Over the course of ten thousand years.
Under Chen Xun and Big Black Ox's nurturing, the Heavenly Origin Star returned to its peak once more. They had even spent several thousand years raising the star's age by nearly a hundred million years!
The star rose steadily, stretching across the firmament. Its diameter spanned nearly a light-year, hanging over heaven and earth like a great azure sun.
When it had risen that year, the entire Divine Mountain Continent had rumbled. The Heaven and Earth Five Elements Qi had been drained completely for a full ten breaths. Of course, afterward, it went off to wreak havoc upon the boundless Outer Star River...
Chen Xun had long anticipated this scene. They had done the same thing within the Heaven and Earth Immortal Realm on the Chaos Ancient Road.
Had the Divine Mountain Continent not been devoid of all living things, the Heavenly Origin Star's ascent alone would have been enough to extinguish hundreds of millions upon hundreds of millions of lives within those ten breaths. Chen Xun would not have been able to protect many innocent beings either. It would have been terribly against the harmony of Heaven, an act bound to incur Heaven's wrath.
But the continent's current environment was just right, so Chen Xun and Big Black Ox acted without restraint.
The radiance of the Heavenly Origin Star intertwined with that of the Outer Star River, reflecting a multicolored glow like glazed crystal.
High in the sky, the Heavenly Origin Star hung far away. From Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, it could only be seen as a disc.
The Heavenly Origin Star breathed in and out the aura of heaven and earth, swallowing and exhaling azure clouds and mist, draping the Divine Mountain Continent in layer upon layer of faint, warm azure