Thirty thousand years later.
Outside the Sun Star—
With an unruffled expression, Dan Jing saw off the sisters Xi He and Chang Xi, who had spent thirty thousand years as his guests.
He was in no hurry to return to secluded cultivation.
Instead, he sat cross-legged among the stars—
Although the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race had burst onto the scene, Dan Jing, who was determined not to enter the Calamity Cycle, paid their affairs no mind!
As a primordial divine being.
One who had long since claimed the mantle of "Sun God."
Dan Jing had his own responsibilities, and his own work to do!
For instance—
Putting the entire Starry Sky in order, regulating it, and managing it!
"It's about time I got to work on the Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation!"
Countless thoughts flowed through Dan Jing's golden eyes.
He kept deducing possibilities in his mind.
Now.
With a clear understanding of the path he should take and what he needed to do next, Dan Jing intended to begin the next stage of his plans.
And pick up another astonishing trump card along the way!
Namely—
To lay out a Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation across the entire Starry Sky that he could control all by himself!
This was by no means impossible!
It was merely a little difficult.
But was Dan Jing the sort of person who feared difficulty?
No.
Facing difficulties, scaling them, crossing them, and surpassing them—
That was the mindset a great cultivator seeking the Dao like him ought to have!
Of course.
Choosing to build a Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation he could control alone was both Dan Jing's heartfelt desire and a choice forced upon him by circumstance.
There were two reasons—
First.
Dan Jing felt much more at ease keeping a trump card like this firmly in his own hands!
Second.
Dan Jing had neither manpower nor resources, and he had no intention of recruiting people or gathering resources!
The brothers Di Jun and Taiyi had never considered building a Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation controllable by a single person.
That was because they had all the manpower and resources they could want!
So they could use that simpler method to create a world-protecting formation.
Of course.
Simple it might have been.
But its drawback was plain to see—
During the final decisive battle, the moment that old rascal Kunpeng saw the tide turning and fled, the entire Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation collapsed.
So.
Dan Jing still preferred to keep the entire formation under his own control.
He was, after all, someone with a powerful desire for control.
Only with a trump card like this in his own hands could he use it boldly and without worry!
A formation like this.
Surely could not be limited to drawing upon the power of the Starry Sky to unleash slaughter.
It had to have other functions.
For example—
It ought to possess basic capabilities such as harmonizing the celestial configurations, bringing order to the Heavenly Circumference Stars, and maintaining the entire Starry Sky!
It might even possess the ability to refine the energy of Chaos.
Dan Jing raised his golden eyes toward the Primordial World Membrane, which stood between the world and the Chaos beyond, barring its perils from pouring into heaven and earth.
The Primordial World Membrane was like a filter—
It kept the countless deadly threats and dangers of the Chaos beyond outside the world.
At the same time.
It allowed relatively harmless Chaos energy to flow into heaven and earth!
And the Chaos energy that entered the world—
After its first settling and separation in the Starry Sky, it descended into the vault of heaven to be broken down further before seeping lower.
Thus.
After settling and separating layer by layer, Chaos energy became all manner of heavenly and earthly essences, nourishing everything and deepening the foundations of the Primordial World and the Universal Realms.
Chime—
A soft sound like the tinkling of a bell rang out.
The Chaos Bell, shrunk to the size of a little handbell, appeared in Dan Jing's hand.
He looked at the Chaos Bell—
All the mysteries of the Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation lay hidden within it, waiting only for him to study, deduce, and perfect them.
By now.
Dan Jing had completely refined the Chaos Bell.
Of course.
This did not mean Dan Jing's strength and cultivation realm were sufficient to refine the Chaos Bell, an innate supreme treasure!
The main reason was that Dan Jing now—
Had heavenly Dao merit, that marvelous "cure-all"!
With the convenience afforded by heavenly Dao merit energy, he had easily unlocked the Chaos Bell's final divine restriction and completely refined this innate supreme treasure.
Now.
Dan Jing gazed thoughtfully at the Chaos Bell in his hand.
He silently thought:
If the Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation could directly refine Chaos energy into heavenly and earthly essences and shower them over the Primordial World and the Universal Realms, heavenly Dao merit would definitely follow.
And perhaps—
If the Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation could work in reverse, gulping down Chaos like a whale to nourish the Primordial World...
At that thought.
A fierce light shone in Dan Jing's golden eyes:
Holy shit—
If this works, wouldn't my contribution to the Primordial Cosmos be enormous?
When that time came—
Even if he went straight to the Violet Cloud Palace and mouthed off to that old sage geezer... ahem, that venerable old sage, the man would have to greet him with a smile, unable to do a thing to him!
"Hiss!"
Dan Jing sucked in a breath, seriousness and determination flashing in his golden eyes.
His interest surged:
"This... deserves some serious attention!"
If for no other reason.
Then simply to earn enough standing to hold his head high before that venerable old sage, he had to take the Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation seriously.
Another point worth mentioning was—
The Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation might be a trump card, but it was also a responsibility!
It was a responsibility Dan Jing had been destined to bear from the moment he arrived in the Primordial Cosmos and began gestating within the Sun Star.
Leaving aside the goals he wished to achieve.
The Heavenly Circumference Stellar Formation's ability to maintain the Starry Sky alone was enough.
As the handsome fellow born of the Sun Star, His Eminence the Sun God, and one of the Starry Sky's representatives, Dan Jing could not escape that responsibility.
Smack!
Tossing the Chaos Bell in his hand, Dan Jing rose to his feet:
"Let's get moving!"
"I'd better pick up the pace—"
"In another few origin cycles, Nuwa and Fuxi might start fighting the Twelve Ancestral Witches."
"That's entertainment... I can't afford to miss."
On this point—
Most of the powerful figures in the Primordial World could deduce as much!
There was no helping it.
The Pangu Divine Hall and the Daoist Sanctuary on Fengqi Mountain were simply too close together.
If the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race truly began conquering the Primordial World, the siblings Nuwa and Fuxi of Fengqi Mountain would absolutely be the first powerful figures to bear the brunt!
These two sides—
Would come to blows sooner or later!
The Twelve Ancestral Witches were not easy to get along with.
But the siblings Nuwa and Fuxi were no pushovers either.
They would fight—
They would definitely fight!
Time passed swiftly.
In the flick of a finger—
Four origin cycles slipped by without a sound.
By then.
With the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race bursting onto the scene, the atmosphere throughout the Primordial World had gradually grown strange.
To call it a standoff with swords drawn and bows bent would be going too far.
But to call it peaceful and tranquil would be even further off the mark.
Of course.
Leaving the atmosphere aside!
As time passed—
Powerful figures from every corner of the world began turning their gazes ever more frequently toward the region around Fengqi Mountain!
Every one of them had at least a little interest in watching the show.
Among them—
The most blatant, never concealing his gaze or attention, was that spectacle-loving Sun Star Madman in the Boundless Starry Sky above the Nine Heavens.
The other powerful figures merely cast an occasional glance.
That spectacle-loving madman—
Had never restrained his gaze in the slightest, let alone withdrawn it!!!
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