137: Chapter 137 Yuanqi Cave

Su Yu felt a terrifying energy, one that simply did not belong to his level, pour down from the Dark Gold Token, forcibly expanding the Meridians within his body!

The aura on his body began to soar wildly!

Star Lord First Rank... Star Lord Fifth Rank... Star Lord Ninth Rank!

The rise did not stop there!

Star King First Rank... Star King Third Rank... Star King Fifth Rank!

It only finally stopped when Su Yu felt his Physical Body was almost unable to bear the load of this terrifying energy!

Star King Realm... Sixth Rank!!!

"Hiss—"

Feeling the terrifying power within his body—power that felt like it could easily crush stars and was more than a hundred times stronger than before—Su Yu couldn't help but gasp sharply.

Shocking!

"Before refining it, I could barely touch the threshold of the Star King Realm. After fully refining it, it actually allows me, only at the Star Lord First Rank, to leap across more than a major Realm and directly possess the combat power of the Star King Sixth Rank?!"

Su Yu looked at his hands, which were wrapped in dark gold light, his heart beating violently in his chest.

Such a leap in power was simply unheard of!

"I think I am... a bit badass!"

Su Yu dispersed his Origin Qi and retracted the token into his body.

In this cannibalistic starry sky, one can never have too many trump cards.

Su Yu stood up and gave a big stretch.

In the month or so since he came out of the ancestral land, he had been busy every day dealing with the academy's investigations, handling the spoils of war, and refining ancient treasures; his taut nerves had hardly relaxed for a single moment.

Now, he finally had a rare moment of leisure.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the villa and looked up at the huge, scorching star in space.

"I wonder what Dad and Xiao Bai are doing right now?"

A rare softness flashed in Su Yu's eyes.

Although his strength was advancing by leaps and bounds, in the vast and cold starry sky, his dad and Xiao Bai remained his deepest concern.

Su Yu shook his head, pulling his thoughts back.

He had no time for sentimentality right now.

Because he was still holding another reward that he couldn't wait to redeem!

That was the reward the Vice President had personally approved to grant him for his outstanding performance in the ancestral land—the opportunity to enter the "Yuanqi Cave Dwelling" to Cultivate in seclusion for one year!

"The Yuanqi Cave Dwelling..."

Su Yu licked his lips, his eyes flashing with extreme desire.

The "Yuanqi Cave Dwelling" was a type of spatial fault naturally formed at the beginning of the Universe!

The concentration of Origin Qi inside this strange space was not something that could be compared to the outside world!

It was a hundred, or even a thousand times higher than the normal concentration of Origin Qi in the outside world!!

What was even more Heaven-Defying was that the Origin Qi contained within this space was extremely pure and did not contain any cosmic Impurities.

Cultivating inside, no matter how crazy the absorption speed, there would absolutely be no hidden dangers of a floating Realm or an unstable Foundation!

This was purely using high-tier energy to forcibly forge a Foundation!

However.

This type of Yuanqi Cave Dwelling belonged to a non-renewable, consumable strategic resource.

The total amount of Origin Qi inside was fixed; as the number of times Martial Artists entered to use it increased, it would slowly be drained, eventually losing its effect and becoming completely useless.

Precisely because of this, the qualification to enter the "Yuanqi Cave Dwelling" for seclusion was countless times more precious than the Thunder Pool or the Ancient Pavilion that Su Yu had previously visited in Aolan Academy!

Even for those scions of families with heaven-reaching backgrounds, or top-tier fourth-year Seniors, it was very difficult to get in for even a single day!

Yet the Vice President had spoken, and directly given him a full year of seclusion time!

This favor was undeniably heavy.

"Most of the Seniors in the academy need to spend hundreds of years slowly grinding to steadily improve within each major Realm, and eventually make it to graduation in the fourth year."

Su Yu's gaze was resolute, his hands clenched tightly: "But, with the assistance of this Yuanqi Cave Dwelling, added to the abnormal absorption rate of my Chaos Body..."

"I certainly don't need to grind for hundreds of years like them. Perhaps... within a hundred years, I can reach the Star Saint Peak standard for graduation!"

Thinking of this, Su Yu could no longer suppress the restlessness in his heart.

After resting in the villa for only half a day to adjust his physical state to its best.

He pushed open the door without hesitation, followed the location given by Instructor Du Dong, and set off directly for that "Yuanqi Cave Dwelling" hidden in the deepest part of the academy.

...

Planet One, deep underground.

After passing through layers of identity verification.

Su Yu finally stood before a massive bronze door radiating ancient spatial fluctuations.

"Rumble."

As his identity was verified, the massive door slowly slid inward, opening a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.

Su Yu did not hesitate and stepped inside.

"Whoosh—!"

Just as he stepped into the different space behind the door, Su Yu hadn't even had time to open his eyes.

A torrent of terrifying Origin Qi, rich and viscous to the extreme, almost completely liquefied, like heavy water from the deep sea, crashed directly into his face from every angle!

"Ugh!"

Su Yu let out a muffled groan.

It was too thick!

This wasn't breathing air at all; it was as if someone had forcibly shoved him into a vat of the purest, highest-tier Origin Qi liquid!

He felt every pore on his body instantly open up, stimulated by this extremely pure energy!

Without him needing to deliberately circulate his Cultivation Technique, his extremely domineering "Chaos Body" began to absorb it crazily, like a super black hole!

"Sizzle!"

The viscous, fog-like liquid Origin Qi around him actually formed a visible Origin Qi vortex on Su Yu's body surface, which was then forcibly channeled through his pores directly into his Star Vortex!

Su Yu surveyed this incomparably precious, strange space.

The space was not large; it was extremely narrow, one could even say somewhat oppressive.

It was no more than three meters in length and width, only the size of an ordinary single room, and the surrounding walls were all gray, chaotic air currents, with nothing else inside.

Yet this tiny space was a Holy Land for Cultivation that countless Martial Artists in the starry sky dreamed of.

Su Yu took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the extreme sense of expansion and numbness in his body caused by the infusion of Origin Qi.

He walked to the very center of the room, found the most comfortable position, and sat down cross-legged extremely slowly.

Closing his eyes, his mind completely immersed into his Dantian Qi Sea.

With this sitting, he completely cut off all the noise of the outside world.

With this sitting, a full year passed.

...

During the year that Su Yu was crazily Cultivating in seclusion and absorbing energy in the Yuanqi Cave Dwelling.

Far away, countless light-years away—the Holy Spirit Star Domain.

In the boundless deep space, a dark gold shuttle was performing a space jump!

This spaceship was none other than Su Wu's "star dome".

At this very moment, Su Wu had already left the central zone of the Holy Spirit Star Domain.

Ahead, on a huge holographic star map.

An extremely massive star cluster, radiating dazzling light with a density of stars far beyond imagination, was gradually entering the detection range of the star dome.

This was the Holy Spirit 9th Star Sector!

This was a hub Star Domain with an extremely high status, because it was the nearest outpost to the "Eight Core Star Domains of the God Race" that were firmly ruled by the eight great clans of the God Race!

It could be considered to be right under the feet of the Son of Heaven!