CHAPTER 52: 52 AGAINST HEAVEN CULTIVATION

Facing death once again, Mu Hanyan found herself completely calm, her eyes wide open with a mix of reluctance and unwillingness, as she gazed at the world she was about to leave.

Waves of heat, like surging tides, came crashing in, the strong impact making the earth tremble. Logically, such high-temperature waves should have obliterated Mu Hanyan’s bones in an instant, but to her surprise, she felt no pain, only a warm comfort, as if she had returned to her mother’s embrace.

"What’s going on?" Mu Hanyan was immensely astonished.

Her gaze suddenly fell upon the mysterious Star Compass, which had inexplicably appeared and was floating in front of her.

The silver light flickered incessantly, and the carved stars radiated a soft and beautiful glow. The powerful energy generated by the surrounding falling stars, despite the intense heat, seemed to converge into a semi-real river, rushing and pouring into the Compass without causing her any harm.

Time, space, everything in the world, seemed twisted at that moment.

"Buzz!" A buzzing sounded in Mu Hanyan’s mind, and then everything went dark before her eyes, but soon it lit up again.

What appeared in front of her was a marvelous scene, countless stars twinkling, and she found herself floating among them, as if she too had transformed into a star.

Mu Hanyan closed her eyes, and more surprises awaited her; she could actually see inside her own body—bones, muscles, internal organs, and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, all clearly visible.

At the location of her Heart Meridian, stars twinkled brilliantly, their intermingling light patterns creating a complex design, exactly like those on the mysterious Star Compass.

The meteors continued to relentlessly crash to the ground, with their terrifying impact and heat still entirely absorbed by the mysterious Compass, each star on the Compass illuminating a dazzling light and forming a strange beam.

A flash of insight struck Mu Hanyan; the path formed by these twinkling stars had some resemblance to the Heavenly Heart Technique passed down in her family, albeit far more complex and mystical.

Mu Hanyan subconsciously began to guide her cultivation technique along this path, and a soft "crack," like something breaking, echoed from within her.

The highly condensed Heavenly Heart Energy, like spring snow melting into a mountain stream, joyfully flowed through her meridians. The flow increased in speed, and after just one small cycle, it broke through the dams like a flood.

This was it, just like this! Though tonight’s events were completely different from her past life, the flow of energy was exactly the same. Excitement and joy filled Mu Hanyan’s eyes.

It turned out that this mysterious Compass concealed a cultivation method, revealing it only after absorbing the powerful energy from the falling meteor shower.

From what she could see now, the star pattern displayed on the Compass wasn’t even one percent complete, which meant that the cultivation method she had learned was also just the tip of the iceberg. Yet even this one percent had fundamentally changed her cultivation.

From the First-tier Swordsmen Peak, through Second-tier Knight, to Third-tier Swordsman—it took just moments to break through the bottlenecks that had constrained her for over a decade; her strength quite easily reached that of a Third-tier Swordsman, so much so that she barely felt the previous bottlenecks.

If she were to master all the techniques contained within the Star Compass... even she dared not imagine the realm she would reach.