85: Chapter 85 Entering the Starfall Secret Realm

"By the way, I will keep this Star Beast of yours for safekeeping for the time being."

The Purple-robed Woman's voice remained as lazy and cold as ever, without even the slightest fluctuation of emotion.

She tilted her head slightly, her purple eyes, like deep starry rivers, sweeping gently over Xiao Bai, her tone so calm that it was as if she were merely stating something completely mundane.

However, these words fell into the ears of Su Wu and Xiao Bai like a thunderclap on a clear day!

Su Wu's pupils shrank abruptly, and his body instinctively tensed up.

Xiao Bai, perched on his shoulder, pressed its two furry ears tightly against its head.

Both the man and the beast were stunned.

She had seen through Xiao Bai's disguise!

"Although Star Beasts are extremely rare and are top-tier battle pets and strategic resources that all high-level civilizations dream of..."

The Purple-robed Woman looked at Su Wu's guarded appearance, her stunningly beautiful face devoid of any greed or covetousness, her gaze clear.

"But I have no interest in it, rest assured. You wouldn't be able to bring it into the Secret Realm anyway."

As soon as she finished speaking, without any hand seals or spellcasting, the Purple-robed Woman casually raised her fair, jade-like wrist and waved her hand gently toward Su Wu's shoulder.

Hum—!

An invisible, immense power descended upon Xiao Bai without warning.

"Meow?!"

Before Xiao Bai could even react, its chubby body floated directly into the air. It struggled desperately in mid-air, its four sharp little claws flailing wildly in an attempt to break free from the restraint.

However, it was all in vain.

It discovered in despair that its terrifying power of the first-order Star King Realm was...

Soon, it was steadily pulled by that invisible force into the arms of the Purple-robed Woman.

Unable to move, Xiao Bai could only immediately transmit its voice to Su Wu through the absolute contract in the depths of its Soul: "Big Brother!! This woman is too strange! I can't move!"

Watching Xiao Bai held in the Purple-robed Woman's arms, Su Wu's brows knitted tightly together.

But after only half a second, he took a deep breath of cold air, forcibly suppressing the worry in his heart.

He knew very well that this was definitely not the time to be impulsive.

To make a move in front of a super-expert who was at least a "Star Saint"? That wasn't bravery; that was like a mayfly trying to topple a tree—suicidal.

More importantly, Su Wu's keen intuition told him that although this mysterious Purple-robed Woman acted overbearingly, she truly did not reveal even a trace of malice.

"Xiao Bai, stay with her for now." Su Wu comforted it through the Soul contract: "If she really wanted to kill and seize the treasure, we would have been reduced to ashes long ago. There is no greed in her eyes; she can be considered a person with principles!"

Hearing Su Wu's transmission, although Xiao Bai was still uneasy, it stopped its futile struggle and lay obediently in the woman's arms, no longer moving, just like a real pet cat.

Su Wu raised his head and looked at the Purple-robed Woman with a complex expression.

The other party clearly knew Xiao Bai's true identity long ago, but had not forcibly seized it, only detaining it as a disguised form of collateral after he agreed to enter the Secret Realm.

It seemed that the facts were indeed as she said; she had no interest in Star Beasts, and her target was only that special fifth-order ancient martial art.

At this moment, the light of the three stars above Xingyao City began to distort violently.

As time ticked by, the originally invisible spatial turbulence in the sky became increasingly violent and intense. Countless spatial rifts intertwined and collided outside the planet's atmosphere, and finally, they forcibly tore open a dazzling and fascinating Void Realm picture in the sky.

"Hoo..." Su Wu exhaled a breath of stale air. He flipped his wrist and placed the jade token he had seized from Zhao Feng flat on his palm.

At this moment, the starlight runes on the surface of the jade token began to flicker wildly.

Su Wu closed his eyes, and through the cold jade token, his Divine Thought clearly sensed an aura from another space, an aura that was resonating intensely with the jade token in his hand.

"It has begun!" The Purple-robed Woman beside him looked up at the gorgeous nebula painting in the sky and murmured, a trace of solemnity flashing in her purple eyes.

Su Wu said nothing.

Immediately, without any hesitation, he poured his vast, unparalleled Divine Thought into the jade token in his palm without reservation!

Boom—!!!

In an instant! A majestic, vast, and spatial power filled with mysterious high-dimensional Laws surged out from the depths of the jade token!

This power had no destructiveness, but it carried an irresistible, absolute pulling force, instantly transforming into a dark purple cocoon of light that tightly wrapped around Su Wu's entire body.

Swish!

Su Wu felt the world suddenly go black, and an extremely intense sensation of spinning violently invaded his brain.

The surrounding buildings and neon lights of Xingyao City, and even the Purple-robed Woman and Xiao Bai standing before him, became blurred and distorted in an instant, finally turning into countless elongated lines of light.

He felt as if he had completely broken free from the shackles of the material world and was placed in an endless Void Realm of absolute silence and absolute darkness.

Here, there was no up, down, left, or right, no passage of time; there was only the mysterious power wrapping around him, constantly pulling him and rushing wildly toward the depths of an unknown space.

He did not know how long this dizzying sensation, as if his very Soul was about to be torn apart, lasted.

When Su Wu's feet finally felt solid ground again, he slowly opened his eyes and discovered that he was already in a completely strange and exotic world.

A breeze carrying a hint of desolation and a primal aura brushed against his cheeks.

Su Wu raised his head and looked up at the sky. There was no sun or stars here. The sky presented an extremely eerie, deep purple, as if the entire world were shrouded in a layer of heavy purple gauze, revealing an exotic beauty that made one feel oppressed yet unable to look away.

"Is this... the Starfall Secret Realm?" Su Wu looked around and muttered to himself.

Beneath his feet was hard, dark red rock, and in the distance were continuous black mountain ranges and dense, primal jungles. The concentration of heaven and earth essence contained in the air was more than ten times richer than that of the outside Xingyao City.

Su Wu took a deep breath, his mind quickly recalling the information he had gathered from the various black markets in Xingyao City earlier.

He learned that this Starfall Secret Realm was not much different from ordinary ancient Secret Realms in the Universe in terms of its basic geographical environment and exploration methods.

All explorers could roam this vast and boundless land, searching for rare flowers, exotic herbs, Ore, Spirit Beasts that had long gone extinct in the outside world, or even the Immortal Cave Opportunities left behind by predecessors.

However! The Starfall Secret Realm had one unique difference!

Exactly three days after the Secret Realm opened, at the very top of this purple sky, a vast and boundless palace would directly materialize from the Void Realm and descend over the Secret Realm—the Starfall Palace!

It was said that the Starfall Palace was the true place where an ancient expert had passed away. It not only contained countless treasures, Cultivation Techniques, and Medicinal Pills that would drive even Star Emperor experts crazy, but that legendary "fifth-order ancient martial art" that might appear, which the Purple-robed Woman was determined to obtain, was sealed in the deepest part of the Starfall Palace!

Three days. This was the final tranquility before the storm.

Once the Starfall Palace opened, those top-tier powerhouses lurking in every corner of the Secret Realm would swarm in at the same time. By then, in order to fight for that Supreme Opportunity, the entire Secret Realm would inevitably turn into a true shura slaughterhouse!

"Since there are still three days left, I might as well not be idle. For these three days, I'll take a look around the outer perimeter of this Secret Realm." Su Wu stretched his limbs, a relaxed smile tugging at the corners of his mouth: "With the foundation of this Secret Realm, maybe I can get some unexpected gains before the Starfall Palace descends!"

The moment his words fell.

Bang!

Su Wu bent his legs slightly and then exerted force violently.

The dark red rock beneath his feet instantly cracked into a large pit, and his figure turned into an extremely concealed streak of gray light, tearing through the air and speeding toward the vast, continuous mountain forest in the distance.

During the flight, Su Wu closed his eyes slightly. Divine Thought, fully unleashed!

Under the Heaven-Defying feedback of the System's "Honor Through Offspring", Su Wu was now a genuine ninth-order Star King!

In this vast Universe Cultivation System, the essence of a Star King advancing to a Star Emperor is the same as a Martial King crossing over to a Martial Emperor. It is not just the accumulation of Origin Qi capacity, but a leap in the level of the Soul; the Divine Thought will gain an extremely terrifying qualitative change and enhancement.

Although Su Wu had not yet truly crossed the threshold of the Star Emperor, relying on the supreme foundation of the Supreme Chaos Body and his flawless Dao foundation, the strength of his Divine Thought was already vast and condensed to an extremely shocking level.

It was a terrifying Divine Thought that was infinitely close to, or even almost comparable to, that of an early-stage Star Emperor expert!

It was only a hair's breadth away. But even so, with his current Divine Thought strength, which was enough to make ordinary Star Kings despair, in this Starfall Secret Realm where the Laws were extremely suppressed, it was more than enough to silently investigate the surrounding environment within a radius of over a thousand kilometers.

Invisible mental fluctuations, like a layer of fine mercury, radiated wildly from Su Wu as the center toward the mountains, rivers, and underground in all directions.

Soon, like a ghost, Su Wu completely vanished into that vibrant yet perilous mountain forest.