Stellar Transformation-Chapter 130 - 5 volumes 33 - s 9 protectors

In the secluded courtyard owned by Qin Yu within the eastern district of the Red Blood Cave Mansion, Hou Fei sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly guarding the room behind him that contained ’Qin Yu’. Although Hou Fei knew in his heart that Qin Yu had slipped away as soon as he entered the room, this was a plan they had agreed on earlier. Naturally, Hou Fei needed to put on a show.

Suddenly, Hou Fei’s eyes snapped open as he looked towards a silhouette that appeared before him.

"Big Brother!" A flicker of joy instantly appeared on Hou Fei’s face.

However, seeing Qin Yu’s pierced right hand, Hou Fei’s expression changed immediately. The wound was fierce and horrifying, and Qin Yu, his face slightly pale, quickly instructed, "Feifei, stop asking. Come into the room with me."

With that, Qin Yu’s figure flashed as he entered the room directly. Filled with curiosity, Hou Fei also rushed into the room and waved his hand to set up a restriction outside the room to prevent outsiders from knowing what happened inside.

Once inside the room, Qin Yu sat cross-legged on the bed and then let out a long sigh. At this moment, he wasn’t concerned about his pierced right hand; just a moment ago, he had been locked in a life-and-death decision with Di Tong. It was only now, after returning to his own room, that Qin Yu could completely calm down.

"Big Brother, what on earth happened?" Hou Fei anxiously inquired.

When Qin Yu recalled what he had gained, a smile couldn’t help but spread across his face: "Feifei, you must strike when the time is right, you can’t be timid. Once the opportunity passes, it’s too late for regrets. If you want to gain advantages, you must be willing to take risks."

Hou Fei was completely baffled and blinked his eyes in confusion, "Big Brother, what do you mean by that?"

"Thrilling, absolutely thrilling!"

Qin Yu, instead of answering, simply waved his hand and two large Nascent Souls floated out. These Nascent Souls, having lost control of their souls, had been reduced to pure energy crystals. They were currently emitting a faint purple glow.

Hou Fei’s Fire Eyes immediately lit up as two substantial beams of light shot out and landed on the two Nascent Souls.

"Such strong energy!" Hou Fei exclaimed in surprise. "They must be at least at the Cave Void Stage. Big Brother, when did you obtain these two great Nascent Souls? With these, the help they can offer you is tremendous," Hou Fei praised.

Qin Yu looked at Hou Fei and said, "You’ve got it wrong. Not only are they helpful to me, but they will also be beneficial to you and Little Black." Qin Yu had never considered keeping them all to himself.

"These two great Nascent Souls, one of them is from the Mid Cave Void Stage Purple Evil Flood Dragon, and the other is from the Early-stage Cave Void Red Blood Water Python. Their Nascent Souls hold much more energy than Cultivators of the same level. Cha Hong’s Nascent Soul is already enough for me. As for Di Tong’s, you and Little Black can refine it together."

Hou Fei shook his head, "No, the Mid Cave Void Stage Purple Evil Flood Dragon Nascent Soul has an immense amount of energy. I cannot absorb it. Since I recently left the Inner Valley and achieved a slight breakthrough in spiritual state while guarding for you, my soul is barely sufficient to match up to the Late-stage Nascent Soul. Big Brother, do you understand what I mean?"

Hou Fei’s current cultivation was at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul, while his soul had reached the level of Late-stage Nascent Soul.

Hou Fei continued, "At most I can reach the Late-stage Nascent Soul and then I can’t absorb any more energy. If I refine too much and my body’s energy exceeds my soul’s realm, it can easily lead to loss of control over the energy within me, and even energy turbulence, causing my spirit to scatter."

Qin Yu was very aware of this principle.

The soul is the foundation. If the energy surpasses one’s control power, it can lead to difficulties in combat control, and in severe cases, it may even result in energy turmoil.

"I’m aware of that, but Feifei, your cultivation has been at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul for quite some time. To reach the Late-stage Nascent Soul, you should only need to refine part of a Nascent Soul. As for Little Black..." Qin Yu thought of Hei Yu and took out a Communication Order.

Hou Fei, seeing Qin Yu bring out the Communication Order, knew that Qin Yu was going to contact Little Black.

"Little Black, in some time, once I’ve stabilized things in the Red Blood Cave Mansion, I will send a message for you to come over. By the way, I have a Cave Void Realm Nascent Soul here, how much can you absorb?" Qin Yu also questioned Little Black’s absorption capacity.

Little Black replied through the communication just for a moment.

"Cave Void Realm? Big Brother, who did you kill, some big shot? It wasn’t that bastard Cha Hong, was it? As for how much I can absorb, although I have been transformed through a forbidden technique, shed my old body and born anew, and my cultivation speed has increased many times over, including the advancement of my soul realm, but... I haven’t been cultivating for long. My soul realm is barely at the early stage of Nascent Soul, so I dare not continue refining and absorbing."

In the world of Demon Cultivators overseas, there were indeed those who refined and absorbed Golden Core Nascent Souls.

However, real experts would not dare let their cultivation surpass their soul realm. Whether it be Hou Fei or Hei Yu, even though they knew that they could refine and absorb Nascent Souls available to them thanks to Qin Yu, they did not dare to overdo it.

Lei Wei back in the day also did not dare to refine at will, despite having the strength to kill enemies above his level, because the advancement of his soul realm was too slow.

There are methods to progress in one’s own power, one of which is to collect various spirit herbs to refine pills that increase one’s power. This method’s main problem is that rare herbs are difficult to find and the refining process is quite complex.

The second is to refine the Nascent Souls and Golden Cores of other Cultivators.

But for the soul to rapidly leap forward, that’s difficult. At least so far, no method has been discovered that can suddenly raise the soul realm. Thus, not many Cultivators refine and absorb Golden Cores and Nascent Souls, after all, to dare refine and absorb them, one must at least have a high soul realm.

"However, Big Brother, when I am in the Inner Valley listening to Miss Li’er’s music, I feel my state of mind improving rapidly. I estimate that it won’t take long for my soul realm to reach the middle stage of Nascent Soul. I’ll come to you then," Hei Yu sent another message.

"Alright, I also have quite a few matters to deal with in the Red Blood Cave Mansion," Qin Yu replied.

After that, Qin Yu and Little Black ended their communication.

"Feifei, this is a Mid Cave Void Stage Nascent Soul. You have higher cultivation than I do, you refine part of it first until you reach the late stage of Nascent Soul," Qin Yu was not in a hurry himself but instead let Hou Fei go first. Hou Fei did not refuse and sat down cross-legged right away.

As soon as Hou Fei opened his mouth, a burst of True Fire shot out, enveloping Di Tong’s Nascent Soul.

Under the burning of the True Fire, the Nascent Soul slowly melted, streams of purple liquid flowed out of it, and then directly merged into Hou Fei’s body. When it comes to cultivating speed, it was more than ten times faster than Qin Yu’s refining speed; Qin Yu stood by quietly guarding.

Half a day later.

After roughly twenty percent of the Nascent Soul had been refined, Hou Fei, who had been sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his fiery eyes, emitting a dazzling brilliance.

Qin Yu’s spiritual sense had long noticed that Hou Fei had reached the late stage of Nascent Soul and immediately smiled, "Congratulations, congratulations, Feifei. Now that you’ve reached the late stage of Nascent Soul, I reckon you could even contend with that Purple Evil Flood Dragon Di Tong."

Hou Fei was very excited and cackled weirdly, "Di Tong? Even though he is at the Mid Cave Void Stage, his true form is that of the Purple Evil Flood Dragon, which is much stronger than Cultivators of the same level. In the past, I definitely could not have defeated him, but now, cackle~~~"

Hou Fei looked incredibly pleased with himself.

"Big Brother, you start cultivating. I really don’t know how your soul advanced so quickly. If my soul realm was as high as yours, I would’ve refined the whole Nascent Soul in one go," Hou Fei couldn’t help sighing as he looked at Qin Yu.

Qin Yu smiled.

Meteor Tear, even now, Qin Yu knew nothing about the Meteor Tear, he couldn’t even control it to do anything; all sorts of energy were spontaneously emanating from the Meteor Tear. That he could obtain such a treasure was truly luck, but it could also be called ’fate’.

"Alright, Feifei, you stay outside as my guard, I’m going to fully absorb this Nascent Soul!"

The Nascent Soul of Di Tong, which had lost 20 percent of its energy, was once again refined and absorbed by Qin Yu. In terms of soul realm, Qin Yu had already reached the early stages of the Cave Void realm, and he himself was indeed astonished by the rapid advancement of his soul realm.

However...

Was Qin Yu’s advancement in soul realm considered fast?

Take Little Black, for example, who had experienced a rapid increase in soul power after a forbidden technique. In just a few short years, he went from the early stage of the Golden Core to the early stage of the Nascent Soul. For cultivators, it was quite normal for the soul realm to advance by leaps and bounds once they had an epiphany.

Sudden insight is something that cannot be sought after, but Qin Yu’s steady advancement was constantly underway.

Since then, Qin Yu concentrated on refining the Nascent Soul in his own house, regardless of what was happening in the outside world. Hou Fei also devoted himself to protecting the outside of Qin Yu’s house, not allowing anyone to take a single step inside.

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Red Blood Cave Mansion Northern District.

Although nearly half of the underground secret chamber group beneath the rockery was destroyed, since it was underground, there were hardly any changes to the rockery and the like on the surface. The only change was that the entrance leading to the group of secret chambers was blown apart.

But that entrance was inside the rockery, and it would not be easily noticed unless one looked carefully.

Even the guard patrols of the Red Blood Cave Mansion had to detour when they reached this area, as per the order of the Cave Master, Cha Hong. The reason was that Cha Hong used to refine the Black Jade Box inside the secret chamber and naturally didn’t want anyone approaching.

It had been more than half a day since Qin Yu broke through the restriction and returned to his house. During this half-day, there were dozens of patrols. However, because they all detoured around the rockery, none of the guards noticed that the entrance to the group of secret chambers had been destroyed.

As another patrol team arrived, the leader, who was stout and had eyes as large as copper bells, was staring around. But just as they were walking past, the captain suddenly stopped.

"Captain Xuan Kui, what happened for us to stop?" inquired a short, chubby guard.

However, Captain Xuan Kui was incredulously staring in the direction of the rockery. In fact, due to the detours every patrol team took, the only angle from which the entrance to the secret chambers could be partially seen was where Captain Xuan Kui was currently standing. Beyond this point, the entrance was not visible.

"Follow me!"

Commanded Captain Xuan Kui loudly, as he dashed towards the rockery.

"Captain, we are not allowed to pass there on the patrol route," the short, chubby guard shouted anxiously, but as he neared the rockery, Captain Xuan Kui suddenly barked, "Disaster! The entrance to the underground secret chamber group has been smashed, quickly ask the protector to come."

The entrance to the underground secret chamber group was smashed?

All the guards present were astonished, aware of the seriousness of the situation. Surely, if it were an authorized entry or exit, why would the entrance door be destroyed? Instantly, each guard rushed to notify all the protectors.

Captain Xuan Kui, holding a large axe in his hand, glared into the entrance, where the connecting corridor was strewn with piles of broken rocks.

"Xuan Kui, what happened?" Zhuang Zhong was the first to arrive and barked at Captain Xuan Kui, who was under Zhuang Zhong’s direct command. Captain Xuan Kui quickly bowed and said, "Subordinate does not know, I just discovered the situation here and immediately notified the protectors."

In a moment, the three Xuan Turtle brothers, the two Hu Sha brothers, the two sisters of the Snake Woman, Zhuang Zhong, and Teng Bi all arrived.

"Where are Hou Fei and Guardian Liu Xing?" Yanqing wondered.

Zhuang Zhong chuckled, "Sister Yanqing, Guardian Liu Xing seems to have started another seclusion half a month ago, while Protector Hou Fei is guarding outside. I guess Guardian Liu Xing hasn’t emerged from seclusion yet." The Nine Guardians entered the entrance while discussing,

Upon seeing the broken stones at the entrance, the Nine Guardians felt an ill omen.

They went down the diagonal passage to enter the underground secret chamber group, but once they entered, they were all dumbfounded by the sight before them.

What were once a series of chambers had been completely destroyed, and all of the rubble had been swept to the sides, clearing out a sprawling open space in the group of secret chambers, measuring six to seven hundred meters in both length and width. The broken stones from the chamber walls were piled up on the sides.

"Look, that’s blood!" The Snake Woman, Xi Yan, pointed at a spot on the ground and shouted.

The other eight protectors also looked in that direction and indeed saw a large pool of blood, which was the result of a battle between the Red Blood Water Python and the Purple Evil Flood Dragon.

"Looking at those deep indentations on the ground, it should be from a giant python’s tail striking the surface," Teng Bi pointed out calmly at a particular indentation.

The three Xuan Turtle brothers led by Ba Ming, the two Hu Sha Witch Pupil brothers, the Snake Women Yanqing and Xi Yan, Zhuang Zhong, and Teng Bi, the nine of them carefully analyzed the scene and could confirm that a fierce battle had taken place here.

And one of the main characters was likely Cha Hong, who was secluding himself here.

The Nine Guardians looked at each other; a great battle had transpired here without their knowledge, and they had no idea whether Cha Hong was alive or dead now, as well as considering the recent death of Cha Po, which made them feel even more uneasy.

"Let’s go, check if the Soul Jade Scroll of the Cave Master is broken!"

Teng Bi, the most powerful among them, ordered sternly, and the Nine Guardians immediately left the group of secret chambers to see the room where each person’s Soul Jade Scroll was kept. The room holding the Soul Jade Scrolls was checked daily and guarded from the outside.

When two guards saw all nine protectors arriving together, they were astonished.

"We greet all the lords," the two guards knelt on one knee.

Teng Bi glanced at the guard, while Yanqing couldn’t wait and sharply ordered, "You two, hurry and open the door." The door to the room was sealed with restrictions, and Yanqing and the others did not want to break it forcibly, opting instead to order the guards to open it.

"Yes, lord."

A guard stood up and shot several streams of Demon Essence Power into the door, and a flash of green light appeared, the door automatically and slowly opened.

As the door opened, the nine protectors outside could all see the Soul Jade Scrolls laying on the ancient wooden cabinet in the center of the room, and now the topmost piece had shattered, belonging to Cha Hong, the Red Blood Cave Master!

The expressions of the Nine Guardians all changed simultaneously.

Cha Hong was dead!

(End of Chapter One!)

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