"This is the first realm of the Star Law, called ’Star Body.’ It strengthens the physique with immense durability. Unless someone surpasses you by one or two realms, they would find it nearly impossible to break through your body."
Yun Ziliang added, "Light up two stars."
Zhou Xuan followed his words and simultaneously illuminated two stars within the Secret Realm.
As the two stars radiated brilliance,
Zhou Xuan’s body began to turn semi-transparent, resembling a humanoid ice sculpture.
Yun Ziliang slashed at Zhou Xuan’s body again. This strike actually passed clean through Zhou Xuan’s form and carved a deep mark on the table behind him.
Yet Zhou Xuan’s body remained completely unharmed.
"This is the second realm of the Star Law—Star Descent, which renders your body incorporeal, like mist, like shadow.
How could any physical weapon harm such an ethereal form without source or substance?"
Zhou Xuan immediately grasped the immense power of the Star Law.
This time, without Yun Ziliang’s prompting, he lit up three stars.
Instantly, Zhou Xuan’s form transformed into tiny specks of starlight, numbering at least in the tens of thousands, filling the entire shop.
"These star sparks are carried by the wind. Wherever the wind takes them, there they go. As long as even one spark escapes, you can descend back to that spark."
With Yun Ziliang’s explanation, Zhou Xuan used the gap in the window lattice to drift outside, descending back into a form amidst the stardust beyond.
When he reappeared, he had materialized outside the shop.
"The three realms of the Star Law... each one is vastly stronger than the last."
Zhou Xuan gazed incredulously at his own hands and feet.
"Greetings, Boss Zhou."
A nearby paper horse shop owner, Boss Zheng, upon seeing Zhou Xuan, hurriedly bowed to him.
"Wishing you thriving business, Boss Zheng."
Zhou Xuan said, and with that, Boss Zheng smiled obsequiously and quickly left.
"Boss Zheng seems unusually enthusiastic today."
"After you publicly executed so many Incense Fire Disciples on East Market Street yesterday, the local shopkeepers and residents are all terrified of you now."
Yun Ziliang called Zhou Xuan back and asked, "Well? Aren’t the three realms of the Star Law incredibly powerful?"
"Powerful, yes, but... they don’t seem as formidable as the Space Law." Zhou Xuan’s thoughts drifted toward the Painter’s Law.
Coming without a trace, disappearing without a sign, and being able to traverse from the easternmost end of Mingjiang Prefecture to the westernmost side in an instant.
"It’s not that the Painter’s Space Law is stronger—it’s that the Bone Elder Association in Mingjiang Prefecture is more powerful."
Yun Ziliang explained, "If the Painter went against a storyteller, he’d struggle to even take a single step. And if he encountered the eight or nine Incense offerings of our Dragon Seeking Hall and got entangled in three parts Dragon Qi, no matter how far he ran, he wouldn’t stand a chance."
Peng Sheng chimed in, "In Jing Country, there are nine laws, which interact, strengthen, and counteract one another. Furthermore, different laws are constrained by different factions. Take Peng Hou’s Dream Law, for example—it is particularly vulnerable to being disrupted by the Law of Music from Music Masters."
"So you see, Xuanzi, laws themselves have no inherent superiority or inferiority. There are only differences in realms. You’re at the third realm of the Star Law, which already places you above the Painter’s Space Law."
As Yun Ziliang spoke, Zhou Xuan inspected his own hands and feet, filled with the childlike wonder and exhilaration of acquiring a new toy.
"Hey, Lao Yun, how many realms of the Star Law do you think that Lion Head managed to comprehend during its lifetime?"
"Three realms, of course. And now they’ve all been inherited by you."
"Can it be perfectly inherited?" Zhou Xuan became interested.
"Don’t get any wild ideas. A person comprehends a law through their own insight. Even if you kill the Painter, you won’t inherit his law.
The only exception is with spirit monsters—spirit monsters understand laws through the innate Divine Skills of the Demon Clan. If you kill them and absorb their bodies, you can inherit their laws. But such spirit monsters usually hide extremely well. Finding them isn’t so e..."
As Yun Ziliang spoke, he abruptly trailed off.
Zhou Xuan asked, "Lao Yun, go on. Why did you stop?"
Noticing Yun Ziliang’s unusual silence, he followed his gaze and happened to see Sister Cui’s snack shop.
"Hiss... Sister Cui is a spirit monster who has comprehended a law?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"It’s quite possible," Yun Ziliang replied. "My apprentice’s disciple once mentioned that Sister Cui stole a magic artifact from Dragon Seeking Hall. We’ve been pursuing her for years,
and the array in East Market Street, according to Mr. Peng, was laid down in ancient times by the First Generation Mountain Ancestor, the Star Lord, and Peng Hou together, specifically to annihilate extraterrestrial intruders from the Great Mother Star Pit.
Back then, those three first-generation divine figures had not yet ascended to the Heavenly Dome and were entities above the nine Incense levels in the human world. The Fengshui Array they created together—there’s no magic artifact in Dragon Seeking Hall today that can perfectly oppose it."
"So you’re saying Sister Cui’s ability to control the Fengshui in East Market Street comes not just from the artifact she stole from Dragon Seeking Hall, but also from her own law?"
Yun Ziliang nodded and said, "No wonder Sister Cui has always hidden within the Fengshui Array of East Market Street. A spirit monster that has comprehended a law is even more coveted than you Blood Well Spirit Communicators.
If Sister Cui dared to reveal her true identity, it wouldn’t take long before those Great Divine Men and Great Yin People would hunt her down. Her fate would be no different than that Lion Head on your table."
Hearing this, Zhou Xuan made some sense of the matter and asked, "Lao Yun, I’m starting to suspect that your Dragon Seeking Hall isn’t pursuing Sister Cui just for that artifact but rather for the law within her body."
Yun Ziliang’s face immediately flushed red, and he stammered, "Nonsense! How can you slander people so baselessly... We... the Dragon Seeking Mountain People... every one of us is virtuous."
Though the thought had crossed Yun Ziliang’s mind, as a founder of Dragon Seeking Hall, he couldn’t "defame the integrity of Tangkou disciples" even if he wanted to.
But now that Zhou Xuan had directly pierced the veil, Yun Ziliang was left feeling somewhat ashamed and tongue-tied.