Chapter 1662: Helper and Patience

While Yuan Qiuyuan was unconscious, the mysterious energy in him planted by Gu Yi was triggered, starting the process of his breakthrough to the Martial Void Realm. Shang Xia seemed to be left with a difficult choice.

The first was to wake Yuan Qiuyuan up, explain the consequences, and have him voluntarily halt his advancement.

However, since Gu Yi did not intentionally conceal the methods left behind, he naturally wasn't afraid of someone coming to resolve them.

Shang Xia’s clone had also tried to awaken Yuan Qiuyuan's consciousness using his divine soul, but Yuan Qiuyuan seemed to be immersed in a state that made him unwilling to awaken.

According to Xin Lu and Yan Ming, Yuan Qiuyuan was likely immersed in an epiphany in his art of stargazing when it happened. He was possibly on the verge of experiencing another qualitative transformation of his abilities.

In other words… Yuan Qiuyuan was in the process of breaking through while also advancing his art of stargazing!

In this situation, Shang Xia could only resort to other methods…

At the end of the day, Gu Yi had underestimated Shang Xia!

Or perhaps, no one knew the extent of his abilities, because it was one of Shang Xia’s greatest secrets, known only to himself!

The Crimson Soul Tablet was, to some extent, the nemesis of all types of energies!

After some contemplation, Shang Xia’s clone suddenly reached into the starlight falling from the top of the secret chamber. The projection of the Crimson Soul Tablet, that was god knew how many times smaller than its original form Shang Xia used when fighting, was inserted into Yuan Qiuyuan’s dantian.

The gruesome scene one would imagine would happen when stabbing something into someone’s dantian did not occur. When Shang Xia’s clone withdrew the projection, a cluster of dense starlight was trapped on it. It looked like an eyeball, and it was a soft shade of purple.

The moment Shang Xia pulled it out, Yuan Qiuyuan's body convulsed violently. His face contorted in pain, but he was temporarily unable to leave the platform due to the suppression of the starlight falling from above.

Meanwhile, Shang Xia’s clone calmly flicked the starlight cluster with his finger.

Ding…

The eyeball-like cluster was struck as if heavily hit, and purple smoke was forcefully separated from within it. It nearly condensed into a human form, but whatever energy was left was destroyed by Shang Xia’s clone’s flick earlier.

The moment the smoke appeared, Shang Xia recognized it to be a trace of Gu Yi’s soul.

Erasing the spirituality in the purple smoke, the only thing that remained was a cluster of pure azure-colored starlight. Shang Xia didn’t hesitate to place it back into Yuan Qiuyuan’s dantian with the help of the projection of the Crimson Soul Tablet.

Yuan Qiuyuan's face, which had been twisted in agony, suddenly relaxed, though his body still twitched occasionally, but overall, he began to calm down.

After a while, Yuan Qiuyuan's eyelids began to flutter violently on the stone slab, and then, as if he had experienced a nightmare, he suddenly opened his eyes. The moment he did, his entire body relaxed.

"I…" Yuan Qiuyuan turned his head towards Shang Xia’s clone, at a loss for words.

Shang Xia's clone seemed to know what Yuan Qiuyuan wanted to ask and explained with a smile, "Don't worry, your breakthrough hasn't been disrupted, just delayed for now."

𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Relieved, Yuan Qiuyuan sighed and finally asked, "What exactly happened just now?"

With a smile on his face, Shang Xia's clone raised an eyebrow and shot the question back at Yuan Qiuyuan. "Don’t you remember?"

Rubbing his temples hard, Yuan Qiuyuan tried to recall the last images before he fainted. "An eye. I thought it looked like an eye, but I can’t seem to remember what type of eye it was!”

The more he tried to think about it, the more bewildered his expression became.

Shang Xia's clone explained with a smile, "Your memory isn’t wrong. The reason you can't recall any details is that your martial will is protecting you."

"Then…" As Yuan Qiuyuan spoke, he casually formed a hand seal. The starlight falling from above immediately dispersed and he managed to get up from the stone platform.

Shang Xia's clone sighed, "Don’t overthink it. Since I helped take care of the problem for you, just go ahead and speak your mind. No harm will befall you any longer. As for that mass of energy, I have only temporarily sealed it for you. Once you feel the time is right, you can unseal it yourself."

Yuan Qiuyuan thanked Shang Xia's clone with a bow, then said earnestly, "But… I still want to know what that cluster of energy really is."

Shang Xia's clone thought for a moment and after organizing what he wanted to say, he explained, "Essentially, that cluster of energy can be considered a potent rank six advancement medicine. The power of Starlight is hidden in there and because of that, you managed to trigger some insights into your art of stargazing. It might be an opportunity for you to become a rank six Grand Stargazer if you manage to grab the opportunity in the future.”

"So that's it!" Upon understanding, Yuan Qiuyuan felt a sense of relief washing over him. The next second, he chuckled, "What do you need me to do next?"

Shang Xia's clone smiled. "Now that the 4 factions have entered the chaotic streams around our world, we need all the help we can get. However, we have 2 groups of reinforcements coming at the moment and I need you to personally guide them over.”

Yuan Qiuyuan was stunned for a second. The next moment, he asked, "Isn't there a risk of exposing the gap in the Star Curtain by doing so?"

Shang Xia's clone laughed, "They don’t have the capability to enter by themselves, and besides, you should have more confidence in yourself."

With that, Shang Xia's clone disappeared from the secret chamber.

Everything depended on timing. If it were in the past, Shang Xia might be a little cautious when guiding people into the Heavenly Screen. Even if they were allies, he wouldn’t take the matter lightly.

However, with things at its current state, there was no need to care so much. It wasn’t as though those other fuckers didn’t lead outsiders into the Heaven Observation Field already.

Standing above the Tongyou City, Shang Xia raised his head, and his gaze seemed to penetrate the void. Even the chaotic streams couldn’t stop him. Even the members of the Star Origin Dao Field who had the protection of their treasures made by their Grand Stargazers could prevent Shang Xia from staring straight at them.

It was also why Shang Xia didn’t bother getting his clone to speak to Yuan Qiuyuan about locating those from the Star Origin Dao Field.

With a single foot in the Seven Star Realm, Shang Xia’s breakthrough process was rapid. It wouldn’t take long before he would complete the process. In fact… It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that he could become a Sage anytime he wanted. However, he seemed to be waiting for something.

He was waiting for his breakthrough process to become more perfect, and he was also waiting for those with hidden intentions to expose themselves.