Chapter 1526: New Information on the Crimson Soul Tablet

According to prior arrangements, Shang Xia was supposed to return before Song Zhen and others crossed the chaotic streams into the void around the Spirit Tip World.

However... He seemed to be staying there for a pretty long time.

After confirming through methods left by Shang Xia that he hadn't encountered any danger, Song Zhen and Xin Lu concluded that remaining at the edge of the Essence Du World was considerably risky for their two Star Ships.

After some short discussion, the large-scale Star Ship and the Spirit Ark started to traverse through the chaotic streams one after another, entering the region of calm around the Spirit Tip World.

They were discovered by the Spirit Tip World next and their high-level True Immortal approached.

After identities were confirmed and trust established, Song Zhen and the others learned about recent events in the Essence Du World from the high-level True Immortals Wu Zhang, and Yu Tieshan.

Due to the perfect timeline, Song Zhen and Xin Lu immediately connected the chaos in the Essence Du World to Shang Xia. Naturally, neither of them said anything. They wouldn’t reveal Shang Xia’s whereabouts to the True Immortals of the Spirit Tip World.

What surprised them, however, was the Spirit Tip World's ability to receive news from inside the Essence Du World quickly.

Given that their ships were navigating the chaotic streams quickly and they were even guided by a Grand Stargazer, that could only mean that the Spirit Tip World had a much faster channel of communication with the Essence Du World! They probably also had multiple channels...

"What are your plans next? Are you prepared to cross the void to return to the Heaven Observation Field?" Wu Zhang knew it was unlikely that Song Zhen and his party would head straight back to Heaven Observation Field but asked anyway.

Song Zhen smiled and gestured, "We might trouble you for a while. I lack the means to traverse the void myself, but I believe high-level True Immortals of my world will come to meet us soon.”

Wu Zhang nodded slightly and he wasn’t too disappointed. He continued in a warm voice, “In that case, rest well here. Perhaps you would like to visit our Spirit Tip World? We are eagerly looking forward to hosting guests from the Heaven Observation Field."

Song Zhen quickly declined, "I'd rather not. We are foreign cultivators and it’s inconvenient to move around your world. Also, to be honest, I’m eager to return. Although your world is beautiful, I'm afraid I'm not in the mood to appreciate it now. Perhaps some other time."

"Of course, that’s understandable!" Wu Zhang remained enthusiastic, not at all deterred by Song Zhen’s refusal, which slightly embarrassed Song Zhen and his companions.

The next moment, Yu Tieshan’s gaze fell on Xin Lu and he inquired, "May I ask if this young lady is a Stargazer from your World?"

Song Zhen’s expression tightened slightly, but he calmly asked before Xin Lu could respond, "Does True Immortal Yu have any advice for us?"

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Although the Essence Du World and the Spirit Tip World were separated by the chaotic streams, traversing such a void wasn’t too difficult for Shang Xia with a Star Ship personally crafted by Xin Lu, a Grand Stargazer.

Shang Xia, aboard his small ship crossing the chaotic streams, even had the leisure to continuously observe changes on the surface of the Crimson Soul Tablet.

Although the world origin he extracted from the Essence Du World this time was not as substantial as from the Essence Xing World, that extraction had previously aided him in mastering his martial intent, Six Harmony Supporting the Heavens, allowing him to reach the grand completion stage, it was enough to deduce his advancement formula.

However, such a deduction clearly required some patience.

As Shang Xia finally shifted his attention away from the Crimson Soul Tablet, he faintly felt as though something was missing from his journey since leaving the Heaven Observation Field.

What was it exactly?

Despite the guidance of Xin Lu, navigating the chaotic streams wasn’t without challenges; sudden spatial undercurrents or even torrents could catch anyone off guard.

Even Shang Xia needed to prevent his Star Ship from capsizing.

While defending against the turbulence of the chaotic streams, he suddenly realized what was missing.

Since his departure from the Heaven Observation Field, his journey through numerous worlds and across the chaotic streams was such that he rarely encountered Beast Warriors. Even the sighting of Star Beasts was extremely rare.

It should have been a good thing.

Both Beast Warriors and Star Beasts were significant threats to Star Ships navigating the chaotic streams around the various worlds. There was even a mission to eliminate them all.

However, their sudden disappearance, which obviously wasn't due to them being cleared out, hinted at something more intriguing.

At least, Shang Xia didn't believe his luck was good enough to avoid any traces of Beast Warriors of Star Beasts.

As he approached the edge of Spirit Tip World’s space, changes finally appeared on the Crimson Soul Tablet. The previously fluctuating and indistinct inscriptions on the other faces of the tablet stabilized, revealing new content.

Based on Shang Xia's experience, that would indicate that the world essence allowed the tablet to deduce his secondary medicine and other requirements to advance.

Indeed, when Shang Xia focused his divine soul on the Crimson Soul Tablet, the content emerged.

Advancement Formula: Seven Star Spirit Setting Pill

Requirement: Grand Completion Stage of the Six Direction Realm

Main Medicine: 7 drops of world origin from the World Origin Source of a single Spirit Worlds or higher, from 7 Different Heavenly Fields. (Each drop has to come from a different continent in a single world that is at least 10,000 miles wide. Refine the drop of world origin in the World Origin Source through your soul while embedding it in a Spirit Calming Vessel that has been placed directly in the World Origin Source.)

Secondary Medicine: Choose 7 Celestial Bodies and refine a strand of their essence.

Additional Requirement: Support from your Native World.

The new content on the Crimson Soul Tablet was just a couple of sentences, but all of them led Shang Xia to ponder deeper. The more he thought about it, the more complex it seemed.

First, the Secondary Medicine clearly didn’t refer to the sun or moon rising and setting in individual worlds. Rather, the stars scattered across the Sea of Stars.

He was no stranger to them. Aside from his many encounters with the energy contained in the stars, the Star Origin Dao Field also made use of their Star Observatory to gather the same type of energy. When he ventured out of the Heaven Observation to the various Heavenly Fields, he also encountered a lot of them.

That brought the next question. How was he supposed to choose and refine their essence?

But how should he select these 7 suns, and how would he refine the foundational star brilliance from them?

Would randomly selecting 7 of them work?

It seemed possible, but Shang Xia was not one to take such a casual approach.

It concerned his ascension to the Seven Star Realm, where extreme caution was justified.

Stars varied greatly in size and brightness. Some were intensely luminous, while others were dim and dark.

Moreover, those celestial bodies were located in different regions. Some were located in the Chaotic Sea of Stars while others were not far from some worlds. Others were located in remote voids and some were even in regions so far away Shang Xia couldn’t fathom.

Choosing the star to refine could not only potentially affect the difficulty of his ascension to the Seven Star Realm, but it might also affect the strength he had after his ascension.

Furthermore, suns were not eternal. They too could decay over time or even be destroyed. If such unpredictable events occur, Shang Xia wondered if he would be affected.

Those were considerations Shang Xia needed to carefully evaluate.

The Secondary Medicine deduced by the Crimson Soul Tablet clearly wasn’t as straightforward as it seemed.

However, Shang Xia already had some ideas, which he planned to verify with Yuan Qiuyuan and Xin Lu, the Grand Stargazers of the Tongyou Institution.

As for the Additional Requirement requiring the support of one’s world, it might be challenging for some, but it was basically Shang Xia’s routine experience.

Their Native World naturally referred to the world where he grew up in, or more precisely, the world where his soul was branded.

For Shang Xia, that would be the Spirit Luxuriant World.

However, the Spirit Luxuriant World was only a Spirit World at the moment and would need to become an Essence World to support an expert at the Seventh Order of the Primary Realm.

As for its blessing... Shang Xia needed to continue promoting the growth of the Spirit Luxuriant World which would give him everything he needed.

It was clear the breakthrough process would be closely linked to the cultivator’s world.

The best scenario for Shang Xia to complete his Seven Star Realm ascension would be to ascend alongside the Spirit Luxuriant World.

And for the Spirit Luxuriant World to meet the conditions to ascend to an Essence World... There seemed to be a long way to go.

While Shang Xia was analyzing the new content on the Crimson Soul Tablet, his Star Ship entered the region of space around the Spirit Tip World.

Because Shang Xia had been so engrossed in analyzing the contents, he hadn’t deliberately concealed his aura. It was quickly detected by experts from the Spirit Tip World patrolling the void.

As Shang Xia snapped out of his contemplation, he sensed a powerful aura approaching from the depths of the void. Thankfully, it bore no direct hostility.

"A sixth tier True Immortal?!" A look of surprise flashed across Shang Xia’s face.

To his knowledge, the Spirit Tip World only had a single sixth tier True Immortal, Guan Ziqing. Could he really have come to meet Shang Xia personally?