Chapter 1190

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Using the thunder tribulation as firewood.

Using the Yuan Fire as the furnace flame.

Tempering the Yuan Dao Foundation from beginning to end.

Doing this kind of thing requires not a place rich in spiritual energy, nor an absolutely safe place, but a place where the laws are pure enough, ancient enough, and complete enough.

The Star Vein Source Spring has singular laws; the time barrier is safe.

But it would weaken the laws of the thunder tribulation as well, equivalent to reducing the firewood that can be fed into the Yuan Fire.

The Tai Gu Lei Chi is fierce enough, but the Chaos Power is too turbid, suitable for body tempering but not for melting the Dao.

As for the Qing Di Back Garden, it only partially matches; vitality holds absolute dominance, the system is not equivalent.

Therefore, what Xu Zhangqing needs is a balanced closed loop of Creation, Order, and Termination, not merely the Life Law.

The Stellar Core Abyss is different.

The Star Core Fragments left behind after ancient stars fell, each piece has completely undergone the full process of birth, burning, collapse, and fall.

From unstable nebulae to blazing stars, from stable radiance to final collapse, ultimately transforming into cold, silent remains.

This is a complete karma chain from Creation to Termination.

And his Yuan Dao Closed Loop, it is simply tailor-made.

More importantly, these Star Core Fragments have sedimented for who knows how many tens of thousands of years; their laws have stabilized to the extreme, they will not be uncontrollable like Chaos Fragments, nor so gentle as to be ineffective like the time barrier.

Xu Zhangqing has suppressed his cultivation at the Spirit Transformation realm for too long; his goal after breaking through is not the ordinary Refining Void Early Stage, but to make the Yuan Dao leap from its current stage to become the number one foundation at this very moment of breakthrough.

Let the Yuan Dao become the main trunk; the Qing Di Great Dao, Xuan Water Great Dao, Polluted Earth Great Dao, Five Elements Great Dao, Time and Space Great Dao, all become branches sprouting from it.

If this ambition were known to outsiders, they would surely think he has gone insane.

But from the very beginning, Xu Zhangqing has walked a path no one has walked before.

He does not worship the Qing Di, does not revere the Dao Lord.

Since he neither worships nor reveres, he must forge a path more thorough than any predecessor.

On the road from the Beidou Immortal Mansion to the Starfall Secret Realm, he did not alert a single soul.

The Seven-Colored Kong Ling retracted the vast majority of its radiance, gliding silently through the starry sky.

The closer to the edge of the Floating World Four Domains, the thinner the spiritual energy became.

The distribution of stars grew sparse; vast dark zones of void stretched across the star domains.

When the Starfall Secret Realm appeared in Xu Zhangqing's field of vision, he had Kong Ling stop.

Looking ahead, that was an extremely unreal region.

A conventional star domain boundary is either a void dark zone appearing after spiritual energy concentration decays to zero, or a buffer zone eroded by chaotic qi.

But this place is different.

The boundary here is not gradual, but a sudden interruption.

The previous step was still the normal starry sky of the Floating World Four Domains; the next step is a region completely shrouded in gray-white Stellar Radiance Mist.

The range of the mist is vast, exceeding the limit of Divine Sense perception.

Looking up, no top can be seen; probing down, no bottom can be reached.

As if someone had erected a boundless gray wall here.

Xu Zhangqing hovered at the edge of the mist for a moment, his Divine Sense probing into the depths of the mist.

The density of the Stellar Radiance Mist is extremely high; the distance his Divine Sense radiated inside was actually less than one-tenth of the outside, and the deeper it went, the blurrier it became.

Inside the mist, one could faintly see countless fine light particles slowly floating.

Those light particles had no fixed color; this one was golden, the one next to it silver-white, another further away glowing pale blue.

Every difference in the color of a light particle represents a different law remnant.

The Yuan Dao is extremely sensitive to changes in laws; at this moment, just standing at the edge of the mist, Xu Zhangqing could judge from experience that the laws in this secret realm are extremely rich.

It seems, not only Star Laws, but something else inside as well.

Immediately, he stowed Kong Ling into his Storage Space, then flew into the mist.

However, the very instant he stepped into the mist.

Xu Zhangqing clearly felt several gazes.

They held no hostility.

Nor were they probing.

Merely pure observation.

Xu Zhangqing could recognize two among them.

One represented Zhen Yuanzi, the other represented the Nine Extremes Heavenly King.

Unexpectedly, his undergoing tribulation here actually aroused the Nine Extremes Heavenly King's interest.

As for the other few, it is unclear for now.

But to be able to project their gazes here across such a distance, there are probably few in the entire Floating World Four Domains who can do so.

If nothing unexpected happens, they should be the other few Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters.

Now, this youngest Ninth Junior Brother is about to undergo the Refining Void Tribulation; them watching from afar is also a matter of course.

Silent attention carries more weight than any words.

Xu Zhangqing cupped his hands toward the other side of the void, then stepped into the deeper region of the Stellar Radiance Mist.

The deeper he went, the higher the concentration of stellar radiance.

The mist turned from light gray to dark gray, then into a near-liquid fluid state, exerting noticeable slight pressure when moving.

This was not ordinary water vapor, but a law-based mistification phenomenon formed by highly condensed stellar radiance.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing reached into the mist and scooped up a handful, leaving a layer of fine star frost on his palm.

The frost particles melted on his skin, releasing a wisp of extremely faint stellar origin power.

That power flowed through his meridians into his Qi Sea, where it was automatically ignited by the Primal Flame and naturally merged into the laws of the Primal Dao.

At this moment, simply standing in the mist allowed him to automatically absorb stellar origin power to temper the Primal Dao.

He had not yet reached the Stellar Core Abyss; this was only the Outer Perimeter.

From this, one could see how concentrated it was there.

After advancing another half an hour, the Stellar Radiance Mist suddenly dispersed.

It did not gradually fade and disappear; it dispersed just like that.

His vision suddenly opened up, but the sight before his eyes made Xu Zhangqing stop.

The image reflected in his pupils was more shocking than any scene he had expected, and more perfectly aligned with the Primal Dao.

At this moment, he stood at the edge of a floating landmass.

This landmass was piled up from countless Star Core Fragments, with no soil binding the fragments together and no rock supporting them.

They relied entirely on their own laws attracting each other, in an extremely subtle way, maintaining the stability of the whole.

The landmass hung in the void, surrounded by Stellar Radiance Mist on all sides, with endless void above and endless void below.

Standing here, Xu Zhangqing felt as if he stood at the intersection of the River of Time and the River of Stars.

Looking ahead was the future he had not yet experienced.

Looking back was the road he had already traveled.

Every Star Core Fragment beneath his feet retained its form from before its fall.

Some fragments emitted bright golden light, their internal heat not yet dissipated, releasing a warm breath.

They were among the fragments that had just walked from the Star Stage toward decline, with the powers of creation and stability in their laws dominating.

Some fragments were dark gray, their surfaces covered with irregular crack patterns, freezing cold in temperature, their law structures highly ordered, but no longer possessing any growth-related changes.

They were fragments that had gradually cooled and extinguished after entering the Stability Stage.

The power of order had reached its peak, but had also lost the possibility of further evolution.

Other fragments were almost completely shattered into black powder, their law structures collapsed to the end, leaving only a wisp of origin power at the very bottom, barely holding on.

They were fragments that, after completely falling, walked toward nothingness, the power of termination erasing the last traces bit by bit!