Chapter 176: red origin crystal

Chu Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze falling upon Ancestor Lan Ruo. "Rest assured, you need not worry about the Luohe Sect."

Ancestor Lan Ruo smiled slightly. "Over the years, Zhuque Country has also looked after my Luohe Sect quite a bit. I suppose that is also because of you. Coupled with the resources you left behind back then, the Luohe Sect's strength has greatly improved over these years, and no one has dared to provoke us."

"Though our days cannot be considered grand and magnificent, they have been peaceful."

Chu Yuan followed her gaze and nodded slightly. "This is very good. In the cultivation world, without a great Opportunity and a resilient Heart-Nature, how difficult it is to carve out a place of one's own."

"For the Luohe Sect to remain on this Suzaku Planet, developing peacefully and progressing steadily step by step, is also a blessing in its own right."

"With my current strength, ensuring the peace of this region is still something I can manage."

He did not say more, and Ancestor Lan Ruo also understood Chu Yuan's meaning—the Luohe Sect's strength was still too weak.

If they wanted to develop, they still had to rely on time to build up their foundation.

If they took too large a step, they could easily fall into a state of eternal damnation with just a single misstep.

Next, Ancestor Lan Ruo simply took him for a walk around the territory of the Luohe Sect, tracing the mountain paths he had once walked and looking at the halls where he had once lived.

After their stroll, Chu Yuan performed a Divine Ability to reinforce the Mountain Protection Array of the Luohe Sect. With his current cultivation, a Mountain Protection Array laid down by him would not be easily breached, even by a powerhouse of the Pure Nirvana Realm.

"There."

In front of the Mountain Protection Array, Chu Yuan withdrew his hand, not lingering any longer.

"I should go."

This trip was originally just to visit an old friend, so he naturally would not stay here for too long.

Ancestor Lan Ruo nodded, not asking him to stay.

She stood before the mountain gate, watching his retreating figure disappear at the end of the mountain path. The wind rustled her robes and the tips of her hair. Over the years, she had waited at the mountain gate many times; she had long since grown accustomed to watching him leave, and accustomed to not asking him to stay.

Chu Yuan did not return directly to the Soul Refining Sect.

His figure flew out of the Suzaku Planet and came to a halt in the starry sky.

Below, the Suzaku Planet floated quietly, its Spiritual Qi thin and its clouds sparse.

He glanced at it, then turned and sped toward the depths of the starry sky.

The Spiritual Qi of the Suzaku Planet was still too thin. To make it burst with vitality once more, he had to reshape it with a planet soul, essence blood, and even a Divine Soul, just as he had reformed the Biyou Star in the past.

This would allow it to shed its old self and be reborn, no longer resembling its current state of an abandoned cultivation planet.

In the days that followed, Chu Yuan searched everywhere in the starry sky for suitable planets, extracting and taking away their planet souls. He extracted the planet souls of thirteen planets in a row, and with each one extracted, a star would grow dim.

Of course, Chu Yuan would not choose planets where many living beings resided and multiplied; instead, he selected dead stars and abandoned planets.

On this day, Chu Yuan stopped in the Void Realm, looking at the grayish-white planet ahead.

This was already the fifteenth planet he was extracting from.

"Extracting the planet soul of this star should be enough."

Chu Yuan raised his hands, and as his fingers flew to form hand seals, he performed a Divine Ability, slowly extracting the planet's planet soul with his immense magic power.

He had done this many times before and was already well-practiced. The planet soul broke out from the core of the planet, turning into a large sphere of light that emitted a warm luster. It flew toward Chu Yuan, gradually shrinking as it drew near, before being taken into his palm.

Just as the planet soul was halfway extracted, Chu Yuan's brow suddenly twitched, and his movements paused. This was…

Following an unusual aura, he looked down, and after a moment, the corners of Chu Yuan's mouth curled up.

"Heh, what great luck. I didn't expect that extracting a planet soul would lead me to such a treasure."

Without saying more, Chu Yuan first continued to completely extract the planet soul of this star, storing it inside the chaos bead.

Having lost its planet soul, the surface of the grayish-white planet cracked at a speed visible to the naked eye. The land crumbled, the magma solidified, and its vitality grew dim and lusterless.

Having done this, Chu Yuan raised his hand and shook it. Spiritual light erupted around his body, and a ten-thousand-zhang Dharma body manifested behind him. The Dharma body was majestic, dressed in a robe with thunder patterns, its face blurred yet carrying a suffocating sense of pressure.

Infinite thunder gathered in front of the Dharma body, turning into a sea of thunder. The sea of thunder then condensed into a thunder Dragon, with endless arcs of electricity snaking through it.

Then, Chu Yuan raised his hand and pointed. The thunder Dragon roared and smashed down like a giant hammer.

Boom!

Struck by this blow, the star shook violently and then began to shatter inch by inch from within.

After the cracks spread in all directions for a moment, the entire star turned into a giant fireball and exploded with a bang!

Such a scene was truly dazzling to the extreme! The explosion of a planet symbolized destruction, but it was also a magnificent spectacle!

A terrifying aftershock spread in all directions. The aftershock of a planet's explosion possessed such a dreadful power that even a powerhouse of the Kuinie Stage would find it difficult to withstand easily.

Yet when this terrifying power clashed against Chu Yuan, it failed to raise even the slightest ripple in his protective spiritual light.

Standing amidst the fiery light, Chu Yuan calmly watched the cosmic dust that was slowly dispersing.

As he raised his hand, origin force surged out. He executed the Six Jia Qi Men, and the fiery light, as if drawn by an invisible hand, frantically converged toward the center.

After a moment, the light faded, and a crimson crystal standing a full ten thousand meters tall appeared in the Void Realm. Its entire body flowed with a warm luster, looking like solidified fire.

Chu Yuan looked at the crystal. "I didn't expect that randomly choosing a planet to extract its planet soul would actually lead me to this red origin crystal. This item is an excellent material for refining Formation Flags. Usually, it is hard to find even one in ten thousand planets. A piece this large is enough to refine a hundred Formation Flags."

He raised his hand, and the red origin crystal rapidly shrank, turning into a red light that vanished into his sleeve.

Magic Treasures like Formation Flags were naturally common in the cultivation world. However, although ordinary Formation Flags could greatly increase the power of a Formation and stabilize it so that it could operate on its own, their power was indeed limited.

For a powerhouse like Chu Yuan who had already reached the Pure Nirvana Realm, ordinary Formation Flags were practically better than nothing.

But if it were a Formation Flag refined from a red origin crystal, it would be entirely different.

red origin crystals were extremely rare in the starry sky; they could only be obtained by destroying an entire planet.

From this, one could see its terrifying nature. A Formation Flag refined from a red origin crystal could not only greatly enhance a Formation's power but also make it incredibly stable. Even if the array master departed, the great array could still operate on its own without its power decreasing in the slightest.

Whether it was for setting up a sect-protecting grand array or arranging a simple gravitational offensive and defensive Formation, it was extremely suitable.

Chu Yuan also had not expected that just during the process of collecting a planet soul, he would actually find a planet containing such a large amount of red origin crystals. Normally, a red origin crystal would only be produced after destroying ten thousand planets.

This time, it truly was mostly due to luck.

"The planet souls of fifteen stars should be enough. It's sufficient to make the Suzaku Planet burst with vitality once more."

He retrieved the star compass and recalled the coordinates of the Suzaku Planet.

Chu Yuan instantly tore through the void and returned to the Suzaku Planet.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

On the Suzaku Planet, everything was as usual.

One afternoon, a singular sensation suddenly arose from the bottom of everyone's heart.

That feeling did not resemble the sound of wind, nor did it resemble a vibration; rather, it felt as if something was awakening in the depths, silently stretching its body.