High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen quickly found the location designated by Lar and landed on a high platform on the west side of the city.

It was a cultivation courtyard built by the sea, backed by a dense purple forest and facing the boundless blue sea.

As he stepped off the Shadow Bee, a sea breeze blew in his face, carrying moisture and the scent of some kind of flower he couldn't name.

He suddenly realized that he hadn't breathed like this in a long time.

An elderly man in a gray robe was already waiting for him outside the meditation room.

The old man bowed slightly and spoke in standard universal language: "Lord Song Chen, Lord Ral has already given instructions that the cultivation room is reserved for you. Please follow me."

Song Chen followed him into the cultivation room, which was much larger than it appeared from the outside.

At its core is a circular quiet room, the walls of which are covered with a dark blue crystal that has a slight springiness when stepped on.

In the center of the quiet room hung a white ball of light the size of a head, and below the ball of light was a cultivation platform engraved with countless runes.

Song Chen could feel that the concentration of spiritual energy around him was dozens of times higher than outside, just by standing at the door, and the star core in his body was spinning much faster.

The old man spoke up: "My lord, this cultivation room is directly connected to the spiritual vein at the bottom of Canglan Star, which is extremely helpful for condensing star source power. Lord Laer said that you can use it for as long as you like."

Song Chen nodded in satisfaction: "I understand, you can go now."

After the old man left, he closed the door to the quiet room and sat down cross-legged.

"It's time to convert the star source power," he said in a low voice.

Instead of taking his time and working his way up step by step, he opened the system shop, browsed through the special items, and finally stopped at one column.

[Star Marrow Crystallization.]

Price: 100 billion kill points.

Note: When using this technique to condense Star Source Power, it can greatly improve conversion efficiency and reduce pain.

Without hesitation, Song Chen bought ten.

The Star Essence Crystal appeared in the palm of his hand, like a star that had been dug out, completely transparent, with silvery-white light flowing inside.

Song Chen pressed it to his chest and activated his spiritual energy. The condensed crystal immediately transformed into a thin beam of light that entered his body.

The star core inside his body seemed to be ignited, and began to vibrate with a buzzing sound. At the same time, his blood and spiritual energy were compressed towards the center of the star core.

Ten days later, the first point of star energy was condensed.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe in words.

Song Chen felt a tiny point of light suddenly appear deep inside his body, thinner than a hair, yet so heavy that it made his entire body sink down.

That point of light seemed to contain a mini universe, filled with light, heat, and all the blood and spirit he had accumulated through his battles.

This is the power of the Star Source.

He opened his eyes, gently exhaled, and the breath turned into a pale gold color in the air before slowly dissipating.

"We finally succeeded."

He sighed.

After the first time, it became much faster afterwards.

But fast is only relative.

Song Chen spent his days honing his Star Source Power in the training room, as well as his patience.

Three months passed, and he was getting tired.

It's not that I'm physically tired, but rather that I'm mentally bored.

Each time, it's the same action: compressing and condensing the qi, blood, and spirit, then compressing and condensing them again.

He suddenly missed the wind on the battlefield, and the crisp sound of a blade slicing through the air.

He decided to go for a walk.

Canglan Star is indeed a place where people can forget they are warriors.

Song Chen left the training room and walked slowly along the path by the sea.

A sea breeze blows from the blue sea, carrying a thin layer of coolness.

Several local children ran past him, carrying some kind of glowing fish.

They were laughing and singing in a language we couldn't understand.

On the distant rocks, two old men are playing a game of chess made with jade pieces, with two steaming cups beside them.

In the harbor further away, several sailboats slowly approached the shore, their sails gleaming with gold in the setting sun.

Song Chen stood by the reef for a long time. This was the first time he had stood in a place like a real person since leaving Earth.

Many images flashed through his mind: people on Earth who had never seen the universe yet, arguing over trivial matters, fighting tooth and nail over a few acres of land or a few business deals.

Unbeknownst to them, beyond their heads, the Celestial Pivot was burning, the Milky Way was mobilizing, and the main battlefield of the civilization war had shattered space itself.

Song Chen stood there until dark, then walked back.

After returning to the meditation room, he sat down again.

He had enough kill points, so he stopped using them sparingly.

I bought star marrow crystals one after another, and absorbed them one after another.

With the system shop available, his conversion speed far surpasses that of other life forms. It would take an ordinary seventh-order being hundreds or even thousands of years to reach the eighth-order, but Song Chen condensed dozens of points of star source power in just three months.

To break through to the eighth rank, he needs to condense a full one hundred points.

Nine months have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the entire planet Canglan was shaken.

The sea suddenly calmed down, the wind stopped, and flocks of birds took flight from the woods, circling in the sky as if searching for something.

Then, a huge golden beam of light shot into the sky from the direction of the training room, piercing through the clouds, like a lightsaber plunging from the ground into the universe.

The psionic energy around the pillar of light swirled wildly, turning the entire sky a pale gold.

Countless people rushed out of their homes, looked up at the beam of light, and gaped in astonishment.

Outside the meditation room, several elderly people from the neighborhood knelt on the ground, their lips trembling.

"Star Crown... Someone is about to become a Star Crown."

The beam of light lasted for a long time before slowly dissipating.

The door to the training room opened, and Song Chen walked out.

He looked different from a year ago; as he stood there, the air around him seemed to be gently bowing to him.

His eyes were incredibly bright, with what appeared to be two clusters of stars hidden deep within his pupils.

The star core inside the body has stabilized and taken shape, with an additional layer of silvery-white psionic light crown on the outside, slowly rotating around the star core.

Eighth-order Star Crown Realm, achieved!

Song Chen looked down at his hands and slowly closed his fingers.

He felt a slight sense of spatial shattering at his fingertips, and he knew that a casual punch now could unleash a force that even a full-force strike might not have been able to achieve before.

The Star Source Power flowed slowly within his body, like silver galaxies, and he finally crossed that threshold.

"Congratulations, Lord Song Chen." The gray-robed old man bowed deeply.

Soon, everyone in the entire cultivation courtyard gathered around.

There were civilian staff from the Alliance, local minor nobles from Canglan Star, and some guards sent by Lar.

They came forward one by one, offering their congratulations.

Song Chen nodded without saying anything more.

That evening, he stood on the cliff outside his meditation room, watching the sunset slowly sink into the sea.

"Finally reached level eight."

The price for breaking through in just one year was that the kill points on the system panel were almost completely depleted, but he didn't care too much.

The breakthrough is the most important thing.

At that moment, a small, silver-white spaceship descended from the starry sky and slowly landed outside the courtyard.

Song Chen turned his head to look, knowing that the period of peace would not last long.