Chapter 261: Power-Veined Stellar Body

Roar!

The Power Runes roared, the three-tiered palace trembled, and blood energy surged all around.

The Star Array outlined by blood energy rippled with countless waves.

A powerful suppressing force swept through, causing Stellar Body Martial Artists to drop to the ground one after another.

Huo Qinglan and Lin Feng, the two Star Constellation Experts, also abandoned their struggle at this moment, quickly sitting cross-legged and circulating their Star Power to resist the pressure.

Splash!

Blood sprayed as the two Star Constellation Experts hastily retracted their Star Power, staring in horror at Jiang Changkong enveloped in blood energy.

“I knew it, this kid is up to something.”

Lin Feng glared viciously at the surging blood energy, where six Power Runes crisscrossed, drawing in the vast blood energy around them and converging into a mysterious Star Array.

Roar!

The six Power Runes intertwined, emitting low growls as the Stellar Embryo within Jiang Changkong released a torrent of blood energy.

It merged into the Power Runes, weaving together.

“Force without form, power without sound, blood energy overcomes yin and evil, shatters the Void…”

Ancient Star Script appeared, and various profound meanings actively surfaced in Jiang Changkong’s mind.

Stellar Body!

Or rather, Battle Form—Earth’s Stellar Body was referred to as Battle Form by the War Palace.

Star Embryo Martial Artists condensed the most basic Stellar Body.

Stellar Body Martial Artists condensed a more advanced Stellar Body, completely transforming their physique.

The so-called Immortal Scripture fragments of the War Palace were the Stellar Bodies of body-refining Martial Artists, also known as Power Pattern War Bodies.

And these Star Arrays were formed by the imprints and connections of Star Dao’s profound meanings and cultivation of the Great Dao.

According to the information in his mind, this was knowledge only accessible to Top-Rank Martial Artists and those on the Star Dao.

However, after years of development and evolution, these profound meanings had been continuously simplified, their power weakened, allowing Stellar Embryos and Stellar Bodies to bear them.

This was also the secret of the Stellar Bodies of various top-tier powers!

The reason those prodigies could cultivate partial Stellar Bodies was because they used their own bodies to bear incomplete Star Array pathways.

Power Runes penetrated his entire body, merging into every inch of flesh and blood.

Vast blood energy integrated into the Power Runes, outlining a complete Stellar Body!

Once the Power Pattern War Body reached perfection, a single punch could shatter stars, and a palm could grasp the sun and moon!

The Force War Body at the Stellar Embryo Level was only the most basic, but it was enough.

This was the War Palace, the convergence point of Force Star Arrays. If one cultivated the Power Pattern War Body and understood the Force Pattern Star Array, they could roam freely here!

Countless insights surfaced in Jiang Changkong’s mind, not just from one Star Array.

The high-tier, low-grade Battle Form Star Array Diagram contained hundreds, even thousands, of Star Arrays.

What he comprehended were the profound meanings of these Star Arrays. As long as he didn’t recklessly alter the Star Arrays here, he could move unimpeded.

Moreover, with the Power Pattern War Body condensed, this place would no longer suppress him in any way!

After understanding this, Jiang Changkong realized what a treasure he had obtained—more useful than any Near-God Technique here.

What he lacked was precisely the method to cultivate the Battle Form!

Boom!

The palace shook violently as that strange roar sounded again, growing closer and closer.

“What is that?” Huo Qinglan exclaimed, her gaze fixed on the entrance.

A body several zhang thick, a Divine Dragon head condensed from blood energy, crimson eyes, and no claws on its body.

“Power Runes…”

Lin Feng and the others turned pale. This Power Rune was far larger than Jiang Changkong’s!

Jiang Changkong’s was only as thick as an arm, but this one was several zhang in size!

Wherever the several-zhang-long Divine Dragon passed, blood energy surged, and the terrifying pressure forced even Lin Feng and Huo Qinglan, the two Star Martial Artists, to prostrate.

Crack!

The sound of bones shattering echoed as Stellar Body Peak Martial Artists could not withstand this pressure, their entire skeletons fracturing.

The several-zhang-long Divine Dragon arrived beside Jiang Changkong and opened its mouth to exhale.

An invisible force shot out, forcibly channeling the surrounding blood energy into Jiang Changkong’s body.

A mysterious Star Script, radiating brilliant golden light, flew out from the Power Runes and imprinted itself onto Jiang Changkong’s forehead.

After this, the several-meter-long Divine Dragon vanished, and these Martial Artists couldn’t even detect how it disappeared.

The palace ceased trembling, the pressure dissipated, and the group gasped heavily for breath.

As the golden Star Script entered his body, Jiang Changkong’s Stellar Embryo seemed to sense something, vibrating wildly.

The Star Script directly rushed into his Dantian, entered the Star Gate, and imprinted itself onto the forehead of the Stellar Embryo.

Hum

With the Star Script now inside him, the changes in Jiang Changkong’s body suddenly accelerated. The construction of the Star Array was nearly completed in an instant.

The six Power Runes, as if stimulated, also began constructing at a faster pace.

The external blood energy poured into his body and was rapidly absorbed by the Star Script on the Stellar Embryo’s forehead. After transformation, it became the energy for constructing the Star Array.

In a single breath, Jiang Changkong’s Star Array was mostly complete.

Huo Qinglan and the others watched Jiang Changkong with grave expressions, simultaneously taking medicinal elixirs to recover from their injuries.

“What do you think Jiang Changkong just obtained?” Lin Feng asked with a cold gaze.

“At a time like this, you’re still thinking about that? Aren’t you afraid the Power Runes from earlier might kill you?” Huo Qinglan retorted coldly.

“That Power Rune was likely also driven by a Star Array. What Jiang Changkong obtained should be the same as what you all got—a Near-God Inheritance,” Lin Feng analyzed calmly. “It’s probably because his cultivation method happened to resonate with that Near-God corpse, granting him such an opportunity.”

“So, he also took two items,” one Martial Artist remarked.

“And whose fault is that? If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t be trapped here,” Yao Qing said coldly.

Lin Feng snapped coldly, “Enough, all of you, shut up. We’ve already taken action earlier. Recover your injuries, and remember this time—just leave them with a breath.”

As the blood energy dispersed, the Three-meter Golden Body vanished, and Jiang Changkong’s figure returned to its normal size.

The Star Array was already complete, but he hadn’t yet awakened. Instead, he was organizing the information about the Star Array and stabilizing his cultivation.

The Star Array he had constructed was completely different from any of the Star Arrays in his mind.

Just like the upgraded techniques he had, this was the most suitable for him!

His upgrade ability could modify martial arts to suit only his own cultivation, and the same applied to this Star Array!

Even if he were to pass on this Stellar Body construction method to another body cultivator, they would only be able to cultivate an ordinary Stellar Body, far inferior to his.

Another fan-shaped gate appeared in his Dantian—a Star Gate belonging to the Power Rune Array Dao—and his Star Power increased accordingly.

“These Star Scripts haven’t been translated.”

In Jiang Changkong’s mind, the vast number of Star Scripts remained untranslated; he lacked the ability to decipher them.

All his insights into the arrays and his understanding of them came entirely from the upgrades.

He comprehended all the arrays but couldn’t understand the introductions written in Star Script.

Time passed bit by bit. Countless mysterious patterns glowed on Jiang Changkong’s skin, resonating with the Star Array on the ground.

“Stellar Body?”

Lin Feng and the others looked at Jiang Changkong with surprise and suspicion—and it was a complete Stellar Body.

“He’s reached the Stellar Body realm?” Jin Hansheng also exclaimed in shock.

“No, his aura is still at the Stellar Embryo realm; he hasn’t entered the Stellar Body realm,” Lin Feng pondered carefully and soon grasped the key point. “That Power Rune only helped him condense a Stellar Body; it’s not the true Stellar Body realm.”

“So that’s it. Even with an additional Stellar Body, it won’t change the facts,” Jin Hansheng said coldly.

The previous transformation had already freed him from Huo Qinglan’s suppression, and his head had regrown.

Jiang Changkong slowly opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on Jin Hansheng, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth. “Head all grown back?”

“Kid, this time we won’t hold back!” Lin Feng stood up, a golden star materializing behind him.

The other Martial Artists also rose slowly, their bones, which had been crushed by the Power Runes, now fully restored.

This was the nature of a Stellar Body Martial Artist—virtually indestructible, like an unkillable cockroach.

Jiang Changkong sneered viciously. “I’ve decided to send all of you to your deaths.”

“Kill!” the group shouted coldly, charging straight at him.