp~" The ape-man youth swallowed hard. "You can check in the virtual universe. It's easy to find. Someone posted footage of Ling Xuan's spaceship landing on the forum."

The young ape-man dared not offend Cao Benqi, nor did he dare to tell Cao Benqi Ling Xuan's whereabouts directly, so he had no choice but to let Cao Benqi investigate on his own.

Anyway, the other party can find out with a simple check, so why should I offend them? As for Ling Xuan, I'll send him an email to remind him later.

Cao Benqi immediately opened his virtual universe operation page to search for information about Ling Xuan.

Just as the ape-man youth had said, they quickly found footage of Ling Xuan's spaceship entering the Blood Luo World.

"The Blood Luo World?" Cao Benqi sneered, then left Tianjian Mountain, clearly exiting the virtual universe.

"Hahaha." Cao Benqi quickly accepted the Blood Luo World quest. "Ling Xuan, I'm fucking here!! You just wait!"

Back in the Giant Axe Secret Realm, Ling Xuan submitted his mission results and sold 100,000 Blood Crystals.

After being warned by the virtual universe system as usual, Ling Xuan suddenly received an email. Unlike Cao Benqi, Ling Xuan did not look down on people, so he also gave his virtual universe email code to some geniuses in the same year.

However, he usually has cream puffs to help filter out some of the emails that are not helpful.

"Haha~ Cao Benqi came to the Blood Luo World to find me?" Ling Xuan almost burst out laughing when he saw the contents of the email.

"Are you doomed now?" Ling Xuan thought of the things he had done under the name of Cao Benqi.

Even if the Immortal Temple doesn't announce the major events it has accomplished, it will certainly issue a nationwide manhunt for the name "Cao Benqi".

Even if nothing happens, those people from the Immortal Temple in various places will rush over to investigate when they hear the name Cao Benqi, preferring to kill the wrong person rather than let him go.

Even if nothing happens, it wouldn't be bad to make Cao Benqi go through all that trouble.

Time passed, and after Ling Xuan emerged from seclusion, he took on several more cultivation missions before facing a cosmic-level qualifying battle.

This qualifying battle surprised many. Usually, geniuses who have just advanced through the Genius Battle would be relegated to the next secret realm after the first qualifying battle, and would only be able to fight their way up again in the next or the one after that qualifying battle. However, Feng Lishuang and the other two girls actually stayed in the Divine Origin Secret Realm because they received guidance from the Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master and had their talents enhanced by the Blood Crystal.

The most surprising thing is that Cao Benqi, the peerless genius of the Giant Axe Secret Realm, actually fell into the Divine Beginning Secret Realm.

The reason is that when Cao Benqi first arrived in the Blood Luo World, he searched the entire continent for Ling Xuan, wanting to kill him.

But after searching for a year without success, and discovering that Ling Xuan had already left, he began to focus on completing the mission. Since he was already here, he had to finish the mission.

After absorbing the first Blood Crystal and discovering its wonders, he became completely obsessed. He began to imitate Ling Xuan, slaughtering indiscriminately to collect Blood Crystals, and then went to the Ancient God Ruins to undergo the transformation of his body by the evil energy in order to fuse with more Blood Crystals.

The biggest difference between Cao Benqi and Ling Xuan is their brains.

Cao Benqi was a man of integrity who never changed his name or surname, a true man of upright character.

Even Luo Feng knew that he should change his name and use a pseudonym when entering an unfamiliar environment, but he went by his real name and gradually his reputation was heard by the Immortal Temple.

This sudden genius named Cao Benqi, who was also slaughtering powerful figures in the Blood Luo World to seize Blood Luo Crystals, was treated as Ling Xuan and attacked directly.

Ninety years after Cao Benqi entered the Blood Luo World, the Immortal Temple dispatched a large number of powerful figures to hunt him down across the continent.

This timing coincided with a cosmic-level qualifying battle, and he had no time to participate. He didn't even dare to escape by spaceship, so he could only hide carefully and be on guard at all times to avoid being found. In the end, he could only be eliminated and sent to the Divine Origin Secret Realm.

Ling Xuan, on the other hand, directly gave up the qualifying battle and chose to challenge the cosmic-level Primal Tongtian Mountain.

This created three vacant spots, resulting in only Cao Benqi being eliminated.

This matter did not cause much of a stir, after all, Ling Xuan had already passed the twelfth level of the Tongtian Bridge a hundred years ago, so it was normal for him to attempt the Tongtian Mountain.

"I've got the points, it's time to break through to the Domain Lord level." Ling Xuan immediately continued his seclusion to break through to the Domain Lord level.

Call ~
Suck~
The dense cosmic energy within the Giant Axe Secret Realm, as if drawn by an invisible vortex, converged madly toward Ling Xuan with terrifying force.

In the void, energy surged like boiling waves, emitting bursts of roar, and the entire world trembled because of this surge of power.

Ling Xuan's aura continued to rise, and within his core, a dazzling nebula spun rapidly, as if he were in the vast universe.

Spiral galaxies are beautiful and dazzling, and at their core is a massive black hole, with eight smaller black holes on their eight spiral arms.

Once the inner world successfully transformed, the vortex galaxy immediately began to undergo astonishing changes—

"Boom~~"

The central black hole and the eight spiral arms of black holes suddenly surged in devouring power, frantically swallowing the surrounding stars. In particular, the central black hole continued to grow larger and larger, and gradually, even the eight smaller black holes next to it were affected by gravity and kept moving closer.

As the nebula continued to collapse, its once magnificent appearance gradually disappeared, replaced by an enormous energy core.

"Boom!" The massive energy core began to collapse inward, and the entire energy region shrank rapidly at a visible speed.

In an instant, the energy core completely collapsed and disappeared, and in the center of the original core, a red crystal exuding an ancient aura slowly emerged.

Boo!
Ripples spread across the surface of the red crystal, like waves on water, and a thin silver film peeled off like a cicada's molt.

This thin film continued to expand, growing larger and larger until it was comparable in size to the entire pronucleus, and then silently and perfectly fused with the pronucleus.

Ling Xuan's original core also underwent some special changes.

At the same time, the long-dormant Heart of the Martial God surged once more, and a continuous stream of power flowed from it into Ling Xuan's limbs and bones.

"Ang~"

As if an ancient divine elephant had been awakened, tens of thousands of booming sounds resounded within Ling Xuan's body.

"The Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique activates 840 million microparticles in the human body, enhancing the body's gene pool..."

(End of this chapter)