"Continue the patrol!"
"Tiangang, Hunyuan, the two of you will lead the army. Should you encounter any Demonic Tide, wipe them all out!"
"Yes, sir!!"
The two generals, Tiangang and Hunyuan, accepted their orders and departed.
Jiang Yun once again sat at the prow of the flagship, immersing his mind in the Ancient Star River.
Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Array!
This was the greatest foundation of the Ancient Demon Race.
By gathering the strength of the entire Demon Race, it could even unleash combat power comparable to Hunyuan!
Among the many formations of the Primordial World, it could absolutely rank among the top three!
Jiang Yun himself had deeply cultivated the Formation Dao. How could he not be tempted upon seeing such a peerless grand formation?
He immediately took out the Upper-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure—the Star Map!
This map bore the three hundred and sixty-five stars of the Zhou Tian, corresponding precisely to the Dao of Stars.
He held the Star Map in one hand, studying the mysteries of the stars' movements within!
With the other, he gazed upon the true Zhou Tian Star Dou, comparing the two!
No years were counted in the Primordial World; cultivation knew no passage of time.
The star river surged endlessly as the immortal vessel cruised onward.
At times, Jiang Yun comprehended formations; at others, he acted to suppress and kill the invading Outer-Realm Heavenly Devils.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed!
On this day, as Jiang Yun sat cross-legged, that graceful notification finally exploded within his mind!
[You comprehended a trace of Innate Undying Spiritual Light within the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure Star Map and observed the movements of the Zhou Tian stars without rest, day and night!] [You have gained a profound understanding of the Dao of Stars!] [You discovered that the three hundred and sixty-five great stars of the Zhou Tian possessed close connections, faintly linked together as one!] [You drew upon the essence of the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Firecloud Formation and combined it with your own insights—] [Your Astral Law has entered the beginner stage!] [You created a formation—the Chaos-Reversing Nebula Grand Array!]
Boom—!!!
Jiang Yun abruptly opened his eyes!
In that instant, it was as though countless stars were born and extinguished within his pupils!
After the Yin-Yang Laws and Four Symbols Laws!
His Astral Law had entered the beginner stage!!
This was the terror of Heaven-Defying Comprehension!
One had to know that from initial mastery of a law to comprehending ten percent of it and attaining the Dao as a quasi-sage, there was no bottleneck at all. One merely needed enough time.
An ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal Peak, even with heaven-shaking comprehension, would at most comprehend a single law.
Yet Jiang Yun, while still in the Golden Immortal realm, had already comprehended three laws!
Originally, Jiang Yun had intended to use this damaged Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Array to deduce the supreme killing formation of the Ancient Demon Race.
Unfortunately, the Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Array could only be set up back then by Demon Emperor Di Jun wielding the Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the River Chart and Luo Book, together with the power of three hundred and sixty-five Daluo Demon Gods.
After the Witch-Demon Final Battle, the River Chart and Luo Book had been carried away by Demon Master Kunpeng, while the three hundred and sixty-five Star Banners had vanished without a trace.
How could it possibly be so easy to comprehend?
Though he could not recreate the Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Array,
he had nevertheless created the Chaos-Reversing Nebula Grand Array!
Within this formation, heaven and earth were inverted, Yin and Yang thrown into chaos!
It could gather the power of the Zhou Tian stars and combine it with the Dao of heaven, earth, Yin, and Yang!
Starlight gathered throughout the formation, and killing intent lay everywhere!
It appeared incomparably magnificent, yet amid that countless starlight lurked endless killing intent!
Most importantly, the majority of killing formations in the Primordial World nurtured a baleful aura.
Once that baleful aura was vented, the formation's power would plummet!
Back during the Investiture of the Gods, the reason the Clarifying Sect had been able to break the Interception Sect's Ten Absolute Formation was that they relied on their many disciples, using human lives to sacrifice to the formation and forcibly exhaust the baleful aura within!
But Jiang Yun's formation
was founded upon the power of the Zhou Tian stars!
It drew down starlight from above the Nine Heavens!
Thus, so long as the star river remained, the starlight would not cease! So long as the starlight did not cease, the formation would never weaken!
Even if thousands or tens of thousands entered the formation, they would not weaken it in the slightest. Instead, they would only become nourishment for its slaughter!
Now that the formation had been created, all that was lacking were the materials to set it up. Jiang Yun rose to his feet and looked toward the Ancient Star River before him.
A thought suddenly arose in his mind!
"Rise!"
With a low shout!
Rumble—!!!
A terrifying surge of mana erupted!
The next moment!
Before the horrified eyes of the Heavenly River Navy's celestial soldiers and generals!
Jiang Yun actually extended his right hand and, with immense mana, violently seized toward the Ancient Star River!
Rumble!!
In an instant, the star river shook!
One star! Ten stars! A hundred stars!
A full three hundred and sixty-five stars were drawn by Jiang Yun's terrifying mana.
They transformed into three hundred and sixty-five streams of light and were forcibly pulled from their orbital paths in the star river!
"Gasp!!!"
Tiangang General, who was standing guard nearby, was utterly dumbfounded.
"Using immense mana to forcibly seize so many stars at once?!"
This act seemed simple, but without an understanding of the Astral Law and the ability to follow the momentum of the stars' movements,
to borrow force against force, it would be absolutely impossible to accomplish so easily!
As a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Tiangang General knew that even he could never achieve such an inconceivable and terrifying feat!
Jiang Yun turned a deaf ear to the shock of those under his command.
His expression solemn, he formed hand seals with both hands!
"Star Map, emerge!"
Buzz—!
The Upper-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Star Map, which had thirty-six Xiantian Divine Restrictions and had been obtained from the Three-Eyed Clan's treasure vault, unfurled with a roar. Within the scroll, the Zhou Tian Star Dou revolved, resembling a real cosmic starfield!
"Go!"
Jiang Yun pointed with two fingers!
The three hundred and sixty-five stars he had seized all shuddered at once.
They transformed into incomparably pure Astral Origin and poured madly into the Star Map!
Boom!!!
The Star Map shone brilliantly, its might terrifying.
"Still not enough!"
Jiang Yun swept his sleeve once more!
A vast quantity of heavenly treasures and earthly materials he had collected earlier poured forth, piling up like mountains!
"Purple Sun True Fire, refine!!"
Jiang Yun flicked his finger, and the Great Sun Purple Sun Mirror flew out!
The supremely firm and yang Purple Sun True Fire cascaded down, beginning to frantically refine those heavenly treasures and earthly materials!
No years were counted in the Primordial World; cultivation knew no passage of time.
Jiang Yun refined them for a full thirty years!
On this day!
When the final heavenly treasure or earthly material was refined and fused into the Astral Origin!
Buzz—!!!
Several hundred beams of incomparably dazzling starlight burst from the Star Map!
They slowly condensed in midair into three hundred and sixty-five brilliant pearls the size of dragon eyes, each gleaming with starlight!
Every single pearl radiated pure astral power.
"High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures!"
"Three hundred and sixty-five of them—every single one is a High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasure!!"
Tiangang General had long since gone completely numb!
Thirty years!
Using stars as materials!
To refine three hundred and sixty-five High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures?!
Even for a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, that was an astonishingly lavish undertaking.
Setting everything else aside, the raw materials alone were the first enormous hurdle!
"Whew—"
Jiang Yun nodded in satisfaction and put away the pearls!
Using the Upper-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure Star Map as the formation core,
supplemented by three hundred and sixty-five Star Pearls at the level of High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures,
the Chaos-Reversing Nebula Grand Array was finally fully formed.
Its power was strong enough to contend with a mighty figure who had just entered the quasi-sage realm!
At last, Jiang Yun possessed a trump card capable of contending against quasi-sages!
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