Chapter 584: Reaching the Nebula Level

It took Ye Feng a whole day to complete the parasitic tasks for those eleven people. Of course, he didn’t forget to search their storage rings, taking anything he deemed useful before leaving their rings and equipment behind. He didn’t want them to seem suspicious.

After finishing these tasks, Ye Feng used the laws of the undead to turn the Star Sea-level warrior killed by Long Tian into an undead creature. The one he killed himself hadn’t been transformed because his star core had already been absorbed by Ye Feng; even if transformed, it would have no combat power. Ye Feng didn’t intend to let this undead creature appear in front of everyone, so he altered its appearance and covered it in a large black cloak, hiding it in the darkness to act only when necessary.

When Ye Feng reappeared at the sacred land ranking arena with those eleven main plane warriors, everyone was stunned. Even Long Tian’s face showed confusion—he couldn’t figure out what Ye Feng had done to them, as he couldn’t detect any changes. He had initially thought Ye Feng had killed them and turned them into undead creatures, but investigations proved otherwise. Yet he didn’t believe Ye Feng had conquered them with charisma. Though Ye Feng was indeed charming, even if she were a peerlessly beautiful woman, it was unlikely she could make these people willingly submit.

After all, these people came from the main plane. In their eyes, any creature from a lower plane was weak and ugly, and they would refuse to submit even in death.

However, Long Tian himself also had secrets. As his cultivation improved, he had largely regained memories from his past life. He knew clearly that some things were not suitable to share, even with best friends. So, he wisely chose not to ask about Ye Feng’s secrets—just as Ye Feng never asked him about his past life.

Zhenzhu and the others thought it was no surprise whatever happened to Ye Feng, so they didn’t bother asking.

Xiaoyu and Xiaobei believed that whatever Ye Feng did was right and didn’t need questioning.

“The task of protecting this realm is left to all of you. These eleven will do their best to assist you,” Ye Feng said, unwilling to explain further. “Before the invaders from other planes flood the main plane, my friends and I will enter seclusion. So, I entrust this task to you all during that time.”

The ranking matches hadn’t ended yet when Ye Feng and the others completely disappeared from everyone’s sight.
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Inside the Absolute Martial Ark, Ye Feng excitedly took the extreme attribute materials found by his space-based clone, Ye Kong. There were a total of eleven of them. What excited Ye Feng the most was that one of them was an extreme attribute material of the light element—seeds of the Light Trees.
Ye Feng was thrilled because with these extreme attribute materials of the light element, he would have all seven elemental laws within his body, and his energy would reach an extremely stable state, increasing his chances of breaking through to the nebula level by several times. What excited him even more was that the seeds of the Light Trees were the closest thing to extreme attribute crystals of the light element. They contained almost all the light element laws except for the law of light speed, and there was a high probability that they could directly enable one to comprehend divine powers.
Ye Feng planted one of the Light Tree seeds in the cultivation container of that pseudo-illusory treasure. As soon as he learned that the Absolute Martial Ark had a time acceleration of one million times, he placed that cultivation container in a guest room to allow the plants inside to grow at one million times the normal speed. Before heading to the main plane, he knew clearly that he wouldn’t even need the Imperial Demon Soldiers planted there. In this inferior plane, no one could be his opponent. He didn’t even pick any fruits but let them fall into the white abyss, where they turned into various nutrients to promote the growth of the plants inside.
The other seed was slowly refined and absorbed by Ye Feng. At the same time, he also had his clones of other elements devour all the remaining extreme attribute materials.
After fully absorbing that seed, Ye Feng began to comprehend the light element laws within it. It took him 30 million years before he finally elevated one of the light element laws— the Law of Sacred Light — to the level of a divine power. A white sphere also appeared in his body.
This sphere was the largest, almost ten times bigger than the others, which were fiery red in color.
In addition, with the help of his clones, Ye Feng acquired ten new laws: the Pulse Law of the earth element, the Law of Sand, the Mirror Law of the water element, the Vortex Law, the Tidal Law, the Magnetic Law of the lightning element, the Lightning Refinement Law, the Invisible Law of the wind element, the Eye of the Storm Law, and the Nirvana Law of the fire element. Several of these had already reached the tenth stage of perfection.

Ye Feng also began his final sprint toward the nebula level. He knew what his internal condition would be like once he reached that level. Currently, one attribute in his body had condensed into a star, but at the nebula level, each star would generate its own companion stars based on the number of laws it contained, causing the number of stars to surge from single digits to double digits. A new balance would form within his dantian—this was what was meant by the nebula level.

Ye Feng slowly controlled one of the stars to split, watching as smaller stars formed and orbited the main star along their orbits. His excitement grew even more.

After tens of millions of years, Ye Feng finally completed splitting all the stars, including the transparent star from the space element. The four stars that split from it were also transparent but featured beautiful patterns, surrounded by strange energy that resembled specks in the starry sky, even encircling the main star itself.

Surrounding this strange energy were also a red, patterned companion star that had split from the fire element, several times larger than the others, and the only white, patterned companion star from the light element.

Ye Feng noticed that these patterned companion stars, surrounded by strange energy, were several times larger than the other companion stars. He also realized that these stars represented the laws of divine powers he had already mastered.

He further understood that the so-called sea of stars level meant that among the various elemental laws in his body, at least one law for each element had reached the level of a divine power, causing each main star to be surrounded by strange energy.

If he only had three main stars—those of space, fire, and light—then, aside from insufficient energy, his cultivation level would be considered at the sea of stars level. But now, he needed to cultivate divine powers in one of the companion stars of the remaining four main stars before he could truly reach the sea of stars level.

If he ignored the other four elements, those three main stars would stop progressing once they reached a certain level, and so would the strength of his divine powers. On the other hand, those who only cultivated these three elements would see their stars continue evolving and their divine powers grow stronger. Thus, the more laws one cultivated, it didn’t necessarily bring only benefits; it could also lead to difficulties in further advancement.

Of course, if one only cultivated one element or one law, the cultivation speed would be faster, but their ultimate strength would not be comparable to those who cultivated more laws at the same level.

Therefore, in Ye Feng’s view, the more laws there are, the better, because the condition to break through to the Star Sea level is for all the laws in one’s body to become divine powers, after which one will reach the Star Domain level. Once at the Star Domain level, no new laws can be mastered anymore. This is also why Ye Feng goes to great lengths to gather various materials with extreme properties—he wants to comprehend as many laws as possible before reaching the Star Domain level, even if it slows down the pace of his cultivation. Because in the long run, the more divine powers one possesses, the stronger their strength will be in later stages.