Alert! The Dragon Lord has emerged from seclusion!

The Nine Suns Burning Heaven Body operated wildly, attempting to harmonize the six different attributes and varying strengths of these forces.

Ice and fire, life and death, yin and yang, reality and illusion... these six fundamental elements surged and crashed through his meridians, each collision bringing excruciating, tearing pain.

"Lin Chen!" Ye Qingcheng wanted to stop her attack, but Xingchen stopped her.

"We can't stop! If we stop now, he'll explode and die instantly!" Stardust hissed. "Trust him! The Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Body is the only special physique capable of bearing seven origins!"

Seven kinds?

Lin Chen suddenly understood.

The Nine Suns Burning Heaven Body itself is the seventh type.

Nine represents the extreme of Yang, and is inherently a "hidden star" outside the Big Dipper.

What he needs to do is not to bear the six powers, but to use himself as the foundation to integrate the seven origins and complete the true "return of the seven stars"!

Having figured this out, Lin Chen stopped resisting.

He released all defenses, allowing the six primal forces to surge within his body, while simultaneously unleashing the Nine Yang Burning Heaven Technique at full power.

Inside the dantian, the golden true energy ball that had become docile due to the harmonization of the five Nine Yin Bodies began to spin wildly.

The six-colored light seemed to be drawn into the black hole, being drawn into the gas cloud bit by bit.

The integration has begun.

At first, there was a violent rejection, and blood seeped from Lin Chen's seven orifices.

But gradually, under the neutralization and guidance of the Nine Yang True Qi, the six origins began to find their respective "positions".

The vital energy of the medicine nourishes the meridians and relieves the tearing pain.

The icy chill of the Frosty Yin Qi guards the sea of ​​consciousness, keeping the mind clear.

The psychic power dynamically connects the various meridians, allowing energy to flow more smoothly.

The light of the Gu spirit communicates with nature, drawing upon the faint spiritual energy from its surroundings to replenish itself.

The cold, yin energy is warm and gentle like water, calming the violent energy fluctuations.

Meanwhile, the portion of the original essence of Yao Guang Xing Hui—Luo Yunyi—acted like a stabilizing force, securing the framework of the entire fusion process.

Finally, there is the shadowy aura of stardust.

It did not merge into the gas cloud, but instead transformed into a thin film that enveloped the surface of the merged seven-colored gas cloud, like an eggshell protecting an embryo.

Time passes little by little.

The purification of the star core was mostly complete, with only a fist-sized clump of dark red remaining, stubbornly occupying the crystal core.

The fusion within Lin Chen's body has reached its most crucial moment.

The seven-colored gas cloud began to collapse.

From the size of a fist, to the size of an egg, and then to the size of a longan...

With each collapse, the colors of the gas cloud merged, gradually transforming from seven distinct colors into an indescribable chaotic hue—not gray, but "colorless," encompassing all color possibilities.

When the air mass collapsed to its limit, it suddenly came to a standstill.

Then, it expands in the opposite direction.

boom--!

An invisible wave spread out from Lin Chen.

Within the star core space, all the light dimmed for a moment.

When the light returned, Lin Chen opened his eyes.

Deep within his pupils, seven points of starlight swirled, forming a miniature Big Dipper pattern.

His aura was restrained like an abyss, yet vast like the starry sky.

Peak Foundation Establishment – ​​no, half-step Golden Core!

The moment he merged the seven origins, his cultivation broke through two realms and directly touched the threshold of the Golden Core stage!

"Success..." Stardust collapsed to the ground, his black robe soaked with sweat, but his eyes were filled with relief. "The Seven Stars have returned to their positions... the true return of the Seven Stars..."

Lin Chen had no time to perceive the changes within himself.

He looked at the star core—the enormous crystal, now only a trace of dark red filth remained at its core.

But this filth was so stubbornly persistent that the six-colored light band could no longer purify it in the slightest.

"This is the 'original sin' of the star core," Stardust said weakly.

"In ancient times, this star fell because its core was corrupted by extraterrestrial demons. That was a corruption at the level of laws, and purification by energy alone was useless."

"What should we do?" Ye Qingcheng asked anxiously, supporting the swaying Shen Qingqiu.

Lin Chen looked at the stubborn dark red core.

Then, he did something that shocked everyone.

He walked to the star core, reached out, and pressed his hand directly onto the dark red core.

"Lin Chen!"

"don't want!"

Amidst gasps of alarm, the dark red filth, as if alive, surged wildly into Lin Chen's body along his arm.

They are looking for new hosts.

But this time, they chose the wrong target.

Inside Lin Chen's body, the newly formed chaotic energy cluster slowly rotated.

The moment the dark red filth surged in, it was swallowed, decomposed, and transformed by the gas cloud.

That's not purification, that's assimilation.

The chaotic power generated by the Nine Suns Burning Heaven Body after fusing with seven primal sources possesses the terrifying characteristic of encompassing and transforming everything.

Pollution by extraterrestrial evils?

That is also a form of energy.

Since it is energy, it can be transformed.

In the core space of the star, time seemed to stand still.

Everyone held their breath as they watched Lin Chen.

His arm, starting from his fingertips, gradually turned dark red, the red spreading upwards along his arm, past his wrist, past his elbow...

"Lin Chen! Stop right now!" Luo Yunyi tried to rush over, but Ye Qingcheng held her back.

"Trust him," Ye Qingcheng said through gritted teeth, but her hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

The dark red color spread to his shoulders, and then... stopped.

It wasn't blocked, it was absorbed.

Lin Chen's body was like a bottomless pit, absorbing all the dark red filth into his body.

The moment the last trace of filth disappeared, the star core burst forth with an unprecedentedly pure silver light!

The entire crystal became as clear as crystal, with dazzling bands of light flowing inside like a galaxy.

The star core has been completely purified.

Lin Chen slowly withdrew his hand, swayed slightly, and knelt on one knee.

"Lin Chen!" Everyone crowded around him.

Shen Qingqiu immediately took his pulse to check, but his expression became extremely strange: "He...he's fine. He converted that polluted energy into pure energy, which actually replenished what he had just consumed."

"His condition right now... couldn't be better."

Lin Chen raised his head, and the seven points of starlight in his eyes slowly faded away.

He looked at the completely purified star core, then at the stardust lying on the ground, and finally his gaze fell on Luo Yunyi.

"Your father... can be released from quarantine."

Behind the star core, a frozen crystal coffin slowly rose up.

Lying in the coffin was a middle-aged man around fifty years old, dressed in a worn-out inspection uniform, whose face bore a seven-tenths resemblance to Luo Yunyi.

A small, dark red fragment of a star core was embedded in his chest—the source of the contamination that had eroded his body three years ago.

Stardust struggled to his feet, walked to the crystal coffin, bit his finger, and drew a complex rune on the coffin lid.

"Unseal with the blood of the Star Guardian."

The crystal coffin slowly opened.

Luo Yunyi rushed over, knelt beside the coffin, and touched her father's cheek with trembling hands: "Dad..."

Luo Changfeng's eyelids twitched.

Then, she slowly opened her eyes.

Those were clear and wise eyes, though they were filled with confusion, they showed no signs of being corrupted or eroded.

"Yun...Yi?" he asked hoarsely, his gaze falling on his daughter's face before taking in his surroundings and the crowd. "Where am I...? What happened to me?"