[{"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-83":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},2320015,4537,"Chapter 83","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-83",83,"\u003Cp>“Yes, disciple thanks the Ancestor and Senior Brother for your kindness; I will certainly train diligently in the Inner Sect and strive to one day reach Foundation Establishment.” Wang Yu sensed the Senior Brother’s coldness, his heart skipped a beat, yet he bowed respectfully as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do as you will. If you truly reach Foundation Establishment one day, it won’t have been for nothing that the Ancestor made an exception for you.” The Senior Brother nodded, then departed with the woman in blue behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu stood where he was, watching them fly away from the cliff with continued deference on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, weren’t you originally planning to have me look after Brother Wang a bit? Why did you just…?” On the white mist, the woman in blue asked the red-haired man ahead of her, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tianqi, I’m about to enter seclusion. I did intend for you to look after this Brother Wang, since his soul was damaged and he was personally entrusted to me by the Ancestor—I couldn’t simply abandon him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But now that he’s recovered fully, there’s no need for me to trouble myself further. Too much favoritism might make others think I’m deliberately currying favor with the Ancestor.” The Senior Brother replied coolly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see. Then what do you think of Brother Wang? After all, disciples entering the Inner Sect at early-stage Qi Refinement are rare in the Four Symbols Sect over the past decades.” The woman in blue nodded, then asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else is there to think? Our sect’s rule is clear: any Inner Sect disciple who hasn’t reached late-stage Qi Refinement by age thirty automatically loses their status. Let him pass this test first.” The Senior Brother replied calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“True. Though Brother Wang has a top-grade elemental affinity, he’s still a four-elemental root—his cultivation speed is much slower than ours. With only over a decade left, advancing from early-stage to late-stage Qi Refinement is indeed difficult for him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But if Brother Wang truly reaches late-stage Qi Refinement, with his top-grade affinity, his strength would likely rank among the top Inner Sect disciples.” The woman in blue nodded thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For a four-elemental root to reach late-stage Qi Refinement, self-cultivation alone is virtually impossible—he must rely on pills and other external aids. But the resources required would be more than most small or medium-sized immortal families could afford.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once he loses his Inner Sect status, his cultivation will slow further—he’ll no longer be in the same world as you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My earlier care for him was merely to satisfy the Ancestor. You needn’t pay him any attention from now on. Your priority is to reach Qi Refinement Great Completion as soon as possible.” The Senior Brother instructed the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman in blue readily agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu sat cross-legged on the stone bed, a drop of Spirit Gathering Elixir just dripping onto his brow, his hands resting on his knees, faint red light flickering across his skin as he channeled the third layer of the Fire Spirit Art, drawing in heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had decided: before reaching Qi Refinement Mid-Stage, he would devote himself entirely to advancing the Fire Spirit Art to the fourth layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Wang Yu’s spiritual sense, each inhalation and exhalation drew in all spiritual energy within a dozen zhang, yet immediately more flooded into the surrounding void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So dense was the spiritual energy that faint white mist formed near his body, continuously seeping into his nose and mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this the Inner Sect’s cultivation chamber?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such pure heavenly and earthly spiritual energy—cultivating here for one day equals ten days outside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly feel that with each breath, his internal cultivation energy increased slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was even with his four-elemental root. If he were a three-elemental or even a dual-elemental root, the effect would be even more astonishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was thrilled—and he noticed that the Fire Spirit Art flowed far more smoothly and naturally than the Yin Water Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an hour and a half, his spiritual sense was too depleted to maintain focus, forcing him to exit cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu checked his dwindling mental energy, frowning deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, insufficient mental energy was limiting his cultivation duration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Increasing daily cultivation time would be one way to improve efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, his only way to raise mental energy was passively, during breakthroughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, he had brought back from Blue Star a technique called “Star Mind Art,” said to greatly enhance mental energy—though he wasn’t sure if it would work in this immortal world, or how well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Yu pondered this, his eyes half-closed, the first-layer cultivation method of the Star Mind Art surfaced in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star Mind Art’s method wasn’t complex, but required cultivation at specific times, aided by specific items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The timing was easy, but the required item—“Star Stone”—was problematic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the technique’s instructions, Star Stone was a meteorite imbued with special energy. On Blue Star, roughly one in ten meteorites was a Star Stone, and each Star Mind cultivation consumed large quantities of it, with consumption increasing the deeper one progressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did this immortal world have Star Stones?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu wasn’t certain, but he’d have to find out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Wang Yu reached into his robe and pulled out a white message talisman. He flicked it into the wind, and it transformed into a palm-sized white light disc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu quickly spoke several words to the light disc. Moments later, Zhou Chu’s voice emerged from it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Wang, if you wish to purchase special materials, there are two places in the sect you can go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One is the General Affairs Hall where you picked up your supplies last time—it has a ‘Spiritual Goods Pavilion’ that trades all kinds of resources, but prices aren’t cheaper than the outside markets, and some rare materials require sufficient merit to obtain. Still, the goods are genuine, no fake quality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The other is a small internal market formed spontaneously by sect disciples, where they trade resources they don’t want to sell to the Spiritual Goods Pavilion. This market is only active at night; no one comes during the day. Its location is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the light disc finished transmitting Zhou Chu’s words, Wang Yu quickly thanked him, and with a soft “pop,” it shattered and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu immediately rose and left the stone chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing at the cliff’s edge, he flipped his hand, and a tiny toy-like bird emerged. He tossed it into the air before him, and with a flash of spiritual light, it transformed into a yellow mechanical bird half a zhang long, entirely assembled from bamboo and wood, light and exquisitely crafted, with faint red spiritual inscriptions on its body and a white spiritual stone embedded in its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu grinned. Until he learned a teleportation technique or mastered a flying artifact, he could only rely on these standard-issue mechanical birds for travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, when he collected his supplies from the General Affairs Hall last time, he’d learned how to pilot this device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he stepped onto the bird’s back, pressed his hand against its neck, and sent a thread of spiritual sense into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the bird’s eyes glowed white, its wooden wings began to flap, faster and faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoosh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mechanical bird carried Wang Yu off the cliff, heading straight for another mountain peak.\u003C\u002Fp>",1226,"2026-06-20T15:44:30.991Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e1a63089a66881fb7a4745b9ba220dfb368b0685b0205c6f8c48bd7412661839","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-84","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-82",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]