108 Sealing Stars

Along the way, the alien Sealed Kings all gave way, not daring to block him.

"Blood Fiend, Golden Flame, go collect the stars. My clone will hold the line." Yan Ning said in a low voice. He still had a favorable impression of these two human Sealed King Invincibles who had just helped him hold off two of their kind.

"Alright!" The two Sealed King Invincibles immediately split up, flying toward the other two Sealing Stars. Meanwhile, Yan Ning's Black Hole Clone hovered at the center of the battlefield, its terrifying pressure enveloping the entire area.

"Boom!" Blood Fiend King struck first, his blood-colored war spear sweeping horizontally, driving back over a dozen alien Sealed Kings surrounding the star. Seeing this, those Sealed Kings wisely retreated, no longer daring to contend.

On the other side, Golden Flame King's body blazed with golden flames. Wherever he passed, space twisted, and alien powerhouses gave way one after another. Yan Ning nodded in satisfaction. With him overseeing the battle, this contest was already beyond doubt.

Yan Ning's figure flickered, instantly landing on the surface of a Sealing Star. Crimson-golden flames spread from beneath his feet, illuminating the entire star like a burning fireball. "This one is mine!"

The thousands of alien Sealed Kings scrambling nearby recoiled as if struck by lightning, immediately backing off.

"Scram!" The Black Hole Clone let out a low roar at the same time, its million-kilometer body leaning forward slightly, its terrifying pressure warping space itself. How could those alien Sealed Kings dare to stay? They fled in panic, clearing an area spanning a million kilometers in the blink of an eye.

"Why are we so unlucky? Why did this scourge have to set his sights on this one?" "Let's go, let's go. There are still plenty left. We still have a chance!"

Yan Ning snorted coldly, kneeling on one knee on the star's surface, pressing his right hand against the Sealing Star's surface. Crimson-gold Undying divine power surged from his palm, flowing like a living thing along the secret patterns.

"Wuum—" The Sealing Star trembled violently, its surface patterns lighting up one after another. With no one else obstructing him, claiming ownership was effortless. Yan Ning's Undying divine power easily entered the star, leaving his soul imprint at its core.

"Claim!" With a soft shout, this Sealing Star was taken into his possession. "Got it. Thirty heavy treasure points." "Next." Yan Ning's gaze shifted to another star not far away.

Yan Ning's figure flickered continuously through the starry sky, each appearance accompanied by the claiming of a Sealing Star. His movements grew more practiced, and his claiming speed increased. "Thirty-sixth!" With another soft shout, another star turned into a streak of light and vanished into his body. The surrounding alien Sealed Kings had long gone numb, merely watching from afar, lacking even the courage to approach.

"This guy... just how many does he plan to take before he stops?" An alien Sealed King from the demon race muttered under his breath. "Shh! Keep your voice down!" His companion quickly stopped him. "Do you want to die?"

Yan Ning paid them no heed, continuing his harvest. His Black Hole Clone hung silently in the starry sky like a guardian deity, intimidating all who harbored ill intentions. "Fifty-seventh!"

As he kept claiming Sealing Stars, these stars also continued sinking downward. He needed to speed up. Yan Ning could sense that some connection existed between these Sealing Stars—the more he collected, the easier claiming them became.

"Eighty-ninth!"

Blood Fiend King and Golden Flame King had long since stopped moving, staring dumbfounded as Yan Ning harvested stars like reaping crops.

Each of them had only collected three or five, yet Yan Ning seemed to have no end.

"This guy is a real monster."

Blood Fiend King swallowed his saliva.

"One hundred and eighth!"

As the final star was drawn into his body, the entire starry sky suddenly trembled violently. All the spatial rifts began to contract rapidly.

Everyone present started rushing toward the exit below.

Now was the time to leave.

Yan Ning didn't hesitate either, withdrawing his Black Hole Clone.

Then he too charged toward an exit.

Yan Ning burst out of the spatial rift, and the view before him opened up.

A vast, boundless grassland space spread out before his eyes. Green waves of grass undulated with the wind, and in the distance, a few low hills were faintly visible.

"Right here."

His figure flickered, landing on a flat stretch in the center of the grassland.

He sat cross-legged, and the crimson-gold flames around him slowly receded.

"Whew..."

Letting out a long breath, Yan Ning began to regulate his breathing. The successive battles just now, along with collecting 108 Sealing Stars in a row, had left even him feeling somewhat fatigued.

"Let's take a look at these Sealing Stars first."

His mind sank into the World Ring. 108 stars hung quietly in the high sky, faintly connected to each other by some mysterious bond.

On the surface of each star, ancient secret patterns flowed, radiating a heavy pressure.

"Sure enough, they're a set."

Yan Ning nodded to himself.

"Too bad there's no Star Chart. Can't unleash their full power."

A multitude of Sealing Stars could only exert their strongest might with the aid of a Star Chart.

He tried to activate one of the stars. Instantly, a heavy sense of oppression surged from within his body, and the surrounding space twisted slightly.

With a casual wave, a star's phantom crashed down, flattening a hundred-kilometer hill a thousand meters away into dust.

"Not bad. A single one has the power of an ordinary heavy treasure."

Yan Ning nodded in satisfaction.

"If I could get my hands on a Star Chart..."

He shook his head.

"What Star Chart do I need? I've got the Chaos Bell. Even the Star Tower doesn't catch my eye."

For now, using these Sealing Stars will do.

Then Yan Ning took out Irene's World Ring.

Yan Ning's divine sense carefully probed the World Ring, scanning through mountains of treasures one by one.

A rough estimate.

These things were worth about seventy billion Hunyuan Units.

Amid this mountain of treasures, Yan Ning's gaze fell on a somewhat peculiar painting.

"This is?"

On that ancient painting, a vicious claw mark was clearly imprinted.

The claw mark was dark gold, its edges tinged with an eerie blood-red glow, as if containing some terrifying will.

"This is!"

The moment Yan Ning extended his consciousness into the painting, his vision suddenly went dark!

In an instant, his awareness seemed to be dragged into a primordial universe, chaotic and unformed.

In this void, an indescribably terrifying giant beast slowly emerged.

It was a monstrous creature comparable to a planet—no, even larger than a planet—its entire body covered in dark-gold scales, each one flowing with Blood Secret Patterns.

The wings spread behind it blotted out the sky, and every flap caused time and space to collapse!

What was most horrifying were its front claws—each of the five talons was as massive as a galaxy, their tips gleaming with a cold light that could tear the universe apart!

"Roar—"

The beast let out a roar that shattered the starry river, suddenly raising its front claw and slashing down fiercely toward Yan Ning's direction!

This claw appeared slow, but in truth, it was fast to the extreme.

Where the claw marks passed, time and space collapsed layer by layer, countless law chains snapped, and the entire primordial universe trembled beneath this single claw!

"Not good!"

Yan Ning's hairs stood on end, and the Chaos Bell suddenly rang once within his sea of consciousness!

"Dong—"