Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 357 The Demon Star Seal, the Golden Immortal's Primordial Spirit, and the Past of the Star Palace

Thousands of kilometers away outside the distorted barrier, a spatial rift suddenly expanded slightly, and a colossal true form, eleven kilometers tall, suddenly appeared—a horned demon celestial being.

With a wave of his hand, the celestial power swept across like a tide, shattering the numerous monsters at the edge of the crack.

With a wave of his hand, he gathered back the scattered strands of law power, and the horned demon celestial being's body rapidly shrank, quickly returning to the size of a normal person.

After a brief pause, the horned demon celestial being took to the air and flew towards another massive spatial rift thousands of kilometers away.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived before the rift, reached out and pressed down, and the Five Elements Divine Light converged into a giant hand that covered the sky, blasting out and killing the thousands of level 200 monsters gathered at the entrance of the rift. He flicked his sleeve and was about to enter the rift when he suddenly paused and subconsciously looked behind him. His gaze pierced through the distorted barrier and he vaguely saw something on the surface of the huge demon star behind the distorted barrier.

He let out a soft exclamation, turned around to take a closer look, and indeed found a figure in front of the demon star.

He immediately concealed his aura and flew toward the distorted barrier.

"A human celestial being?"

"What is he doing?"

"Wait a minute, even True Immortals can't get this close to the Demon Star. Could it be a Human Profound Immortal?"

"But he really is only at the Celestial Immortal realm, isn't he?"

He looked at Su Yu with surprise, hands on her hips, staring helplessly at the enormous demon star before her.

After searching for a long time without any results, he tried using his magic power to refine it, he tried sprinkling his blood essence on it as a blood sacrifice, and he tried testing it with his divine soul, but there was nothing unusual about it. It was completely flawless, which made him extremely helpless.

However, this exploration was not entirely fruitless. At least one thing was clarified: this demonic star was probably not a spiritual treasure.

If it's a spiritual treasure, after trying so many methods, there will eventually be some response.

In these numerous attempts, he could sense the deathly aura pervading the Demon Star, and the soul impacts filled with the true meaning of the laws of madness, distortion, slaughter, rage, terror, and destruction continuously emanating from the Demon Star.

This power is inexhaustible, as if there is a source within it.

"We'd better open this demon star and take a look inside."

Su Yu stroked her chin and pondered for a moment before making up her mind.

With a thought, his body rapidly expanded, quickly transforming into a towering, four-headed, eight-armed demon god. He then unleashed two Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blades.

These are two low-grade spiritual treasures that were previously seized from Yu Jun, and their attributes are far superior to the two weapons he already possesses.

Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blade (Low-Grade Immortal Treasure): A divine weapon from the Immortal Realm, capable of destroying everything.

Attributes: Physical attack power 2 million + 2000% magic damage bonus, attack range 500 kilometers, mana consumption 50, additional trait: Celestial Aura, additional combat skill: Heavenly Aura Demon Slayer.

Immortal Aura: 100% chance to cut through flying swords and magic weapons below the ninth rank, with a certain probability of cutting through tenth-rank flying swords and magic weapons.

Heavenly Strike Demon: Charges for ten seconds to unleash a devastating strike, dealing devastating damage equal to 10 times the maximum attack, increases armor penetration by 1, costs 100 million mana, and has a 24-hour cooldown.

He gripped the divine sword with both arms, then with all four arms, and began to gather power, a faint light swirling around the sword.

Ten seconds later, the demon god unleashed a full-force strike.

"clang!"

The divine blade struck the demon star in an instant, and the next moment, an equally powerful force sprang out from the demon star. The two divine blades bounced away with a melodious mournful cry. The demon god staggered and retreated several kilometers, his four arms gripping the blades cracked, and blood flowed out.

But Su Yu reached out and covered the four shattered heads, feeling more delighted than alarmed.

"I guessed right, there is indeed a problem here."

The rebound was not only from the slashing attack, but also from an extremely terrifying shock of divine sense. More importantly, he could faintly sense an extremely weak chaotic will within this shock of divine sense.

If we rule out the possibility that the Demon Star is a spiritual treasure, then there is only one other possibility: there is a high probability that something is sealed within the Demon Star.

Without hesitation, Su Yu summoned the Chaos Pearl, tossing it into the sky. After spinning for a while, it transformed into a chaotic star with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers. The Demon God flew to the chaotic star and pressed it down hard, causing the chaotic star to crash into the Demon Star.

The two stars, one large and one small, rapidly approached each other and soon collided heavily.

"Boom!"

A deafening roar and a violent shockwave exploded outwards, sweeping everything away like a tide. The vortex of malevolent energy surging from the demonic star and the twisted law monsters that arose within it were instantly reduced to dust by the chaotic tide.

The demon god reached out and separated the dissipating chaotic energy. The demon star beneath remained unchanged, without a trace of crack. However, Su Yu could clearly sense that a tremendous change had taken place inside the demon star.

He blew away some of the chaotic energy that was dissipating around him, while the rest was absorbed into the demonic star.

The Demon Star absorbed the chaotic energy, and something seemed to be brewing inside, like a dormant volcano about to erupt. Its exterior remained the same, but the lava inside was expanding. This was the feeling Su Yu had when she stood next to the Demon Star.

Frightened.

"There's something really big inside."

Su Yu suppressed her heart pounding with fear and reached out to summon back the Chaos Pearl.

However, as soon as the Chaos Pearl shrank as he activated it, the demon star reacted and began to tremble violently. Then, a massive amount of ancient star energy erupted from the surface of the demon star, transforming into countless arms of energy that grabbed the Chaos Pearl, some of which also reached out to grab Su Yu.

"Don't think about it!"

Su Yu decisively activated the treasure, causing the chaotic energy to explode and forcefully break free from its restraints.

The demonic star immediately trembled violently, and a massive amount of ancient malevolent energy gathered and condensed into a head. Its pupils lit up with blood-red light, and an extremely frenzied and chaotic will directly slammed into Su Yu's sea of ​​consciousness, causing his head to tilt back violently and making him feel dizzy.

"chaos!"

"Hedao!"

"die!"

"Rebirth!"

A chaotic mix of wills, bordering on delirium, surged wildly through his mind, reaching the level of a Golden Immortal. Even with his immortal will, Su Yu was momentarily overwhelmed.

If it were someone else, even a Xuanxian (a high-level immortal) would not be able to withstand it for long before their souls were annihilated.

Fortunately, the immortal will is immortal; no matter how violently chaotic the will was, it remained unyielding and withstood the onslaught.

"This is?"

The demon celestial being not far away could see that Su Yu seemed to be frozen in place and unable to move. His gaze fell on the Chaos Pearl that was stubbornly resisting the demon star, and a hint of greed flashed in his eyes:
"He seems to be trapped by the Demon Star. He's a celestial being, and so am I. If he can unravel the mysteries of the Demon Star, so can I!"

With a thought, he summoned a green veil and unfurled it. The veil slowly faded and disappeared, and the horned demon celestial being within it also vanished.

However, three seconds later, a wave of malevolent energy swept across the distorted barrier, and a semi-transparent figure appeared out of thin air.

"Hiss, how come the impact is so strong?"

Immediately afterwards, a second wave of malevolent energy swept across, lifting a layer of green gauze and revealing the figure in its entirety.

"Oh no, the strength is too high."

Without hesitation, they turned around and rushed out of the distorted barrier.

"call!"

He let out a long breath and turned back to look at Su Yu, who was locked in a stalemate with the Demon Star inside the barrier, with a puzzled expression:
"Everyone here is a celestial being, how did he manage to do it?"

"Could it be that treasure?"

"No, this Demon Star is definitely extraordinary. We can't let the human race get it. I have to go back and call for reinforcements."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and rushed into the ancient battlefield, disappearing from sight.

Su Yu had not noticed anyone coming from beginning to end. At this moment, his physical body was frozen in place, and his primordial spirit was also frozen in place by the gradually awakening Golden Immortal primordial spirit.

Yes, as the chaotic will within the Demon Star awakened to a certain point, its essence was fully revealed in his divine sense.

Although this chaotic will was no longer in its right mind and had lost its true self, its immortal golden nature had not disappeared. Even though Su Yu had never seen it before and was seeing it for the first time, he automatically knew the moment he saw it that it was the primordial spirit of a Golden Immortal.

"So there really is a Golden Immortal's primordial spirit that has gone mad sealed within this Demon Star!"

"It was still affected by the chaotic energy within the Chaos Pearl that it awoke."

Two Xuanxian from the human race had previously come to investigate, but neither of them discovered the Golden Immortal sealed within the Demon Star. They tried various methods but failed to cause the Golden Immortal sealed within the Demon Star to make the slightest ripple, so they found nothing at all.

So now the question is...

"I now how to do?"

This Golden Immortal's primordial spirit has gone mad under the suppression of the Primordial Star's malevolent energy and is in a state of chaos, completely unable to communicate.

Don't even think about putting it away; he has no ability to grasp either the Primordial Star or the Golden Immortal's Primordial Spirit.

Even a mad Golden Immortal's primordial spirit is still a Golden Immortal. Its golden nature is immortal, and it cannot be killed by Golden Immortals of the same level. This is no joke.

The only way to defeat this Golden Immortal was to seal him with the ancient malevolent energy accumulated in this ancient star since the primordial era, and then slowly wear him down over millions of years.

"Nai Nai's."

Su Yu pinched the bridge of her nose and decided to ask Cang Hai if she had any ideas.

With a thought, the gate to the Chaos Realm opened wide. Just as Su Yu was about to communicate with the vast ocean, the enormous demonic star suddenly stopped. Both the pervasive primordial evil energy and the Golden Immortal's primordial spirit in the chaos stopped moving. Then, the chaotic Golden Immortal's will suddenly burst out from Su Yu's mind.

Su Yu felt a sense of lightness throughout her body and saw the head on the surface of the Demon Star, where endless ancient evil energy was gathered, charging towards the Chaos Gate like a madman.

"This is?"

As consciousness sank into the Chaos Pearl, the ancient, malevolent head plunged into it, crossing the continent and burrowing into the chaos. A powerful gravitational force drew in the chaotic energy, forming a massive chaotic vortex. A vast amount of chaotic energy surged in and entered the head, constantly scouring it.

For every wisp of chaotic energy that enters it, a wisp of malevolent energy is pushed out, and the chaotic energy takes its place.

As a massive influx of chaotic energy seeped in, replacing much of the malevolent energy, the head formed from the malevolent energy slowly transformed into a head formed from chaotic energy itself. Then, the chaos and madness within the Golden Immortal's consciousness visibly subsided, gradually calming down until...
At a certain moment, the chaotic head twisted and slowly transformed into a human form, and a clear voice rang in Su Yu's ears:

"My name is Star Lord, Lord of the Star Palace!"

Su Yu separated a thought and condensed it into an avatar that appeared in the chaos, clasping his hands in a gesture of respect:
"Human Su Yu greets Senior!"

The Star Lord reached out to examine his hand, which was formed from chaotic energy, and exclaimed:

"I never imagined I would have a moment of lucidity in my lifetime."

"How long have I been in this state of depravity?"

Su Yu thought for a moment and said:

"I don't know the exact year, but according to the information collected by my clan, the Star Palace has been destroyed for two or three million years."

"Has it been that long already?!"

The Star Lord let out a soft breath and continued to ask:
"I doubt many people still remember Hoshimiya these days."

“Very few!”

After a brief silence, the Star Lord spoke again:
“Unless a Great Luo Golden Immortal intervenes, no one can save me. I thought that no Great Luo Golden Immortal could possibly pass through this remote sea area, and that I would be completely obliterated and perish after millions of years.” “But your appearance changed my fate.”

He looked up at the endless chaos in all directions and continued:
"To obtain such an incredible treasure, your luck is extraordinary. You might even be the protagonist of a great calamity. Would you be willing to make a pact with me to save me? I will be loyal to you until the immeasurable calamity ends."

Su Yu's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't show it on her face. Instead, she asked seriously:

"Before you agree, I have a few questions I'd like to ask you."

"You said."

What was your level of cultivation in your previous life?

"Late stage of Golden Immortal."

"Your physical body has been destroyed. How much will this affect your strength? Will you have a chance to condense the Taiyi or Daluo Dao Fruit in the future?"

The Star Lord answered just as seriously:

"Although my physical body has perished, my primordial spirit remains, and my golden nature is intact. I can reshape my physical body in the future, but the physical body will have a certain impact on my strength. Unless I reassemble a perfect physical body, it will be almost impossible to condense the Taiyi Dao Fruit."

"In other words, if the physical body you condense is not perfect enough, your cultivation level will be permanently stuck at the Golden Immortal stage, and you will be unable to condense the Dao Fruit?"

"Yes."

"Oh"

Su Yu was slightly disappointed. If he could condense a Dao Fruit, even a Taiyi Dao Fruit, he would be a Taiyi Golden Immortal, a great being on another level, a name and a name even in the entire Earth Immortal Realm, including the Three Religions.

Just then, the Star Lord said again:
"I don't know if you know, but the potential of this treasure of yours is beyond your imagination. There is actually a chaotic area inside this treasure. I can gather the chaotic energy inside this treasure and combine it with other treasures to form a perfect physical body, which will not be worse than my destroyed body."

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Su Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked:

“This treasure of mine can house my primordial spirit; four true spirits have already been enshrined in it.”

At this point, Su Yu suddenly connected with the four women of Canghai and Xuanyue through his thoughts. Five divine lights pierced through the air and landed in the chaos, revealing their true forms. Just as he was about to introduce them, he heard the Star Lord's excited voice:

"Tianna, so many innate true bodies?"

"Is that the true form of the Chaos Demon God?"

Canghai, now in her true form, stood amidst the chaos, the surrounding raging chaotic energy merging directly into her body upon contact.

"This chaotic place!"

The Star Lord said loudly:

"What kind of treasure is this? How is this possible?"

Su Yu smiled slightly and said:
"This is what I wanted to tell you: are you willing to entrust your true spirit and primordial soul to this treasure? If you agree, I will help you to condense an innate body just like theirs in the future."

"Hahaha!!!"

The Star Lord suddenly threw his head back and laughed wildly:
"With this innate body, I am no different from those innate deities of the ancient primordial world. I can not only hope to attain the Taiyi Dao Fruit, but even the Daluo Dao Fruit!"

A humanoid figure formed from chaotic energy clasped its hands in prayer and bowed to Su Yu, loudly proclaiming:
"My name is Fang Hong. I beseech Heaven to bear witness that I am willing to serve as the master of this realm for countless eons, and never betray it!"

Su Yu looked up and sensed that the oath of Heaven had been fulfilled.

"very good!"

Su Yu reached out and summoned the more than a thousand strands of chaotic energy she had accumulated. Using this as a guide, she formed a gravitational source that continuously attracted the raging chaotic energy within the chaos. Fang Hong's chaotic light figure disintegrated, and a strand of golden energy entered the chaos. Instantly, a powerful gravitational force spread out, frantically drawing in the surrounding chaotic energy.

"Wait a moment, do not condense a physical body now."

Su Yu stopped him and explained:

“Every hundred years, a source of chaos will gather in this chaos. You can use this as the core to condense a chaotic body for you that far surpasses the innate body. Its essence is comparable to those famous and powerful beings in the ancient primordial world, such as the Eastern King Duke, the Styx Ancestor, and other innate deities.”

"With such a strong foundation, it will surely be able to condense the Great Luo Dao Fruit in the future."

"The will of the Realm Lord!"

Fang Hong readily accepted the suggestion and readily agreed.

It is worth mentioning that the normal Chaos Origin cannot condense the true form of the Chaos Demon God. Su Yu and Cang Hai were able to condense the true form of the Chaos Demon God because one is the master of the Chaos Pearl and the other is the spirit of the Chaos Pearl, which is the Heavenly Dao within the Chaos Pearl. They were able to condense the Chaos Demon God because they were blessed by the entire Chaos Pearl Origin.

Normally, using the Chaos Origin, one can only condense a Chaos Body like the four women of Xuan Yue, with a rank between the Chaos Demon God and the innate deities after the creation of the primordial world. In terms of the essence of life, it is indeed no less than top-level beings such as the Eastern King Duke, the Styx Ancestor, and the Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

At this moment, Su Yu asked again:
"By the way, is this current wisp of your will the entirety of your Golden Immortal primordial spirit?"

"No."

"If you were to use this will to condense your true form, what would happen to the primordial spirit sealed within the demon star?"

“Gold is immortal; a wisp of primordial spirit is essentially the same as the entire primordial spirit.”

"Hmm, will this affect the strength of my primordial spirit in the future?"

"will not."

Fang Hong explained to him very seriously:
"Once I reunite my physical body and revive, all my essences will converge here, and the remaining primordial spirit sealed in the Demon Star will automatically transfer here."

"So amazing!"

"When the Realm Lord cultivates to become a Golden Immortal, he will naturally know this."

"Hmm, then we don't need to pay attention to that demonic star outside and the primordial spirit sealed within it?"

Fang Hong smiled and said:

"That is an ancient star, which can be considered a top-grade spiritual object. If the realm lord is interested, he can use it to refine, throw it into the chaos to cleanse it, and in the future, when he has the strength, he can refine it into a high-grade spiritual treasure."

"But that demon star is too big; it seems it can't be contained."

Fang Hong shook his head and said:
"If my physical body were still intact, I could take away the Demon Star. But now that only a wisp of my primordial spirit remains, there's nothing I can do for the time being."

"However, Lord of the Realm need not worry. My primordial spirit is still in the Demon Star. No one has taken it for millions of years, and no one will take it for hundreds more years. Let us leave first, and I will come back to take it back after I reunite with my physical body in a hundred years."

Su Yu nodded and said:
"also."

Having made her decision, Su Yu left the area where the Demon Star was located. She glanced at the Demon Star from afar, which remained unchanged from before, and then left with peace of mind.

Half a month later, he quickly traversed the ancient battlefield and returned to Turtle Island.

Back in the cave dwelling arranged for him by the military, Su Yu plunged into the Chaos Pearl and found Star Lord Fang Hong, who was basking in the chaos and constantly absorbing chaotic energy. He had many questions he wanted to ask this old relic.

"As far as I know, although Falling Star Island is quite large, it is not the center of this region. Logically speaking, it is impossible for a Golden Immortal to be born there. How did you cultivate to become a Golden Immortal?"

"Moreover, as far as I know, the Star Palace back then had more than a dozen Xuan Immortals, dozens of Zhen Immortals, and hundreds of Tian Immortals. Logically speaking, the resources here should not be enough to support them. Do you have any solutions?"

Upon hearing his question, Fang Hong paused for a moment before replying:

"Logically speaking, such a small place is indeed not enough to support so many powerful people. The reason it can do so is because it is supplied by the power of the stars in the heavens."

Fang Hong made no attempt to hide anything and quickly revealed news that shocked Su Yu:
"When I was a True Immortal, I accidentally obtained a legacy while traveling. Inside was a great array that could draw on the power of the ancient stars in the starry sky. After returning to Falling Star Island, I consumed a huge amount of resources to set up a small cycle of star array, drawing on the power of the ancient stars in the primordial starry sky to cultivate. And I also advanced to Golden Immortal through the Great Dao of Stars."

"The Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation?"

"Is the great formation you obtained related to the Zhou Tian Star Array of the ancient Heavenly Court?"

"No, this formation is not the same as that formation. It can only draw upon the stellar power of the ancient Zhou Tian stars, but it is far inferior to the legendary Zhou Tian Star Formation."

"Oh!"

With this array to draw in star power, one can obtain a massive amount of star power anywhere to improve one's cultivation. This power can not only enable one to cultivate into a Golden Immortal, but also enable a large number of subordinates to cultivate together.

Thinking of this, Su Yu suddenly remembered a possibility and asked:

"Could the force that destroyed the Star Palace back then have been the Heavenly Court?"

However, Fang Hong shook his head and said:

"It's not the Heavenly Court, it's the Boundless Immortal Dynasty of the Azure Immortal Realm."

Are you sure?

"I can confirm that when I first obtained this treasure, I did indeed think it was an ancient Heavenly Court treasure that protected the heavens. I even went to Tianzhu Mountain to hand it over to the Heavenly Court in hopes of obtaining an official position there, but unfortunately it wasn't."

"This formation is of little value to the Heavenly Court, so I can only keep it for myself."

"All right!"

If even the Heavenly Court didn't want it, then it definitely isn't the legendary Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array.

"Therefore, the Star Palace was indeed destroyed because it had threatened the Wuding Immortal Dynasty that ruled the Azure Immortal Realm."

"Yes!"

Fang Hong clenched his fist and gritted his teeth:
"The hatred for those who obstruct my path is irreconcilable. Once I have reconstructed my physical body, I will avenge this great grudge!"

"Uh"

Su Yu shrugged and said:
"You can't get revenge for this."

"Why? Does the Realm Lord have a past with them?"

"No, that's not it. The main thing is that the Wuding Immortal Dynasty has already been destroyed, for hundreds of thousands of years."

"Destroyed?"

Fang Hong was momentarily stunned, looking somewhat unable to accept it.

"The Wuding Immortal Dynasty was so powerful, with two Golden Immortals once presiding over it. It had no rivals in the Azure Immortal Domain. Why did it perish?"

"I haven't looked into this specifically. I'll check it out when I'm done here and back in the Azure Immortal Realm."

"I'm sorry, Lord of the Realm!"

"By the way, do you know how to set up your Zhou Tian Star Array?"

Fang Hong came to his senses and said:
"The manual has been destroyed along with my physical body, but I know how to set it up. I will organize it first and then pass it on to the Realm Lord later."

"can."

He doesn't need this, but the human race does.

The Star Palace was able to produce so many experts and Golden Immortals through this formation. By gathering the power of the human race to set up the Zhou Tian Star Array, the strength of the human race could be greatly enhanced.

(End of this chapter)