33: Qin Qingxuan's breakthrough

Chen Jun resisted the familiar feeling of emptiness and weakness as his life was drained away, squeezing a few words through his teeth: "...It...It's fine...The mission...is complete..."

His voice was hoarse and exhausted, carrying an undisguisable sense of overexertion.

"The mission is complete..."

These five words, like cold code, instantly shattered the last trace of lingering confusion and passion in Qin Qingxuan's eyes.

The flush on her face faded rapidly; that fleeting, womanly charm and fragility receded like a tide, replaced by a deeper, colder rationality.

Those eyes, which had just been shrouded in mist, instantly regained their usual clarity and calmness, becoming even sharper than before, as if they could pierce through the Soul.

The pressure belonging to a Planetary Level expert naturally flowed out from her body again; although she tried her best to restrain it, it still made Chen Jun, who was close by, feel a sense of suffocation.

She abruptly pushed Chen Jun off her body, her movements crisp and decisive, without the slightest reluctance.

Caught off guard, Chen Jun stumbled, nearly falling off the bed. His already weak body swayed several times before he barely managed to steady himself, his face turning even paler.

Qin Qingxuan didn't even glance at him again, as if the intense and uncontrolled entanglement just now had been merely a dream.

She pulled over the silk robe scattered nearby, casually wrapping her exposed body. Her movements were fluid and natural, restoring that aloof, inviolable aura.

However, a faint, almost imperceptible tremor in her fingers as she tightened her sash betrayed that her heart was not entirely calm.

She walked to a wall in the bedchamber inlaid with gems and pressed it lightly.

A faint light swept across, and the wall slid open silently, revealing Advanced communication equipment behind it.

"Butler Qin."

She spoke to the air, her voice having returned to its usual cold and pleasant tone, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

"Come to the side hall of the Jade Washing Studio and take Mr. Chen back. Note, use the 'Shadow Passage' to ensure absolute secrecy; no one must notice."

"Yes, Young Miss."

A steady, middle-aged male voice responded immediately without a hint of hesitation.

After doing all this, Qin Qingxuan slowly turned around, her gaze falling on Chen Jun once more.

That gaze was calm and deep...

There was no longer the previous embarrassment or shame, not even the faint trace of concern from the beginning.

Only absolute rationality remained.

Watching her instant change of face, the absurd sense of conquest and pleasure in Chen Jun's heart vanished completely, leaving only a cold exhaustion and self-mockery.

Sure enough... it was just a mission.

He silently and with some difficulty picked up his clothes scattered on the floor and put them on one by one.

Throughout the entire process, Qin Qingxuan just watched quietly, neither speaking nor looking away, her eyes calm and waveless.

By the time Chen Jun was fully dressed, the butler named Butler Qin had appeared at the side hall entrance like a ghost, silent and bowing in wait.

Butler Qin looked to be about forty years old, with an ordinary appearance, but his aura was dense and restrained; he was clearly an Elementary War God level expert.

He was the butler personally selected by Qin Pojun for Qin Qingxuan, responsible for managing all her daily life and secret affairs, and was absolutely reliable.

At this moment, Butler Qin kept his eyelids lowered, his posture respectful to the extreme. He dared not look up to see the situation in the inner chamber, let alone guess what had happened here just now.

But in his heart, a stormy sea had already been stirred up!

The Young Miss's Jade Washing Studio!

A Forbidden Ground that no man of another surname had ever stepped into for thousands of years!

This man not only entered, but it looked like... something unimaginable had happened just now!

The Young Miss even used the "Shadow Passage," which was only used in extreme situations, leading directly to the core area of her bedchamber, to send him away!

What kind of important status must this be?

What kind of exalted background?!

Could he really be some Stellar Level old monster who has lived for tens of thousands of years in seclusion?

At the thought of this possibility, a fine layer of cold sweat broke out on Butler Qin's back, and his attitude became even more respectful and cautious, even carrying a trace of uncontrollable awe.

"Mr. Chen, please follow me."

Butler Qin's voice was very low, filled with incomparable humility.

Chen Jun nodded, took one last look at Qin Qingxuan, who was still standing there expressionless, his heart filled with mixed feelings, which finally turned into a silent sigh as he followed Butler Qin out of the bedchamber filled with an eerie atmosphere.

The Shadow Passage was a short-distance instantaneous transport network built inside the Qin Family estate, utilizing space folding technology. Only a very few core members had the right to use it, and it could not be tracked or monitored.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Chen Jun was sent back to the entrance of the manor where his family lived, as if he had never left.

Butler Qin completed his mission, bowed again, and then disappeared quietly as if melting into the shadows, never daring to say another word from beginning to end.

Chen Jun stood at the manor entrance, looking at the magnificent yet strange sky of Kunlun Star, feeling the 10% of his Lifespan that had been cut away again and the deep sense of weakness, and gave a bitter smile.

[Remaining Lifespan: 58 years]

...

Time flowed ceaselessly, like the never-extinguishing aurora above Kunlun Star.

Half a year slipped by quietly under the nourishment of top-tier resources and careful recuperation.

Chen Jun was thirty-two years old.

Under the careful care of the medical team, his body gradually recovered from the overexertion of that "mission," although he still looked older than his actual age, maintaining the appearance of someone in their fifties.

Lin Wei's pregnancy passed smoothly and comfortably, enjoying "Innate Nurturing Feedback," and her cultivation was also steadily improving, leaving her radiant.

The children adapted well at the best academy on Kunlun Star, progressing rapidly.

Everything seemed to be on the right track.

However, no one knew that beneath this calm facade, a true transformation capable of shaking the star sea was happening in the deepest part of the Qin Family estate.

Ten thousand meters beneath the Jade Washing Studio, in an ultimate secret chamber that was absolutely isolated and could even block Stellar Level perception.

Qin Qingxuan sat cross-legged in the center of a huge, complex Formation made of countless rare crystals and strange metals.

The Formation was operating efficiently, and massive amounts of Universe energy, purified to the extreme, surged into her body like a tangible river of liquid light.

Her body seemed to have turned into a bottomless black hole, greedily devouring it all.

If Su Wan were here, she would definitely be shocked beyond measure!

The speed and total amount of energy Qin Qingxuan was absorbing at this moment far exceeded a hundred times! A thousand times! what it was when she was pregnant with Su Xingyao!

If Su Wan absorbed a river of energy, then Qin Qingxuan was a vast ocean of energy!

And this was the terrifying manifestation of the "Innate Nurturing Feedback" effect brought about by gestating an "Innate Moon Body"!

Qin Qingxuan's Planetary Level Peak Bottleneck, which had been stagnant for hundreds of years, began to loosen violently under the impact of this violent energy and the traction of the Law that fit the Universe Origin, coming from the fetus in her womb.

Her "Acquired Star Body" was undergoing some kind of essential sublimation, leaping towards a higher form!

I don't know how much time passed; it seemed like just an instant, and yet also an eternity.

All the energy light in the secret chamber suddenly converged!

Qin Qingxuan opened her eyes abruptly!

Boom!!!

An indescribable, terrifying pressure, as vast as the star sea, erupted from her as the center!

The secret chamber isolated all aura.

Inside the secret chamber.

Qin Qingxuan slowly stood up.

She looked no different, still possessing that cold and stunningly beautiful face.

But her eyes had become deeper, as if what they contained were not pupils, but rotating planets and birth-and-death stars!

A force a hundred times stronger than before, a qualitative change, flowed and surged within her body!

Stellar Level!

She succeeded!

With the help of the Heaven-Defying Opportunity brought by gestating an Innate Moon Body, she broke through the barrier that had plagued her for hundreds of years in one fell swoop, condensed an "Acquired Moon Body," and officially stepped into the Stellar Level Elementary Realm!

A Stellar Level expert under thirteen hundred years old!

She lightly clenched her fist, feeling the majestic power that seemed capable of crushing stars, and the long Lifespan that had suddenly extended to one hundred thousand years.

There was not much wild joy on her face, only a calmness of things falling into place and... a heavier responsibility.

She gently stroked her still-flat lower abdomen, where a small life carrying infinite hope and the future was quietly gestating.

Innate Moon Body!

Feeling the incredibly pure and powerful Innate Origin connected to her own Bloodline, Qin Qingxuan was finally completely convinced!

Chen Jun's "Physique" was a true, indisputable miracle!

Without any hesitation, she immediately contacted her father, Qin Pojun, via a top-secret line.

...

Inside Qin Pojun's top-secret study.

When Qin Qingxuan's figure appeared via hyper-encrypted holographic projection, Qin Pojun was studying the latest battle report regarding the border Star Domain.

He looked up, just about to ask what important matter his daughter had for contacting him suddenly.

However, when his gaze fell on Qin Qingxuan on the projection, this Stellar Level Advanced expert, who had lived for over sixty thousand years, was accustomed to the changes in the Universe, and had long since mastered the ability to hide his emotions, abruptly stood up from behind his desk made of ten-thousand-year star wood!

The movement was so large that it even knocked over the priceless antique astrolabe behind him!

"Clang!"

With a crisp sound, the astrolabe fell to the ground, and its parts scattered everywhere.

But Qin Pojun didn't care at all!

His eyes were wide as copper bells, staring fixedly at his daughter in the holographic projection, his mouth slightly open, his face filled with extreme, indescribable shock and horror!

With his Stellar Level Advanced perception, even across the distance, he could clearly feel the qualitative change in the energy fluctuations on his daughter, as vast as the star sea!

That was... the aura of the Stellar Level!

"Xuan...Xuan'er...You...You..."

Qin Pojun's voice trembled violently due to extreme shock and excitement, even experiencing a brief loss of voice,

"Stel...Stellar Level?! You broke through?!"

He simply couldn't believe his own perception!

However, what shocked him even more, to the point of almost having his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, was Qin Qingxuan's next sentence, which was incredibly calm, yet exploded in his mind like a billion-ton-equivalent star bomb!

Qin Qingxuan looked at her father's uncomposed appearance, her face still expressionless, and just nodded slightly, saying in a tone as if confirming an ordinary fact:

"Yes, Father. I was lucky enough to break through, just entered the Stellar Level."

She paused, as if saying the weather was nice today, and threw out that true super bomb capable of making Qin Pojun Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering:

"Also, it has been confirmed. What I am carrying is an Innate Moon Body."

Boom!!!

Qin Pojun felt as if his brain had been bombarded simultaneously by the main guns of ten thousand Titan-class motherships!

His whole person was completely frozen in place, as if under a immobilization spell!

His eyes were so wide they were about to split, his pupils shrunk to the size of pinpoints!

The muscles on his face twitched violently due to extreme shock and wild joy, presenting an extremely strange expression!

He opened his mouth, his throat emitting a "Heh... heh..." wheezing sound like a broken bellows, but he couldn't say a single word!

Innate Moon Body?!

Is it really an Innate Moon Body?!

That Innate Moon Body which only existed in theoretical speculation, the one he dared not even hold much hope for in the depths of his heart, the second case in the Federation's hundred-thousand-year history?!

It actually... really succeeded?!

And... Xuan'er also used this to break through to the Stellar Level?!

Double happiness?!

No!

It is the greatest happy event the Federation has ever seen in its history!

Huge, unimaginable wild joy instantly submerged Qin Pojun like a cosmic tsunami!

He had lived for over sixty thousand years, experienced countless storms, witnessed countless rises and falls, and even personally led major events that influenced the Federation's landscape!

But never had there been a moment where he was as excited, as uncomposed, as... unable to control himself as he was now!

"Good... Good... Good!!!"

He suddenly erupted into a thunderous roar, filled with both sobbing and wild laughter!

The sound made the entire study buzz!

He was trembling with excitement, not knowing where to put his hands and feet, like a child who had received his favorite toy for the first time, pacing back and forth in place, incoherent:

"Innate Moon Body! It really is an Innate Moon Body! Hahaha! Heaven bless my Qin Family! Heaven bless the Federation!!!"

He rushed to the projection, seemingly wanting to hug his daughter, but realizing it was only a projection, he could only wave his arms excitedly:

"Xuan'er! My good daughter! You... you have performed an immortal service! No! A peerless feat! You are the pride of the Qin Family! You are the hero of the entire Federation!!"

He was so excited that old tears streamed down his face, his voice choked with emotion:

"A hundred thousand years! A hundred thousand years! The Federation has finally welcomed its second Innate Moon Body! And it was born in my old Qin Family!!!"

He suddenly remembered something and asked eagerly:

"The child! How is the child? Is there any discomfort? What resources are needed? Speak up! Even if it means exhausting all of Star Rail Group, we must ensure nothing goes wrong!"

Watching her father's near-manic excitement, a faint, almost imperceptible smile finally appeared on Qin Qingxuan's face, which had been frozen for ten thousand years, but it quickly faded.

She replied calmly:

"Father, rest assured, everything is fine. The child is healthy, and the Innate Moon Body Origin is stable. I will be careful."

"Good! Good! Good!"

Qin Pojun said "good" three times, his excited mood still difficult to calm. He rubbed his hands, his eyes flashing with an incomparably fiery and wise light, and began to think rapidly:

"This matter... this matter must be kept absolutely secret! We must not let those old guys in the Parliament and the military know! And we must not let a single whisper leak to the Empire!"

His eyes became sharp:

"Xuan'er, continue your seclusion! Stabilize your Realm and nurture the fetus with peace of mind! Everything outside, leave it to Father! I will personally make arrangements to ensure no one can disturb you!"

"As for Chen Jun..."

A flash of extremely complex emotion crossed Qin Pojun's eyes—gratitude, wariness, and an even more indescribable sense of importance,

"His value... is already immeasurable! He must be protected well! Meet all his demands! But... he must also be absolutely controlled!"

Qin Qingxuan nodded:

"I understand."

After ending the communication, Qin Pojun stood alone in the messy study, looking at the vast Star Domain map, still unable to control his excitement, sometimes laughing, sometimes shedding tears.

And after Qin Qingxuan's projection dissipated, she gently stroked her lower abdomen, feeling the warm and powerful Innate Origin inside, her eyes deep and distant.