480: Chapter 480 Starry Night Chapter 22

"I still need more Shelter source."

Ning Yuan stood up; fifty years had passed, and it was time to move on.

His strength had now reached that of a peak Heavenly King. It could be said that in this Xingyao Safe Zone, no one could stop him anymore.

In just three short years, shelter items were constantly being stolen from various families, and some Heavenly Kings even died miserably. For a time, those families of Heavenly Kings were in a panic.

Everyone thought of the events from fifty years ago.

Those people began to make preparations, frantically hiding their shelter items.

However, some were still stolen, and among them were quite a few S-rank shelter items.

Two years later, Ning Yuan left the Xingyao Safe Zone. Before leaving, he passed on the new cultivation method he had modified—one that allowed for autonomous cultivation—to this world.

However, calling it magic was no longer appropriate, so he called it the Origin Crystal Cultivation Method.

Having taken so much, he had to leave something behind.

He had risen to power here and, thanks to the former master of this place, was able to live a second life. Although he had long since become detached from emotions and desires, he did not want to see this place trampled by a Pollution Beast king in a few hundred years.

The Origin Crystal Cultivation Method involves condensing Origin Crystals through one's own cultivation, gathering the wisps of vital energy contained within the contamination energy of the world. Once an Origin Crystal is formed, it can be entrusted to the void, detaching from the world and drawing power from the endless void.

Of course, this is difficult. However, those Heavenly Kings can influence a region with their own power; outside the Xingyao Safe Zone, those Heavenly Kings all possess their own domains.

The vital energy within a Heavenly King's domain is pure enough to support cultivation up to level six, and upon reaching level six, the Origin Crystal can begin to draw energy from the void.

Those methods appeared in many places in the Outer City, and people were constantly discovering them. Furthermore, because of the special treasures Ning Yuan left behind, once these people condensed an Origin Crystal, they possessed the ability to draw energy from the void.

To prevent monopoly, Ning Yuan used the resources he had collected over the years to forge an artifact-level palace imbued with the power of time.

He used his own God King Seal as its core.

This object was no longer of much use to him.

"It is time to prepare for a breakthrough."

Gu Yuan entered seclusion again.

With his disappearance, those families that relied on shelter items to awaken high-level Talents began to panic.

However, in every corner, in those unknown places, a child with determined eyes passed the test and began to rise.

Time flowed on, and three hundred years passed.

Three hundred years might not count for much in the long history of Star Glory.

But it was nearly the entire life journey of an ordinary Heavenly King.

During these three hundred years, due to the breaking of lineages, many Heavenly King families had no successors and began to exit the stage of history.

The Original Niu family, relying on their deep foundation, still barely managed to maintain one Heavenly King.

However, they were far from what they used to be.

This was because a new force had appeared in the Xingyao Safe Zone.

The Star Yuan Council!

This force constantly produced new Heavenly King Level Experts, and by a hundred years ago, they had already completely pushed those Heavenly King families out of the stage of history.

The thirteen members of the Star Yuan Council became the leaders of the new era and began to vigorously promote the Origin Crystal method.

In just one hundred years, all schools had added compulsory courses on Origin Crystal cultivation.

Under the transformation of the thirteen Heavenly King-level Origin Crystal practitioners—or rather, Yuan Saint-level experts—the entire Xingyao Safe Zone was isolated from contamination and filled with pure vital energy.

Talent Users were no longer as high and mighty or unattainable as they were three hundred years ago.

In this era, as long as one is willing to work hard at cultivation, even with the worst Talent, one can condense an Origin Crystal and become transcendent within their lifetime.

Everyone changed their destiny because of this.

Under the governance of the thirteen Yuan Saints, the Xingyao Safe Zone restored order. Even in the Outer City, the nights were now filled with the lights of thousands of homes, no longer a dead, silent night.

Because the Origin Crystal system was derived from magic, they were extremely proficient in arrays, so they set up an array covering the entire Safe Zone. contamination was isolated, and the probability of human aberration here was compressed to the limit. Although there were still people who experienced physical abnormalities, it was one in a hundred, and most of these were people who frequently entered the Wasteland.

Two hundred more years passed.

The Star Yuan Council reached its peak, with thirty-seven members!

That was thirty-seven Yuan Saint-level experts.

In a daze, it seemed as if this place had returned to a historical stage that had long been out of reach.

The Origin Crystals left behind after an Origin Crystal practitioner died could also serve as data processors and energy cores, leading to a leap in technology.

The long lives of the first-generation Yuan Saints also laid the foundation for the stability of the Xingyao Safe Zone.

As for those former Heavenly King families, relying on the Heavenly King territories passed down by their ancestors, they also switched to the Origin Crystal method. Some families successfully cultivated their own Yuan Saints before the Xingyao Safe Zone could take action.

Others completely disappeared, and their Heavenly King territories were taken over by the Star Yuan Council to establish various higher learning institutions, becoming holy lands for cultivation.

These Heavenly King territories had undergone at least hundreds of years of transformation by Heavenly Kings, and some, like those of the Original family, had undergone over ten thousand years of transformation!

The vital energy inside was so abundant that they didn't even need to rely on arrays to form a barrier to resist external contamination.

Naturally, they were holy lands for cultivation.

Relying on these vast Heavenly King domains, which ranged from hundreds to tens of thousands of miles in size, the Star Yuan Council delineated them into provinces, no longer using the term Safe Zone, with the vision that humanity would never again need to worry about contamination.

The Xingyao Safe Zone was renamed Xingyao Province, becoming the core of the Star Yuan Council.

Others, such as the Zifeng territory of the former Zifeng Heavenly King, were renamed Zifeng Province.

The territory of the Tianhe Heavenly King was renamed Tianhe Province.

Even those Heavenly King families that already possessed Yuan Saints had to submit under the wave of this new era, renaming themselves into provinces, only retaining a certain degree of autonomy as long as they did not violate the basic treaties of the Council.

In the year 569 of the Star Yuan Calendar, forty-eight provinces were officially established.

That year, Ning Yuan was still in seclusion when he suddenly felt a change within himself.

His original Invincible Heavenly King strength and limit S-rank Talent suddenly throbbed.

An incomparably pure source power surged into his body.

"This is!"

Ning Yuan was shocked, but there was no time to think too much. He immediately composed himself to digest and absorb this massive power of the source.

Three hundred years passed.

In the year 872 of the Star Yuan Calendar, Ning Yuan's body trembled, and then he slowly opened his eyes.

"Is this… Universe Level?"

"I really broke through."

Even the strange space he had opened up, based on the Magic Source, had become a true world following his breakthrough in strength and the influx of massive amounts of world source.

However, this world was still very desolate.

Ning Yuan looked up and, in a daze, saw a few people nodding at him from across endless time.

It was them.

Ning Yuan stood up and bowed to them as a gesture of thanks.

At this point, what more was there that he didn't understand? In truth, the so-called Origin Crystal method, beyond his own peak level of magic, was fundamentally their doing.

It was a Universe-level method that fused magic with the vital energy techniques of the Cangqing Continent, combined with the truths of the void.

He had simply benefited from it.

Otherwise, with his wisdom, how could he have created such an earth-shattering and complete cultivation method?

This bow was one he needed to make.

Moreover, among them, that person—he was so strong.

He was already Universe Level, yet he still couldn't see through him!

"Is this the peak among the first generation?"

"Could he have reached a level above Universe Level? Is there a realm beyond this…"