In this world, there are no predetermined prices, only supply and demand.
Of course.
If during this time, Dao Lord Chen Zhixing were to fall, then... how about exchanging one Starlight Stone for a hundred Spirit Stones, with still no market to be found?
Having the Taoist Lord’s path already traveled, now compared to a path with the Taoist Lord’s seat vacant, is different.
At least the latter is much more alluring!
Uh.
From this perspective, ever since Chen Zhixing’s certificate of Dao success, everyone on the path of a Star Monarch wished for his sudden demise.
Of course, it’s about a complete demise, the kind where the soul flies and scatters, not one where he hides in the Spirit Realm to continue his exploitation!
But no matter how you look at it.
At least now.
Chen Zhixing, this Star Monarch Taoist Lord’s successful certificate of Dao, is indeed a genuine boon for those currently practicing the Star Monarch Tao, and even for those who once had relations with it.
...
Jiangzhou, Ziwei Mountain Ruins.
On the day of Chen Zhixing’s certificate of Dao, this place was turned into a forbidden area by the Celestial Saint Palace.
There are many reasons.
Such as, after Chen Zhixing’s certificate of Dao, the ’ordinary’ top-grade spiritual vein beneath Ziwei Mountain would evolve into a ’Star Spirit Vein’ producing Starlight Power, making the Ziwei ruins one of the most precious spiritual veins in the world for the next millennium.
Likewise, this action by the Celestial Saint Palace also implies protection for the Ziwei Chen Family’s future return.
Chen Zhixing’s successful certificate of Dao established him as a genuine Taoist Lord.
So long as he doesn’t court death... even if he does! At least for the next ten thousand years, Chen Zhixing is indisputably an overlord!
Whether he is alive or has fallen into the Spirit Realm, this fact cannot change.
Because, even if Chen Zhixing during this period falls into the Spirit Realm for various reasons, as long as there are still people who want to share the huge benefits of the Star Monarch Tao, they’ll need to consider Chen Zhixing’s influence and reputation.
Otherwise.
As the Master of One Tao, targeting one’s own path’s cultivators is exceedingly easy.
The most exaggerated method could be to suppress the entire path, making it so that no beings with Golden Nature can emerge for the next ten thousand years!
And this method is entirely within the scope permitted by his controlled authority!
It’s very simple.
As long as someone cultivates to the Peak Realm, increase the extraction of their individual Tao Practice, and once the extraction speed exceeds their cultivation speed, this cultivator will essentially be trapped in the Peak Realm for life.
No progress possible.
This is the authority of the Master of One Tao, and this is why any newly arisen Master of One Tao holds a position that causes headaches for the Three Great Sacred Lands, making them have to form alliances.
Even if Yimiao planned to target Chen Zhixing, a promise of ’Three Great Sacred Lands supporting the Star Palace for a thousand years’ was needed!
This is how it is for the Daluo Taoist Lands under Yimiao’s governance.
So, for the Celestial Saint Palace, which not only had no vendetta against the Ziwei Chen Family but was quite close to them in the past, there was naturally no possibility of conflict.
Of course, such friendliness is just friendliness.
It’s because the two families were already quite close.
If it were the Daluo Taoist Lands...
Hmm.
Since Chen Zhixing’s certificate of Dao, the number of people in the Celestial Saint Palace practicing the Star Monarch Tao suddenly surged to nearly a thousand!
But at the Daluo Taoist Lands, there were only three to five stubborn fools, who against the odds, faced the impossible paths, and for the slightest chance of certificate of Dao, stubbornly and boldly pursued the Star Monarch Tao!
In other words, having offended the Taoist Lord, do you still wish to cultivate this path?
What a dream!
Yet, regardless.
After Chen Zhixing’s certificate of Dao, in the East Profound, even in the entire Celestial Profound Realm, the cultivators of the Star Monarch Tao have truly begun to explode rapidly in number.
To what extent?
Ignoring others, just now the Celestial Saint Palace and the Immortal Ascension Sect are already planning to revisit the matter of establishing the Star Palace, and have started contacting Chen Zhixing in various ways.
As for why the last of the Three Great Sacred Lands, the Daluo Taoist Lands, did not get involved?
It’s just that the head of the Daluo Taoist Lands wasn’t hard enough, lacking the courage to crash headlong into the southern wall.
However, in the meantime, the other two families, as per usual, sent their True Monarchs for a visit to the Celestial Saint Palace.
The result, the two True Monarchs only got a single response from Yimiao: ’The Star Monarch Tao is not lacking in our Daluo Taoist Lands, there’s no need to bow to someone like him, the Demon Monarch’.
Yet, these two also received assurance that the Daluo Taoist Lands wouldn’t intentionally harm the Star Monarch Tao either.
Yes, at least on the surface, it’s like this.
As for what the thoughts of Taoist Master Yimiao are?
Who knows!
...
After seeing off the two Taoist Lords from the Celestial Saint Palace and Immortal Ascension Sect.
On Emperor’s Foot Mountain.
Holy Master Yimiao, embracing the unwilling Moon Bear, stared at the endless stars above with a playful smile.
"Joining Chen Zhixing to establish the Star Palace? Is there a need for this?"
Having already received a clear reply from Chen Zhixing himself that he intends to leave the Celestial Profound Realm, Yimiao naturally has no desire to undertake such pointless tasks.
Although after leaving the Celestial Profound Realm, Chen Zhixing’s position as Taoist Lord will still remain, even if he dies outside, he would still be drawn back by the Spirit Realm to form a Star Monarch Taoist Lord and Emperor Ziwei.
But to Yimiao, such submission is truly unnecessary.
"I don’t think Chen Zhixing will die in the Star Realm; since he won’t die and plans to leave, then why should I invest in him?"
Yimiao’s logic was straightforward and plain.
No need.
Because, after leaving the Celestial Profound Realm alive, he no longer holds the authority over his own Tao; unless he returns, or is drawn back by the Spirit Realm after falling, his authority as Taoist Lord would be sealed away, until a Star Monarch challenges his position and forcibly takes over.
Yimiao didn’t think Chen Zhixing would return after leaving.
At least not in the short term.
So, instead of making amends, it would be better to wait for another Star Monarch to occupy Chen Zhixing’s position and then form good relations with the new successor.
According to her calculations, this process would not even take a millennium.
"Once he leaves, the cultivators on the Star Monarch Tao won’t have to serve him as Taoist Lord anymore. Within a hundred years, a Star Monarch will surely emerge. By then, all I need to do is nurture that monarch to a level of law comparable to when Chen Zhixing left the Celestial Profound Realm, peacefully replacing him. After all, the position is vacant... and that little guy is eager to leave the Celestial Profound Realm."
Upon thinking this, True Monarch Yimiao couldn’t help but chuckle.
Everyone else thinks Chen Zhixing will rule the Celestial Profound Realm for ten thousand years, thinking of befriending him.
Only she, as a "kind", could use her advantage in information to make early moves, fostering and investing in successors for the Star Monarch Tao.
Is there a greater advantage than this?
After laughing, Taoist Monarch Yimiao showed some curiosity.
"I wonder how long before he leaves the Celestial Profound, and in which order he’ll be when leaving."
Second Order?
Third Order?
Yimiao wasn’t concerned; after all, it was only a matter of hundreds of years, time she could afford.
As for if his sequence at the time of departure would surge to an extremely high degree, and if he returned before being replaced... if that really happened, Yimiao would just accept it!
After all, with investment, there’s always risk alongside the reward.
Yimiao could only make investments she believed would profit, right?
As for what level Chen Zhixing would reach before leaving?
...
Celestial Break Mountain Range.
On the Moon Lake shore.
Having naturally reached the Fourth Order, Chen Zhixing silently gazed up at the night sky.
"After reaching the Longevity Realm, the speed at which my Star Monarch Tao realm improves seems to be even faster than I anticipated?"
In recent days, feeling the continuous torrent of Tao Practice from the Spirit Realm, almost unceasingly pushing his realm upward... such an effortless upgrade made him momentarily unsure of what to do.
Not to mention.
With this kind of force-fed maturity efficiency right now, perhaps in another year or so, he’ll reach the Fifth Order?