Chapter 2025: To the Edge of the Star Field!

Arriving at the void imprints, the Giant Ape King easily resonated with the inheritance. Judging from the degree of their connection, the number of void imprints it could comprehend was sure to be a considerable number.

Not long after, 18 imprints had been activated in succession, and soon, 36 imprints lit up, marking the completion of a small milestone.

After that, the Giant Ape King only began to find the process slightly more difficult, but it merely slowed its pace a little. It did not truly become an obstacle.

Very quickly, the Giant Ape King had successfully touched the 49 inheritance imprint, completing the minor cycle of the movement inheritance.

It was only then that its steps finally slowed. Each stride it took seemed weighed down by thousands of pounds. After taking several more steps, not only did its pace become sluggish and heavy, but each step was marked with hesitation, as though even it could not fully determine whether what it was comprehending was truly correct.

In its current state, no one could help the Giant Ape King. It could only rely on its comprehension and fortune, continuing to attempt until either it was ultimately rejected, or fully comprehend the entire inheritance through a stroke of fortune

For the Giant Ape King, however, the latter possibility was clearly slim. Its greatest hope was to walk a few steps further along the void imprints.

Yet after it touched the 64th imprint, everything seemed to have reached its limit, and the Giant Ape King finally kicked out of its state of comprehension. But at that very moment, perhaps because it gained a lot, the void imprints that were weak finally dissipated completely into nothingness.

That inevitably left the surrounding high-leveled cultivators, who had been watching from the void, deeply disappointed. Though they all understood that after so many attempts by others earlier, the power within the imprints left by Shang Xia had long since neared exhaustion, still, when they actually witnessed the imprints vanish and realized the inheritance could no longer be touched, they could not help but reveal regret and sorrow.

Once the void imprints dispersed, the cultivators who had lingered in that space no longer had reason to stay and departed one after another. The beasts from the Spirit Frost World began their return journey under the arrangements of the Giant Ape King.

As for the Giant Ape King itself... After consolidating the inheritance it had comprehended, it carried the stone rod and traveled to the floating island to pay a visit to Shang Xia.

...

In the 26th year of the Essence Luxuriant Calendar, after a period of recovery and preparation, a specially refitted Spirit Ark quietly departed from the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field. Without alarming anyone, it sailed along a newly charted route toward the edge of the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

"According to established convention, the Spirit Ark should be called the ‘Azure’. But since the mission requires discretion, the outer surface of the Spirit Ark bore no markings that could reveal its identity," Chu Jia explained to the others as they stood on the deck.

Originally, the plan for this mission included only Shang Xia and the Giant Ape King. However, just before departure, Kou Chongxue reminded them of one critical point. They were to track and hunt the bird beast emperor slumbering within the star. Yet the void was vast, and stars were countless. With no prior clues, relying solely on chance and checking them one by one could take an unknown amount of time.

Even with the extraordinary cultivation of Shang Xia and the Giant Ape King, such endless searching might not be sustainable. And since their journey was meant to be secret, they did not wish for their movements to be widely known. If they were to send a fleet, their presence would soon draw the attention of the many powers within the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

Thus, during their period of rest and preparation, what they were truly waiting for was the completion of this newly constructed Spirit Ark. To ensure they could both move quickly and silently, the Spirit Ark was not only refitted extensively but also had to sacrifice part of its internal capacity. At the same time, the Stargazers of the Stargazing Hall were tasked with mapping a brand-new and hidden route for them.

Therefore, when they set sail, they still required a Stargazer onboard to oversee their course, accompany them along the newly plotted route, make adjustments whenever needed, and chart new charts while avoiding the risk of becoming lost in the void.

Although the Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field was not lacking in Stargazers who were living Star Charts in their own right, the more accurately they could draw fixed charts, the better.

What none of them had expected, however, was that the person who insisted on accompanying Shang Xia and the Giant Ape King would be none other than Yuan Qiuyuan, the Stargazing Hall Master!

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

According to Yuan Qiuyuan himself, his art of stargazing had reached a bottleneck and had long been unable to progress further. In terms of experience and skill, he was still inferior to Xing Xingtian, the rank six Grand Stargazer of the Five Essence Heavenly Field, who had devoted over a century to the art.

If Yuan Qiuyuan wished to bridge the century-long gap in experience and perhaps even surpass Xing Xingtian, he had to find another way, something beyond the confines of the Chaotic Sea of Stars.

The destination of Shang Xia and the Giant Ape King lay precisely at the edge of the Chaotic Sea of Stars. Since they would be tracking a rank seven beast emperor slumbering within a star, they might have to continue venturing further until they completely left the border of the Chaotic Sea of Stars, perhaps even reaching regions no one had ever set foot in.

In such a journey, Yuan Qiuyuan’s skills would undoubtedly prove invaluable, while also greatly expanding his knowledge of the stars. Like he said, if he could discover and chart a path leading to another Star Field during the process, he would reach the seventh rank without question.