Chapter 76 Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Fellow Daoist Bai, this was your initiative, you know~...
"Sister doesn't have time to explain right now, look." Huo Lan pointed to the void.
During the brief pause in their conversation, the star beast roared once more and charged forward, shattering and scattering countless floating star rocks.
Those enormous beastly eyes locked onto the two of them, and the starlight flowing around them transformed into a shower of countless stars that shot towards them.
"Little one, you stay here." After saying that, Huo Lan shot away like an arrow.
She unleashed a flurry of sword strikes, each blade a dazzling spectacle compared to the myriad of starlight. Wherever the blades passed, the starlight shattered, exploding into countless points of light in the void.
Bai Ye's eyes reflected Huo Lan's figure. She held a knife in both hands, and every swing and every blade of light was so dazzling.
It was precisely her move that shattered Bai Ye's illusions. Such a wild and unrestrained fighting style could not possibly belong to Zhong Jiuli.
Zhong Jiuli used a bow.
She had seen Zhong Jiuli draw her bow once; the moment the arrow left the bowstring, the whole world seemed to stand still for her—it was a beauty that could take your breath away.
They are definitely not like Huo Lan, who wields two big swords and hacks and slashes; they are two completely different people.
"Roar!" The star beast's earth-shattering roar pulled Bai Ye's wandering thoughts back.
In the void, the star beast opened its mouth and spat out another large star.
Instead of retreating, Huo Lan advanced, slashing with her twin blades in alternating motions. In an instant, hundreds of blade beams collided with the giant star.
Amidst the deafening explosion, the giant star shattered, but the remaining blade light continued its momentum, striking the massive body of the star beast.
"Roar!" The star beast let out a mournful howl, and dazzling starlight leaked from its wounds.
The sky was filled with afterimages of Fire Orchid, and the sword light poured down like a torrential rain, completely engulfing the Star Beast. With a final roar, the Star Beast's massive body exploded in mid-air.
Countless stars scattered and flew like fireflies, like shooting stars falling, a breathtaking sight.
In this dreamlike rain of light, Huo Lan sheathed her twin swords, holding a star core the size of a fist in her palm.
The crystal was so pure it seemed to have sealed the entire Milky Way within it, radiating a heart-stopping aura.
"then."
She casually tossed it, and the star core streaked through the air, flying like a shooting star into Bai Ye's arms.
Bai Ye looked down at the star core in her arms. She was certain that if this thing appeared in the outside world, it would be an extremely rare treasure that countless people would fight tooth and nail for.
But this crazy woman actually gave it to me like that?
"What is she after?"
[Because she's lusting after your body~] Xiao Wang silently complained. Only she knew how much this woman craved their son.
Huo Lan flashed to Bai Ye's side, her face not red and her breath not out. The battle with the star beast just now was probably not even a warm-up for her.
"You killed him." Bai also handed the star core back to her. She couldn't accept something from a strange woman.
Huo Lan did not accept the star core, and waved her hand, saying, "Fellow Daoist Bai, the Starfall Battlefield is not just about the two of us. The pure aura emitted by this star core may attract other star beasts."
"Moreover, if you don't absorb this, it will turn back into star power and return to this space in just a moment, which would be a waste."
"Then I can't accept it. You can absorb it yourself." Bai also threw the star core back.
"I don't have time to chat with you, I'm busy." Huo Lan grasped the star core and shoved it into Bai Ye's mouth without saying a word. "You can ponder it slowly here by yourself. I'm leaving now."
The moment the star core entered the mouth, the stellar power it contained began to circulate as if it were alive. This was no ordinary stellar power, but rather a fragment of the laws governing the operation of the stars.
Bai also felt as if thousands of stars appeared simultaneously in his sea of consciousness, rotating, colliding, and exploding.
In a daze, she saw the beginning of time, when a speck of dust slowly rotated in the void, devouring the surrounding chaotic mist.
With each rotation, the dust expands in size, transforming from grains of sand into boulders, from mountains into stars, and eventually into a colossal meteorite spanning the Milky Way.
But when she looked into the distance, the stars floating in the sky turned into tiny specks of light.
"So that's how it is..." Bai murmured softly. In that instant, she finally understood the workings of the Way of the Stars.
Bai also formed a hand seal, and a swirling nebula gradually appeared in his palms. Countless specks of light collided and condensed within it, eventually transforming into a miniature planet the size of a walnut.
Although the sphere was small in size, the moment it took shape, the star rocks within a thousand feet around it silently collapsed. This is the power of the stars; their mere appearance is enough to crush everything.
Bai's figure transformed into a stream of light, instantly appearing in front of a meteorite with a diameter of a thousand miles.
She casually tossed the small ball from her palm, and the moment that tiny speck of light, no bigger than a walnut, collided with the enormous object, the world seemed to freeze for a moment.
Immediately following was a deafening roar as the meteor shattered and the star beast roared as it charged toward Bai Ye high in the sky.
"Come on, big guy, spar with me and see how strong I am now." Bai shouted and rushed towards the giant star beast.
She made a fist with her right hand, and lightning condensed into a longsword in her palm. At the same time, four Nascent Soul Dharma Images manifested behind her.
Each of the Dharma forms emanated immense pressure, resonating with the original body. The five figures, like five shooting stars, charged towards the enormous star beast with unstoppable momentum.
"Bang!"
"boom!"
A deafening collision ensued, followed by a series of massive explosions.
Bai Ye's lightning longsword clashed with the star beast's claws. The immense force transmitted through the blade sent her flying like a small cannonball, smashing through several floating star rocks before barely managing to stop herself.
"Cough...you're really strong." Bai coughed up a mouthful of blood, panting as he stood up again.
The little green thing in his dantian emitted a faint green light, and the injury he had just sustained was almost instantly healed.
Bai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes burning with even stronger fighting spirit.
"Again!" she shouted, her figure transforming into a bolt of lightning as she charged back into the battlefield.
Xiao Lü's presence is like a portable spring, making Bai as resilient as an unkillable cockroach.
Every time Bai was knocked away by a star beast, he was able to rush back at an extremely fast speed.
This is a battle of sharpening one's sword.
Bai had just entered the Nascent Soul Realm, and such a battle with no reservations greatly improved her.
The newly comprehended laws of the stars were also put into practice in real combat.
"That's about it." Bai also panted heavily, dodging the sharp claws that the star beast swung at him.
She made a fist with her left hand, and a round planet instantly materialized in her palm. This planet was different from the previous ones; purple lightning crackled inside, and firelight could be faintly seen flickering on its surface.
"Take this Rasengan!!!" Haku shouted, and the small ball of lightning in his palm flew out.
The Thunder Planet, carrying the force of wind and thunder, plunged straight into the Star Beast's chest. The next moment, a deafening roar resounded.
Countless rays of starlight spilled from the beast's body, its massive form frozen in mid-air, beginning to disintegrate from the inside out, eventually transforming into a dazzling shower of stars.
Bai also reached out and caught the falling star core, panting heavily as he lay back on the floating star rock, staring blankly at the purplish-red sky.
"Fellow Daoist Bai is already failing?"
Huo Lan's voice drifted from the sky, and Bai's unfocused pupils refocused. His gaze passed through the drifting stardust and fell upon the figure that was walking through the air.
She floated in through the air, twin swords hanging at her sides, bathed in starlight. Her robes fluttered, her hair swayed gently, and she resembled a goddess emerging from the Milky Way.
Bai Ye slowly curled the corners of his mouth and murmured in a voice only he could hear: "Zhong Jiuli, if you don't come to find me soon, your wife might be snatched away by another woman."
Huo Lan landed on Xingyan, her gaze inadvertently sweeping over Bai Ye's healing wounds. Confirming that her injuries were not serious, she then looked away and lay down next to Bai Ye.
She folded her hands behind her head, crossed her long legs casually, and gazed up at the starry sky.
"So you weren't tired from playing, you just felt more comfortable lying down and looking at the stars?"
Bai chuckled upon hearing this, "No, I really have no strength left, I don't even have the strength to lift my hand."
"The star core is in my hands; come and get it yourself."
Huo Lan rested her chin on one hand, her black hair cascading down the star rock. She glanced casually at the star core. "Sister is, after all, the captain of the Fire Fox Mercenary Team. It's so embarrassing for her to send things out and have them returned."
Bai Ye flicked his fingertips and tossed the star core into her arms. "I have a Daoist partner now, Fellow Daoist Huo. If I accept something as valuable as yours, my Daoist partner will probably be very jealous when he finds out."
"If you don't tell me, and I don't tell me, how will she know?"
Bai also turned to look at her, his eyes clear and bright. "But if she asks me about it one day, I will definitely not lie to her. Please don't put me in a difficult position, Fellow Daoist Huo."
Huo Lan couldn't help but roll her eyes.
This little liar could talk sweet nothings to strangers without batting an eye, even though he had been lying to her from beginning to end. She was too lazy to expose him, so she simply grabbed the star core and slowly began to absorb it.
The two fell silent, lying side by side beneath the vast sea of stars, the star rocks beneath them carrying them as they drifted through the boundless cosmos.
After a long silence, Bai finally spoke again: "You still haven't told me why you know I need the power of stars to cultivate."
Huo Lan sat up abruptly, leaned closer to Bai Ye, and said, word by word, "Because my sister fell in love with you at first sight!"
Bai closed his eyes, turned over, and faced away from the crazy woman. After fighting the star beast for several hours, he was too exhausted to listen to this woman's rambling nonsense.
"Look at you, you're so hard to please." Huo Lan looked at the figure with his back to her. "You were the one who asked the question, but now that I've told you the truth, you don't want to listen."
"Fine, if you don't want to talk to me, then don't. I'll talk to you if I want to." Huo Lan said, then lay back down and muttered, "Once you've had enough rest, you little ingrate, I'll have a good chat with you."
Bai didn't know when he fell asleep. Beside this woman, he inexplicably let down all his guard and was always able to sleep soundly.
She propped herself up and noticed that the surroundings were somewhat different from when she had come in.
As the sky brightened, the pink light, mixed with light purple and light blue, gave it a somewhat colorful appearance.
Huo Lan sat by the Star Rock, resting her chin on her hand, gazing intently at the colorful sky.
Bai's gaze fell on the woman, wondering if something was wrong with him. Even seeing her back, he felt a little dazed, as if she were Zhong Jiuli.
"Xiao Wang, can you help me search for information about mental illnesses that cause people to see every woman as a reflection of their ex-girlfriend after a breakup? I suspect I might have something wrong with myself."
[Hey kid, you don't have that kind of mental illness. I suspect you just really like women. I think this Huo Lan is pretty good, why don't you give it a try?]
"Wang Cuihua, how can you be such a womanizer?"
[Xiao Wang isn't a womanizer, it's just that Ye Zai is; the character in the book falls in love with every girl he meets.]
"Nonsense, I'm the most innocent person in the world, okay?" Bai retorted angrily.
Oh~
Bai was already annoyed by Wang Cuihua's sarcastic "oh," so she didn't bother with Xiao Wang anymore and stood up to sit down next to Huo Lan.
"I forgot to ask before, why is it just the two of us? Where are your teammates and my two little ones?"
Huo Lan withdrew her gaze, turned to look at her, a hint of helpless smile in her eyes, "Because you only have two Starfall Tokens, it's only the two of us who can come in."
"You only have two tokens, and you gave one to me? Aren't you being a bit too generous? What about Jiaojiao and Taihuo?" Bai couldn't help but raise his voice.
Huo Lan leaned closer, her fragrant hair brushing against Bai Ye's cheek. Her red lips parted slightly, and her voice was soft and alluring, "Didn't I tell you, I like you? Of course, I'll give you the best of everything."
Bai also pushed away her head that was leaning closer without any politeness, and moved a little to the side expressionlessly. "Speak properly, don't always lean on me like that. I have a Daoist partner, Fellow Daoist Huo, please have some self-respect."
"Don't worry, they've all been taken back to the oasis by my team members. Someone will take care of them." Huo Lan said, pouting and rolling her eyes in annoyance.
"You can't stop talking about your partner? What's wrong? Why doesn't your partner come to keep you company? Could it be that you've been dumped?"
Bai's expression stiffened. Although she knew that Bai had just made it up, her unintentional words had hit a nerve.
"Oh my~" Huo Lan looked on with amusement, and stepped forward, taking advantage of the situation. She lightly lifted Bai Ye's chin with her fingertips. "Look at your pitiful appearance, could it be that your older sister guessed right?"
"What's it to you!" Bai slapped her hand away, his voice rising several decibels. "Even if she doesn't want me, I won't..."
The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed them back. Bai closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and calmed her agitated emotions. Huo Lan didn't know the truth, so she had no reason to hold a grudge against her, especially since she had benefited from Huo Lan's help in entering the Starfall Battlefield.
If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have been able to comprehend the power of the stars so quickly.
Huo Lan rested her chin on her hand, watching with great interest as the little tiger bristled with anger.
Even when she's angry, she's still so cute.
After a moment, Bai calmed down and changed the subject, saying, "Now that we've obtained the star core, shouldn't we leave?"
"What we just passed through was a wasteland. The star beasts there were all incomplete and substandard. The real treasures are yet to come."
Bai asked somewhat embarrassedly, "I was so fierce just now, why aren't you angry?"
"Who said you're not angry, sister?" Huo Lan pretended to cover her chest, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. "Your heart is still aching."
"But I just can't bear to be angry with you, so I have to silently digest all this sorrow by myself."
Bai silently shut his mouth. This crazy woman didn't play by the rules at all, and there was no way to have a conversation with her.
As the two spoke, Xingyan continued to drift through the void, the surrounding light growing ever brighter. Bai was finally able to see clearly that what lay below was not the vast, empty abyss she had imagined, like the universe itself.
Below lies the earth, or rather, the debris of a shattered star. Countless enormous, fragmented meteorite fragments are piled up in one place, forming a vast and rugged continent of star debris.
"Look ahead." Bai lowered his voice and pointed ahead. On a star rock not far from the two of them, several cultivators could be vaguely seen meditating and regulating their breathing.
Taking the opportunity, Huo Lan grasped her hand, her fingertips inadvertently brushing against her palm, causing Bai Ye to tremble. "Don't be nervous. I told you when we came in that there are still people in this Starfall Battlefield."
Bai also pretended to stand up, freeing his hand from the clutches of the demon. "What kind of place is this? I've never heard of it before."
"Legend has it that before the Primordial Era, there was an even more distant Era of Gods and Demons. And this battlefield is the site of that Era of Gods and Demons, the transformation of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor with a Stellar Body after his fall."
"A Quasi-Immortal Emperor? How strong is that?" Bai had no idea about these things. The strongest person known in the cultivation world was his wife.
Huo Lan chuckled and said, "An existence of that level can probably cause the Nine Provinces to sink with a flick of the finger and turn the Milky Way upside down with a wave of the hand."
"Such an all-powerful being, capable of reaching the heavens and the earth, actually perished?"
Huo Lan's tone was very indulgent, "Silly boy~ Apart from the Immortal Emperor who truly stepped out of the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, the rest, no matter how peerless their beauty, will eventually be unable to withstand the long years."
Bai also looked up at this strange and magnificent starry sky, "So this Quasi-Immortal Emperor was a star in his previous life, and after he fell, he turned into this Starfall Battlefield?"
"Your question has stumped your sister." Huo Lan lowered her voice like a thief. "I've never heard of any records about this person. These two Starfall Tokens were stolen from some old geezer."
Bai turned her head in surprise, only to be met with a stunningly beautiful face so close to hers. Their noses touched, and she could even see the reflection in the other's eyes.
Of course, that's nothing.
Unfortunately, the soft touch on her lips made her freeze.
Instead of backing away, Huo Lan moved even closer, taking advantage of the ambiguous distance, "Fellow Daoist Bai, has... finally come to your senses?"
"You!!!" Bai Ye suddenly took several steps back, covering his mouth in a disheveled state, feeling as if he had been struck by lightning.
Her eyes were filled with disbelief, and a blush quickly crept up from her neck to her cheeks.
It wasn't shyness, it was anger.
Her mind was racing with the thought that she was no longer pure! She had actually kissed another woman; Zhong Jiuli would definitely not want her anymore.
Bai Ye's reaction pleased Huo Lan greatly. She smiled and raised her hand, lightly touching her red lips, which had just been kissed, with her fingertips. "Fellow Daoist Bai, you were the one who initiated this~"
"I didn't, I didn't, you're lying." Bai denied it three times in a row, then squatted on the ground with his hands covering his head, his whole being filled with despair.
Why is this happening?
Why did she meet such a bold and unrestrained woman?
Someone please save her... Help!!!
At this crucial moment, Huo Lan added fuel to the fire, "Tell me, if I tell your Daoist partner about this after I leave, what will she do?"
Bai also looked up, his eyes bloodshot, and said fiercely, "Then I'll die with you. We'll both die in this Starfall Battlefield, and neither of us will get out."
"Heh~" Huo Lan chuckled softly. She gathered her skirt and squatted down in front of Bai Ye, meeting her eyes. "Fellow Daoist Bai, do you intend to commit suicide with me?"
"Help!!!" Bai completely broke down, covering his head with his hands and rolling around on the star rock, just wanting to get away from this woman.
"Don't panic, Zai." Xiao Wang comforted her online.
[Actually, she secretly kissed you the night you got drunk. Does thinking about it that way make you feel better?]
"What do you think?" Bai also ground his back teeth, feeling like he was going crazy.
At this moment, she was absolutely certain that Xizhou was completely incompatible with her birth chart!
From the moment she set foot on this land, bad luck clung to her. From the moment she was swindled out of ten spirit stones, fate had been hinting that she should leave immediately; it was her foolishness that prevented her from understanding.
Huo Lan coughed lightly, looking at the little tiger with a face full of despair and self-abandonment. For once, she felt a pang of conscience, realizing she had gone a bit too far in teasing him.
However, seeing him so heartbroken, sad, and desperate actually made her feel quite happy.
She strolled over to Bai Ye in a good mood, then lightly kicked her shin. "I'm not the kind of person who clings to someone relentlessly."
"If Fellow Daoist Bai really doesn't want to take responsibility, I won't make things too difficult for you."
Bai simply closed his eyes and pretended to be dead, feigning that he couldn't hear anything.
Just then, the star rock beneath them suddenly trembled slightly, as if it had passed over a speed bump, and the star rock was trembling rhythmically.
"Hmm?" Bai opened his eyes and stood up with a somersault.
The scene before her made her instantly forget her earlier embarrassment.
In the void, the colossal remains of a colossal figure, towering to the heavens and earth, stood majestically. Its massive body was severed at the waist, with countless fragments of stars floating in the air. The lines they outlined revealed that this quasi-Immortal Emperor must have been a woman in her previous life.
"Is this... the remains of that Star Immortal Emperor?" Bai murmured to himself.
Huo Lan also looked up at the remains of the Immortal Emperor, "I actually saw it so soon?"
Her tone was tinged with emotion. Many people waste their lifespan here, and may not even get to see this Star Emperor.
On the surrounding star rocks, there were many other cultivators like them, all looking up at this Immortal Emperor who had never revealed his true face.
Among these cultivators are many eccentric individuals who have lingered here for hundreds or even thousands of years. The entrance to the Starfall Battlefield is unpredictable, and each Starfall Token can only be used once.
Many people spend their entire lives to have this opportunity, and would rather stay here forever than leave empty-handed.
At this moment, all the star rocks seemed to be summoned and began to accelerate towards the star giant.
Before they could even get close, the fighting had already broken out.
"These are the remains of my Hundred Refinements Sect Ancestor! All bystanders, disperse immediately!" The extremely arrogant shout resounded throughout the star field.
On the giant star rock at the forefront, a tall and robust young male cultivator dressed in a black robe stood with his hands behind his back. Behind him, two elderly men in gray robes stood still like statues.
As soon as he finished speaking, the approaching star rocks suddenly exploded in unison.
"Boom boom boom!"
The explosion resounded throughout the star field. The cultivators didn't even have time to fly away before they were blown into a bloody mist along with their protective magic artifacts in the sudden explosion.
A flash of golden light passed through Bai Ye's eyes, and his Eye of Truth caught what had just flashed by. "They just threw out some kind of spherical projectile, and these star rocks exploded."
"It's the Annihilation Pearl." Huo Lan's voice was somewhat solemn. "Those two old men were both at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage. In addition, there's the Annihilation Pearl, which can even shatter the souls of Mahayana cultivators. It seems that the Hundred Refinements Sect is going to forcibly acknowledge an ancestor as their ancestor."
Before the smoke and dust from the explosion in the void had even cleared, a cultivator shouted angrily, "Playing tricks! If you could really kill us all, why bother with just a few pieces of star rock? Do you think everyone knows about your Hundred Refinement Sect's Annihilation Pearl?"
The speaker was a burly man with red hair. He was shirtless, his body was covered in bulging muscles, and he carried a long sword on his back. He looked like a body-refining sword cultivator.
“That’s right. The Immortal Emperor’s inheritance is for everyone who sees it. You’ve been searching for it for hundreds of years. Are you really going to hand over this opportunity to someone else?” an old man chimed in.
The old man carried a black coffin on his back, from which black mist faintly seeped out, making it extremely eerie.
"That's right. Once I obtain the Immortal Emperor's inheritance, I won't even put a shred of your Hundred Refinements Sect's young master, let alone the Three Pure Ones Sect. At that time..."
The cultivator grinned maliciously, but before he could finish speaking, Bai had already flashed in front of him. Golden light surged in her eyes, and a thunderous planet in her palm radiated boundless pressure.
"Shut your stinking mouth!!!"
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Author's note: [Evil laugh][Evil laugh][Evil laugh] Sister Zhong is teasing the little tiger like this. When she gets caught, tsk tsk~~ I don't even want to think about it.
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