Extracting the Star Spirit Vein

For a Life Star, the Star Spirit Vein was undoubtedly its most important foundation, the source of its essence. It was also the most precious and valuable treasure the Life Star contained.

The Star Alliance forbade Star Lords and cultivators from destroying Life Stars, whether they were within the Star Alliance or discovered in the Outer Domain Star Sea. As a result, even a first-tier Star Spirit Vein could fetch an astronomical price within the Star Alliance and be put to many uses.

For instance, the "artificial stars" the Star Alliance had once tried to create required Star Spirit Veins to be refined into them. Though the project had failed, its byproducts—the cities suppressing the black holes at the centers of starfields across the Star Alliance—still needed Star Spirit Veins refined into them.

The Star Alliance's thirty-three starfields contained thirty-three black holes, each with a city suppressing it. Every one of those cities was no smaller than a Spirit Vein Star, because a genuine Star Spirit Vein had been refined into it.

The Star Spirit Veins in these cities were usually spoils gathered by the Star Alliance during its campaigns to open up new starfields.

Though the Star Alliance forbade the destruction of Life Stars, it often relaxed some restrictions during major battles like the Pioneer War. Inevitably, some Life Stars were destroyed, and their Star Spirit Veins could then be collected.

Moreover, high-end locations such as the territories of the nine Star Palaces, Kunlun Divine Mountain, the Forest of Creation, and the Sea of Myriad Forms—as well as the "research spaces" opened up by Saints in places like Heavenly Snake Academy—often needed Star Spirit Veins to be refined into them before they could be built, opened, and operated.

Outside the Star Alliance's campaigns to open up new starfields, the