[{"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-528":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},2320460,4537,"Chapter 528","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-528",528,"\u003Cp>Yan Lingxiang had just walked over, his gaze falling on Li Fengquan and the other like a blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, if it isn’t Master Yan as well—what an unexpected honor.” The gray-robed elder recognized Yan Lingxiang; seeing him approach, his face softened with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Wei, Wang’s younger brother is the direct disciple of the Master of Pure Fire Peak at our Bi Shui Palace—he’s never set foot in Qixing Stone Shop before. You can’t afford to ignore him.” Yan Lingxiang bowed to the gray-robed elder, his tone laden with implication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So Master Wang is a direct disciple of your palace’s Golden Core true immortal? My apologies for my earlier oversight.” Wei Lao’s expression shifted in surprise, and he bowed again to Wang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Wei, my master is Gong Xianyi—have you heard of him?” Li Fengquan spoke slowly to the gray-robed elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gong Xianyi? The Towered Ancestor! Are you a disciple of Elder Gong?” Wei Lao’s face changed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct. Master Gong is the sole direct descendant of my ancestor. The spiritual technique that triggered earlier? She’s only just begun cultivating it and lost control—it was merely a misunderstanding.” Li Fengquan spoke calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A misunderstanding?” Wei Lao’s expression grew hesitant, clearly uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, Wang Yu heard Yan Lingxiang’s voice whisper directly into his ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Younger brother, the Towered Ancestor is a well-known wandering true immortal in the Luanspirit Domain—unpredictably righteous or unrighteous, but he cultivates an extremely powerful earth-based divine art. He once faced off against a true immortal from the Spirit Puppet Sect and held his own—so his reputation among wandering cultivators is formidable. Qixing Stone Shop won’t risk offending him lightly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu’s expression remained unchanged, but his eyes flickered twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Wang and I are, in fact, old acquaintances. How about this: any chaos stone you choose from this collection, I’ll buy and gift you three as compensation for Master Gong’s mistake.” Li Fengquan spoke again, turning his gaze to Wang Yu, his face still utterly expressionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Wang, what do you think?” Wei Lao paused, then asked Wang Yu slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since Master Li has spoken so, and I’ve suffered no real harm, then so be it.” Wang Yu didn’t hesitate, giving a slight nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Li Fengquan, how dare you…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Gong, have you forgotten what our master instructed us before we left?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Mingzhu, overhearing their exchange, had been furious and ready to rebuke—but Li Fengquan’s cold next words silenced her instantly, her face flushing alternately pale and crimson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent. Since both parties are willing to settle this themselves, it’s best this way.” Wei Lao’s expression eased, and he agreed readily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This bag of mid-grade spirit stones will be left here at your shop. Once Master Wang has chosen his chaos stones, use these to settle the account. If there’s any surplus, I’ll come by in a few days to collect it. My sister and I take our leave.” Li Fengquan flicked his wrist, tossing the spirit stone bag to Wei Lao, then departed with the fuming Gong Mingzhu, walking out the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Lao scanned the spirit stones in the bag with his spiritual sense, nodded, and tossed the bag to the first attendant standing nearby, then said to Wang Yu:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Wang, you may freely choose three chaos stones from here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, he bowed to the other guests in the hall and called out loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The matter here is resolved. Please continue selecting your stones. I hope the earlier incident didn’t disturb your enjoyment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the gray-robed elder bowed once more to Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang before gliding away from the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other guests in the hall, seeing this, withdrew their gazes and returned to their own affairs, as if unaffected at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Younger brother Wang, you seem to have excellent fortune today—did nothing at all and already someone’s giving you chaos stones.” Yan Lingxiang chuckled after Wei Lao had left far enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Free things are never this easy to take. I may have already offended a Golden Core true immortal.” Wang Yu glanced at Yan Lingxiang and sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph, just a wandering true immortal—what’s there to fear? It’s that Gong Mingzhu who’s afraid of offending Bi Shui Palace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, if you were truly afraid of offending someone, would you have shattered her spiritual technique and caused her to suffer backlash?” Yan Lingxiang snorted, then gave Wang Yu a skeptical look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, he thought Wang Yu’s words were insincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Yan, you misunderstand me. I’ve always followed the principle: if others don’t provoke me, I won’t provoke them.” Wang Yu smiled in reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough with the polite talk. Since someone’s paying for your stones, pick wisely. I just spotted a good one—feels like a high-risk, high-reward stone. Want to take a look?” Yan Lingxiang clearly didn’t believe him, but his eyes darted as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? If it’s something you’ve chosen, I must see it.” Wang Yu replied without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then follow me, younger brother.” Yan Lingxiang led Wang Yu eagerly toward a nearby stone pedestal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chaos stone on the pedestal was small, no larger than a washbasin, its surface a pale green with faint silver specks shimmering through—strikingly eye-catching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The green rind means this chaos stone didn’t fall from the heavens recently—it’s been buried in damp earth for years. These silver specks are the legendary Silver Sand of Treasures, the kind most fond of clinging to natural spiritual objects. Though sparse, the probability this stone contains a spiritual material is quite high.” Yan Lingxiang pointed at the stone with enthusiasm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Are you so certain?” Wang Yu studied the stone several times, blinking as if doubtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, based on my past experience, the chance of this chaos stone yielding a spiritual material is at least twenty percent. But if I use my Treasure Rod to check further, and it confirms, that adds another ten percent.” Yan Lingxiang said seriously, then carefully withdrew from his sleeve a strange artifact: a crystal rod, translucent and gleaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One end was wrapped in gold foil; the other inlaid with a blue jade the size of a thumb, its surface swirling faintly with white mist—deeply mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crystal rod’s mystery drew Wang Yu’s gaze, and he stared harder—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could examine it closely,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Lingxiang gripped the blue jade end and tapped the chaos stone lightly with the gold-foiled end—*thump*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the once-clear crystal rod shimmered with several white rune shadows, then glowed faintly blue, enveloping the entire chaos stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Lingxiang’s eyes widened, scanning every inch of the stone’s surface within the blue aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[45] Wang Yu rubbed his chin, watching the stone with interest—deep within his pupils, a faint yellow talismanic pattern flickered and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>",1120,"2026-06-20T15:44:32.565Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","20b80f68f0fe11c1f36ea29f695a406b6921b9cee3899a3527756c82ed03d17e","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-529","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-527",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]