Chapter 247: Binding Immortal Star

Southern Border

The sky was still dark with countless stars and the full moon shone with a cold light to the world. Beneath the starry night was a man who sat on a certain mountain.

His skin was as yellow as fresh oranges and his short hair was the darkest shade of black. A purple robe was worn over his body and shiny purple dust twirled around him like a beautiful nebula. 

Naturally, he was Immortal Star.

Immortal Star gazed at the night sky and sighed. He felt refreshed.

Star path martial practitioners generally had the purest and densest Qi and Essence in their various cultivation bases. Even alchemists and artificers that were known for their highly pure Qi and Essence could never compare.

That was because star path martial practitioners directly absorbed star Qi from the stars at night. In fact, sun path and moon path martial practitioners also shared this benefit but it was not to the same extent as star path.

After all, there were only three suns and one moon but how many stars were in the main world? Who would even bother to count them? They were just too much.

Immortal Star made a silent comparison with the abundance of star Qi on Earth and noticed that Earth was like a pauper compared to the main world.

But this was natural. Nuwa did not cultivate star path. All she did was use huge amounts of star path cultivation materials to create stars in consideration for Earth Grotto-Heaven's inhabitants.

Immortal Star continued to draw in star Qi. At this very moment, he had an endless amount of it. He was even on par with Lu Zheng who had the fragmented Qi fruit and at night, he could never lose in a battle of attrition.

Under his control, star Qi condensed into small dark purple ores around him. They were star cores.

The star cores formed in great numbers and the star Qi around Immortal Star became denser. It was like he was at the centre of a galaxy at the moment.

Immortal Star smiled faintly: "Finally, my battle strength is back"

These star cores were very essential to Immortal Star. Ever since his revival, he noticed that he was always running out of star Essence. For a star path expert, it felt out of other.

The star cores could replace the star Essence from his Qi fruits in any technique that he used. This boosted his longevity during fights to a large extent.

Immortal Star focused, more star cores began to form around his body. His focus was so extreme that he failed to sense Alaka'i who had appeared behind him.

"Immortal… Star" Alaka'i spoke softly as he reminisced.

They both came from Earth's Yin Yang Province but unlike him, Immortal Star was extremely talented. As a Sky realm expert, he had once managed to kill a Void Passage realm expert. Although he was at the peak of Void Passage realm, Alaka'i knew his status could never compare to the once in a thousand years star path genius.

But now… not only was he at the peak of Acquisition realm with nine full Qi fruits, he also had the avatar of a past Reverend as his master. He now cultivated karma path and his battle strength could not be judged with common sense anymore.

The hairs on Immortal Star's body stood on their ends as his heart pumped rapidly. For a person to reach his back without him sensing the person meant only one thing… this person was stronger than him.

Immortal Star turned to face this person. He had fair skin covered in black tattoos and short glossy black hair. His facial hair was full and trimmed. Even after racking his brain, he was unable to recall such a person.

"And you are?" Immortal Star probed.

Alaka'i smiled faintly. He wasn't going to reply. A short tree appeared above his head and he used his methods.

Before Immortal Star could react, a golden thread wrapped around him and constricted, binding him completely. He could not muster any Qi at all and he could only send a distress call to Lu Zheng.