Chapter 1385

Source Points - 8 million!

Starlight Ninth Stage → Star Stage!

In an instant, 8 million source points vanished completely.

In their place, a vast, indescribable torrent of energy erupted within his body!

"Boom—"

Every single cell in Xu Jingming's body trembled.

His bones cracked sharply, his muscle fibers tightening and relaxing like steel cables.

Dark golden lightning patterns surfaced on his skin, growing brighter until they blazed with dazzling golden lightning!

The space a hundred meters underground was lit as bright as daylight.

The violent energy fluctuations even began melting the surrounding rock layers.

The yuan energy within Xu Jingming surged like a volcanic eruption.

His meridians were repeatedly expanded, his consciousness sea continuously growing.

This was the essential transformation from Starlight to Star Stage—a leap in the very level of life!

"Ughhhhh—"

Xu Jingming couldn't help but let out a low roar.

His physique and spiritual force values skyrocketed like a rocket.

8 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion, 20 billion... finally stabilizing at an astonishing 37.2 billion and 37.1 billion!

At the moment the breakthrough was complete, Xu Jingming snapped open his eyes.

Two beams of solid, dark golden lightning shot from his pupils, piercing two deep, bottomless holes into the rock wall ahead.

"Finally, I've entered the Star Stage!"

Xu Jingming's eyes blazed with brilliant light.

Simply clenching his fist, he felt an unprecedented power surging through his entire body.

Crackling—!!

Amidst a piercing shriek of thunder, the Annihilation Doushen Shenlei erupted in a furious surge.

Merely from the leaking energy waves, one could feel the lightning's power had increased more than tenfold!

"Boom—boom—boom—"

The underground space seemed unable to withstand such overwhelming energy fluctuations, beginning to collapse.

But Xu Jingming remained calm, his entire body transforming into a bolt of lightning that shot skyward, effortlessly piercing through the hundred-meter rock layer to return to the surface.

"My physique and spiritual force both surged by 30 billion, and the power of the Annihilation Doushen Shenlei surged along with them!"

Swish—

When Xu Jingming stood again on the charred ground of the Thunder Beast Zone, the air's thunder seemed to fall silent for an instant.

He could clearly feel his connection to the Thunder Dao had grown far tighter.

"Indeed, after entering the Star Stage, one's perception of the cosmic Dao becomes far clearer."

When in the Starlight Stage, perceiving the Dao felt like looking through a filter—you could never see clearly.

Now, the filter was gone, revealing the Dao in crystal-clear detail.

"But that's secondary—the most important thing is endurance!"

"My yuan energy is dozens of times greater than it was at the peak of Starlight Stage!"

Xu Jingming looked down at his hands, wreathed in dark golden lightning, a confident smile curling on his lips.

At the Star Stage, he no longer had to worry about running out of yuan energy.

And this was merely the reward he'd gained in just twelve days inside the Heavenly Punishment Thunder Realm!

"In twelve days, I gained 8 million source points."

"I still have eighteen days left here—I can easily gain at least ten million source points!"

"No, even more—now that I've entered the Star Stage."

"I can hunt higher-level thunder beasts, and in greater numbers."

Xu Jingming's eyes shone brilliantly.

It wasn't just that.

With his yuan energy now abundant after entering the Star Stage, the clones he gained through the Twin Secrets technique would last much longer.

"Then, with my main body and clones splitting up, I'll gain double the source points!"

"But before that, I must test my true strength after entering the Star Stage."

A flash of dark golden lightning—Xu Jingming's figure vanished from the spot, racing toward the southeast.

There, a Star Stage Fifth Rank thunder beast dwelled—he couldn't have defeated it before his breakthrough.

Now that he's broken through, it's the perfect test!

Sizzle—!

Dark golden lightning sliced through the sky as Xu Jingming raced across the Thunder Beast Zone at ten times the speed of sound.

Howling winds and raging thunder could not so much as shake his tall, imposing frame.

After breaking into the Star Stage, his control over thunder reached an unprecedented level.

The violent thunder energy around him no longer harmed him—instead, it circled him like a docile pet.

"Twenty kilometers ahead is the den of that Star Stage Fifth Rank thunder beast."

Xu Jingming's eyes glowed with lightning.

The twenty-kilometer distance was swiftly crossed; he landed at the edge of a gorge blackened by lightning strikes.

Deep in the gorge, a colossal creature lay coiled there.

It was a thunder beast resembling a giant lizard, over fifty meters long and about twenty meters tall!

Its entire body was formed of crimson lightning, its back covered in spiky electric protrusions like inverted thorns.

With every breath, it spat two streams of scorching plasma from its nostrils, burning deep craters into the surrounding rocks.

"Crimson Flame Thunder Lizard, Star Level Five thunder beast, renowned for its devastating attack power."

Xu Jingming recalled the data, a spark of battle lust flashing in his eyes.

The thunder beast seemed to sense something as well.

It snapped its head upward, its six glowing eyes locking onto Xu Jingming's figure in an instant.

"Roar——！！"

It let out a deafening roar; the terrifying soundwave caused rocks on both sides of the gorge to crumble and fall.

The Crimson Flame Thunder Lizard possessed only the intelligence of a seven- or eight-year-old child, yet its instinct for danger was extraordinarily sharp.

Faced with this sudden human intruder, it instinctively felt unease; its entire body erupted in violent lightning, its aura surging higher and higher!

Xu Jingming stood at the gorge's edge, a flicker of surprise in his eyes:

"I hadn't paid special attention before, but now I see—just from its aura alone, this thunder beast rivals the peak Spirit Blood level of its Star Level peers."

The Crimson Flame Thunder Lizard didn't care what Xu Jingming was thinking.

It slammed its thick limbs against the ground and launched its massive body into the air with astonishing speed.

Countless crimson lightning bolts erupted from its body, forming a vast net that swept toward Xu Jingming!

"Perfect!"

Xu Jingming did not dodge or evade; his cold, clear black-and-white eyes fixed on it:

"I'll test the power of Thunder Punishment on you first!"

Boom——!!!

With a thought, a brilliant golden thunderbolt split from the sky!

This thunderbolt was as thick as a barrel, wrapped entirely in annihilating Doushen Shenlei; where it passed, space itself twisted slightly!

This was precisely Xu Jingming's earliest mastered T7-level combat technique: Thunder Punishment!

"Sizz—！！!"

The golden thunderbolt struck the crimson lightning net, producing a grating, ear-splitting screech.

To Xu Jingming's surprise, the seemingly ferocious lightning net shattered as easily as paper!

The thunderbolt's momentum remained unbroken, striking the Crimson Flame Thunder Lizard's head with perfect precision!

"Roar... ooo..."

The Crimson Flame Thunder Lizard let out a piercing shriek; its entire head exploded instantly!

The thunder's residual force continued downward along its spine, shattering its lightning body inch by inch!

In the span of a single breath, this terrifying Star Level Five thunder beast dissolved into a shower of lightning, leaving only a crimson thunder crystal the size of a basketball falling from the air.

'Ding, defeated one Star Level Five thunder beast, Source Points +.'

"This..."

Hearing the system chime in his mind,

Xu Jingming stood frozen, staring at his right hand in disbelief.

Thunder Punishment was merely one of his many combat techniques, relatively weak—even just T7-level.

Yet he hadn't expected that with a single strike, he'd instantly obliterate a Star Level Five thunder beast!