“Once you awaken a divine ability,
your combat power will increase tenfold—even a hundredfold—in an instant!
“If the Great Demon God Guming hadn’t been caught off guard just now,
and had been given the chance to unleash his divine ability, ‘Great Annihilation,’
your eleven drops of Origin Blood definitely wouldn’t have been enough to withstand it.”
Lu Xinghe stepped forward.
His eyes burned as he gazed at Su Yu.
Then he offered his final olive branch.
“Su Yu,
remaining in this wasteland will only cause your peerless talent to wither away.
“Come with me.
Come back with me to the Great Chu Starfield!
“With a foundation of Origin Blood as pure as yours,
once you enter the Great Chu Starfield,
I guarantee that you’ll obtain the finest stellar cultivation techniques!
“You’ll awaken an unparalleled divine ability that will shake the entire starry sky!
“The resources of the Great Chu Starfield will help you become a master of the stars!
“In the future, there will certainly be a place for you among the leaders of humanity!”
Lu Xinghe’s words were filled with temptation.
Cultivation techniques, divine abilities, limitless resources, supreme status…
If it had been anyone else, they would probably have been so excited that they would have agreed on the spot.
But Su Yu fell silent.
He stood quietly where he was.
There was none of the fervor Lu Xinghe had expected in his deep eyes.
Cultivation techniques?
Su Yu did indeed feel that the Grand Void Origin Blood Art was becoming somewhat inadequate. Deriving improvements from it was growing more and more difficult.
Divine abilities?
He had absolutely no idea how to awaken one.
Going to the Great Chu Starfield would indeed solve these problems perfectly.
However,
Su Yu was secretly weighing his options.
His greatest advantage was not some heaven-defying comprehension.
It was the system.
The system only needed one thing—
Money!
Or, more precisely, resources!
Although the laws in this wasteland were incomplete,
there were the mineral veins left behind by the Abyssal Demons, secret realms on Earth that had yet to be explored,
and the Great Xia Nation’s money-printing machine, which could print fifty trillion a day!
All of these represented real deduction time!
Just now, recycling a small mineral vein had earned him ten quadrillion.
If he went with Lu Xinghe to the Great Chu Starfield right now,
he would be entering an unfamiliar place.
As a newcomer with no background,
no matter how great his talent was, obtaining vast amounts of resources would inevitably be subject to all kinds of restrictions and regulations.
How could that compare with staying here as the local sovereign, plundering resources without restraint?
Once he had squeezed every last bit of money out of this place
and entered the starry sky with a massive fortune saved up,
wouldn’t that be much more secure?
“Sorry.”
Su Yu raised his head and looked at Lu Xinghe.
His tone was calm, yet carried an undeniable resolve.
“I don’t want to leave for now.”
As soon as he said this,
Qin Fuhai, Chu Zhan, and Huo Zhenshan, who were standing nearby, all froze.
That was the Central Starry Sky!
That was the holy land of humanity!
Su Yu had actually refused?!
Lu Xinghe was also slightly taken aback.
Looking into Su Yu’s calm eyes, he seemed to understand something.
He let out a sigh.
“I understand.
“You’re a sentimental person. It’s difficult to leave your homeland.”
Lu Xinghe sighed as he recalled his own homeworld.
“You still have family and friends you care about on this planet, as well as grudges that remain unresolved.
“To ask you to abandon everything and leave with me right now would indeed be asking too much.”
Su Yu offered no explanation.
Let him think he was sentimental.
There was no way Su Yu could tell him that he wanted to stay behind to farm money.
“It’s all right.”
Lu Xinghe smiled.
“After condensing Origin Blood, a stellar lifeform’s lifespan is measured in tens of thousands of years.
“You’re only eighteen.
“Time is the one thing you have in abundance.
“I can wait.
“The Great Chu Starfield can wait as well.”
Lu Xinghe turned his wrist.
A diamond-shaped token radiating a faint starlight appeared in his palm. It was neither metal nor jade.
With a flick of his finger,
the token transformed into a streak of light and landed steadily in Su Yu’s hand.
“This is my token, as well as the stellar coordinates of the Great Chu Starfield.
“It also contains a basic stellar communication array.
“When you’ve changed your mind,
when you’ve finished dealing with the trivial matters in this wasteland,
you can contact me at any time.”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu, his expression exceptionally solemn.
“The gates of the Great Chu Starfield will always be open to you.
“When you arrive, I’ll personally teach you how to awaken a divine ability and provide you with the most powerful cultivation techniques.”
Su Yu held the warm, starlight-infused token.
He nodded.
“All right.
Thank you.”
Lu Xinghe raised his head and looked at the dark-red Abyssal sky.
“I’ve been away long enough.
“The Demon army is still ravaging the frontier. I must return and report as soon as possible.
“However, before I leave, I need to help you deal with a minor problem.”
Lu Xinghe let out a cold laugh.
“The talent you displayed today is far too astonishing.
“Although this is a wasteland, there’s no guarantee that others with ulterior motives won’t notice it.
“The Abyssal Demons are the greatest threat. I’ll conceal your presence for now.”
On the surface, he spoke with righteous conviction.
But deep in his heart, Lu Xinghe harbored a selfish motive.
He was secretly calculating.
If the old monsters from the Great Qin and Great Han Starfields discovered Su Yu, this unpolished gem,
they would certainly come running to poach him by any means necessary!
The genius his Great Chu Starfield had taken a fancy to could not be snatched away by them.
As soon as he finished speaking,
Lu Xinghe suddenly formed a hand seal before his chest with both hands.
Boom—!!!
The terrifying power of a million drops of Origin Blood erupted!
The entire Abyssal plane, along with the human world behind the rift,
began to tremble violently at this moment.
Countless stellar formation inscriptions invisible to the naked eye flew from Lu Xinghe’s hands.
They transformed into an invisible net that blotted out the sky,
completely enveloping and sealing off this wasteland at the edge of the universe!
From the perspective of a cosmic star map,
the region containing Earth and the Abyss instantly became a chaotic blur, its location completely concealed.
Even a black-hole-level powerhouse would be absolutely unable to detect its existence without a specific coordinate token.
“The domain seal is complete.”
Lu Xinghe clapped his hands and nodded in satisfaction.
“This seal can isolate the Abyssal Demons’ detection.
“You should be safe in this wasteland.
“However, this seal is not absolutely invincible. If some supreme existence beyond my level forcibly deduces this place, it will eventually be exposed.”
Lu Xinghe turned around.
His black robe fluttered in the void.
He took a deep look at Su Yu.
“Su Yu,
remember my words.
“Deal with the trivial matters here as soon as possible.
“Your journey does not lie here.
“It lies in the vast, boundless sea of stars.
“I look forward to the day when we meet again in the Central Starry Sky.”
Whoosh!
Before his voice had even faded,
Lu Xinghe’s figure dissolved from where he stood like a passing breeze, without the slightest warning.
The invisible stellar net that had enveloped the entire planet and the Abyss flickered in the sky once,
then completely faded into the void.
The Abyssal plane once again returned to deathly silence.
The ground was covered with magic cores,
their alluring ghostly light shimmering against the dark-red earth.
Qin Fuhai, Chu Zhan, and Huo Zhenshan—
the three Martial Emperors who guarded the Great Xia Nation—
were still standing there with their heads tilted toward the sky.
Like three wooden stakes.
The Great Chu Starfield.
Black-hole level.
A million drops of Origin Blood.
The myriad races of the starry sky.
These pieces of information, each vast enough to shatter their worldview, continued to reverberate wildly in the minds of the three men.
The Martial Emperor realm they had once been so proud of was not even worth a single cell on the true stage of the starry sky.
“Old Qin…”
Chu Zhan swallowed hard, his gaze vacant.
“Are we… really that insignificant?”
Qin Fuhai shook his head bitterly, unable to get a single word out.
…
The vast starry sky.
An unknown number of light-years away from Blue Star.
The Great Chu Starfield, Seventh Interstellar Defense Line.
A colossal war fortress made entirely of steel floated silently in the vacuum of space.
Inside the fortress.
The air twisted violently.
Lu Xinghe’s figure appeared out of thin air.
He casually pulled off the black robe he was wearing and strode quickly down the long metal corridor.
Along both sides of the corridor, fully armed star warriors lowered their heads and saluted one after another.
Lu Xinghe paid them no attention.
He went straight to a heavy alloy door and pushed it open.
The command room.
A massive holographic star map hovered in midair.
A middle-aged man in a dark-gold military uniform stood with his hands clasped behind his back, staring at the battle lines marked on the star map.
Chen Xuan.
Commander of the Great Chu Starfield's Seventh Legion.
A Domain Lord-level powerhouse.
A full one hundred million drops of Origin Blood had condensed within his body.
In the vast Great Chu Starfield, a Domain Lord-level powerhouse could not be considered part of the true upper echelon. But within a frontier legion, he was still a powerful regional lord who held immense authority.
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