Chapter 363: Chapter 362: Primordial Star Cannon
PITTER-PATTER. Fat raindrops fell from the sky, striking the Cyan Jade Glazed Tiles. All of Heavenly Red Peak was shrouded in a heavy curtain of rain.
At dusk, the scene was hazy with mist and rain.
From a distance, it was a picturesque sight.
Within the Alchemy Villa, lights flickered on in the rooms, lending a cozy, human warmth to the twilight hours.
「Three days later.」
Qin Feng had refused Yan Fei’er’s invitation.
Qin Feng was used to facing everything alone.
As someone who had long walked his own path, Qin Feng could adapt to having a few friends around, but he was unwilling to get too entangled with them.
Even if it meant putting himself in a dangerous situation.
After that, Huangfu Song had also extended a similar invitation on behalf of the faction he represented, only to be politely refused by Qin Feng as well.
It was worth noting that two days prior, Elder Qingmu had personally sent someone to inform Qin Feng about the coming Starlight Spiritual Tide.
He also stated that if Qin Feng was willing, he could travel with the experts from the Medicine King Hall.
After glancing at the sky and thinking for a moment, Qin Feng’s figure flickered. A short while later, he arrived at Bishui Cave.
Scanning his surroundings, Qin Feng took out the Cave Mansion’s control Token and activated the Array to seal Bishui Cave.
As he passed the Green Water Golden Lotus, Qin Feng glanced at the Spiritual Root.
Ten breaths later, Qin Feng opened the Cultivation Room inside the Cave Mansion. He briefly regulated his breathing and began his seclusion.
The boundless Star River, its vast starlight magnificent and spectacular.
Within the sealed room, he activated the Star Sensing Divine Skill. In the span of a thought, Qin Feng appeared within the twelve rings of Yihuo Divine Palace.
Countless specks of silver starlight converged, and a figure materialized beneath the Star Ancient Tree in Yihuo Villa.
This was the same spot where Qin Feng had left Yihuo Villa last time.
After a month of Cultivation, Qin Feng had already condensed nearly twenty Star Spiritual Veins within this Star Battle Body.
Twenty Star Spiritual Veins—twice the number of Spirit Veins his physical body had condensed.
Lone Night Star was a desolate place. Standing in Yihuo Villa, one could see countless stars in the Star River twinkling with a silvery glow.
The Star Essence Qi in the Star River was far more active than usual.
Qin Feng’s gaze grew thoughtful as he suppressed the urge to fly off of Lone Night Star.
’The Starlight Spiritual Tide is about to arrive!’
Qin Feng turned and went to the base of the Star Ancient Tree. Calming his mind, he activated the Mixed Element Star Technique to gather Star Essence Qi.
Although only one-tenth of the Cultivation gained in the Star River could be brought back with him, the speed of Cultivation here was more than ten times faster than anywhere else.
This was especially true after he obtained the Primordial Star Mark; Qin Feng found that cultivating in the Star River was now like being a fish in water.
Standing in the Star River, he felt like a child of the stars. Even without actively cultivating, endless streams of Star Essence Qi would automatically resonate with him.
Qin Feng activated the Mixed Element Star Technique. Countless streams of Star Power from the Star River gathered around him, surging into his body like river water to be endlessly put through Refinement.
Half a day later, Qin Feng’s body shuddered. A pillar of silvery-white starlight shot into the sky, accompanied by streams of profound, esoteric silver Runes.
A silvery-white Spirit Vein was condensing inside his body.
’The twentieth Star Spiritual Vein!’
Qin Feng opened his eyes, a flicker of excitement in his gaze. This rate of Cultivation far exceeded his imagination.
Qin Feng recalled the sole Divine Ability that came with the second layer of the Mixed Element Star Technique.
With a glint in his eyes, Qin Feng spread his hands, and countless specks of silvery-white starlight gathered between his palms.
"Primordial Star Cannon!"
A searing white light erupted from his palms, aimed at a Star Rock dozens of feet tall and hundreds of feet away.
BOOM!
Like a sudden thunderclap, the violent starlight blasted the Star Rock into a cloud of fragments.
’Impressive power!’
The Primordial Star Cannon, as a Divine Ability accompanying the Mixed Element Star Technique, was one that was Innately derived from the technique itself.
The power of this Divine Ability was linked to a Martial Artist’s own level of mastery in the Mixed Element Star Technique.
The stronger the essence of one’s Star True Power and the more Star Spiritual Veins one condensed, the more terrifying the might of the Primordial Star Cannon would become.
Moreover, the Primordial Star Cannon had another peculiar ability: just like the Mixed Element Star Technique, it could fuse with one’s other Divine Abilities to transform.
Just then, Qin Feng’s mind suddenly jolted as the distant horizon trembled violently.
He had the strange sensation that the entire Star River was shaking.
RUMBLE!
Qin Feng seemed to hear a cataclysmic roar, like a flash flood tearing through mountains, like the very heavens and earth were collapsing.
At the same time, on countless stars surrounding Yihuo Divine Palace, one powerful being after another gazed into the distance.
A silver light that blotted out the sky suddenly appeared on the horizon.
It was a silver light, an indescribably brilliant silver radiance.
It began as a mere speck, but in just two or three breaths, Qin Feng could see it clearly: an unimaginably vast river of silver stars.
Like a terrifying flash flood erupting in a valley, that silver river of stars was filled with Star Essence Qi so dense it was almost tangible.
It was a boundless river.
A liquid river formed purely of condensed Star Essence Qi, so vast and boundless that one could not see its shores.
RUMBLE!
Star after star became nothing more than solitary peaks jutting out from the river.
In the span of just a few blinks, the surging water of the silver Star River was upon him.
’This is the Starlight Spiritual Tide!’
RUMBLE!
The silver Star River roared as its colossal waves surged toward the heavens. Under its overwhelming momentum, Qin Feng felt as if Lone Night Star beneath his feet was merely a reef in a tempestuous sea, about to be torn to pieces in the very next breath.
Qin Feng gasped. Before the Starlight Spiritual Tide and its sky-high waves, he was but A Grain in the Sea, as insignificant as an ant.
RUMBLE!
In just a few breaths, the terrifying torrent of the Starlight Spiritual Tide was about to crash down on him.
Qin Feng’s expression changed drastically. His figure flashed, reappearing hundreds of feet in the air as he gathered all the Primordial Star True Power in his body into his palms.
"Primordial Star Cannon!" he roared.
A heaven-shattering bang, like a Thunderbolt, echoed out.
Boulders flew through the air as a massive crater was blasted into the ground.
Like a streak of light, Qin Feng instantly dove into it.
The instant Qin Feng shot underground...
RUMBLE!
The next moment, a terrifying tremor shook Lone Night Star. Qin Feng felt something horrendous slam into the star.
’It’s here!’
Meanwhile, in the outer nine rings of Yihuo Divine Palace, one expert after another stood upon various stars, witnessing the Starlight Spiritual Tide descend like a cataclysmic landslide and tsunami.
Their gazes were filled with unconcealable shock and traces of wild joy.
Upon a nebula in the eleventh ring of Yihuo Divine Palace, peerless experts of the Star Sect gathered on a sallow star, gazing out from their high vantage point.
Among these experts were peerless Giants whose auras were powerful enough to shake the very stars.
At the same time, on another nebula, a group of experts from the Sun and Moon Sword Sect watched with cold smirks from a star shrouded in frigid energy.
Hundreds of experts gathered around a central Taiyin Bright Moon, like a cluster of stars paying homage to the moon. The cold moon hung alone, illuminating the eternal darkness.
In a nebula shaped like a set of scales, the Celestial Beam Sect, led by its current Sect Leader, quietly watched the Starlight Spiritual Tide.
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In addition, prodigies from many academies—the All Stars Academy, Sun and Moon Academy, Celestial Beam Academy, and Primordial Academy—appeared on the outskirts of the twelve rings of Yihuo Divine Palace.
The prodigies of every sect, all listed on the Star Ranking, appeared one after another, awaiting this grand feast that occurred only once a millennium.
(This is the first of four updates.)
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