648: Chapter 648 Constructing Stars

"Rest assured, Senior." You said firmly, "No matter how long it takes, I will persevere."

He nodded, waved his hand, and a Jade Slip flew toward you.

You took it and scanned it with your Divine Sense—it was the planting method and requirements for the Xirang Flower.

After reading it, you were stunned.

"There are no seeds?"

You hadn't expected that the Xirang Flower would be naturally nurtured by heaven and earth, relying entirely on the star to gestate itself; there were simply no seeds.

Doesn't this mean having to grow an Innate Spirit Treasure?

You repeatedly flipped through the planting manual—selecting the land, setting up arrays, watering the soil... every step was demanding to the extreme.

Once successful, the Xirang Flower would sprout, mature, grow into a sky-supporting tree, and finally bloom.

The hardest part was the third step, watering the soil, which required gathering Heaven And Earth Treasure of every attribute.

You also noticed a few key points—success had nothing to do with time.

According to the past experience of the Xuanyuan Immortal Clan, some people could make a star sprout in a few months, while others required years, decades, or even centuries, millennia, or ten millennia.

The more you read, the more confused you became, your brows furrowing involuntarily.

Xuanyuan Shouyi looked at you with a smile: "What, do you intend to give up?"

You put away the Jade Slip and smiled: "Rest assured, Senior."

Xuanyuan Shouyi nodded and looked at Xuanyuan Ziyan: "Ziyan, take him to an uninhabited star."

"Alright, Father," Xuanyuan Ziyan replied.

Yun'er clenched her little fists and shouted to you: "Good luck!"

You smiled and said goodbye to everyone, then followed Xuanyuan Ziyan away.

Three days later,

Xuanyuan Ziyan brought you to an uninhabited star on the edge of the Xuanyuan Galaxy.

"You can plant the Xirang Flower on this star." She looked at you, "Handle it yourself; if you need any help, come find me at any time."

"Many thanks."

"Then I won't disturb you further."

You nodded.

She didn't say anything more, turned around, flashed, and vanished.

You looked at the galaxy filling the sky, then lowered your head to look at the land beneath your feet, before stroking Qin Han on your shoulder: "Clumsy, give me that Solar Dao Fruit from the Heavenly Palace Grand Competition rewards."

Qin Han pouted, opened his mouth, and spat out a scalding hot fruit.

You held it in your palm and felt it was as hot as gripping a ball of fire.

After looking at it for a moment, you smiled, put it away, and patted his head: "I likely won't need it; I'll give it back to you later."

Qin Han's eyes lit up, and he nodded excitedly.

Then, you spread your Divine Sense, covering the star beneath your feet—

The entire star had a circumference of about eighty thousand li, its surface was gray and hazy, with a total of three types of terrain.

One continent was gray-brown, with cracked plains and barren mountains.

One glacial continent was blue-white, the ice layer so thick the bottom couldn't be seen, with cracks crisscrossing it.

A vast ocean occupied seventy percent, gray-blue, without waves or tides, like a pool of stagnant water.

The three terrains pieced together to form a complete star.

It didn't look like a "world," but rather a world that hadn't begun yet.

You crouched down and touched the ground.

It was cold, with no temperature.

You began to follow the method in the Xirang Flower manual to set up the array, which meant constructing the star into a "living" environment.

A living star needed a self-circulating atmosphere, flowing water, seasons, and day and night.

It also needed the Five Elements to generate each other, wind and thunder raging, and the alternation of light and dark.

Most importantly—it needed living beings.

The manual stated: A star is like a primitive embryo; it requires Law Power to construct an invisible array to wake it up, only then will it breathe.

You took a deep breath and then spoke: "Xuantian."

The xuantian treasure mirror hummed within you, and the power of time surged out like a tide, covering the entire star.

Immediately after, you raised your hand—

Invisible Law Power surged in from all directions, shrouding the entire star.

The ground began to shift—not an earthquake, but reshaping.

The glacial continent split from the middle, half drifting north, half drifting south, slowly.

The one going north became colder and colder, turning blue-white; the one going south became more frigid, the ice layer accumulating thicker and thicker.

The North and South Poles were thus formed.

Immediately after, the continent beneath your feet split, one becoming two, two becoming four, four becoming seven.

The seven continents drifted slowly over the ocean, some heading east, some west, some colliding to squeeze out mountain ranges; some cracking open to let seawater pour in, forming straits and bays.

You heard it—the sound of rocks cracking like bones growing, the sound of seawater pouring in like blood flowing, the sound of magma churning underground like a heart beating.

You raised your hand and continued to outline.

Metal—mineral veins began to condense deep underground, iron, copper, tin, silver, gold, depositing layer by layer.

Wood—withered wooden roots condensed underground, gray-brown and rough, extending slowly and stubbornly. It wasn't alive, yet it was the beginning of life.

Water—the ocean began to flow, currents surging from the equator to the poles, and flowing back from the poles to the equator; the seawater no longer looked like stagnant water, it looked like it was breathing.

Fire—the magma underground was no longer silent; it surged, it churned, and it gushed out from cracks in the crust, forming volcanoes.

The moment the volcanoes erupted, the entire star trembled—not in pain, but in stretching.

Earth—the rocks on the continents weathered, shattered, and turned into soil; the soil was brown and soft.

The Five Elements were complete.

But it was not enough.

You raised your hand and outlined again.

Wind—the atmosphere began to flow, cold air sinking from the poles, warm air rising; they met, intertwined, and swirled to form wind.

The wind blew across the ocean, raising waves; blew across the continents, kicking up sand; blew across the glaciers, carrying a bone-chilling cold.

Thunder—spiritual mist accumulated in the air, forming clusters of clouds, layer upon layer, stacking thicker and thicker.

Sparks flew between the clouds—

Rumble.

The first clap of thunder.

It wasn't an attack, it wasn't a Heavenly Tribulation; it was like this Star Continent was speaking.

Ice—the glaciers at the poles were no longer silent; ice caps expanded, ice shelves fractured, and icebergs broke off from the glaciers, drifting toward the ocean.

Light—the light of the galaxy shone down, warm enough to allow all things to grow.

Light fell on the sea surface, making the water shimmer; it fell on the glaciers, the ice surface refracting a seven-colored rainbow; it fell on the soil, and the soil began to heat up.

Dark—the star turned to the back, night descended, no light, no temperature, only silence.

But silence was not death—it was rest.

It was the star catching its breath.

The powers of wind, thunder, ice, light, dark, and the Five Elements formed a self-cycle at this moment.

Time passed bit by bit like this, and it was unknown how long had passed.