Chapter 457
457 The core of the star
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Sikong Jingming closed his eyes and sensed. The celestial chi energy emitted by ye chen should be at boundless stage fifth level. However, unlike other humans, ye Chen’s celestial Chi was mixed with traces of pure psyche energy. Ye chen had cultivated celestial Chi and psyche at the same time. Moreover, both had reached fifth grade boundless stage. In terms of strength alone, he was not inferior to seventh or eighth grade boundless stage. Perhaps, he could even be on par with ninth grade boundless stage.
This person should be a peerless genius like tan tai! Sikong Jingming sighed. He thought to himself,’once ye chen comprehends the power of his territory and breaks through to the transcendent stage, he’ll definitely be much stronger than ordinary transcendent stage powerhouses!’ Ye Chen’s performance throughout the journey had slowly made him put away his contempt.
Tantai Ling had also sensed the change in ye Chen’s energy. Her senses were much more acute than sikong Jingming’s. She could sense that there were at least five or six different energies working together on ye Chen’s body, and each of them was extremely mysterious.
Ye chen closed his eyes to consolidate his cultivation base and felt the increase in his power. When he opened his eyes, there was a flash of light in them.
“Let’s go,” Tantai Ling looked ahead and saw that they had already stepped into a stretch of broken ruins.
Ye chen and sikong Jingming nodded and followed.
Ye chen could sense that there were still many powerhouses peeking at them from the darkness in the distance. In addition, there were many boundless stage spirit beasts wandering around, some of them even reaching transcendent stage. He didn’t know if it was the influence of the power of the stars that gushed out of the huge cosmic stone, but these soul beasts had become abnormally powerful.
Soul beasts relied on devouring to survive. As long as there was enough profound Qi, food, minerals, and so on in the surroundings, they would be able to grow rapidly and not be restricted by the barrier of advancement!
As ye chen walked through the ruins, he looked down. Among the seaweed, there were spirit beasts that appeared from time to time. However, with the suppression of the auras of the two powerful fighters, tantai Ling and sikong Jingming, these spirit beasts did not dare to come forward and court death. Ye Chen’s astral body extended all the way into the restriction and passed through a thick layer of it. A huge cosmic stone appeared in his sight.
What a huge cosmic stone!
Ye Chen’s mouth was agape. Although he had already seen the appearance of this cosmic stone, he could not help but feel shocked when he saw it with his own eyes. If such a large cosmic stone were to be moved back and placed in the star Hall, just the astral power emitted from it would be able to make many people advance in cultivation instantly.
His astral body continued to penetrate the interior of the cosmic stone. Soon, he saw that there was a star core about the size of a pigeon’s egg inside the cosmic stone. Just a small piece of the star core that tantai Ling had given him had already allowed his cultivation base to improve so rapidly. The effects of such a large star core would definitely be several times stronger. Even if he could only obtain half of it, it would be a very impressive result.
With tantai Ling and sikong Jingming around, the three of them successfully arrived at the last layer of the restrictive spell.
Looking at the barrier that was like a layer of transparent light, ye chen reached out and touched it. The barrier was very strong and thick.
“This is an earth element restriction. We’ve studied it before. Although this restriction is extremely strong, as long as there’s a crack in it, the entire restriction will collapse.” Tantai Ling’s voice was faintly heard in ye Chen’s ears.
“Even if my celestial Chi Flying Daggers were to blast open this restriction, there are so many pairs of eyes watching us. It won’t be easy for us to snatch that cosmic stone.” Ye chen frowned slightly. Among the many sea demon auras in the vicinity, there were many transcendent stage powerhouses. They came from various sea demon races and perhaps one or two of them could compete with tantai Ling.
“If the restriction is broken, I’ll immediately use the sea god’s Trident to shatter the cosmic stone. We should be able to obtain the largest portion!” Tantai Ling seemed to have thought this through as she spoke.
“Although we will lose some cosmic stones, it’s better than nothing!” Sikong Jingming said from the side. However, he did not understand why tantai Ling was so certain that ye chen would be able to break through this barrier. It should be known that even the power of a second-tier domain could not shake this restriction, and ye chen was only at the boundless stage.
Ye chen thought for a moment and shook his head.”If that’s the case, it’s bound to cause a lot of disputes. The beast tide of soul beasts is already enough of a headache for us, and you still want to cause a war between the sea demon races over the cosmic stones? Now is not the time, the soul beasts are our greatest enemy.”
“Then what can we do?” Sikong Jingming snorted. He couldn’t do this, and he couldn’t do that either. His temper was so bad that he was about to lose it.
“Do you know what else is inside this restriction apart from that cosmic stone?” Ye chen asked, ignoring sikong Jingming.
“This restriction will consume our psyche. Our psyche can only explore a part of the area, and we only found this cosmic stone.” Sikong Jingming frowned as he suppressed his anger.
“My soul seems to be able to easily break through this restriction!” Ye chen thought to himself,’I’ll investigate the situation inside first.’
Ye chen activated his astral body and searched all the way inside the restriction. In addition to the huge cosmic stone, ye chen also found a few transcendent stage spirit beasts. He did not know how these spirit beasts had entered the restriction. His astral body extended all the way and at the bottom of the ruins, ye chen actually found a secret passage. His astral body tried to extend downwards and did not encounter much resistance. The secret passage was narrow, long, and winding. In the end, it suddenly opened up. Ye chen was surprised. He did not expect that below the ruins, there would be a path. There was a huge underground Palace!
The underground palace was resplendent with gold and Jade, luxurious and Grand. Although it had been buried underground for countless years, it had been well protected by the restrictions and had not suffered any damage.
Ye Chen’s astral body shuttled back and forth in the underground palace. He saw that the surrounding walls were inlaid with many cosmic stones. Along the way, other than the cosmic stones, spirit artifacts were hanging on the walls like decorations. They were all of high grade and many of them were human tier! He wondered how the owner of this underground Palace had collected so many high-grade spirit treasures.
Ye Chen’s astral body continued to explore. Deep in the hall of the underground palace, there was a place that looked like a conference hall. In the middle of it was a luxurious throne. What attracted ye chen was a crystal placed on the throne.
Ye chen could not help but take a deep breath. If he was not mistaken, it was a star core!
The star core was the size of a fist. It was black and crystal clear, emitting a faint light. It lay quietly on the seat of the throne.
Ye chen was overjoyed. In terms of value, ten thousand cosmic stones could not compare to a pigeon egg-sized stellar core! Not to mention this fist-sized one!
With this stellar core, there was no need to fight for the cosmic stones outside. Ye chen was unusually excited. His astral body wanted to continue to explore but soon, a wave of fatigue hit him. Although his astral body was much stronger than an ordinary person’s, it was still somewhat restricted by the restriction. He could only withdraw his astral body first.
At this moment, in the dark sea in the distance, little squido landed on this firm earth-type restriction. He extended a tentacle and knocked on the restriction. His eyes were smiling and curved into a crescent shape. His body was wrapped in Water-type celestial Chi. With a whoosh, he slipped into the restriction silently.
Ye chen sensed that little squido had entered the restriction from the other end. He was both surprised and delighted. Little squido could break through this restriction so easily!
Tantai Ling had also sensed little squido’s actions in the distance. Of course, she recognized little squido and knew that it was ye Chen’s pet. She transmitted her voice to ye chen,”Your dusk octopus can break through the restriction, but I’m afraid it can’t bring the things inside the restriction out.”
This kind of restriction was like a layer of thin film that covered the ruins. It was equivalent to a partition. It could block objects but not celestial Chi.
The reason why little squido was able to slip into the restriction was that it could transform its body into a stream of Water-type celestial Chi. Celestial Chi could freely break through the restriction, but it was difficult to bring the heaven and earth bag in and out.
Ye chen frowned and thought about it. For safety’s sake, it was better to let little squido enter the underground palace first and get that fist-sized star core!
Ye chen activated his astral body and sent a message to little squido. Little squido nodded happily and waved its tentacles non-stop as if it was dancing. It was overjoyed that it could take another treasure and excitedly rushed toward the underground palace.
Ye chen was much more at ease now that little squido had obtained the planetary core first. He sensed his surroundings. At this time, there were about five or six groups of people hiding outside the restriction. From time to time, there would be gazes cast on the three of them.
Ye Chen’s expression was relaxed. He looked at tantai Ling and smiled. if I break through the restriction later, use your Trident to shatter the cosmic stone immediately. We don’t want anything but the pigeon egg-sized star core inside the cosmic stone.
“We’re going to throw away all these cosmic stones?” Sikong Jingming furrowed his brows slightly. This was too much of a pity. Just thinking about it made his heart ache.
“With our current strength, we can indeed swallow more than half of the cosmic stones, but what about after that? The other sea demon races won’t let this matter rest. When that time comes, more people will come, and I’m afraid that there will be endless disputes between the sea demon races.” Ye chen said to sikong Jingming and tantai Ling.
“Such a big piece of cosmic stone!” The moment sikong Jingming thought about giving all these cosmic stones to someone else, he felt very unhappy. However, he changed his mind and said to ye chen, ” let’s not talk about how we’re going to fight for the cosmic stones. Whether you can break through this restriction is still a problem! Even the power of the second layer domain can’t break through this restrictive barrier!” Although he was quite optimistic about ye Chen’s potential, ye chen was only at boundless stage at the moment. He still did not believe that ye chen could break through this restriction.
“I have my own way.” Ye chen said calmly, but he was full of confidence. This earth element seal was different from the seal around the Tianyuan Star City in the sunken Jade Tower. The seal around Tianyuan Star City was very soft. Even if a part of it was broken, it could be repaired quickly. However, this seal was extremely hard. Because it was made of earth element, as long as a small hole was made, it would immediately break like glass.
If she was not absolutely certain, why would tantai Ling have called ye chen over?
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