The Demon Lord of All Forms

The stone sphere was entirely reddish gold, translucent, with a blazing flame burning on its surface. The flame flickered and pulsated, like the breathing of a living creature. Inside, there were faint swirling galaxies and twinkling stars, as if it were not a stone sphere but a star.

Major zodiac stars.

This is the core of a large star that Shao Zhifeng, the twenty-fourth leader of the Yellow Heaven Sect, found in the cosmos. Its essence is extremely high, far surpassing ordinary natural treasures.

Shao Zhifeng wanted to refine this star core into a true treasure of the Yellow Heaven Sect, to suppress the sect's destiny.

Although the Four Pillars of Heaven are good, their foundation is the Four Symbols of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water, while the foundation of the Yellow Heaven Sect is actually the Two Elements of Heaven and Earth, not the Four Symbols of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. The Four Pillars of Heaven were stolen, not cultivated by themselves, so there is ultimately a layer between them.

Later, Shao Zhifeng was severely injured in the battle against Xingxiuhai. Although Xingxiuhai did not have any powerful beings at the Celestial Realm at that time, it did not mean that they did not have the combat power of the Celestial Realm.

Shao Zhifeng's later death was also related to this injury.

The refining of the Great Star of the Yellow Path was only half completed before it was shelved after Shao Zhifeng's passing. Later, successive leaders of the Yellow Heaven Sect continued to refine the Great Star of the Yellow Heaven, but they never succeeded in making it undergo a fundamental transformation and become a supreme treasure of primordial yang.

Once a cultivator reaches the Golden Core stage, they begin to refine their own Dao-proving magic weapon in preparation for the subsequent Dharma Aspect stage.

The Four Pillars of Heaven contain the primordial spirit imprints of the successive leaders of the Yellow Heaven Sect, making them inherently complex and unsuitable as Gu Changyuan's ultimate treasure for proving his Dao.

This zodiacal star is of extremely high quality, and even has the potential to become a supreme treasure of primordial yang. It can be said to be the second supreme treasure of the Yellow Heaven Sect. Moreover, the essence of the zodiacal star is incomparably pure, without any imprint of human primordial spirit, making it most suitable as Gu Changyuan's natal magic weapon.

Looking at the stone sphere suspended in the flames, Gu Changyuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He reached out and, passing through the light barrier of the great formation, touched the scorching flames on the surface of the stone sphere.

The flames did not burn Gu Changyuan; instead, they docilely wrapped around his fingertips like a tamed beast. The stone ball trembled slightly and emitted a low hum, as if a sleeping giant was being awakened.

Gu Changyuan sat cross-legged in front of the formation. The Black Emperor Xuanming Pill in his dantian slowly rotated, and wisps of pitch-black pill energy seeped out from his body, winding forward like snakes and probing into the light screen of the great formation.

The moment the elixir touched the zodiacal star, the stone sphere trembled violently, its crimson-gold flames suddenly surged, and scorching waves of air spread in all directions, crashing against the meteorite iron walls of the secret chamber with a muffled roar.

The Zodiac Star is rebelling. It has been half-refined by Shao Zhifeng and has already developed a hazy spirituality. Gu Changyuan can control it, but it is unwilling to be completely refined by a Golden Core cultivator.

Gu Changyuan's expression remained unchanged. He clenched his fists, and outside the secret chamber, the four pillars of the celestial sphere trembled simultaneously. Four beams of light, blue, red, white, and black, descended from the sky, piercing through the dome of the secret chamber and crashing onto the zodiacal star.

Boom!

The power of the four elements surged, shattering most of the blazing flames on the zodiacal star. Earth, fire, wind, and water condensed into four invisible chains, tightly binding the stone sphere.

The blazing light on the great star was suppressed, and the zodiacal star emitted a low hum, as if it were wailing.

The energy of the Black Emperor Xuanming Pill took advantage of the situation and seeped into the stone sphere, transforming into Gu Changyuan's primordial spirit imprint.

The great zodiacal star trembled, its light and flames condensed, and it began to change. First, it transformed into a Xuanwu divine beast, with tortoise shells like mountains and snake bodies like pythons, with dark water flowing between its scales; then it transformed into a radiant celestial dragon, with golden scales and torch-like eyes, its body wrapped in billions of brilliant stardust; finally, it transformed into a vast universe, with a round heaven and a square earth, where the sun, moon, and stars revolved, boundless and limitless.

The three forms flashed alternately on the surface of the stone sphere, colliding and devouring each other.

The Xuanwu divine beast's Xuan water collided with the Tianlong's golden light, exploding into a sky full of water mist and sparks; the sun and moon of the Qiankun Great Realm collided with the Xuanwu's tortoise shell, bursting out with a piercing roar, and the light and flames exploded in the secret chamber, causing the four-colored light curtain to ripple.

The major stars of the zodiac originate from the sea of ​​stars and are essentially stars. The Star Dragon represents this part of the essence of stars.

Furthermore, due to the tempering and refinement by successive leaders of the Yellow Heaven Sect, the Yellow Path Star contains the Yellow Heaven Sect's supreme martial art, the "Yellow Heaven Great Law," and thus transformed into the Great Realm of Heaven and Earth.

Because Gu Changyuan cultivated the Black Emperor's Great Ruins Book, he was able to transform into the Xuanwu Divine Beast.

As the three forces collided, the Xuanwu Divine Beast gradually gained the upper hand under Gu Changyuan's suppression of the Four Pillars of Heaven. Its body became increasingly solid, the patterns on its tortoise shell resembled celestial script, and the scales on its snake body shimmered with a cold, eerie luster.

The figure of the Heavenly Dragon began to dim, and the phantom of the Qiankun Great World also began to blur. After the final collision, the three of them exploded into a huge vortex.

The vortex, pitch black as ink, spun slowly and irresistibly, emanating a terrifying suction force that devoured everything, drawing in the crimson flames from the surface of the zodiacal star bit by bit.

The flames died down, and the stone sphere changed from crimson gold to jet black.

The vortex fell onto the Zodiac Star, as if an invisible giant hand had grasped the stone sphere. The Zodiac Star trembled violently and struggled for a moment, but it could not resist the suppression of the four pillars of the heavens around it, and finally returned to calm.

The vortex merged with the zodiacal star, which eventually turned into complete darkness, its surface glow completely extinguished, leaving only a faint, eerie light swirling around it.

A faint connection welled up in his mind. Gu Changyuan looked at the dark star that was quietly floating in front of him, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. The initial refining was complete. From now on, this zodiac star would be his natal treasure.

The zodiacal star transformed into a beam of light, disappearing into Gu Changyuan's dantian and hovering beside the Black Emperor Xuanming Pill.

The stars shone brightly, their dark light intertwining with the faint starlight, like twin stars circling each other in the void.

Gu Changyuan's primordial spirit power continuously flowed into the great star, imprinting his own mark deep within the star's core. Each mark was like an invisible chain, tightly binding the star's will with his soul.

half a month later.

Outside the Yellow Heaven Divine Mountain, the Qiankun Four Symbols Primordial Magnetic Array silently cracked open, and the four-colored light curtain surged to both sides, revealing a deep passage.

A silver-white spirit boat slipped through the gap, passed through the sea of ​​clouds, rose to the top of Huangtian Divine Mountain, and slowly landed in the square in front of Huangtian Palace.

Yun Weiyang leaped off the spirit boat, her white robes fluttering in the wind. She looked up at Gu Changyuan, who was standing at the entrance of the Huangtian Palace, and smiled.

"Are you ready?"

Gu Changyuan stood on the stone steps, his expression calm, his gaze indifferent as he looked at Yun Weiyang.

"There's nothing to prepare."

Gu Changyuan clenched his fist, and the Yellow Heaven Divine Mountain trembled slightly. In the four directions of east, west, south, and north, four towering pillars simultaneously burst forth with light and flame. The four pillars of light, in shades of blue, red, white, and black, shot into the sky, dyeing the entire sky with four colors.