The crowd exchanged glances and simultaneously soared into the sky.

They continued to ascend, surpassing the cloud tops and entering the storm layer, eventually reaching the vast cosmic galaxy.

In the distant starry sky, a brilliant beam of light shone down, forming a straight line connecting with Sea Star and linking six other massive stars.

These other cultivation stars, usually invisible, could now be seen with the naked eye under the illumination of this beam.

Seven cultivation stars aligned in a straight line!

"Seven Stars Alignment!?"

Gong Jiang was shaken to his core, his heart surging with waves of shock.

Night Owl and Xu Hei were equally stunned.

Before long, several Divine Transformation cultivators passed through the storm layer and entered the cosmic starry sky.

A beam of light connected all the cultivation stars into a line.

It was the spectacle from 350,000 years ago, the Seven Stars Alignment!

Xu Hei's mind immediately recalled information related to the Seven Stars Alignment.

During the Seven Stars Alignment, space channels were opened, allowing any cultivator to easily traverse vast distances to reach other cultivation stars using teleportation arrays.

Some Divine Transformation experts could even cross the space channels with just their physical bodies, reaching the other side without the need for teleportation arrays.

The implications were clear!

They were about to face an unprecedented resource war, where weaker cultivation stars would be plundered completely.

Unless a powerful expert could sweep through the six directions and suppress all sides, this war could not be avoided.

Back then, the Seven Stars Alignment led to a war that lasted over a decade, with countless casualties, until five Superior Immortals emerged and jointly suppressed everything, ending the chaos. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel✶fire.net

It was much like the struggle for supremacy among the lords of the Central Divine Continent, only now it had expanded to interstellar proportions.

"Why has the Seven Stars Alignment appeared?"

"Could it be a coincidence?"

Countless thoughts flashed through Gong Jiang's mind.

Night Owl took out a communication talisman, which had a message from Daoist Sparrow: "Return to the sect immediately, without delay!"

At the same time, Xu Hei received the same message.

Now, he had obtained what he needed and only had one last thing to do before he could leave safely.

"Give me one more day," Xu Hei replied.

…………

The orbits of the seven cultivation stars were on the same plane.

At this moment, in another plane far from the seven stars.

This was an endless white world, its length and width unknown, and its exact location a mystery.

However, the abundance of Spiritual Qi in this realm far surpassed any cultivation star, and its laws were more complete.

The Spirit Realm! This was the realm every cultivator from the mortal world yearned for.

Ascending to the Spirit Realm, transcending the mundane, and living as long as heaven and earth was the lifelong pursuit of Divine Transformation cultivators. Unfortunately, countless geniuses had fallen on this path.

One day after the Seven Stars Alignment.

A tiny black dot drifted out from the white world, appearing like an insignificant speck of dust, unworthy of attention and undetectable.

Magnified countless times, it was revealed to be a black spaceship!

On the deck stood two figures, a young man and an old man.

The young man stood with his hands behind his back, eyes sharp as an eagle's, while the old man stood behind him like a servant. Both wore crimson robes, with a flame mark on their foreheads resembling a phoenix.

In the middle of the spaceship was a large character: Jiang!

This character represented the supreme meaning—the Ancient Jiang Clan.

"Sixth Young Master, Guanghan Palace has emerged, and the space is weak. We managed to leave the Spirit Realm thanks to the Ancestor's granted Concealment Talisman, but its time is limited. We must hurry and not get sidetracked!"

The red-robed elder reminded.

Jiang Liuyu's expression was calm as he slowly asked, "How long has it been since Ninth Miss's distress signal?"

"Replying to Sixth Young Master, it has been exactly ninety-eight years and seven months."

The red-robed elder bowed in response.

"Hmph, ninety-eight years."

Jiang Liuyu took out a soul lamp, its flame weak but still burning slowly. This was the soul fire of the Jiang Clan's Ninth Miss.

"Ninth Sister, you left willfully and never returned, and now you've ended up like this. Sixth Brother is truly heartbroken!"

Jiang Liuyu's lips curled into a sinister smile, his eyes showing no pity, only cruelty, as he muttered, "No matter who bullied you, Sixth Brother will surely extract their bones and refine their marrow, torturing them for a thousand years until death! As for you, just obediently come home with Sixth Brother and don't think of leaving again."

The Jiang Clan's spaceship cruised through the universe, steadily approaching the plane where the seven stars were located.

Its target was Moon Star.

…………

Sea Star, Northern Continent.

Due to the opened space channel, Daoist Sparrow easily completed a teleportation array, allowing all human cultivators to return to Divine Continent Star.

Without even consuming Supreme Spirit Stones, just a small amount of top-grade spirit stones was needed to travel through the Void and return to their home planet.

This was a great fortune for the cultivators left here!

Their ancestors had immigrated here 350,000 years ago, but their experiences over the years made them realize that this place was unsuitable for human cultivation, and staying would only make them livestock, becoming food for the Demon Clan.

For those at the Elemental Infant stage, with the interference of the Sea Star Demon Clan, they could never reach Divine Transformation in their lifetime!

Therefore, over ninety percent of human cultivators chose to leave via the teleportation array and return to their home planet.

The crowd lined up in long queues, entering the teleportation array one after another, and were sent into the Void.

Northern Continent, eastern coast.

On a dilapidated boat sat a frail woman, her eyes cloudy and her spirit scattered, quietly gazing at the sea, indifferent to the chance to return home.

She had been sitting there for three years.

Suddenly, waves rose in the distant sea, and a familiar merman figure emerged from the ocean.

It was Yu Huang.

The woman's cloudy eyes remained fixed ahead, without any reaction.

Yu Huang approached, standing on the deck, silently watching the woman who had lost her spirit.

In the clouds, Xu Hei also watched this scene below with his azure eyes.

He already understood that Yu Huang's marriage to this woman was merely a task from the Merman Clan, to produce excellent offspring and raise them as a furnace.

Yu Huang had known this all along and cooperated to complete the task.

Yet, the woman remained in the dark about it all.

However, Yu Huang, who had always prioritized his clan, never expected to develop feelings, to have emotions for a human woman.

As the first Chosen of the Merman Clan, the hope of his people, burdened with great responsibility, he ultimately trampled on these feelings.

He refused to admit it! Refused to admit that someone as outstanding as himself could be so sentimental.