Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 567: The Hidden Star's Path to Heaven

After fending off the cultivators eager to snatch the treasure, Venerable Yuanhao securely stored the Myriad Waters Thousand-Layer White Lotus.

Venerable Yuanhao felt immensely satisfied.

Securing a treasure was naturally a cause for great delight. Yet, once he reviewed the updates from his subordinates, the grin faded from his expression.

"A freshly promoted second-order Dao Venerable who can actually kill a fourth-order Dao Venerable, and even a fifth-order one? This is completely absurd!"

Venerable Yuanhao instantly grasped that Zhan Tian was a savage and terrifying genius!

"I can't delay anymore. I have to rush over and eliminate Zhan Tian right away, shattering his Dao heart!"

Without a second thought, Venerable Yuanhao resolved this in his mind.

He didn't linger and promptly dashed toward the fire region.

Despite his quasi-Dominator realm power being suppressed by ten thousand times, his velocity remained astonishing, covering hundreds of light-years in mere instants.

Just the water region spanned the size of a whole Chaos Kingdom. Even for Venerable Yuanhao at his pace, traversing it would require thousands of years. That was way too slow!

"Head to a teleportation hub first, exit the Killing Battlefield, then teleport inside again!"

Venerable Yuanhao shifted course, flying toward a teleportation point billions of light-years distant.

He just hoped his random teleportation luck wouldn't be utterly terrible.

"Hmm, I can dispatch loads of avatars for random teleports. Any single one of my avatars can handle a mere second-order Dao Venerable."

Switching his mindset, Venerable Yuanhao devised a clever plan.

Before long, he reached an exit-enabled teleportation point and departed the Killing Battlefield.

Then, he re-entered via the entrance, detached more than a hundred avatars, and kept sending them into the Killing Battlefield through teleports. At last, his 107th avatar landed successfully in the fire region.

Venerable Yuanhao knitted his brows. Such poor fortune. With merely twenty-four regions overall, over a hundred tries were needed to hit the fire region.

Venerable Yuanhao's true body teleported inside once more. Landing again in the water region, he chose not to keep teleporting repeatedly and instead flew directly toward the fire region. His entry point sat at the water region's border; reaching the fire region would merely take a few decades.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

As the whole Chaos Universe fixated on super prodigies and Dominator disciples, a regular Elder of the Seven Stars Dao Court had ascended to twelfth-order Dao Venerable status.

This was Dao Venerable Yin Xing, subordinate to Su Yuan.

As an Elder of the Dao Court, Yin Xing enjoyed abundant resources. Moreover, he frequently pestered Su Yuan for pointers on Dao insights.

Combined with the huge stash of Dao Yan Crystals he'd borrowed earlier from the Seven Stars Dao Court and yet another massive loan from Su Li, his grasp of Dao Principles had quietly hit the twelfth order!

Still, these were unfused Dao Principles—twelve distinct, standalone ones.

His swift breakthroughs stemmed from picking the simplest low-grade and mid-grade Dao Principles.

More accurately, every one was a branch of the Star Dao Principle!

In essence, while others mastered a single Star Dao Principle to rise one order, Yin Xing divided the Star Dao Principle into twelve branches, comprehending and advancing via them sequentially. As a twelfth-order Dao Venerable, his Dao Principle mastery matched precisely that of a first-order Star Dao Principle Dao Venerable.

He was a ridiculously diluted imitation!

Now, entering the star domain felt like returning home for Yin Xing. Navigating here, his speed rivaled instant shifts; he thrived like a fish in water.

Having joined just a year prior, he'd already claimed over ten treasures, reaping a tremendous haul.

At one point, he reached a spot and beheld a stunning sight: two colossal stars smashing together, unleashing a colossal blast. Innumerable stellar energy threads scattered wildly, but the star domain's pressure swiftly quelled the ripples.

In that moment, Star Dao Principle fluctuations surged prominently!

Witnessing it, insights flooded Yin Xing's mind like a fountain, plunging him into enlightenment.

Time passed indeterminately.

Yin Xing snapped back to awareness.

He peered into his Origin Space.

There, the twelve Star branch Dao Principles had largely merged!

Yin Xing stretched out his finger. A thread of twelfth-order fused Dao Principle force materialized at its tip.

With a snap, a beam of starlight streaked forth, morphing into a stellar arrow hurtling at the two massive stars ahead!

Boom! Boom!

Two earth-shaking blasts erupted, shattering the supergiant stars into cosmic dust amid the detonations.

"This might... doesn't it match an Eight-Order fused Dao Principle?"

Yin Xing's eyes gleamed. He'd vaulted straight from a non-fused Dao Venerable to an Eight-Order Fused Dao Venerable! Though his twelfth-order fused Dao Principles held modest power, he'd blazed a fusion trail!

"My theory proved correct! Even advancing to high-order Dao Venerable via Star Dao Principle branches yields a fusion beyond the pure Star Dao Principle!"

An Eight-Order Fused Dao Venerable ranked as a top-tier entity in any Dao Court.

Just as Yin Xing celebrated, Su Yuan's voice rang in his mind.

"Come see me!"

Yin Xing froze in shock.

He'd clearly heard Su Yuan's command.

A gateway shimmered into existence right before him.

He stepped through without delay.

Space and time twisted.

He stood once more in the Seven Stars Dao Court.

Spotting Su Yuan, Yin Xing bowed deeply in respect.

Su Yuan scanned him thoroughly, detecting the fused Dao Principles in his frame, astonishment crossing his features.

"Is this... a Chaos Star Dao Principle?" Su Yuan inquired, taken aback.

"I'm not sure. I suddenly gained enlightenment and merged the twelve branch principles!" Yin Xing replied honestly.

Su Yuan marveled aloud. "You've truly forged a novel path. Still, your fused Dao Principles' potency means even reaching quasi-Dominator and birthing a Little Chaos won't suffice to evolve it into a real Chaos... the power falls short."

Yin Xing burst into hearty laughter at those words. "Haha, hitting quasi-Dominator lets me dominate the Chaos! My talent's modest, my insights ordinary. Reaching this far already thrills me beyond measure!"

Su Yuan dismissed it with a wave. "That issue might not be insurmountable."

Yin Xing blinked in surprise. "Aren't there just twelve Star Dao Principle branches total? Any I've missed?"

"The known Star Dao Principle branches number exactly twelve!" Su Yuan affirmed with a nod, then grinned. "But I can invent fresh branch Dao Principles from the Star Dao Principle for your comprehension."

"Cr... create?" Yin Xing gaped in disbelief. "Chaos Dominators wield such might?"

"Not quite—other Chaos Dominators lack this skill." Su Yuan laughed lightly.

He continued, "Your current path offers a shot at Chaos Dominator. Will you take me as your master?"

Yin Xing's heart pounded wildly!

He knelt instantly, kowtowing in reverence.

"Disciple Yin Xing greets Master!"

Yin Xing's tone brimmed with thrill, anxiety, and wild joy!