Arc 9Chapters 203–227

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Chapters 203–227 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 203Divine Silkworm Daoist

Lu Chen drank with Divine Silkworm Daoist and learned that Divine Silkworm Princess had returned. He visited Wei Yi at the ruined Tianxuan Stone Workshop, gave the old Great Saint an Ancient Medicine King, and sought guidance as he struggled to find his path through immortal three severing the Dao.

  • Lu Chen discussed bloodlines and the Dao with Divine Silkworm Daoist and learned that Divine Silkworm Princess had returned.
  • Lu Chen visited the desolate Tianxuan Stone Workshop to see Wei Yi, who had driven back a Primordial Ancestral King.
  • Lu Chen gave Wei Yi an Ancient Medicine King to extend his life, and Wei Yi invited him to visit again.
  • Lu Chen asked Wei Yi for cultivation guidance as he pondered how to sever the Dao while cultivating both Taiyin and Taiyang.

Ch. 204Ji Ziyue seeks help

Lu Chen received Ji Ziyue’s plea to save Li Heishui and headed for the Southern Region with Ji Ziyue and Fairy Zixia. There, Ji Haoyue fled with the dying Li Heishui while Wang Teng and Zi Tiandu pursued them.

  • Lu Chen spent several days at the Tianxuan Stone Workshop, receiving cultivation guidance from Wei Yi and growing closer to the threshold of Severing the Dao.
  • Fairy Zixia reunited with Lu Chen, and they shared enlightenment tea while discussing cultivation and the state of the world.
  • Ji Ziyue asked Lu Chen to rescue Li Heishui, who was being hunted by Wang Teng and Spirit Valley; Lu Chen agreed and traveled south with her and Fairy Zixia.
  • Ji Haoyue fled through the Southern Region carrying the gravely wounded Li Heishui as Wang Teng and Zi Tiandu pursued them.
  • Wang Teng vowed to kill everyone close to the Sacred Body, while Ji Haoyue tried to keep Li Heishui alive.

Ch. 205The Northern Emperor Who Had Passed Away

Lu Chen confronted Wang Teng, whose resurrection had fused his lingering resentment with an incomplete imprint of an Undying Mountain supreme. After defeating and cleansing him, Lu Chen ended Wang Teng’s existence and obtained the Chaotic Ancient legacy, the Ancient Emperor Secret Technique, and Nine Secrets: Qian.

  • Ji Ziyue, Lu Chen, and Fairy Zixia arrived to aid Ji Haoyue and Li Heishui as Wang Teng and Zi Tiandu pursued them.
  • Lu Chen fought Wang Teng and quickly wounded him, declaring that the Northern Emperor was no longer truly himself.
  • Wang Teng went berserk and used Eternal Banishment, but Lu Chen broke the technique and overpowered him with his spear and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
  • Lu Chen severed Wang Teng’s demonized head and used Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s Deliverance Scripture to dissolve the supreme’s incomplete spiritual imprint.
  • Lu Chen restrained Wang Teng’s remaining primordial spirit with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, read his sea of consciousness, and obtained his legacies before finally ending his life.

Ch. 206The Young Lord of a Primordial Royal Clan

Lu Chen killed Wang Teng and the Wang Family experts who attacked him, then faced Zi Tiandu and Spirit Valley’s servants. After Lu Chen effortlessly killed the servants, Zi Tiandu attacked, and Lu Chen answered with the Earth Seal.

  • Lu Chen declared that Wang Teng had already lost himself and killed the enraged Wang Family Great Powers with his Dragon Spear.
  • Lu Chen challenged Zi Tiandu, who warned him against making an enemy of Spirit Valley.
  • Two of Zi Tiandu’s scaled servants attacked Lu Chen, and he destroyed them with a single spear strike.
  • Zi Tiandu unleashed his Azure Ancient Tower and a powerful fist attack against Lu Chen.
  • Lu Chen put away his Dragon Spear and formed the Earth Seal, bringing its saintly power down on Zi Tiandu.

Ch. 207Spirit Valley

Lu Chen overwhelmed Zi Tiandu in a brutal battle, destroying Spirit Valley’s Dragon-Skin Drum and Azure Treasure Pagoda with his bare hands. The chapter ended with Lu Chen stamping Zi Tiandu’s body apart, leaving only his head and primordial spirit intact.

  • Lu Chen shattered Zi Tiandu’s royal-clan physique with his Divine Mountain Earth Seal and forced him into a desperate defense.
  • Zi Tiandu used the Dragon-Skin Drum and Azure Ancient Tower against Lu Chen, but Lu Chen destroyed the drum and injured him with the True Words Heavenly Sound.
  • Lu Chen fought Zi Tiandu through more than a hundred exchanges and shattered the Azure Treasure Pagoda with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
  • Lu Chen battered Zi Tiandu, smashed apart his regrown arm, and stamped him into the ground until only his head and primordial spirit remained.

Ch. 208Falling one after another

Lu Chen defeated and killed Zi Tiandu after overcoming Spirit Valley’s divine technique and an Ancestor King’s protective imprint. With Wang Teng and Zi Tiandu both dead by his hand, news of their successive falls threw the Eastern Wasteland into an uproar.

  • Lu Chen stomped Zi Tiandu’s body apart and moved to finish him, but Zi Tiandu transformed into a divine body and attacked Lu Chen’s primordial spirit.
  • Zi Tiandu’s divine light restrained Lu Chen and wounded him, but Lu Chen broke free and seized Zi Tiandu’s divine body.
  • Zi Tiandu invoked a forbidden technique bearing an Ancestor King’s power, but Lu Chen’s primordial spirit struck him with the Immortal Pagoda and destroyed his divine soul.
  • Lu Chen used his Inherited Saint Weapon to grind away the Ancestor King’s imprinted technique after Zi Tiandu’s death.
  • News spread that Lu Chen had killed both Wang Teng and Zi Tiandu, shocking the Eastern Wasteland and provoking a storm over his attack on Spirit Valley.

Ch. 209Challenging the Royal Clan

After saving Li Heishui, Lu Chen learned that Spirit Valley had awakened and was testing the Human Race by demanding his death. He defied the Primordial Royal Clan and warned that Human Race Sages would destroy it if it attacked his loved ones, leaving Spirit Valley threatening to strike soon.

  • Lu Chen, Ji Haoyue, Ji Ziyue, and Fairy Zixia healed Li Heishui, and Lu Chen urged him to hide until the First Great Bandit emerged from seclusion.
  • Lu Chen told Ji Ziyue that Ye Fan was on an ancient life star and would likely return to the Big Dipper within a few years.
  • After his companions departed, Lu Chen traveled in search of an opportunity to sever the Dao as a Primordial Ancestral King awakened in the Northern Region.
  • Spirit Valley demanded that Lu Chen come and die, threatening to slaughter anyone who sheltered him.
  • Lu Chen declared that he would wipe out Spirit Valley within a few years and warned that Human Race Sages would emerge if it attacked his friends and family.
  • Spirit Valley threatened to kill Lu Chen and his loved ones, while the world wondered how he would respond.

Ch. 210The demon unleashed

Lu Chen enlisted the Primordial Human Demon to destroy Spirit Valley and deter the Primordial Myriad Races from attacking the Human Race. As Lu Chen and his God-Slaying Insect incarnation arrived at Spirit Valley, the Human Demon brushed aside the Ancestor King's probing attack, and the assault was about to begin.

  • Lu Chen visited the Primordial Human Demon at Purple Mountain and asked him to destroy Spirit Valley so the Human Race could gain time to grow.
  • The Primordial Human Demon agreed, and Lu Chen led him toward Spirit Valley while planning to use his God-Slaying Insect incarnation to fight its ancient creatures.
  • Spirit Valley's Ancestor King and his followers discussed killing Lu Chen to test the Human Race's strength and prepare for a wider attack.
  • Lu Chen and his companions reached Spirit Valley and declared their intent to erase the royal clan.
  • The Ancestor King sensed their arrival and attacked with two beams of light, which the Primordial Human Demon dispersed with a flick of his finger.

Ch. 211Shocking the World

Lu Chen and the Primordial Human Demon stormed Spirit Valley, destroying its defenses and slaughtering the Primordial Royal Clan. By dawn, Lu Chen had wiped out every living being in the valley, leaving the clan that had threatened his family and friends erased from the world.

  • Lu Chen and the Primordial Human Demon entered Spirit Valley, breaking its formations as they advanced.
  • Lu Chen used the God-Slaying Insect's saintly body, the Bronze Saint Bell, and a Dragon Spear to slaughter the Ancient Race defenders.
  • The Primordial Human Demon defeated Spirit Valley's Ancestor Kings and destroyed its sealed patriarch before he could emerge from divine source.
  • Lu Chen fought through Spirit Valley for the entire night, killing its remaining inhabitants.
  • Spirit Valley was left without a single living being, and the Primordial Royal Clan was destroyed.

Ch. 212A Royal Clan's Divine Treasury

After Lu Chen and the Primordial Human Demon destroyed Spirit Valley, they searched its ancient halls and claimed its vast treasury. They left the clan’s pure land in ruins, with Lu Chen declaring himself responsible for its destruction.

  • Lu Chen and the Primordial Human Demon entered Spirit Valley’s halls and found vast stores of divine source, weapons, medicines, and other treasures.
  • The Primordial Human Demon shattered three Saint Weapons to strengthen his spiked club, then subdued the spirit of a divine-jade cauldron and gave it to Lu Chen.
  • The Human Demon warned Lu Chen not to rely too heavily on external weapons, and Lu Chen promised to remember his advice.
  • Lu Chen collected most of Spirit Valley’s treasures, including ancient scriptures and the clan’s highest secret art, while the Human Demon took only a few rare items.
  • The Human Demon destroyed Spirit Valley’s pure land, and Lu Chen inscribed a Dao message naming himself as the one who had destroyed the clan.

Ch. 213Chaos in the Northern Region

The Primordial Human Demon took Lu Chen away after Spirit Valley was destroyed, and news of the royal clan’s annihilation sent the Northern Region into chaos. Ancient Race Ancestor Kings gathered at the ruins, fearing a Great Saint of the Human Race had killed Spirit Valley’s three kings.

  • The Primordial Human Demon erased his traces, took Lu Chen, and crossed through the void away from the ruined land.
  • Cultivators discovered Spirit Valley in ruins and heard formation patterns proclaim that Lu Chen had annihilated the clan.
  • News of Spirit Valley’s destruction spread across the Five Regions, though many doubted Lu Chen could have defeated its Ancestor Kings alone.
  • Human and Ancient Race cultivators searched Spirit Valley’s ruins and claimed its treasures until a Primordial Ancestral King arrived and drove them away.
  • Ancient kings gathered at the ruins and concluded that a Great Saint must have slaughtered Spirit Valley’s three kings.

Ch. 214Severing the Dao

After three years of contemplation, Lu Chen decided to sever nothing and began his Dao-severing tribulation in the Outer Domain. As the Heavenly Tribulation escalated, hundreds of lightning-wreathed meteors hurtled toward him.

  • The destruction of Spirit Valley made the Ancient Race clans wary, while Lu Chen claimed he had destroyed the clan alone.
  • Lu Chen spent three years wandering in seclusion and resolved to hold to his own Dao rather than sever affection, love, or obsession.
  • Lu Chen hid his divine treasures, keeping the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda, and ascended to the Outer Domain to face his tribulation.
  • Lu Chen endured waves of lightning that formed Emperor Weapons and humanoid figures, tempering his body, primordial spirit, and Treasure Pagoda.
  • Hundreds of enormous meteors charged toward Lu Chen through the starry sky, and he sensed their immense power.

Ch. 215Dao Marks of the Great Emperors

Lu Chen faced the humanoid lightning imprints of four Great Emperors during his tribulation and was battered to the brink of death. After restoring his body and summoning a single Dao Body, he continued fighting, still determined to walk his own Dao.

  • Lu Chen shattered the lightning-shaped Emperor Weapons, then recognized the imprints of Taihuang and Emperor Hengyu as they attacked him.
  • The Queen Mother of the West and the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor joined the battle, forcing Lu Chen to fight four Great Emperor imprints at once.
  • The four imprints overwhelmed Lu Chen, smashing his body apart, but he used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to restore himself.
  • Lu Chen manifested one Pure One through Laozi's secret technique, but his Dao Body was cut down after its time limit expired.
  • Lu Chen continued battling the four Great Emperors alone, refusing to submit to their imperial Daos.

Ch. 216Twelve Great Emperors of the Human Race

Lu Chen faced the Dao marks of twelve ancient Human Race Great Emperors in his heavenly tribulation and struggled to survive their combined attacks. He realized he only had to endure until the tribulation ended, but remained battered and on the brink of death as the assault continued.

  • Eight more humanoid lightning figures appeared, bringing the number of Great Emperor Dao marks surrounding Lu Chen to twelve.
  • Lu Chen identified the twelve Great Emperors by their weapons and auras, including Wushi, the Ruthless Great Emperor, Nuwa, and the Taiyin and Solar Human Emperors.
  • The Great Emperors attacked Lu Chen alone, in groups, and all together, repeatedly shattering his body and driving him close to death.
  • Lu Chen used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to reconstruct his body and continued fighting with the Nine-Layer Immortal Gold Pagoda and Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
  • Lu Chen understood that he did not need to defeat the twelve Dao marks and only had to survive the tribulation, but their attacks continued to overwhelm him.

Ch. 217Chapter 223

Lu Chen struggled to survive a heavenly tribulation against twelve young Great Emperors, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered body as his strength and life essence ran low. He broke through the eight forbidden domain and clashed with the Solar Saint Emperor, but the tribulation’s emperor marks matched his advance, leaving him still surrounded by overwhelming enemies.

  • Lu Chen repeatedly had his body destroyed by the twelve young Great Emperors and used the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Art to restore himself at the cost of his vital essence.
  • Lu Chen confronted Great Emperor Wushi with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, but the other emperors joined in and shattered him again.
  • Lu Chen used the Fish Leaping Dragon Transformation Art and Nine Secrets: Xing to try to isolate Wushi, but the twelve emperors forced him into another group battle.
  • Lu Chen broke through the eight forbidden domain and unleashed a powerful strike against the Solar Saint Emperor, who also entered the divine forbidden domain.
  • Lu Chen and the Solar Saint Emperor collided, grievously injuring Lu Chen and weakening the emperor’s aura, while the other emperor marks remained able to match Lu Chen’s strength.

Ch. 218Ten suns in the sky

Lu Chen survived the Heavenly Tribulation, fused the Taiyin and Taiyang scriptures, and entered the Immortal Three King realm as a ten-suns phenomenon appeared. Returning to the Southern Region, he later recognized a runaway Blue-Gold Disc as the Universe Battleship from the Eternal Star Domain.

  • Lu Chen endured the twelve young Great Emperors’ attacks, fused the Taiyin and Taiyang scriptures, and forged his own Dao body.
  • Lu Chen survived the Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to the Immortal Three King realm as nine suns appeared beside the real sun.
  • Lu Chen returned to the Great Wilderness of the Southern Region and retrieved the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and other sacred objects.
  • Lu Chen encountered cultivators searching for a strange artifact that captured people and collected their blood.
  • Lu Chen recognized the fleeing Blue-Gold Disc as the Universe Battleship that had once descended on Wangkong City and escaped the Undying Mountain.

Ch. 219The Spaceship Reappeared

Lu Chen was captured by the Eternal Battleship and taken into its prison, where he discovered that it had abducted powerful beings from across the Central Region. After killing a Silver Demon Ape, he faced the battleship’s purple-haired crew with confidence and hinted that their ship would not hold him.

  • Lu Chen heard reports that the Eternal Battleship had abducted cultivators and even Primordial Kings across the Central Region.
  • The Eternal Battleship appeared outside Skytrace City and captured Lu Chen with a beam of light.
  • Lu Chen found himself inside the battleship’s spatial prison and discovered its many imprisoned creatures and weakened Kings.
  • A Silver Demon Ape attacked Lu Chen, and he crushed its head with a single strike.
  • A purple-haired man and woman approached and lamented the loss of the Silvermoon Demon Ape, while Lu Chen smiled and thanked them for bringing him a spaceship.

Ch. 220Turning the Tables

Lu Chen was imprisoned aboard the Eternal Battleship, where the Purple-Haired Man and Purple-Eyed Woman tried to treat him as a specimen and battle pet. He broke out and fought off the ship’s defenses, leaving the pair shocked by the power of his Bronze Ancient Bell.

  • Lu Chen was transported to a laboratory aboard the Eternal Battleship, where the Purple-Haired Man and Purple-Eyed Woman inspected him as an inferior native and planned to test his blood.
  • The Purple-Haired Man attacked Lu Chen with lightning, but Lu Chen swallowed it, prompting the Purple-Eyed Woman to order his blood drawn for experiments.
  • Lu Chen shattered the silver needles and broke out of his prison by striking the metal wall with the Bronze Ancient Bell.
  • The spaceship’s formations attacked Lu Chen, but he defended himself with the Bronze Ancient Bell and advanced on the laboratory staff.
  • The Purple-Haired Man and Purple-Eyed Woman attacked with divine principles, a Saint Weapon bracelet, and the ship’s weapons, but Lu Chen countered their attacks.
  • The pair realized that Lu Chen’s Bronze Ancient Bell was a Great Saint Artifact and feared he would be difficult to defeat.

Ch. 221The Spaceship Changed Hands

Lu Chen overpowered the Eternal Star Domain crew aboard their spaceship, disrupted its systems, and captured the Purple-Haired Man and Purple-Eyed Woman. As he fought the woman’s transforming Saint Garment, a Silver-Haired Youth arrived in a towering mecha to rescue the siblings.

  • Lu Chen defeated the Purple-Haired Man, sealed his powers, and imprisoned him in a Spatial Artifact.
  • Lu Chen used the Legacy Saint Bell and Nine Secret: Bing to disrupt the spaceship, then killed the old man and slaughtered ten crew members.
  • Lu Chen resisted the crew’s attempt to expel him and subdued the Purple-Eyed Woman, but her Vajra Bangle transformed into a Saint Garment that briefly freed her.
  • Lu Chen blocked the Saint Garment’s attacks with the Saint Bell and his body until it reverted to a Vajra Bangle.
  • A Silver-Haired Youth piloted a towering metal mecha toward Lu Chen to rescue the siblings.

Ch. 222Control over Everything

Lu Chen defeated the Eternal spaceship’s Saint-Level War Machine and took control of the ship and its crew. He left the purple-haired siblings and the other survivors under his control, bound by forbidden restraints in their Divine Souls.

  • A silver-haired young man attacked Lu Chen in a Half-Saint-level mecha, but Lu Chen destroyed it with his Dragon Spear.
  • The spaceship’s Divine Spirit piloted a Saint-Level War Machine against Lu Chen, who merged with the God-Slaying Insect’s saintly body and fought back using the Legacy Saint Bell.
  • Lu Chen used Nine Secret: Bing to disrupt the Saint-Level War Machine and kill its middle-aged Human King pilot, taking control of the spaceship.
  • Lu Chen gathered the purple-haired siblings and the rest of the crew in the main control room and ordered them to pilot the ship for him.
  • When a red-haired young man refused to obey, Lu Chen killed him and threatened the others.
  • Lu Chen placed forbidden restraints within the survivors’ Divine Souls, controlling their lives and deaths.

Ch. 223Heading to Eternal

Lu Chen took control of the spaceship and discovered that its stone pool held Supreme Evolution Liquid, which could greatly strengthen his body and primordial spirit. After learning that completing its refinement would take years, he decided to head to the Eternal Star Domain to seek a method that could speed up the process.

  • Lu Chen learned how the purple-haired siblings' expedition had lost most of its people and ships before crashing on Big Dipper Ancient Star and becoming his prisoners.
  • Lu Chen brought the siblings to the spaceship's Main Laboratory and revealed that he recognized the pool's contents as Supreme Evolution Liquid.
  • Lu Chen tested the liquid and felt it transform his body and primordial spirit.
  • The Purple-Eyed Woman explained that the liquid was only preliminarily refined, and the Purple-Haired Man said completing it would take several years.
  • Lu Chen decided to travel to the Eternal Star Domain to find a Divine Ancient Method that could shorten the refinement time.

Ch. 224Divine Main Materials

Lu Chen planned to enter the Eternal Kingdom to find better methods and materials for refining strongest bloodline evolution liquid. After Zi Yan and Zi Chuan mocked his ambition to make fourth-tier liquid, he considered the rare materials he already possessed and concluded he had enough for third-tier liquid, with a path toward his goal.

  • Lu Chen decided to travel to the Eternal Star Domain to seek advanced refining methods and become stronger amid the Big Dipper's growing turmoil.
  • Lu Chen identified heavenly mandate rock as one main material and considered searching the Big Dipper for three more to make fourth-tier bloodline evolution liquid.
  • Zi Yan and Zi Chuan mocked Lu Chen's plan, pointing out how rarely fourth-tier liquid had been refined and how difficult gathering the materials was.
  • Lu Chen recalled that Immortal Divine Medicine could serve as a main material and considered using a branch of Emperor Zun's Humanoid Immortal Divine Medicine.
  • Lu Chen also identified the Enlightenment Tea Tree Coffin Slab as a source of another main material, giving him three materials for third-tier evolution liquid.

Ch. 225Upon the Sun

Lu Chen traveled to the Sun Star to seek a divine ingredient for refining the fourth-tier strongest bloodline evolution liquid and found the Solar Saint Emperor’s ancient cultivation grounds. As he studied the halls and drew on the sun’s fire essence, his body began to transform and emit saintly might.

  • Lu Chen considered the primordial life stone and other divine medicines as possible main ingredients, then decided to search the Sun Star for traces of the Fusang Divine Tree.
  • Lu Chen ordered Zi Yan, Zi Chuan, and the others to pilot their Saint-Class Battleship from Big Dipper to the Sun Star, while he learned the ship’s controls.
  • Lu Chen sensed the Solar Saint Emperor’s cultivation grounds with the Solar True Scripture, then left his Dao Body aboard the ship to keep watch.
  • Lu Chen found the ancient stone halls and studied their records of the Solar Saint Emperor’s evolving Fire Element Divine Arts.
  • Lu Chen drew on the Sun Star’s fire essence as he comprehended the Solar True Scripture, strengthening his body and beginning to radiate saintly might.

Ch. 226The Fusang Divine Medicine

Lu Chen reached the Sun Divine Temple and entered the Sun Core, where he broke into the Solar Saint Emperor’s incomplete ancient formation. He obtained a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree, completing the four main ingredients he needed for fourth-tier supreme bloodline evolution liquid, then returned to the temple.

  • Lu Chen found the Sun Divine Temple and activated its teleportation formation to enter the Sun Core.
  • Lu Chen encountered the Solar Saint Emperor’s incomplete primordial divine formation and used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to break through it.
  • Lu Chen discovered a golden Dao platform and found a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree on it.
  • Lu Chen took the Fusang branch and realized he had gathered all four main ingredients for fourth-tier supreme bloodline evolution liquid.
  • Lu Chen searched the formation for more treasures, found none, and returned through the Domain Gate to the Sun Divine Temple.

Ch. 227Leaving Big Dipper Again

Lu Chen gathered most of the materials needed to refine fourth-order supreme bloodline evolution liquid on Big Dipper, then set out for the Eternal Kingdom to find the remaining ingredients and a faster refining method. As the Saint-Level Spaceship crossed the star domains, Zi Yan, Zi Chuan, and the others secretly planned to take revenge on him when they returned home.

  • Lu Chen returned from the Sun and ordered Zi Yan and the others to take the Saint-Level Spaceship back to Big Dipper.
  • Lu Chen traveled across Big Dipper, purchasing and excavating materials for the evolution liquid until he had found four core ingredients and most supplementary materials, but not fire god stone or water marrow mother.
  • Lu Chen decided to journey to the Eternal Star Domain to find the missing materials and a more powerful method of refining the evolution liquid.
  • Lu Chen released the spaceship from the Legacy Saint Bell and ordered Zi Yan and the others to take him to the Eternal Kingdom.
  • Zi Yan, Zi Chuan, and the others charted Big Dipper's coordinates during a half month of travel and secretly resolved to enslave Lu Chen and seize Big Dipper's resources.
  • The Saint-Level Spaceship opened a star gate and departed across the star domains.
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