The Dragon Beast Star: The Reverse Evolution from Dragon Beasts to Vassals
Every Star Lord cultivator possessed a Natal Star. They could conduct all kinds of trials and experiments there, nurturing various forms of life and developing different civilizations.
But throughout history, there had been no shortage of cases where excessive experimentation spiraled out of control, causing a cultivator's Natal Star to run amok and turn against them. Some even met their end when their star was destroyed and they perished with it.
For this reason, over the past hundreds of thousands of years, numerous academies, institutes, and Star Palaces had emerged within the Star Alliance, offering instruction and providing Star Lord cultivators with safe, reliable methods for developing their Natal Stars.
By now, the vast majority of Star Lord cultivators in the Star Alliance followed the experience of their predecessors, developing their Natal Stars in relatively safe ways and nurturing the vassals and civilizations on them.
This made Star Lord cultivators much safer, but it also greatly reduced creativity, change, and progress.
Naturally, the Star Alliance's leadership would not completely stifle creativity, change, and progress. Star Lord cultivators were still allowed to make new attempts and conduct research and experiments.
However, such research, experimentation, and innovation all had to be carried out in relatively safe and controllable ways.
For example, experiments and research led by high-ranked Star Lords, or conducted by academies, institutes, and even Star Palaces.
One such example was the "Serpentine Bloodline Laboratory" at Heavenly Snake Academy, whose research Liang Ji and Peng Yue had once visited.
Another was Liang Ji's current pursuit of three Star Palace Inheritances at once, an experiment that had likewise been approved by the Star Alliance's leadership.
And then there was what he was doing now: obtaining a newly born Life Star