[{"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-502":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},2320434,4537,"Chapter 502: The Skin of the Blood Cocoon","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-502",502,"\u003Cp>The next moment, Wang Yu’s heart pounded violently again, and countless blood filaments burst from his body, enveloping him and the small vial in his hand, then coalescing into a massive blood cocoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cocoon, Wang Yu closed his eyes, and his spiritual sense once more sensed the giant law pattern, adorned with over a thousand symbols.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This law pattern seemed detectable only upon entering the cocoon—likely inscribed somewhere within the cocoon’s structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, he pressed one finger to his brow and released all his spiritual intent outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, a hand wrapped in golden mist sliced through the cocoon’s interior like a blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A palm-sized hole appeared on the cocoon’s surface; a piece of cocoon skin of equal size fell away, but before it could drop, a silver light swept over it, and Wang Yu used his mental force to draw it into the mysterious talisman, scanning it with a thread of spiritual awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cocoon skin now lay within the talisman’s storage space, hardening rapidly, turning in an instant into a rough-surfaced, dark red, hardened hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that brief moment, the hole on the cocoon was once again sealed by dense blood filaments, and the interior darkened anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu withdrew his spiritual awareness from the mysterious talisman, glanced at the small vial in his hand, hesitated slightly, then opened the lid and swallowed the essence-blood in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant the essence-blood entered his abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His stomach “whooshed” as if ignited—searing, intense energy surged in all directions through his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the unknown biological energy within him awoke as a freezing force, striking like a predator and immediately rushing toward the scorching energy born from the essence-blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More cold filaments erupted from within the cocoon and sank into Wang Yu’s body; the dormant Iron-Eating Beast bloodline buried deep within him also awoke and joined the fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three extraordinary forces alternately devoured and fused together, forming a violently chaotic power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s mind was weighed down by a heavy drowsiness, yet every part of his body screamed with tearing pain—he felt his flesh like a waking volcano, ready to erupt at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu muttered inwardly, quickly forming hand seals, intending to mobilize his internal Qi to forcibly suppress the anomalies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was too late!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cocoon exploded outward from within, spraying blood and flesh everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was utterly shattered by the explosive force within him, his limbs torn apart and scattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sealed chamber, Wang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, frantically patting his body—he found no injury, still intact as before entering the login interface—and exhaled a long breath of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never imagined that drinking Xiao Bai’s essence-blood and activating the unknown biological energy would have such terrifying consequences—his body had simply ruptured under the explosive force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, as his body shattered within the login interface, his consciousness still issued a command and logged out immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this also deepened his understanding of the login interface space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that even if the body within the login interface was destroyed, the spiritual soul could still exist independently for a time—though the experience was certainly unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, even a Qi Condensation cultivator whose body was destroyed could survive for a while if they had a suitable spiritual soul artifact to inhabit—though only briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his knowledge, only cultivators who reached the Golden Core stage could rely on their Golden Core to anchor their spiritual soul, allowing it to endure for decades—far beyond ordinary comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Nascent Soul experts, having already formed their Nascent Soul, they no longer valued their original bodies; with just a Nascent Soul body, they could roam beyond heaven and earth, truly free from the constraints of the mortal realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if a mid- or high-level cultivator’s body was destroyed and they possessed a special spiritual soul secret art, they might attempt soul usurpation—finding a new suitable body, devouring or dispersing its original soul, and taking it for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet soul usurpation, though appealing in theory, had too many restrictions; successful cases were exceedingly rare, and even when successful, it left irreversible, grave flaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Major sects in the cultivation world publicly discouraged soul usurpation, even strictly forbidding it, labeling it a demonic cultivation method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, how these sects truly enforced such rules was another matter entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The login interface perfectly simulated the real world—if his spiritual soul could truly exist independently within it, did that mean he could experience spiritual soul separation before even reaching Golden Core?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu pondered thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though this trial within the login interface had failed, it proved the attempt was viable—at least the unknown biological energy did affect other bloodlines, and even ingesting essence-blood directly could trigger its effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since damage to his body within the login interface did not affect his real-world flesh, he naturally dared to try again with greater boldness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This failure was clearly due to consuming too much of Xiao Bai’s essence-blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, if he reduced the amount ingested, might he avoid self-explosion and activate the legendary Dragonblood?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu knew success wouldn’t be this simple, but he could certainly continue trying—there was no worse consequence to fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the real world, he could simply follow the login interface’s procedure to activate the unknown biological energy and successfully trigger a second awakening of his Iron-Eating Crocodile bloodline, gaining Stone Armor and Copper Skin, Iron Bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Iron-Eating Crocodile was a low-tier beast; even a second awakening offered limited benefits. Yet if he could use this unknown biological energy to awaken the legendary Dragonblood, it would be entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the most powerful of beasts, even awakening a third-rank Gray Dragon bloodline would catapult his power to new heights, granting countless advantages for future cultivation and breakthroughs to higher realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely why, upon discovering the unknown energy’s effect, he had unhesitatingly risked fusing Xiao Bai’s essence-blood within the login interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Bai was not a Dragon, but had consumed ancestral Dragonblood—and not ordinary Dragonblood at that—so after multiple bloodline awakenings, its essence-blood now concealed a special ability: consuming lifespan to accelerate cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he kept his distance from this ability, he could not deny its staggering power—and thus his longing for Dragonblood grew stronger. If he had a chance to awaken such a bloodline, he would never let it slip away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu made his decision—yet just as he prepared to re-enter the login interface, a profound fatigue surged through his spiritual sea, startling him into immediately abandoning the idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past days, he had drained much spiritual energy deciphering the law symbols on the yellow eyeball, and just now had entered the login interface twice in succession—his mental exhaustion was only natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately ceased all other activities, took a censer from his storage pouch, inserted a thick black incense stick, lit it, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes swiftly in the faint scent of sandalwood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tomorrow, he must meet Yan Tu—he hoped to recover some spirit tonight, so he could face his new master in the best possible state.\u003C\u002Fp>",1188,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","27bbcf2a3d967f5015dd8b16fca429efc98c182c82f34ab16daff1688fc1dd93","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-503","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-501",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]