Chapter 465: Star Array, Child of the Stars

"Lingyun, look at this stone. Is there something special about it?" Chen Jing asked, holding the stone in her hand toward Lingyun.

Lingyun took the stone and couldn't help but be slightly stunned; afterward, a hint of contemplation appeared in his gaze as he looked at Chen Jing. Perhaps that idea of his could be tested on Chen Jing.

"You must keep this stone well; it might come in handy tonight!" Lingyun handed the stone in his hand to Chen Jing and said with a serious face.

Seeing Lingyun's serious expression, Chen Jing nodded subconsciously, then placed the stone into her spatial ring.

Night arrived very quickly. As the sun set, tiny stars appeared in the sky. Although the bright moon in the sky was wantonly scattering its moonlight, it could not obscure the radiance of the stars; this was also a major feature of Yaoxing City.

"Lingyun, do you feel that these stars are a bit strange?" Chen Jing said to Lingyun.

"You felt it?" Lingyun raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Yes, I always feel that the intensity of the star power in this place is a bit abnormal; it's truly too high!" Chen Jing said.

Just as the two were talking, beams of soft starlight suddenly lit up from the star patterns on various buildings throughout Yaoxing City, instantly shrouding the entire Yaoxing City in a hazy starlight. This was precisely the most famous landscape of Yaoxing City—the Star Sea.

"Hmm, this feeling seems to be getting stronger and stronger!" Unlike Su Wanyue and Aiweier, who were looking at the surrounding buildings with curiosity, Chen Jing was holding the stone she had bought from a small stall at some point, her eyes looking somewhat dazed at this brilliant Star Sea.

Just at this moment, a hand suddenly grasped her small hand, and wisps of cold air flowed from that hand into her body, causing her dazed gaze to clear up involuntarily.

"Hiss, what was that feeling just now?" Recalling the bizarre state she had been in just a moment ago, a chill rose uncontrollably in Chen Jing's heart.

"Rest assured, this is just a normal phenomenon," Lingyun said.

"A normal phenomenon? Is there such a strange normal phenomenon?" Chen Jing said, somewhat puzzled.

"For you, this is a normal phenomenon!" Lingyun held Chen Jing's wrist with his right hand, and wisps of Source Power continuously poured into her body. "However, the Array in this place is actually a super-large Star Array laid out using the entire Yaoxing City as the foundation; it really is a massive undertaking!"

"A super-large Star Array laid out with Yaoxing City as the foundation? How is this possible?" A hint of disbelief appeared in Chen Jing's eyes.

"In reality, this Star Array was a concept I had the last time I came to this Continent. I never expected it to have been realized by someone by accident," Lingyun said, helping Chen Jing sit down on a chair by the street.

"A concept? Realized? It sounds quite interesting; could you tell me about it?" Chen Jing asked.

"When I first came to this world, I discovered that the star power of this world was very strong, even surpassing some worlds that specifically utilized star power. But strangely, not a single person in this world knew how to use star power; instead, they had developed a colorful civilization of Magic and Battle Qi," Lingyun began to speak. "Later, I conducted a certain degree of research and discovered that the living beings in this world were actually unable to absorb star power. A world with vast star power, yet not a single race capable of using it—this is indeed an interesting matter."

"But what does this have to do with your Star Array?" Chen Jing asked.

"Since the living beings in this world could not use star power, I wanted to gather the stray star power in this world for my own use. And this Star Array was the Array I created to collect star power," Lingyun said slowly. "But later, due to various changes, I never ended up building the Star Array, and the blueprints were left behind on this Continent. I never expected that a living, breathing Star Array would appear before me now; it really is a very interesting matter!"

"Could it be that this Star Array has something to do with my current state?" Chen Jing asked.

If Lingyun hadn't been holding her hand and continuously inputting Source Power into her body, she had no doubt that she would have been completely lost in the starlight in the next second.

"It indeed has a certain connection!" Lingyun nodded. "But the main reason lies within yourself; to be precise, it is in your soul!"

"In my soul?" A bunch of question marks appeared above Chen Jing's head.

"Do you remember? Didn't you undergo a tempering by the Soul Grinder once?" Lingyun said.

"How could I not remember!" Mentioning that tempering by the Soul Grinder, Chen Jing still couldn't help but shiver even now.

"That's right. You must have awakened the Soul Phenomenon within your soul during that tempering, and this phenomenon should be related to the stars. Your phenomenon has just awakened and is currently at its most active; it is normal for it to be affected by the Star Array," Lingyun said.

"Soul Phenomenon?" Chen Jing asked with some confusion.

"That's right. If you don't mind, I can probe your Soul Phenomenon," Lingyun said.

"Probe the Soul Phenomenon?" A hint of shyness could not help but appear on Chen Jing's face.

Chen Jing had also learned about Soul Phenomena from Lingyun. Before she could actively release her Soul Phenomenon, for others to probe her Soul Phenomenon, the soul power of two people had to merge. Under the condition of merged soul power, her soul would appear before Lingyun without any concealment, so she could not help but feel shy.

"Okay!" However, in order to clarify the situation of her Soul Phenomenon, Chen Jing endured her shyness and nodded slightly.

Seeing that Chen Jing had agreed, Lingyun and she returned to the inn they had booked in advance.

As soon as she returned to the inn, Chen Jing hid under the covers, revealing only a small head, and nodded slightly toward Lingyun.

Lingyun sat by the bedside, and wisps of Soul Power permeated from his body, shrouding toward Chen Jing's direction.

Regarding the Soul Power shrouding toward her, Chen Jing did not resist; instead, she guided it to permeate into her Spirit Sea.

Amidst a slight rumbling sound, Lingyun discovered that his Soul Power had arrived in a vast world. This place was Chen Jing's Spirit Sea; at this moment, above the Spirit Sea, countless tiny specks of light were suspended, resembling a brilliant starry sky.

"This is... a Starry Sky Projection?" Lingyun looked at the sky above his head, a hint of astonishment appearing in his eyes.

Lingyun had seen quite a few people whose Soul Phenomenon was stars. However, none of those people's Star Phenomena were as exaggerated as Chen Jing's; the vast majority of people had one or two stars, and those who could possess a corner of a star field were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. But Chen Jing's was simply too exaggerated; it was as if she had traced all the stars in the sky, and this starry sky didn't even occupy half of the sky of her Spirit Sea. One must know that the Spirit Sea could continuously expand; one could imagine what kind of magnificent scene would appear in this starry sky by then. Chen Jing, possessing such a Soul Phenomenon, could completely be called a Child of the Stars!

Just as Lingyun was admiring the starry sky above, a beautiful figure appeared before his eyes. The moment he saw this beautiful figure, Lingyun turned his head away abruptly. Because what appeared before him was actually Chen Jing, who was stark naked.

Discovering her situation, Chen Jing let out a scream, and her whole body curled into a ball all at once.

"Lingyun, why, why do you have clothes on your body?" Chen Jing asked Lingyun while trying her best to cover the spring scenery exposed on her body.

"That, actually you can use your own Soul Power to condense clothes," Lingyun's voice came over faintly, but a hint of trembling was hidden within it.

Although he had turned around very quickly the moment Chen Jing appeared, Chen Jing's stark naked appearance was firmly imprinted in his mind, unable to be dispelled.

"Lingyun, you can turn around now," Chen Jing, who was behind Lingyun, said, her tone carrying an unconcealable shyness.

When Lingyun turned around, Chen Jing had already put on a sports outfit, but from the red clouds on her face that had not faded, it could be seen that her heart was far from as calm as it appeared on the surface.