[{"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-411":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},2320343,4537,"Chapter 411: Yin Sha Land","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-411",411,"\u003Cp>In the southern district of Pengjie City, the largest, most dilapidated, and cheapest hospital—with the most impoverished patients—was the \"Lankasen\" Hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A youth with red-and-yellow hair quietly appeared in various corners of the hospital—from the outpatient building to the operating room entrance, the critical care wards, and even near the morgue where corpses were stored—his figure visible everywhere, yet never staying long before slipping away silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the western district of Pengjie City, at the sole cemetery that offered free burial of the poor’s ashes—the “Lord Rodsan Grand Cemetery”—the red-and-yellow-haired youth appeared once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he seemed to have no specific target, merely walking slowly past the dense rows of tombstones, one by one, before leaving shortly after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eastern district of Pengjie City, before a modest recycling station, the red-and-yellow-haired youth smiled as he conversed with a middle-aged man who looked like the owner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days later, the red-and-yellow-haired youth began appearing frequently atop several tall buildings in Pengjie City, and his figure was also spotted on a few small hills in the suburbs, holding a map and occasionally jotting notes in a small notebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several days later, in a standalone villa in the suburbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu, in his second-floor study, instructed Li Xiaodao, who was posing as “Mr. Sai,” on certain matters:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Collect for me the precise addresses of all slaughterhouses in Pengjie City, whether they process pigs, cattle, sheep, or specialize in chickens and ducks.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, find a way to bribe the warehouse manager of ‘Xiyuan Ecological Recycling Company’—I need access to their warehouse storing metal waste, and…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaodao showed a flicker of surprise on his face but listened intently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the following half-month, a series of bizarre thefts began occurring in Pengjie City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than a dozen slaughterhouses using assembly lines successively reported the mysterious disappearance of critical components from their production lines—all stolen overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One night, three slaughterhouses in different districts of Pengjie City experienced thefts simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led many to suspect a coordinated gang operation, as nearly half of all slaughterhouses in Pengjie City had been targeted, even affecting the city’s recent meat supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This enraged police across all districts, even drawing the attention of the Pengjie City Headquarters, which hastily formed a special task force to handle the string of thefts and even offered rewards to the city’s major criminal gangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, unfortunately, the surveillance systems at the slaughterhouses either captured nothing during the thefts or had been quietly sabotaged beforehand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Police found no fingerprints or footprints at the crime scenes—as if the thieves had simply floated in and stolen the items without touching them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, after half a month, the slaughterhouse thefts abruptly ceased, as if the mysterious thief targeting slaughterhouse parts had left Pengjie City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This brought great relief to the Pengjie City police; days later, they arbitrarily picked a few scapegoats from the criminal underworld, officially closed the case, and disbanded the special task force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the second-floor parlor, all curtains were drawn, blocking any possibility of being watched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu sat silently, staring at the large pile of varied electric shocker heads laid out on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were thirty-three in total—mostly ten-thousand-soul grade, with only a few being thousand-soul grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the living-soul iron he had collected over the past half-month from all slaughterhouses in Pengjie City; to avoid suspicion, he had even used mental force to remotely take other seemingly valuable components.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, he had not merely infiltrated some slaughterhouses—he had visited every slaughterhouse in Pengjie City that used assembly lines—but only some of the electric shocker heads had transformed into living-soul iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slaughterhouses without living-soul iron were left untouched, so no one noticed anything, allowing the police to believe only a portion of slaughterhouses had been robbed; had the full scope been known, the uproar would have been far greater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if his actions stirred some commotion in Pengjie City and possibly drew the attention of the perceptive, the rare value of these living-soul iron made the risk worthwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Wang Yu picked up one piece of living-soul iron from the table; pale yellow patterns surfaced in his eyes as he infused a thread of spiritual energy into it. The originally silver-white living-soul iron turned pitch black, its surface instantly glossy and reflective, as if coated in a thick patina, while thick black mist surged forth, rapidly forming phantom chicken and duck heads that lunged viciously toward Wang Yu’s arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu murmured a spell, and instantly, several crimson spiritual runes appeared on his arm, flashing once before forming a red light barrier that enveloped his entire limb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phantom chicken heads struck the red light and shrieked as they melted and dissolved, reverting into dense black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This piece of living-soul iron, in terms of darkness and the ferocity of its contained souls, surpassed the first two he had obtained—it was likely beyond ten-thousand-soul grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But whether living-soul iron existed beyond ten-thousand-soul grade, Wang Yu was uncertain; the texts he had collected only documented up to ten-thousand-soul grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if he remembered correctly, this piece came from Pengjie City’s largest chicken-and-duck slaughterhouse, which slaughtered countless birds annually—so even if it had formed a higher-grade living-soul iron, it was not entirely surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu pondered this, a thoughtful expression crossing his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past days, he had visited numerous places with the highest concentration of deaths—hospitals, cemeteries, and more—but as expected, he found no trace of human living souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even released a thread of divine awareness, personally witnessing several patients die during failed surgeries in the operating room—yet still, he detected no sign of human living souls being born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, in the cemetery holding tens of thousands of ashes, he found nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unwilling to give up, he obtained a highly accurate satellite map of Pengjie City, studied the city’s topography, and made a startling discovery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu thought of this, reached into his pocket, and pulled out the satellite map of Pengjie City, unfolding it solemnly on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, on the map, was a complex black spiritual pattern, covering more than half of Pengjie City, with straight black lines connecting every point, forming what appeared to be a complete spiritual diagram.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black spiritual pattern itself was eerie—gazing at it too long made one’s chest grow cold, a chilling breath rising from within, deeply sinister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yin Sha Land”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu murmured these words, his expression turning strangely altered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the cultivation world, Yin Sha Land refers to a special region where yin spirits most easily form and where yin energy from all directions naturally converges.\u003C\u002Fp>",1104,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b9f14e3a6b3236f574ee3b71fdadb48eecee0edb6202aec89d51ead51453081c","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-412","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-410",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]