[{"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-492":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},2320424,4537,"Chapter 492","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-492",492,"\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s gaze sharpened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the woman’s hand was a small, white-boned finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it shook, the bone finger erupted in an unfamiliar aura, flickered once, then vanished into the black giant talisman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the giant black talisman wavered and silently drifted downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman swept her long sleeve, and the massive talisman shrank rapidly, vanishing into her sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the wooden door slowly opened outward, faint white light seeping from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If not now, when?” The woman flickered behind Wang Yu, spoke softly, then slapped his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu felt a tremendous force surge from behind; he shifted his intent instantly, offered no resistance, and his body rose involuntarily into the wide-open wooden door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu felt a swirl of white light before his eyes, his legs suddenly plunged into sand and soil; when he looked up, astonishment flashed across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around was a vast yellow expanse; as far as his eyes could see, nothing but sand and gravel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was standing in a desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu turned and looked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wooden door that should have been behind him was gone entirely; it was as if he had appeared here directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of surprise crossed Wang Yu’s face; after a moment’s thought, he touched his brow with one finger and released his spiritual sense, sweeping it across the surrounding desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as soon as his spiritual sense left his body by more than a few feet, it grew heavy—so heavy it felt like sinking into mud, moving with excruciating slowness, and the farther it traveled, the heavier it became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once his spiritual sense extended beyond ten or so feet, it could not reach any farther.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s a restriction!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu raised an eyebrow, retracted his spiritual sense, gazed again at the distant emptiness, then his expression turned thoughtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where is the innate spiritual artifact?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, that Chai He Feng had said the innate spiritual artifact’s form seemed peculiar—each cultivator perceived it differently. Could it truly change its form at will?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Yu pondered, he looked up at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens were cloudless, uniformly gray, with only a single yellow halo suspended high above, casting enough light to make the space dim yet still as bright as day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu studied it closely, found nothing unusual, then lowered his head to examine the sand beneath him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puff. Puff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled his feet free from the soft sand, leaving two foot-deep pits in the ground—as if this were truly an ordinary desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu narrowed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, since entering here, he had always felt something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something felt unbalanced; everything gave him a sense of falseness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes—it was the sound!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from his own noises, the desert was utterly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even the wind, nor the rustle of shifting sand, reached his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu suddenly looked up again at the yellow halo in the sky and whispered, “Overclock.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, deep within his pupils, faint crystalline light appeared; his senses surged, everything around slowed to a crawl, and his mind accelerated at an unimaginable frequency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the gray sky grew sharp, then roughened—everything became overlaid with mosaic-like, semi-transparent crystalline patterns, then blurred beyond recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Wang Yu formed a hand seal, widened his eyes, and within his pupils appeared a yellow spiritual pattern; everything within his gaze was instantly tinged with a pale yellow aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Crack.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the mosaic patterns on the surroundings thickened, everything shattered like glass, revealing a vast new world of birdsong and blooming flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was refreshingly clean, the birdsong sweetly melodic, even the scent of grass and trees carried a faint sweetness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s pupils contracted; his body froze rigid on the newly appeared grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For mere feet before him stood a colossal beast, taller than a ten-story building, staring down at him with unblinking intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The yellow halo he had seen in the sky was, in truth, the beast’s lone remaining eye—yellow and cloudy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its other eye was a hollow black pit, long since blind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast’s skin was thick and deeply wrinkled, entirely gray-black, devoid of scales; its mouth was enormous and elongated, its teeth like giant blades; its forelimbs were short but razor-sharp like scythes; its hind legs were thick as steel pillars, and it bore a long, massive tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a Tyrannosaurus rex—only possible in the Jurassic era of Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu stared at the nightmare beast buried deep in his memory, almost smelling the foul stench exhaled from its jaws; his limbs grew cold, his chest pounded—but a strange urge to laugh rose within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a cultivation world, a Tyrannosaurus rex—long extinct on Blue Star—appeared before him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This beast was his childhood nightmare, motionless now like a puppet, yet so lifelike that even in overclock mode, he could detect no trace of falseness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was absurd beyond reason!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a light breeze blew—and the Tyrannosaurus rex, a creature from a Blue Star horror film, crumbled piece by piece into ash, dissolving into the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a yellow eyeball, the size of an infant’s head, remained—its pupil long and ink-black, still fixed on Wang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu did not move; within his pupils, the yellow spiritual pattern slowly rotated as he stared at the massive eyeball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in his overclock vision, the surface of the yellow eyeball was now covered in countless tiny eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All were identical yellow orbs with ink-black pupils—some slowly opening with a lazy gaze, others frantically blinking in warning, still others unmoving yet crisscrossed with blood vessels, radiating murderous intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of these smaller eyes on the giant eyeball expressed a completely different emotion—enough to make one’s scalp crawl and cold sweat rise down the spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s expression remained unchanged, but inwardly he drew a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this be the so-called innate spiritual artifact of Bishui Palace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Wang Yu’s gaze, the eyes on the eyeball began vanishing one by one; in moments, only one half-open eye remained—it slowly rotated on the surface, then transformed into a blurred, crimson, eerie symbol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant Wang Yu’s spiritual sense touched the crimson symbol, his spirit was instantly drawn into it; his gaze could not shift an inch, and his overclocked mind, after a slight pause, automatically began deciphering the unfamiliar crimson symbol—no other thought could enter his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>",1074,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d745d5b0c7a02d975bf6fc9f8593f3c03d68b678122c7fbc98acd0d538d156bb","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-493","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-491",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]