Three Thousand Restrictions, the Lunar Star

Di Jun suddenly spoke up, saying he wanted to visit the Lunar Star, and asked what the two of them thought.

Tai Yi readily agreed. He had no objections and wanted to take a look around the Lunar Star too.

Ling Xiao, however, hesitated. He had only recently chosen to keep his head down and stay put. If he went out now, would that count as exploiting a bug?

He asked the system for an answer.

"Host, you'll have to wait until the next choice is triggered. You can't exploit a system loophole!"

Ling Xiao understood. He shrugged and said, "Brothers, I'll stay on the Sun Star and watch the house. You two go ahead."

Di Jun and Tai Yi nodded without insisting. "Then stay home and wait for your big brothers to find some treasures and bring them back to share with you."

Ling Xiao nodded, a warm current passing through his heart.

Soon after, the three parted ways.

Ling Xiao returned to the Fusang Tree and sat cross-legged beneath it. With a thought, the bead inside his body appeared in his hand. After a period of effort, he could finally control the mysterious bead to a limited extent.

"I'll just call you the Chaos Bead for now..."

Ling Xiao murmured to himself and continued trying to refine the Chaos Bead.

No matter how powerful a magic treasure was, it was useless if it hadn't been refined.

With a thought, Ling Xiao's soul power began pouring into the Chaos Bead.

After a long while,

he opened his eyes, a trace of astonishment on his face.

"Good grief, this thing has three thousand restrictions!?"

Ling Xiao was stunned. Just moments ago, he had finally broken through the Chaos Bead's first restriction, only to discover that it had another two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

That couldn't be right!

In the Primordial World novels he'd read in his past life, ordinary magic treasures had at most a few dozen restrictions.

The Chaos Bead was powerful, sure, but surely it couldn't have three thousand restrictions?

Was this even a real Chaos Bead?

Ling Xiao couldn't help but doubt it. His scalp prickled.

Three thousand restrictions—how long would it take him to refine them all?

He could think about it all he liked, but life had to go on. All he could do was keep refining it.

Before he knew it, another long stretch of time had passed.

One day, Ling Xiao opened his eyes after refining the treasure, a flash of delight in them.

He felt that he was getting somewhere.

After he successfully refined the Chaos Bead's first restriction, the restrictions that followed seemed much easier to refine.

During this period, he had surged ahead, refining a hundred restrictions.

His control over the Chaos Bead had deepened another step. When his divine sense entered its interior, the chaos before him seemed much larger, no longer hazy as it had been at first.

He could even slowly draw on the innate qi within to cultivate, making his progress much faster than it would be otherwise.

At the thought, joy appeared on Ling Xiao's face.

As long as he stayed on the Sun Star and didn't go out, he could cultivate while refining the Chaos Bead. By the time he reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, he would be able to use the Chaos Bead to comprehend the power of the laws.

He'd cultivate like that for hundreds of millions of years and never emerge until he was invincible.

Once he did emerge, he would astonish the entire Primordial World.

[ Ding! Detected that Di Jun and Tai Yi are fighting desperately on the Lunar Star. Host, please make the following choice.]

[Choice One: Stay cautious and do not go out. Do not act. Reward: Superior Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Qilin Seal.]

[Choice Two: Set out at once and go to their aid. Reward: Superior Innate Spiritual Treasure, the twelve-grade Pure World White Lotus.]

Ling Xiao was speechless. He'd just said he would keep his head down for hundreds of millions of years, and now the system was tempting him.

"System, I choose the second option."

Ling Xiao chose without hesitation. Di Jun and Tai Yi were in danger; there was no way he could stand by and do nothing.

"The battle is on the Lunar Star. Could they have run into those two...?"

Ling Xiao muttered under his breath, put away the Chaos Bead, rose to his feet, and hurried to their aid.

The Lunar Star.

A fierce battle was raging.

Four powerful auras blotted out the sky and covered the earth, spreading across the Lunar Star. Their earth-shaking clashes made the entire star tremble.

"Shameless thieves! You stole something from my Lunar Star. Today, you'll pay the price!"

A woman's icy voice rang through the sky, deep anger spilling from her words.

The speaker was a tall woman dressed in blue-and-white gauze. Her features were breathtaking, but her face was frosty. Her killing intent was so cold that it seemed to freeze the very air.

"Fellow Daoist, this is a misunderstanding. I only wanted to study the formation. I didn't steal any treasure from your Lunar Star," Di Jun explained, his golden armor stained with golden blood.

Who could have guessed that while he was studying the Lunar Star's formation, he would alert its innate gods—and that they would be far stronger than the two brothers? If not for their impressive magic treasures, which let them hold their own, they would have been beaten senseless long ago.

"Hmph! Everyone who comes here says that. You two don't look like good people to me."

Another star god on the Lunar Star spoke. She was much shorter, but her figure was shapely. Beneath her arched brows, her lively, crafty eyes sparkled.

"We are Sun Star Gods, not villains. Can't we talk this out, fellow Daoists?" Tai Yi stood undefeated beneath the Chaos Bell. Although his realm was lower than his opponent's, he was in no immediate danger.

"Sun Star Gods?" The tall woman looked a little surprised, then gave a soft laugh.

"What weak Sun Star Gods..."

With an arrogant expression, she looked down on her opponents. It was simply inconceivable that Sun Star Gods could be this weak.

At her words, Di Jun and Tai Yi's faces darkened.

This was their first battle since they had taken human form and emerged into the world, and they were already being looked down on like this.

"Rumble!"

The battle erupted again, and the place grew terrifying. Innate spiritual energy ran wild, and the air was thick with destructive auras.

Even with their anger fueling them, Di Jun and Tai Yi were still no match for their opponents. If not for the Chaos Bell's protection, they would have fallen long ago.

"As fellow star gods, I can spare you this once."

The tall woman spoke again. She dealt with their attacks with ease and wasn't trying to kill them.

The Sun Star Gods held a special status. She couldn't act rashly, or she might incur a great karmic debt.

"Hand over the Fusang Wood from the Sun Star, and we'll call this misunderstanding settled."

She wasn't going to kill the two star gods, but she could demand some compensation. She wasn't worried about revenge later, either. At their level of cultivation, catching up to her and her sister was a pipe dream.

Those with the same level of innate potential didn't catch up easily once they fell behind.

At her words, Di Jun and Tai Yi grew even angrier.

"In your dreams! The Fusang Wood is the foundation of our Golden Crow Clan. How could we hand it over to you?"

Di Jun refused without hesitation, his voice cold.

They didn't choose to retreat, because that might bring the danger back to the Sun Star and draw their Third Brother into it as well.

These two women were far stronger than they were. Even with their Third Brother, they still wouldn't be a match.

"Obstinate fool!" The tall woman's expression turned cold. She unleashed her full power, her vast magic force blotting out the sky and covering the earth. In an instant, Di Jun and Tai Yi were sent flying, blood spraying through the air as their bodies nearly shattered.

"Boom!"

Just then, a massive cauldron seemed to arrive from another spacetime. In an instant, it entered the battlefield and came crashing down on the two women.