[{"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-481":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},2320413,4537,"Chapter 481","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-481",481,"\u003Cp>\"Beast attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tie the horned horses in place, form a line here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prepare bows and crossbows!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man’s loud shout immediately rang out from the convoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panicked civilian guards instantly obeyed, pulling out bow and crossbow units from the massive carts and lining up on the side facing the assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several men and women in varied robes stepped out from one of the vehicles, tearing talismans and summoning clouds of white mist beneath their feet, floating directly into the low sky—clearly all Qi Condensation cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their spiritual energy fluctuations and tense expressions suggested they were only at Qi Condensation levels three or four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the nearby forest rustled loudly, countless monkeys leapt out in a dense swarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each stood barely a meter tall, with unusually long arms and enormous noses, wielding stones and branches as weapons, surging chaotically toward the convoy—numbering well over a thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fire!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the roar, the civilian guards fired their bows and crossbows in unison; in flashes of cold light, dozens of front-line monkeys collapsed, throwing the rest into chaos, slowing their advance, and even causing some at the rear to turn and flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a dozen piercing shrieks echoed from the mountain, followed by a rumbling crash as twelve towering gray-white apes, each over three meters tall and covered in shaggy fur, charged forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crash!\" \"Crash!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dozen black monkeys turning to flee were each leapt upon by the gray-white apes, crushed beneath their feet into pulps of meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black monkeys displayed human-like expressions of terror; under the shrieks of their leaders, they once again brandished stones and branches and charged the convoy, some even hurling their weapons—some actually striking human guards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dozen gray-white apes leapt repeatedly, surging straight to the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Swoosh!\" \"Swoosh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As several gray-white apes leapt again, two massive black crossbow bolts pierced their bodies mid-air, sending them crashing down with mournful cries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Puff!\" \"Puff!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\" \"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several fireballs and wind blades rained down from above, striking other giant apes, turning some into flaming beasts, others into mangled corpses spewing thick beast blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining white giant apes, leading the black monkey horde, charged into the human guard formation with bared fangs and claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the human guards switched to close-combat swords and blades, locking in chaotic battle with the ape horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a thunderous roar echoed from the high mountain, and a black object was hurled from the peak, crashing toward the convoy below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One guard stared and turned pale with terror, screaming at the others:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dodge!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The falling black object was unmistakably a tree over ten meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a deafening \"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tree crushed a crossbow-laden cart into splinters; two nearby human guards and seven or eight black monkeys were caught in the debris, screaming and shrieking as fragments flew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More black shapes tumbled down from the mountain—each one a freshly uprooted tree or massive boulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rumble!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A continuous series of explosions rocked the convoy as more crossbows and carts were smashed to shards by falling trees and rocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An entry-grade ape!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the low-level Qi Condensation cultivators in the air cried out in shock and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had the words left his mouth than another black object shot from the peak, plummeting toward the battlefield below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the human cultivators saw clearly—the falling object was a terrifying black ape, three zhang tall, its entire body jet-black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Puff!\" \"Puff!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two wind blades, each a foot long, shot from talismans thrown by two Qi Condensation cultivators, flashing once before striking the black ape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint black aura swirled over the ape’s body, deflecting both wind blades effortlessly—unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s a Qi Condensation peak beast!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, and sensing the terrifying energy radiating from the black aura, the cultivators paled; abandoning the other monkeys, they turned all their attention to this dire foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some chanted incantations frantically, forming hand seals; others hurled talismans that transformed into ice spikes and fireballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Qi Condensation level-four cultivator drew a short sword from his sleeve, covered in talismans, which shot forward as a streak of cold light—a talisman sword, usable even by low-level cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black giant ape, seeing the barrage of attacks, inhaled deeply mid-air, then roared with full force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blinding white sonic wave erupted from its mouth—every ice spike, fireball, and the talisman sword’s cold light shattered and scattered, unable to come within a hair’s breadth of the ape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No—this isn’t peak, it’s a perfected beast!\" cried the Qi Condensation mid-stage cultivator who’d thrown the talisman sword, his face filled with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfected Qi Condensation beast? No match for these mid- and low-level cultivators—even if they all died fighting, it wouldn’t be enough to stop one swipe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, from a patch of white cloud high above, a metallic \"clang\" rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A streak of emerald-and-crimson light surged from the clouds, flashed once before reaching the black giant ape, circled it once, then vanished back into the white cloud as a long rainbow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black giant ape froze mid-air; then, from its waist, it split cleanly in two, crashing to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once-formidable Qi Condensation perfected beast had been slain in an instant by that single rainbow sweep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Foundation Establishment elder intervened!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Elder, for your aid!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi Condensation cultivators, seeing this, rejoiced and bowed deeply toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civilian guards erupted in cheers; the black monkeys and gray-white apes let out mournful cries, abandoning their attack and fleeing in disarray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a bone skiff floating in the white clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu reached out with one hand, and the emerald-and-crimson rainbow transformed into a jet-black long blade, resting in his grasp—the blade’s surface faintly shimmered with emerald and crimson inscription shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wang Daoist, your weapon control is exquisite. This Qi Condensation perfected Ironback Gray Ape may not be much, but it excels in evasion—it can vanish underground at the slightest disturbance. Not a waste that I dragged you here to wait half a day.\" The young man named Yan, standing beside him on the bone skiff, smiled lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’d acted yourself, you’d have taken it more easily. But I didn’t expect your sect’s patrol officers also handle beast-slaying duties,\" Wang Yu replied calmly, then flipped his palm—the black blade vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>",1048,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9a1cede6442eabe99a9d7df1f5d98f2004d3670f270a289dd29f78bc32b0dd55","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-482","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-480",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]