[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-star-martial-era":3,"chapter-the-star-martial-era-the-star-martial-era-chapter-939":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Star Martial Era",{"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},2275797,4448,"Chapter 939: Forbidden Domain Source Flow (Requesting Monthly Votes)","the-star-martial-era-chapter-939",939,"\u003Cp>In the instant his body shattered, the Nascent Soul of the Spatial Emperor Yin Zhong involuntarily surfaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nascent Soul of an Emperor differs from that of a True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the moment it detached from the shattered body, a Nascent Soul over four zhang tall, radiating Dao resonance, appeared in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were filled with shock and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never expected to be defeated in such a trivial manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now there was no time to think of that—he only wanted to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an Emperor, a shattered body was not terrifying; as long as his Nascent Soul escaped alive, he still had a day to regroup and seek revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant his Nascent Soul left his body, Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul shrank instantly, and his spiritual sense simultaneously swept up his ruined body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that same instant, spatial ripples rose—he sought to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his movements were fast; Xu Jin’s actions were faster, and impossibly so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, the Chaos Cloud Tower had already descended above Emperor Yin Zhong’s head, and with a slight dip, chaotic starlight instantly enveloped the surrounding space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sealing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the Thunder-Attribute Sacred Artifact, Chaos Thunder Spear, and the Chaos Cloud Tower both flashed and spewed lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eightfold Thunder Disruption plus Fourfold Jia Wood Thunder Calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Wood Thunder Calamity was a thunder-based fused rule technique Xu Jin had recently comprehended, embodying the principle of Jia Wood generating thunder—extremely yang, extremely rigid—and could be activated by the Chaos Cloud Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under time acceleration, eight bolts of terrifying aura instantly converged like focused fire onto the Emperor Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With space sealed, Yin Zhong’s spatial teleportation failed; he barely attempted to flee via lightning, but the terrifying lightning struck his Nascent Soul, causing it to tremble violently—his second-transformation Nascent Soul began to melt like a candle under the thunderous assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sight shocked Emperor Yin Zhong; Xu Jin was equally stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was merely a Nascent Soul—his eightfold thunder rule technique!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frankly speaking, five or six Ninth-Catastrophe True Persons’ Nascent Souls would have been reduced to smoke and dropped their True Person Blood Crystals by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Emperor Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul merely melted slowly, like a candle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was far from being destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though stunned, Xu Jin’s hands moved without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under time acceleration, he continued the eightfold thunder rule technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same instant, Zhu Linxiao activated the Yutang Bi Technique once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Yutang Bi wind blew, a layer of blackish-green frost instantly formed on the surface of Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul, rendering it rigid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they let this Emperor’s Nascent Soul escape now, Xu Jin would suffer a massive loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, if this Emperor’s Nascent Soul escaped, the trouble would be immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this Silverwing Space Emperor’s two consecutive pursuits of him, Xu Jin could deduce that the Silverwing Clan possessed a secret method to track and locate him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a True Person who knew his secrets returned, next time it would be a targeted elite—and Xu Jin would be truly in danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Xu Jin’s myriad techniques, this Emperor might now find them mysterious and strange, but once he escaped and studied them carefully, he would inevitably uncover their nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, at this point, this Emperor must die—Xu Jin would kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Xu Jin had also noticed something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason this Emperor’s Nascent Soul was so resilient was due to the two silver rings now floating within his Nascent Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thunder rule technique had been devastatingly powerful—two strikes would have obliterated a Ninth-Catastrophe True Person’s Nascent Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, it should have been destroyed long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the instant Xu Jin’s thunder rule technique struck, the two silver rings encircling the Nascent Soul flashed and absorbed more than half of its power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly astonishing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though astonishing, Xu Jin felt no fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under time acceleration, he continuously activated the Chaos Cloud Tower to seal space and relentlessly hammered the Nascent Soul with thunder rule techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Linxiao assisted beside him with the Yutang Bi Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As this continued, only two breaths passed before Emperor Yin Zhong could no longer endure—fear deepened in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression grew increasingly terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not want to die here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was an Emperor, with a lifespan of at least ten thousand years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His life as an Emperor had only just begun—he absolutely did not want to die here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality gave him the sense of imminent death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was space sealed, but his Nascent Soul was constantly subjected to icy, bone-piercing winds that prevented any effective counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what crushed him further was the speed of the boy’s star technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossibly fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, even after his body shattered and his Nascent Soul fled, he would still have had a chance to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the same timeframe, his survival technique had barely begun to activate when the boy’s rule technique had already struck his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unbelievably fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse still, though his Nascent Soul was protected by Dao resonance, it was still melting rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He estimated that in two or three more breaths, he would…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly did not want to die—he had only become an Emperor thirty years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boy, I have a secret—will you spare my life for it?” In desperation, Emperor Yin Zhong pleaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin remained unmoved, his hands continuing to strike without pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, boy, let’s talk—I want to live!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Name your terms—give me a way out!” Emperor Yin Zhong transmitted another message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin still did not respond, continuing the time-accelerated thunder rule technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, Yin Zhong panicked—this boy was giving him no chance to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had endured so much hardship, cultivated for so many years, to become an Emperor—he did not want to…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I surrender! I’m willing to be a prisoner…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response to Emperor Yin Zhong’s plea came a deluge of thunderclaps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a desperate roar, Yin Zhong’s second-transformation Nascent Soul dissolved into smoke under the thunderbolts—his attempt to bargain had cost him even the chance to destroy his own Nascent Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, with Zhu Linxiao’s Yutang Bi active, he would have had no chance even without bargaining!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul turn to smoke, Xu Jin finally exhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Yin Zhong’s proposal had tempted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capturing a Space Emperor as a prisoner—just thinking of it was alluring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xu Jin dared not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the means to control a tiger, mounting it would only turn him into tiger dung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his Master were here, he might have tried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now he was not—Xu Jin and Zhu Linxiao had already exhausted every technique to defeat this Space Emperor, even draining all their accumulated resources from months in the Abyssal Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not know what other tricks an Emperor possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To capture him rashly would bring only fatal danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant Emperor Yin Zhong’s Nascent Soul was reduced to smoke, a stream of silver starlight suddenly appeared, like flowing water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon closer inspection, the silver starlight seemed to consist of two thin streams, each as thick as a thumb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin’s expression first showed surprise, then resignation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never seen this before—but he recognized it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days ago, when he met his Master, his Master had told him about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Forbidden Domain Source Flow, unique to Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the Forbidden Domain Source Flow pertained to the Great Dao, a portion of it surfaced when an Emperor died in battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a supreme treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing was rarer than Chaos Primordial Materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Forbidden Domain Source Flow contained the accumulated insights and fundamental Dao understanding of an Emperor’s entire life; more importantly, it was the key to entering a Forbidden Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it could not make one an Emperor, it allowed one to experience the Emperor realm and, under similar conditions, accelerate entry into related Forbidden Domain powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was priceless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this thing had one extremely lethal trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The origin of the Forbidden Domain Source Flow was the Great Dao River, so theoretically, only a Forbidden Domain Source Flow could absorb another Forbidden Domain Source Flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, only an Emperor could absorb the Forbidden Domain Source Flow of another dead Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No other force could absorb it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about asking someone else to absorb it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Forbidden Domain Source Flow originated from the Great Dao River and was fixed in number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it became ownerless, it would return spontaneously to the Great Dao River, reverting to an ownerless state, awaiting a destined individual to claim it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why Xu Jin felt so helpless now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his master’s words, this was the most precious bounty after slaying an Emperor-level cultivator, but he could not seal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, he could only watch helplessly as this domain source stream rapidly dissipated, returning to the Great Dao River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his master had said, once a domain source stream appeared, if it could not be sealed, it would typically return to the Great Dao River within ten breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, though his master had said not to, Xu Jin still wanted to try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To see if he could seal the spatial domain source stream of this Spatial Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Xu Jin began to attempt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine soul power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All elemental star forces, including the same-origin spatial star force, surged forward—but still could not seal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Xu Jin’s heart stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaotic star force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaotic star force might just work!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if that failed, the Chaotic Cloud Tower combined with Chaotic Star Miasma might still succeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the Chaotic Cloud Tower gently descended, and a vast expanse of Chaotic Star Miasma surged forth, wrapping around the spatial domain source stream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Xu Jin’s expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His prized Chaotic Star Miasma passed straight through the domain source stream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver spatial domain source stream remained right there—but utterly unsealable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling was strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a beam of light right before you—you want to grasp it, but your hand passes right through, no matter how you try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple: the gap in power level was too great!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, Xu Jin activated his final hope—the power of time—to seal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, still no good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It passed straight through again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Xu Jin’s face darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After enduring life and death, exhausting every last card to kill an Emperor, was he now to watch helplessly as the Emperor’s greatest bounty vanished, returning to the Great Dao River?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse still, if he let this slip now, then whenever he might kill an Emperor in the future, as long as his cultivation had not reached Emperor level, he would forever miss out on such rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>",1795,"2026-06-19T23:56:35.933Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e9f1ca8ab6b68608568d0e45ba3f152fda55316101b6287be8b5b24c194afe93","the-star-martial-era-chapter-940","the-star-martial-era-chapter-938",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-star-martial-era-cover.jpg"]