Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal

"Hunting divine spirits, and you can gain the permission to freely peruse all the classics in the Honorable Daoist Mansion."

Gu Jinlai smiled.

Holding the jade given by Qi Yunsheng, he quickly searched for the whereabouts of that divine spirit.

On the other side, Yan Lie of the Star Spirit Clan was equally confident.

This confidence not only stemmed from his own strength but also from the set of six Immortal Artifacts he possessed.

Attack, defense, speed, soul, domain, support.

The existence of this six-piece set gives him the assurance to face Immortal Golden Immortals and true divine spirits head-on.

Moreover, unlike the Human Clan.

The Star Spirit Clan has much greater resistance to the erosion of time compared to the Human Clan.

Any newly awakened Star Spirit can quickly enter the Golden Immortal Domain, and their lifespan lasts over a million years, with some living tens of millions of years.

The accumulation of long years elevates their Spiritual Realm considerably.

At the age of 140,000, Yan Lie was considered young in the Star Spirit Clan, but his Spiritual Realm had long reached the tenth rank.

Mighty to the point of being just a step away from the Immortal Realm in cultivation, a tenth-rank spirit, along with a set of six Immortal Artifacts...

He couldn't imagine how he could lose this competition.

"What's more..."

Yan Lie once again took out a Secret Treasure.

This Secret Treasure, named the Sky Mirror, is akin to the Peeping God Mirror, specifically used for monitoring and searching for divine spirits and evil gods.

However, compared to the Peeping God Mirror, the Sky Mirror is a Secret Treasure crafted by the Star Spirit Clan with substantial resources. Even though its effects are singular, in terms of cost, it is almost equivalent to a Supreme Immortal Artifact.

Since hunting divine spirits and evil gods is the shared responsibility of the Six Great Races, disputes often get resolved through competing to hunt these entities.

With this in mind, the Star Spirit Clan invested significantly to craft the Sky Mirror, and Yan Lie borrowed it from the Clan Leader of the Yan Clan.

Now, it was evidently time for the Sky Mirror to come into play.

"Relying on the residual imprint to sense the location of divine spirits? Such passive methods are outdated."

Yan Lie chuckled softly. When he deemed the distance from Gu Jinlai far enough, he swiftly took out the Sky Mirror.

As he activated this Immortal Artifact, an invisible ripple soon blended into the faint spatial wave, dispersing in all directions.

Not long after, a light dot appeared on the Sky Mirror.

"Found it, too easy."

Yan Lie smiled, "To snatch a spot from the Human Clan's Daoist Venerable Mansion in the New Fire Star Sea once again is a great merit. Our clan can send another genius to enter the Daoist Venerable Mansion, leveraging the resources of the Human Clan to cultivate and step into the Immortal Realm."

What in the world could be more satisfying than using one's adversary's resources to nurture one's own kin?

This Star Spirit strode forward, traversing rapidly.

A few days later, he once again took out the Sky Mirror and reactivated it.

Quickly, the divine spirit he detected reappeared on the Sky Mirror.

However...

To his surprise, the light dot representing the divine spirit was getting closer to him.

As if...

The divine spirit was also heading in his direction.

"Could I be this lucky, that a divine spirit is coming towards me? If I don't win this competition, who else can?"

Yan Lie laughed, and his speed increased even further.

The vastness of the Star Prison rendered laws invisible.

Even though this Star Prison spanned only a few thousand light-years, Yan Lie would still need several thousand years to simply fly out.

This was with the aid of speed-related Immortal Artifacts.

The spatial scale was the most formidable chain of the Star Prison, trapping any beings thrown into it, preventing their escape.

Fortunately, the divine spirit seemed recently captured and not yet deep into the Star Prison. After three more days of traveling, Yan Lie again took out the Sky Mirror.

"I should be about one or two days, or even less, away from that divine spirit now."

Yan Lie said, activating the Sky Mirror once more.

As expected, the Sky Mirror showed that the divine spirit was indeed only one or two days away. Yet, unexpectedly, a second light dot appeared on the Sky Mirror.

This sight made the Star Spirit slightly dazed.

"There's a second divine spirit in the Star Prison!?"

Yan Lie was somewhat puzzled.

However, considering that the Human Clan's Star Prison was specifically designed to incarcerate Golden Immortals and divine spirits, finding another divine spirit, aside from the one they intended to hunt, or a fallen Golden Immortal turned divine spirit, did not seem strange.

He was a foreigner, unaware of these details, but he did not overthink it. Instead, he sped up towards the divine spirit, aiming to prevent the two divine spirits from converging, thus increasing the challenge.

Yet, this Star Spirit Clan prodigy was unaware that the number of divine spirits in this Star Prison far exceeded his expectations.

...

At this moment, within a space dense with spatial laws inside the Star Domain, a figure emanating a faint blue light is constructing a gigantic portal.

This is a God Spawn!

A top-tier God Spawn!

From the task this God Spawn is currently undertaking and the appearance of this portal, it is evident that this is a Realm Gate about to be completed.

Beside him, there are over a hundred Divine Spirits present.

Among these Divine Spirits, the vast majority are ordinary spirits that have recently transformed, with only a few qualifying as Divine King level.

"Our materials are insufficient! I still need ten Golden Immortals with over ninety percent Space Dao Compatibility, or ten space-type Immortal Artifacts, to fully cast this Realm Gate, thereby connecting it to the exit Realm Gate of the Star Prison, allowing all of you to be transported out of this Star Prison at once."

At this moment, the God Spawn speaks slowly.

"Lord Yuan Huang..."

A Divine Spirit steps forward, about to speak, but the God Spawn looks at him with eyes full of pressure: "Call me Yuan Xiu. Since I have gained wisdom, I naturally have become a new life form separate from Yuan Huang. I don't want you to make such a low-level mistake again."

The Divine Spirit tenses up, quickly responding: "Lord Yuan Xiu."

Helplessly, he said: "We've already contributed all of our Immortal Artifacts to you. All Golden Immortals cultivating the Space Dao have also become materials for casting the Realm Gate. This is the Star Prison, and to find ten Golden Immortals with over ninety percent Space Dao Compatibility or two Immortal Artifacts... It's too difficult. Could you perhaps contact Lord Yuan Huang again to use the method of having Divine Spirits captured by the Human Clan to bring in Immortal Artifacts?"

"Do you think having Divine Spirits avoid the Human Clan's probe and bring in an Immortal Artifact is an easy task?"

Yuan Xiu sneers: "Besides, all of you were just a bunch of Golden Immortals. Even though you accepted our invitation and converted to Divine Spirits, it was a choice made out of desperation. Who knows whether you will truly regard yourselves as one of the Divine Spirits in the future? Is it really worth our effort to rescue you with such immense effort? That's uncertain."

These words caused discomfort among the Divine Spirits present.

Golden Immortals!

This former identity of theirs deeply stung their sensitive spirits.

One Divine Spirit spoke solemnly: "Back then, because I seized a Treasure from a Disciple of the Fire Cloud Palace, I was imprisoned in the Star Prison, enduring two millennia of solitude and deathly silence. Henceforth, I shall never consider them my kin. I swear, one day, I will break out of the Star Prison and make those who imprisoned me pay. I will make them taste this lengthy darkness and experience the same descent."

"Indeed, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures belong to the capable! When a Great Dao Divine Stone is right in front of me, should I stand idly by, letting a weaker one take it just because he discovered this Supreme Treasure first? What kind of logic is this! Spare me the pity for the weak! In this world, the weak shall be trampled by the strong!"

His words resonated with another Divine Spirit.

Other Divine Spirits also responded with cold resolve.

They were all Golden Immortals imprisoned in the Star Prison.

Three thousand years ago, Yuan Xiu appeared in the Star Prison, using a special method to allow them to preach remotely, develop followers, and guide them to cast the Divine Country, thus achieving Divine Spirit status.

Of course, the process of casting a Divine Country and achieving Divine Spirit status is not easy.

Even though the Golden Immortals imprisoned in the Star Prison are considered geniuses and have potential for immortality in the future, ultimately only this number of a hundred and three truly succeeded in converting to Divine Spirits.

As for those who failed to convert...

They became sustenance for the successful ones, existing as high-quality Holy Spirits within the Divine Countries of these Divine Spirits.

"Let's hope so."

Yuan Xiu said indifferently.

Star Prison!

Prisons across various regions!

These are vital links for the Divine Spirits and Evil Gods seeking to break the seal of the Heart of the Cosmic by those Evil Gods.

This link is primarily managed by the Divine Spirits, with assistance from the Evil Gods.

The ancient Evil Gods can not only decompose the Great Dao but also simulate and restore it.

Yuan Xiu was a special God Spawn cultivated by the Ancient God Yuan Huang, projected into the Star Prison with the sole purpose of constructing this Realm Gate. Once the plan is initiated, it will trigger simultaneous riots in Star Prisons across domains such as the New Fire Star Sea, Creation Star Sea, and Wuji Star Sea, drawing the attention of many Immortal Golden Immortals.

Of course, these individuals are merely a part of that grand breakout plan.

Even the Divine Spirits hidden across various Star Domains, and the nations coerced into joining clandestinely, are all parts of this grand plan.

The Divine Spirits and Evil Gods aim to truly burst out of the Heart of the Cosmic, dominate the Starry Sky, becoming at the very least the seventh or eighth major power of the Divine Race or Ancient Divine Race in the cosmic hierarchy. The scope of this plan, its vastness, far surpasses the imagination of any Golden Immortal or Immortal Golden Immortal.

"The reason I entered the Star Prison this time, besides delivering some materials, is because there's another mission."

At this point, a Divine Spirit suddenly spoke up.

If Gu Jinlai or Yan Lie were here, they'd find this to be the target of their hunt, a god named Black Sun.

He looked directly at Yuan Xiu: "A certain plan of Lord Yuan Huang had a minor flaw. He attempted to capture a Golden Immortal possessing both Space and Destruction Daos through a God Spawn he separated, but the process met an unexpected hitch, failing to succeed. Hence, he needs to find a new target, and that target is a Golden Immortal named Yan Lie, located in the Star Spirit Clan at the New Fire Star Sea's Dao Venerate Mansion."

"It failed?"

As a God Spawn derived from the Ancient God Yuan Huang, Yuan Xiu seemed to have some knowledge of this plan.

"I investigated Yan Lie. He has a strong competitor who is also somewhat special. Therefore, I deduced their rivalry may likely opt for the most authoritative method of God hunting. Considering I needed to transport some materials, I then allowed myself to be captured and sent into the Star Prison."

Black Sun spoke, with a hint of a smile forming at the corner of his mouth: "As expected, Yan Lie indeed came. Next, I need your cooperation to locate them and capture them."

"A small matter. The Star Prison now belongs to us."

Yuan Xiu said, directing his gaze towards a Divine King.

The Divine King nodded, seemingly communicating with other Holy Spirits in his Divine Country to inquire something.

Before long, the Divine King looked up: "Found them."

"Good."

Yuan Xiu casually pointed to a Divine King and ten Divine Spirits: "You all go along with Black Sun for this errand."