[{"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-499":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},2320431,4537,"Chapter 499","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-499",499,"\u003Cp>Half a day later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a protruding cliff halfway up Jinghuo Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching Yan Tu and Mu Bo depart, Wang Yu flipped his hand once, and a palm-sized disc suddenly appeared in his grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the forbidden array disc for the Jinghuo Peak cave dwelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this artifact, he could freely enter and exit his chosen cave dwelling without being blocked by the outer forbidden barriers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu played with the disc for a moment, then turned around to look behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, before the towering cliff face, drifted strands of shimmering crimson light, covering the entire cliff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Mu Bo’s explanation, this cave dwelling’s forbidden array was highly mysterious, composed of a special fire Sha  extracted from fire-crystal ore—it could block spiritual sense scans into the cave, and even manifest illusions of various fire beasts capable of inflicting serious harm on cultivators, even Foundation Establishment cultivators could not afford to underestimate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sha energy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, to cultivate the Black Tiger Breathing Method, he had struggled to obtain even a small vial of sha energy, needing to spend Spirit Stones or Contribution Points to exchange for it within the Four Symbols Sect; now that he had joined Jinghuo Peak, even the cave’s forbidden array directly used fire-element sha energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bishui Palace was truly an Nascent Soul-level sect—no comparison to the Golden Core-level Four Symbols Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Bishui Palace’s thirteen Spirit Peaks, each hosting two to three Golden Core cultivators, the total number of Golden Core cultivators in Bishui Palace likely exceeded thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Four Symbols Sect had only three Golden Core cultivators; in sheer numbers alone, Bishui Palace outnumbered them tenfold, not to mention its one Nascent Soul elder residing within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Yu contemplated this, he sighed deeply, then strode forward, holding the disc, into the crimson mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, the gate in the cliff face slowly opened, and his figure vanished inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cave dwelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a chamber entirely built from raw fire-crystal ore, thick crimson mist, formed from fire spiritual energy, drifted through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu sat cross-legged atop a crimson, fiery jade stone, its interior faintly glowing with shifting crimson auroras, observing every detail of the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In each of the four corners stood a flowerpot, each containing a purple-red spiritual plant, about three feet tall, resembling coral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This purple-red plant continuously absorbed the nearby crimson mist and exhaled even more mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This coral-like plant was the Jinghuo Peak’s unique spiritual plant, “Fire Coral Tree”—it not only gathered fire spiritual energy but also purified it before releasing it, greatly benefiting those who cultivated fire-elemental techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Mu Bo, cultivating Fire Coral Trees was extremely difficult; they existed from Stage One to Stage Three, with higher stages offering better effects, but if deprived of fire spiritual energy, they withered rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse still, their growth cycle was exceptionally long—it took a hundred years to reach Stage One, three hundred years to advance from Stage One to Two, and a thousand years to reach Stage Three; thus, there were barely any Stage Three Fire Coral Trees on the entire Jinghuo Peak, and only a few cave dwellings even possessed Stage Two ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s gaze shifted upward, seeing a fist-sized, milky-white pearl embedded in the crimson, crystalline ceiling, continuously emitting fine threads of cool, milky-white mist, keeping the chamber’s temperature consistently moderate despite its inherent heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down again and saw, beneath the massive jade stone, a faintly glowing array etched across the floor, its light patterns barely visible, nearly covering the entire chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was part of a Spirit Gathering Array—slightly different from the small Spirit Gathering Array of the Four Symbols Sect, yet far more effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his spiritual perception, spiritual energy within a li radius was drawn toward this chamber, surging in relentlessly, allowing him to feel pure spiritual energy cleansing his body with every breath, even slightly mending his damaged meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was without any other auxiliary cultivation methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu exhaled slowly, his thoughts turning again to the cave’s independent alchemy and artifact forging chambers, and even the private spiritual herb garden covering an acre nearby, along with several spiritual fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the power of a Nascent Soul sect—even a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s cave dwelling far surpassed what ordinary sects could offer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After marveling, Wang Yu finally gathered his thoughts and turned his mind back to his experience in the mysterious space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After emerging from that space, he had quietly checked his body and spiritual sea for any abnormalities, finding none—his experience of the blood cocoon and unknown energy invasion had indeed seemed like nothing more than a hallucination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one thing left him unsettled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the face of the woman who had stepped out from the darkness within the blood cocoon—he had gasped in shock upon seeing it, yet now his mind held no memory of her features.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever he tried to recall her face from the darkness, all he could remember were those two strange, icy yellow eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the illusionary power of that yellow eye be so overwhelming that mere illusions could alter memory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the entire experience within the blood cocoon was not an illusion at all, but something real—he had truly lived it, only for his spiritual sense to be tampered with by the unknown energy, altering certain memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu thought, troubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There seemed to be only one way to determine the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu sat cross-legged on the crimson jade stone and murmured, “Taiyuan, log in interface.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the most data-driven, most rational entity—the system representing a super-intelligent AI—could never be deceived by illusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu felt a flash of white light, and suddenly found himself in a silver hall, beside which stood a metal chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hands and looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Helena had transferred the bio-simulation ability, she had infused it into his body as a spirit-energy through a passionate kiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the ability was one-time use, and the foreign energy vanished completely upon entering his body with no further sensation, he had simply ignored it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, to verify whether the blood cocoon experience was real, he needed to attempt activating this ability within the login interface and see if any anomalies occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the instructions and activation method embedded in the bio-simulation spirit energy, this ability operated in two stages: the first was controlling and replicating biological cells, the second was deforming and simulating those already-controlled cells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two stages could be completed in one go, or activated separately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the blood cocoon experience was not an illusion, he did not know at which stage the system had utilized this ability—he could only reactivate it himself to find out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang.” “Bang.” “Bang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bio-Simulation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu raised one arm and rapidly struck three palm blows against the area over his heart, then spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body remained unchanged, showing no abnormality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had this ability truly been consumed, or had it never been used at all—must it be activated in the real world, against a spiritual beast, to function?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If so, he might waste this rare, one-time ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet compared to confirming the truth of the blood cocoon experience, it might be acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Yu’s thoughts raced, he suddenly heard a “thump-thump, thump-thump” sound in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart was beating violently, inexplicably!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, before he could react, his blood boiled, his skin burned with pain, and countless threads of blood burst from his body, curling around him in an instant, wrapping him completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witnessing this familiar scene, feeling his heart’s violent pounding, Wang Yu was shocked and furious—but made no resistance. Instead, he gritted his teeth, sat cross-legged on the ground, and let the blood threads erupting from within him swiftly encase him in a massive blood cocoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, his cultivation energy and spiritual power had recovered considerably, and since he was within the login interface space, he could leave and reset himself at any moment—he decided to let the cocoon form fully and see what would happen.\u003C\u002Fp>",1352,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d800c7732d9be33b24b4eeb1f426340520dce532768ef599a65107a14985e6b9","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-500","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-498",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]