The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

The mark of inheritance from the ancient god shattered the moment it merged with Chu Xiu's soul, transforming into countless runes that appeared on the surface of Chu Xiu's soul, as hot and scorching as if they had just been engraved.

At the same time, a large amount of information and insights about the inheritance of the ancient gods surfaced in Chu Xiu's mind, but most of the content was too obscure and difficult to understand for Chu Xiu at present.

With the system's help, Chu Xiu filtered and categorized the messages and insights in his mind, temporarily sealing away some of the inherited content that he could not understand.

After doing this, Chu Xiu looked at the purple starlight floating in front of him—the first inheritance bestowed upon him by the Eight-Star Ancient God.

Chu Xiu pointed his finger, and the purple starlight suddenly spread out, constructing an endless void map above his sea of ​​consciousness.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness lies the sea of ​​divine and spiritual power.

Above the sea of ​​consciousness lies the natal starry sky.

One of the first inheritances of this ancient god is to use the power left behind by the ancient god to construct a natal starry sky within the inheritor's sea of ​​consciousness, large enough to contain the entire starry sky.

In this way, Chu Xiu could temporarily absorb the power of the one hundred million ancient gods' natal stars into his own natal starry sky, and slowly refine it for his own use in the future.

Chu Xiu manipulated his divine sense to retreat outside his sea of ​​consciousness, pointed towards the starry sky, and an endless void map slowly unfolded before him. An invisible suction force burst forth, drawing all the stars into the map.

Chu Xiu reached out and summoned his natal star chart to his front.

After incorporating the 100 million strands of unrefined stellar power into the diagram, a star radiating brilliant purple light began to shine brightly in the very center of this originally pitch-black void diagram.

Chu Xiu could clearly sense that this purple star represented himself.

That is, his natal star!

Behind the natal star chart lies the power of one hundred million stars that were previously collected into the chart.

Chu Xiu attempted to absorb another wisp of stellar power, but this time, he didn't need to use his divine soul power to do it himself.

With just a thought, a streak of unclaimed stellar power appeared on the front of the natal star chart, and was then devoured by the purple star.

As the purple starlight shone even brighter, Chu Xiu sensed that his divine soul power had increased once again, slowly advancing towards the mid-stage of the Reincarnation Realm.

More importantly, after refining the second strand of stellar power, the phantom of a star chart appeared on Chu Xiu's natal star map.

Chu Xiu focused his attention and immediately understood.

That horoscope chart clearly shows the Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Symbols!

The phantom of the Vermilion Bird constellation, representing the South, flickered continuously, clearly reminding Chu Xiu that all the stars within the Vermilion Bird constellation were his natal stars that needed him to refine the power of the stars to light them up!

Chu Xiu gradually came to understand the essence of his natal star chart.

His natal chart includes the four elements.

Each of the main stars in the twenty-eight constellations that form the Four Symbols constellation is his natal star that he will need to illuminate in the future.

For each star he lights up, he will gain an ancient and mysterious technique!

Now, he needs to light up the Well constellation among the seven constellations of the Vermilion Bird constellation in the south to obtain the first ancient and mysterious technique!

The so-called Jing constellation has eight main stars.

To illuminate all eight main stars of the Well constellation in one fell swoop, one would need to refine the power of eighty natal stars.

For Chu Xiu, refining the power of eighty stars to light up the Well Constellation and obtain the first ancient secret technique would also grant him nearly eighty thousand years of spiritual cultivation, enough to advance his spiritual cultivation to the mid-stage of the Reincarnation Realm.

Chu Xiu focused his mind and gathered his energy, summoning eighty stellar powers from the star sea on the back of his natal star chart, allowing his natal purple star to devour these stellar powers.

After his natal purple star devoured the last wisp of stellar power, the stinging pain from the depths of his soul reappeared, indicating that he had reached the limit of the stellar power he could refine at this stage.

If he were to forcibly refine it beyond its limits, Chu Xiu had a strong premonition that his soul would disintegrate!

"Phew... I shouldn't be too greedy, let's take it one step at a time..."

Within his mind, Chu Xiu suppressed his intense desire to refine the power of the stars and focused on injecting the refined power of the stars into his natal star chart, illuminating the eight natal stars within the Well constellation.

Outside of his mind, within the ancient god's essence and blood, Chu Xiu's physical body remained with his eyes closed, but the black starlight appearing on his body caused the blood in the entire blood pool to flow, surging towards Chu Xiu.

Meanwhile, Chu Xiu's physical body frantically absorbed the ancient god's essence blood from the blood pool, but he seemed completely unaware, his eyes tightly closed, allowing the black starlight to manipulate the ancient god's essence blood to transform his body.

These actions immediately attracted the attention of the Butterfly Queen and the Blood Demon Queen.

With their keen senses, these two immediately noticed that Chu Xiu's physical cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Unlike the joy in the Butterfly Queen's eyes, the Blood Demon Queen, who was in a frenzy, gradually regained her senses and stared at Chu Xiu with increasing seriousness.

"The Reverse Star Technique is actually helping this human boy absorb the essence of His ancient god, improving his mortal body..."

"Only after he activates his natal star chart and lights up his first natal star will the Star Reversal Technique act in this way..."

"I never imagined that a mere human could actually do it... and become His successor..."

"But why hasn't he exited his state of enlightenment yet? Does he still want to activate his natal star and obtain the first secret technique left behind by Him...?"

"So be it. Since I am already His successor, I should protect Him well... After all, if no one inherits, after I die, His existence and will will be unknown to everyone..."

The Blood Demon Queen seemed to have let go of her resentment, and her gaze towards Chu Xiu was no longer filled with hatred, but rather with a hint of affection and remembrance.

"He once said that all things have a spirit, including the stars..."

"Each time a star is lit up, its star soul will be awakened, and the star will face a test from the star soul... If the test is passed, the star soul will recognize it as its master, and it will be of great use to its master; if it fails, it will be devoured by the star soul and die..."

"If I'm not mistaken, the first constellation he lit up should be the Well constellation within the Vermilion Bird constellation in the south..."

"Jingxiu, Jingmuhan... Can he pass its test?"

Within his mental world, Chu Xiu was unaware that the Blood Demon Queen's attitude towards him had undergone a complete transformation. At this moment, he had just successfully lit up the last main star of the Well constellation in his natal star chart, completing the activation of the Well constellation.

Just then, a fierce divine soul aura emanated from within the star map. Before Chu Xiu could react, a giant tiger claw emerged from the map, carrying the terrifying aura of the late-stage Reincarnation Realm, and slammed down towards Chu Xiu's head.

Chu Xiu was startled and retreated rapidly, barely dodging the attack, and was filled with lingering fear.

The master of the tiger claw slowly climbed out from within the star map, revealing its enormous and ferocious body.

Chu Xiu was taken aback: "The divine beast Bi'an?"

Chu Xiu quickly dismissed his intuition: "No... I should call you Jingmu Han..."

At the same time, a system notification sounded in his mind:

Defeating the Star Soul of the Well Constellation—Jingmu Han—will grant you Star Soul recognition, the power of one hundred stars (without side effects), and the ancient secret technique "Star Control".