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Kang Fei Rao could also see that even without the help of the strange stone giant, he was definitely not Yang Kai’s opponent. This young man had not used his full strength from the beginning!
[Since when was there such a powerful Origin Returning Realm cultivator on this star?] Kang Fei Rao thought he had reached the limit of what an Origin Returning Realm master could achieve, but today, he realized he was greatly mistaken.
“Tell me what the Sun’s True Essence has to do with any of this?” Yang Kai’s voice sounded, “Why do you say you want to thank me for your current achievements? I don’t remember doing anything for you.”
Kang Fei Rao glanced at him but did not answer immediately. Only when he felt a ruinous strength beginning to crush his Corpse Core did his expression change and he quickly said, “It was an accident! You probably didn’t even know about it.”
“Oh?” Yang Kai raised his brow.
“Do you think that Sun’s True Essence was just randomly placed there? If so, you’re gravely mistaken. The reason the Sun’s True Essence was sealed in that place was to suppress an Underworld Well Spring.”
“Underworld Well Spring?” Yang Kai’s expression changed slightly.
Kang Fei Rao grinned, “Yes, it connects this world to the Underworld, where a thick Yin, Corpse, and Death Qi spring forth from. The Yin, Corpse, and Death Qi are all useless to living creatures, harmful in fact, but to my Corpse Spirit Race, it is nothing less than the finest resource! With an unlimited supply of it, our strength can rapidly grow to the limit of the Origin Returning Realm… en, perhaps even beyond!”
Kang Fei Rao thought he was at the peak of the Origin Returning Realm, but after fighting with Yang Kai, he realized he was still far from it.
“There was actually such a thing beneath Grand Burial Valley?” Yang Kai frowned slightly.
Kang Fei Rao chuckled and said, “How do you think that Corpse Cave was formed? My Ancient Yang Sect’s ancestors discovered that Underworld Well Spring long ago and used that piece of Sun’s True Essence to suppress it. However, the entire reason my noble Corpse Spirit Race could be born was because of the rich Corpse Qi which leaked into the Corpse Cave from it! Previously, we could not access that Underworld Well Spring, but after you took away that Sun’s True Essence, everything changed! Now, do you understand why this Protector must thank you?”
Yang Kai’s expression instantly turned ugly, and he said in a gloomy tone, “So, Shadowed Star becoming like this was my fault?”
“Hahaha!” Kang Fei Rao cackled towards the Heavens as he snickered, “Indeed, you are responsible! So… what do you think would happen if the people of Shadowed Star learned of this? Would they direct all their hatred towards you?”
“Are you threatening me? If you think this is enough for me to let you go, you are greatly mistaken,” Yang Kai sneered.
Kang Fei Rao’s expression flickered but he decided not to further provoke Yang Kai in the end.
Now that his Corpse Core was literally in Yang Kai’s hand, his life and death no longer his to control, naturally he would not do something so foolish.
“Who is your Religion Master? Is he one of the Corpse Generals I saw that day?” Yang Kai asked.
Kang Fei Rao shook his head, “No!”
“Then who?”
“I don’t know.”
“Nonsense!” Yang Kai coldly snorted as he tightened his grip greatly, causing Kang Fei Rao’s Corpse Core to crack slightly, as if it was on the verge of being crushed.
Kang Fei Rao trembled as he grit his teeth and snarled, “I really don’t know. Religion Master is not one of our Corpse Spirit Race at all, he just suddenly appeared inside the Corpse Cave one day and taught us some profound Secret Arts related to our Corpse Qi cultivation, as well as a method to convert others into our clansmen. Without him, it would have been impossible for us to leave the Corpse Cave already, we would likely still be groping around for a way forward in that subterranean cave; after all, none of us has cultivated like this before.”
While Kang Fei Rao spoke, Yang Kai was constantly using his Divine Sense to monitor his expressions and Soul fluctuations, but he did not notice any flaws. There were only two explanations for this, one was that Kang Fei Rao wasn’t lying and really didn’t know the identity or background of this mysterious Religion Master, or two, Kang Fei Rao’s acting skills had reached an astonishing level that could deceive even Yang Kai’s senses.
Yang Kai was more inclined to believe the former possibility.
“Then how strong is he?” Yang Kai asked again.
Kang Fei Rao’s face contorted a few times before he grits his teeth and muttered, “If I said I don’t know what his cultivation is, would you believe it?”
“What do you think?” Yang Kai glared at him coldly.
Kang Fei Rao sighed, “But I really don’t know! He never took action in front of us.”
“Then how did he become your Corpse Spirit Religion’s Religion Master? Don’t tell me that just because he taught you some cultivation and conversion methods, you all willingly submitted to him.”
“How could that be?” Kang Fei Rao sneered, a trace of irritation appearing on his face, “The reason why we brothers surrendered to him was that he…”
Kang Fei Rao had not finished speaking yet when his face suddenly changed drastically, as if something terrifying was happening to him, his eyes bulging as they filled with shock before a look of extreme pain filled his face.
A violent and unstable aura quickly spread from his body.
Yang Kai’s complexion changed as he hurriedly pulled his hand back.
The next moment, Kang Fei Rao howled miserably as a destructive aura burst from his Corpse Core. This aura rapidly transformed into a green flame that seemed to be burning Kang Fei Rao from the inside out.
Kang Fei Rao’s mouth, nose, eyes, and ears all sprayed out green flames, giving him a terrifying appearance.
In less than ten breaths of time, this powerful peak level Corpse General who had fought evenly against Ye Xi Yun was burned down by these green flames, leaving behind only a pile of black ashes.
Yang Kai watched this scene from the beginning to the end, a chill gripping his heart when it was all over.
He did not know exactly what happened to Kang Fei Rao, but he guessed that the mysterious Religion Master of Corpse Spirit Religion had placed some kind of terrible seal on him. Once Kang Fei Rao tried to reveal some key information, this seal would immediately activate, detonate his Corpse Core, and produce this corpse flame that would swiftly kill Kang Fei Rao!
Although everything was just his guess, Yang Kai was confident in his assessment!
[Such vicious methods! Such meticulous scheming!]
It wasn’t even clear what kind of sensitive information Kang Fei Rao was about to reveal that triggered the seal in his body.
Yang Kai thought back to the words Kang Fei Rao spoke just before he died, and although the other party did not articulate anything in particular, Yang Kai was still able to infer some information from it.
This mysterious Religion Master possibly had some kind of method or artifact in his hand which enabled him to control the Corpse Spirit Race!
This was the most likely scenario.
Kang Fei Rao was dead now, so it was impossible to get anything more from it. Pausing for a moment, Yang Kai could not help feeling somewhat wary of this mysterious Religion Master.
Being able to place such a seal onto one’s own subordinates proved that this Religion Master would not be someone easy to deal with.
As for Kang Fei Rao’s statement that Shadowed Star’s current crisis was at least partially his fault, Yang Kai did not attempt to deny it. However, while it was true that him taking away the Sun’s True Essence suppressing the Underworld Well Spring allowed the Corpse Spirit Race to grow much more powerful in a short period of time, the primary reason for this upheaval was no doubt the mysterious Religion Master teaching them the proper method to cultivate as well as giving them the knowledge to successfully transform others into members of the Corpse Spirit Race!
If they did not possess such a method, Corpse Spirit Religion would never have been able to expand so rapidly.
After Yang Kai mulled over these thoughts for a moment, he decided to set the entire issue aside for the time being.
Looking up, the black Origin King Grade Starship was still wantonly bombarding Corpse Spirit Religion’s army. Each Crystal Cannon volley was able to harvest at least dozens from the Corpse Spirit Race as well as those Human cultivators who had submitted to them.
During his battle with Kang Fei Rao, the Flowing Flame Sand Field’s periphery had become filled with dead bodies and scattered remains.
Letting out a light sigh, Yang Kai flew up into the sky, pushed his Space Force, and returned to the Starship.
“Return to the Sect!” He shouted sharply.
After the campaign of extermination the Starship just executed, more than half of the Corpse Spirit Religion army which was besieging High Heaven Sect had been eliminated. Even the White-Robed Corpse General Kang Fei Rao had been killed by Yang Kai, so pursuing the rest of these remnants was not a high priority.
What was most important now was to return to the Sect.
The people Yang Kai brought with him from Tong Xuan Realm needed to be settled in; after all, they had been waiting inside the Sealed World Bead for several years now and it was best for them to contact and familiarize themselves with the World Principles here as soon as possible.
Moreover, Yang Kai also wanted to know how High Heaven Sect was fairing now. It was rumoured that High Heaven Sect had suffered several losses over the past two years and that Great Elder Ye Xi Yun was seriously injured, making Yang Kai wonder if she had recovered or not by now.
The Three Blazing Flame Rings which formed the Flowing Flame Sand Field were so powerful that even an ordinary Origin King Grade Starship would be burned to ashes the moment it tried to intrude.
However, High Heaven Sect’s Starship was personally refined by Yang Yan and had her aura branded into it, so the Three Blazing Flame Rings would not harm it and easily allowed it to pass.
It was not until the huge figure of the Starship disappeared that the Corpse Spirit Religion remnants who had been running and hiding breathed a sigh of relief, but the looks of lingering fear did not leave their faces.
Under the tyrannical might of the Starship, they were not even able to summon the courage to resist as they stood there waiting to be slaughtered!
Now that the Starship had left, they felt relieved.
Without receiving any orders to retreat, though, no one dared escape far. After a short time, the Corpse Spirit Religion cultivators gathered from all directions again and began waiting for instructions from Kang Fei Rao!
However, none of them were aware that Kang Fei Rao had already fallen.
It was not until an hour later, when Kang Fei Rao still didn’t show up, that some who had grown suspicious went to investigate the small palace, only to discover that the White-Robed Corpse General was dead.
The entire army instantly went into an uproar.
One of the four Protectors of Corpse Spirit Religion had fallen, and with the reappearance of High Heaven Sect’s Origin King Grade Starship, it was like an omen of things to come.
High Heaven Sect’s headquarters was located in the fourth layer of the Flowing Flame Sand Field.
However, after Yang Yan took back the first of the Three Blazing Flame Rings that day, the Flowing Flame Sand Field no longer had six layers, instead only consisting of four. So strictly speaking, High Heaven Sect was located in the second layer while the first layer was formed by the second of the Three Blazing Flame Rings. There was another Flame Ring which then separated the second layer from the innermost sanctum where Yang Yan was currently sleeping.
After crossing the flame barrier, Yang Kai scanned the familiar scenery around him and could not help feeling a little excited.
Although Tong Xuan Realm was his native land, he had actually lived on Shadowed Star for longer since he entered the Star Field, and with High Heaven Sect being located here, Yang Kai held a strong affinity to this place.
After all, this was the Sect he created with his own hands, the place where High Heaven Pavilion’s legacy would be carried forward. There was no substitute for the kind of emotion one attached to their own creation.
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Thanks for the new chapter
This King shall take first.
This Young Master has arrived first.
Wooow, wouldn’t let me refresh but y’all juniors can ?
oh boy looks like i’ll never be first now
I took a nap and now i can’t be first 😔 old farts will.have to enlighten me next time
i am getting lu ye vibes from this religion master lol
Its obvious that religion master is lu ye
No shot it’s obvious, but now that u mention it it’s definitely a possibility if u disregard the fact that yin, corspe and death qi are harmful to him as a human cultivator. I was thinking some old demon from the underworld popped up through the spring and took over…whatcha guys think abt this theory ?🤔
Good thing too, I was wondering if that Lu Ye was just gonna be a loose end or not. At least author doesn’t totally forget about everything. I still miss old demon
They did mention old demon a few times when Yang Kai was in sealed world bead. Otherwise he’s forgotten 🙁
Who was lu ye? I forgot😅
Lu Ye is the Origin King remnant soul that took over a cultivator’s body in that medicinal Pond during the flowing flame sand field arc
Lu Ye cultivation when he fell was past the orgin king, I dont think a star emperor would bother with an orgin king and especially get injured by them the way she did. Chances are this epic tale has a way bigger universe that will show face.
I don’t know if it was specifically mentioned that he was above Origin King. and why cant he be Origin King, its not as if only the emperors fought. He can be an Origin King under the enemy emperors banner that died.
Lu Ye is the name of the disciple whose body was stolen by the spirit of the Origin Dao Realm (the realm above Origin King) expert whose soul was trapped by the Starry Emperor in the Fire Field cave, and was released by those idiots when they barged in for the Divine Liquid pool. They thought it was to keep them out, but it was actually to keep him/it trapped inside. He was the one who crippled the Starry Emperor and whose emperor essence still battles the Starry Emperor’s around the periphery of Shadowed Star’s star system. (Which is why no one comes or goes anymore to Shadowed Star)
Lu Ye is the one who indirectly responsible for Yang Kai getting the 7 lotus to bloom because of the current soul that possessed him, an emperor realm like Yang Yan, lost his origin essence crystal to Kai after failing to possessed him.
And yes, Lu Ye is the religion master since he basically took control of the Corpse race with his insects he used when they introduced him.
Yes correct, you’ve answered it more expertly than I. This old master offers his thanks 🤣
Lu Ye, insect race. I have a feeling a battle with the underworld is where Yang Kai destiny is headed. Wonder if other Starfields are totally dominted by these plague type races that crawled out of the underworld.
Now that would be neat
Wait, is Lu Ye the insect king that severely injured Yang Yan?
It looks like to he is. Thats why he was dead where he was and Yang Yan had such a negative feeling about him when she saw him. Plus the whole hive mentality type of fighting. Makes sense to me.
With his strong body, Yan Kai could just secretly open the space crack behind enemies and push them there with his punch, ez win.
Or even use Xiaoxiao for pushing, it likes a human baseball 😀
Lemme guess. The master is Lu Ye.
luigi?
“Who is your Religion Master? Is he one of the Corpse Generals I saw that day?” Yang Kai asked.
Kang Fei Rao shook his head, “No!”
“Then who?”
I havent seen Lu Ye in a while?
So, Yang Kai was about 26 when he left Tong Xuan world, and he is now somewhere around 50ish? Factoring in all the time he spent travelling around the star field, how could he have spent more time on Shadowed Star?
🤦♂️Yang Kai created High Heaven Sect “with his own hands”?😆 I mean, like, the vast majority of the reasons for the sect’s existence can be directly attributed to Yang Yan.
– The reason the sects’ buildings and foundation exist… Yang Yan.
– The reason the sects’ land remained unclaimed for over ten thousand years… Yang Yan.
– The reason the disciples can travel to the sect… Yang Yan (the Emperor Tokens exist, but they are technically naturally also because of Yang Yan and the Sect Defending Array needing her too).
– The reason for the sect’s huge resources made possible through employing the Origin King Grade Starship… Yang Yan.
– The reason for the inclusion of Shadowed Star’s greatest fighting force into the sect… Yang Yan.
Even Wu Yi can be given more credit for the sect, than Yang Kai who almost never handled any of the sect’s affairs.🤷♂️ Basically the only contribution that Yang Kai has made to the Sect (aside from naming it, the Nine Branch Jade Crystal Tree and some pills) is to gather the wealth needed to construct the Starship, and even there, Yang Yan’s contribution wasn’t insignificant. The Grand Burial Valley adventure required Yang Yan’s knowledge of the map and spirit arrays, the Saint Crystal Sources from Xiao Xiao would also not be possible without Yang Yan informing Yang Kai about the Stone Race’s capabilities.
Look at it in another way, if Yang Kai didn’t exist, Yang Yan might still have been able to build the Starship and resurrect Supreme Profound Sect, as long as she had another patron; on the other hand, if Yang Yan didn’t exist, no matter what Yang Kai could’ve done the Starship and the present High Heaven Sect wouldn’t exist.
I remember back when Yang Kai unilaterally changed the name of Supreme Profound Sect without asking Yang Yan, I felt the situation to be quite forced and unnatural because this was the time when Yang Yan’s contributions were so much that she was looking more like the MC than Yang Kai himself.
I would say that the author did a good job in keeping with the MC’s usually apathetic personality while having a sect in his name, but after that, to turn around and say something so immensely contrived as created High Heaven Sect “with his own hands”? That’s just incredibly stupid, and frankly quite embarrassing; it’s like three people create a massive campfire, and allow a small child to contribute a few small sticks to it and the child is so proud of his contribution that he starts shouting how he created the entire campfire, and the older people ignore it and just laugh off the child’s silliness. I think that’s how the Starry Sky Great Emperor should be feeling about Yang Kai in this situation.
You can’t really say he formed sect with his own hands. First of all, this sect has no core inheritance, no style, no ideology. Just a bunch of random people sticking together, majority of them are Hai Ke (or whatever the name) family with low cultivation who followed that girl-captain. They are not loyal to Yang Kai. The other half are Emperor Mountain dudes who refused to be part of sect, they only agreed to live there since this is place of their ancestors. In distant future there will be conflict i am sure of it, cus eventually outsiders will have to leave this sacred Emperor’s place. Elders of this sect consist of 2 old dieing grandphas without families or fame and Ye old woman who is, again, following Emperor Yan and has nothing to do with Yang Kai. The last elder is sneaky dude who randomly decided to stay and defend sect back when it was Mountain – this guy will use any opportunity to become stronger, including betrayal.
Yang Kai never took disciples or teached anyone directly in High Heaven Sect. His main powers are Space Force, unique conflagarated Alchemy and body tempering technics thanks to demon god skeletal body. You can’t really teach this body technic to other, nor can he give away demon cultivation (he had previously tranformed in sort of demon marked creature), cus those are humans, not demons. He can’t teach them alchemy either since conflag sea is rare. So we only left with space force, buuut, he only was able to learn it thanks to sturdy body and directly sitting in open space. In the end he has nothing to teach, useless trash indeed. Thanks to plot armor and tons of luck he got bunch of strong abilities and allied creatures, but you can’t create sect just with that alone.
I really hope some worthy master will come and show Yang Kai his place and chase him out of Heaven Sect.