[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars":3,"chapter-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-196":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Immortal Path Among the Stars",{"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},2320128,4537,"Chapter 196","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-196",196,"\u003Cp>“Blood Smoke Ancestor? You’ve made a mistake—you shouldn’t have mentioned that name in front of me. I swore that anyone who speaks that name before me will die.” The shadowy figure trembled slightly, then spoke with icy coldness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You kill anyone who mentions it? What if a Foundation Establishment cultivator or another Golden Core Ancestor says it in front of you?” Lin Xiaofeng smiled faintly at the shadowy figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Foundation Establishment cultivator? I’d have to fight to know if he’s worthy. But if a Golden Core Ancestor dares speak it, I’ll kill him after I reach Golden Core myself.” The shadowy figure answered without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re merely a Qi Condensation cultivator—and you dare speak such words? Are you mad?” Even Lin Xiaofeng, who had always been reckless, couldn’t help but pale slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, mad? I’ve been mad for ten years already. Everyone in the Demon Luo Sect knows this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I entered the Jialan Secret Realm only to seek some benefits—I had no intention of getting involved in the conflict between the Demon Dao and the Four Great Sects. But since you dared mention the name of Blood Smoke the Fiend, don’t blame me for opening the slaughter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll be the first true disciple of the Four Sects to die in my hands.” The shadowy figure let out a low, eerie laugh. In the next instant, crimson light surged over its body, transforming into a blood-red rainbow that shot straight toward Lin Xiaofeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really are insane. Die.” The girl in red gasped, without thinking, shook her gourd, and out poured dozens of half-red, half-purple fire crows, each half a foot long, diving at the blood rainbow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom.” “Boom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a series of muffled impacts, each fire crow exploded into half-red, half-purple flames upon hitting the blood rainbow, slowing its flight and spewing thick, sizzling green smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment, the blood rainbow blazed with intense crimson light, instantly extinguishing the half-red, half-purple flames, and continued hurtling toward the girl with relentless momentum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xiaofeng snorted coldly, and the red light beneath her feet surged backward, propelling her away, while more fire crows continuously spewed from her gourd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had heard tales of the Blood Shadow Technique’s danger—she dared not let it get close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood rainbow chased relentlessly behind, and though it moved swiftly, each fire crow that struck it slowed it momentarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid a continuous series of “boom” and “boom” sounds, the blood rainbow shattered fire crow after fire crow, yet could not catch up to the girl in red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Semi-Supreme Spirit Flame? So you’re a top-tier Fire Spirit Root. If a disciple with such talent dies, the Golden Core Ancestors of the Four Symbols Sect will surely feel the pain.” A cold voice emerged from the blood rainbow. The once-vivid crimson streak suddenly faded into near-invisibility, becoming a long, indistinct blood shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Swoosh.” “Swoosh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire crows flew straight through the blood shadow, unable to hinder it in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Blood Spirit Transformation: Shadow Form? Impossible! Only the Nine False Golden Core Blood Spirits from Blood Smoke the Fiend’s Sea of Blood Technique can achieve this!” The girl in red gasped in shock, her face showing panic for the first time. She frantically flung a golden talisman from her sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The talisman fluttered in the wind, transforming into a faint giant crane silhouette that lunged onto the girl’s back, instantly giving rise to a pair of snowy white feathered wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single beat of those wings, the girl vanished in a flash of white light, her speed tripling or quadrupling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, you recognize the Blood Spirit Shadow Form Technique—so you’re no ordinary cultivator. Then I can’t let you go. Surrender your essence blood to me willingly.” The blood shadow flickered like a phantom, accelerating instantly, pursuing without lagging behind the white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front, Lin Xiaofeng, pale with terror, flipped her hand—her gourd vanished, replaced by a pitch-black feather fan. She swung it fiercely backward, pouring out her cultivation energy. Twelve faint white spirit runes glowed on the fan’s surface, then trembled slightly, unleashing a torrent of black wind that rolled across the sky and slammed toward the blood shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the long blood shadow ignored the terrifying storm, blurred momentarily, and pierced straight through the wind as if unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl in red retracted her fan and pulled out a small white vial, shaking it toward the rear. From it spewed streams of pale blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the blue beams passed through the blood shadow instantly, slicing through empty air and vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the girl grew even more frantic. She flapped her wings twice, then pulled out a crimson leather pouch from her sleeve, tossing it backward. From it poured a swarm of fist-sized red flying ants, swarming en masse toward the blood shadow, biting furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Useful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xiaofeng, within the white light, saw the red ants’ actions and her eyes brightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next instant, the red ants turned black with dark energy and dropped dead one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a faint voice emerged from the long blood shadow:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Time’s up. You may die.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had the words spoken than the blood shadow erupted in blinding crimson light. When the light faded, the blood shadow had vanished entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, the white light surrounding Lin Xiaofeng shattered violently under a heavy blow, her back wings dissolving instantly. Then, a wave of bloodied air surged forward—a mangled, bloody arm pierced straight through her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl in red screamed, feeling her cultivation energy and blood rushing uncontrollably into the crimson arm. Her face turned as white as snow, filled with utter disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a Heaven Spirit Root prodigy, the youngest true disciple of the Four Symbols Sect to reach Qi Condensation’s peak in just a few years—how could she die like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, her body went limp, her vision darkened. The last thing she saw before losing consciousness was a grotesque, blood-soaked face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a small island at the center of the lake, before a seemingly dilapidated stone hut, two slender women stood facing each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One wore a yellow palace gown, a veil covering her face, and a miniature pale golden toad perched on her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other wore a pink long skirt, with delicate brows and eyes like flowing water. Merely standing there, her grace made the entire world lose its color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between them lay over a dozen male corpses, most of them disciples of the Great Ming Four Sects, with a few from the Demon Dao. Each corpse had a bloodied hole torn through the chest—every heart had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifth True Disciple of the Joyful Palace, Stone Maiden Bi Xinxiu,” said the woman in yellow, her voice grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister is truly ruthless—half of these are disciples of the Great Ming Four Sects, yet you killed them all.” The woman in pink gazed at the corpses with a soft, flowing gaze, replying in a voice like celestial music or mountain streams—haunting, unforgettable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Too late—only one update today. Also, fellow cultivators: due to the upcoming festival, Wang Yu has many family and social obligations, so for the next week, updates will be limited to one per day. I’ll do my best to keep them consistent.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1216,"2026-06-20T15:44:30.991Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","7ce43d9c93135b5efabcf40133306a91220e229741b32eb5e44f78875ef2b83a","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-197","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-195",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]