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On the deserted island shrouded in sea fog, Ling Yuling knelt beside the campfire, her slender fingers tracing intricate star trails in front of her.

Sparks of inspiration coalesced into a text of cultivation technique with her movements...

The complete version of "Yuan Ci Shen Guang" is several times more complete than the fragmentary version that Su Ning learned from Jin Kui.

"Senior, this is the complete secret manual of the Star Palace Sect, said to contain a great secret about cultivators' Nascent Soul transformation." Ling Yuling's voice was gentle, yet it carried an undisguised weariness. "There are also three volumes of 'Ancient Formation Techniques,' and the Nascent Soul section of the 'Zhou Tian Refining Spirit Technique'..."

Su Ning did not immediately accept these secret manuals that were enough to ignite a bloody war in the cultivation world. Instead, he stared at the once high and mighty young master of the Star Palace before him.

Under the light of the campfire, a wound on Ling Yuling's fair cheek had not yet healed; it was a scar left when the Star Palace Twin Saints self-destructed.

"Conditions?" Su Ning asked directly.

Ling Yuling raised her eyes, a resolute glint flashing in her starlight-filled eyes: "Bless me for a hundred years, and help me form my Nascent Soul."

The sea breeze suddenly became stronger, whipping up Ling Yuling's loose hair.

She was only dressed in coarse linen clothes, but that couldn't hide her innate aura of starlight.

Su Ning noticed a ring of light gold lines on her wrist—a sign of awakening a Star Spirit.

“Okay.” Su Ning finally accepted the floating cultivation technique star map, and then took out a soul contract and said, “But you have to sign a soul contract with me, acknowledge me as your master, and know the whereabouts of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain.”

Ling Yuling's pupils contracted slightly: "How...how did you know..."

He then smiled wryly, "That's right! Elder Jin Kui also participated in the research on the sacred mountain back then."

Ling Yuling was quick to accept the situation and immediately left her soul mark on the soul contract, thus giving Su Ning the power of life and death.

Then she got up and walked towards the sea, waving her hand lightly.

The sea surface suddenly parted, revealing the deep blue ocean below: "The sacred mountain is located in the trench three thousand feet below the ruins of the former Tianxing City. But don't waste your energy; no one has been able to move it an inch in the past three hundred years."

Su Ning was very satisfied with Ling Yuling's decisiveness, so he silently put away the soul contract and said, "Ling Yuling, take me there."

"Yes, senior!"

……

Three days later, in the sea area of ​​the Star Palace ruins.

Su Ning stood on the Star Escape Boat, gazing at the huge vortex that was still spinning below.

The spiritual energy here is extremely chaotic; ordinary cultivators would be torn to shreds if they got close.

“Senior, go down from here.” Ling Yuling changed into a set of silver soft armor that outlined her slender curves. “Follow my path closely, or you will trigger the remaining restrictions.”

She leaped into the vortex, her body enveloped in a starlight-like glow.

Su Ning followed closely behind, shrinking the God-Slaying Spear to three inches in length in his hand, ready to deal with any sudden crisis.

The descent was like navigating through a storm.

The surrounding seawater was not ordinary water, but a turbulent flow of spiritual energy distorted into a liquid state by the power of the Yuan Magnetic God.

An occasional flash of multicolored light can easily slice through the protective spiritual light of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Turn left!" Ling Yuling suddenly transmitted her voice.

Suning narrowly avoided a spatial rift that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The edges of the crack gleamed with a grayish-white light—a sign that the Magnetic God's power was tearing through space.

When it descended to two thousand feet, the pressure became astonishing.

Ling Yuling's Star Spirit Body began to automatically absorb the surrounding starlight, and her whole body became as transparent as crystal.

Suning had no choice but to activate the "Star Element Scripture" to form a star power shield on his body.

"We've arrived." Ling Yuling stopped in her tracks.

The sight before him made Suning gasp for breath.

In the center of the underwater canyon, a gray-white mountain stands majestically.

It is only a hundred feet tall, yet it gives people the illusion of standing tall and firm.

The mountain's surface shimmered with multicolored light, each ray containing terrifying magnetic power.

Most astonishingly, the space surrounding the mountain peaks appears unnaturally distorted, as if a piece of this sea area had been forcibly scooped out of the real world.

“The Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain…” A burning light flashed in Su Ning’s eyes, “It really is formed from the essence of the five innate elements!”

Ling Yuling retreated to a safe distance, a faint sneer playing on her lips: "Three hundred years ago, six Nascent Soul elders from the Star Palace joined forces to attempt to move the divine mountain, resulting in three deaths and three injuries. Are you sure you want to try?"

Su Ning did not answer, but instead waved his hand casually, and a spatial portal appeared.

The portal was blurry and indistinct, with obscure and difficult-to-understand Taoist patterns carved along its edges.

When he infused his spiritual power into the mirror, a strange change occurred!
"boom--"

The entire sea suddenly came to a standstill.

The distorted space surrounding the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain shattered like glass, revealing the pitch-black void behind it.

The spatial portal floated in mid-air, projecting a phantom image of a world...

Mountains and rivers, sun, moon and stars—it's a complete and magnificent world!

"Tai Xu Realm, withdraw!"

With a low shout from Suning, the spatial world unleashed an irresistible suction force.

The Yuanci Divine Mountain trembled violently, and the multicolored rays of light on its surface flickered wildly, but ultimately it could not resist the pull of the world's power.

Then, under Ling Yuling's dumbfounded gaze, the divine mountain that had suppressed the Star Palace's fortune for thousands of years slowly rose from the ground!

"This is impossible!" Ling Yuling exclaimed in shock, "Unless it's a legendary innate spiritual treasure..."

The moment the divine mountain was sucked into the Void Realm, the entire seabed began to collapse.

The space, now deprived of the support of the primordial magnetic power, shattered like a fragile eggshell, and terrifying spatial turbulence surged forth from the cracks.

"Watch out!" Ling Yuling suddenly lunged at Su Ning.

A spatial blade silently sliced ​​across her back, instantly shattering her silver armor and revealing her snow-white skin underneath.

With lightning speed, Su Ning grabbed her slender waist, and the Starship transformed into a streak of light, rushing towards the sea.

Inside a cave on an unnamed deserted island, Su Ning was healing Ling Yuling.

The wounds caused by the spatial blade were extremely difficult to heal, and the residual spatial power, like a bone-deep ulcer, continued to erode her meridians.

"Why did you save me?" Su Ning placed a drop of Xuan Tian Creation Dew on her wound. "I am an enemy of your Star Palace."

Ling Yuling lay on the stone bed, her smooth back tense with pain: "I have signed a soul contract with you, and I will be yours for all eternity."

Su Ning pressed his palm against her wound, and the power of stars and the power of space clashed fiercely.

As the treatment progressed, their spiritual energies began to spontaneously merge.

Ling Yuling's Star Spirit Body absorbed Su Ning's Star Power with great eagerness, while Su Ning also felt that the operation of the "Primordial Magnetic Divine Light" suddenly became several times smoother.

"This is... spiritual energy resonance?" Su Ning was surprised to find that his nascent soul had manifested automatically and resonated with the faint starlight within Ling Yuling's body.

Ling Yuling's cheeks flushed, and her starry eyes shimmered with tears: "When a Star Spirit Body encounters compatible Star Power... this happens..."

Her voice grew softer and softer, finally turning into a sigh.

At this delicate moment, Su Ning's expression suddenly changed drastically.

He sensed that within the Taixu Realm, the Yuanci Divine Mountain was undergoing an unprecedented transformation!
The essence of the five elements merged with the origin of the world, and began to reshape the laws of heaven and earth in the Taixu Realm.

This is yet another unexpected surprise for Suning; the Space World has now become Suning's biggest trump card.

At this moment, I am already looking forward to it, wondering what the spatial world will eventually evolve into.

……

Southwest of the Chaotic Star Sea lies the stronghold of the Yinluo Sect.

Zhang Tie suddenly awoke from his cultivation, his blood-red pupils between his brows opening uncontrollably.

He rushed to the window and saw that the sky above the northeastern sea was filled with colorful clouds, like the aurora borealis.

Even more terrifying is that the space there is undergoing bizarre distortion and folding.

“Yuanci Divine Mountain…” Zhang Tie revealed a proud smile, “Senior brother, you really succeeded!”

The Blood Mirror flew out automatically, revealing the distorted face of Fang Kun, the sect leader of the Yinluo Sect: "Zhang Tie, go check it out immediately! The center of that strange phenomenon... is very likely the entrance to the Star Palace Ruins!"

"Yes, Sect Master."

On the island at the eye of the storm, Suning is facing an unprecedented crisis.

The Taixu Realm was temporarily closed due to the absorption of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain, but he and Ling Yuling were exposed to the perception of various forces.

The most troublesome thing is that the aftereffects of the fusion of spiritual energy have temporarily rendered Ling Yuling unable to move.

“We have to leave immediately.” Su Ning picked up the weakened Ling Yuling. “The Yinluo Sect people will be here soon.”

Ling Yuling pressed his hand down: "Wait... Since the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain has already been taken away, this junior wishes to gather the old members of the Star Palace..."

Her starry eyes gleamed with an unusual light, "This junior believes that only the Star Palace can rule the Chaotic Star Sea..."

"Very well! As long as you demonstrate the necessary abilities, I will arrange for you to join the Taiyi Sect." "Thank you, senior."

"I hope you can take it easy! Although it was Taiyi Sect that destroyed Xinggong, you can only rebuild Xinggong with the help of Taiyi Sect."

"Yes, senior!"

Between the sea and the sky, a storm is gathering.

But an even bigger storm is just beginning to brew.

……

After Ling Yuling went to gather the old members of the Star Palace, Su Ning did not plan to return to Taiyi Sect immediately. Instead, he planned to find a safe place to cultivate in seclusion.

Within the Taixu Realm, Su Ning floated in mid-air, gazing at the newly formed mountains and rivers below.

After the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain was acquired, this vast world underwent earth-shattering changes...

A gray-white mountain rises in the east, and colorful rays of light cascade down from its summit like a waterfall, causing vegetation to grow wildly wherever they pass.

“The five elements generate each other, and the primordial magnetism serves as the medium…” Su Ning lightly traced a line with his fingertip, and a beam of primordial magnetic divine light shot into the void.

Instantly, the spiritual energy within a radius of a hundred miles flowed like rivers into the sea, forming a visible vortex of spiritual power.

The jade slip left behind by Ling Yuling mentions that the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain was originally formed from the essence of the five elements at the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth.

At this moment, within the Taixu Realm, it is spontaneously sorting out the fundamental laws of this small world.

"I'll go into seclusion here." Su Ning selected a valley at the foot of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain, and seven array flags flew out from his sleeve, setting up the "Seven Star Spirit Locking Array".

The moment the formation was completed, the flow of time in the valley changed drastically—one year outside was ten years inside the formation!

At the heart of the formation, Su Ning retrieved all the treasures he had acquired on this trip: the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill from the Taiyi Sect, the Star River Jade Marrow from the Star Palace, and the Blood Fiend Elixir from the Yinluo Sect…

The most precious item is the three drops of Xuan Tian Creation Dew bestowed by the White Ancestor, which is currently suspended above the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain, slowly absorbing the essence of the five elements.

"Let's begin." Su Ning sat cross-legged, the God-Slaying Spear resting horizontally on his lap.

As the Star Origin Scripture was activated, a ray of multicolored light from the mountain's surface split off and, like a serpent, burrowed into his crown chakra.

In the third year of its seclusion, Suning encountered its first life-or-death crisis.

The pain of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light entering the body is far beyond imagination.

The seemingly gentle, multicolored light entered the meridians and immediately transformed into thousands of red-hot steel needles.

Blood seeped from every pore of Suning's body, and he was covered in blood in the blink of an eye.

"what--!"

The roar echoed through the valley.

His proud Nascent Soul Dao Body was as fragile as paper in the face of the essence of the Five Elements.

At the critical moment, the Mysterious Creation Dew dripped down automatically, its cooling medicinal power protecting the heart meridian and stimulating the Zhou Tian Refining Spirit Technique to accelerate its operation.

The pain lasted for a full forty-nine days.

When Suning opened his eyes again, a five-colored light flashed in his pupils.

With a slight wave of his hand, the rubble within a ten-foot radius suddenly floated up...

This is a sign that you have begun to master the power of primordial magnetism!
“I see…” Su Ning stared at the radiant light flowing in his palm. “The fifth level of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light requires destruction before it can be established.”

For the next five years, he repeated the process, introducing only a hair-thick layer of primordial magnetic light each time to slowly reshape the meridians throughout his body.

The pain remains, but the rewards are even more astonishing...

The magnetic vortex, which originally required hand seals to cast, can now be formed with a mere thought.

After 12 years of seclusion, Su Ning began his attempt to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Time flies within the formation; only a little over a year has passed in the outside world.

The spiritual energy accumulated within the Taixu Realm had become so concentrated that it liquefied, forming a spiritual spring at the bottom of the valley. Most of this energy was drawn from the chaotic star sea outside.

Su Ning sat upright by the spring, with the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill floating in front of him.

"break!"

Once the pill entered the stomach, its immense medicinal power erupted like a volcano.

The five-colored nascent soul within the dantian suddenly opened its eyes, its small hands forming a profound hand seal.

The three-inch-tall figure, its entire body radiating starlight, was greedily absorbing the essence of the spiritual spring.

With each step the Nascent Soul grew, Su Ning's aura grew stronger.

When the nascent soul grew to four inches tall, a strange change suddenly occurred...

Suddenly, a thick, multicolored beam of light shot out from the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain, enveloping Su Ning entirely.

"This is... the sacred mountain recognizing its master?!"

The innate essence of the five elements contained in the pillar of light surged wildly into the five-colored nascent soul.

The little man grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the blink of an eye, he broke through the five-inch barrier and officially entered the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage!
Even more miraculously, a five-colored vertical line appeared between the eyebrows of the five-colored nascent soul, which was exactly the same as the aura of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain. In fact, it was the mark of Su Ning's five spiritual roots.

The moment his cultivation level stabilized, the Thousand Illusion Mask automatically appeared, firmly suppressing his outward cultivation at the early Nascent Soul stage.

This defensive treasure, obtained from the Crimson Forbidden Land, is now connected to Su Ning's soul, making it difficult even for Nascent Soul cultivators to see through.

In the eighteenth year of seclusion, the four natal magic treasures underwent successive transformations.

The God-Slaying Spear was the first to undergo a mutation.

Having been placed next to the Yuanci Divine Mountain for many years, colorful patterns gradually appeared on the gray-white surface of the gun.

These patterns are not static, but rather move around as if they were alive.

As Su Ning practiced the spear technique for the umpteenth time, the spear tip suddenly shot out a beam of magnetic divine light on its own, leveling a small hill a hundred feet away!

“Good heavens…” Su Ning stroked the gun with affection, “From now on, I’ll call you the ‘Magnetic God-Slaying Gun’.”

Next was Su Ning's Great Wilderness Seal, which radiated a mysterious light, as if it shouldn't belong to this mortal cultivation world.

The changes to the Starship were even more astonishing.

One day during cultivation, an old voice suddenly came from inside the boat: "Young friend, could you give this old man a drop of your essence blood?"

Su Ning became alert and scanned the starship with his divine sense, finally discovering the sleeping artifact spirit at its core...

A miniature old man with white hair and beard.

After confirming that the other party was indeed a spirit, Su Ning hesitated for a moment before forcing out a drop of blood essence to drip onto the bow of the ship.

"Hahaha! Three thousand years have passed, and finally we have found the true successor of the Star Escape Boat!" The old man's illusory figure leaped out of the boat.

At this moment, the sacred mountain responded with a thunderous roar, and the colorful rays of light surged like waves.

The old man turned to Su Ning and smiled, "I am Xing Zhouzi, an elder of the ancient weapon-refining sect. This 'Universal Sky-Escape Ship' could travel between different realms in its prime, but unfortunately it is severely damaged..."

Then, under the guidance of the artifact spirit, Su Ning began to repair this ancient treasure.

Although it can only unleash 30% of its power at present, it has gained the ability of "short-distance spatial jump", making it possible to travel thousands of miles in an instant.

After 20 years of seclusion, Suning has decided to emerge.

The moment the Seven Star Spirit Locking Array was removed, the flow of time in the outside world returned to normal.

In just twenty short years, two hundred years have actually passed within the Taixu Realm!

At this moment, his aura was as deep and restrained as an abyss, and every move he made carried an imposing pressure from heaven and earth. Only the Thousand Illusion Mask between his brows suppressed his cultivation to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

"It's time to check the situation outside." Su Ning gently stroked the Yuan Magnetic God-Slaying Spear, and the multicolored patterns on the spear disappeared, returning to its ordinary gray-white color.

After leaving the Taixu Realm, he immediately sensed the communication jade slip left by Ling Yuling.

The jade slip was hidden on the deserted island where they parted ways, protected by a special restriction.

As divine sense probed into the jade slip, Ling Yuling's illusory figure appeared:

"Senior, if I haven't returned by the time you emerge from seclusion, please head to 'Tianji Island' immediately. The entrance to the Star Palace Ruins opens once every sixty years, and the next opening will be in three months. Beware of the Yinluo Sect; they have already taken control of most of the Chaotic Star Sea..."

The jade slip also contained an image: Zhang Tie stood on a blood-red altar, with the corpses of Nascent Soul cultivators from the Chaotic Star Sea beneath his feet, and thousands of Yinluo Sect cultivators behind him.

What shocked Suning the most was that Zhang Tie's aura far exceeded their expectations.

"It seems a lot has happened in these twenty years." Su Ning put away the jade slip, and the Star Escape Boat rose with the wind.

Just as he was about to set off, he suddenly felt something and turned to look at the southwest horizon.

Three streaks of crimson light were hurtling towards them, and the leader's aura had clearly reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage!
That familiar aura of a demonic beast clearly belonged to a top-tier demonic beast expert from the Chaotic Star Sea.

"Interesting." Su Ning's lips curled slightly, and the Thousand Illusion Mask rippled, transforming his appearance into that of an ordinary middle-aged cultivator. "Someone has already delivered themselves to test their guns right after I emerged from seclusion..."

The Magnetic God-Slaying Spear seemed to sense its master's fighting spirit, and trembled slightly within the sleeve.

In the distance, where the sea meets the sky, thunderclouds begin to gather.

...(End of chapter)