Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 643: Sun
The two of them left the chamber without looking back.
They didn’t notice the heart-rock changing again.
Its surface gathered and condensed, but this time it didn’t push out a face.
It formed a vertical line.
The eye opened slowly and followed their backs as they disappeared into the tunnel.
It just watched, as if it already knew them.
If Alex were here, he would recognize it immediately.
Byakhee eyes.
***
A shuttle flew through empty space.
The sun filled the front window, too bright for a normal human to stare at for long.
Warning lights flashed across the console.
[THERMAL LIMIT EXCEEDED.]
[PLEASE EVACUATE THE AREA.]
Even without looking at the numbers, they could feel it.
The air inside the shuttle warmed by the second.
"We should hijack a better shuttle. Where’s the dragon prince?" Mingyue said.
Alex’s eyes stayed on the sun. "He’s close to the core."
The shuttle’s protective barrier began to distort.
[STRUCTURAL FAILURE RISK.]
Alex stared at the warning, then muttered, "Seems his goal is taking the system’s core."
Just like planets had cores that could form a heaven’s will, each star system had its own core as well.
But a star’s core was pure energy.
Not everyone could absorb it, but if they could, it would be a massive boost.
Mingyue looked at him. "You want that core too."
Alex didn’t deny it. "Of course. It will be useful for Edonia’s recovery."
Mingyue’s gaze hardened. "Then we move now."
She reached for the hatch controls.
The outer hatch opened.
Heat poured in, and the shuttle’s interior started to soften and melt at the edges.
Alex formed runes along his arms and chest.
A layered barrier wrapped around both of them, sealing air inside and pushing the heat back into a thin shell.
Mingyue raised her palm.
Cold qi spread outward and stabilized the barrier, slowing the burn.
They stepped out.
The shuttle drifted behind them, alarms still flashing, already starting to fail.
The sun’s outer atmosphere hit them first.
Boiling plasma and charged particles moved in violent storms, like an endless ocean of fire.
They descended through the bright outer layer.
The light grew harsher, coming from every direction at once.
Heat wasn’t the only problem.
The pressure climbed fast, and the plasma density thickened until it felt like they were forcing their way through a sea.
Alex narrowed his eyes. "This is the inner layer."
He could feel the flow, giant rising columns and sinking currents, endless churn that could tear a ship apart.
Deeper, the violent churning faded.
The region became heavy and quiet, but it was filled with radiation, energy that pressed into everything.
Alex added another layer of runes, this one built to resist and deflect the radiation.
Mingyue frowned. "This is weird."
Alex nodded once. "A place full of energy, but not one we can use easily."
They went deeper.
The pressure kept increasing.
Their barrier started to crack.
Alex slowed when he sensed something ahead.
A floating fortress appeared in the glare.
It sat near the core like an island in an endless storm of energy.
A clean sphere covered it, pushing the sun’s plasma away and holding a stable space inside.
Alex brushed the barrier with his senses and pulled back instantly.
"What an amazing fortress," he muttered.
Mingyue’s eyes narrowed. "He’s here."
The fortress barrier rippled.
Then it opened fire.
Thin beams of light shot out like spears, cutting through the plasma in straight lines.
Mingyue flicked her hand, and space around the beam lines bent slightly, pushing the strikes off course by a hair.
She moved at the same time, her body sliding through the gaps .
A beam passed close enough that the heat made their barrier flicker.
Another cut across their backs, and the runes on Alex’s shell flared to absorb the impact.
They didn’t slow down.
Mingyue’s cold qi surged.
The color changed.
Her ice energy turned deep purple.
It became a cutting frost, a freezing law.
She grabbed Alex’s wrist. "Now."
They shot forward together.
The barrier in front of them flicker, trying to reject them.
The fortress sphere rippled again, and a thicker beam formed, wide enough to split a mountain.
Mingyue’s space qi covered their path like a thin blade.
Alex stacked runes on top of it, one after another, forcing a narrow opening in the formation like prying open a sealed door.
The moment the opening appeared, Mingyue pulled them through.
They passed through the barrier formation in a single breath.
The world changed instantly.
The heat pressure vanished, replaced by cold air.
Green land spread out in front of them.
The inside was far larger than the outside.
Alex spread his aura and felt the scale of it. It was almost as big as his home planet.
"There’s no one else here," Mingyue said with a frown.
A rough voice called out from ahead.
"I don’t need anyone else. What are you two pests doing here?"
Prince Saryx Dravakar.
A humanoid dragon.
Dark scales wrapped his body, layered like armor.
The scales were clear on his neck and arms.
His eyes were narrow reptilian slits.
Two draconic horns curved back from his head.
His upper body was bare, muscular, and marked by scale lines that ran across his chest and shoulders like natural armor.
Saryx smiled coldy.
BAM!!!
A fist appeared in front of Alex.
The space folded and delivered the punch.
Alex reacted on instinct.
He caught the fist with his palm.
BOOM!!!
The air exploded, and the shockwave blew grass and dirt outward in a ring.
Trees in the distance bent from the pressure, their leaves shaking as if a storm had hit.
Alex felt his bones jolt from the impact.
Saryx leaned in slightly, eyes bright, and spoke like he was bored. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"Not dead. Good."
He threw another punch.
Alex blocked, turned his wrist, and tried to redirect the force away from his body.
The moment he touched the prince’s fist, heat surged through the contact, pure violent energy that tried to tear his own power apart.
