Chapter 515: Star Power
"Catch." Shen Xu exclaimed, lunging for the colourful bundle that was hurtling towards him.
However, he need not have lunged because the bundle delivered itself into his hands and settled there.
Similarly, Zhen Yuan and the others also caught a nine-colour star fruit and didn’t need to fight with the surrounding cultivators.
"Put them away." Zhen Yuan urged and the others immediately regained their composure.
Unfortunately, their actions were not fast enough and the surrounding cultivators noticed.
"Hand it over." A male cultivator roared, rushing towards Yin Shi with a menacing expression and his arm raised as if ready to strike at a moment’s notice.
However, Yin Shi wasn’t intimidated and put away her nine-colour star fruit.
The man was enraged when he saw this and directly slapped Yin Shi.
"You are looking for death." Yin Shi Cursed and raised her palm to meet the slap.
’It’s not a good idea to fight here.’ Shen Xu thought and turned to Zhen Yuan.
[We will be separated if everyone starts fighting.] He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.
[Formation disk.] He transmitted and without needing an explanation, Shen and understood.
[Gather together.] He transmitted to everyone in their group including Wu Ziyan and Lu Yang.
Hearing the instruction, the others didn’t hesitate and immediately gathered.
A quarter of a breath later, the double collected them in a formation disk, and took Zhen Yuan’s hand in time to catch the just activated teleportation talisman.
Soon after, the two reappeared in the forest but they could still hear the roaring and fighting in the clearing.
"Did you use a low level talisman?" Shen Xu asked but Zhen Yuan shook his head.
"It seems we can’t teleport freely in this Xuanwu secret realm." He said.
Shen Xu nodded when he heard this.
"Let’s get further away before we release the others." He said.
Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu walked for half a day before they released the others.
"We got away?" Yin Shi asked, looking at their surroundings.
At a glance, she saw countless star trees but there were no cultivators or monsters in sight.
"We are the only ones here." Shen Xu confirmed.
"Why did the nine-colour star fruits deliver themselves into our hands?" Xuanyuan Yue asked.
"They didn’t scatter randomly." Zhen Yuan said with a thoughtful expression.
Although everything happened in the blink of an eye, he was able to trace some of the nine-colour star fruits.
As a result, he saw that a batch flew to Xiao Weimin’s group and to several prominent cultivators in the Tianxuan continent.
’I hope we won’t encounter the main protagonist too soon.’ He thought and narrowed his eyes.
"What’s next?" Yang Shi asked.
"Enter the depths of the secret realm." Shen Xu said.
"I think we should soak in a cause and effect pool before we go to a sacred place." Li Wenqiang said.
"That’s the idea but who knows when and where we will encounter the pool?!" Shen Xu said and shrugged in helplessness.
"It’s hard to know when we will encounter a pool or a sacred place but that doesn’t mean we should stop practising. I will engrave star gathering and star absorbing formations for everyone. You can use them to gather and absorb the surrounding star power." Zhen Yuan said.
"What do you need?" Shen Xu asked.
"Star tree wood." Zhen Yuan answered and quickly continued.
"I will make formation pendants using the star tree wood. That said, the pendants are not durable and will need to be replaced every few days, but they are better than nothing." He said.
"Thank you for your hard work." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan smiled.
"It’s nothing." He said.
"Will any tree do?" Lu Yang asked, ready to chop the nearest tree.
"The older the better." Zhen Yuan said.
Unfortunately, the outer area only had some young trees and few were more than one hundred years old.
In the end, Zhen Yuan found a tree that was almost two hundred years old and used it to make formation pendants for everyone.
"Let’s make do with them for the time being." He said and distributed the pendants to everyone including Wu Ziyan and Lu Yang.
After receiving the pendants, everyone was eager to try them out so they activated a protective formation disk and began practising.
Shen Xu sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and released his consciousness to sense the surrounding qi.
Normally, red-coloured fire qi would rush towards him and burrow into his pores but this time was a little different.
In addition to the fire qi, silver-coloured star power gathered around him but didn’t enter his body directly.
Seeing this, Shen Xu smiled and began running his cultivation technique.
Because of the special environment of the Xuanwu secret realm, ordinary cultivation techniques could absorb and refine Star power from the surroundings.
However, with Zhen Yuan’s pendant formation, Shen Xu could not only draw star power from the world but also from the surrounding star trees.
As a result, the star power which should have entered his body like a small stream suddenly because a large river, rushing through his meridians and entering his dantian.
Star power had two major functions.
First, it could not only cleanse and nourish the original qi but it could also elevate it to a higher form.
However, Shen Xu and his group didn’t really need this function.
On one hand, they habitually ate cloud seeking fruits and drank qi cleansing wine and on the other, they had refined many qi enhancing treasures including chaos water.
Compared to chaos water and such treasures, star power was lacking and couldn’t really elevate Shen Xu’s qi.
As for the second function, star power could enhance enlightenment, allowing one to locate and grasp their star of immortality.
Considering this, accumulating star power could only be beneficial and not harmful to their cultivation and future ascension.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
After opening their eyes, everyone exchanged a glance and smiled.
"This star power is a priceless treasure." Wu Ziyan said with an excited face.
After all, unlike the others, she and Lu Yang had ordinary qi hence could receive maximum benefits from the star power.
That said, the others weren’t without gains.
Although their qi didn’t undergo any earth-shattering changes, they already sensed some of the mystery of the surrounding stars.
’This is good.’ Shen Xu thought.
From what he knew, locating good stars was not difficult
However, grasping a good star was equivalent to going against destiny and was extremely difficult.
Knowing this, Shen Xu wanted to not only accumulate more star power but also polish his dao heart and comprehension.
This way, he would not only grasp a rich immortal fate but also a suitable one.
