Chapter 2205: Star Creation Realm (2)

Just as he was about to run out of spirit stone and extend his divine sense to inform someone to send over some from the sect treasury, the dao lotus within his dantian finally seemed to be satisfied. The dao rune on the dao lotus that had been shining with increasing brilliance as more spiritual qi was consumed soon enough exploded forth with a dazzling light that instantly drowned out his dantian and made it impossible for him to see what was happening within even through his divine sense. All he could see was a seemingly endless sea of light that had replaced his dantian with only the dao rune carved into his dao lotus barely visible at the very center of this sea of light.

Rumble~

But as this sea of light seemingly replaced his dantian, it seemed to suddenly undergo a mystical change, as the sea of light suddenly began collapsing in on itself towards the center of his dantian where his dao lotus was situated. Revealing the empty spiritual sea and landmass that had been hidden beath the sea of light only seconds ago, though a clear difference compared to seconds earlier was the simple fact that his dantian seemed to have expanded for a second time without his knowledge.

Not just that, but during the expansion hidden by the sea of light, the landmass at the core of his internal world had also undergone a change, as it now had far more life compared to before.

No longer just an empty landmass that just had a few riverbeds carved through it and a few mountains, the internal world now looked far more like a true living world, as the sea of light had caused trees and large patches of grass to emerge throughout the internal world, like small patches of life that would slowly grow until the entire internal world was filled with this new source of life.

Of course, the existence of plants wasn’t the most important change to his internal world, instead, it was the fact that he could sense a mixture of several different Daos now present within his internal world, some, like the Dao of Life, he had already comprehended to some extent, but Daos like the Dao of Tree Growth, a Dao he hadn’t touched before, was also present within his internal world.

A fact that took him only a short time to understand, as the answer soon enough presented itself as he gazed towards the place where the vast sea of light had gathered into a massive star that now floated above his internal world. The star itself representing the core aspect of a Star Creation Realm cultivator and symbolized his successful breakthrough to the Star Creation Realm, but the thing that drew his attention wasn’t the star itself, but instead the faint dao rune that seemed to be glowing within the heart of the massive star that now formed a protective outer shell for the dao lotus that had long since become one with his soul.

From the dao rune, he could sense countless profound dao fluctuations that seemed to radiate through the sun now hovering above his internal world. Bringing about these changes that seemingly influenced his internal world and aided its growth.

This kind of mysterious influence from the dao rune wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the information on the Star Creation Realm he had read through, but it was clear that this influence on the internal world was the main purpose of a dao rune.

Making the goal of the Star Creation Realm clear from a glance, as the purpose of the realm itself wasn’t just to grow the star containing the soul shining above the internal world, but also for the star itself to aid the growth of the internal world through this subtle influence of the dao runes themselves.

Not only would more Daos merge with the internal world aid the growth of the internal world itself, but it would also make it far easier to comprehend these Daos. Making progress through the Star Creation Realm that required comprehending different Daos and deepening one’s overall comprehension of the Dao easier.

As for what kind of Daos would merge with the internal world upon finishing a dao rune? He guessed that it might have something to do with the dao rune itself. Meaning there might be different specialized dao runes for cultivators focusing on a specific dao. Giving birth to unique internal worlds that were entirely centered around a single dao and the countless branches that existed beneath it.

With that in mind, Xuan Hao went over the different Daos that had silently merged together with his internal world following his breakthrough to the Star Creation Realm.

"The Dao of Life, Dao of Tree Growth, Dao of Wood, Dao of Grass, Dao of Nature, Dao of Cloud Formation... All plant related..." Not taking long to go through every one of them and concluding that they were all related to plants or plant growth in some way. Promoting the growth of plants throughout his internal world.

Although this did partially make him think that the Dao Runes he had obtained were somehow related to creating a plant or nature-based internal world, he had a feeling that things wouldn’t be that simple. Feeling that the dao runes from an ancient major power like the Mirage Sect was bound to be more special than that.

But even if he thought this, he couldn’t draw any conclusions on the situation before he finished carving his second dao rune and observed the changes that would take place throughout his internal world following that.

Still, even if it was a set of dao runes focused on the Dao of Nature and the Dao of Life, he didn’t really have any other dao rune blueprint around to follow and had no plans of trying to come up with dao runes on his own. Knowing that doing so would take far too long and carried countless risks. Better to just follow the blueprints that had been left behind by the Mirage Sect. At the very least, their dao runes could be trusted given how this ancient sect was undoubtedly one of the stronger players in the past and had given birth to more than just one Venerable Realm cultivator.

Shaking his head as he thought about this, he soon enough shifted his attention away from his internal world and turned to look at his status for the first time in some time...

Name: Xuan Hao

Daos: Origin (Space), Perfection (Sword, Ice, Formations, Blacksmithing, Light, Alchemy), Large Success (Illusions, Corruption, Yin, Fire), Small Success (Life, Water, Rain, Wind), Elementary Realm (Time, Metal, Wood, Cloud Formation, Lightning)

Internal World: Embryonic World

Sword Intent: Sword Soul Realm (Sword Refinement Realm, Second Refinement)

Talent: ????

Bloodline: Three Immortals Bloodline (Half-Awakened), requirements for full awakening met.

Physique: Stellar Dao Body

Realm: Star Creation Realm (One Dao Rune)

Professions: Alchemist (Third Heaven Saint), Formation Master (Third Heaven Saint), Blacksmithing (Third Heaven Saint)

Sect: Star Shattering Sect

Status: Ancestor of the Star Shattering Sect

Disciples: Qing Yi, Chu Yang, Bai Ning, Mui, Chun Hua, Li Chi, Lu Dongli

Pet: Lazy Winged Lion (Peak Stage of the Dao Seed Realm), Rabbit Demon Beast (Early Stage of the Breaking Dawn Realm (Profound Immortal) Peak of the Realm)

[Personal Techniques]: Descend of the Ice God’s Sword (High Earth Rank), Ice Lotus (Defensive) No Rank yet

[Movement Techniques]: Illusory Light Steps (Mid Heaven Rank), Drifting Cloud Steps (Incomplete, Peak Heaven Rank)

[Sword Techniques]: Rain Sword (High Earth Rank), Heaven Splitting Sword Art (Incomplete, Mid Heaven Rank), Void Sword Art (Incomplete, Low Heaven Rank), Untold Sword Mantra (Incomplete, Unknown)

Looking through his status, nothing much had changed beyond his cultivation realm that had broken through to the Star Creation Realm. The one thing he thought would change after his breakthrough, the internal world part of his status, hadn’t changed and still showed his internal world as being an embryonic world.

Outside of his own increase in strength, one thing he noticed from a single glance when looking through his status that was somewhat surprising was the fact that the little winged lion was still stuck at the Peak of the Dao Seed Realm. Having been left behind by the rabbit demon beast by quite a few years now.

Although he didn’t really mind the winged lion demon beast taking longer to breakthrough, he was still a bit taken aback by how it hadn’t managed to catch up with the rabbit demon beast and decided on the spot to pay the little one a visit to see if he could aid it in breaking through.

Well... Not so much aid it as to motivate it to cultivate seriously again, as he had a feeling that it might have started slacking off over the years. Leading to the current situation where it still hadn’t broken through to the Breaking Dawn Realm of the Profound Immortal Realm while the rabbit demon beast was already making progress towards reaching the Middle Stage of the Breaking Dawn Realm...