Chapter 51: The Star Luo Ding Is Mine Now

Luo Zhong, a powerful being at the Mahayana stage, was in the alchemy room at the moment. With his true energy channeled through his hands, he utilized fire-type primordial energy to activate the Star Luo Ding.
The Star Luo Ding was of such high quality that only the primordial energies of the five elements could fully unleash its ability to enhance the quality of alchemy materials.
The Star Luo Ding was situated within a special array that merged with the entire attic’s array, drawing in the powerful Xuanie Zhenhuo fire, which continuously poured into the Ding, refining the materials inside it.
Luo Zhong was focused on his alchemy work and didn’t need to worry about any abnormalities in the attic, as he had full confidence in the “Heaven and Earth Fire Array” set up there, allowing him to work undisturbed.
The Heaven and Earth Fire Array gathered various fire-type energies from heaven and earth to refine them into primordial fire energy, summoning the Xuanie Tianhuo. Meanwhile, this array merged seamlessly with the attic’s own array, remaining completely hidden. If attacked, the Xuanie Zhenhuo fire would automatically attack the enemy.
Though confident, Luo Zhong didn’t realize that Qu Yi was walking around the attic at that very time, without disturbing any of the arrays.
Although the dense mist in the attic blocked spiritual perception, it had no effect on the abnormal “Vessel God,” which continued to guide Qu Yi as he moved swiftly through the attic. With the Vessel God’s guidance, Qu Yi completely avoided the influence of the attic’s arrays, causing no disturbances and thus drawing no attention from Luo Zhong.
On the highest floor, in the central room, Qu Yi successfully entered.
Inside this room, there was only a crystal table, on which stood a black humanoid crystal statue—the central hub of the entire attic’s array.
“Qu Yi, controlling this hub requires primordial energy. You don’t possess any of the five types of primordial energy, but you have Chaos Crystals. This Chaos energy seems to be one rank higher than primordial energy. Enclose the statue with all your Chaos energy, and you’ll be able to control the entire attic’s array,” the Vessel God spoke at the right moment.
Qu Yi was currently at the Fusion stage. Although his true energy was already very pure, it hadn’t reached the level of pure primordial energy. Only at the Mahayana stage could one gather and refine energy from the natural qi of heaven and earth into primordial energy, thereby transforming one’s dharma body into a primordial body.
However, Qu Yi possessed a mixed energy within him. Though it had transformed into Chaos energy, given its ability to control the five elements, it should also be able to control the primordial energies of those elements.

Therefore, the Artifact God was certain that using chaotic energy instead of primordial energy could also control the hub of this attic. Soon, Qu Yi took out a chaotic crystal and sent out mixed energy to disperse it into a mass of chaotic energy, which was then poured into the humanoid statue. “Yi ya ya!” The humanoid statue suddenly let out a strange cry, and soon the misty energy in the entire room gathered to form a colored crystal-like humanoid, looking exactly like Qu Yi, and moving along with him. “Hehe, Qu Yi, you’ve already taken control of the array in this entire attic. Now, if you drip a drop of your blood into this energy humanoid, you can temporarily give it a physical form and control it with your mind,” the Artifact God happily told Qu Yi. Without hesitation, Qu Yi immediately used his vital energy to inject a drop of his blood into the newly formed humanoid. Sure enough, after absorbing Qu Yi’s blood, the crystal-like humanoid transformed into a human body, identical to Qu Yi’s naked form. This human body blinked, showing signs of consciousness, seemingly waiting for Qu Yi’s commands. This was the Hub Human. Qu Yi was surprised for a moment but quickly realized that his soul had formed a connection with this Hub Human. He then tried to order it to inform him of the situation in the forging room. The Hub Human immediately acted—swinging its hands through space as if brushing walls, and before Qu Yi’s eyes appeared an energy mirror that displayed the entire forging room. Qu Yi immediately took in the scene, observing Luo Zhong’s forging process. Luo Zhong had enlarged the Star Network Cauldron to two meters in size, and inside it was the true fire provided by the “Heaven and Earth Unified Fire Array,” which maintained a strong flame while remaining extremely stable. Inside the cauldron, the Black Sparrow Tendons and Cold Fire Jade had already been refined countless times, reaching the level of top-grade spiritual artifacts. Now, under Luo Zhong’s control, they were gradually merging together to take on the shape of a whip. Qu Yi watched the situation inside the Star Network Cauldron. He hadn’t yet ordered the Hub Human to use the array in the attic to attack Luo Zhong, waiting instead until Luo Zhong successfully forged the Black Flame Whip before striking. Before long, Luo Zhong smiled in the forging room—the Black Flame Whip was almost complete. Suddenly, Luo Zhong extinguished the true fire inside the Star Network Cauldron, quickly extracted the whip’s core, and then chanted spells to embed the array within it. The Black Flame Whip suddenly flashed with black flames, and Qu Yi’s vital energy fluctuated intensely.

The magical artifact has been successfully refined!
“Control the array, Pivot Person—concentrate all energy to attack Luo Zhong!”
As soon as Qu Yi saw that Luo Zhong had successfully refined the Black Flame Whip, he immediately gave orders to the Pivot Person.
The Pivot Person acted according to Qu Yi’s thoughts; before Qu Yi finished speaking, it had already taken control of the array in the attic, gathering all the energy into three streams that formed three energy bodies resembling Qu Yi. They all entered the refining room and simultaneously attacked Luo Zhong with punches.
These three energy bodies were actually three primal energy bodies—those of metal, earth, and fire—manifesting in pure gold, yellow, and red hues, with extremely gentle fluctuations in their vital energy.
In the refining room, Luo Zhong immediately realized something was wrong with the array when the surrounding mist vanished and his spiritual senses could sense his surroundings. When the three primal energy bodies appeared, his face showed shock—these were three beings at the Great Perfection stage attacking him.
In a confrontation between beings at the Great Perfection stage, spells were useless; it came down to the amount of primal energy.
The three primal energy bodies surrounded Luo Zhong at lightning speed and began beating him mercilessly.
Inside Luo Zhong, there was only a portion of fire primal energy, and his entire body had not yet transformed into a fire primal energy body. It was already difficult enough to deal with one fire primal energy body, let alone deal with those of metal and earth as well.
“Damn it! Which bastard dares to wreak havoc in the Taiyuan Gate?” Luo Zhong’s fire primal energy was shattered wave after wave, and he couldn’t escape, so he shouted in anger.
Qu Yi sneered in the room.
But the Artifact God suddenly spoke up, sighing, “A battle between primal energy bodies? It’s like kids fighting—really laughable. They don’t even know how to use primal energy. With it, they could scatter Luo Zhong in just one move.”
Hearing this, Qu Yi was shocked. He had only known before that beings at the Great Perfection stage needed to transform their physical forms into primal energy bodies. Could his next stage of cultivation be learning how to use primal energy?
“Artifact God, what is primal energy?” Qu Yi quickly asked.
But the Artifact God fell silent, clearly feeling it wasn’t the right time to tell Qu Yi yet.
Qu Yi gritted his teeth and helplessly continued to watch the battle in the refining room.

After being punched and kicked dozens of times, Luo Zhong had completely gone mad. He unleashed his devastating True Fire without restraint, but this fire, capable of killing experts at the Mahayana stage, was utterly useless—those three Origin Beings were unharmed and continued to assault Luo Zhong relentlessly. Suddenly, Luo Zhong’s entire dharma body exploded, and all his Origin energy was destroyed. With the explosion of his Fire Origin energy, its destructive power finally manifested, scattering the three attacking Origin Beings. Luo Zhong and the three Origin Beings all turned into energy. The entire attic could not withstand this energy surge and was instantly shattered. Naturally, the formation was also completely destroyed, and the Pivot Person disappeared as well. However, Qu Yi had hidden inside the Dimension Ball. As soon as the strongest wave of energy passed, he emerged from the ball and flew over to the undamaged Xingluo Ding. “Whoa whoa whoa, my Artifact God is here!” The moment Qu Yi’s hands touched the Xingluo Ding, he suddenly recited a mantra—this was precisely the mantra taught to him by his Artifact God to activate it. At the same time, Qu Yi’s spiritual consciousness came into contact with the Xingluo Ding, and the soul of his Artifact God immediately entered it through Qu Yi’s consciousness. Inside the Xingluo Ding, it seemed as though an Artifact Spirit that had slept for years awoke, seemingly awakened by the soul of his Artifact God just now. The master had returned! Responding to the call of its Artifact God, the Xingluo Ding suddenly changed shape. The original design, with four divine dragons supporting its square mouth, vanished, and the square mouth transformed into a pentagonal shape, as if the four dragons had merged into one of the five corners. The Xingluo Ding now took on the form of a three-dimensional pentagon, with an empty interior. This was its true form! Among the three Mahayana-stage beings from the Taiyuan Sect responsible for guarding the Xingluo Ding, besides Luo Zhong, there were two more: Luo Gai and Luo Lan. The moment the attic exploded, they immediately sensed something was wrong, realizing that Luo Zhong had likely died from self-destruction. So, Luo Gai and Luo Lan teleported over and saw the drastically transformed Xingluo Ding and Qu Yi, now in the guise of Liang Wu. Qu Yi had already entered the Xingluo Ding and was waving cheerfully at the two approaching Mahayana-stage beings. “Taiyuan Sect! I’ve been hiding among you for years, and now I’ve finally succeeded! Xingluo Ding, I’m taking it!” Qu Yi shouted in Liang Wu’s voice.

“Dare you? The Star Luo Ding belongs to the Tai Yuan Gate. Liang Wu, you dare not take it away,” Luo Gai shouted fiercely, filled with rage.
“Liang Wu, you’re truly a madman. How dare you talk about escaping in front of us two Great Perfection cultivators?” Luo Lan cried out confidently.
The two Great Perfection cultivators stared at Qu Yi with cruel smiles.
Qu Yi suddenly took out the Chaos Crystal and poured Chaos energy into the Star Luo Ding, activating the vessel that had just regained its original form.
Suddenly, five corners of the Star Luo Ding emitted pure golden, cyan, blue, red, and yellow energies. In an instant, the entire Star Luo Ding was enveloped in an energy sphere, which then flew into the air.
The transparent energy sphere formed by the five primordial energies moved through the air without any hindrance, as if it had its own space, capable of traveling hundreds of thousands of miles with a single bounce.
Luo Gai and Luo Lan were shocked. They immediately realized that ‘Liang Wu’ had restored the Star Luo Ding’s original function and found the true way to use it—they truly could no longer suppress him.
As the Star Luo Ding soared through the sky, Luo Gai and Luo Lan naturally wouldn’t give up. They immediately teleported after it.
Inside the Tai Yuan Gate, there were also over ten Great Perfection cultivators stationed throughout the gate. They noticed the changes in the Star Luo Ding and immediately followed Luo Gai and Luo Lan to chase after it.
The Star Luo Ding was the key to the Tai Yuan Gate becoming the foremost among the top ten sects. If lost, the other nine sects would no longer regard the Tai Yuan Gate as a threat. Naturally, the Star Luo Ding must not be lost.
More than a dozen Great Perfection cultivators chased after the Star Luo Ding in the sky.
Qu Yi smiled at the cultivators behind him and suddenly shouted, “Tai Yuan Gate, the Star Luo Ding is mine now! Cry away!”
As soon as he spoke, the Star Luo Ding leaped from the sky of Liu Pan Star into the starry void, then continued to jump in random directions, disappearing quickly without a trace.
The dozen Great Perfection cultivators from the Tai Yuan Gate arrived in the starry void but could no longer sense the Star Luo Ding’s presence.
Episode 7: Entering the Immortal Mansion