829: Star God? Star God!

"Tsk."

Turning his head, Yang Dian glanced at Daoist Sansheng, who wore a look of 'my heart is only for the Dao,' and Daoist Nun Yin Xiu, whose mind was in chaos, appearing crazed as if she couldn't handle the blow. He casually plucked a leaf from the ancient bronze tree.

The next moment, the golden-yellow leaf of the ancient bronze tree vanished from Yang Dian's palm, transforming into a golden stream of light that pierced through the foreheads of Daoist Sansheng and Daoist Nun Yin Xiu.

"I don't know if you were faking it, or if this is your true nature."

"And I can't be bothered to verify the truth."

"In any case, you wanting to capture me before was a grievance, and me seizing the ancient bronze tree and the Chongming Star core this time is also a grievance."

"When will this cycle of vengeance end?"

"When people die and their clan is wiped out, and their Bloodline is completely extinguished, the grudges will end on their own."

Yang Dian's murmuring voice stirred up a breeze.

The wind blew past Daoist Sansheng and Daoist Nun Yin Xiu. Like pencil marks being erased by a rubber, the two—one with eyes filled with longing for the Dao, the other with the madness of a shattered mental world—gradually became illusory, dim, and finally vanished.

"Once people die, their clan should be wiped out..."

After Yang Dian spoke, the power of fate arrived at the location of Ye Sansheng and the others, circling once.

Then, Yang Dian exclaimed in surprise.

"No clan?"

"And on Chongming Star, there isn't a single person with a Bloodline connection to them?"

In a trance, Yang Dian saw another scene he hadn't noticed before.

The immortals that Ye Sansheng and the others sought seemed to be evil immortals.

Relatives were used as pills, friends as medicine; consuming them provided great nourishment.

The people in that idyllic valley were all related by blood or marriage.

They had escaped the changes of Dynasties and natural disasters, but they had not escaped the butcher's knife of the immortal who had walked out of their own valley.

Their blood relatives and such had long since become resources for Ye Sansheng's pursuit of the Dao.

"But why didn't Ye Sansheng eat Monk Miesheng and Daoist Nun Yin Xiu?"

"Was it because he didn't need them before, and was preparing to use them as resources to break through his Bottleneck?"

"In the future, will Monk Miesheng become a demonic Buddha and stab Daoist Nun Yin Xiu to death with his Zen staff—is it because love turned to hate when he couldn't have her, and he wanted to eat her to make her physically one with him?"

Thinking this, Yang Dian shook his head again.

"It doesn't matter."

"Anyway, that kind of future will never happen again."

Shaking the ancient bronze tree in his hand, Yang Dian first chipped off a small piece of the Star core and handed it to the impatient Dimension Butterfly. He then stored the tattered Star core into his bracelet space, took a step, and arrived on the gloomy Chongming Star.

It was indeed gloomy.

The activation time of the Heaven-Shifting Grand Array just now wasn't off; it had indeed been activated.

Within just a few minutes of activating the Heaven-Shifting Grand Array, Chongming Star had left its original position.

Although it hadn't escaped the original planetary system, it had come behind a massive gas giant and been captured by it, becoming a moon of the giant gas giant.

The sunlight was blocked; naturally, the world had become pitch black.

It was only because the lights of the mortal world hadn't gone out; otherwise, the planet would have been plunged into total darkness.

"Although I uprooted the ancient bronze tree and took the Chongming Star core."

"I successfully prevented Ye Sansheng and the other two from sacrificing all living beings, allowing you to survive."

"So, you should thank me."

He looked around at the people on the ground, who were screaming and panicking because the world had suddenly plunged into darkness.

Yang Dian then surveyed his surroundings.

Although the massive gas giant wasn't exactly right in front of him, it wasn't far off.

Canglan Star and Taicang Star, which once could be reached with just 'a single step,' had vanished without a trace.

Therefore, Chongming Star had already left the Dimensional Battlefield composed of Canglan Star, Taicang Star, Little Star God, and that shattered planet.

"So, the Heaven-Shifting Grand Array is useful."

"However, can it really help Earth?"

With a trace of doubt, Yang Dian switched his focus back to his main body.

Just now, when Monk Miesheng had sneakily touched behind him, he couldn't help but tremble—though, of course, it wasn't because of Monk Miesheng.

After all, whether it was Monk Miesheng, Daoist Nun Yin Xiu, or the strongest of the three, Daoist Sansheng, they were all the same in Yang Dian's eyes.

He could crush them with a single thought; even if he stood there and let them attack, they couldn't break his skin.

How could he possibly feel wary of them, or even have the Qi around his body leak out uncontrollably?

The only thing that could shock him would be encountering something beyond his understanding.

What had exceeded his understanding?

That would be the Little Star God.

Originally, Yang Dian thought the Little Star God had pried open the large spatial channel and forcibly drilled into the Extreme Cold Zone because it hadn't seen the Cosmic Extreme Cold Zone and was curious.

After he forcibly uprooted the ancient bronze tree, the Little Star God's stellar body shook, and it hurriedly turned around and ran toward the spatial channel, wanting to drill back to the Dimensional Battlefield on the side of Canglan Star. That was when Yang Dian knew he had guessed wrong.

Because as the Little Star God turned to slip away, a will—which, in Yang Dian's perception, carried the aura of endless time and seemed incomparably ancient—awakened.

Along with the awakening of that ancient will came a powerful aura that made Yang Dian unable to muster any desire to resist.

Sixth rank? Seventh rank? Or perhaps eighth rank?

Yang Dian didn't know.

Yang Dian only knew that if that ancient existence attacked, he wouldn't even have a chance to resist.

Perhaps if it just looked at him with intent, his Soul would freeze.

Fortunately, that ancient existence didn't care about Yang Dian.

Nor did it care about Earth, which was 3 light-years away.

Its awakening was only because of the Little Star God.

"Little one, why are you running?"

When Yang Dian parsed the information contained in the suddenly changing magnetic field lines, his hanging heart perhaps settled down.

Or perhaps it died.

He had roughly guessed who the fellow that had awakened at the core of the Extreme Cold Zone was.

The Little Star God's answer didn't disappoint Yang Dian either.

It shook the World Tree on its head and replied:

"My house was stolen, my braids were snatched away, and I'm going to snatch them back."

Yang Dian felt like roaring.

The World Tree that could mass-produce Star-Patrolling Realm natural life.

The ancient bronze tree that could enhance Origin through sacrifice, an Origin that was even useful for fourth and fifth-rank cultivators.

In the eyes of the Little Star God, they were just braids?

"Is the difference between humans and the Star God really that great?"

In a silent whisper, a light appeared in Yang Dian's eyes.

An ice-crystal giant tree, which clearly had signs of being pruned, appeared from the depths of the Extreme Cold Zone. With a speed that Yang Dian couldn't react to, it landed on the Little Star God's 'head,' sitting diagonally to the sky, one on the left and one on the right, alongside the original World Tree.

Looking from a distance, it really did look like a head with two pigtails sticking straight up.

"My house has many braids. Do you want to walk the Dao of Ice? I can give you many braids."

The Little Star God shook its head and spun around a few times in place:

"I don't want to. It's icy cold and not comfortable at all."

As it spoke, it transformed mountains and rivers into large hands, grabbed the two 'braids,' and fled toward the spatial channel.

While fleeing, it kept saying something:

"I want to become hot, I want to walk the Dao of Fire, I don't want to become icy cold..."