Dragon Soul

Liang Ji left school and returned home, where his parents had long since prepared a feast and waited for him.

The news that he had awakened his Natal Star and become a Star Lord had already been sent to his family through Spirit Communication. Now they were simply waiting for him to return and celebrate.

"Xiao Ji, I knew you were the best!"

His mother's eyes shone with pride.

"After so many generations of the Old Liang Family, we've finally produced a Star Lord!"

His father was beaming, already somewhat drunk.

"Son, this is for you." After dinner, his mother mysteriously handed Liang Ji a jade box.

When he opened it, he found a perfectly preserved stalk of Five-Colored Spirit Grain inside, faintly radiating spiritual charm.

"This is a Spirit Root?" Liang Ji was somewhat surprised. "Mom, where did this come from?"

Spirit plants were easy to obtain, but Spirit Roots were hard to find!

Spirit Roots were treasures that could be planted within a Star Lord's Natal Star, where they could produce vast quantities of spirit plants. Their prices were exorbitant.

"Your mother grew it herself." His mother revealed a rather proud expression as she smiled.

If a spirit plant encountered a fortunate opportunity, it could also possibly advance into a Spirit Root.

Liang Ji's mother cultivated the Qi Refiner Path, while his father cultivated the Human Immortal Path. Both had low-level cultivation and had achieved nothing particularly remarkable.

Still, it was enough for them to lease a patch of farmland to grow spirit plants and support the whole family.

Five-Colored Spirit Grain was the main spirit plant they had cultivated year after year. They had never expected this particular stalk to encounter some unknown opportunity and advance into a Spirit Root.

"Thanks, Mom!"

Liang Ji thanked her with a smile.

"Silly child, why are you thanking me?"

The smile on his mother's face grew all the more radiant.

Liang Ji carried the jade box back to his room, preparing to inspect his Natal Star.

His mother called after him, "Don't forget the Star Lord Banquet in four days."

"I know." Liang Ji replied without turning around.

He was the first Star Lord the Old Liang Family had produced in countless generations, and his mother's side of the family was about the same—they had never produced a Star Lord either.

This time, they naturally had to hold a proper Star Lord Banquet, invite all the relatives from both sides, and celebrate grandly.

After returning to his room, Liang Ji first put away the jade box containing the Five-Colored Spirit Grain Spirit Root, then took out the Starlight Treasure Mirror.

After awakening his Natal Star and becoming a Star Lord, this terminal treasure, capable of connecting to his Natal Star through the Celestial Star Array Diagram, became his property.

The Starlight Treasure Mirror was a treasure produced by the Star Alliance. Its greatest function was helping Star Lords connect to their Natal Stars, though it also came with many additional functions, such as various smart terminal applications.

Cultivation and technological development always converged in the end, though they began by different paths. Using the Celestial Star Array Diagram as its foundational platform, the Star Alliance had built a network spanning the entire domain.

It was not merely an information network, but a logistics network as well! Relying on the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, the Star Alliance could transport materials across space.

Liang Ji first transferred the various accounts, passwords, communication records, and other data from his former smart terminal to the Starlight Treasure Mirror. Then he activated the mirror, connected to his Natal Star, and examined its condition.

He remembered that after refining his Natal Star, he seemed to have heard a dragon's roar.

Yet none of the knowledge or materials concerning Star Lords that he had studied and learned about had ever mentioned such a thing.

He could not help worrying whether some unforeseen change had occurred.

With thoughts turning in his mind, Liang Ji quickly connected to his Natal Star through the Starlight Treasure Mirror.

"This is... a Dragon Soul?"

He saw an illusory yet seemingly real phantom of a true dragon coiling around his Natal Star.

At the same time, his consciousness connected with the true dragon phantom in an instant, and he understood everything.

"It's connected to my previous life!"

In his previous life, Liang Ji had been from the Zhonghua Family on Blue Star, a descendant of the dragon. He had never expected that after reincarnating into this world and embarking upon the Star Lord path of cultivation, he would awaken a Dragon Soul along with his Natal Star.

This Dragon Soul was equivalent to his avatar. At present, it had merged as one with his Natal Star, guarding it.

His consciousness merged into the Dragon Soul. Looking at the surroundings of his Natal Star from the Dragon Soul's perspective, he could see stars, the sun, the moon, and more. It seemed no different from an ordinary life-bearing planet.

But when he looked inside the Natal Star, he discovered utter deathly stillness. There was not even an atmosphere or water, much less life.

The Natal Stars refined by Star Lords were originally dead stars, and the void environment surrounding them was likewise unsuitable for the birth of life.

Only after being refined into Natal Stars would the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, descend to cover them, using the treasure's power to manifest suns, moons, and other void environments suitable for the propagation of life around the stars.

Once a Star Lord cultivated to the Third-Rank Void Refining realm, he could refine the void around his Natal Star, pluck stars and seize the moon, shift stars and change the constellations, turn falsehood into truth, and refine the surrounding void environment into whatever form he required.

After inspecting his Natal Star, Liang Ji could not yet tell whether the Dragon Soul's fusion was a blessing or a curse; that would depend on future developments. He withdrew his consciousness, looked at the information on the Starlight Treasure Mirror, and with a stir of his thoughts, the line reading "Natal Star: Unnamed" immediately changed to: "Natal Star: Dragon Soul Star."

He named his Natal Star Dragon Soul Star, both because of the Dragon Soul merged within it and as a commemoration of his previous life.

Five days later, Liang Ji's parents held a Star Lord celebration banquet for him at Shan De Lou, the finest restaurant in the city. Nearly every friend and relative with even the slightest connection came to attend, and he received quite a few congratulatory gifts and cash gifts as a result.

The two best gifts were the Essence of Breathing Soil from his grandfather and the Tianyi Jellyfish from his maternal grandfather. Both were Spirit Seeds—treasures that, when fused into a Natal Star, could generate great quantities of water and soil, even Spirit Water and Spirit Earth.

Like the Five-Colored Spirit Grain Spirit Root, they were precisely what he needed.

Two more days passed. The seven-day holiday ended, and Liang Ji returned to school.

The thirty-four students of the Star Lord Class gathered again. Their homeroom teacher taught them all morning, explaining matters related to planting Void Demon Race Demon Cores into their Natal Stars and cultivating Spirit Veins.

"The Void Demon Race is our greatest enemy!"

"They roam the void, feeding on starlight and growing by devouring stars."

"But at the same time, the Void Demon Race is treasure from head to toe to us."

"Especially the Demon Cores condensed by the Void Demon Race. They contain the primordial essence of stars and are the primary resource for cultivating and improving the Spirit Veins within our Natal Stars."

"The school will provide each of you with one First-Order Demon Core free of charge, helping you cultivate a First-Order Spiritual Vein on your Natal Star."

"For any further Demon Core requirements or Spirit Vein advancements, you'll have to rely on your own efforts."

As Teacher Du spoke, he took out more than thirty jade boxes.

"Each box contains a First-Order Demon Core from a Spotted Star Snake of the Void Demon Race."

"Once planted into your Natal Stars, they can cultivate First-Order Spiritual Veins, and the Vassals they produce will mostly be Half-Demon Snake People."

"Don't think Half-Demon Snake People are ordinary. Among the Star Lords of our Sky Snake Star, over ninety percent of their Vassals are Snake People."

"After all, this is where it is most convenient for us to acquire snake Demon Cores."

"Because of that, we also have the most numerous and complete cultivation methods for Snake People Vassals, as well as Spirit Vein advancement methods."

"Many times, it isn't the more unusual that is stronger. Instead, what is more common is often more formidable."

After earnestly cautioning everyone, Teacher Du said, "All right. Students who want a Spotted Star Snake Demon Core, come up and collect one."

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