The night was deep and dark.
Su Yu stepped out of the exclusive private martial arena.
With a turn of his wrist, the diamond-shaped token radiating a faint starlight appeared in his palm.
Deep within his heart, a drop of pure, flawless source blood trembled slightly.
A thread of invisible martial intent traveled along his meridians and poured into the token.
Hum—
The token instantly erupted with dazzling starlight.
The space before him seemed to be forcibly torn apart by a pair of invisible hands.
A deep spatial rift appeared before Su Yu without warning.
Beyond the rift lay a vast and boundless sea of stars.
Tap.
The crisp sound of footsteps rang out.
Lu Xinghe stepped through the rift.
He was no longer wearing the loose black robe from before. Instead, he had changed into a dark-gold starship military uniform.
The insignia of the Seventh Legion of the Great Chu Star Domain gleamed on his shoulder.
When he saw Su Yu standing there, Lu Xinghe was momentarily stunned.
Then he smiled.
His smile was exceptionally pleased.
He knew that the conditions he had offered were enticing enough.
What delighted him was that this eighteen-year-old boy had made his decision so quickly.
So decisively.
“I thought you’d need ten days or half a month to say goodbye to your family and friends.”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu, his eyes filled with appreciation.
“I didn’t expect you to contact me so soon.”
Then he swept out a hand.
An invisible force instantly enveloped Su Yu.
The stars shifted and the heavens turned.
The space around them warped violently.
When Su Yu could see clearly again, he was already standing inside a colossal starship, so immense that it defied description.
Through the enormous portholes, he could see the blue planet rapidly shrinking in the distance.
“Welcome to the stars.”
Lu Xinghe stood with his hands behind his back, his voice echoing through the vast command cabin.
Su Yu did not marvel at the grandeur of the starship.
His gaze went straight to Lu Xinghe.
“You said earlier that my cultivation method was too crude.”
“What exactly are the cultivation techniques of the stars?”
Straight to the point.
Lu Xinghe turned around, his expression becoming exceptionally solemn.
“In the stars, accumulating blood energy is merely the foundation.”
“How you use that source blood is what determines the level of your combat strength.”
“That is the purpose of cultivation techniques.”
Lu Xinghe raised his right hand and gently swiped a finger through the air.
The holographic star map instantly shifted, transforming into a three-dimensional projection of the human meridian system.
At the center of the projection floated a simulated drop of source blood.
“Cultivation techniques in the stars are as numerous as the smoke and sea, but strictly speaking, they are divided into three major tiers.”
“Planetary, stellar, and black-hole.”
Lu Xinghe raised one finger and pointed at the projection.
“The higher the level of the technique, the more profoundly it can transform the quality of source blood, granting it special law-based effects.”
“For example, if you cultivate a planetary-grade fire-attributed technique, your source blood will possess the properties of extreme heat and explosive force.”
“And the most direct manifestation of a cultivation technique is its increase to combat strength.”
Lu Xinghe’s voice echoed through the empty cabin.
“A planetary-grade technique can perfectly amplify the power of source blood tenfold.”
“A stellar-grade technique can amplify it a hundredfold.”
“As for a black-hole-grade technique…”
Lu Xinghe paused. A trace of awe flashed through his deep eyes.
“It can unleash a thousand times the power of a single drop of source blood!”
A thousandfold.
Su Yu stood where he was, his expression calm. Yet deep within his eyes, an unusually bright glimmer flashed.
He quickly calculated in his mind.
He currently possessed eleven drops of source blood.
If he cultivated a black-hole-grade technique, wouldn’t those eleven drops be capable of unleashing destructive power equivalent to eleven thousand drops of source blood?
That would allow him to directly cross the barrier between the meteor and planetary levels, leaping all the way to a level comparable to the stellar realm!
The cultivation system of the stars was truly domineering.
“A cultivation technique is merely the lever you use to move the laws of the universe.”
Lu Xinghe waved his hand, and the holographic projection shifted once again.
The simulated drop of source blood suddenly exploded, transforming into a sky full of lightning, storms, and flames.
“What truly determines victory or defeat in a life-and-death battle is divine ability.”
“Divine ability?” Su Yu asked, his voice steady.
“That’s right. Divine ability.”
A trace of fanaticism shone in Lu Xinghe’s eyes.
“If a cultivation technique is an internal-combustion engine, then a divine ability is the weapon that converts that power into a devastating attack.”
“A divine ability is the most extreme method of utilizing source blood.”
“They are divided into minor divine abilities, major divine abilities, and the legendary immortal divine abilities.”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu and spoke each word distinctly.
“A minor divine ability grants a tenfold burst of power.”
“A major divine ability grants a hundredfold burst.”
“An immortal divine ability can squeeze a single drop of source blood to its absolute limit in an instant, unleashing a thousand times its destructive power!”
Lu Xinghe suddenly clenched his fist.
The lightning and storms in the holographic projection instantly collapsed, transforming into a black hole capable of devouring everything.
“Do the math.”
“If someone cultivated a black-hole-grade technique and then used an immortal divine ability…”
“The cultivation technique and divine ability would stack.”
“A thousand times multiplied by a thousand times.”
“That would be a millionfold increase in combat strength!”
A millionfold!
Su Yu’s breath hitched slightly.
He finally understood why Great Demon God Guming had displayed such lofty superiority when facing him earlier.
If Great Demon God Guming had truly used a divine ability—even the most ordinary minor divine ability—then, combined with his enormous foundation of thirty thousand drops of source blood, Su Yu’s pitiful eleven drops would have been instantly crushed into nothingness, no matter how extraordinary his martial intent was.
The foundation of stellar life-forms was indeed astonishingly profound.
“However, you don’t need to belittle yourself.”
Lu Xinghe changed tack, his blazing gaze fixed on the area around Su Yu’s heart.
It was as though he could see through it and observe the eleven drops of pure source blood slowly revolving within.
“The most powerful divine abilities in the stars aren’t learned. They are born from the source blood itself—the innate divine abilities.”
“The purer the source blood, the more terrifying the innate divine ability it gives birth to.”
Lu Xinghe made no attempt to conceal his admiration.
“Your source blood is absolutely flawless.”
“It contains no impurities and has suffered no contamination from external forces.”
“This is nothing short of a miracle in the stars.”
“Precisely because of this flawlessness, the innate divine ability you awaken in the future will certainly be extraordinarily powerful!”
“Even if its initial rating is only that of a minor divine ability, the power it unleashes may very well rival a major divine ability, or even approach the level of an immortal divine ability!”
“What’s more, an innate divine ability can grow without limit.”
Lu Xinghe patted Su Yu on the shoulder and spoke earnestly.
“Your starting point is already higher than that of most divine sons in the central regions of the stars.”
Su Yu nodded slightly.
This was the result of genuine accumulation over countless years, with no shortcuts involved.
Of course it was pure.
“Besides cultivation techniques and divine abilities…”
Lu Xinghe withdrew his hand, his expression becoming incomparably solemn.
“The most valuable treasure you possess is actually your martial intent.”
“The realm of your qi-roaring spear intent.”
Lu Xinghe recalled the scene in the abyss when Su Yu’s spear had erased the demon-god armor. Even now, he still found it astonishing.
“In the stars, many martial artists pursue the quantity of their source blood and the power of their divine abilities to excess, while neglecting the tempering of their will.”
“That is putting the cart before the horse.”
“Will is the soul that commands all power.”
“Your martial will is exceptionally powerful. You’ve already touched upon the essence of the laws.”
Lu Xinghe offered the most sincere advice a black-hole-level powerhouse could give.
“I suggest that, going forward, you make martial will the core of your cultivation system.”
“Whether it’s cultivation techniques or divine abilities, they should serve only as tools to support your martial will.”
“Don’t let all those flashy powers in the starry sky cause you to lose sight of your true purpose.”
Su Yu committed these words to memory.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
