The Sky Full of Stars Becomes My Incarnation!

"You understand? Understand what?"

Tai Yi, Zhen Yuanzi, and Minghe—three supreme powers of the Great Desolation World—spoke almost simultaneously, their faces etched with confusion.

The sense of loss and finality that had just settled over the hall was shattered by Lu Jun's sudden, unshakable certainty.

The three great beings' gazes locked onto Lu Jun, as if trying to see through him.

A flicker of barely perceptible disdain and mockery passed through Minghe's crimson eyes.

Even beings like them had deemed this path impassable. What could a mere Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, even one who had succeeded in Nirvana, possibly understand?

What could he grasp?

Just youthful arrogance, unwilling to admit defeat.

He had lived through countless eons and seen too many with ambitions higher than the heavens and fates thinner than paper.

Zhen Yuanzi also furrowed his brow slightly, stroking his long beard, his eyes carrying a rational scrutiny and a trace of inexplicable doubt.

He believed Lu Jun had exceptional qualities, but the Path of Incarnating Billions—touching on source division, timeline convergence, and vessel expansion—was so difficult it defied the heavens!

Even Minghe had only "luckily" achieved his innate divine ability by relying on the Blood Sea's perfect timing, terrain, and his own obsession.

Where could Lu Jun's "understanding" possibly lead?

Had he found some alternative method?

But how could any alternative compare to the ambition of "One Attainment, Eternal Attainment"?

Only Tai Yi, deep within his golden pupils like a great sun furnace, after the initial shock...

A faint spark of hope ignited—one he himself hadn't fully noticed.

He knew this nephew of his, who had returned through Nirvana. Beneath that Taotie-like devouring instinct lay a resilience beyond reason and... an unfathomable mystery!

The true essence of Nirvana... the primordial chaos essence... perhaps he had truly glimpsed something?

"Nephew Lu Jun," Tai Yi's voice carried a hint of barely restrained urgency, "What do you understand? Speak it out!"

Lu Jun didn't answer immediately. His gaze swept slowly over the three great beings, finally resting on Tai Yi.

His eyes were calm, almost profound, as if that earth-shattering "understanding" hadn't been a rash impulse.

"Whether it can work," Lu Jun's voice was low but rang clearly through the silent hall, "I'll know once I try."

The moment he finished speaking, Lu Jun's form suddenly transformed into a blinding golden light.

Like an arrow tearing through space, it burst through the doors of the Sun God Palace and shot toward the boundless starry sky!

"Hm?" The three great beings were all taken aback.

"Follow him!" Tai Yi reacted fastest. A phantom of the Chaos Bell flickered, and his figure vanished from the spot.

Zhen Yuanzi and Minghe exchanged a glance, both seeing the uncertainty in each other's eyes.

What trick was this kid playing?

But curiosity ultimately outweighed everything else. With a shift of their forms, they too turned into two streaks of light and gave chase.

Their speed was immense. In an instant, they had left the blazing domain of the Sun Star behind.

Arriving at a deeper, higher place—the boundary between the Great Desolation World and the Chaos World!

Here, higher than the Thirty-three Heavens!

Countless stars, some bright, some dim, some large, some small, hung here like cold gems embedded in the endless night, radiating an ancient, desolate aura.

Violent Chaos Qi surged like an invisible tide from beyond the realm, battering the membrane of the Great Desolation World.

And those stars were the world's tentacles reaching into Chaos.

They greedily devoured Chaos Qi, transforming it into relatively gentle Star Power, which they then scattered across the Great Desolation Earth, nourishing all things.

Silently, they also drove the slow expansion of the Great Desolation World itself.

The energy here was chaotic and violent, the spatial structure bizarre, and it constantly endured the assault of disorderly Chaos Qi. Thus, most living beings rarely set foot here.

The three great beings followed close behind Lu Jun, watching him weave through this boundary zone of stellar cradles.

His speed was extreme. Sometimes he approached a massive, long-formed ancient star, circling it briefly, his powerful Divine Sense seemingly scanning every detail of the star.

Other times, he swept past sparse nebular dust, his sharp gaze scouring for any potential star cores hidden within.

But more often, he lingered in areas of "Star Eggs"—not yet formed, with weak energy fluctuations, nearly drowned by Chaos Gas Flows.

"What is he doing?"

Minghe frowned deeply, his blood-red robe rustling in the turbulent Chaos Gas Flows.

He completely failed to understand Lu Jun's actions.

Looking for a suitable star as a Dao Field?

But most stars here were barren and dead, or violent and chaotic—far inferior to Innate Stars like the Sun Star.

Searching for Chaos materials?

That didn't fit either. His Divine Sense scanning carried a specific purpose.

"Not sure, but he does seem to have a clear goal."

Zhen Yuanzi held the Book of the Earth in his hand. Its pages rustled without wind, emitting a faint yellow glow as he tried to sense the flow of stellar energy in this peculiar region.

But this place was already close to Chaos. The Great Desolation's earth veins extended here only weakly and chaotically, severely disrupting his perception.

Tai Yi remained silent, his gaze locked firmly on Lu Jun's figure.

The phantom of the Chaos Bell flickered faintly around him, shielding him from the violent erosion of the Chaos Gas Flow.

A vague guess stirred in his mind, but he dared not confirm it.

Finally, Lu Jun's figure halted in a region where the Chaos Gas Flow was relatively calm.

Before him floated a speck of light—extremely tiny, extremely dim.

It could hardly be called a "star." It was more like a nascent core of primordial nebula dust, just condensed, its stellar core yet to ignite.

It was incredibly fragile, trembling under the scouring of the Chaos Gas Flow, as if it might dissolve at any moment and return to Chaos.

The energy it contained was so faint it was almost negligible. If Lu Jun hadn't stopped precisely in front of it, even the three great cultivators would have struggled to notice it against the vast chaotic backdrop.

This was a true "Star Egg," still in its embryonic stage of gestation!

"What's he stopping here for?" Minghe's confusion deepened.

"Such star eggs are countless at the edge of the Great Desolation. Nine out of ten will be annihilated in the Chaos Gas Flow. Even if the rest manage to take shape, they're nothing more than the lowest-grade Fragmented Stars—utterly worthless..."

But in Lu Jun's sea of consciousness, a storm was raging!

The system's voice echoed without pause!

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[Detected an unformed Star Embryo within the gravitational field of this star (Host). Please choose an immediate course of action:]

[Option One: Accretion!]
[Activate the Host's core gravitational field to forcefully absorb the energy and material essence of this unformed Star Embryo, strengthening yourself.]
[Reward: Negligible gain; control over its unformed fragment of the Great Dao rules.]

[Option Two: Empowerment!]
[Utilize this system's special protocol, consuming a portion of the Host's energy, to assist this unformed Star Embryo in its evolution until it takes shape.]
[The Host may choose to imbue it with a portion of your own essence, allowing direct interference in its growth at all times.]
[Reward: For future evolutions of similar stars, your own essence splits without loss; every star will contain the Host's essence.]

[Option Three: Ignore!]
[Disregard this unformed Star Embryo and let it evolve on its own.]
[Reward: None.]

"Just as I thought—the Star Evolution System really does make judgments like this."