Chapter 1991: Four World As One

Shang Xia had originally thought that the restoration of the Star Origin Lord’s cultivation should be closely related to the number of Essence Worlds he managed to integrate into his Heavenly Field.

When the Four Essence Heavenly Field contained four Essence Worlds, the Star Origin Lord’s cultivation had recovered to the sixth star. By that logic, if he wanted to advance to the seventh star, he would likely need to merge yet another Essence World into the Heavenly Field, turning the Four Essence Heavenly Field into the Five Essence Heavenly Field.

But to his surprise, when the Star Origin Lord had just counterattacked moments ago, Shang Xia discovered that the Star Origin Lord’s cultivation had already recovered to the seventh star!

However, through his long-term surveillance of the Four Essence Heavenly Field, Shang Xia was certain that it still possessed only four Essence Worlds. There was no fifth.

Clearly, the Star Origin Lord’s cultivation might indeed be related to the number of Essence Worlds merged into the Heavenly Field, but it was not an absolute relationship.

Or perhaps it was related to the core regions of the Essence Xing World that the Chen Dynasty Emperor had brought with him into the Four Essence Heavenly Field...

Or there might even be a possibility that it was connected to the Chen Dynasty Emperor who was also a Sage...

In any case, the Star Origin Lord’s sudden rise in cultivation indeed made the other three high-level Sages more wary, but at the same time it lessened their original distrust of each other, causing their cooperation to open up considerably.

After all, the Star Origin Lord had accumulated over 1,000 years of cultivation, and his depth of foundation was unfathomable. No one knew how many trump cards he truly possessed.

Even when his cultivation was at the sixth star, none of the other three dared to think they could face the Star Origin Lord alone, Shang Xia included. Now that the Star Origin Lord revealed his cultivation to be at the seventh star, it was even worse.

And just as Shang Xia and the others had expected, the moment the Star Origin Lord acted, he immediately enveloped the three of them in a sea of starlight.

Although it appeared that Gu Yi, Yuan Ling, and Shang Xia had all successfully resisted the corrosion of the starlight, one could not forget that the Star Origin Lord was now fighting one against three!

Moreover, it was a direct contest of their domains, a pure test of pure power. It was an unadulterated clash of personal strength between experts.

At that moment, among the three sixth star Sages, it was the newly advanced Gu Yi who struggled the most. It was especially since his weapons were entangled by starlight.

Seeing the situation trending toward a stalemate, Gu Yi could not help but speak in a deep voice, "You two, if you have any trump cards, you had better use them quickly. Else... I’ll have to look out for my safety and leave first.”

His meaning couldn’t be more clear. He was going to flee if they didn’t do anything.

Although Gu Yi had been the shortest in rank among the three sixth star Sages and was the weakest, while he could not withstand the Star Origin Lord’s suppression, escaping was quite easy for him.

Of course, once Gu Yi fled, it would almost certainly mean giving up his claim to a share of the Essence Du Heavenly Field.

But if Gu Yi withdrew, Yuan Ling and Shang Xia alone would find it even harder to resist the Star Origin Lord’s suppression.

Thus, although Gu Yi sounded shameless, Yuan Ling and Shang Xia could do nothing about it.

Yuan Ling snorted coldly as he reached into the void. A weapon whose true form was obscured by dense world origin appeared in his hand.

Then, with a casual sweep toward the Star Origin Lord’s position, the starlight-filled curtain of the void was suddenly raked into streaks and strips. It was as if a rake had been drawn through it.

The starlight falling from the shattered void still held power, but it had been artificially split apart and could no longer suppress them easily.

Almost at the same time that Yuan Ling struck, Shang Xia also reached into the void and pulled forth his Seven Star Mace. Swinging it, he unleashed the fifth form of his self-created Seven Star Mace Technique, Dipper Vortex!

His inner qi produced from his Big Dipper Star Origin, which had merely been canceling out the Star Origin Lord’s dazzling starlight, suddenly began to change. At the edges of Shang Xia’s domain, vortexes started to form within the abyss-like circular ring.

As they emerged, they not only continuously devoured Shang Xia’s inner qi, but they also consumed the falling starlight from the void at an even faster rate!

What was more... As larger vortexes took shape, they began to distort and draw in even more distant starlight, which was then relentlessly swallowed. The curtain of starlight behind the Star Origin Lord started to dim.

With Yuan Ling and Shang Xia taking the initiative to counterattack, the Star Origin Lord’s offensive was immediately held off, greatly reducing the pressure on Gu Yi, allowing him to soon tear his weapons free from the starlight’s entanglement.

Regaining control of his weapon, Gu Yi swung his twin-wing weapons in a wild flurry!

A surging tide of void ripples instantly swept forth, and the already-suppressed starlight flickered erratically. From a distance, the star points looked like blinking eyes, their scattered starlight becoming intermittent and weakened again.

"Not bad!” The Star Origin Lord gave a light shout, and surging world origin gushed forth from the star-filled void behind him. Immediately after, a mighty will descended and fused into him, causing his aura to soar. It started to suppress Shang Xia and the rest.

At the instant the Star Origin Lord unleashed his move, all three Sages could not help but each suck in a breath of cold air.

"Four types of world origin?!”

"Four distinct world origins at once!"

"How can he even withstand it?! Is he really not afraid of his body exploding?"

The voices came almost simultaneously, and the trio retreated in unison.

At this point, it was no longer a question of whether the three together could match the Star Origin Lord. It was whether the Star Origin Lord would explode from fusing four world origins.

However, as they fell back, each of the three was secretly wondering if that was the Star Origin Lord’s trump card. Was his method of breaking through to the Martial Eternity Realm through the harmonization of world origin...

If so, the question would be... How many types of world origin would need to be harmonized for a Sage to have the chance to break the barrier to the Martial Eternity Realm?

And if they could answer that, they might also be able to deduce how many more Essence Worlds the Star Origin Lord still needed to absorb.