CHAPTER 866: CHAPTER 589: POWER EXTREME COMMANDS THE STARS

The second treasure was a crimson ring.

It radiated blazing heat and exuded a powerful magnetic field, twisting the surrounding void in its wake.

"This is the Yuan Magnetic Star Ring, a wondrous artifact recorded in Ancestor’s ’Travel Star Book.’ It’s one of the most common Gold Star Artifacts, containing a mighty magnetic field. The Great Wilderness Body Cultivator uses it to temper the flesh. With its aid, the Mountain Moving Scripture can break through within half a year."

Gold Star Artifacts are nurtured within planets over ten thousand kilometers in diameter, yet out of a million such planets, not even one may yield such a gem. That is why Ancestor, in order to collect these wonders, spent a thousand years cultivating bitterly amidst the starry sky, traversing countless constant star systems.

Red Star Oddities can only be conceived within fixed stars.

Black Star, born in black holes.

According to the ’Travel Star Book.’

Ancestor journeyed the galaxy, researching myriad stars. He believed that above Black Star Level, there should be a higher rank.

He called them Cosmic Oddities, paralleling the Divine Domain. Should one refine them, there would be hope to shatter the six-layer limit of the Mountain Moving Scripture, become a Lord of the Ultimate Strength Dao, and command the vast power of billions of stars in this region of space.

Alas, Cosmic Oddities are far too illusory and untouchable. In searching for the Black Star Artifact, the Vortex Star Arm, Ancestor spent several thousand years.

"My luck’s not so bad, after all."

The third treasure was a piece of Jade, precisely the treasure bestowed by Lord Toad, its dense Causality Dao Essence flowing like a slender stream into my mind.

The Martial Arts Tree soared to 4.2 million zhang.

[Causality: Fifth Rank (5%) → Fifth Rank (33%)]

A wonderful prompt rang out.

"That’s nice—nearly a third up all at once, as good as a Void Stele."

Lu Chenzhou burst out laughing with joy.

Achilles, my good brother!

At once, Lu Chenzhou opened his Dharma Eye, attempting to track the Causality thread of Achilles to find other Shadow Kill Clan members hidden in Xia Realm—but nothing turned up.

"All causality threads have been severed."

In the Xia Realm, the Shadow Kill Clan is no more.

Clearing up the spoils of battle.

Lu Chenzhou quickly departed.

From then on, among the famed Seventh Realm enemies of the human world, only the Ten-Thousand-Spider Ghost Empress remained unpunished.

Heavenly Ghosts are best at hiding; the Ghost Empress wields a treasure that conceals cosmic secrets and causality. If she wants to avoid pursuit, she is indeed hard to find.

...

That day.

Kun Gu Realm.

Qingyunzi’s cave.

Blood light poured from the sky—a presence radiating terrifying aura, with a cinnabar mole at its brow, appearing neither male nor female, a figure with demonic red hair and eerie charisma emerged.

"Hmph, to make Granny send her second clone... whoever you are, you’re dead this time."

This was none other than Blood Demon Grandmother.

Grandmother had clones like clouds, yet only a dozen or so possessed Seventh Realm strength, and there were but two with Eight Realm power.

Moments later,

Blood Demon Grandmother arrived at the ancient cultivation cave. She struck suddenly, tearing the array at its perimeter apart.

"Eight Realm?!" Qingyunzi’s shriek rang out, activating Jian Yi and Jian Er to attack the Blood Demon.

"Fall!"

Blood Demon Grandmother swept her sleeve—blood light rolled past, all withered. The two Sword Puppets, each with Middle Stage Seventh Realm power, lost combat capability in an instant.

Qingyunzi’s face was grim. "You’re merely a demon. Even if you inherit my cultivation, it’s useless to you."

"Granny cares not for your legacy. Since you’re a Great Sword Practitioner, tell me, do you know Li Sword Immortal? And do you have Tiger Clan Essence Blood here?"

Blood Demon Grandmother was blunt.

Suspicion and alarm flickered in Qingyunzi’s heart.

"Why is everyone searching for Taiyin Amber?"

That mysterious Heart Cultivator from before was also after it.

"Still, why hasn’t that young friend come to find me? Even if he does now, it’s too late, snatched by an Eighth Realm Demon Saint—never to rise again."

Qingyunzi sighed inwardly.

A thought stirred; a plan formed in his mind.

"I did have a drop of Tiger Clan Essence Blood in my life, but it isn’t here—it’s in Kunxu."

"Kunxu?"

Blood Demon Grandmother’s brows knitted tightly.

The Kunxu Great World—one of the few worlds in the Eastern Extreme Territory capable of making the Star Palace wary, precisely because a Kunxu Ancestor emerged there in the past thousand years.

This one was at least Late Stage of the Eighth Realm.

"That’s troublesome."

Blood Demon Grandmother smashed the cave, collecting Qingyunzi and the Sword Puppets and other treasures, then broke the boundary to depart.

Before leaving, she cast her eyes downward.

"That Heart Emperor reincarnation is sure to return here. I’ll leave some clones in ambush."

Blood Demon Grandmother, she always repays her grudges.

She flicked her fingers—two streaks of flowing light fell into the gorge and concealed themselves. One became a red-haired woman, the other a red-haired elder; these were her ninth and tenth clones. The former was a Great Demon Venerable; the latter, though only Middle Stage power, specialized in illusions.

"Judging from that day’s battle, this Heart Emperor’s reincarnation is at most at Late Stage, and his most troublesome aspect is dream control. With the tenth clone’s help, preventing the ninth from being controlled, killing him is not impossible."

Half a year after Blood Demon Grandmother’s departure,

In Ruins Sea, another figure quietly approached—he wore a gray Daoist Robe and held a long flute.

This was the Heavenly Gu Daoist.

The Daoist’s eyes, like those of a hawk, took in the situation across Kun Gu Realm. His pupils spun like a kaleidoscope, reflecting a strange phantasmal world.

"As long as Father refines that so-called Heart Emperor reincarnation, and takes the Great Dream as nourishment, he can return to True Spirit, even further—become the first ever to master the Great Dream, our clan’s own Gu Diao. Perhaps then, we may break free of Mother’s control. This action—success or nothing!"

The Daoist sat quietly in Ruins Sea, waiting patiently.

...

In the blink of an eye, another year passed.

On a certain asteroid, a crimson Star Ring a thousand miles in diameter revolved leisurely around Lu Chenzhou, threads of crimson energy seeping into his pores. As the Mountain Moving Scripture operated, its magnetic field shifted, transforming each cell, every drop of marrow.

Star Oddities, whatever their variety, contain Star Power. From mighty stars to the tiniest dust, all things exert gravity—this is the essence of the Ultimate Strength Dao, just as the essence of the Speed Extreme Dao is to transcend light.

Now, the purest Star Power contained in an entire planet was absorbed by Lu Chenzhou.

The medicinal effect was ten thousand times that of a Father Lifting Fruit.

[Mountain Moving Realm: Third Layer (62%) → Third Layer (63%)]

[...]

Every few days, proficiency went up another percent—cultivation felt like a dream, and several months slipped past in a rush.

On this day, the Yuan Magnetic Star Ring shrunk again and again, until it became a "point" then vanished; an overwhelming aura dispersed the stardust, surging forth into the universe.

[Mountain Moving Scripture: Fourth Layer (12%)]

[Ultimate Strength Dao: Fifth Rank (21%)]

Lu Chenzhou stood up, looking over himself. His heart thumped like the pulse of the universe, blood flowed vast like the galaxy, and every cell burst with Yuan Magnetic sparks—like trillions of stars, dying and being reborn, colliding, blazing in metabolism, unleashing unparalleled power.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

One after another, stellar phantoms solidified before, behind, left, and right, encircling him as four oceans of stars.

"So this is the Four Seas Power?"

To take the body as the cosmos, to harbor Star Power within, to let the flesh emulate the movements of the universe.

Ultimate Strength Dao—command the starlit sky!

Within the sea of stars ahead, he vaguely saw a linen-garbed elder ape wielding an iron rod.

Lu Chenzhou immediately bowed respectfully:

"Junior Lu Chenzhou, greets Ancestor!"

The old ape said nothing, merely nodded before dissolving into starlight and vanishing into deep space.

"Just a wisp of obsession, then?"

Lu Chenzhou exhaled softly in relief.

He had feared this ancestor he’d never met would suddenly resurrect and put on a body seizing show.

That’s precisely why he insisted on creating his own cultivation method—methods of others always have uncertainties.

He must ensure that, even without the Mountain Moving Scripture, his power would not be much affected.

This breakthrough sent Lu Chenzhou’s qi-blood soaring to 2.2 million. Among the veteran Seventh Realms of Tianxia Civilization, his cultivation now ranked in the upper-middle tier.

As for real strength?

He reckoned he could make the top five.

Eternal Immortal, Eight Realm.

He couldn’t defeat that one for sure.

Dragon King had just advanced to Eight Realms not long ago—a top secret, known only to Seventh Realms.

The Priest and Emperor Shitian were also close to Eight Realms.

Against these four, even at full force, he had no chance. But as for others—old hands like Hui Kong Abbot, Daoist Xuanwu, those Late Stage Seventh Realm veterans—if he unleashed the Kun Character Technique, none should be his match.

It’s tough to fight above your realm in the Seventh—but not for him.

He had too many cards up his sleeve, and covered every base.

"Still, I’m eighty years old now, huh."

Lu Chenzhou suddenly realized.

It’s already the year 2285.

Mountain and Sea Tower reflects the Three Thousand Worlds—likely half the Seventh Realm powerhouses of this universe will descend, and even many Eight Realm old monsters will emerge.

Soon, it’ll be a lively mess.

Soon after, Lu Chenzhou found an asteroid about a thousand kilometers in diameter. Spreading his hands, palms forward, the trillions of cells in his body roared like stars, immense Yuan Magnetism twining together. Thick Ultimate Strength Dao Essence whipped his hair into a frenzy, making him look like a Super Saiyan.

"Up!"

His veins bulged; his pores jetted steaming, blazing qi-blood like a steam engine. Shifting form, he became a dragon-headed, tortoise-backed Overlord.

Thirty-six Transformations·Overlord Transformation.

This was his second chosen transformation.

Overlord excels in strength and defense.

"Kunpeng Technique!"

Lu Chenzhou activated his ultimate form. The Overlord’s dragon maw opened wide, swallowing surrounding meteors and bits of void, transforming them into surging energy, cramming them into his body by brute force.

His qi-blood shot past 4 million,

reaching Late Stage of Seventh Realm level.

"Up, I said!"

The ten-thousand-zhang-long Overlord roared, dragon claws digging deep into the star. An unimaginable strength erupted, prying it loose from its own orbit, shaking it free from the distant fixed star’s gravity.

"Go!"

The Overlord flung it mightily—a small planet, a third the radius of Earth’s moon, launched by his raw flesh, no fancy skills involved.

Boom!

The asteroid crashed into the orbit of another, colliding and shattering into countless meteors.

Another star fell.

The culprit: Lu Chenzhou.

"Such exhilarating power... Just now, relying on pure physical strength, I surpassed ten billion dings... If I burnt Senior Brother’s essence blood, activated True Spirit Transformation, deployed Overlord’s divine skill ’Heaven-Pressing, Earth-Bearing,’ it’d multiply further. Could I shake the Eighth Realm?"

Lu Chenzhou returned to human shape.

A hollow fatigue washed over him.

"Too tired. Time for a nap."

He sprawled on a meteor and fell soundly asleep, for months on end, until commotion roused him.

In the starry sky, an illustrious spectacle—pavilions and lofts with carved eaves and beams, dragon flying and phoenix dancing, with statues of rare and exotic beasts everywhere—rose and shimmered as an illusory vision.