[{"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-412":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},2320344,4537,"Chapter 412: Xiyuan","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-412",412,"\u003Cp>Generally, yin-sha lands in the cultivation world must form near spiritual veins, requiring a certain amount of spiritual energy to truly take shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a yin-sha land accumulates sufficiently pure yin energy over a long enough time, it can coalesce into a type of “yin-sha energy,” highly prized by demonic cultivators for both personal cultivation and infusion into artifacts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an environment like Blue Star, devoid of spiritual energy, the natural formation of a yin-sha land naturally left Wang Yu stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he knew only the most basic principles of array formation, he easily realized that Pengjie City sat precisely at the center of this natural yin-sha terrain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the cultivation world, yin-sha lands were exceedingly rare, mostly created artificially by cultivation factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pengjie City was not a true yin-sha land, however, since it possessed only the yin-sha terrain, with no spiritual energy whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, when Wang Yu gazed upon the city center from the surrounding hills, he sensed that Pengjie City was shrouded in an indescribable dark atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he had been within the city, his keen spiritual sense had detected nothing amiss—but only after stepping outside and observing the entire city did he notice the anomaly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that, even on Blue Star without spiritual energy, this yin-sha terrain could gather some strange phenomenon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu felt some doubt about this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no doubt that this yin-sha terrain was closely tied to the formation of soul-iron; what still puzzled him was why pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks produced soul-iron after death, while humans—the city’s true inhabitants—left no trace of anomaly upon dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it that the peculiar effects of this yin-sha terrain simply did not work on humans, or was there some other inexplicable mechanism at play?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s expression turned thoughtful; a streak of silver light curled from his brow, and the soul-iron on the table vanished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu drove out of Pengjie City with a cage of chickens and ducks, but returned hastily half a day later—the cage now empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time he confirmed: once outside the yin-sha terrain’s influence, ordinary chickens and ducks could not produce soul-iron after death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when he deliberately mimicked a slaughterhouse’s electric-stun method using a high-voltage cattle prod he had purchased, the result was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this realization put Wang Yu at ease. It seemed the formation of soul-iron was merely a pure coincidence—now he could collect other soul-iron without fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, he received a call from Li Xiaodao, who said he had bribed the warehouse manager of “Xiyuan Ecological Recycling,” and tonight they could enter the company’s metal scrap warehouse and freely select one truckload of scrap to take away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was delighted, confirmed the exact time, and told Li Xiaodao to prepare a truck to meet him at the warehouse address provided by the manager that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the information he had gathered, “Xiyuan Ecological Recycling” was Pengjie City’s largest waste recycling company, handling nearly all the city’s metal scrap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the company processed so much waste and had grown so large, it did not rush to dispose of valuable scrap; metal items that could be stored long-term often sat in its warehouse for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu had earlier instructed Li Xiaodao to bribe the warehouse manager precisely to see if there might be even greater surprises inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That evening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gray truck, its headlights dim and dull, rolled into a remote industrial park, where darkness reigned except for flickering lights in a few spots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truck finally stopped before a massive concrete wall, where a plump old man in gray clothing waited beside the sole entrance—a rusted iron gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The driver’s door opened, and Wang Yu, disguised as “Mr. Sai,” and Li Xiaodao, back to his true face, stepped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaodao stepped forward with a grin, whispered a few words to the old man, pointed back at Wang Yu, and slipped him a thick stack of cash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plump old man smiled in return, glanced at Wang Yu, pulled a large key from his waist, unlocked the massive padlock on the gate, and called out to Wang Yu in British English:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the warehouse you requested—the one holding metal scrap stored the longest. Items here have been sitting for at least three years. I’ve already disabled the alarm system, but only one person may enter, and you have only half an hour. When time’s up, you must leave, no matter what you’ve found. If you need to move large items, there’s a small cart inside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu replied, walked over calmly, pushed open the iron gate, and stepped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaodao and the plump old man stayed outside, chatting idly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the gate stretched an endless sea of metal scrap—piles upon piles, from massive car shells to small iron spoons and rods, densely packed, stretching beyond sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Xiyuan Company’s metal scrap warehouse—nothing more than a colossal metal dump, most of the metal heavily rusted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s lips twitched; he unleashed his vast spiritual sense, sweeping it methodically across the entire scrap field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, faint thuds echoed—several hidden security cameras nearby simultaneously exploded from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Wang Yu had used his Golden Touch ability to destroy the surveillance equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Xiyuan’s warehouse complex not been so vast and confusing, making it impossible to identify the oldest scrap storage, he would have infiltrated it alone using the same method he used on the slaughterhouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he exhaled, tapped his forehead with one finger, and released several spiritual threads that swiftly burrowed into the piles of scrap, searching for traces of soul-iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, outside the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plump old man smoked a cigarette Li Xiaodao had offered, chatting casually; after a while, he asked with a faint, knowing smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young brother, you’re quite odd—willing to spend so much money just to pick through this trash.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t have some secret channel, do you, knowing something valuable is hidden in this dump?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, your company must’ve scanned everything thrown here with instruments. If there were real treasures, you’d never toss them as trash. This is just my companion’s little quirk—he likes picking odd things from places like this.” Li Xiaodao replied without blinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so? But young brother, do you know what Xiyuan Company originally did?” The old man glanced back at the gate, saw no sign of Wang Yu, yet smiled faintly at Li Xiaodao.\u003C\u002Fp>",1081,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","10c91823012bd523e486d37395c1cdca48c5b0bf912563e379582fdf475612d0","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-413","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-411",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]