Following his teacher Kanuo, Lu Qingshan took just over three days to reach the Kanuo Family's core stronghold, Pastoral Song Star.
Pastoral Song Star truly lived up to its status as the core planet the Kanuo Family had spent tens of thousands of years developing. It had every cultivation facility imaginable, from gravity chambers to trial spaces, and elites from the more than a hundred inhabited planets under the Kanuo Family's rule usually gathered here.
These elites gathered on Pastoral Song Star to receive the Kanuo Family's training. In the future, they would become the Kanuo Family's most loyal warriors, boarding interstellar warships to wage war for the family throughout their lives!
Of course, as the disciple of Kanuo, the family's ancestor, Lu Qingshan had full access to all the most advanced cultivation equipment on Pastoral Song Star, for as long as he wanted. There was no need at all to compete with those so-called elites!
After arriving on Pastoral Song Star, Lu Qingshan first met some important members of the Kanuo Family under his teacher Kanuo's guidance, including several of Kanuo's children and his direct disciples.
The many children of Kanuo who were still alive had relatively ordinary talent and comprehension. Most had only cultivated to Star Level with the resources Kanuo provided.
Two of them had worked harder at cultivation and eventually reached star level ninth stage, now serving as Kanuo's left and right hands;
His other children, however, had begun enjoying life after reaching Star Level. After all, Stellar Level One and star level ninth stage had the same lifespan. Knowing they had little chance of breaking through to Universe Level, they naturally no longer wanted to waste time cultivating after breaking through to Star Level.
Under the protection of Kanuo, a Universe Level expert, they could spend their ten-thousand-year Star Level lives in complete peace and happiness.
As for Kanuo's other four direct disciples, they were all outstanding among those at Star Level.
However, Lu Qingshan's eldest senior brother and second senior sister had become Kanuo's disciples ten or twenty thousand years ago. Having failed to break through to Universe Level afterward, they had naturally already perished upon reaching the limits of their lifespans.
His third senior brother, Huang Ziwei, had also cultivated for over eight thousand years. If he could not break through to Universe Level in the future, he had less than two thousand years left to live; his fourth senior sister, Aolina, was comparatively young, having cultivated for only a little over four thousand years!
Both of them now likewise served as Kanuo's left and right hands.
Huang Ziwei was responsible for teaching and training the elites under the Kanuo Family on Pastoral Song Star, while Aolina commanded the Kanuo Family's most powerful interstellar fleet!
Of course, Kanuo also had many nominal disciples, but he had either accepted them casually or taken them in because of certain contributions. Many had not even become core members of the Kanuo Family, so Lu Qingshan naturally had no need to concern himself with them.
After Kanuo's introductions, these core figures of the Kanuo Family all gained some understanding of Lu Qingshan, and their attitudes were extremely warm.
After all, Kanuo's attitude was plain to see. Immediately upon becoming his disciple, Lu Qingshan had been granted an inhabited planet, and Kanuo had even kept him by his side to instruct him personally. Such treatment could be said to surpass that of any member of the Kanuo Family.
Perhaps some felt a little jealous, but they certainly would not show it so soon.
As for Lu Qingshan, he cared even less about what these core members of the Kanuo Family thought of him. After all, he had followed his teacher Kanuo to Pastoral Song Star to cultivate more effectively, without the slightest intention of vying for power or profit within the Kanuo Family.
Having been familiar with the original novel, Lu Qingshan knew very well that as long as he was strong enough, the corresponding power and status would naturally follow.
In the days that followed, Lu Qingshan began cultivating diligently under his teacher Kanuo's guidance, making use of the various cultivation facilities on Pastoral Song Star.
Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, another fifteen years passed.
Within an extremely advanced gravity cultivation chamber in the core region of Pastoral Song Star.
The gravity inside this cultivation chamber had now reached an astonishing level. Even a planetary level nine warrior entering it would probably die instantly.
Under the pale white lighting, a young man in ocher battle armor, his long hair hanging loose, sat cross-legged on the floor, cultivating quietly. It was none other than Lu Qingshan, who had now cultivated on Pastoral Song Star for fifteen years.
Exhale! Inhale!
With Lu Qingshan's breathing, the Silver Light Marrow in his hands continuously transformed into the purest energy and surged into his body.
Suddenly, however, Lu Qingshan felt his entire body begin to heat up, as though every cell in it had begun to boil.
The genetic origin energy hidden within his body began to converge, gathering from droplets into streams of water, then into creeks and rivers...
Currents of warmth appeared throughout his body, continuously gathering until they finally converged at the dantian in his abdomen.
Boom!
After these warm currents converged, the dantian in Lu Qingshan's abdomen began to tremble slightly.
Immediately afterward, this ocher genetic origin energy continuously gathered, compressed, and collapsed within Lu Qingshan's dantian, soon transforming into an ocher miniature star.
The miniature star spun rapidly, soon reaching the vicinity of another, slightly larger miniature star within Lu Qingshan's dantian. The two miniature stars then continued to rotate, emitting strange fluctuations.
The appearance of this second miniature star also marked Lu Qingshan's successful entry into star level second stage.
"After more than twelve full years of diligent cultivation, I've finally reached star level second stage!"
Sensing the changes within his body, Lu Qingshan, who had been cultivating with his eyes closed, finally opened them slowly. He could not help sighing. "Cultivating at Star Level really is difficult!"
When Lu Qingshan first arrived on Pastoral Song Star, he had already been at planetary level eight. Afterward, it had taken him less than three years to accumulate energy to the limits of Planetary Level, and he had then smoothly broken through directly to Star Level.
Yet after that, despite continuously using Silver Light Marrow and receiving assistance from the many cultivation support facilities on Pastoral Song Star, he had cultivated for twelve full years before successfully reaching star level second stage.
Accumulating energy really takes far too much time!
Lu Qingshan could not help thinking to himself, Over these past fifteen years, I've had to spend nearly half of every day accumulating energy. Calculating it that way, compared with those geniuses who don't need to accumulate energy, I have only half as much cultivation time!
If I keep cultivating at this rate, I'm afraid it will take around eight hundred years to successfully reach star level ninth stage!
From the looks of it, my rate of energy accumulation should count as relatively slow among Star Level experts!
If a Star Level expert could continuously cultivate using the astonishingly valuable Silver Light Marrow, advancing from Stellar Level One to star level ninth stage would take roughly five hundred to a thousand years.
With the assistance of the many cultivation facilities on Pastoral Song Star, Lu Qingshan should, in theory, have cultivated somewhat faster. Yet judging by his previous cultivation speed, reaching star level ninth stage would still take around eight hundred years.
However, this was not surprising.
After all, the bloodline of the people of Xuanhuang Star was extremely ordinary to begin with. Among the Human Race's ten bloodline grades, it could probably only rank ninth.
Although Lu Qingshan's talent was very good among the people of Xuanhuang Star, it was definitely extremely ordinary among Star Level experts.
Precisely because of this, taking eight hundred years was actually relatively normal.
After all, those at Star Level had lifespans of over ten thousand years. Eight hundred years was not even a tenth of that!