[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent":3,"chapter-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-325":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Devouring the Starry Sky 2: The Origin Continent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2332953,4561,"Chapter 325: Chapter Eight: Refinement","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-325",325,"\u003Cp>Luo Feng was greatly surprised: “At this proximity, I didn’t sense a thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of realm and detection techniques, Luo Feng believed he was already sufficiently skilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In the Dark Sacred Realm, I purchased a secret treasure to conceal myself, allowing me to evade the Superlimit Mindworm’s perception,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master solemnly. “Luo Feng, the situation is dire— that Superlimit Mindworm and its leaders are relentlessly assassinating Elders! Quickly refine this ‘City-Building Seal.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Yuanxiang Hall Master’s hand appeared a black great seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng’s heart trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing low-level Hunyuan lifeforms grants combat merit. Sufficient merit can be exchanged for ‘World-Level Hunyuan Life Materials,’ ‘Complete High-Level Hunyuan Life Corpses,’ ‘Secret Treasures,’ ‘Rare Treasures,’ and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Items comparable to the Star Tower or the Eye of Birth and Death can also be exchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Luo Feng’s knowledge, ‘City-Building’ requires exactly two million merit to exchange for, allowing the construction of a fortified city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the city-builder must rally enough Elders to jointly construct the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even at the most common purchase rate—one merit equals ten thousand Hunyuan Crystals—two million merit would require twenty billion Hunyuan Crystals. And yet… such vast merit is nearly impossible to acquire,” Luo Feng thought the City-Building Seal was far too hot to handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, a city-builder would never give the City-Building Seal to another cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t hesitate! While you hesitate, another Elder has been killed,” urged the Yuanxiang Hall Master. “If the city falls and Rainlan City is slaughtered, everything is lost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Luo Feng immediately reached out and took the black great seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Refine it quickly,” urged the Yuanxiang Hall Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the black great seal, Luo Feng began to refine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching from beside him, the Yuanxiang Hall Master felt considerably lighter, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo Feng,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master, watching Luo Feng refine the City-Building Seal, “I’ve cultivated for eons—even reached the pinnacle in the Dark Sacred Realm—and accumulated vast merit and countless treasures. But after my soul was corrupted… I have only one goal: to free my mind and will from its cage!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Only when the mind and will escape the cage can one ignore such corruption.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I built this city hoping for a different way of cultivation, one that might aid my mind and will.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since Rainlan City’s founding, my soul corruption has worsened—I can barely bear the burden of maintaining the array,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master, looking at Luo Feng. “But I still have feelings for Rainlan City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today, I’ve finally found a successor. I believe you are far more suited than I am to protect this Rainlan City,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master. “I will continue managing the array until this battle for Rainlan City ends. Then I will fully relinquish control—afterward, all my energy will be devoted to fighting the corruption.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hall Master, as long as one lives, there is still hope on the cultivation path,” said Luo Feng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve succeeded in refining it?” The Yuanxiang Hall Master sensed it and showed delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng nodded slightly: “After refining the City-Building Seal, I feel I can draw upon a vast, immense energy from the entire Rainlan City to empower myself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The City Lord, Hall Master, and Elders can all draw upon the city’s energy—only the proportion differs,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master. “I expend over 99.9% of my mental strength fighting corruption, barely managing to maintain the array—drawing city energy is even harder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By refining the City-Building Seal, Luo Feng naturally learned many secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Familiarize yourself thoroughly with the City-Building Seal and quickly set up your own array,” urged the Yuanxiang Hall Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Already setting it up,” said Luo Feng, who was in the state of consuming the Hundred Trials Heart Marrow—his mental state remained excellent even with only a fraction of his focus diverted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After refining the City-Building Seal, Luo Feng’s mind merged perfectly with the entire Rainlan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rainlan City was a secret treasure resembling a fortress—its interior contained intricate secret patterns and inherently carried multiple powerful array diagrams. Yet these diagrams were far too complex; comprehending and activating them was extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ‘Star Cluster Array Diagram,’ for instance, was one of the very few array diagrams even Rainlan City’s Elders could activate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hum.” Rainlan City naturally absorbed boundless heavenly and earthly forces; its energy was vast and immense, supplying countless cultivators within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As City Lord, Luo Feng could draw upon one-tenth of the city’s energy for himself—but the realm requirement and mental burden were immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one were the Hall Master, one could draw upon at most one-thousandth of the city’s energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one were an Elder, one could draw upon at most one-ten-thousandth of the city’s energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder each Elder in Rainlan City oversees one defense system—hundreds of systems coordinate perfectly,” Luo Feng realized while setting up his array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the core array layer of Rainlan City lay one thousand blank layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each blank layer did not interfere with the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The City Lord, Hall Master, and Elders each selected only one blank layer to freely set up their arrays—no materials needed, merely imprinting the array allowed Rainlan City to perfectly manifest its power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since each Elder sets up their own array, they can activate it perfectly and effortlessly,” said Luo Feng, who was rapidly setting up his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Dao of Birth and Death, Life, and Destruction had accumulated immense depth. His Dao of Birth and Death was on the verge of reaching the Late Divine Emperor stage—such profound accumulation meant his array was naturally vast and powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rainlan City has hundreds of arrays set up by the Hall Master and Elders—but the Yuanxiang Hall Master’s array is absolutely the strongest, even surpassing mine right now,” said Luo Feng, who, as City Lord, could see every layer of array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanxiang Hall Master, after all, was a Dao-comprehender who mastered two and a half Hunyuan-level Daos—his array far surpassed those of the Wei Yang Hall Master and the Gai Tao Hall Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanxiang Hall Master could no longer unleash even ten percent of his array’s full power. Such a grand array required at least one or two percent of his mental strength to activate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, the Yuanxiang Hall Master could barely activate a fraction of his own array’s power—no longer superior to the Wei Yang Hall Master or the Gai Tao Hall Master. Even the Divine Emperor rankings within the city now placed the Wei Yang Hall Master first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My corruption has reached its limit. Those leader-class mind-based low-level Hunyuan lifeforms probably need only glance at me to sense the terrifying corruption I bear,” sighed the Yuanxiang Hall Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every moment now felt like drowning—he was barely holding on, struggling to stay afloat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His weakness had prompted the Wei Yang Hall Master to prepare, ready to claim the City-Building authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His weakness had also drawn the attention of the newly born ‘Superlimit Mindworm,’ which saw Rainlan City as the easiest city to breach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The hundreds of millions of cultivators in Rainlan City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve chosen Luo Feng as your City Lord—he is rising swiftly, and he is far more suited than I am,” murmured the Yuanxiang Hall Master, glimpsing the image of a golden-scaled woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That High-Level Hunyuan Lifeform had broken through before his eyes—her corruption had seeped deeper into every part of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The gap between us and High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms is too vast,” sighed the Yuanxiang Hall Master silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Emperors and High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms were two entirely different tiers of existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how many Divine Emperors there were—one hundred million, ten billion, a trillion—they were all crushed under a single footstep by High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, in the Dark Sacred Realm, some High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms were imprisoned—unable to exert power or spread any corruption, left for cultivators to observe, study, and even dissect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a High-Level Hunyuan Lifeform unbound, able to wield full power, was every Divine Emperor’s nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanxiang Hall Master suddenly changed expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had given the City-Building Seal to Luo Feng, lowering his own authority—but he had kept a backup: he still retained his Hall Master authority! He intended to remain until this war ended before fully stepping down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his Hall Master authority and his own array, the Yuanxiang Hall Master still perceived all movements inside and outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Another low-level Hunyuan lifeform army arrived?” The Yuanxiang Hall Master saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast army marched to the southern city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arrival of this new army significantly increased pressure on Rainlan City with combined assaults!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yuan Yan! You’ve come!” Among the tightly surrounding low-level Hunyuan lifeform armies encircling Rainlan City, three terrifying auras watched the newly arrived figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I knew the operation was launched early—I pushed my forces to their limits and finally arrived,” said a black, serpentine figure resembling a mountain range, its body wreathed in endless heat, flames rising from its surface. “But the other Kings won’t arrive so quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This operation was rushed, but Shadow and his Mindworm and Soul-Eating Snake clans are fully assaulting the Elders inside the city. Rainlan City’s resistance is slowly weakening. If this continues, the city will fall soon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s been a long time since we breached a city,” said the serpentine mountain figure, gazing at Rainlan City with burning eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the city, the four ‘Kings’ and countless low-level Hunyuan lifeforms radiated lethal intent—they all yearned for the moment the city fell, when they could slaughter cultivators freely to evolve and gain freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Another army. Another King,” frowned the Yuanxiang Hall Master. “The pressure is overwhelming, and our Elders are being killed one by one—we’ve already lost thirty-five.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Elders keep dwindling, while the external attacks grow stronger,” said the Yuanxiang Hall Master, looking at Luo Feng beside him. “Even with Luo Feng’s help, we won’t last long.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This new army required dozens of Elders’ arrays to counter—completely nullifying Luo Feng’s contribution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though the Elders and other high-level Qiangzhe  inside the city have formed squads to hunt down infiltrators, it only slows the deterioration.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We won’t last half a day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanxiang Hall Master was desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had exhausted every option—but in his judgment, Rainlan City was doomed to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Luo Feng set up his array, he also sensed the worsening situation inside and out—and he too felt desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Done.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Luo Feng fully imprinted a complex Dao of Birth and Death array into Rainlan City’s core array layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1755,"2026-06-20T20:45:00.697Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","975e19d01292bc1566047d2effd3e30a08f5a0859584f723b1200f8882e6d8c8","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-326","devouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-chapter-324",340,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdevouring-the-starry-sky-2-the-origin-continent-cover.jpg"]