Chapter 6688 Resplendent Starry River
Chapter 6688 Resplendent Starry River
Long Chen slapped the elder in the face, sending him tumbling across the ground.
Clearly, he had never dreamed that Long Chen would dare to strike him.
“You are courting death!” the elder shouted.
Killing intent burst forth as wild astral energy surged around him.
“Do you dare?” Long Chen pointed at him, looking down with open contempt. “If you don’t use your heaven-earth law manifestation, I can crush you with one hand. And if you do use it, I’ll destroy it and cripple you.”
“You...!!!”
The elder ground his teeth, fury burning in his eyes. His realm had been seen through completely. He truly was in no condition to manifest his heaven-earth law manifestation.
If he forced it, even without Long Chen’s interference, there was a real risk of his manifestation collapsing on its own. And even if he managed to kill Long Chen, what would that achieve?
Caught in a difficult position, the elder really didn’t dare to attack. Yet, the stinging pain on his face pushed him to the verge of exploding. For a moment, he wanted nothing more than to tear Long Chen apart, even at the cost of crippling himself.
However, he had lived for countless years. His rational side ultimately suppressed that impulse.
Seeing this, Long Chen slowly raised the tablet in his hand. “How do I use it? In exchange, I won’t tell anyone about this incident.”
The elder’s face turned ashen. Long Chen was openly using that slap as leverage... and it worked.
With his status in the Starry River Palace, if word of this spread, he would never be able to hold his head up again.
“When you stand before the gate, a notch will appear,” the elder replied coldly. “Insert the tablet there.”
Long Chen walked over. Sure enough, as he approached, the formation rippled and a notch appeared, perfectly sized for his tablet.
Previously, Long Chen hadn’t gotten close enough to trigger the notch to appear. Of course, if the elder had just told him, he wouldn’t have been slapped.
Long Chen placed his tablet on the gate, causing it to quiver and slowly open. Then, a majestic aura poured out.
Long Chen walked in just like that. After he vanished, the gate closed.
“Damn brat. Just wait. I’ll tear you to pieces soon!” the elder cursed after the gate had closed.
“I’m only one step away,” the elder muttered. “I’ll let you live a little longer. Next time, I’ll take your life for sure.”
After saying that, the elder also vanished in front of the starry gate.
...
Long Chen was standing on top of a starry river, enveloped by endless astral energy. Even without circulating his astral energy, it was recovering rapidly.
“What a realistic starry river. Is this a projection?”
He surveyed the endless flow beneath his feet. It moved like spacetime itself. Its boundless power made him feel no different from an ant.
Before this starry river, anyone would feel insignificant. Countless stars drifted within it, following orbits that appeared chaotic yet were unmistakably orderly.
Long Chen looked up. Within the black sky, a starry scar was present, and the light from this scar was what illuminated the starry river.
Everything here seemed real, yet wasn’t. But it also wasn’t pure illusion. There were profound astral laws inside the surrounding astral energy.
Long Chen formed hand seals.
The moment his eight color divine ring appeared, astral energy instantly threw itself inside of it. There was no need for Long Chen to even do anything.
Just like that, astral energy poured into him.
This was the Void Filling method the sweeping elder had taught him. Long Chen showed that he had a void inside him to the astral energy, and the starry river was like a kind mother immediately sending astral energy into his body to help him recover.
For the first time, Long Chen sensed a selfless universal law. This astral energy did not revere him for his strength, nor did it scorn him for weakness.
All life was equal before it.
In that moment, he touched upon another aspect of astral energy—an entirely different realm. It was a feeling beyond words, one he could only vaguely grasp.
Long Chen’s body suddenly shivered.
Immersed in that state, he had lost all sense of time. When he came back to himself, his astral energy had fully recovered.
Long Chen slowly got up and spread his arms. Starlight gathered around him, and he felt as though he were holding the entire starry river. His aura merged seamlessly with it.
The starry river’s energy was incredibly pure. It was flawless—different from the astral energy he normally touched.
When Long Chen opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on the astral scar in the heavens. He stared at it for a long while before opening the astral gate and leaving the river.
Once Long Chen walked out, he saw that the elder was gone, but he didn’t really care about it.
That elder’s talent was limited. He was at best a half-step acquired Divine Sovereign. There was a huge gap between him and the likes of Qu Liushang and Li Wanci. In other words, he couldn’t threaten Long Chen.
Long Chen returned to the desolate mountain.
Upon his arrival, Zhi Zhi told him that some people had come to observe them in the past ten days, but no one had dared to attack the barrier.
Long Chen walked in and saw the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Tree’s leaves shining. The aura of the Dao flowed around it, and its divine light was like rain gently falling over the nine star disciples.
The Seven Treasure Colored Glass Tree’s leaves possessed their own supreme wisdom. They could awaken a person’s spirit, which allowed them to comprehend the Dao better.
The fact that the leaves were shining indicated that some disciples had gained precious insights during the fighting, and the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Tree was helping them deepen that understanding.
When Long Chen entered the Seven Treasure Space, he found that Qu Yingying and the others had reached the third level.
Qu Yingying was fighting more courageously than before. Not only had her astral energy recovered to its peak, but her Radiant Starlight World had grown in scale, covering half the battlefield.
Ten days of non-stop combat had tempered her soul and will. With the Seven Treasure Colored Glass Tree’s aid, her gains were immense. At last, she carried the faint air of a true expert.
If Qu Yingying’s progress was remarkable, then the nine-star disciples were nothing short of transformed.
With Qu Yingying present, their astral energy seemed endless. They fought continuously without fatigue.
Each of them was like a honed divine weapon finally showing its edge. Their foundations had always been solid; what they lacked was a battlefield where they could fight without restraint.
Within the Seven Treasure Space, all the suffering they endured was now bearing fruit. Long Chen could already see a shadow of the Dragonblood warriors in them.
After watching for a bit, Long Chen left the Seven Treasure Space, as well as the desolate mountain.
“Since I’m already recovered, I should go see the complete Starry River Demon Suppressing Bell!”