Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 304 The Arrival of the Celestial Envoy

Since the appearance of the "Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion" more than 20 years ago, there has been constant covert struggle between human cultivator sects on the Qianyuan Continent and various demon cultivator forces in the vast Three Mountains and Seas, with bloodshed occurring from time to time.

They had no choice but to go crazy!

After all, there is a chance to obtain divine artifacts in the secret world behind the Xuan Yuan Immortal Mansion!

What are divine artifacts? They are weapons that only gods and humans can use!

For these mortal cultivators and demon cultivators, it was an absolute and deadly temptation!

Therefore, the "Immortal Abode Tokens" that enable entry into the secret realm world naturally became the target of fierce competition among various cultivation sects and demon-cultivating forces.

Countless battles, both overt and covert, have taken place, and the number of scattered immortal masters who have perished as a result has already exceeded ten thousand!

However, what puzzled the leaders of the various cultivators and demon cultivators was that the celestial envoys who should have arrived long ago had not yet appeared.

It seems that an extremely important event is also taking place in the Immortal Realm recently. Those powerful beings in the Immortal Realm who can open the passage between immortals and mortals are all involved in this major event and have no time to spare for anything else.

However, since the powerful figures behind the major forces have not yet arrived, the higher-ups of those forces dare not easily open the entrance to the secret world, for fear that others will seize the opportunity first.

If anything goes wrong, they will inevitably be reprimanded when the celestial envoy arrives.

It would be better if everyone stayed put and waited patiently for the messengers to arrive.

As for excluding the celestial envoys and having various forces jointly seize the treasures first, that is also unlikely to happen.

After all, for those top experts who cultivate demons or immortals, their sect elders are all in the Immortal Realm, and they will also ascend to the Immortal Realm in the future.

Given all these concerns, they would absolutely not dare to do anything that would offend the envoys of the Celestial Realm.

However, the various factions were not idle either.

Although they don't plan to open the passage for the time being, that doesn't stop them from vying for the token to enter the secret world.

If you can control all the tokens, you will have absolute control!

When the time comes, we can enter the secret realm whenever we want.

Moreover, even if we can't get all the tokens, as long as we can grab more, our side will have more slots to enter the secret realm, and the probability of seizing treasures in the future will naturally be higher.

Therefore, over the past two decades, various forces have resorted to all sorts of desperate measures to seize the Immortal Mansion tokens from each other.

Alliances, infiltration, assassinations, and deals—the entire Abyss Continent and even the Three Mountains and Seas were engulfed in a turbulent and unpredictable situation…

The boundless sea, with its towering waves, possessed a wilder and more chaotic spiritual energy compared to the Abyss Continent.

Zhou Yang rode on a top-grade spiritual artifact flying sword, weaving through the towering waves, with sea monsters occasionally rushing past him in the distance.

However, now that Zhou Yang has reached the Xing Zhou stage, the energy requirement for further advancement is terrifying. Therefore, Zhou Yang is generally too lazy to deal with demonic beasts below the Kong Ming stage.

More than a month had passed since Zhou Yang entered the boundless sea, and he had already traveled at least hundreds of millions of kilometers into the ocean.

However, for the endless ocean of this world, this is only a tiny number.

"boom!"

Just as Zhou Yang was flying at high speed, the sea in front of him suddenly exploded!

As the waves surged, enormous black tentacles burst from the sea surface, heading straight for Zhou Yang.

Those tentacles were hundreds of meters long, and the aura emanating from them was terrifying!

"A ferocious beast in the Tribulation Transcending stage!"

Through the sea, Zhou Yang could vaguely see a huge shadow that resembled a small island; it was an enormous, purplish-black octopus.

At this moment, the octopus's blood-red eyes were also staring at Zhou Yang, its gaze filled with the joy of seeing its prey.

"Hahaha, my luck is just too good! I actually managed to find a cultivator right at the entrance of the lair!"

Once a demon beast reaches the Golden Core stage, it basically possesses the intelligence of an ordinary human. Demon beasts that reach the Void stage are even capable of transforming into human form.

However, for these demon cultivators, their demon beast forms are the most suitable combat form for them, so they often prefer to maintain their original forms.

"A cultivator in the Void Realm? It's been so long since I've tasted such delicious food! Hahaha, little guy, don't worry, I'll savor every bite and let you experience the fear before death."

A hoarse, unpleasant sound echoed from beneath the sea surface, and at the same time, several enormous tentacles that had emerged from the water accelerated and swept towards Zhou Yang.

"I hadn't even decided whether to lay a hand on you, and you're already trying to kill me?"

Zhou Yang smiled helplessly, then transformed into a streak of light and shot rapidly toward the huge shadow beneath the sea, his speed was simply astonishing.

"Tch~"

Zhou Yang transformed into a golden rainbow, surrounded by a layer of terrifying pale purple flames.

"Ah, what? What? It's heavenly fire!"

The giant purplish-black octopus's pupils contracted involuntarily. Purple Heavenly Fire—that was a true fire corresponding to the Heavenly Immortal level. How could a demon cultivator in the early stages of Tribulation Transcending possibly withstand it?

"escape!"

The giant octopus instinctively tried to escape, but it was too late!

Each breakthrough in the Stellar Transformation technique represents a qualitative leap.

After Zhou Yang reached the Xing Zhou stage, his speed reached a new level, which was probably unmatched even by cultivators at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage, let alone this octopus monster that was only at the early stage of the Tribulation Transcending stage!

"puff!"

A golden rainbow pierced directly through the giant head of the purplish-black octopus, while a wisp of purple starlight flames drifted out, instantly burning the flesh and soul inside the giant octopus to ashes.

Zhou Yang raised his hand and the octopus monster's huge purple 'inner core' landed in his hand.

Cultivators refer to the core energy within their bodies as the Golden Core or Nascent Soul, while demon cultivators uniformly call it the "Inner Core." Although the names differ, they are essentially the same thing: the core energy of the cultivator.

"The inner core of a demon beast in the early stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm. Once I refine it, I estimate it will allow me to reach the mid-stage or even late-stage of the Planetary Transcending Realm."

Zhou Yang was secretly calculating in his mind.

When he broke through to the planetary level, his soul merged with heaven and earth, resulting in a significant improvement.

His soul realm has now reached the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm. As long as he has enough Nascent Souls and Inner Cores to devour, he will be able to break through to the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm very soon.

This is why he chose to enter the Boundless Sea. After all, if it's about where you can quickly obtain a large number of 'inner cores', then the Boundless Sea is the place to be.

After all, most human cultivators gather in sects, making it extremely difficult to hunt down large numbers of them.

Comparatively speaking, these demon cultivators all have their own territories and usually stay within them, making them much easier to hunt.

"I'll refine this inner core first, then continue hunting demonic beasts to raise my strength to the Tribulation Transcending stage. By then, I shouldn't be far from sensing the Nine-Nine Tribulation."

Having made up his mind, Zhou Yang transformed into a streak of light and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

While Zhou Yang was constantly hunting marine monsters to improve his strength, terrifying auras were simultaneously spreading across the ten major sects of cultivators on the Abyss Continent and the three sacred mountains of the Three Mountains and Seas.

The celestial messenger, more than twenty years overdue, is finally about to descend.

(End of this chapter)