Chapter 2149: Essence World Ruins

Advancement Medicine: Eight Trigrams Immortal Golden Pill

Prerequisite: Grand Completion Stage of the Seven Star Realm

Main Medicine:

Secondary Medicine:

Auxiliary Medium: Starlight Curtain (9.9 x 3.3 feet)

Required Medium: Origin qi from different Star Fields (6/8)

Remarks: Martial Intent suitable for current cultivation realm (4/7), Soul at the grand completion stage.

Compatibility: -

Success Rate: -

The deduction progress regarding the Eight Trigrams Immortal Golden Pill on the body of the Crimson Soul Tablet in Shang Xia’s mind had not advanced much. The main development was that two more martial intents had reached the threshold of power fitting for his cultivation realm.

They were the Chaos Essence Lightning Palm and the Divine Killing Spear.

These two martial intents had previously been progressing at about the same pace as his Six Harmony Supporting The Heavens, which was the closest to matching his cultivation.

Shang Xia had originally thought his Six Harmony Supporting the Heavens would be the first to reach the same level. During the confrontation with the Six Essence Heavenly Field, he even opened a pocket of space to protect the Star Observatory and had maintained it from the start of the battle through its end. Unexpectedly, the ones that completed first were the other martial intents.

In particular, his Chaos Essence Lightning Palm had been used very few times during his exchange with the Star Origin Lord.

Of course, Shang Xia did not rely solely on combat to raise the power of his martial intents. Daily cultivation and comprehension were even more important. Otherwise, pushing a martial intent to its limit would have been a distant prospect.

With a faint, helpless sigh, Shang Xia flicked his sleeve in the void. Reddish-gold lightning scattered and leapt through the emptiness, each serpentine arc of lightning striking perfectly at a drifting meteor.

After Shang Xia left, within a 100 mile radius of where he had been in the void, there remained only piles of fragments, none larger than a foot across.

The main purpose of his journey was, of course, to go to the Star River to wash the Starlight Yarn and complete its metamorphosis into Star Rinsing Muslin.

Only after he finished inscribing the Dipper Star Formation upon the Star Rinsing Muslin, then fully refined it with his own inner qi so it resonated with them, could he finally complete the transformation into the Starlight Curtain.

However, he still intended to detour on the way to the Star River to visit the forbidden regions in the two remaining Star Regions in order to draw origin qi and complete gathering all origin qi from the other Star Fields.

Thus, while traveling toward the edge of the Chaotic Star Sea, he would first swing by the Essence World Ruins in the Crowned Star Region.

As for the Essence World Ruins in the Crowned Star Region, Shang Xia had already heard of them more than once and had gained a certain understanding.

He had first heard of the ruins because of Sage Yuan Ling of the Essence Ling Heavenly Field.

At that time, Yuan Ling had risen precisely as a result of a foray into the Essence World Ruins, advancing from a third star Sage to the fifth star. He should have become a high-level Sage earlier than Gu Yi, placing him a notch above the old shit stirrer.

Rumors abounded that Yuan Ling had obtained tremendous fortune within the Essence World Ruins. Some said it was the fallen world’s former martial heritage, some said residual World’s Will and world origin, while others suspected that Yuan Ling had very likely received aid from a foreign Star Field.

It was not as if there was no other Sage who tried to demand Yuan Ling to tell them the truth, with some even considering banding together to force the truth out of him.

However, Yuan Ling’s cultivation had skyrocketed. Time and again, he revealed overwhelming combat power a step ahead of those who coveted his gains, sending the ill-intentioned away in defeat.

With a Star Char to guide him, Shang Xia did not take long to reach the border of the Crowned Star Region.

And because he already possessed the precise coordinates of the Essence World Ruins, he had no need to hide his figure and search around. He drove straight in toward the coordinates of the ruins.

Like the other Star Regions’ forbidden regions, the Essence World Ruins had been explored by high-level cultivators of the Crowned Star Region’s various Heavenly Fields for centuries or longer, and indeed, people had from time to time reaped gains within.

Yet even though this so-called Essence World Ruins had once been an Essence World at the time of its fall, after so many years of exploration, there should surely come a day when its valuables were stripped bare, no?

Perhaps, however, it was because when that Essence World fell, it pierced the barrier between Star Fields and received nourishment from the origin qi on the other side. Though filled with danger, it also gave birth to many special regions that could continually nurture or breed certain materials and treasures.

Therefore, over all these years, the fervor for the Essence World Ruins among the Crowned Star Region’s high-level cultivators had not waned in the slightest. On the contrary, it had only grown.

In truth, if not for the constant changes driven by the Star Fields crashing against one another, which caused bizarre transformations within the ruins themselves, its interior might already have been thoroughly charted.

In recent years, however, as infiltration by other Star Fields into the Chaotic Star Sea deepened, the links between the Essence World Ruins and a foreign Star Field had likewise expanded, and there may well have been some people working to deepen the connections.

Because of the ruins’ special nature, the Crowned Star Region’s leadership could neither seal them off as thoroughly as the Floating Star Region had sealed the Desolate Forbidden Region, nor weave a vast, region-wide defensive net like the Towering Star Region.

Thus, the blockade and control over the Essence World Ruins were not strict.

At the very least, Shang Xia expended little effort to evade the Star Ship patrols of various Heavenly Fields around the surrounding void and slip into the Essence World Ruins.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Yet the moment he entered, he immediately felt something strange about it.

A dignified existence at the grand completion stage of the Seven Star Region, Shang Xia, the esteemed sovereign who could contend head-on with an almost invincible being like the Star Origin Lord without disadvantage, was tossed and tumbled by the chaotic force-fields within the ruins. He rolled up and down and all around, to the point that he could not steady himself.

During the entire period, he tried to release his domain, but even the circulation of inner qi within him grew somewhat disordered. His domain, unable to be sustained, was quickly torn apart by the chaotic force-fields in the surrounding void.

Everything around him reeled as countless spatial cracks made Shang Xia experience different scenes in rapid succession, to the point that he scarcely knew where to look.

“Hahaha! It’s been long since I felt anything like this!” Even amid such chaos, Shang Xia let out a soft laugh.

His divine soul had not been affected in the slightest from beginning to end.