Chapter 520: Xiahou Jun
"Sect master, sect master, sect master." A voice echoed, followed by a loud bang as a heavy door was hurriedly flung open.
"Fourth elder..." A man called, his eyes narrowed into slits, clearly displeased with the fourth elder’s lack of composure.
However, the fourth elder ignored the sect master’s displeasure and hurriedly kneeled before speaking.
"Sect master, a chaos star has awakened." The fourth elder said and the sect master reflexively stood.
The sect master was Xiahou Jun, the leader of the Feixian sect.
Contrary to his name, Xiahou Jun was a beautiful, rather than handsome man.
However, no one dared to covet him because he was not only an immortal emperor but also the number one swordsman in the immortal realm.
"Start from the beginning." Xiahou Jun commanded.
"I was in the stars hall as usual, when I noticed a strange phenomenon." The fourth elder started and quickly continued.
"First, a purple star of the five elements awakened. Soon after, a purple star of the water element lit the stars hall but that was not the end. Just now, a chaos star of the fire element awakened and that star is not a lone star."
"Not a lone star?" Xiahou Jun inquired, his hands clenched into fists.
"The chaos star is linked to two golden stars that have almost turned purple."
Xiahou Jun was shocked when he heard this.
"The chaos star and the two purple stars will ascend soon. Our Feixian sect must get them." Xiahou Jun said and the fourth elder nodded.
"Sect master, I have also detected another golden star that has almost turned purple near the chaos star." The fourth elder revealed.
"They must all belong to my Feixian sect." Xiahou Jun said, lowered his head, and fell into a thoughtful silence.
An incense stick later, he raised his head and turned to the fourth elder.
"I will go there myself." He said and quickly continued.
"It’s still acceptable to lose the golden-purple stars but our sect can’t afford to lose the two purple stars and the chaos star." He said.
"The sect master is wise." The fourth elder agreed.
"Send word to the Feixian sect in the middle and lower heavens. Instruct them to let our disciples guard the ascension pools and recruit all the ascendant cultivators that come through." The sect master instructed and the fourth elder couldn’t help but be shocked.
"Recruit all?" He asked and the sect master nodded.
"It actually doesn’t matter since most ascending cultivators usually join our Feixian sect." The man said.
"Won’t such a big action attract other sects?" The fourth elder asked and Xiahou Jun smiled.
"Other sects may not have the stars hall that keeps track of ascending cultivators but they have their means. It won’t take long before they figure out that a batch of powerful cultivators are about to ascend to the immortal realm." He said.
.....
In the Xuanwu secret realm, Zhen Yuan was floating in the starry sky but the stars were not his target.
Even before entering the secret realm, Zhen Yuan knew that he didn’t need a star of immortality to ascend.
Because of this, he didn’t search for stars and instead took advantage of star power’s enlightenment ability to comprehend time laws.
After appearing in the starry sky, Zhen Yuan floated around and finally settled at the area with the densest star power.
When that was done, he took out the bottle of river of time water and prepared to retreat.
When necessary, Zhen Yuan could comprehend laws without consuming a treasure.
However, comprehending that way preserved the treasure but it consumed more of Zhen Yuan’s time.
For precious treasures like chaos water and rootless colourful water lily petals, Zhen Yuan preferred to consume the treasures because it allowed him to comprehend the laws more instinctively.
This time was no different.
After settling down, he sipped from the bottle but only allowed one drop of river of time water to enter his mouth.
From what he had researched, the river of time water was not only precious but also dangerous.
When taken, it affected a cultivator’s time and could rapidly age them or regress them.
Considering that, Zhen Yuan didn’t dare to swallow more for fear of affecting his body and cultivation.
At this time, Zhen Yuan felt himself grow a little older and wrinkles appeared on his handsome face.
’This won’t do.’ He thought and hurriedly began to comprehend the time laws.
.....
While Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu were practising, Yang Shi and others were also not slacking.
Soon after they began to meditate, Feng Xue and the Xuanyuan triplets realised that they didn’t need to grasp a star of immortality because they were divine beasts and their immortal fate was destined.
Similarly, Li Wenqiang was an immortal weapon and didn’t need to grasp an immortal fate.
As for Yang Shi, Yin Shi, and Hu Jiaojiao, they were primordial beasts and their fate was richer than immortal destiny.
Overall, the only ones that needed to grasp an immortal fate were Shen Xu, Mo Ling, and the Dongfang couple.
Because of this, the others used star power to wash their qi and deepen their comprehension of their own dao.
Additionally, everyone used star power to easily refine their ascension treasures.
Time passed and before they knew it, it was almost time for the secret realm to close.
On this day, Shen Xu opened his eyes and glanced at Zhen Yuan.
Sensing the look, Zhen Yuan turned around and smiled at the double.
However, Shen Xu noticed that Zhen Yuan seemed to have gained a deeper wisdom in the few years that they hadn’t seen each other.
"Ayuan..." He called and flew towards the man.
"Your cultivation is fluctuating." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.
"I am ready." The double said and looked at Zhen Yuan with concerned eyes.
"How about you?" He asked.
On one hand, he was concerned for Zhen Yuan and on the other, he was concerned for everyone since the man held everyone’s fate.
"Ready. We can ascend as soon as we go out." Zhen Yuan said and the double smiled.
"Good. I..." He started but didn’t get to finish before they were teleported out of the Xuanwu secret realm.
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