Swallowed Star: Sovereign
Chapter 1

Sun's First Birth

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In the vast, profound universe, life planets formed brilliant, resplendent civilizations.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, within the Solar System, on the surface of the Sun Star Core, two golden cocoons—one large and one small—stood silently.

The larger one exceeded ten thousand meters, while the smaller was only a little over two meters tall.

A Chaos Bronze Giant Bell floated above the giant cocoons.

The Giant Bell was engraved with the images of all living things between heaven and earth. Threads of profound mystery radiated from it, as though drawn by some force, descending directly into the cocoons below.

Time seemed to have frozen. No one knew how long had passed.

"Dong!"

An ancient, lingering bell toll spread from the Bronze Bell.

"Crack!"

As if receiving an order, the two golden cocoons below split open with crack after crack. As time passed, the fissures across them gradually multiplied and widened.

"Crash!" As though they had finally reached their limit, the cocoons exploded outward like glass.

"Finally, the incubation succeeded."

A sentence in Chinese came from where the smaller cocoon had shattered.

At that moment, where the two cocoons had once stood, there appeared a massive Three-legged Golden Crow. It had a long neck, magnificent feathers, and stood over ten thousand meters tall.

Not far beneath the Golden Crow stood a "Little Dot" of a human. He was 1.9 meters tall, broad and sturdy, with sharply chiseled facial features. His eyes were deep, and sparks of color occasionally flashed through his pupils.

"I've finally turned back into a Human Body. I don't have to be an artifact spirit inside the bell anymore."

The man looked around and muttered to himself.

"I should take back the Chaos Bell first and see where I am."

With that, the man formed a hand seal. The Giant Bell above slowly shrank as it descended, accurately entering the center of his brow.

"Origin Continent, Primordial Universe, Peak Clan, Human Race, Ganwu Cosmic Nation, Black Dragon Mountain Empire, Milky Way Galaxy, Sun, Earth."

Fragmented information flooded into the man's mind, leaving him standing there for a long time.

"I never expected that after leaving that Primordial World, I would come to the Swallowing Starry Sky World." A trace of loneliness flashed across the man's face. "It seems I can't return to the Blue Star of the past."

The man was named Li Ze. He had originally been an ordinary third-year university student on Blue Star, living the typical student life of reading novels and playing games.

During his third year, he had finally decided to work hard and prepare early for the postgraduate entrance exam.

One day, while on his way to the library for self-study,

he suddenly noticed that the bridge over Mei Lake on campus was in an uproar, with people shouting for help.

When he ran over to take a look, he saw a child who had fallen into the water and was struggling in the lake.

As a university student with a strong sense of justice, he immediately jumped in. After using all his strength to drag the child to the shore and lift him onto the rocks by the lake,

a tremendous force suddenly came from beneath Li Ze's feet, pulling him into the water in an instant.

After a long darkness,

when he woke again, his soul had inexplicably appeared inside the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell, in the Primordial World.

At that time, the Chaos Bell, Emperor Taiyi's Companion Spirit Treasure, was already close to being completely controlled.

The reason Li Ze's soul had not been discovered and killed

was entirely because the Chaos Bell was an Innate Supreme Treasure. Even as a Companion Spirit Treasure, it could not be completely refined without the cultivation of a Sage.

With his Quasi-Saint cultivation, Emperor Taiyi had refined more than forty-five of the Chaos Bell's forty-nine restrictions. The remaining few restrictions protected Li Ze's soul and allowed it to survive inside the Chaos Bell.

However, as a soul as insignificant as an ant, Li Ze could not sense the outside world.

Moreover, without a cultivation method, Li Ze could only remain inside the Chaos Bell. If nothing unexpected happened, all that awaited him was the dissipation of his soul.

Yet only a few years later, the Witch-Demon War erupted.

Emperor Taiyi fought the Six Great Ancestral Witches alone. In the end, under the schemes of the Heavenly Dao, both sides were defeated and perished.

Afterward,

the Six Great Saints of the Primordial World entered the fray one after another, fighting over the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell.

During the battle, the Supreme Saint struck the Chaos Bell with his flat staff. Just as it was about to be sent into a Spacetime Rift, a Golden Light appeared out of nowhere and struck the Chaos Bell. When the Golden Light dispersed, the Chaos Bell had vanished from its original location.

Li Ze's soul fell unconscious once more.

When he awoke, he was already inside a Golden Cocoon.

After a long period of absorbing enough energy, his incubation had finally been completed today.

Through the information left behind in the Chaos Bell, Li Ze learned what had happened after he fell unconscious.

It turned out that after he lost consciousness, the Chaos Bell had been brought to the Swallowing Starry Sky World by the Golden Light. Because it was an outsider, it instantly alerted the Supreme Will of the Devouring World.

For some unknown reason, it ultimately did not expel the Chaos Bell. Instead, it accepted it into the Devouring World.

Of course, although it had been accepted, the rule power of the Devouring World had fused into the Chaos Bell, causing it to undergo an inexplicable transformation.

After drifting for countless eras, the Chaos Bell had actually entered the Primordial Universe.

Because of the residual aura of the Supreme Will, the Chaos Bell successfully concealed itself and was not discovered by any powerful being. It eventually drifted to the Sun of the Milky Way Galaxy.

As Emperor Taiyi's strongest reliance, it contained a drop of Golden Crow Essence Blood carrying his inheritance. If the Witch-Demon War failed, there would still be a chance to use that drop of essence blood to preserve the Golden Crow Clan's inheritance.

At a certain moment, Li Ze's soul, which had been slumbering inside the Chaos Bell, suddenly fused with the Golden Crow Essence Blood left behind by Taiyi.

The fused essence blood was moved out and placed on the Sun. After absorbing external energy, it began its incubation.

Originally, influenced by Li Ze's soul instinct, it had wanted to incubate a Human Body. However, the Human Body was too small, so only a small amount of Golden Crow Essence Blood was used during its incubation.

The remaining Golden Crow Essence Blood contained a thread of Li Ze's soul and incubated a Three-legged Golden Crow Physique.

After a long period of energy absorption, Li Ze and the Three-legged Golden Crow had finally been incubated today.

By receiving the information within the Chaos Bell, Li Ze understood how he had come to the Swallowing Starry Sky World. Although there were many things he could not make sense of, he did not investigate further.

After learning this information, Li Ze began planning for the future.

The Swallowing Starry Sky World had been a novel in his previous life. It described an immensely vast and extraordinarily dangerous world, where countless powerful beings existed. Those with great strength could do whatever they wished, while the weak were like ants, unable even to control their own life and death.

Furthermore, the major clans constantly waged Clan Wars for the sake of development. Without sufficient strength, one could not control one's own Destiny!

Li Ze understood that no matter what, he had to make himself stronger.

His greatest reliance for becoming stronger was the Chaos Bell floating within his Sea of Consciousness.

As one of the highest-ranked Innate Supreme Treasures of the Primordial World, even after merging into the Devouring World, it was surely still among the most supreme treasures.

After remaining in the Chaos Bell for so long and drifting all that way, Li Ze had naturally become the Controller of the Chaos Bell. It could also be said that the Chaos Bell had become Li Ze's Companion Treasure.

He did not need to acknowledge it as master like the supreme treasures of the Devouring Universe. Otherwise, given his current state, he could only stare at the Chaos Bell and drool.

With a thought, Li Ze began a thorough inspection of the Chaos Bell.

Hoo!

After a long while, Li Ze let out a long breath.

It turned out that, for unknown reasons, the Supreme Will of the Swallowing Starry Sky World had allowed the Chaos Bell inside.

However, the fusion of the Devouring World's rule power had also transformed the Chaos Bell.

After the restrictive laws originally belonging to the Primordial World fused with the Devouring World's rule power, the Chaos Bell's original forty-nine completed restrictions evolved into fifty entirely new Secret Method Restrictions. These restrictions were even grander than before.

However, this also meant that every new restriction was incomplete. Each contained a flaw, and filling those flaws required astronomical amounts of energy for evolution.

After the Chaos Bell had entered the Devouring World for countless eras, the energy it naturally absorbed had only been enough to complete the deduction of the first seven layers of restrictions. To fully evolve all the remaining restrictions, it would need far more energy to absorb.

Of course, even the seven restrictions that had already been completed were not something he could activate in his current state.

At present, he could only use the most basic method to store it in his Sea of Consciousness.

In addition, some useful information had remained within the Chaos Bell.

During its drifting through the Primordial Universe, it had recorded a small portion of information from the lifeforms of the Primordial Universe. This information was extremely disorganized, containing both common knowledge of the universe and cultivation information from other lifeforms.

While incubating his body, the Chaos Bell had transformed the recorded information into Inherited Knowledge and fused it into the Golden Crow Essence Blood.

Because very little essence blood had been used to incubate his Human Body, it contained only a small amount of primal cultivation instinct.

Most of the other information had fused into the Golden Crow Physique beside him.

The reason he had not received the inheritance information was mainly because the Golden Crow Physique was not yet a complete lifeform.

Only a thread of his soul had been contained within it during incubation. Even after such a long incubation, the soul had not been fully formed and remained incomplete.

To form a complete life, he needed to fuse the soul in his Human Body with the soul in the Golden Crow Physique.

Only once the Golden Crow Physique became a complete lifeform could it receive that Inherited Knowledge.

After examining the residual information in the Chaos Bell, Li Ze withdrew his awareness from his Sea of Consciousness and raised his head to look at the enormous Golden Crow Physique beside him.

Li Ze was no stranger to the Three-legged Golden Crow. During his time in the Primordial World, he had seen them many times.

Looking at the Three-legged Golden Crow before him, which stood over ten thousand meters tall, Li Ze reached out and placed his hand on the Golden Crow Physique.

Whoosh!

The moment he touched it, the thread of soul inside the Golden Crow Physique instantly merged into Li Ze's soul like a fledgling returning to its nest. A sense of completeness welled up within him.

Li Ze transferred the soul in his Sea of Consciousness into the Golden Crow Physique and began trying to control it.

He moved a claw, flapped a wing, bent his neck, and shook his head.

Slowly, bit by bit, the Golden Crow's body gradually became more lively.

"Success!"

After an unknown amount of time, Li Ze's soul had completely taken control of and adapted to the Golden Crow Physique.

The instant his body completely synchronized with it, an incomparably vast amount of information surged into Li Ze's soul.

An ocean of vast knowledge flooded into Li Ze's soul at once, freezing even his ability to think.

A new book begins its journey. Welcome to enjoy it.

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