Chapter 335: Chapter 325: Mastering the Heaven Star Array, a Small Start Doesn’t Count as Beginning

Starfall Cliff, the place where the Demon Cultivators of the Dragon God Sacred Land forged Holy Artifacts.

At this moment, it had been completely requisitioned and sealed off by Hong Yuan.

A purple star river cascaded from the heavens, splashing a celestial shower of starlight waves from the cliff’s summit.

Wisps of a desolate and lonely aura emanated from this place, startling in their intensity.

Hong Yuan looked up, focusing on the movements of the stars above.

When the Big Dipper’s seven stars aligned in a straight line, he made his move—

The Sky-connecting Tower’s Tao Species, emerging from the white tower’s exterior, drifted out of his Demon Realm, naturally drawing in the myriad starlight.

Meanwhile, the numerous Tao Marks of the Great Moon on Hong Yuan’s body converged towards the lowest layer of the Sky-connecting Tower’s Tao Species, continually altering the phantom of this miniature Great Moon world.

"The taller the building, the more stringent the requirements for its foundation," he murmured.

The Great Moon is one of the two most ancient stars. Given its status, it should be able to bear the weight of other stars. Combining Tao Marks from different schools of cultivation into one great star and placing it within each layer of the tower world—the idea should be correct...

Hong Yuan’s gaze was profound.

His ultimate answer to controlling myriad Taos was to leverage the status of the Great Moon Star, forcibly accommodating the Tao Marks of numerous schools in the manner of the Heaven Star Array, thereby cleverly circumventing the age-old issue of Tao Mark Contradiction.

In this endeavor, he drew upon a part of his past life’s cosmic understanding.

However, arranging these stars, each representing a different school, proved to be a challenge.

After all, his previous life involved parameters like orbit, revolution, and rotation. While this world had similar concepts, Hong Yuan had yet to delve into them.

Luckily, his master was Master Heavenly River, who controlled the ancient formation—the Heaven Star Array.

And he had inherited this legacy, comprehending the array among the Huangqu River Water Tribe.

The Heaven Star Array—that was Hong Yuan’s solution to the age-old problem of Tao Mark Contradiction!!!

BOOM!

A sudden thunderclap erupted from the ground, shaking the Dragon God Sacred Land. It pierced through multiple formations to reach Starfall Cliff, causing the Elders and Disciples of the Dragon God Sacred Land to tremble in alarm.

"What’s happening?" they asked one another.

"Could it be Human Race spies, hidden in the Endless Sea Area, attacking the inner court of the Dragon God Sacred Land, aiming to assassinate the Saint Lord?!"

These Elders and Disciples couldn’t help but wonder.

From the heavens above, thunderbolts poured down like a waterfall. A ruined and desolate world of thunder seemed to descend, trying to prevent the emergence of the Holy Artifact within the Sky-connecting Tower.

The light was too dazzling, the thunder too deafening.

Lightning cascaded like a torrential downpour, a seemingly unending, relentless barrage of Nine Heavens God Thunder.

Witnessing this scene, Demons and Demon Saints alike understood: their Saint Lord was forging a forbidden Holy Artifact!

"Is this... Tao Mark Contradiction?!"

"This is bad! This Han Jiuming possesses such ambition and is making remarkable progress. We cannot let him live any longer!"

In the White Snake Sea Area, governed by the Dragon God Sacred Land, a Saint’s pupils suddenly constricted.

He was a Human Race spy planted in the Endless Sea Area.

If the Demon Clan could carry out assassinations against the Human Race Destiny in the Five Great God Continents, naturally, the Human Race wouldn’t just sit idly by. They, too, had planted their own covert operatives within the Demon Clan’s Endless Sea Area.

This Human Race Saint spy hurried away.

Coincidentally, several other Human Race spies lurking in the Endless Sea Area shared his thoughts, each quickly contacting their superiors.

...

CRASH!

The sky tore, and the earth cracked. Myriad meteors, trailing blazing fire, fell from above, carrying an unstoppable momentum as they bombarded the Sky-connecting Tower’s Tao Species.

"No—"

"What kind of Holy Artifact is the Saint Lord forging for it to be this terrifying?!"

This extraordinary phenomenon made the numerous Demon Saints and Demons of the Dragon God Sacred Land cry out in terror, as if the apocalypse had arrived.

"Senior Brother, keep it up!" Kun Rong said, her hands clasped to her chest as she prayed silently for Hong Yuan.

Beside her, the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon watched Hong Yuan’s figure, its expression one of utter shock.

"This Sky-connecting Tower... it’s even more terrifying than I imagined..." Han Kui’s face was already a mask of disbelief; she suddenly realized how naive her initial thoughts had been.

Above, a great river roared, surging against the sky, transforming into an ocean of thunder, a judgment upon the world.

But under Hong Yuan’s control, none of these terrifying divine thunderbolts escaped the confines of Starfall Cliff.

Is reversing the Five Elements too forced? But arranging the five great stars according to the natural order of the Five Elements gives only a sixty percent chance of successfully forging the Holy Artifact in the Sky-connecting Tower. Only by reversing the Five Elements can the Sky-connecting Tower’s forging be decisively completed.

Hong Yuan’s brows furrowed, feeling the pressure mount as the Tao Marks of the Great Moon around him also stilled.

If the Sky-connecting Tower’s Tao Species can overcome the trial of "reversing the Five Elements," it will then become a Holy Artifact! But this trial is far from simple. Reversing the Five Elements belongs to the Five Elements school, which is subdivided into the natural order and the reversed order. The natural order—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water—fosters growth. The reversed order—Metal, Wood, Earth, Water, Fire—emphasizes destruction. Between the two, the primordial power provided by the reversed order is more tumultuous, enough to support the Sky-connecting Tower’s further advancement. By contrast, the natural order is somewhat insufficient. If nurtured according to the sequence of the Five Elements, it would take at least three hundred and sixty years before the Sky-connecting Tower could be called a Holy Artifact. Reversing the Five Elements, however, wouldn’t take nearly as long—only twenty or thirty years. Now that the Human Race Destiny has appeared, I don’t want to waste too much time nurturing the Holy Artifact; too many variables could arise. A minor opening doesn’t count as a true opening. There’s no other way... It seems I must reveal my true capabilities.

Hong Yuan sighed lightly and turned his gaze to the proficiency panel, especially the Life Span column.

With the shattering of the seventh dream sequence, his Demonic Body had grown considerably.

As a result, his Life Span had directly broken through the five million mark.

[Life Span: 22,568/5,042,451]

"Heavenly Demon Dismantling!"

"Heavenly Demon Dismantling!"

"..."

[Life Span -1000]

[Life Span -1000]

[...]

Having expended five thousand years of his Life Span, Hong Yuan forcefully overcame the challenge known as "Tao Mark Contradiction."

The next moment.

A Bronze Bell suddenly materialized in the void, pressing down upon the Sky-connecting Tower and enveloping its Tao Species.

Thunder roared, the Bronze Bell vibrating incessantly, threatening to shatter the Sky-connecting Tower’s Tao Species completely.

Suddenly, the ocean of heavenly thunder evolved again. From it leaped a Flaming Lion Ancestor, pouncing towards Hong Yuan.

Thunder taking shape—this was an extremely terrifying phenomenon, one that only a peerless Heavenly Talent could overcome.

DING—

Hong Yuan closed his eyes slightly. A burst of Great Moon Divine Fire materialized out of thin air, directly extinguishing the Flaming Lion Ancestor, eradicating this lightning-born entity that had reached the eighth order of Demon Saint.

When the thunder dissipated, a bird’s cry echoed from the sky, and a "sun" descended.

It was the flame deity bird—the Golden Crow had arrived!

Bursting through the blazing sun, it soared with wings outstretched, carrying the fire of heaven and earth and all the thunder to strike at Hong Yuan.

Following its appearance, legendary creatures such as the Kun fish, the Nine Nether mastiff, and the Golden-Winged Roc were also successively hatched by the thunder, as if stepping out of mythology itself.

Each more ferocious than the last, they attacked Hong Yuan with an overwhelming aura.

This was the price for touching Forbidden Power!

The age-old problem of Tao Mark Contradiction wasn’t so easily resolved.

Hong Yuan remained undaunted, laughing heartily.

From now on, I will possess the Seventy-two Transformations!

He decisively activated the Myriad Silence Realm Divine Power, the Tao of Great Moon fluctuating within it.

While engraving the Heaven Star Array onto the Sky-connecting Tower, he also launched an offensive.

These thunder-formed Divine Beasts were captured by him one after another, then dissected and studied.

[Transformation Tao +1000]

[Transformation Tao +1000]

[...]

Hong Yuan’s actions were undoubtedly astonishing.

Gazing at Hong Yuan in the sky, who seemed capable of swallowing the sun and moon and crushing mountains and rivers with his fists, the great demons of the Dragon God Sacred Land all gaped in shock.

When had they ever witnessed such a scene?

Especially the sky, which cracked and healed, only to crack and heal again.

Clearly, this realm of heaven and earth could hardly contain such power, yet Hong Yuan was somehow forcing it to do so!

Worm Roc Gu Jingshou’s body trembled, finding his own earlier thought—that Han Jiuming would die young due to insufficient Life Span—laughable. Destruction is simple, creation difficult. Han Jiuming’s strength must be infinitely approaching an alternative Tao Achievement...

"What talent! This Han Jiuming might truly have a chance to reverse the tides of heaven and earth!" Old Dark Turtle exclaimed in admiration.

"Indeed, this young Demon Saint..."

Within the Demon Court, eight other wills, as luminous as great suns, also praised Hong Yuan.

「Elsewhere」

The lurking Human Race spies witnessed this scene, looked at each other, and were rendered speechless.

Previously, they had all harbored a tragic, "once gone, never to return" sentiment, thinking that if they couldn’t assassinate Hong Yuan, they could at least disrupt the emergence of this Holy Artifact.

But now, it seemed they didn’t even possess the qualifications to get close to Hong Yuan.

"Let’s call off this mission for the time being."

"Don’t be discouraged. The Soul Killing Martial Saint is also growing rapidly; he’s about to reach the seventh order of Saint."

The leading Human Tribe Saint offered encouragement.

Everyone nodded in agreement and dispersed. However, as they looked towards Starfall Cliff, their expressions were all deeply solemn.

’Destiny’... such an epochal monster shouldn’t even exist in this world!