[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starlight-professional":3,"chapter-starlight-professional-starlight-professional-chapter-703":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starlight Professional",{"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},2309363,4512,"Chapter 703","starlight-professional-chapter-703",703,"\u003Cp>Since achieving the Law Lord of the Thirteenth Realm, time for Fang Xing had become as plentiful as air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though all heavens and myriad worlds have their own “lifespans,” that number is infinitely vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only those who transcend will survive when the river of time and space dries up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s as absurd as an ordinary person worrying about the sun reaching its end!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If in the Earth era, an ordinary person could live until the sun’s lifespan expired, it would be nearly “immortality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, while contemplating the True Martial Dao, Fang Xing occasionally relaxed, enjoying decades or even centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for those who came after? Even Xun Heihu himself, he no longer bothered to care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the indifference of the Immortal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A summer insect cannot comprehend ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unconsciously, tens of thousands of years had passed in the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day, Fang Xing felt the world’s primordial essence tremble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Finally… has the world ascended?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was slightly surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>World ascension could not be achieved in merely tens of thousands of years—this world was special!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The myriad heavens and ordinary great and small worlds were like the difference between the human race and animal beasts—fundamentally distinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world’s essence was “Myriad Heavens Level”—even as a child, it was a human infant, not comparable to an animal cub.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, it had entered another stage of growth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm? Has it already been two hundred thirty-eight thousand six hundred years?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single thought, Fang Xing merged his awareness with the True Martial Talisman’s external monitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, scenes from the past unfolded before his eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xun Heihu wasn’t bad—or rather, sincerity met sincerity; after Jiang Yuyan and her two children reached the Void Realm, they all extended their lifespans by a thousand years, growing old together as a family…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But after several generations, the True Martial Mountain split into two factions: the Disciple Faction and the Xun Clan Faction, secretly vying for control of the True Martial Talisman… and within the Xun Clan Faction, there were further divisions: bloodline vs. outsiders, direct vs. collateral branches…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After roughly ten thousand years, the ‘Pan Wu Poison’ erupted, plunging True Martial Mountain into chaos… the True Martial Talisman vanished without a trace…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the True Martial Talisman itself, Fang Xing knew clearly: an insider from the Xun Clan had stolen the talisman during an external invasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Martial Mountain was destroyed, but its Dao lineage endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That traitor… tracing back to Xun Biao’s line? Heh… I knew this would happen, but Xun Heihu probably didn’t care… after all, countless generations had passed…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing continued watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That traitor later hid his identity, used the True Martial Talisman to cultivate to the peak of the Void Realm, even approaching the Threshold Breakthrough…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hid for five or six hundred years; unable to break through to the Supreme Rank, he finally emerged into the martial world, dominating the land with his realm half a rank above Supreme, and founded the 'Great Wu Dynasty'!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Wu Dynasty unified the world and endured for thirty-nine thousand years…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… in all these years, technology barely advanced?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Fang Xing saw this, his eyes nearly popped out: “Was the existence of transcendent martial arts suppressing technological progress?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, martial cultivation granted a lifespan of a thousand years!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would bother with basic research? The most brilliant geniuses would all flock to martial arts…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, techniques for forging divine weapons, high-grade steels, and metallurgy saw considerable advancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, projects for breeding blood-rich demonic beasts and cultivating spiritual grains also developed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, everything served martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even under the unified rule of the Great Wu Dynasty, the people’s lives were worse than in the Jiuzhou era— Kancheng  a great regression…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the dynasty’s final years, the Great Wu had decayed to its absolute worst, like a rotting corpse…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The heavenly limit slightly loosened, granting Void Realm cultivators a chance to advance further, yet the imperial family produced too many complacent fools, allowing others to surpass them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, that battle was extremely perilous—all Void Realm experts fought, nearly destroying the Great Wu imperial capital…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After the Great Wu, the era of sect dominance returned, until a martial genius emerged to unify the world, repeating the cycle… but throughout this process, the struggle for the True Martial Talisman was the bloodiest and cruelest…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The True Martial Talisman passed through the hands of countless martial artists: righteous heroes, demonic masters, beggars, prostitutes, merchants, guardsmen, cooks…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, it is held by the ‘Gui She Sect,’ hidden in the ancestral hall of the Gui She Lineage… their founder once received the glorious True Martial Mountain Dao legacy and emerged from the Dark Age, leaving a final decree: the True Martial Talisman must never be revealed, only passed to the next sect master…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing’s awareness pierced through the True Martial Talisman, revealing a stone chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chamber’s walls glowed with a metallic sheen—this was ‘Stone Metal,’ a strange meteoric metal capable of blocking all energy signatures and preventing martial masters’ spiritual probes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the chamber stood a large red altar, lined with rows of Gui She Sect ancestral plaques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own dwelling—the True Martial Talisman—sat clearly in the highest hidden compartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover… I can sense… the True Martial Visualization and Xuanwu True Art have spread in the outside world… though many branches and variants exist, they have indeed endured.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing murmured, deeply moved: “The tide of the age is coming…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, his sensing of the world’s leap was not merely a minor increase of one or two ranks in martial limits as in the long past!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an exponential explosion—a fundamental transformation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The door to immortality has cracked open a sliver… in other words, this age might birth experts of the Eleventh or even Twelfth Realm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such experts are not far from the minimum requirement of the Thirteenth Realm for Pan Wu’s revival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even… he could faintly sense Pan Wu’s terrifying presence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Perhaps this age will be fascinating?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Too bad… it’s still not the true Golden Age; the greater the genius, the sadder they are…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time dripped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chamber door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man with a tortoise-like back entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore a dark blue riding jacket, his face ancient and square… yet his gaze was piercingly sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Gui She Sect’s current lineage master—Gui Yannian!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes first swept over the ancestral altar, his spirit probing—seeing the True Martial Talisman safely hidden at the top, he exhaled deeply, then picked up three incense sticks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without lighting them, the tips ignited spontaneously, wisps of blue smoke rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian held the incense with both hands, raised them above his head, bowed three times toward the altar, then inserted them into the incense burner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completing this entire “ritual,” he reverently retrieved the True Martial Talisman and sat cross-legged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Martial Space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still a small room; the stone tablet had not changed in tens of thousands of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Fang Xing, this was merely a brief moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian wasted no time—he began cultivation immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gui She Sect had received only partial True Martial Dao legacy; they never obtained the core Xuanwu True Art, but they did possess the True Martial Visualization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>portion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, successive lineage masters poured their hearts into creating extraordinary arts like ‘Gui She Stance,’ ‘Pan She Eighteen Hands,’ and ‘Gui Form Qi Gong’—making them a prominent sect in today’s ‘Da Luo Dynasty.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Gui She Sect remained extremely low-key; no one knew that their lineage master, Gui Yannian, was among the world’s supreme experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completing daily cultivation, Gui Yannian began practicing martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the martial techniques he demonstrated now were crude, riddled with flaws—he seemed to be using the True Martial Space as a place to invent new methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His palm techniques moved slowly, like turning a millstone, faintly echoing the interplay of Taiji’s yin and yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet each palm strike caused the void to tremble subtly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, it carried a trace of Void energy, striking the gray mist enveloping the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray mist showed not even a ripple, instantly dissolving the palm strike capable of annihilating ninety-nine percent of martial artists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Every time I come here, I feel my own insignificance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian sighed: “This True Martial Space is perfect in every way—except it’s too small… I can’t properly practice mobility arts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the stone tablet within the True Martial Space slowly sank into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian’s eyes widened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Gui She Sect disciples saw this, they’d find it unbelievable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this man, whose mouth could swallow an egg, really be their ever-stoic, unshakable, square-faced master?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray mist parted, revealing a True Martial Space a hundred times larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone steps extended upward, endlessly, leading to a throne at the summit…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon the throne sat a being shrouded in gray mist, watching him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That gaze weighed heavier than mountains—Gui Yannian involuntarily felt the urge to kneel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Who is that… a deity?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘No! How can I kneel?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian roared inwardly, his bones cracking under strain, yet he was forced inch by inch into a bent posture—ridiculous and humiliating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to collapse, falling to his knees in a full prostration,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the gaze withdrew: “Hmm, peak Void Realm… not bad. What year is it today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Great Luo Baoyuan Eighth Year. Who are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian stared in disbelief around him—everything that had happened today was nowhere recorded in the sect’s scriptures, and his master had never told him there was another inside the Zhenwu Talisman?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems Xun Heihu is already dead…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans always harbor a trace of caution toward the unknown; to soothe the host’s heart, he would not act as if he knew everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xun Heihu? Could it be… the world’s first Void Realm cultivator? The Zhenwu Patriarch?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian widened his eyes: “Who exactly are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me? I am the spirit of this place, a sleeper… I’ve only occasionally encountered a few who held the Zhenwu Talisman—one named Xia Mang, the other was Xun Heihu…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Martial Ancestor and the Zhenwu Patriarch…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gui Yannian fell into a daze…\u003C\u002Fp>",1709,"2026-06-20T11:03:23.251Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6aca9c36f3dcb86ce08afb419e661cb25049baba29b433a3f7e298418c8f23b9","starlight-professional-chapter-704","starlight-professional-chapter-702",726,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarlight-professional-cover.jpg"]