Swallowing the Starry Sky: I Have a Lotus of Creation
Chapter 1

Creation Green Lotus

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On a nameless island near the South China Sea in Southeast Asia, spanning only a few dozen square kilometers, The island is layered with dense palm leaves, through which the architecture at its center is vaguely visible.

On the edge of a cliff to the east, a young man sits cross-legged, his back as straight as a pine, his delicate brows slightly furrowed.

The surrounding air begins to stagnate; the waves beneath the cliff vanish eerily, leaving the water surface as smooth as a mirror within a circular arc.

The young man has been sitting here for over ten days when suddenly, his aura surges, the stones around him turning to ash, only to calm down a moment later.

"Finally, a breakthrough!"

Chen Qing exhales deeply and opens his eyes, a flash of clear light flickering through them before vanishing without a trace.

Planetary Level peak, and with a special Creation Domain to boot!

Thinking back to his past life as an ordinary person on Earth, whisked away to another world by a beam of green light while traveling, it truly feels miraculous.

Chen Qing had read Swallowed Star, but only as a casual pastime to kill time; he couldn't claim to be overly familiar with it.

Unfortunately, his parents perished in the beast tide caused by the Golden Horned Beast. Under that trauma, he awakened as a legendary Spirit Reader at sixteen, along with the memories of his past life.

As for that beam of green light, it was naturally extraordinary, somewhat resembling a lotus seed of the legendary Creation Green Lotus, though it seemed a bit malnourished.

After absorbing endless energy and fortuitously merging with Chen Qing's soul to complete its own spirituality, it traversed space-time in search of a new habitat.

It had exhausted too much during the cross-boundary travel, so after absorbing the rules of this new world, it arrived here to use this precious land to gestate once more.

Chen Qing was thus able to live again, and the lotus seed, planted at the root of his soul, became his symbiotic spiritual object.

"What a pity!" Chen Qing sighs, looking at the distant waves. He arrived too late; had he awakened earlier, he wouldn't have been left all alone!

Chen Qing steadies his mind. At twenty, he broke through to the Planetary Level and received the inheritance information from the lotus seed.

There wasn't much to it, only a manual called Creation. The first layer consisted of nine Secret Script Diagrams, which finally synthesized into one.

Beyond helping to absorb origin energy, these Secret Script Diagrams could reshape his body, making him more attuned to the world, guiding him to comprehend law domains, and ultimately forming a unique Creation Domain.

In the parlance of Swallowed Star, it improved his law affinity and optimized his genes!

Under the guidance of the Secret Script Diagrams, it took Chen Qing over eighty years to finish, completing it only today.

Although the domain is still at the first layer, its power is not insignificant, and he can vaguely sense some mysterious fluctuations.

Chen Qing's lips curl slightly. Now that the domain is complete and the first layer of Creation has reached its peak, everything is ready—it is the perfect time for a breakthrough!

His consciousness sinks back into his dantian, where nine chaotic planets orbit one another.

With a thought from Chen Qing, the planets suddenly explode, rotate, collapse, and finally form a colorful ball of light!

The moment the ball of light forms, both Earth and the Primal Universe fall silent, and a majestic aura emerges around Chen Qing.

Chen Qing seems to see his domain envelop the ball of light, suddenly rising into his sea of consciousness to swallow the nine chaotic planets.

With each one swallowed, the domain expands outward, forming a grey-black Origin Core in the innermost layer, which consumes both the lotus seed and his soul.

Countless origins begin to pour into the Origin Core; Chen Qing seems to witness the destruction, silence, and rebirth of a universe...

He doesn't know how much time has passed when this aura departs with a sense of joy, and the world becomes vivid once more. Chen Qing opens his eyes with a strange expression.

"Primal Universe, you're something else!"

Feeling his "empty" head, he carefully compresses his size, controlling the Origin Core that is darting about; he has become a special humanoid life form, a new record for the universe!

Looking into the Origin Core again, he sees a vast expanse of space where nine massive balls of light surround an illusory green lotus.

The lotus has no stem or leaves, and beneath the seed pod, countless illusory roots connect to the surface of the Origin Core, forming mysterious patterns.

As soon as Chen Qing's spiritual force touches them, he understands them naturally.

As a new special life form, his gene level has reached one hundred times, and the Primal Universe has compensated him with three innate talents.

The first is "Seal Suppression," a skill for his special domain that strengthens as his gene level rises.

One must know that his genes can be cultivated; unlike Luo Feng's "Nine Tribulations," his Creation evolves toward a perfect level.

In other words, as long as he breaks through 10081 times, the suppression power of his Creation Domain will be no less than a supreme domain-type treasure!

The second is "Spirit Burning," though he cannot use it yet; it requires at least the power of a World Lord. It is somewhat similar to divine power burning.

It can increase the power of secret techniques by one level, even after reaching the level of a True God!

The third is "Ruyi," which allows him to adjust his body size at will without changing the total amount of energy, solving the problem of his body growing larger as his genes increase.

It feels quite good. The second talent doesn't seem to have appeared in the original work outside of the Duan Donghe inheritance, and the Primal Universe has never produced such a good thing. Moreover, this alone lowers the difficulty of breaking through to Immortal by a level!

However, the Primal Universe didn't lose out this time either. One must know that its foundation is the Great Dao of Life Origin, and Creation and Destruction both exist within Creation.

By using the origin to help gestate the green lotus this time, the Primal Universe has become more spiritual and powerful—a fortuitous encounter that has never occurred in the endless cycles of the past!

"But I must think carefully about the path ahead. Fortunately, I have no interest in leaving behind a bloodline, otherwise, it would have been too late!"

Once Chen Qing relaxes, he lies directly on the stone cliff, his eyes fixed on the void, as if looking at the Giant Axe Founder who is tracing back through time.

Around when was it discovered again?

It seems that after the incident with Master Hong, Luo Feng decided to break through to the Domain Lord level.

He spent about 200 years at the Universe Level, and while treasure hunting on a junk planet, he was noticed by some King, which, combined with the discovery of Master Hong, led to it.

Counting it up, it has only been about three hundred years; he certainly didn't have the ability to obstruct someone else's path to the Dao.

If he stayed here, his growth trajectory would be plain to see, and with the addition of a strange domain, it would be a wonder if someone didn't try to take him away!

He possessed such a great stroke of Creation, so he dared not gamble on the character of others.

One had to know that the Green Lotus was of a high enough grade to encompass origin, soul, defense, and inheritance, and its final restorative capabilities were no less than the treasures of a God King, perhaps even higher!

If they hadn't seen it in person, mere space-time retrospection wouldn't be clear enough; a divine object's self-concealment was not that simple to bypass.

It seemed he would have to go out and roam, and it was better to leave sooner rather than later; leaving early meant improving early.

Besides, the thought of the floating cities that would appear in the sky later on made him feel somewhat unsettled.

But how would he manage if he left? The Mars Base had just entered a period of development, Hong was wandering, and Thor was training in the surrounding areas; to get out, he would have to rely on the Luo Family!

However, he was penniless, and at the Star level, he was as common as hair on an ox in the universe.

Chen Qing had no interest in protecting others, and with so many secrets of his own, it was better to keep a low profile.

His genes were now a hundred times stronger, and the second and third layers of Creation would soon be completed.

He would use this time to familiarize himself with his power and bring his force output up; he believed he would soon break through to the Domain Lord level, which was still quite respectable in the universe!

Just as Chen Qing was planning, a figure suddenly appeared behind him.

With a graceful and curvaceous figure, it was none other than City Lord Luo's first blade technique teacher, the Moon Witch, Jiang Fang.

A smile immediately spread across Chen Qing's face; over eighty years ago, to avoid the cosmic crisis, Chen Qing had holed up in the training camp.

During that time, he practiced the newly published Thunder Blade, and his teacher was none other than Jiang Fang.

When she taught Luo Feng, her blade technique had already reached the realm of artistic conception; although her bloodline was inferior, her research into blade techniques was profound.

Coupled with her love for teaching students, she was naturally assigned to be Chen Qing's teacher.

After the crisis was resolved, the prescient Chen Qing found his beautiful teacher and borrowed money to buy this small island and the surrounding hundred miles.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing couldn't help but reveal a mouthful of white teeth; in this lifetime, don't even think about him paying back the money—the ones who owe money are the real bosses!

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