On the other side, the Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse ‘Mie’ also crushed the Soldier-Level Ancient Blood Corpse along with its master.

The method ‘Mie’ used was extremely simple and violent.

He relied on his bizarre speed, then with a slap and a punch, he smashed the Soldier-Level Ancient Blood Corpse and its master into pieces.

Immediately after, ‘Mie’ picked up a Storage Pouch, quickly walked to Yang Che, respectfully handed it to Yang Che, with a hint of fawning in his eyes.

Yang Che accepted the Storage Pouch, not forgetting to turn all three corpses into ash, and also put the fragmented body of the Soldier-Level Ancient Blood Corpse into the stone chamber used for storing Artifact Refining Materials in the Magic Stone Space.

Only then did he walk to another side of the mountain Peak and continue to harvest full pattern star stones.

At this moment, the Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse ‘Mie’ actually mimicked Yang Che’s movements, quickly harvesting full pattern star stones.

Yang Che glanced over and found that Ancient Blood Corpse Mie’s harvesting speed was even faster than his.

While this surprised him, he couldn’t help but feel delighted.

Since Mie could collect full pattern star stones so quickly, Yang Che was no longer in a hurry.

He took out a full pattern star stone, held it in his hand, and directly circulated the Heaven and Earth Chaos Art to try and absorb the ‘essence’ within it.

One of the true meanings of the Chaos Art is that it can not only absorb gaseous and liquid spiritual essences, but also solid essences contained within things like Ore; the Chaos Art can absorb them just as well.

It’s just that the speed of absorbing solid essence is far slower than absorbing gaseous and liquid essence.

After a while, Yang Che looked at the full pattern star stone in his hand, which showed almost no change, with a disappointed expression, and his brows furrowed slightly.

He already knew that among the many star rune stones in this Boundary Battlefield, only the full pattern type had an extremely low probability of containing a very faint special stellar force.

Cultivators with great Opportunity could glimpse a trace of the Heaven and Earth Law from it.

Evidently, this oval-shaped full pattern star stone in Yang Che’s hand did not possess any special stellar force.

Yang Che put this tested full pattern star stone into a special stone chamber in the Magic Stone Space.

Then he continued to try absorbing.

After trying twenty-one pieces in a row, Yang Che finally detected a faint, unique special power in the twenty-second full pattern star stone.

Holding this star rune stone, when he sensed and absorbed that faint special power, Yang Che involuntarily closed his eyes, and an indescribable wonderful feeling instantly surged forth.

It was as if he had suddenly found himself in the boundless, vast starry sky.

Countless stars were shining all around.

However, this wonderful feeling quickly vanished.

The duration was simply too short.

When Yang Che opened his slightly dazed eyes, he tightly gripped the star rune stone in his hand, and no matter how frantically he circulated the Heaven and Earth Chaos Art, he could no longer feel that wonderful sensation.

However, very quickly, his face showed excitement and madness.

That faint special power just now must have been stellar force.

Yang Che immediately inspected himself internally, but after checking several times, he was disappointed to find that not a single trace of that faint stellar force remained.

He ordered Mie to continue harvesting full pattern star stones, and then he himself plunged back into frantic absorption.

This time, after trying to absorb nearly a hundred full pattern star stones, Yang Che was extremely frustrated to find that not a single one contained that special faint stellar force.

After some thought, the helpless Yang Che could only seek help from Tianxie Ziyin, and told her about the ‘predicament’ and confusion he encountered.

Tianxie Ziyin said, “There’s nothing strange about this. On the contrary, it means you have good luck. In fact, all full pattern star stones contain stellar force; some have more, some have less, and some are even impossible to sense at all.

And in most star rune stones, the stellar force within is so faint that it’s almost impossible to sense. Only Cultivators who have reached Soul Transformation and above possess sufficiently powerful Divine Sense and means to discover and utilize it.”

“As for you feeling as if you were completely immersed in the boundless, vast starry sky, that is the miraculous aspect of stellar force. If there is enough of this stellar force, then the longer you feel this wonderful sensation of being in the starry sky. And the longer the time, the more opportunities you naturally have to glimpse the secrets of the Heaven and Earth Law.”

Yang Che gradually understood after hearing these words.

However, he then suddenly asked, “Zi Yin, can this stellar force not be preserved? I found that I can absorb it with the Chaos Art, but it seems impossible to retain. Or rather, it seems to be directly consumed?”

“Hmm. Your perception is correct. When you feel yourself immersed in the boundless, vast starry sky, it means you are consuming stellar force. Once it’s consumed, that wonderful feeling naturally disappears.”

“So that’s how it is. Is there any way to collect all these faint stellar forces and store them together, and then, when there’s enough stellar force, go and sense that wonderful feeling of being in the boundless starry sky?”

“Yes. But you, including this King, cannot do it currently. This requires extremely powerful cultivation to unleash supreme Divine Ability to achieve.

If this King could recover her Peak cultivation, all of these would be within this King’s grasp. But unfortunately, this King was already greatly injured in her Origin Qi when she awoke, and after acting a few times, the loss was even more severe. This King now doesn’t even dare to easily leave this Void Illusion Magic Stone Space.”

As Tianxie Ziyin spoke, she, who was always cool and proud, actually let out a sigh of lament.

…

Yang Che continued to collect full pattern star stones.

Several days later.

Following the mountain Peak and continuously excavating, he unknowingly entered a sunken mini-canyon.

Yang Che observed carefully with interest, finding that this ‘mini-canyon’ seemed to be a originally large depressed area that, for some unknown reason, was severely squeezed by the surrounding protruding mountain Peaks, forming the mini-canyon currently before him.

This place looked ordinary, with nothing remarkable about it.

After failing to discern anything special, Yang Che was about to leave when the Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse ‘Mie’, who had been following him, suddenly pointed to the center of the canyon and mumbled, “Something… strange…”

Yang Che’s heart stirred.

He knew that Mie’s Divine Sense was very powerful, so since he said there was something strange here, he must have sensed something.

So he walked to the lowest point in the center of the canyon, Yang Che squatted down, touched the hard mud and stone, and meticulously swept his Divine Sense over it again and again.

After a long while, he suddenly surged his magic power and directly overturned this patch of mud and stone.

Underground, an incredibly pitch-black, square metal carving was exposed.

It had many strange, pitted grooves and was engraved with complex and ancient patterns.

Yang Che just glanced at these patterns and felt his head become somewhat dizzy.

Having studied Formations with Tianxie Ziyin for decades, Yang Che immediately vaguely judged that this should be some kind of Formation.

But its strange shape and engravings were something Yang Che had never seen before, so being unsure, he immediately woke up Tianxie Ziyin, who hadn't been asleep for long: “Zi Yin, quickly look. What is this?”

Tianxie Ziyin was originally a little angry that Yang Che disturbed her so frequently, but when she saw the square, pitch-black metal carving, she immediately exclaimed in surprise: “This is… a corner of an Ancient Teleportation Array?”

“Yang Che, there should be five more square carvings like this. Quickly search nearby.”

Tianxie Ziyin’s tone, uncharacteristically, held a hint of excitement.