In the Star Lord Class, among the thirty-four Star Lords, only nineteen, Liang Ji included, stepped forward to receive the Demon Cores of Spotted Star Snakes.
The remaining fifteen had not chosen the Spotted Star Snake Demon Cores. Clearly, their families had prepared better options for them.
Liang Ji could only sigh. There really are so many rich people.
"Next, activate your Star Compasses and transmit the Demon Cores into your Natal Stars for refinement!"
"I explained the specific procedures clearly this morning and demonstrated them for you. There shouldn't be any problems now, right?"
Teacher Du, their homeroom teacher, called out from the podium.
"No problem."
The students answered in unison, then each activated the Starlight Treasure Mirror before them.
Liang Ji watched as a beam of starlight shot out from the Starlight Treasure Mirror and landed before him. It swiftly traced and painted itself into existence, condensing into a starlight formation in the blink of an eye.
He placed the Spotted Star Snake's Demon Core at the center of the formation. The starlight circulated, and the Demon Core vanished instantly.
At the same time, through both the Starlight Treasure Mirror and the Dragon Soul, he observed the state of his Natal Star.
He saw the Demon Core transform into a meteor, streak across the starry sky, and crash down upon his Natal Star.
The Dragon Soul coiled around the Natal Star raised its head at this moment and opened its jaws, swallowing the falling Demon Core meteor. The Demon Core circulated once within the Dragon Soul's body before finally dropping into the Natal Star.
"The next month will be the critical period for the Demon Cores to merge into your Natal Stars and evolve First-Order Spiritual Veins."
"The Celestial Star Array Diagram will accelerate the flow of time where your Natal Stars are located. One day will equal ten thousand years, helping your Natal Stars evolve Spiritual Veins and nurture life."
"When Half-Demon Vassals are born upon your Natal Stars, it will prove that the First-Order Spiritual Veins on your Natal Stars have stabilized. Your Natal Stars will advance into First-Order Stars, and you will successfully advance into First-Order Star Lords."
"Of course, you'll only be the weakest First-Order Star Lords."
Teacher Du explained this to the class while reminding them:
"Over this month, you must keep a close eye on the conditions of your Natal Stars."
"Under this kind of time acceleration, the birth of Spiritual Veins and the evolution of life are both exceptionally rare phenomena. The Great Dao lies within them."
"It doesn't matter if you cannot understand them now. Leave behind some memories and impressions. When your cultivation reaches higher stages in the future, those memories and impressions will become your most precious wealth, greatly benefiting your enlightenment and cultivation."
"This is an opportunity unique to the Star Lord path. Do not waste it."
"Of course, if you discover anything wrong while observing your Natal Stars' evolution, report it to me immediately."
"I will help you inspect them and resolve the problem."
"If you conceal anything and problems arise, you will bear the consequences yourselves."
"I hope everyone will cherish their own lives."
Below the podium, Liang Ji listened to his homeroom teacher's explanations and reminders, taking note of the crucial points while cross-referencing them with the knowledge and information on Star Lords that he had studied and learned.
The Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, could accelerate the flow of time on a Star Lord's Natal Star and assist its growth.
However, the time flow that the Celestial Star Array Diagram could adjust differed according to the rank of the Natal Star.
Liang Ji and the others' Natal Stars had not even given birth to Spiritual Veins yet. They were merely the most ordinary Mortal-Order Stars, limited in size, mass, energy, and other aspects. The Celestial Star Array Diagram could accelerate them to a maximum of one day equaling ten thousand years.
Once a Natal Star gave birth to a Spiritual Vein and its size, mass, and energy increased, it became increasingly difficult for the Celestial Star Array Diagram to adjust its time flow. The higher the Natal Star's rank, the less its time flow could be accelerated.
Generally speaking, a First-Order Natal Star could be accelerated to at most one day equaling one thousand years; a Second-Order Natal Star, one day equaling one hundred years; a Third-Order Natal Star, one day equaling ten years; a Fourth-Order Natal Star, one day equaling one year; a Fifth-Order Natal Star, one day equaling one month. By the time a Natal Star reached the Sixth Order, the Celestial Star Array Diagram basically found it difficult to control and accelerate the flow of time upon it.
Over the next month, the Star Lord Class had relatively few lessons, and none of them were especially important.
This was so Star Lords like Liang Ji would have more time and energy to observe the development and evolution of their Natal Stars.
On Dragon Soul Star, Liang Ji observed its evolution and growth through the dual perspectives of his Dragon Soul avatar and the Starlight Treasure Mirror.
In the sky, the sun, moon, and stars revolved, creating the alternation of day and night and the cycle of the seasons.
At first, Dragon Soul Star had only land. As time passed, tens of thousands of years of tectonic movement and collision produced flames, and subterranean fire and magma erupted. Then came tens of thousands more years; beneath the burning and smelting of flame and earth, water began to arise, gradually forming oceans. Water vapor rose and ascended, wind and air were born, and after tens of thousands of years, an atmosphere formed.
This opening of earth, fire, water, and wind lasted one hundred thousand years. At last, Dragon Soul Star possessed the conditions for life to arise.
Yet from the creation of a living environment to the birth of the first lifeform, Liang Ji waited another full one hundred thousand years. After all, this was a breakthrough from zero to one, from nothing to something—the most difficult step of all.
After life was born, however, it began to evolve rapidly beneath the flying passage of time.
From the earliest and most ancient fungi and mosses, insects and algae began to appear after tens of thousands of years of evolution. After another tens of thousands of years came fish and ferns. After yet another tens of thousands of years came amphibians and grasses and trees.
The entire process of life's evolution likewise lasted one hundred thousand years, until Dragon Soul Star's Half-Demon Snake People Vassals finally evolved into being.
Throughout the star's evolution and life's evolution, the First-Order Spiritual Vein within Dragon Soul Star was also gradually born and condensed, participating in the entire process of stellar evolution and life's evolution.
With the emergence of the Half-Demon Snake People, the First-Order Spiritual Vein within Dragon Soul Star had fully formed and stabilized. The entire process had lasted roughly three hundred thousand years—one month in reality.
This was basically consistent with the timeframe Teacher Du had described.
Within the Star Alliance, the Star Lord path had developed for countless years. The experience of cultivation and advancement had long since become exceptionally mature. Under normal circumstances, so long as students did not blindly meddle on their own, no unexpected changes would occur.
Yet as he examined the Half-Demon Snake People Vassals born within Dragon Soul Star, his expression became somewhat strange.
He had not done anything reckless, yet the Half-Demon Snake People Vassals born on his star had still undergone an unexpected change.
Liang Ji discovered that the scales on these Half-Demon Snake People were far larger, thicker, rounder, glossier, and more spiritually vibrant than ordinary snake scales.
They did not look like snake scales at all. They looked more like dragon scales!
At the same time, these Half-Demon Snake People seemed somewhat taller and larger than the Half-Demon Snake People he knew of.
"Is this... the Dragon Soul's influence?"
"Perhaps I should not call them Half-Demon Snake People. Perhaps they should be Half-Demon Dragonfolk?"
Liang Ji pondered this silently and could not help looking toward the Dragon Soul coiled around his Natal Star.
He discovered that the Dragon Soul had undergone new changes as well. On the illusory-yet-real Dragon Soul's body, spiritual light began to emerge from some of its dragon scales, as though they had been lit up and were transforming from illusion into reality.
Liang Ji withdrew his consciousness and looked again at the information displayed on the Starlight Treasure Mirror. There had already been many more changes.
Star Lord: Liang Ji. Cultivation: None. Natal Star: Dragon Soul Star. Star Diameter: 700 kilometers. Star Composition: Earth (43%), Metal (13%), Water (24%), Wood (10%), Fire (5%), Air (5%). Spiritual Vein: First rank (1%). Vassals: Half-Demon Snake People (Mutated). Dao Fruit: 0.01%.
The opening of earth, fire, water, and wind, the birth of the Spiritual Vein, and the evolution of life had caused Liang Ji's Natal Star to undergo almost earth-shaking changes.
Below this set of data, another new set appeared, detailing the condition of the Half-Demon Snake People Vassals.
Vassals: Half-Demon Snake People (Mutated). Rank: None. (Bloodline unawakened, intelligence unborn, unadvanced.) Number: 356. Religion: None. Politics: None. Economy: None. Military: None. Skills: None.
The information on the newly born Half-Demon Snake People, the star's Vassals, was exceedingly simple.
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