Jiudu River System.
Uninhabited star zone.
In the vast Starry Sky, a transparent distortion abruptly emerged from the void.
A blinding mass of golden radiance gradually pushed its way out from within the distortion.
If someone could ignore the glare and see what lay inside directly, they would find a person standing within that radiance.
A tall human with the golden phantom of a Three-legged Golden Crow behind him.
It was Wei He, who had only just fused with more than twenty stars.
Having fused with so many enormous celestial bodies, his current state had entered an exceedingly peculiar condition.
The mass and immense burning power of all those stars had mixed together, gradually beginning to meld under the Three-legged Golden Crow's coordinated control.
The true blood and divine authority of the Three-legged Golden Crow forcibly kneaded the matter of all the stars together. Then it compressed, compressed, and compressed again.
Wei He came back to himself and looked over his shoulder at the Three-legged Golden Crow phantom that had appeared behind him. Golden radiant flames burned ceaselessly around it.
That was what the stars he had absorbed had become.
"So much mass and such terrifying burning temperatures can actually be compressed into such a tiny range?"
The Three-legged Golden Crow's true blood, combined with the divine authority gained from that mysterious response, had compressed over twenty stars until they seemed as though they did not exist at all.
But Wei He knew perfectly well that this Three-legged Golden Crow image was not as harmless as it appeared.
He could still sense the enormous gravitational pull radiating outward every moment.
Countless cosmic dust particles and tiny meteoroids around him were being dragged by that invisible gravity, flying toward him.
When they came within a hundred kilometers of him, everything abruptly