Over the course of ten thousand years.
Under the nurturing of Chen Xun and Black Bull, the Heavenly Origin Star had once again returned to its prime. They had even spent several thousand years raising the star's age by nearly a hundred million years!
The star slowly rose, spanning the firmament. Its diameter stretched nearly one Yuan-year, hanging over heaven and earth like a great azure sun.
When it had first risen, the entire Divine Mountain Continent had rumbled. The Five-Elements Qi of heaven and earth had been drained dry for a full ten breaths. Naturally, afterward it went on to ravage the boundless starry river beyond the heavens...
Chen Xun had anticipated this long ago. He had done the same thing within the Heaven-Earth Immortal Realm on the Chaos Ancient Road.
Had the Divine Mountain Continent not been devoid of all living beings, the Heavenly Origin Star's mere ascent would have been enough to extinguish countless billions of lives within those ten breaths. Even Chen Xun could not have protected many innocent creatures. It would have been deeply against the harmony of heaven, an act worthy of heavenly condemnation.
But now, the continent's circumstances were just right, and Chen Xun and Black Bull acted without restraint.
The radiance of the Heavenly Origin Star intertwined with the glow of the starry river beyond the heavens, casting a rosy light like seven-colored glazed glass.
High in the sky, the Heavenly Origin Star hung far away, at an immense distance. From Jade Bamboo Mountains, it could only be seen as a disk.
The Heavenly Origin Star breathed in the aura of heaven and earth, exhaling and inhaling azure clouds that draped the Divine Mountain Continent in layers of faint, warm green light.
For Chen Xun, Black Bull, and He Ling, this was