đź“– Chapter 1125 - Star Marking Art!
Wang Baole didn’t know about the Flame Patriarch’s speculation. Unlike the Flame Patriarch, he had no doubts about Chen Qingzi. Aside from his friends and family in the Federation, the people Wang Baole trusted the most in this world were his master, the Flame Patriarch, and his senior brother, Chen Qingzi.
If he couldn’t even trust his senior brother, then who could he trust? Smiling, Wang Baole left the Flame Patriarch’s pagoda.
Everything he’d said to the Flame Patriarch came from the bottom of his heart. He wholeheartedly believed that his senior brother was sending him a secret message, telling him to go to the battlefield. But even if he was wrong, he still had to make the trip.
“Time is running out. I have to improve my cultivation base as soon as possible…” Wang Baole murmured. A profound light flickered in his eyes. Regarding that blood-colored centipede, the experiences of his past lives, and the truth of the world that he’d seen… the Flame Patriarch hadn’t asked, and Wang Baole hadn’t taken the initiative to say anything.
With these sorts of matters… knowing more wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
Wang Baole didn’t want disaster to fall on the Raging Flame Galaxy because of him.
“Master has already suffered enough. I can’t let him experience more suffering…” Wang Baole took a deep breath. Rather than return to his own residence, he flew over to the place where the divine ox was staying.
He needed to continue his observation of the divine ox in order to improve his proficiency in the Star-Sealing Art.
When Wang Baole arrived, the divine ox glanced at him once before closing its eyes, allowing Wang Baole to observe its form and physique. It wasn’t until Wang Baole left one day later that the divine ox opened its eyes again. Looking at Wang Baole’s departing figure, it murmured softly to itself.
“Just what did this kid see on Planet Heaven’s Mandate… He seems pretty normal in other aspects, but how come he’s so eager to improve his cultivation?”
As the divine ox was lost in thought, Wang Baole returned to his own pagoda.
After entering the meditation room, he immediately sat down cross-legged and adjusted his breathing. Once he recovered to his peak condition, Wang Baole opened his eyes with a thoughtful gaze.
Now that he had advanced to the Eternal Star Realm and battled Chong Yizi, he had a rough estimate of his current strength.
“If I go all out, I can defeat a late-stage Earth-grade Eternal Star Realm cultivator. My battle prowess should be equivalent to an Earth-grade Eternal Star Realm cultivator at the great circle… But when it comes to those with Heaven-grade Eternal Stars, I won’t be able to match someone at the great circle. At most, I can fight evenly with someone at the late stage.”
Muttering softly, Wang Baole looked down at his body and slowly narrowed his eyes.
“But as for those below Earth-grade… As long as they’re still in the Eternal Star Realm, I can crush them completely!
“Soon, I’ll be going to the battlefield between Senior Brother and the Split Moon Divine Emperor. There will be many Chosen from various factions there…” Wang Baole pondered for a moment and sorted out his currently usable trump cards.
The Dao Scripture should only be used at absolutely critical moments. Aside from that, there was the divine ox of the star chart. Although Wang Baole hadn’t summoned the divine ox in the battle with Chong Yizi, he believed that its strength would definitely be astonishing.
“There are the five past life shadows too, and the Misty Cloud Finger as well as the Nightmare Eye Art.
“Plus, I have the Underworld Fire… It might be able to show some miraculous effects in the upcoming battlefield!
“As for the Emperor Armor… I need to refine it again.” After Wang Baole analyzed all of this, he opened his storage pouch to check his magic artifacts.
“I can’t bring out the Underworld Artifacts lightly… The divine weapon that’s connected to the Emperor Armor can be used as a general offensive treasure. There’s also the Galaxy Bow. As for the others… they’re all expendable.” Wang Baole thought some more. With a wave of his right hand, a large bow appeared. After stroking it gently, he put it away.
“As for the wishing bottle… that thing’s too strange.” Wang Baole shook his head. Finally, he took a deep breath and sent his divine sense inward, taking a look at the intrinsic scabbard within his body.
The scabbard had been inside his body for a long, long time. It seemed unassuming, but Wang Baole had a feeling that once it was taken out, the power stored within it could slice through all creation.
“Aside from all these, the most important thing for me right now is… deciding on a cultivation method for the Eternal Star Realm!” After withdrawing his divine sense from his intrinsic scabbard, Wang Baole fell into deep thought. He called out to Little Missy, but she seemed to have fallen asleep. Even after waiting a while, there was no response.
“That’s fine. I can decide things on my own!” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed. He didn’t need any new Eternal Star Realm cultivation methods, because he already had two!
One had been imparted to him by the Flame Patriarch previously… the Flame Spirit Technique!
This technique contained both a curse art, the Flame Spirit Curse, and an Eternal Star Realm cultivation method. It could be cultivated all the way until the Star Domain Realm, and its power became more astonishing the longer it was cultivated.
Bu the key point of this cultivation method was vitality and resentment. For Wang Baole, the vitality and resentment of his past lives could only be used as a foundation. If he really wanted to cultivate this method, he would eventually need to rely on the accumulations of his current life as well.
The other cultivation method came from the Underworld Dream of so many years ago. When Wang Baole had been part of the Underworld Sect, he had seen a certain Underworld Technique mentioned in many records!
This technique was called the Star Marking Art!
When it came to the Underworld Sect’s cultivation methods, the Star Marking Art wasn’t considered an orthodox technique. In fact, it was even listed as a forbidden art, and disciples of the sect were warned not to use it as their main cultivation method. Instead, it was more recommended for disciples to use it as a reference point to improve their orthodox cultivation methods.
The reason for this was because the Star Marking Art was an ominous and inauspicious technique that brought calamity to its practitioners. Because the technique was too overbearing, the practitioner would be rejected by the Heavenly Dao and suppressed by the starry sky. Eventually, the very root of their existence would be wiped out by the world’s ire.
The reason for all of this was because the Star Marking Art was a horrifying method that allowed the practitioner to point at any star and mark it as their own. Once marked, the star would fuse with the practitioner’s divine sense, becoming a star that belonged solely to them.
It didn’t matter whether there were living things on the star, or even whether the star had been refined by someone else. Even Planets and Eternal Stars belonging to other cultivators could be plundered by this technique.
Thus, the Star Marking Art was classified as a forbidden art.
After all, the Never-Ending Dao Domain was subject to the laws of life and death and conservation of energy. At most, power was allocated differently between different people. But even if the person who was allocated the most could be reborn endlessly, everything they controlled really still belonged to the Dao Domain.
To a certain extent, all the power cultivators held was just rented from the Dao Domain. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dao was a set of regulations created by the collective consciousness that sanctioned the actions of the Never-Ending Clan as the orthodox way.
“The Heavenly Dao is like a codex of law. The Underworld Sect’s Heavenly Dao records the laws of the previous generation, and the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao records the laws of the current generation…” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. The Star Marking Art… could in fact be seen as going against the laws established by the Heavenly Dao. When a star was refined by the Star Marking Art, rather than renting it from the starry sky, it instead became owned by the practitioner.
Thus, to cultivate the Star Marking Art was essentially to plunder from the Dao Domain itself. Such actions would naturally be met with retribution; the practitioner would be rejected by heaven and earth, and all traces of their existence would be wiped out. Their body and soul would be completely annihilated, and they would die a true death.
But there was a compelling advantage to the Star Marking Art. Namely… it was fast!
The increase in cultivation speed and battle prowess would be incredible. If he hadn’t experienced his past lives, Wang Baole would never choose this sort of cultivation method. But now… On the one hand, he felt an extreme sense of urgency, and he knew that he had to become stronger as quickly as possible. On the other hand, after the insights into his past lives, Wang Baole felt that this technique might be the most suitable for him.
“Both body and soul will be annihilated, and I’ll die a true death… but… can this Never-Ending Dao Domain truly annihilate my original body, the black wooden board? As for my soul… wiping away my soul won’t be anything too difficult, but if I can’t rapidly improve my strength, then even if I’m not destroyed by the Never-Ending Dao Domain, I will still be devoured by the blood-colored centipede…” Wang Baole fell silent for a while. Then, he laughed out loud.
“I’ll cultivate it!” His eyes shone as he unhesitatingly decided on the Star Marking Art as his Eternal Star Realm cultivation method. As soon as he made up his mind and began circulating his cultivation base in accordance with the Star Marking Art, a rumbling noise suddenly echoed from his body.
His ten thousand Special Stars, nine quasi-Dao Stars, and Eternal Dao Star all trembled. It was as if an invisible hand suddenly enveloped them, wiping away their originally inseparable connection to the Never-Ending Dao Domain!
Their owner… changed!
And as soon as it did, the Raging Flame Chief Planet shook, the Raging Flame Galaxy rumbled, and in the outside world, there seemed to be faint roars echoing in all directions from the depths of the starry sky.