Chapter 1833: Way Out and Opportunity

Shang Xia knew very well and was confident that after Yuan Ling's joint attempt to surround him with Pei Yuanji and Yan Yu had failed, he no longer needed to fear similar schemes from Yuan Ling in the future.

In fact, he firmly believed that once word spread of his survival from the spatial vortex, it would be Yuan Ling, Pei Yuanji, and Yan Yu who ought to feel afraid.

Once Zhu Nang set off from the Spirit Ruling World with several assistants aboard a medium Star Ship, Shang Xia and the others turned their full attention to the Spirit Ruling World and Spirit Frost World, which were being pulled by into the center of the great spatial vortex.

As the one who had originally led the arrangement of the mutual balance between the two worlds, Shang Xia not only had the trust of their cultivators and beast kings but was also the best candidate to solve the current crisis.

With Shang Xia personally overseeing the operation, Song Zhen quickly organized his team from the Essence Luxuriant World to join the effort to reconstruct the formation that balanced the worlds.

Although Song Zhen had limited manpower, the Essence Luxuriant World had prior experience in anchoring worlds multiple times. With the full cooperation of cultivators and beasts from the Spirit Ruling World and Spirit Frost World, the operation proceeded relatively smoothly.

Meanwhile, Shang Xia began reviewing his prior battle with Yuan Ling and the two second star Sages.

Doing so helped him better understand their cultivation and techniques, while also allowing him to identify gaps in his own combat performance. It was an invaluable method to enhance his combat strength directly and effectively.

Afterward, Shang Xia shifted his focus to something else, the energy absorbed by the Crimson Soul Tablet during his passage through the vortex. It was the energy that had erupted from the core of the vortex in a formless column.

He had sensed early on that although the energy drawn by the tablet was vast and overwhelming, and of a higher grade than that found in the World Origin Source of Essence Worlds, it was also rather impure and chaotic.

Now, as he studied the energy more carefully, he faintly perceived that it seemed to be composed of many types of energies, each likely from different Essence Worlds.

Given the enormous area affected by the vortex, it was capable of pulling in stray world origin from across various Essence Worlds. Although the convergence failed to fully refine or fuse them all, the forced aggregation raised the grade of the collected energy by half a tier.

For the Crimson Soul Tablet, even the impure yet high-grade energy was beneficial. Shang Xia discovered that the tablet had already digested about a quarter of the absorbed energy.

He attempted to extract a wisp of that energy and refine it using his self created Seven Star Seven World Spiritual Stabilization Art. Soon, the refined energy was converted into energy for his Big Dipper Star Origin, slightly enhancing his cultivation.

He was thrilled by the improvement.

He was already extremely close to breaking through to the fourth star of the Seven Star Realm, and recent progress in his cultivation had all but plateaued.

Now that his cultivation was visibly improving again, it meant that his path to becoming a mid-level Sage might be significantly shortened.

Excited, Shang Xia continued refining more energy from the tablet, and could clearly feel his cultivation nearing a critical threshold.

At the very last second, the Crimson Soul Tablet no longer provided him with excess energy.

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In the Chaotic Sea of Stars, Essence Worlds seemed to be the limit.

At least for the time being, Shang Xia had neither seen nor heard of any worlds beyond Essence Worlds.

In other words, the energy he just absorbed with quality half a tier above world origin in Essence Worlds, was likely one-of-a-kind.

Since the Crimson Soul Tablet still needed to complete the final stage of restoration for itself, it was naturally unwilling to provide more energy to Shang Xia who had been siphoning endlessly.

Reluctantly, Shang Xia broke his deep meditative state.

Not long after, Song Zhen, who had been waiting for some time, came quickly to report.

"Oh? I’ve been in seclusion for nearly three months?" Shang Xia asked in surprise.

He had been so immersed in the exhilaration of refining the high-level energy that he had completely lost track of time.

Song Zhen quickly continued, "Sage Shang, both worlds are now fully prepared. We just need your personal intervention to push them along the void current."

Shang Xia nodded. "Naturally. Though this wouldn’t solve their fundamental problem..."

Song Zhen added, "I’ve already explained this clearly to the Ying Brothers of the Spirit Ruling World and to the Giant Ape King of the Spirit Frost World. They understand that the best solution is to extract their worlds from the spatial vortex entirely. I’ve hinted at it, but both sides avoided the topic."

Shang Xia wasn’t surprised. Instead, he smiled. "As long as they haven’t reached a true breaking point, they won’t easily submit to a Heavenly Field. That’s understandable. The Spirit Ruling World was once our ally, and now that they’ve saved our people from the vortex, we are bound by honor and duty to assist them."

Moving a world within the void would certainly cause massive internal disruption and damage. Even with thorough preparations by the Spirit Ruling World and Spirit Frost World, the best they could hope for was damage control. There was no way to prevent it completely.

With the Twin Star Pirates’ large Star Ship and the Essence Luxuriant World’s ‘You Continent’ Star Ship dragging the worlds upstream, several medium Star Ships from the Spirit Ruling World manned by both True Immortals and Beast Kings soon joined in.

But even with this combined force, it was far from enough. The dragging caused significant instability within both worlds. Even their Elysiums and giant plant kings who took root in the World Origin Source couldn’t buffer the losses.

Worse still, the balance between the worlds that was created by a mutual attracted, was disrupted. As the chaotic streams smashed against them, the instability only deepened.

It was at the critical moment that Shang Xia acted.

Drawing on the power of his Origin Star Robe, he once again split off a second star Origin Star Robe Avatar. He sent it to the Spirit Frost World while his true body remained at the Spirit Ruling World.

Releasing their might at the same time, two Sages pushed the worlds against the void currents.

Because the connection between Shang Xia and his Origin Star Avatar remained constant, the movement of the worlds remained perfectly synchronized. The previously disrupted balance was restored, and more importantly, the damage caused by the movement to both worlds was minimized.