Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 299 Late Stage of Star Core

The world where the Abyss Continent is located is usually called the 'Mortal Realm', and above this 'Mortal Realm', there is an even more powerful 'Immortal Realm'.

There is an extremely strong barrier between the mortal realm and the immortal realm, preventing beings from traveling freely between the two.

Only by successfully passing through the Ninety-Nine Tribulations and breaking through to the Mahayana stage can beings in the mortal realm gain the recognition of the "Heavenly Dao" and ascend to the Immortal Realm.

However, once you enter the Immortal Realm, under the restrictions of Heaven, it becomes difficult to enter the mortal realm again.

Of course, it is difficult, but not impossible.

Some of the top experts who stand at the pinnacle of the immortal realm may be able to forcefully break through the barrier of the Great Dao with their own extraordinary power, forming a temporary passage connecting the immortal and mortal realms.

For example, the ten major sects of immortals and demons, as well as those few demon cultivator forces, all possess special channels for contacting the upper realm. If there is something of sufficient importance, they may be able to summon envoys from the immortal realm to descend.

Furthermore, there are also battles and struggles among some of the super-powerful beings in the Immortal Realm. Sometimes, some powerful beings in the Immortal Realm who are in dire straits will break through space to send important junior disciples or precious treasures to the lower realm in order to ensure that their bloodline and inheritance are not cut off, or to prevent their treasures from being obtained by their enemies.

Therefore, various "fateful encounters" often occur in this mortal realm.

The emergence of the "Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion" is the most sensational of the many "immortal destiny" events that have occurred in the past hundreds of thousands of years!

About 26 years ago, in the vast Three Mountains and Seas region occupied by demon cultivators, an extremely large immortal palace was born.

The emergence of the Immortal Abode caused quite a stir at the time. Although it was within the territory of demon cultivators, it still attracted a large number of cultivators from both the human and immortal paths to participate in the struggle.

After a struggle, the various factions eventually reached an agreement to enter and explore together.

Within this immortal abode, the experts from both the cultivator and demon-cultivating forces not only amassed a vast collection of precious treasures, including immortal artifacts, elixirs, spiritual materials, and secret techniques, but also obtained information about divine artifacts!

It turns out that this immortal abode is only a 'front hall'. Behind this front hall lies an even more vast secret world!

Once you obtain the Immortal Abode Token in the front hall, you can enter the secret realm behind the Immortal Abode and obtain the 'divine artifact' level treasure left behind by the master of the secret realm!

In the mortal realm, the weapons and armor used by cultivators and demon cultivators are called spiritual artifacts.

The weapons used by the 'immortals' in the celestial realm are called celestial weapons.

Legend has it that above the celestial realm, there is a supreme realm called the "God Realm," and the weapons used by the people of the God Realm are called "divine artifacts"!

The power of magical artifacts, immortal artifacts, and divine artifacts is naturally incomparable.

Like a cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage, if he wields a celestial artifact, he can even kill a seventh or eighth-level rogue immortal who does not possess a celestial artifact!

And divine artifacts are treasures that even the top experts in the immortal realm desperately desire!

Information about divine artifacts has appeared in a celestial abode in the mortal realm, naturally causing a great sensation!

In recent decades, demon cultivators and immortal cultivators have been locked in a fierce battle for the Immortal Abode tokens that grant access to the secret realm. The Silver Moon Sect, one of the top ten immortal cultivator factions, was almost wiped out as a result!

However, all of this is temporarily irrelevant to Zhou Yang, since with his current strength, he is far from being able to comprehend this level of combat.

For him, improving his strength is the top priority right now.

In a secret cultivation chamber of the Jinyang Sect, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on a low couch.

A deep blue star flame floated and burned before him, and within that deep blue flame was an extremely dazzling deep purple nascent soul.

The nascent soul was constantly burned and melted by the Starry True Fire, and streams of purple-gold liquid flowed out from it, which were then quickly absorbed into Zhou Yang's body.

Within his dantian space, a golden sphere the size of a billiard ball was floating and spinning, surrounded by tiny silver star particles scattered throughout the entire dantian space.

After the flowing purple-gold energy entered the dantian, it was first tempered again by the true star fire source within the dantian space, and refined into the purest life essence before being absorbed by the golden sphere.

When ordinary demon cultivators or monster cultivators devour a nascent soul, they usually devour it directly and then absorb its power for their own use.

However, Zhou Yang did not do it that way. He first refined the impurities in the nascent soul little by little, and only the most basic and pure essence power was absorbed.

Although a large portion of the energy in the nascent soul is wasted after being tempered by the True Fire of Stars, this ensures the purity of the power and prevents it from being affected by residual resentment or impurities within the nascent soul.

"Hiss hiss hiss~~~"

The deep blue flames continued to burn, and purple-gold energy flowed continuously from the nascent soul.

The golden sphere inside Zhou Yang's dantian spun continuously, forming an invisible vortex around it.

The refined and purified nascent soul energy continuously entered the vortex and was rapidly absorbed by the golden sphere.

As it continued to absorb nutrients, the golden sphere grew larger and its color gradually turned black.

Zhou Yang continued refining, and soon, three days had passed.

At this moment, the nascent soul of the early-stage Void Realm cultivator, which was originally the size of an egg, has been refined to a size smaller than a soybean.

"Whoosh~~~"

As Zhou Yang continued to urge the Starry True Fire, the last bit of Nascent Soul essence was finally completely melted, turning into streams of purple-gold liquid that Zhou Yang absorbed.

After absorbing an entire early-stage Void Nascent Soul, the golden sphere in the early-stage Star Core of the dantian had now completely turned black, and even the heat emanating from that sphere had diminished.

However, Zhou Yang knew very well that this was the 'Star Core' that had reached its peak! At this moment, the energy contained in this black Star Core was nearly ten times stronger than that of the original golden Star Core, but the energy was now contained within its own body.

"Absorbing the nascent soul of an early-stage Void Realm cultivator has allowed me to advance to the late-stage Star Core Realm."

Zhou Yang, who was on the low couch, opened his eyes. A rich golden light burst forth from his eyes, almost illuminating the entire room.

"Next, we will use the star core as our center to absorb the energy of countless stars and gather them together to form a planet! The most important thing in cultivating the planetary system is the 'spiritual energy of heaven and earth,' which is the spiritual energy of all things in heaven and earth. We will fill the planet with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, just like the planets inhabited by mortals, full of life force."

As Zhou Yang recalled the description of the next realm in the Stellar Transformation technique, he couldn't help but feel a little anticipation.

"Absorbing the power of stars and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, a trace of life force was born. I wonder how powerful this trace of life force is, and whether it has anything in common with the life laws I vaguely sense."

(End of this chapter)