Chapter 931: Shocking Discovery (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Floating Shadow Star Island is an old-established star island that has long condensed the world’s primordial source.

In terms of rank, it is already a mid-world, but because it has not drawn in the Star River’s manifestation, it is unaffected by the myriad cosmic rules of the Star River’s manifestation.

Both Emperor Jun and True Person can enter and exit freely.

But because it possesses the world’s primordial source and the authority of heaven and earth, its defenses have become extremely strong.

Like Changxing Star Island, after merging with Chi Feng Star Island, it condensed the world’s primordial source and attained the rank of a small world, yet because it has not drawn in the Star River’s manifestation, all powerful cultivators may enter and exit freely.

At the same time, the endorsement of heaven and earth's authority is greater, and those who have assimilated this authority fight more powerfully on their home ground.

There are several other star islands like Floating Shadow and Changxing that have condensed such a rank.

They are all slowly accumulating Star Realm fragments, gradually enhancing themselves.

The reason is simple: drawing a star island that has reached mid-world or small-world rank into the Star River’s manifestation holds little value.

In the Star River’s manifestation, small worlds are as numerous as hairs, and pulling them out has no value whatsoever.

Mid-worlds are relatively rarer, but those with the ability to draw such star islands out as fiefs are at least high-grade True Persons, even Emperors.

So what meaning is there in drawing out a mid-world he himself cannot enter or preside over?

Aside from those on their deathbeds seeking to leave a fief to their family, no one does this.

They are all slowly accumulating, waiting for these star islands to continuously merge Star Realm fragments until they attain the rank of a great world before being drawn out.

Floating Shadow Star Island is precisely such an old-established star island.

Because Grand Marshal Kongyuan Emperor Jun originally petitioned to grant Floating Shadow Star Island to his deceased disciple, True Person Floating Shadow, this star island, though old-established, has no Emperor Jun watching over it or managing it.

If it is destined to never be taken out even after attaining great-world rank, why bother managing it?

Thus, the one who governs Floating Shadow Star Island is an Eighth-Catastrophe True Person.

This has greatly reduced Xu Jin’s troubles.

If an Emperor Jun were guarding it—especially one who wields heaven and earth’s authority—Xu Jin’s infiltration might have been detected.

At this moment, Xu Jin has silently arrived within the Lu Clan’s Wangcheng on Floating Shadow Star Island.

Floating Shadow Star Island belongs to the Lu Clan’s fief, the original portion granted by petition; later additions, however, do not belong to Floating Shadow Lu.

Yet due to Grand Marshal Kongyuan’s connection, the Floating Shadow Lu clan here holds no less power than a true king.

Compared to frontline star islands like Changxing, Floating Shadow Star Island is densely populated, with tens of millions of ordinary mortals living here.

Xu Jin’s hidden-star technique is useless before Emperors and True Persons who have transformed their Nascent Souls, but it works perfectly against ordinary people and Star Juniors whose Dao Embryo cultivation is weaker than his.

At the Star Junior level, Xu Jin considers his Dao Embryo cultivation invincible.

Not only did he previously break through only after reaching the absolute limit of each stage, but now, eleven Purple Yuan Bone Veins have been forged—his Dao Embryo cultivation is certainly unmatched by any Star Junior.

Under these circumstances, with Ming Qianchu’s assistance, Xu Jin infiltrated the Lu Clan’s Wangcheng without incident.

The Lu Clan still has one True Person guest advisor stationed here—a Fourth-Catastrophe True Person—and no one else.

Just fifteen minutes after infiltrating the Lu Clan’s Wangcheng, Xu Jin had already located the descendants of True Person Floating Shadow and, after dream-interrogating several guards, gathered much information.

Deng Kui’s knowledge, though extensive, was somewhat outdated.

For instance, True Person Floating Shadow actually had two bloodline descendants: a son and a daughter. His son, Lu Zhan, is forty-five this year, specializes in space, and is a Yu Star Junior—a gifted cultivator who specializes in space.

His daughter, Lu Qi, is thirty-nine, currently at the peak of Minor Star Junior, having only reached the Tenth-Rank Star Junior five or six years ago.

But perhaps due to True Person Floating Shadow’s bloodline, both son and daughter possess excellent cultivation talent, especially in space cultivation.

In fact, Lu Qi also specializes in space.

Xu Jin concealed himself and observed within the Lu Clan’s Wangcheng for over an hour, gaining no significant findings.

Although True Person Floating Shadow had one son and one daughter, their direct relatives were few.

His wife, it is said, died of excessive grief and sorrow after hearing of True Person Floating Shadow’s death.

His mother, Lady Lu, is the highest-ranking elder in the Lu family.

But after True Person Floating Shadow died in battle, she wept until she went blind and is now a ninety-year-old blind old woman.

Had she not possessed some cultivation back then, she would likely have passed away long ago.

“It seems… nothing is unusual!”

After observing for a long while without discovering anything, Xu Jin prepared to leave.

But as he was about to depart, a sudden thought struck him.

It was deep night, quiet and still; both Lu Zhan and Lu Qi were cultivating, and both had activated their alert arrays, preventing Xu Jin from acting.

The Lu Clan’s Wangcheng alert array allowed Xu Jin to slip in due to constant comings and goings.

But such alert arrays guarding individual private chambers were beyond Xu Jin’s ability to infiltrate.

Since the idea had formed, Xu Jin decided to try it, so he waited patiently.

Even Xu Jin, with the Dream-Star Glyph’s enhancement, still requires half an hour of sleep each day during his rigorous cultivation.

How much more so for other cultivators without the Dream-Star Glyph?

Of course, cultivators above Tenth Rank can go long periods without sleep, but during daily cultivation, they still need sleep to recover somewhat.

After waiting calmly for an hour, Xu Jin noticed Lu Zhan first ended his cultivation and headed to his bedroom to rest.

As he disbanded the alert array, Xu Jin’s spiritual sense extended out, the Dream-Star Glyph instantly activated, and Lu Zhan immediately collapsed into sleep.

Although Lu Zhan is also a Yu Star Junior, his Dao Embryo cultivation is far from complete, and the gap between his cultivation and Xu Jin’s is undeniably multiple-fold.

There is no doubt about this.

In the next instant, Xu Jin began dream-interrogating Lu Zhan and asked the question that had been weighing heavily on his mind.

“Lu Zhan, have you cultivated the Yuan Domain Divine Art?”

Initially, Xu Jin had never considered this possibility.

But upon infiltrating Floating Shadow Star Island and discovering that both of True Person Floating Shadow’s children specialized in space, he suddenly had this thought.

He simply wanted to ask.

Lu Zhan’s answer immediately froze Xu Jin’s expression.

He continued the interrogation and received even more answers.

He had cultivated it—since just after he broke through to Tenth-Rank Star Junior twelve years ago.

The one who taught him was no other.

It was his ancestral master, Grand Marshal Kongyuan Emperor Jun.

The cultivation method, the materials for forging the Divine Art, including the Star Realm Source Core, were all provided by Kongyuan Emperor Jun.

Likewise, Kongyuan Emperor Jun instructed him not to tell anyone—not even his grandmother or his wife and children—just as Kongyuan had instructed Xu Jin.

The reason was similar, but with one additional half: his father, True Person Floating Shadow, was assassinated by an alien race, and this was connected to Kongyuan being his master—a fact that filled his teacher with profound regret and pain, so he absolutely did not want his disciple’s disciple to follow the same path.