Xu Changqing was startled. "You found a Living Star?"
"Yes."
Ji Chen nodded. "I did find the Living Star you mentioned.
I entered its inner space and discovered the souls of human cultivators."
Xu Changqing frowned. "Did someone die inside?"
Ji Chen shook his head. "No one died."
This left Xu Changqing even more confused. He asked, "What exactly happened?"
Ji Chen drained his spirit wine in one gulp before answering, "A Living Star is a living person!"
At those words, Xu Changqing's eyes flew wide. "What did you say?"
Ji Chen set down his wine cup and said seriously, "Someone, or some force, refined a Mahayana cultivator into a Living Star."
For a moment, Xu Changqing was speechless.
He thought back to what he had experienced before.
The planet's disorderly growth, its laws.
The constantly writhing ground, the fluctuations.
Everything within the underground space.
Could that great tree have represented a Spiritual Root?
If that was truly the case, then the matter became terrifying!
Back then, Xu Changqing had merely guessed that someone or some force was cultivating Living Stars.
He had never imagined that they were actually refining Mahayana cultivators into stars.
"Is that true?"
"Why would I lie to you?"
"Could Senior Brother Yin have also been refined into a Living Star?"
"That is most likely the case. After all, his talent regarding souls is extraordinarily gifted!"
This outcome was simply too cruel.
It would have been better if he had been erased outright like Senior Brother Jun.
At least... there would not have been much pain!
Ji Chen continued, "I will not be staying long after returning this time. I still need to go out."
Xu Changqing was deeply curious. "Where to?"
"To find Senior Brother Yin."
Ji Chen said in a low voice, "I have