The vast Star Domain was dotted with stars.
The sun and moon moved in their orbits, cycling endlessly.
In this world where both heaven and earth were square, the so-called Star Domain was not infinitely vast like the universe of Earth from Chen Yi's previous life, measured in light-years.
The largest stars in the Star Domain were no more than one-thousandth of Earth's diameter.
Otherwise, they couldn't be casually pulled down from the sky using the Star River Divine Art.
However, compared to the ground, the volume of the Star Domain was still incredibly exaggerated.
Even if the Shen family had multiplied in the Star Domain for thirty thousand years, their population could not possibly cover every star, nor could their eyes watch every corner.
Near the spatial barrier far from the Shen family's activity zones, a breach appeared.
"Hiss—"
White clouds and gases from the ground were surging into the Star Domain through this gap.
The warning array set up by the Shen family over the spatial barrier was triggered.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"
A patrol team, led by a Star Lineage Elder, stepped on Star Shuttles and rushed to the breach to investigate.
The Star Shuttle was the spiritual artifact Chen Yi had seen in the simulation, which looked exactly like a skateboard.
Almost every Shen family member below the Martial King realm had one.
The Star Shuttle helped them ascend from the star's surface into the Star Domain, allowing them to fly faster and more nimbly in the zero-gravity environment.
Its consumption rate was one low-grade crystal per hundred kilometers.
"Elder, look! Someone from the ground broke through and created this gap!"
The Star Lineage Elder leaned over the spatial barrier and inspected it carefully.
"Plain and unadorned, with no residual spiritual energy. This was forced open with brute strength. The intruder must be in the Martial King realm."
The patrol members were puzzled.
"If a Martial King expert wished to visit the Star Realm, our Shen family would naturally open the door for them. Why do this?"
"Isn't it obvious? They must come with ill intentions!"
"Judging from the healing degree and speed of the breach, only one person should have entered. Which family's Martial King is so confident as to dare cause trouble in our Shen family alone?"
"Elder, should we search the surroundings? They might not have gone far!"
The Star Lineage Elder gave the last speaker a speechless look.
"Since they broke in, who would wait here for you to find them? They must have already blended into the Star Domain. We have guests in the Star Domain recently. Hurry and notify the Moon Lineage and Sun Lineage to have the clansmen raise their guard!"
The patrol team left on their Star Shuttles.
Nearby was an uninhabited but heavily overgrown star. From a distance, it looked like a spherical loaf of bread covered in green mold.
The patrol team happened to fly right over it.
"Captain, look, the weeds on this Wild Grass Star have grown taller again. They must average over a hundred meters high. How are these weeds? They're taller than trees."
"Stop talking nonsense and keep up with the Elder!"
Below, in the giant patch of weeds, Chen Yi was crouching.
Having equipped Silent Step and Three Musketeers of the Bush, unless the group passing above seriously scanned his location with their divine sense, they would not detect his presence.
After they left, Chen Yi slowly levitated, standing above the weeds.
"I snuck in, but I don't see any aura of the Dragonkin race around here. I need to check elsewhere..."
The Star Domain was vast.
Chen Yi had specifically chosen a sparsely populated area to ascend. Wanting to find the Dragonkin aura right away was naturally not that easy.
Chen Yi used Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger to lower his cultivation aura to the Golden Body realm.
A Martial King was too conspicuous. While not every Martial King in the Shen family was famous throughout the Star Domain, they were definitely not nobodies.
If he ran into Shen family members, he could easily be seen through.
The Golden Body realm was different. There were many of them, and they weren't bottom-tier martial artists, giving him more room to maneuver.
Fortunately, there was no gravity in the Star Domain, so Chen Yi flying through the air here wouldn't be a flaw.
"Come on, Aura of Ten Thousand Races, do your thing. The Shen family definitely has Dragonkin!"
Chen Yi searched the Star Domain for the aura of the Dragonkin.
The Myriad Soul Banner was once again puzzled by Chen Yi's confusing behavior.
"Bro! What are you busy with all day? Why come to the Star Domain? This is the Shen family's territory! If you want to find Earth Veins, look on the ground. How could there be any in the Star Domain?"
The Demon Refining Pot criticized the Myriad Soul Banner for being a busybody.
"Why do you, a banner, have so many opinions? Does the boss need to consult you on what he does? Do your own job and stop dictating to the boss, you vulgar Earth-rank spiritual artifact."
"I am an Immortal Artifact! Ah! This is truly... a tiger descending to the plains being bullied by dogs, a dragon swimming in shallow waters being teased by shrimp!"
"Dragon and tiger? I think you're just a fraud!"
Da Chun was also there.
He was currently integrated into the Nine Provinces Cauldron as an artifact spirit, eating peaches inside the cauldron realm.
Seeing the two artifacts arguing inside Chen Yi's body again, he chuckled and watched the show.
"The Myriad Soul Banner is so eloquent, and the Demon Refining Pot speaks so nicely."
Chen Yi had built up a tolerance by now.
No matter how earth-shatteringly the banner and the pot argued, he could choose to go deaf.
Unless they said something of substance.
Otherwise, he would have thrown these two unlucky things away long ago.
Sun Wukong couldn't even stand one Tang Sanzang; how could anyone handle two?
Chen Yi was cautious, exploring the Star Domain star by star.
When he encountered a star with no human activity, he would conduct a carpet search, roaming freely.
If it was inhabited, Chen Yi would stake out the nearby area.
When a group of Shen family members on Star Shuttles came over from another star laughing and talking, he would also step on a Star Shuttle, blend in, act familiar with them, and integrate perfectly.
Finally, they would land together, and he would quietly slip away.
You ask where Chen Yi got his Star Shuttle?
Naturally, he borrowed it from a lucky Shen family member.
During this time, Chen Yi also discovered a good item.
"Beauty Liquid?"
On a star named Beauty Star, there was a highly unique thousand-year-old shop with an endless stream of customers.
It sold a special medicinal liquid. When applied to the face, one could mold their face at will and change their appearance.
However, bone structure couldn't be changed, so after molding, one still looked somewhat similar to their original self.
Moreover, each application only lasted for twelve hours, requiring continuous use to maintain the effect.
This liquid was extremely popular among the women in the Star Domain.
Even though it required long-term use and was highly expensive, many beauty lovers still bought it tirelessly.
Chen Yi also bought a bunch.
Then he molded his face to look about sixty percent similar to his original appearance.
This kind of appearance change couldn't be seen through even by a divine sense scan.
Because it genuinely altered facial details, like changing single eyelids to double eyelids, or adding volume under the eyes.
"When traveling out and about, it's still very important to change your face."
Chen Yi didn't want to have any contact with the Shen family in reality yet.
Because the Shen family wouldn't understand his current actions.
So wearing his original face wasn't a good idea.
Wearing an alias meant he didn't have to worry about such issues.
"It's been a month, and still no discoveries..."
Although he hadn't traversed every corner of the Star Domain yet, Chen Yi was starting to doubt himself.
Could his deduction be wrong? Was there no traitor in the Shen family?
Or perhaps, not at this point in time?
Just as Chen Yi was holding two handfuls of barbecue skewers, stepping on his Star Shuttle, and eating while leaving the Barbecue Star to head to the next star, a somewhat familiar voice came from behind him.
"Young brother, please wait!"
It is the first day of the Lunar New Year! I would like to wish all my brothers and sisters a very Happy New Year! Wishing you all in the coming year: good health, a smooth career, academic success, fulfilling relationships, a happy family, and may all your wishes come true!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
