Chapter 30: The Star-Stabilizing Stone

Sixty years had passed for Qu Yi within the Inner Cyclone of the Jiazi Cycle. His six dharma bodies—Golden Body, Wooden Body, Water Body, Fire Body, Earth Body—were simultaneously scanning the Five Elements Dao, and nearly 70% of the scanning was complete. Thus, Qu Yi’s soul realm was already very close to the Mahayana stage.

The chaotic energy he had gathered had been completely used up, so his original body remained unchanged, with only one-quarter of it transformed into a chaotic body. However, having devoted sixty years to scanning the Five Elements Dao, Qu Yi hadn’t paid much attention to the transformation of his original body. After all, as long as he left this area of the Inner Cyclone and found more chaotic energy, he was confident he could transform his original body into a chaotic body.

Sixty years later, the starry region once occupied by the Inner Cyclone was now free of those invisible breezes. In the starry sky, there was only the Star Luo Ding and the ten beings from the Upper Realm. The Star Luo Ding and those ten beings were only a hundred miles apart—extremely close. For these ten experts at the immortal level, it would take just one leap to reach each other.

Yet at that moment, the ten beings from the Upper Realm floated in the starry sky like infants in utero, seemingly asleep peacefully.

Inside the Dimensional Sphere, the God of Tools suddenly shouted, “Qu Yi! The Inner Cyclone of the Jiazi Cycle has disappeared. Go out now!”

Qu Yi, who was sitting by the lake in his original form, immediately opened his eyes and vanished. He emerged from the Star Luo Ding and saw the ten beings in the starry sky. Instead of attacking them, he asked the Earth Body to bring out the Subterranean Shuttle and fly away from there immediately.

The Subterranean Shuttle streaked through the air, leaving behind a bright yellow trail. Indeed, Qu Yi’s decision was correct. The moment the shuttle left, the ten beings from the Upper Realm woke up simultaneously and realized where Qu Yi had gone.

“Damn it! Qu Yi got away again.”
“What exactly is this strange energy field? It trapped our limbs but also calmed our souls.”
“Qu Yi must be relying on the mysteries of the Star Luo Ding to keep his soul from calming down, allowing him to escape first.”
“Stop talking! Chase after him!”……

The ten beings from the Upper Realm immediately focused on the Subterranean Shuttle, activating their mid-tier immortal artifacts to chase after it swiftly.

When the Earth Body saw that the ten beings were chasing after them again, he simply smiled and used the Subterranean Shuttle to fly toward a huge planet ahead. Once above the planet, he sent the shuttle straight into its interior, heading toward its core.

This planet was enormous, equivalent to a large planet in the cultivation realm. As soon as the Earth-Diving Shuttle entered the planet’s interior, it felt an extremely strong repulsive force, as if there was a powerful treasure deep within the planet’s core that did not want the Earth-Diving Shuttle to approach and was therefore trying its best to stop it. The Earth Lord showed a puzzled expression on his face. At that moment, Qu Yi’s true form appeared, smiling faintly and saying, “Earth Lord, enter the Inch-World Sphere.” “Yes, my lord,” replied the Earth Lord promptly before disappearing. Qu Yi’s true form flew into the planet’s interior with a physical body, his body surface covered in a layer of chaotic energy. Indeed, Qu Yi’s true form had also noticed the uniqueness of this planet, realizing that the greater the depth, the stronger the resistance, and that it would be impossible to reach the planet’s core. After being reminded by the Artifact God, Qu Yi’s true form immediately came out and used chaotic energy to clear a path toward the planet’s core. Sure enough, as soon as the chaotic energy was used, the rock layers blocking the way disappeared immediately, and the resistance coming from the planet’s core was absorbed and dissipated by the chaotic energy. “Artifact God, the chaotic energy is truly powerful,” Qu Yi exclaimed happily as he descended. Since the treasure in the planet’s core could block the Earth-Diving Shuttle, a mid-tier immortal artifact, it could naturally also block the mid-tier immortal artifacts of the ten people from the upper realm. Thus, it was completely impossible for them to enter the planet’s core. Qu Yi was delighted to have this advantage due to the chaotic energy within his own body. “Qu Yi, there must be a great deal of chaotic energy in this planet’s core. Although using the chaotic energy in my body is extremely costly, I believe it can definitely be compensated for,” the Artifact God replied happily as well. So, Qu Yi flew toward the planet’s core with confidence. Meanwhile, the ten people from the upper realm also activated their mid-tier immortal artifacts and arrived at this planet. They all entered the planet’s interior simultaneously and were surprised to find a strong repulsive force that hindered their immortal artifacts from moving forward, with the resistance increasing the deeper they went. Despite doing their best, the ten people only managed to advance about a thousand miles before they could no longer move forward. Frustrated, they flew back up to the surface of the planet. The four people from the immortal realm gathered together. “There’s something very strange about this planet; there must be treasures inside,” Zong Xi’s immortal consciousness transmitted, communicating with the other three.

“It’s normal to have treasures. This Five Elements Extreme Realm is said to be the source of various powerful magical artifacts in the cultivation world. With such a large planet, it’s quite possible that there are some precious treasures inside,” Feng Qu said calmly.

Yan Xuan, on the other hand, looked extremely displeased. Also using telepathy, she said angrily, “That Qu Yi seems to have already entered the planet’s interior. Could it be that he used that Star Luo Ding again to overcome the repulsion force and reach the planet’s core?”

Upon hearing Yan Xuan’s words, the other three immediately fell silent. Their furrowed brows showed that they agreed with her.

If they had known at that moment that the truth wasn’t what they thought—that Qu Yi had actually entered the planet’s core with his own body—they would likely have been shocked to the point of dropping their jaws.

Even immortals couldn’t enter, so how could Qu Yi, who was still in the later stages of tribulation, do so with his physical body?

Unfortunately, the four of them had no idea about the existence of chaotic energy in the world, so they couldn’t imagine Qu Yi using it to enter the planet’s core without any obstacles.

“It seems we’ll have to wait outside this planet’s orbit, just like last time, for Qu Yi to emerge,” Qiu Rui said gloomily.

The four fell into another long silence, filled with rage. They had thought they could easily defeat Qu Yi, but now they were stuck in this complicated situation.

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The three from the Demon Realm—Yi Xi, Chen Yan, and Rong Han—and the three from the Fiend Realm—Jun Wei, Zhuo Hong, and Qi Jia—also gathered into two groups, secretly communicating with each other.

Undoubtedly, these six were also marveling at Qu Yi’s strangeness and filled with anger.

Soon after, they dispersed across the starry sky, monitoring different areas, keeping a close eye on whether Qu Yi would emerge from the planet’s interior.

By this time, Qu Yi had already reached the planet’s core.

His true body stood in front of a silver-colored stone wall. Outside this wall flowed rapidly a misty vapor that separated the wall from the rock layers.

To be precise, this stone wall was just part of a giant sphere—seemingly the core of the planet itself.

“Qu Yi, the repulsion force of this planet comes from this Star Stabilizing Stone. And the mist outside is Star Floating Water. You can use the Star Luo Ding to collect all of it. When you go to the Immortal Realm later, you can use it for tempering,” the God of Weapons said cheerfully.

“What?!” Qu Yi was surprised.

The floating mist was actually formed from water, and it could even be used to temper immortal artifacts in the realm of immortals. Qu Yi never expected to encounter such a treasure and was initially too shocked to react.

Soon, Qu Yi took out the Star Luo Ding, used his spiritual awareness to direct it at the flowing mist, and recited a spell to gather it. The mist surged forward and entered the Star Luo Ding.

Inside the Star Luo Ding, the mist indeed condensed into a pure droplet—nothing other than Floating Star Water.

Qu Yi suddenly thought of something else and immediately asked, “Artifact God, since this Floating Star Water can temper immortal artifacts yet cannot erode this Star Stabilizing Stone before us, doesn’t that mean the material quality of the Star Stabilizing Stone is higher than that of the Floating Star Water?”

The Artifact God burst into laughter and replied, “Qu Yi, you’re quite clever once again. Indeed, even in the realm of immortals, Star Stabilizing Stones are extremely rare. One of the materials used in the Boundless Star-> Boundless Star I crafted is Star Stabilizing Stone. As for its quality, you don’t need to know it for now. Just collect this Stone Stabilizing Stone; you’ll definitely use it in the future.”

Qu Yi nodded and fell silent.

All the Floating Star Water was gathered and stored in a space within the Star Luo Ding, occupying an area roughly the size of a sphere with a diameter of ten miles.

Then, Qu Yi continued to hold the Star Luo Ding and tried to extract a piece of the Star Stabilizing Stone.

“Qu Yi, Star Stabilizing Stones are very special. You can’t extract them like this. First, use a divine spell card to break through the Stone Stabilizing Stone and enter its core. After transforming your true body using the chaotic energy there, you’ll have a surprising discovery,” the Artifact God suddenly transmitted through his spiritual awareness.

Qu Yi was stunned. Seeing that the Artifact God wanted to show off his knowledge again, he didn’t ask further. Instead, he immediately took out the “Five Flower Three Flower” divine spell card and swiftly drew it across the Star Stabilizing Stone, creating a crack.

A massive amount of chaotic energy burst out from the crack.

“Haha! There’s so much chaotic energy in this planet’s core! I can now declare that my true body can be completely transformed into a body of chaos!” Qu Yi exclaimed excitedly upon sensing the chaotic energy.

He immediately used the divine spell card to widen the crack and dashed into the stream of chaotic energy.

Although his spiritual awareness was hindered, Qu Yi knew that the core area of this planet was at least hundreds of kilometers wide, filled entirely with chaotic energy—more than enough to transform his true body.

Qu Yi calmed his emotions, then quickly absorbed the chaotic energy around him, rapidly transforming his true body.