Chapter 1337: North Star
“Your home?” Lu Yang could no longer sit still.
The Immortal Fairy’s home? That’s the North Star from the ancient era and the only planet she has ever ruled.
During the Four Ancient Immortals’ battle with the mastermind behind the scenes, Qing He had seized the opportunity to hurl the North Star away to protect the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s belongings. However, it had been too chaotic then, and even Qing He couldn't be sure where it had ended up.
Moreover, four hundred thousand years had passed.
Even if she could remember the original location, they would no longer be able to find the North Star. Their space explorations had partly been aimed at finding the North Star, but with no leads, they had simply left it to fate.
“I’ll take a look with my immortal consciousness.” In truth, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had found this place familiar the moment she arrived at Kunlun Mountain and had wanted to scan it with her immortal consciousness. However, when she saw Lu Yang happily catching up with Bai Shuang, she knew that if she confirmed this was the North Star, she wouldn’t be able to hold it in, and it would ruin the atmosphere of their reunion.
She spread her spiritual consciousness over Kunlun Mountain. Confirming her suspicions, she broke into a joyful smile. “This is the North Star!”
𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
“It really is?!” Lu Yang was puzzled. “Then why didn’t you recognize it when we first arrived on the Blue Planet?” We’ve been on the Blue Planet for nearly two months. Surely the Immortal Fairy couldn’t have failed to recognize her own home for that long.
“The terrain and landforms are completely different from our era. The North Star used to be a single continent.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy gestured to form an irregular shape, showing what the North Star continent looked like in the past.
Lu Yang understood. When Qing He hurled the North Star, she could only ensure it wouldn’t be torn apart by the force. She had no time to worry about the continent on its surface. During its high-speed flight, the North Star’s continent had fractured, and the terrain had shifted. No wonder the Immortal Fairy couldn’t recognize it.
Bai Shuang and Xia He were stumped by their conversation. Isn’t Senior Everlasting from antiquity? How is this her home?
Lu Yang briefly explained, and the two finally understood. Their interest was immediately piqued.
“Where is Senior Everlasting’s house?”
“Come, all of you, follow this immortal!” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy waved grandly, looking every bit like the female boss. With that aura of hers, people on the streets would voluntarily offer protection money.
They crossed seven or eight mountains to reach Kunlun Mountain’s deepest region. The mountains were majestic and precipitous, with hardly any traces of human activity, and the place they reached had never been visited by anyone before.
“Here?” Xia He and Bai Shuang looked around. The area was blanketed with snow and littered with rocks. Not even a blade of grass grew, and it was bitterly cold. Without Lu Yang’s protection, Xia He would have frozen into an ice sculpture. No matter how they looked at it, this place didn’t seem habitable.
“Below.” Lu Yang and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy spoke in unison, pointing at the ground beneath them.
The Kunlun Mountain today was vastly different from what it had been in ancient times. After the continent tore apart and the terrain shifted, the main part of Kunlun Mountain had sunk deep underground, burying the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s home along with it.
The Everlasting Immortal Fairy formed hand seals, casting a supreme immortal art. Ancient runes sank into the earth one after another.
Before long, the entire Kunlun Mountain shook violently, and the ground split open.
The ground was no longer safe. Lu Yang simply scooped up Xia He and flew skyward, with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy and Bai Shuang following him.
From high above, Xia He finally saw the mountain’s transformation and gasped.
The mountain range seemed to have come alive as it burst from the earth, surging upward and piercing the clouds. It rose tens of thousands of zhang into the sky, unimaginably massive. In moments, the Blue Planet’s tallest mountain had been supplanted, with the new tallest mountain towering countless times higher than the second tallest mountain.
The space agency was in chaos. The old professors’ hands trembled so badly they could barely hold on to their reading glasses, causing them to clatter to the floor.
The space agency’s big screen displayed a view of the Blue Planet from space. Even from space, the changes taking place in Kunlun Mountain appeared extremely dramatic, completely upending their understanding.
The most senior expert murmured, voicing everyone’s thoughts. “What is happening to this world?”
Lu Yang’s group landed before a stone door at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, where they finally saw signs of habitation.
“Hehe, this is this immortal’s home!” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy stood smugly and had Lu Yang take her photo. This deserves proper commemoration. I’d originally come to accompany Xiao Yangzi home, but who would’ve thought Xiao Yangzi lived right on the North Star?
Click. A high-resolution camera captured the four of them before the cave abode.
The Everlasting Immortal Fairy excitedly slapped Lu Yang on the shoulder. “I told you our fate runs deep. We’re from the same hometown!”
Lu Yang was speechless. I never imagined I’d become hometown friends with the Immortal Fairy, especially hometown friends separated by four hundred thousand years.
He took two deep breaths and pushed open the door. A dense wave of spirit qi rushed out like an ocean. Spirit qi was normally formless, colorless, intangible, and invisible, but the spirit qi in this cave abode was so concentrated that it had taken physical form. Xia He was nearly swept away by the tide of spirit qi.
Lu Yang raised a hand, placing a shield around Xia He. Mortals couldn’t withstand such dense spirit qi.
In contrast, Bai Shuang was ecstatic upon coming into contact with the spirit qi. As an innate living being, she was born powerful and needed spirit qi the most. After being exposed to this surge of spirit qi, the power she wielded increased by hundreds of times, even without the guidance from cultivation techniques.
Lu Yang surmised that the top-grade spirit stones in the cave abode had shattered. Sealed behind the stone door, all that spirit qi had been pent up inside the cave abode. Now that the door was open, the spirit qi gushed out like a flood.
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“The white luan[1] chariot flies through Supreme Purity beneath the tranquil warmth of the ever-radiant sun. The true essence returns, entering the body of the practitioner...[2]
An old celestial master of the Zhengyi Sect sat in meditation as he comprehended the Dao. His days were numbered, and he could feel his lifespan slipping away bit by bit, yet he remained utterly calm.
He had joined the Zhengyi Sect as a child, displaying extraordinary talent, and was quickly accepted as a true lineage disciple of a celestial master by special exception. Granted the right to absorb spirit qi, he drew it into his body and became a Qi Refining Practitioner.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t advance any further. The reason was simple—the Zhengyi Sect didn’t have sufficient spirit qi for his cultivation. He was stuck at the first three levels of Qi Training.
The Zhengyi Sect had once been rather wealthy, possessing several dozen spirit stones of varying quality. But after two thousand years, almost none remained. The last one had been used when the old celestial master first drew qi into his body.
As a result, despite having the talent and cultivation methods, the lack of spirit qi prevented him from breaking the limits of his lifespan, leaving him no choice but to quietly await death.
He felt no regret. In his youth, he had witnessed the Blue Planet’s golden age; in middle age, he had survived the zombie crisis; in old age, he had aided in rebuilding the Blue Planet. Having led a rich and eventful life, he had no regrets about dying.
His only regret was his low cultivation, which had been of little use during the apocalypse. At the first three levels of the Qi Training Stage, he couldn’t even withstand a bullet. He was just a particularly skilled ordinary man trying his best to save people with what limited strength he had.
Suddenly, he trembled, his eyes snapping open. Just now, he had felt a cool sensation pass through his chest.
“Spirit qi?!”
How is this possible? I haven’t felt the lively rhythm of spirit qi in years.
Then one wave of spirit qi came after another, nourishing his body. The celestial master was now certain. Tears of joy streamed down unbidden. This is spirit qi!
“Has the vipralopa era ended?”
At the same time, the famous sects and temples felt the surge in spirit qi.
In the ancient era, when the people of the North Star witnessed battles between immortals breaking out, they had packed their belongings and fled, leaving behind spirit stones and cultivation methods in their haste, which became the foundation of sects in later generations.
After being passed down for so many years, the spirit stones had long since been exhausted.
Now, with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s cave abode open, spirit qi gushed out, revitalizing the Blue Planet and breathing new life into these sects. The Blue Planet had entered a new era—the era of spirit qi revival.
1. The luan is a divine bird in Chinese mythology. It is similar to the Chinese phoenix. ☜
2. This is from a Daoist text known as the Lingfei Scripture. ☜