Chapter Ninety-Four: The Star God Crystal!

Samir’s expression changed faster than a dog’s face.

It was unavoidable.

Although the thirty Superstars were only early-stage Superstars swarming in, even he couldn’t handle them.

“Please, come inside,” Samir said with a smile, speaking fluent Chinese.

Yang Ye, Long Xiaoqing, and Nezha entered the cabin.

Though the wooden house looked simple on the outside, the furnishings inside were all high-end.

A rosewood coffee table, genuine leather sofas, a refrigerator, air conditioning...

After the four sat down on the sofa, Samir waved his hand, and a stunning beauty brought over four cups of hot tea.

“You can call me Samir. My subordinates offended you earlier,” he said with a smile, making a gesture inviting them to drink.

“I’m Yang Ye, this is my wife Long Xiaoqing, and this little one is my disciple,” Yang Ye introduced himself.

Samir nodded to the three, “Mr. Yang, you truly surprise me! I never expected that in nine years of your absence, so many experts would have emerged in China. Congratulations!”

Yang Ye said nothing about it. His men had been at the stellar realm only a few months ago. Smiling, he said, “This is my first time entering this secret realm. Let’s skip the formalities. I want to ask Mr. Samir a few questions.”

“Ha ha! Mr. Yang, you came to the right person. No one knows this place better than I do,” Samir said, patting his chest.

Yang Ye nodded and took a sip of tea.

Samir then said, “This is the safest place within the entire secret realm. That’s why most cultivators choose to live at the foot of this mountain. Beyond this mountain lies a vast grassland...”

...

An hour later, Yang Ye, Long Xiaoqing, and Nezha left Samir’s cabin.

They headed up the mountain a few hundred meters behind the cabin.

Watching Yang Ye and his group disappear along the mountain path, Samir sighed deeply.

When he mentioned he had been here for nine years, he immediately regretted it.

Everyone knew the longer one stayed here, the more beast cores and various materials one could accumulate.

Fortunately, Yang Ye had not made a move against him.

“Lord Samir, who are these people? Thirty Superstars! Even in the entire secret realm, there haven’t been so many before!” a middle-aged man with a swollen, reddened cheek walked over in astonishment.

Samir replied, “Yes! This is completely illogical. If I’m not mistaken, they must be using a special cultivation method. Even so, they’re not opponents we can defeat.”

After speaking, Samir gritted his teeth, “Those who came in didn’t warn me at all. I almost clashed with them.”

The middle-aged man lowered his head slightly, thinking to himself that this was all because Samir had offended too many people lately...

Of course, he couldn’t say that aloud.

...

Yang Ye’s group soon reached the mountaintop.

Looking out, before them was indeed an endless grassland. At the farthest visible point, a blurry black pillar stretched from the grassland into the sky.

Turning around, Yang Ye saw the place they came from—the foot of the mountain—was shrouded in whiteness.

“Nezha, this space should be constructed with formation arrays, similar to a storage ring, right?” Yang Ye asked.

Nezha nodded, “The principle is similar, but such a world is far more complex. If I could obtain a complete formation array, I could build a space like this too.”

Yang Ye reached out, and Zhou Hun handed him a telescope.

Using the telescope, Yang Ye scanned the depths of the grassland.

Through the lens, the black pillar-shaped object became clear.

As Samir said, it was an ancient tower, weathered and mottled.

Besides the ancient tower, Yang Ye saw many cultivators battling various star beasts across the grassland.

Many cultivators had entered this secret realm, including some at the planetary realm.

Under the onslaught of numerous star beasts, some were quickly swallowed up.

Others fought fiercely, slaying star beasts in large numbers.

After watching for a while, Yang Ye put down the telescope and said calmly, “Just as Samir described, but our target isn’t the star beasts roaming the grassland—it’s that ancient tower.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Ye’s men all looked excited.

The group descended the mountain and stepped onto the grassland.

“Rumble rumble...”

As they set foot on the grassland, a booming sound came from ahead, shaking the ground beneath them.

Yang Ye looked up and saw a herd of massive star beasts charging toward them, resembling rhinoceroses.

These star beasts were about five meters long, over two meters tall, with grayish-white, wrinkled skin—clearly tough and thick-skinned creatures.

They were all planetary realm star beasts, with a few at the stellar realm mixed in.

As for their numbers, a densely packed black mass of over a thousand heads.

Yang Ye was not surprised by the sudden appearance of these star beasts.

They were all illusions. Once killed, their bodies would vanish, leaving behind beast cores.

Such a large number appearing at once clearly meant the formation array sensed the strength of Yang Ye’s group.

“Kill!” Yang Ye waved his hand calmly.

At his command, Zhou Hun and the others spread out, forming a circle around Yang Ye, Long Xiaoqing, and Nezha.

Soon, the beast herd arrived.

A one-sided massacre began.

Despite their massive size, the star beasts were no match for Zhou Hun and the others.

In less than ten minutes, over a thousand star beasts were all slain.

As Samir had said, the star beast bodies disappeared quickly after death, leaving only a beast core.

Zhou Hun and the others were very pleased, each collecting a large number of beast cores. Yang Ye didn’t need them and ordered whoever picked them up to keep them.

“Strange indeed,” Yang Ye frowned. “These star beasts are illusions, yet their beast cores are real.”

Nezha laughed, “What’s strange about that? Beast cores are energy forms. The formation array uses energy to condense them. Of course, this isn’t infinite. Once the energy at the formation’s core is exhausted, not only will star beasts fail to appear, but the entire space will collapse.”

Yang Ye’s heart stirred. He asked Nezha, “You mean the auxiliary formation that constructs this space contains a massive amount of energy?”

Nezha said, “Of course! But the pioneer wouldn’t put too much energy here. According to my calculation, at most there’s a star god crystal the size of a fist.”

The star crystal, star river crystal, and star god crystal were three types of energy crystals Nezha had already explained to Yang Ye.

Outside Earth, cultivators used them for training and trading.

“How many Superstar-level beast cores would equal the energy of one star god crystal?” Yang Ye asked.

Nezha furrowed his brows to calculate, “A star god crystal’s energy quality is three levels above Superstar-level beast cores—roughly equivalent to over a thousand of them.”

Yang Ye’s eyes brightened. “Where is the formation core?”

Nezha raised his hand, pointing toward the towering black ancient tower ahead.