On Yellow Stone Star, Shuo Yan and three others stood up, protecting Qin Yu from all sides.

"Lord Shuo Yan, such a significant change in temperature must be due to that constant star, which I believe has reached its destruction stage," said a tall, thin man among the Four Great Guardians.

Shuo Yan and the others turned their gaze toward the far north horizon.

"I remember when Master just began his retreat, that constant star was not particularly large, but now its size has increased many times; it is clearly entering its destruction phase," Shuo Yan nodded.

The years of a constant star are nearly infinite, but only ’nearly’ so, its continuous burning must one day end in destruction. Now, it is erupting with a heat thousands of times more intense than before, a sign of its impending doom.

This also caused the temperature on Yellow Stone Star to keep rising.

As for Zixuan Star, because it was surrounded by thunder and vortexes for protection, the cultivators within were not affected at all.

"It’s not yet the final explosive phase; when it reaches that phase, the heat emitted by the constant star will increase a hundredfold. At that time, the surrounding space will tremble. Lord Shuo Yan, should we now warn Master? If he continues his retreat, he could be affected when the space begins to tremble," another one of the Four Great Guardians, a woman dressed in green, spoke up.

Shuo Yan pondered for a moment, then shook his head, "There’s no need for now. That constant star is quite distant from Yellow Stone Star; even if the space trembles, the impact on Yellow Stone Star will be minimal. Moreover, we have the maze array for protection, which itself influences the space. I believe it won’t affect the Master. Waking him now might disrupt his hard-earned progress in cultivation."

"Listen, from this moment on, we must focus all our attention. That constant star is so far from Yellow Stone Star yet can still emit such terrifying heat. It is clearly a very large star, and once it is destroyed, it might directly form a ’Devouring Destruction Zone,’ and the surrounding space might also be affected. We must remain vigilant," Shuo Yan commanded.

"Yes, Lord."

The other three said respectfully.

Instantly, the Four Great Guardians concentrated their attention and silently guarded, while the massive constant star’s heat grew stronger, and the temperature on Yellow Stone Star kept rising, yet Qin Yu continued to cultivate in tranquility.

During the cultivation period.

The Meteor Tear continuously nourished and nurtured Qin Yu’s soul while Life Essence Power slowly permeated his body. After more than a hundred years of nurturing, Qin Yu’s soul had become very strong, and his body also reached a new realm.

But inside the Dantian was still a hot constant star...

What was missing now was a leap, a breakthrough leap.

Yet, Qin Yu was in no rush, for this feeling of merging with nature was very comfortable, as if a baby returned to its mother’s embrace.

Time passed...

Who knows how many years had gone by.

"Be careful, that constant star is about to make its final eruption," Shuo Yan ordered, and the other three Great Guardians nodded, their attention fixed on the massive star entering its destruction phase.

Suddenly—

The already massive constant star, covered in flames, saw its size increase yet again, expanding by thousands of times in an instant, causing the temperature on the outskirts of Yellow Stone Star to rise to an astonishing degree due to a lack of special energy protection.

"Sss—"

The star expanded to its maximum in a split second, but then—

At a terrifying speed, the constant star suddenly contracted!

This rapid expansion and even swifter contraction caused a ripple through space, which by the time it reached Yellow Stone Star was very slight; theoretically, it should not have affected Qin Yu. However, Qin Yu, fused as one with the space and nature, was highly sensitive to such spatial disturbances.

"Hum—" Qin Yu’s body vibrated, and the countless specks of dust around him instantly dispersed, revealing him sitting cross-legged. Qin Yu, who had been closing his eyes for over a hundred years, suddenly opened them—

Two astonishing beams of light shot towards the sky, signaling the gaze of Qin Yu.

Qin Yu opened his eyes to witness the rapid collapse of the constant star!

The constant star rapidly shrank, from its previously brilliant state, its size reduced by countless times... and then it disappeared.

The entire constant star had abruptly vanished, and immediately afterwards, a terrifying gravitational force emerged in the space, which when it reached the Yellow Stone Star was incredibly slight.

This gravitational pull persisted, causing a slight change in the cosmic space once more.

Every moment, changes occur throughout cosmic space, leading to the evolution of the universe...

"This constant star truly is massive. It seems the final form should be a ’devouring destruction zone,’ not a ’Dark Star,’" Shuo Yan said with a smile, which Qin Yu would naturally understand if he heard it.

This so-called ’devouring destruction zone’ must be a black hole, while a ’Dark Star’ refers to planets with terrifying gravitational forces, like white dwarf stars.

"Why is it so hot?" The Four Great Guardians felt the surrounding temperature had once again increased, even more terrifying than the temperature when the constant star was destroyed.

"My lord, look at our master..." one of the Four Great Guardians, the woman in green, said in shock as she looked towards Qin Yu.

Shuo Yan and the others also turned their gazes towards Qin Yu.

At that moment, Qin Yu was enveloped by fiery, blazing light, and he himself was like a god of fire.

"Constant star, collapse, black hole... break and then establish..."

Qin Yu murmured.

Suddenly—

"Haha, I understand now!!!" Qin Yu burst into flames, which were purple, expanding instantly in all directions. Shuo Yan and the others saw the heavenly fire and immediately struggled to fend it off.

A first-level Heavenly Demon might not be able to face the heavenly fire, but as Shuo Yan and the others were elites among the ninth-level Heavenly Demons, they could still hold on if they were careful.

"What’s happening, my lord?" Shuo Yan and the others were perplexed.

After over a hundred years of arduous cultivation, Qin Yu’s hair had grown very long.

At that moment, his long hair danced in the air and the purple flames burned within a hundred-meter radius, with Qin Yu standing aloft in the center like a deity of fire. After a moment, Qin Yu’s expression changed slightly.

"It seems like the energy is not enough." Suddenly, a Nascent Soul appeared in Qin Yu’s hand, which was from a Ninth Tribulation Demon he had killed when he burned the Yinyue Mountain Range.

The Nascent Soul of the Ninth Tribulation Demon transformed into a powerful liquid energy in front of Qin Yu.

"Shoo!"

Qin Yu opened his mouth wide, like a whale swallowing, and the energy of the Ninth Tribulation Demon’s Nascent Soul was absorbed into his body in the span of a breath, and just moments later—

"Boom!"

Flames surged, and the range of the purple flames expanded rapidly, extending from the initial hundred meters to tens of thousands of meters in an instant, reaching an alarming extent.

Contract!

Suddenly contract!

The expanded purple flames abruptly drew in, completely retracting into Qin Yu’s body, the area within the maze array on Yellow Stone scorched a layer of ten plus meters deep, and the stone house also burned clean.

Four Ninth-level Heavenly Demons were fortunate to have profound powers, they simply lived through it.

Qin Yu stood in the air, his long hair fluttering, motionless.

The Four Great Guardians watched Qin Yu in amazement.

"What exactly happened to the master?" the woman in green asked.

The others were all shaking their heads, puzzled about what exactly was happening with Qin Yu at the moment. Qin Yu’s burst of energy just now had startled them, and now Qin Yu was in a state of silence, making them even more uneasy.

×

"Break down before establishing, it’s the ultimate path for a Constant Star to collapse into a Black Hole at the end. However, the energy required to collapse into a Black Hole is just too immense, far too immense," Qin Yu couldn’t help but sigh as he introspected the situation within his Dantian.

At the moment he glimpsed the collapse of the Constant Star, Qin Yu had a sudden insight.

Over a hundred years of quiet cultivation, yet he had achieved enlightenment in this moment.

Within Qin Yu’s Dantian now lay a minutely small dark red sphere, the volume of which was tens of millions of times smaller than the Constant Star initially in the Dantian, but the energy of this dark red sphere was refined over ten thousand times more.

"The collapse of a Constant Star, to form a Black Hole, really requires too much energy. The energy in the Constant Star within my Dantian is already substantial. In the end, I added a Nascent Soul of a Ninth Tribulation Independent Demon, but it merely formed a ’Dark Star.’ It’s still very far from a ’Black Hole.’"

"This time the Constant Star collapsed, my energy was reduced by over fifty percent, but my attack power has increased by a hundred times," Qin Yu was clear in his heart.

The Instant of the Constant Star’s collapse released too much energy. However, the remaining less than fifty percent of energy condensed into millions of times what it was, finally forming a ’Dark Star’, whose energy was refined to the utmost, and attack power was incredibly shocking.

Qin Yu felt very relieved in his heart.

For he had already created the Seventh Realm of Star Transformation — the Dark Star Stage.

In the Sixth Realm, the Constant Star Stage, the energy was blazingly chaotic.

The Seventh Realm, the Dark Star Stage, however, was the collapse of the Constant Star Stage; the volume was reduced by ten million times. If the energy of the Constant Star stage was likened to a block of scrap iron, then the energy of this Dark Star stage has been refined of all impurities and compressed by ten million times, forming a sharp fine needle.

"If I’m not mistaken, the next realm would involve collapsing the ’Dark Star’ again to form a ’Black Hole,’ but forming a Black Hole needs too much energy. Moreover, such terrifying energy cannot be controlled even by my Soul Power."

Qin Yu was very clear in his heart.

His Soul Cultivation was already very profound, having entered the Heavenly Immortal Realm before entering the Ni Yang Realm, and over these hundred-plus years of quiet cultivation, Qin Yu’s Soul Realm was already equivalent to the Seventh Level of Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Yet even such profound levels of Heavenly Immortal Realm barely controlled that extensive energy during its collapse just now.

"Black Hole Stage, it looks like I’ll only be able to attempt it once my Soul Realm reaches the Golden Immortal Stage," Qin Yu was clear and understood in his heart.

This Constant Star collapse was simple in theory, but the action was incredibly complex. It was also a sudden insight Qin Yu had when he opened his eyes and saw that scene. This insight was in fact not unrelated to the more than a hundred years of quiet cultivation.

Qin Yu opened his eyes and there before him were the Four Great Guardians, worried, Qin Yu thought to himself.

"Haha, I never thought that I, Qin Yu, would have fought and cultivated on Zixuan Star to the Constant Star Stage in less than a hundred years. This time in seclusion has taken up over one hundred and fifty years; it is really interesting, very interesting," Qin Yu couldn’t help but sigh.

In these one hundred and fifty years, Qin Yu’s Soul reached the level of a Seventh-level Heavenly Immortal, partly because Qin Yu had become one with nature, but the most important reason was the nourishment and nurturing from Meteor Tear.

"Congratulations, master."

Shuo Yan and three others immediately bowed.

"You may rise; your protection during my breakthrough contributed to its success," Qin Yu said, clearly elated that he had achieved the final breakthrough.

"Star Transformation" begins from the ’Dark Star Stage,’ and each subsequent realm will be created by Qin Yu.

"Milord, there was a faint trace of energy in you before, which all of us could feel, but now it seems like there isn’t a trace of energy in you?" Shuo Yan exclaimed in surprise. She was a Ninth-level Heavenly Demon but couldn’t sense any energy from Qin Yu.

"This is due to my cultivation technique," Qin Yu said calmly.

Qin Yu knew in his heart that this was because he had reached the Dark Star Stage.

Dark Star isn’t just about all energy condensing into that tiny dark red sphere, but there’s another reason—its devouring gravitational pull. This Dark Star is similar to the ’white dwarf star,’ ’neutron star,’ etc., in the cosmic space of his master. Its ability to devour is incredibly astonishing.

A thought crossed Qin Yu’s mind.

All around Qin Yu, nature’s spiritual energy gathered like a vortex, continuously channeling into his body and entering the tiny dark red sphere. No matter how much spiritual energy it absorbed, this dark red sphere showed almost no change. It appeared that the energy inside the Dark Star was too pure.

And at that moment—

Qin Yu’s whole soul trembled.

An unexpected piece of information suddenly surged into his mind—he was going to Ascend to the Immortal Demon Beast Realm in three months.

"Ascend to the Immortal Demon Beast Realm?" Qin Yu felt a surge of joy.

He had undergone hardships in cultivation for so many years just for the Ascension to the Immortal Demon Beast Realm. Only by ascending could he meet Hou Fei and Hei Yu, and possibly even Li’er.

However, at that moment, the Meteor Tear inside Qin Yu’s body began to tremble. His face changed, and he immediately closed his eyes, focusing completely inward, keenly aware of everything pertaining to the Meteor Tear.

At that moment, the Meteor Tear underwent a sudden change.

The Meteor Tear, shaped like a tear drop.

At this instant, the Meteor Tear flew directly into Qin Yu’s mind, then moved to where his soul resided. Now that Qin Yu’s soul had congealed into a physical form, the Meteor Tear merged into his soul, and all the surrounding soul power was completely absorbed into the Meteor Tear like rivers flowing into the sea.

The fusion of the soul with the Meteor Tear caused all the soul power to contract. Even if a great cultivator were to examine him, they would not detect any trace of Qin Yu’s aura.

Tremors.

Qin Yu’s entire body shivered intensely.

...

Shuo Yan and the others watched Qin Yu closely. He was now levitating in mid-air, his long hair fluttering in the wind. His entire being was devoid of any aura, including... the aura of his soul, as if he were a lifeless stone.

Suddenly—

Qin Yu opened his eyes, which gleamed brightly, and his whole person instantaneously regained vitality.

"So, after the soul condenses into reality, it still needs to go through the Three Souls Nine Refinements..." Qin Yu murmured, a satisfied smile on his face.

(Phew, I finally made a breakthrough~~ This Seventh Realm is the Dark Star Stage. You might guess the Eighth Realm, but can anyone guess the Ninth Realm? Hehe...)

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