Chapter 314 – The Great Dao of Killing, the Star Realm Bows in Submission! [8k]

Chapter 314 – The Great Dao of Killing, the Star Realm Bows in Submission! [8k]

In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and the corners of his mouth curved upward.

“Finally, the Spontaneous Epiphany has triggered again!”

“My comprehension of the Sword Dao has finally reached the Initial Glimpse level… this is at least what a Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator should have!”

Su Xing let out a sigh.

Over the past few months, Su Xing’s strength had grown explosively. Going from Human Immortal to Heavenly Immortal had taken him no more than three to five months.

But the main improvement had been solely in cultivation realm!

His Dao comprehension, supernatural arts, techniques, and other aspects had been somewhat neglected.

Typically, a Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator would have already reached the Initial Glimpse level of Dao comprehension, and the exceptional ones among them would have multiple Daos at Initial Glimpse!

As for Su Xing, though he had grasped many Daos, he hadn’t truly mastered any of them.

Only the Great Dao of Space and the Sword Dao from this simulation had barely been elevated to Initial Glimpse…

“The Earthly Immortal and Heavenly Immortal realms… correspond to Initial Glimpse of the Great Dao!”

“And True Immortals and Mystic Immortals typically reach Minor Attainment in a certain Great Dao!”

“At that level of cultivation, actual combat power no longer depends solely on cultivation realm… it depends even more on one’s comprehension of the Great Dao!”

“Otherwise, having only magical power without matching comprehension is nothing but an empty shell!”

Su Xing pondered. Advancing his Dao comprehension had to be put on the agenda next!

And along with that, his Spirit Domain also needed further strengthening!

“Sigh, the realm that ordinary cultivators take tens of thousands of years to reach… naturally comes with deep accumulation along the way!”

“Though my cultivation has been fast… my foundations are still lacking in the end…”

Su Xing had a clear understanding of himself. If his Dao comprehension was insufficient, forget about fighting above his level—even in battles against opponents of the same realm, he would struggle to maintain an advantage…

“However, I don’t know how much longer this Spontaneous Epiphany will last! If it can continue for a few more days, I can go even further in the Sword Dao!”

“If I could reach Minor Attainment in the Sword Dao while still at the Heavenly Immortal realm, my actual combat ability should be quite formidable!”

Su Xing thought this as his gaze turned to the simulation panel!

【Your comprehension of the Sword Dao has stepped into the Initial Glimpse level! Yet the Spontaneous Epiphany continues…】

【And so, another nine days passed!】

【Over these nine days, you practiced the sword with obsessive fervor, as if experiencing a sudden and total enlightenment, your comprehension of the Sword Dao soaring continuously!】

【A mere nine days of epiphany was equivalent to a hundred years of your ordinary bitter cultivation!】

【And with the innate sword body’s enhancement, your hundred years of bitter cultivation was equivalent to five hundred years for an ordinary sword cultivator!】

【As the state of epiphany slowly dissipated, a sense of wistful loss arose in your heart…】

【But before you could feel regret, you couldn’t wait to experience the progress of your Sword Dao!】

【Alone, you headed to the frontline battlefield, one person and one sword slaughtering your way through the alien army…】

【Over three days and three nights, the aliens who died by your hand numbered in the hundreds of thousands!】

【And you had completely grasped your current level of Sword Dao comprehension!】

【Your Sword Dao had doubled in power compared to before!】

【Every sword strike you unleashed now carried vastly greater might…】

【Though your Protective Sword Aura still numbered three thousand, you could feel that the sword intent contained within far surpassed what it had been. When all three thousand Protective Sword Auras were unleashed together, their power was many times greater than before!】

【If you were to encounter that alien comparable to late-stage Heavenly Immortal realm again, even without relying on the No Martial Virtue talent, you were confident that three thousand Protective Sword Auras could directly grievously wound—or even instantly kill it!】

【What excited you even more was that the upper limit on the number of your Protective Sword Auras had also increased further!】

【Going forward, you would be able to master even more Protective Sword Auras… with both power and potential yet to grow!】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this and said:

“Sword cultivators truly live up to their reputation! Their offensive prowess is truly unmatched!”

“My greatest trump card, the three thousand Protective Sword Auras… should be enough for me to defeat a late-stage Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator!”

“If I continue cultivating… and the number of Protective Sword Auras keeps increasing, even a Peak Heavenly Immortal realm opponent wouldn’t be impossible to fight!”

What Su Xing was referring to was without factoring in the No Martial Virtue bonus…

After all, ordinary Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators typically had at least one Dao at the Initial Glimpse level, so Su Xing didn’t hold an advantage in that regard!

What made Su Xing strong was that the Sword Dao’s offensive power was superior! The Protective Sword Aura combined primordial energy and sword intent, making the supernatural art extraordinarily powerful!

“I just don’t know how far this simulation can go…”

Su Xing frowned slightly. Though his fame had grown, he also needed to be wary of unnecessary trouble it might bring.

His gaze returned to the simulation panel!

【Year one hundred and fifty, the situation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm began to gradually deteriorate…】

【The number of red-eyed aliens kept growing, while human cultivators continued to dwindle…】

【This year, a major event occurred!】

【A cultivator at early-stage Heavenly Immortal realm ranked seventy-fourth on the Human List perished in an alien ambush, his body not yet cold…】

【This enraged you greatly, because these prodigies had come drawn by your reputation, and now one had died on a mission. This was bound to make other prodigies wary!】

【Sure enough, after this incident… several prodigies received messages from their clan elders, urging them to leave the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm as soon as possible and return to their clan territories!】

【After all, anyone with eyes could see that the situation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was deteriorating. If they continued to stay, even prodigies risked death!】

【And so, over the span of several years, more than ten prodigies left the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm one after another… which only worsened the deterioration of the war situation!】

【Fortunately, a good number of prodigy cultivators possessed pure hearts of righteousness and were willing to remain, fighting alongside you against the aliens!】

【Because of this, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s situation was far better than it would have been otherwise…】

【But the overall tide was difficult to turn. The aliens’ strength was not something that a dozen or so additional Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators could change…】

【Watching your former comrades and fellow soldiers die one after another, a nameless fury welled up in your heart!】

【Finally, late one night, you led ten thousand Heavenly Abyss Army soldiers in a surprise attack on a critical alien stronghold!】

【Your surprise assault caught the aliens completely off guard. Striking with overwhelming force against a weak point, you achieved a staggering victory!】

【In just three days, the aliens who fell to your assault exceeded five hundred thousand!】

【But the nameless fury in your heart showed no signs of abating. Your eyes had turned red with bloodlust, and even when your adjutant urged retreat, you refused to withdraw…】

【You seemed possessed, with only one thought in your mind—kill, kill, kill!】

【Kill until not a single alien remained!】

【The Blackice sword in your hand continuously emanated waves of cold, but the burning blood and killing intent in your heart never diminished. With every swing of the sword, dozens or even hundreds of aliens perished…】

【You didn’t know how long you had been killing. All you knew was that when you next regained consciousness… you were inside your dwelling in Celestial Demon City!】

【From the servants in the residence, you learned that you had been unconscious for an entire month!】

【And your assault on the aliens had been four months ago!】

【You had led ten thousand Heavenly Abyss Army soldiers, driving deep into enemy territory to assault the alien fortress!】

【As if possessed, you had killed for a full three months!】

【By the end, you had even lost your sanity… unable to distinguish friend from foe!】

【Because of your recklessness, those ten thousand Heavenly Abyss Army soldiers were completely annihilated!】

【And in those three months… you had collectively slaughtered nearly four million aliens!】

【Of those, the aliens who died by your hand alone… exceeded three million!】

【After awakening this time, you sensed that something about you seemed to have changed…】

【In the past, you were always approachable with your subordinates, but now an invisible killing intent seemed to swirl around you, striking dread into hearts…】

【With a single glance, you could freeze a Human Immortal realm cultivator in place, cold sweat streaming down their back…】

【From the servants in the residence, you learned that over the past month, anyone who came looking for you had been frightened away.】

【In the end, it was the Celestial Demon General’s avatar who personally came to retrieve you and bring you back safely…】

【This was also the first time the Celestial Demon General’s avatar had left Celestial Demon City in the ten thousand years he had guarded it… if the aliens had learned of this, the risks would have been unimaginable!】

【Just as remorse filled your heart, a message arrived from outside the residence—the Celestial Demon General wished to meet with you for a conversation…】

In the Real World, Su Xing frowned slightly upon seeing this and murmured:

“This feeling of killing intent… seems somewhat familiar!”

Su Xing vaguely recalled that in a previous simulation, he had fought at Demon-Sealing Pass for decades, ultimately comprehending something called Embryonic Killing Intent!

Could it be… that the change in him this time was related to killing intent?

“Could it be… the Great Dao of Killing?”

Su Xing drew a deep breath, sensing that the Celestial Demon General’s summons likely had something to do with the transformation he’d undergone!

So Su Xing silently intoned:

“Activate immersive simulation, duration: one day!”

【Ding…】

The scene before Su Xing’s eyes shifted, and before long he appeared in the simulated world.

Following the memories in his mind, Su Xing quickly found the Celestial Demon General.

The Celestial Demon General’s quarters were surprisingly spartan—a wooden table, two chairs, and a wooden bed, all kept immaculately tidy…

Seeing Su Xing arrive, the Celestial Demon General pointed to a seat and gestured for Su Xing to sit.

Su Xing didn’t stand on ceremony and immediately sat down across from the Celestial Demon General.

The Celestial Demon General studied Su Xing carefully, then said something shocking:

“Su Ye, have you achieved an epiphany in the Great Dao of Killing!?”

Su Xing frowned slightly upon hearing this. He still wasn’t clear about the changes in himself and only had suspicions, so he asked with genuine humility:

“Master, what is the Great Dao of Killing? Something does indeed seem to have changed about me…”

“In the past, subordinates who admired me now have a hint of fear in their eyes… and I find myself unable to control my killing intent at certain moments…”

The Celestial Demon General nodded slightly after hearing Su Xing’s words and said:

“That confirms it! You have indeed grasped the power of killing intent!”

“Your last battle was far too reckless… and it violated military orders!”

“For the next fifty years, you are not to participate in battle… hand your military command over to Qin Lei…”

“As for yourself, take this time to properly master this power within you!”

A look of discomfort crossed Su Xing’s face upon hearing this. If he couldn’t go to the frontlines and fight, how was he supposed to save the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm?

Seeming to read the reluctance in Su Xing’s heart, the Celestial Demon General counseled:

“The war against the aliens is not something that can be won overnight… the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm is merely the prelude to this total war!”

“Though the aliens are powerful, our cultivation world is no pushover either… this total war may last an entire cosmic cycle!”

“And you, my disciple… you are a born commander on the battlefield! And your talent is extraordinary! If you were to fall in this insignificant Azure Cloud Realm… it would mean the loss of a major fighting force for humanity’s future resistance against the aliens!”

“What you need to do now… is digest this power, digest this killing intent!”

“Killing intent is also known as the Great Dao of Killing! It is a Great Dao supremely suited for actual combat!”

“Unlike all other Great Daos… the Great Dao of Killing, the Great Dao of War—Daos of this type can only be comprehended on the battlefield!”

“And once you have fully mastered this power, you will truly possess an absolute advantage, moving through the battlefield like a fish in water!”

Su Xing nodded slightly upon hearing this, but still asked:

“Master, then how do I fully master this killing intent?”

The Celestial Demon General’s eyes narrowed, and a terrifying aura erupted from him instantly, nearly causing Su Xing’s breathing to stop.

After several breaths, the Celestial Demon General reined in his pressure, the corners of his mouth curving upward:

“As it happens, this old man… has also mastered the Great Dao of Killing!”

“The process by which I grasped the Great Dao of Killing back then… was far more arduous than yours!”

“I went alone to the outer domains and fought for a thousand years before the Great Dao of Killing finally took form!”

“Then I spent another three thousand years tempering my mind and body before I could be said to have truly mastered this power…”

“Unlike you, kid—a single battle, a month of unconsciousness, and you’ve grasped this power. Even this old man is envious!”

After a pause, the Celestial Demon General instructed:

“For the next several decades, stay in Celestial Demon City and focus on tempering yourself!”

“Once you have fully mastered this power… or if the situation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm becomes critical… this old man will find a way to send you out!”

Su Xing nodded slightly, then rose and took his leave…

After Su Xing departed, the Celestial Demon General’s avatar murmured to himself:

“Su Ye… could you be the variable in the Three Thousand Worlds’ fight against the aliens?”

“Why is it that… I sense a trace of familiarity and warmth from him?”

……

The immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to reality.

“As expected, it’s the Great Dao of Killing? Then this simulation really is an unexpected delight!”

A complex expression appeared on Su Xing’s face. His original goal for this simulation had been to advance his cultivation to the Heavenly Immortal realm!

Yet now, he had unexpectedly comprehended the Great Dao of Killing!

And judging by the Celestial Demon General’s tone… the Great Dao of Killing seemed to be extremely powerful!

At this moment, Su Xing faced a difficult choice—should he take the Heavenly Immortal realm cultivation, or the Great Dao of Killing?

He didn’t hesitate for long before making up his mind!

Clearly, the Great Dao of Killing was the better option!

This opportunity was nothing short of serendipitous… If he missed this chance, he had no confidence that the next simulation could trigger it again!

“Then from here on… I’ll just settle down peacefully in Celestial Demon City to cultivate my mind and body, and consolidate my cultivation while I’m at it…”

Su Xing’s gaze returned to the simulation panel.

【After bidding farewell to the Celestial Demon General, you knew you were on the verge of mastering a new power—killing intent!】

【And now, you had to spend time thoroughly mastering this power!】

【Thus, you settled into your cave dwelling, practicing Qi Refinement cultivation for one shichen each day, then practicing the sword for two shichen…】

【In your remaining time, you planted spirit herbs and spirit medicines, or refined pills and talismans…】

【In the beginning, you frequently lost focus during pill refinement, as inexplicable killing intent would surge through your body! This was something that had never happened before.】

【But as you continued to cultivate your mind and temperament, you gradually calmed down.】

【A pot of tea, a furnace of pills—you could often spend an entire day refining pills…】

【And so, twenty years slowly passed…】

【Year one hundred and seventy. After twenty years of self-cultivation, the killing intent could barely affect your daily life anymore. You were like an ordinary person, no longer suddenly erupting in anger or murderous impulses.】

【But there still seemed to be some distance before you could fully master the killing intent and wield the Great Dao of Killing freely at will…】

【So you continued your self-cultivation, focusing each day not only on cultivation practice but also on the flexible application of killing intent.】

【Year one hundred and eighty. Your Sword Dao improved slightly. Each month, you would go out and spend several days cleaving mountains—peaks thousands of zhang tall would be sliced apart as cleanly as blocks of tofu under a single swing of your sword…】

【Year one hundred and ninety. This year, your comprehension of the Great Dao of Killing deepened further. You could now wield killing intent flexibly, but its power remained stubbornly difficult to push to its maximum!】

【So you continued cultivating, hoping to fully master the Great Dao of Killing as soon as possible!】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly at this.

“Not bad. It seems mastering killing intent also progresses in stages…”

“First it’s difficult to control, then you can wield it freely… and the final stage should be unleashing killing intent completely, achieving an amplification of combat power!”

After a pause, a flicker of worry passed through Su Xing’s eyes.

“However, this simulation is also nearing its end!”

“We’ve already reached year one hundred and ninety of the simulation… How much longer can the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm hold out? Has Qingyunzi already sensed my existence?”

Su Xing hoped he could fully master the Great Dao of Killing before this simulation ended!

With that thought, Su Xing looked toward the simulation panel.

【Through day after day of training with killing intent, another three years passed.】

【Year one hundred and ninety-three. One day, the Celestial Demon General’s avatar came to find you!】

【He looked solemn, as if he had something important to announce.】

【The Celestial Demon General informed you that his true body had encountered some trouble in the Celestial Demon Prison, and as a result, his avatar’s power would be somewhat diminished.】

【The Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s situation had already become critical, so he planned to send someone to escort you to the Tianyuan Realm for refuge…】

【You didn’t object, knowing the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm couldn’t hold out much longer.】

【A wise man does not stand beneath a crumbling wall. It was indeed time for you to leave…】

【You requested that the Celestial Demon General withdraw the entire Heavenly Abyss Army from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, but the Celestial Demon General refused without hesitation…】

【The Heavenly Abyss Army had already become the main force defending the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm. If they withdrew, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm would fall within days.】

【You could only settle for the next best thing—taking with you some prodigies and your most trusted subordinates.】

【Over the following years, you worked tirelessly to convince these prodigies, persuading them to relocate to a new battlefield, to preserve their lives so they could fight the aliens another day!】

【Year one hundred and ninety-five. You publicly announced the establishment of the Anti-Alien Alliance!】

【The Lesser Azure Cloud Realm could no longer be defended, and you hoped to shift the battlefield to the Star Realm…】

【The moment this news broke, it caused an uproar within just a few years…】

【Many cultivators of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm cursed and berated you, calling you a coward who was abandoning the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】

【But those with true insight knew that continuing to defend the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was no longer realistic. Only by preserving their fighting strength and relocating the battlefield could they have any real chance!】

【And so, after you announced the establishment of the Anti-Alien Alliance, countless cultivators rallied to the cause within just a few short years!】

【Among those ranked fifty to one hundred on the Prodigy List’s Human List, seven cultivators expressed their willingness to join the alliance.】

【And among those ranked in the top fifty, four also expressed their willingness to fight the aliens together!】

【Leveraging your prestige as the twentieth-ranked cultivator on the Prodigy List’s Human List, your influence exceeded all expectations, easily mobilizing cultivators from dozens of worlds near the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】

【Year one hundred and ninety-eight. White Emperor City announced the establishment of the Human Cultivator Alliance to jointly resist the aliens!】

【That same year, an executor from the White Emperor Tower sought you out to discuss the location for resisting the aliens!】

【After extensive deliberation, you agreed to relocate the front lines to the Star Realm!】

【You had originally expected fierce opposition from the Star Realm’s native cultivators, given their well-known xenophobia!】

【But to your surprise, the Star Realm cultivators harbored an especially deep hatred for the aliens. Not only did they agree to let you build fortifications in the Star Realm, many tribes eagerly responded by declaring their membership in the Anti-Alien Alliance!】

【For a time, the Anti-Alien Alliance’s momentum was unprecedentedly grand!】

【Year two hundred. The Celestial Secrets Pavilion and Gold Coin Trading Company both pledged their support!】

【This support extended far beyond spirit stones, spirit liquid, magical treasures, and pills… The Gold Coin Trading Company even offered to organize a void shuttle service, traversing between the Cangwu Realm and the Star Realm once every ten years to provide logistical support!】

【In just ten short years, the momentum of the resistance against the aliens had become clear.】

【With the Star Realm as the core front line, the Yellow Sand Realm and Spirit Beast Realm serving as flanking positions, cultivators from three neighboring worlds formed a battle line to jointly resist the aliens!】

【Meanwhile, the commercially prosperous Cangwu Realm served as a logistical supply hub, providing a steady stream of resources, manpower, and funding to the cultivators on the front lines…】

【Upon learning of this intelligence, you were overjoyed. This meant that with your personal influence alone, as long as you had sufficient prestige, you truly could push forward the establishment of the Human Cultivator Alliance ahead of schedule!】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s eyes lit up with delight at this.

“The powerful cultivators of the human race… have finally come to their senses!”

“At this rate, even if the three defensive lines can’t withstand the aliens, they should be able to hold for several hundred years?”

“This means… if I handle the subsequent simulations properly, the simulation duration could skyrocket by several hundred years!”

Su Xing felt gratified. At least there was hope now—they wouldn’t just be gradually devoured by the aliens with no power to resist.

“Then the biggest threat at this point still comes from Qingyunzi and the Advent Cult… That’s certainly a problem. I wonder if it can be resolved?”

Su Xing fell into deep thought.

To resolve the crisis of Qingyunzi’s arrival, there was only one way!

And that was to find a way to help Qingyunzi sever the Three Corpses!

Qingyunzi was undergoing the Reverse Severing of the Three Corpses, and should still be at a critical juncture…

Previously, the corpse Qingyunzi had severed should have been the good corpse, and the one currently being severed was the self corpse.

If Su Xing could help Qingyunzi preserve the self corpse and sever the evil corpse first instead, perhaps the crisis could be averted!

“Hah… But with my current level of prestige, it’s probably still not enough… Unless I leverage momentum to get Qingyunzi to sever the evil corpse first!”

Su Xing frowned slightly.

In this simulation, his status in the Three Thousand Worlds could barely be described as the boss of a newly-listed company—someone with a certain level of strength and connections.

But Qingyunzi? He was the CEO of a top-ten global corporation…

The two weren’t even in the same league. Su Xing didn’t have the standing to tell Qingyunzi to redo his Three Corpses severing…

“Growing my prestige in the simulation remains the primary objective going forward, but the pace needs to be even faster!”

“Ideally, within thirty to fifty simulation years, I need to truly make a name that resounds throughout the Three Thousand Worlds!”

“And as my strength continues to grow… that should be achievable!”

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【Year two hundred and one. Your comprehension of the Dao of Killing grew ever deeper, and your mastery ever more refined.】

【This year, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm finally fell completely into the losing position. Without further hesitation, you boarded the immortal vessel bound for the Star Realm…】

【The Celestial Demon General had prepared an immortal vessel for you—a supreme post-celestial treasure with enough capacity to hold several thousand cultivators.】

【You brought some of your cultivators and prodigy subordinates aboard the flying vessel, then activated the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel to bring your family and friends along to the Star Realm as well…】

【After a year of void travel, in year two hundred and two, you arrived safely at the Star Realm.】

【At this time, construction of the front-line defensive installations in the Star Realm was in full swing.】

【High-level formations were being deployed, front-line defensive ramparts were being erected, and hundreds of thousands of cultivators were conducting drills, maintaining constant vigilance against alien invasion.】

【The Star Realm’s native cultivators, in particular, harbored such deep hatred for the aliens that many tribes dispatched cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence level—or even at the Immortal realm—to support your forces.】

【You were deeply grateful to these tribes…】

【Year two hundred and three. You established contact with the top ten tribes of the Star Realm to discuss jointly resisting the aliens.】

【Though these tribes were xenophobic, they held genuine respect for you as a genius on the Prodigy List.】

【Among these top ten tribes, there were surprisingly twenty to thirty Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators, over ten of whom were at Peak Heavenly Immortal realm!】

【What surprised you even more was that among these tribes, there were three ancient monsters who had stepped into the True Immortal realm!】

【These tribes declared their willingness to provide the alliance with venues and material support, and would also directly participate in the great undertaking of resisting the aliens!】

【To express your gratitude, you produced the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method that you had restored, and gifted it to them!】

【Upon receiving the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method, every member of the Star Realm tribes—from the highest to the lowest—was thunderstruck!】

【That True Immortal realm cultivator accepted the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method with disbelief, examined it carefully for a moment, and then his hands began to tremble with excitement…】

【A dignified True Immortal realm great cultivator nearly couldn’t even hold onto a single book…】

【In the end, this True Immortal realm cultivator’s eyes turned red, brimming with tears!】

【After confirming again and again that the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method was authentic, he actually knelt before you in front of all the surrounding cultivators!】

【He declared outright that you were a benefactor to the entire Star Realm! From this day forward, every tribe in the Star Realm would treat you with the highest honor!】

【This True Immortal realm cultivator was said to have lived for eighty thousand years, and clearly knew certain secrets. He asked you not to rush, saying that once he had confirmed everything, he would share this news with all several thousand tribes of the Star Realm!】

【After bidding farewell to these tribes, the days passed one by one as you continued mastering the Great Dao of Killing as always!】

【And so, two more years passed…】

【Year two hundred and five. The old True Immortal realm cultivator came to find you, inviting you to attend the Star Assembly!】

【The Star Assembly was a tradition of the Star Realm. Only when a matter of life and death arose would all tribes of the Star Realm be required to send representatives to attend!】

【Several days later, you accepted the invitation and attended the Star Assembly!】

【At the assembly, you finally witnessed the true depth of the Star Realm’s heritage!】

【As one of the most ancient lesser chiliocosms, it had existed for several cosmic cycles—its history even longer than that of some Greater Worlds!】

【On this day, over eight thousand tribes of the Star Realm attended the assembly, with more than fifty thousand cultivators in attendance!】

【Every single one of these cultivators was a powerhouse at or above the Immortal realm!】

【Among them, over five thousand were at the Earthly Immortal realm!】

【Nearly a hundred were at the Heavenly Immortal realm!】

【And more than ten True Immortals presided over the gathering!】

【After learning the true depth of the Star Realm’s heritage, you were astonished. This isolated Star Realm, home to descendants of the ancient Star Shamans… possessed reserves so deep they surpassed even many Medium Chiliocosms!】

【At the Star Assembly, you were the undisputed protagonist!】

【You learned that the elder who had lived for eighty thousand years was named Xingnu…】

【You didn’t understand why a True Immortal realm elder would have the character for “slave” in his name, but the old man felt no shame over it—in fact, he wore it with pride!】

【At the Star Assembly, the True Immortal great cultivator named Xingnu announced to every tribal representative the authenticity of the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method!】

【And from this day forward, you were the true benefactor of the Star Realm! All cultivators from over eight thousand tribes would do their utmost to fulfill any request you made, so long as it did not violate their principles…】

【At this assembly, tens of thousands of immortals shed tears… The sheer emotion of the scene shook you to your core.】

【Stunned by the importance of the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method, you asked the elder about the reason afterward.】

【As it turned out, several cosmic cycles ago, the ancestors of the Star Realm had migrated here—but in the process of relocating their entire people, they had lost the Greater Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method!】

【Fortunately, they had retained the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method, which all cultivators of every tribe could practice!】

【With the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method, these tribal cultivators could borrow the power of the Ancestral Star to cultivate up to the Golden Immortal realm at most!】

【But as time passed, the tribes began to fracture… The complete Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method was lost, and Star Realm cultivators could only reach the True Immortal realm at best…】

【By returning the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method, you had not only helped this realm’s cultivators recover the legacy of their ancestors—allowing them to face their forebears without shame!】

【You had also cleared the path for this realm’s cultivators, enabling them to reach the Golden Immortal realm in the future!】

【And perhaps one day, the Star Realm could even ascend once more to become a Medium Chiliocosm!】

【After the Star Assembly, every cultivator in the Star Realm threw themselves into the alliance with even greater passion, cooperating fully with its formation—all because of your presence!】

【It was no exaggeration to say that through your efforts alone, the alliance’s momentum had grown several times over!】