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 the family through Spirit Communication. They were simply waiting for him to return and celebrate.

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

His mother's eyes brimmed with pride.

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

His father beamed, already somewhat drunk.

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

He opened it and found a perfectly preserved stalk of Five-Colored Spirit Grain inside, faintly emanating 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 into a Star Lord's Natal Star, giving rise to vast quantities of spirit plants. Their price was exorbitant.

"Your mother grew it myself." His mother showed a hint of pride as she smiled.

If spirit plants encountered a fortunate opportunity, they could also advance into Spirit Roots.

Liang Ji's mother cultivated the path of a Qi Refiner, while his father cultivated the path of a Human Immortal. Both were low-level cultivators and had achieved little in their cultivation.

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

This Five-Colored Spirit Grain had been the main spirit plant they cultivated for years. Yet this stalk had somehow encountered an unknown opportunity and advanced into a Spirit Root.

"Thanks, Mom!"

Liang Ji smiled and thanked her.

"Silly child, why are you thanking me?"

The smile on his mother's face grew even brighter.

Liang Ji took 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."

"Got it." Liang Ji answered without looking back.

He was the only Star Lord produced by the Old Liang Family in countless generations, and his mother's side of the family was much 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 properly.

Back in 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, which could connect to his Natal Star through the Celestial Star Array Diagram, had become 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 had many additional functions, such as various smart-terminal applications.

When cultivation and technological development reached their end, they always converged by different paths. Using the Celestial Star Array Diagram as its foundation platform, the Star Alliance had constructed a network spanning the entire domain.

It was not only an information network, but also a logistics network! 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 old smart terminal onto the Starlight Treasure Mirror. Then he activated the mirror to connect to his Natal Star and inspect 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 records about Star Lords that he had studied and learned had ever mentioned such a thing.

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

As his thoughts turned, Liang Ji swiftly connected to his Natal Star through the Starlight Treasure Mirror.

"This is... a Dragon Soul?"

He saw a phantom of a true dragon, both illusionary and real, coiled around his Natal Star.

At the same time, his consciousness instantly linked with the true dragon phantom, and he understood everything.

"It has something to do with my previous life!"

In his previous life, Liang Ji had been a member of 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 path of Star Lord cultivation, he would awaken a Dragon Soul alongside his Natal Star.

This Dragon Soul was equivalent to his avatar. At this moment, it had fused into one with his Natal Star, guarding it.

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

But when he looked inside the Natal Star, he found only 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 around them was likewise unsuitable for life to arise.

Only after being refined into Natal Stars would the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, extend over them and use its treasure power to manifest a void environment around the stars—sun, moon, and the like—suited to the propagation of life.

Once a Star Lord cultivated to the Third-Rank Void Refining realm, they could refine the void around their Natal Star, pluck stars and seize moons, shift stars and exchange constellations, refine falsehood into truth, and forge the surrounding void environment into whatever form they needed.

Having examined the condition of his Natal Star, Liang Ji could only wait to see how things developed before determining whether the Dragon Soul's fusion was good or bad. He withdrew his consciousness, looked at the information on the Starlight Treasure Mirror, and with a thought, 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 fused within it and as a memorial to his previous life.

Five days later, Liang Ji's parents held a Star Lord celebration banquet for him at Shan De Lou, the best restaurant in the city. Nearly every friend and relative with any connection to them came to attend, and he received quite a few congratulatory gifts and monetary presents 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, once fused into a Natal Star, could generate vast quantities of water and soil, even Spirit Water and Spirit Earth.

Like the Five-Colored Spirit Grain Spirit Root, both were exactly what he needed.

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

The thirty-four students of the Star Lord Class gathered again. The entire morning consisted of their homeroom teacher's lessons, 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 through 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 essence and origin of stars, and are the most important resource for cultivating and improving the Spirit Veins within our Natal Stars."

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

"For any further Demon Cores you need, or for Spirit Vein advancement and the like, you'll have to rely on your own efforts."

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

"Each of these contains the Demon Core of a first-rank Void Demon Race Spotted Star Snake."

"Once planted into a Natal Star, it can cultivate a first-rank Spirit Vein, and the dependents it produces will basically all be Half-Demon Snake People."

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

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

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

"Very often, the more special something is, the less powerful it becomes. It is the more common things that are truly formidable."

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

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