Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

Just then, Huang Long's voice suddenly rang out.

"Senior Uncle, I have a question."

All eyes fell on Huang Long.

The Sage of Taiqing gazed at the Yellow Dragon, a slight smile playing on his lips. "Speak!"

Huanglong rose, bowed to each of the Three Pure Ones, and then spoke.

"Senior Uncle, today the stars in the heavens twinkled, releasing vast stellar power, before suddenly extinguishing themselves. Why is this?"

He paused, then continued, "Furthermore, I've noticed that since the stars extinguished, the innate spiritual energy in the world has been steadily decreasing, seemingly surging towards the starry sky. Why is this?"

Upon hearing this, Xuandu, Duobao, and the others were instantly shocked.

They also noticed that the innate spiritual energy in the world was constantly decreasing, but it was flowing into the starry sky, which was something they had not noticed before!

They turned their gaze to the Supreme Sage, awaiting their teacher's guidance.

The Sage of Taiqing gently stroked his long, snow-white beard and slowly spoke.

"You can sense the flow of innate spiritual energy into the starry sky, which means that your understanding of the workings of the world and its laws has surpassed the Great Luo Realm."

He looked out of the palace, his gaze seemingly fixed on the dim stars.

"The reason those stars went out was because of the Zhou Tian Star Array set up by the demon race during the war between the Lich and the Demon.

"The Zhou Tian Star Array?" Huang Long murmured.

"good."

The Sage Taiqing nodded, "This formation is based on the 365 stars of the celestial sphere, condensing the essence of the stars, and its power is boundless."

"During the war between the Lich and the Demon race, the Demon race used this formation to fight against the Lich race's Dutian Shensha Formation."

"The destructive power generated by the collision of the two great formations is enough to destroy the heavens and the earth."

The Sage of Taiqing continued, "Part of the terrifying power generated by the collision of the two great formations erupted on the spot, shattering the void of the primordial land and turning endless areas into nothingness."

"A portion of it was absorbed by the two great formations, and it backfired on those in the main formation."

"There's still some left...!"

Looking at the shocked gazes of his disciples, he said, word by word, "Following this, the connection between the Star Banner and the origin of the Zhou Tian stars landed on the Zhou Tian stars."

Huang Long nodded; he had already seen these things during the great battle.

It was precisely because of this that those demon clan Grand Luo cultivators were not instantly annihilated by the backlash from the collision of the two terrifying arrays.

The Sage of Taiqing continued, "The Zhou Tian Star Array is based on the stars of the heavens. When the array is in operation, it draws the essence of the stars from the heavens and transforms it into the power of the array!"

"During the Lich War, in order to resist the Great Array of the Heavenly Gods and Demons, the demon race extracted a large amount of stellar essence. When the two great palaces collided, the terrifying power was transmitted back to the stars, and such power naturally caused terrible damage to the celestial sphere."

The Sage of Taiqing sighed softly: "Now, the essence of these stars has been gathered in their cores and no longer releases stellar power into the primordial world, thus dimming and seemingly going out."

Huang Long seemed to understand something, then pressed on, "Grandmaster Uncle, the primordial spiritual energy surging into the starry sky is for...repair!"

"good!"

The Sage of Taiqing gazed at the dim stars in the heavens and spoke slowly.

"Although the stars in the heavens have dimmed, they have not been completely extinguished. They have merely gathered their last essence into their core and fallen into silence in order to protect themselves."

"But the sleeping stars need nourishment and recovery. Without external help, they may remain asleep forever and never shine again."

"The stars and constellations of the heavens are part of the primordial world. If the stars were to extinguish, the primordial world's heavenly order would be incomplete."

"Therefore, the innate spiritual energy on the primordial land was extracted by the Heavenly Dao to replenish the stars in the heavens," Huanglong said softly.

The Supreme Sage nodded slightly: "Indeed!"

"The Primordial Heavenly Dao is drawing in the innate spiritual energy between heaven and earth and sending it into the stars, transforming it into the origin of the stars and giving them new life."

Upon hearing this, Huang Long felt a sudden sense of relief.

The extinguishing of the stars in the heavens is not true death, but rather a fall into silence.

In order to awaken them, Heaven is mobilizing the primordial origin, using innate spiritual energy as raw material to nurture the origin of stars and revive the stars in the heavens.

This is the root cause of the reduction in primordial spiritual energy in the primordial world.

But then another question came to his mind.

"May I ask, Senior Master, how long will this reduction in innate spiritual energy last?"

The Sage of Taiqing looked toward the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

Yuanshi Tianzun understood and said, "I will answer this question for you."

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at Huanglong, a hint of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

"Huanglong, do you know how severely the stars in the heavens have been damaged?"

Huang Long shook his head. The primordial land and the stars in the heavens are separated by endless space. Even though he is now at the peak of the Great Luo realm, it is difficult for him to investigate the situation of the stars in the heavens.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable slowly said, "The Zhou Tian Star Array has extracted at least 30% of the original essence of the stars in the heavens, and the collision with the Zhu Tian Divine Fiend Array destroyed at least 50%. Now, the original essence of the stars in the heavens is less than 20%, and some weaker stars have less than 10% of their original essence left."

Upon hearing this, all the disciples gasped in surprise at the aroma of the elixir.

Less than 10%?

This means that some stars are already on the verge of extinction.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable continued, "The vastness of the primordial energy required to repair the stars in the heavens far exceeds your imagination. To revive the stars in the heavens, at least three eons will be needed."

Three Huiyuan?

One cycle is 129,600 years.

Three...!

In other words, for the next hundreds of thousands of years, the innate spiritual energy of the primordial world will be continuously drawn by the Heavenly Dao to repair the stars and celestial bodies.

A thought suddenly flashed through Huang Long's mind.

"Master, how much will the concentration of innate spiritual energy in the primordial world decrease during this period?"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable remained silent for a moment, then slowly said, "At least a 70% decrease!"

Seventy percent!

Huang Long was startled.

What does it mean when one's innate spiritual energy decreases by 70%?

This means that the cultivation of all living beings will become extremely difficult, and that the rare and precious herbs and elixirs in the world will become extremely scarce.

He suddenly remembered what Zu Long had said.

"Without your appearance, the Four Seas Eye and the Undying Volcano would be downgraded, leaving only Mount Kunlun in the world to provide innate spiritual energy for the primordial world."

Now that he is here, the Four Seas Eye and the Undying Volcano are still operating. Although the production of innate spiritual energy has decreased, it has not disappeared.

As the stars in the heavens extinguish, the innate spiritual energy will still be greatly reduced.

However, instead of a sharp decrease in output, it is now being extracted by the Heavenly Dao to revive the stars in the heavens.

Although the results are different, the essence is the same.

The primordial spiritual energy of the primordial world will eventually diminish.

It's just that the way of reducing it is different.

Silence fell over the hall.

After a long while, Huanglong raised his head and looked at Yuanshi Tianzun on the cloud bed once again.

"Teacher, with less than 30% of innate spiritual energy, can the billions of beings in the primordial world still embark on the path of cultivation?"

Is there a way for all beings to continue their spiritual practice and pursuit of enlightenment?

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