Chapter 1221

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

The two continued flying toward the Living Star.

As the distance shortened, the planet's contour became increasingly clear.

Looking from afar, the entire planet showed no meteorite craters, mountain ranges, or canyons.

Its surface was wrapped in a massive skin of unfathomable thickness, and countless crisscrossing gullies and folds could be seen.

Between those gullies flowed a kind of dark green viscous liquid.

It looked like bodily fluid secreted by some gigantic organism, and it flowed at an extremely slow speed in the gullies, even emitting a faint fluorescence.

The fluorescence was extremely dim, but in this void where one could not see five fingers before one's face, it looked conspicuous to the point of being eerie.

The planet's surface would produce a wave extending from south to north at regular intervals, and wherever the wave passed, the surface rippled with circle after circle of green ripples, like a lake surface blown by wind.

Hell Star and Frozen Hell Star hovered on the left and right sides of the Living Star respectively.

The three planets occupied three positions in a triangle, mutually pulling on each other, forming a subtle balance.

Hell Star's metal magma surged ceaselessly, and steam-like clouds formed a crimson halo above.

That halo projected onto the Living Star's left side, brushing a layer of dark red onto the deep green.

Frozen Hell Star was on the Living Star's right side, projecting a pitch-black shadow without light.

In contrast, the Living Star seemed suspended in the center of a bizarre giant painting.

Half illuminated by firelight.

Half swallowed by dark shadow.

And it itself kept breathing incessantly.

Xu Zhangqing stopped at a height of three hundred li above the Living Star's surface; at this distance he could already clearly perceive the Living Star's surging vitality.

This vitality was completely different from the life force in his own Shen Guo.

Grass and trees sprouting, spirit plants growing — these all belong to orderly vitality.

But the vitality emitted by the Living Star was extremely primitive, savage.

It even lacked any guidance, like a life without a soul, its body unconsciously growing, wriggling, secreting.

Neither bound by any will, nor following any known life laws.

The Wood Dao laws on this planet were completely different from the Qing Emperor Branch.

The Qing Emperor Branch is vitality and creation, the Wood Great Dao of orderly growth.

But the Wood Dao laws on the Living Star are disorderly wood-attribute proliferation, completely detached from life's constraints, knowing only infinite growth.

"Not Reverse Five Elements."

Xu Zhangqing raised an eyebrow, thinking secretly: "The Wood Dao laws here are indeed intense, but they still remain within the Five Elements — merely an extreme form of proliferation.

However, this planet may be an opportunity for me no less than the Eternal Night Ruins.

If I can analyze the Reverse Life Path of Wood Dao laws from this disorderly proliferation.

Perhaps in the end I can reverse and elevate my foundation and cultivation, thereby advancing another level!"

Regarding this discovery, Xu Zhangqing temporarily suppressed it in his heart and did not speak it aloud.

Once he spoke the truth, with Second Senior Sister's personality, she would likely turn and leave immediately.

The Eternal Night Ruins' opening was imminent; she was not too willing to waste too much time.

But by not speaking, she would instead stay, and even explore the Living Star's situation.

Sure enough, Luo Qinghan didn't even ask once; she believed the Eternal Night Ruins' entrance could not be confirmed just by standing outside the planet and taking two glances.

If one could make a judgment by sweeping across a few hundred li of void, then Lu Wangchuan wouldn't have needed to deduce three positions and have everyone run them one by one.

Yet never expected, this junior brother beside her was "different from ordinary people".

Thus, the two approached while each harboring different thoughts.

En route to the Living Star, Black Cat Chi Ye flashed through Xu Zhangqing's mind.

Since leaving Gui Xu, Chi Ye had been recuperating in the Shen Guo.

If this time he alone went out to search for the Eternal Night Ruins.

He could completely release Chi Ye and have it use its own traits to lock onto the Eternal Night Ruins — far more efficient than tedious searching.

But at present, this thought could only remain at the thought stage.

Great Dao Sovereigns are everywhere.

Luo Qinghan was right beside him.

In the distant flying ship, Baili Hong, Feng Buhui, Jin Buhuan, and Mo Li were still waiting.

With so many pairs of eyes watching, if Xu Zhangqing suddenly released Chi Ye, trouble might occur.

Therefore, he decided to honestly follow Second Senior Sister and run through the positions one by one.

Not long after, the two landed on the Living Star's surface.

Xu Zhangqing's soles first contacted this layer of deep green skin.

The sensation of stepping on it was completely unlike stepping on a planet's ground; rather it felt like stepping on a layer of hide that had been sun-dried for a long time.

Soft yet resilient.

Moreover, his soles could clearly feel something moving slowly beneath.

Not only that, this skin's surface was covered in textures, and dark green viscous liquid flowed in every single texture.

Stepping on it, one's body temperature would be absorbed at an extremely fast speed.

At the same time, a cool sensation would spread upward along the soles of the feet.

"This place is truly strange!"

"It seems to be absorbing the temperature we emit?"

"Correct."

Luo Qinghan stood on the left side; when her Cold Moon Law contacted the Living Star's surface, it automatically spread a layer of extremely thin Ice Membrane, isolating the continuously spreading cool sensation outside.

After her gaze swept a circle across the surface, she suddenly raised her head to look toward that fluctuation in the distance currently moving from South to North.

When viewing from afar, one only took it for a ring of ripples on the surface.

However, standing on the surface to look again, only then could one feel its oppressive feeling.

It was like a wall slowly advancing, height several tens of zhang; places it passed would violently bulge upward, then violently collapse down.

After the bulging, it left behind rows of cracks.

In the cracks, dark green liquid with concentration higher than the surface gullies gushed out.

Xu Zhangqing asked: "Elder Sister, should we avoid it?"

Luo Qinghan thought for a moment, then replied: "Let's change to another place."

The two avoided the fluctuation's front edge, then descended in another relatively flat region.

Initially, indeed there were no problems at all.

After the fluctuation, the Living Star's surface would have a brief calm period.

The liquid flow speed in the gullies would also slow down, and underfoot would no longer writhe so frequently.

The entire environment fell into a kind of stifling tranquility.

Xu Zhangqing released Blue Yuan Light, beginning to probe the Wood Dao Law underground.

For every hundred meters the Blue Yuan Light penetrated deeper, the Law Density encountered would increase by a notch.

Waited until reaching two hundred li from the surface, the Blue Yuan Light suddenly could not infiltrate.

As if it had crashed into a barrier woven from countless Wood Dao Laws.

He switched to another region to probe again, the result completely the same.

Regardless of which direction he probed toward the depths, the Blue Yuan Light would be blocked outside at approximately two hundred li deep, and unable to penetrate deeper.

Xu Zhangqing's eyes narrowed, he guessed: "Hard to say, could the Living Star's outer layer Skin actually be wrapping something deep inside?

What exactly is inside the Star Core, that even a Refining Void stage Divine Sense cannot infiltrate!"