A faint golden mist began to swirl around Hua Qiang's body. Phantom stars drifted within the haze—an omen possessed only by Star Lord Realm experts.
He could clearly feel that the power within his body was no longer scattered as before. Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it gathered within his bones. Every breath he took drew in the Star Force between heaven and earth, fusing it deep into his skeleton.
No one knew how much time passed before the final strand of dark-golden liquid fused into his skull. In an instant, thunder erupted in Hua Qiang's mind, as though countless stars had exploded within it. A vast starry sky appeared before his eyes, and innumerable stellar paths unfolded with perfect clarity.
His sea of consciousness expanded in an instant. His divine sense, which had originally covered only a million kilometers, could now stretch ten million kilometers away. He could even clearly sense the fragments of meteorites drifting through space.
"Buzz—"
The Creation Divine Cauldron suddenly let out a roar. The mysterious patterns on its walls gradually dimmed, clearly having completed the refinement.
Inside the cauldron, the golden mist around Hua Qiang abruptly contracted and plunged entirely into his body.
He slowly opened his eyes. A dark-golden gleam flashed through them, his gaze seeming capable of piercing through the cauldron walls and seeing the starry sky beyond.
The next second, an immense aura erupted violently from within him!
His aura, once held at the peak of the Great Void Realm, surged wildly upward like floodwaters bursting through a dam. Even the surrounding space was pressed into faint distortion by that aura.
With a crisp crack, the shackles within Hua Qiang's body shattered completely. A pressure belonging to the Star Lord Realm spread outward, while the spiritual energy outside