Chapter 2143: Breaking (Splitting) The Stars

When Kou Chongxue and the Giant Ape Emperor were fighting together against the experts of the Illusory Sea of Stars, deep within the starry void, the long-anticipated battle between Shang Xia and the Star Origin Lord started.

The enormous hand formed by the convergence of dozens or hundreds of stars was not, of course, the Star Origin Lord actually moving that many stars at once. Instead, through his martial intent, he seized the light radiating from more than a hundred stars in a single instant, bending their brilliance in one direction. From a distance, it looked as though all those stars were caught in his grasp, obeying his command.

Even so, for the Star Origin Lord to bend the light of so many stars and draw upon such vast power the instant he struck, truly, he deserved his title. He was like a ruler of the cosmos, drawing on the power of everything under his control.

But how could Shang Xia allow the Star Origin Lord to do as he wished to attack his Fate Stars in the Dipper Star Formation?

When that colossal stellar hand neared the void where the Dipper Star Formation resided, the once-dimmed Dipper Star Formation suddenly blazed with light again. Their radiance thickened and pooled in the surrounding space, and under Shang Xia’s control, it began to whirl, transforming into a vast vortex.

The surrounding stars, drawn by the pull of the swirling light, had their surfaces brushed clean as if by a flowing current, their glow stretched into long streaks that spiraled with the vortex.

The massive vortex, which nearly enveloped the entire void around the Dipper Star Formation, did not remain still. It surged forward, spinning to the Star Origin Lord’s stellar hand. As it advanced, it continued to swell and expand.

Across billions of miles, the scene looked slow and dreamlike, yet within their respective domains, the Star Origin Lord’s giant hand and Shang Xia’s vortex were moving at unimaginable speeds.

Before long, they collided in the void with a thunderous explosion. The immense vortex of starlight began to collapse in waves, while the Star Origin Lord’s radiant hand disintegrated bit by bit.

When it was over, Shang Xia’s vortex had completely shattered, but more than two-thirds of the Star Origin Lord’s giant hand had been annihilated, rendering it meaningless to continue pressing toward the Dipper Star Formation.

However, the duel between the two had only just begun.

Even before their first collision, both had already been secretly preparing for the next exchange.

As their initial confrontation neared its end, Shang Xia was the first to finish gathering his strength. Yet strangely, he did not strike back immediately. Instead, he waited in silence, as if forced to enter a defensive stance.

Before long, the Star Origin Lord acted again.

This time, however, what descended upon him was no illusion formed by reflected starlight. The Star Origin Lord truly pushed a celestial body, an actual star, sending it streaking across the void like a meteor, crashing toward the region where the Dipper Star Formation was located.

That was an actual star!

𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Shang Xia’s expression changed at once. Fortunately, he had long prepared for multiple contingencies. When that blazing celestial body crossed a certain spot, he burned a portion of his inner qi and unleashed his next strike with all his might.

The seventh form of his Seven Star Mace Technique, Shifting Dipper!

His strike, executed across the void with the aid of the Dipper Star Formation, was aimed squarely at the star hurled by the Star Origin Lord!

The fabric of space twisted in chaos. The star that had been rushing toward the Dipper Star Formation suddenly veered off course, relocated to its point of origin, and then shot off in the opposite direction.

Unfortunately, just like Shang Xia, the Star Origin Lord was also prepared. The redirected star failed to fly back at the Star Origin Lord.

However, Shang Xia’s attack had not been in vain.

As that star traversed the void, it began to disintegrate.

The power released by the collapse of a star was beyond measure, and its destructive force upon the surrounding space was cataclysmic. The void along its path was scorched into raw chaos.

And that was exactly what Shang Xia had intended.

“Have you found anything?” His voice transmitted across the vast distance to Stargazers in the Star Observatory.

No immediate response came.

After a brief pause, Yuan Qiuyuan’s uncertain voice finally reached him. “The point where the Star Origin Lord launched his attack was indeed within this sector of the void, but we still cannot trace it back to find his Fate Star. However... We can roughly narrow it down to certain sections.”

Shang Xia was not disappointed. If the Star Origin Lord’s Fate Star could truly be discovered so easily, he would not have remained untouchable for more than 1,000 years.

“Mark the approximate region on a chart for me.”

His tone was calm, yet resolute.

As the saying went... Not to reciprocate is against etiquette! No one would take a beating without fighting back, especially not Shang Xia!

For years, the Star Origin Lord had been relentlessly searching for Shang Xia’s Fate Star, and countless clashes had erupted between them as a result.

Shang Xia had long wanted to locate the Star Origin Lord’s Fate Star, but he had never found a lead, not even Yuan Qiuyuan and the others could discern anything useful.

Now, for the first time, the Stargazers of Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field had come closer than ever before, and this opportunity had been bought with the exposure of Shang Xia’s Dipper Star Formation.

Thus, even when Yuan Qiuyuan handed over a chart with a marked region so vast that they felt embarrassed by its imprecision, Shang Xia did not hesitate. He struck immediately, unleashing a wide-range assault upon the designated void.

In a certain deep sector of the starry sea, where countless stars glimmered, all their lights suddenly went dark. The Dipper Star Formation, Shang Xia’s Fate Stars, also seemed to vanish in that instant.

The sixth form of his Seven Star Mace Technique, Dipper Annihilation!

No... Not every star in the distance had dimmed. One remained. Within the surrounding field of darkness, that dim and unremarkable star now shone with dazzling brilliance.

“There! That’s where the Star Origin Lord’s Fate Star is!”

Yuan Qiuyuan pointed excitedly at the region of space that was newly projected above the Star Observatory, his voice trembling with exhilaration.

Shang Xia narrowed his eyes as he stared at the inconspicuous star. Though he sensed that everything was happening too smoothly, his hands did not falter. Having already gathered his strength once more, he struck with all his might.

Star Shifting Constellation Transformation!