Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

Chapter 693: Void Venerable’s Predicament

Void Venerable seemed to sense something and turned his head to look.

“Hello there! How are you?” Su Yuan waved at him.

Void Venerable blinked, then immediately attacked Su Yuan.

The sharp strike hit Su Yuan, but it passed straight through him as if cutting through a phantom.

Void Venerable instantly fled far away, continuously dodging in midair.

Su Yuan just stood there, watching Void Venerable’s performance.

After dodging for a long time without seeing Su Yuan make a move, Void Venerable paused his actions.

“Who are you?” Void Venerable stared at Su Yuan with a gloomy expression.

Su Yuan said with a smile, “I am you! Don’t you know?”

At that moment, Su Yuan’s appearance changed, transforming from a Nothingness Dominator into Void Venerable’s exact likeness. Whether in aura or cultivation level, he looked identical to Void Venerable in every way!

Even Void Venerable himself couldn’t spot a flaw in Su Yuan!

In that instant, a chill surged from Void Venerable’s soles straight into his heart.

He immediately contacted First Void Speaker Miao Laogang.

But something unsettling happened—the connection was severed. He couldn’t reach Miao Laogang at all!

How was this possible!

Even the strongest array of the Second Frontline couldn’t block his connection with Miao Laogang. How did this person manage to do it?!

Only then did he realize that he was no longer in the Secluded Ancient Domain. Instead, he was surrounded by an endless starry sky!

Countless stars shone across the heavens and earth, illuminating the dark void.

He suddenly felt that one of those stars seemed to emit an inexplicable call, tempting him to draw closer.

But at this moment, his nerves were stretched to their limit, and the mysterious enemy had vanished without a trace.

Void Venerable completely calmed himself down.

“What the hell is going on? Who is this person?”

“My name is Seven Stars!”

A voice rang out directly in Void Venerable’s mind.

Void Venerable’s pupils constricted. He was utterly horrified!

“You’re that mysterious Artificer! Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!” Void Venerable roared frantically.

But this time, Su Yuan didn’t answer him anymore.

Void Venerable inexplicably felt a pull of force.

The source of that pull came from the distant star!

Void Venerable immediately resisted.

But the pulling force grew stronger and stronger!

His body was actually beginning to be forcibly moved.

He was still severely injured at the moment, having been attacked by six Speaker-level existences. His wounds were grave, and in such a short time, he hadn’t recovered much at all.

Otherwise, this level of pulling force couldn’t have affected him in the slightest.

“Hmph! Cheap tricks!”

Void Venerable condensed Nothingness Dao Patterns around himself, forming a Nothingness Domain that easily blocked the star’s pull.

His heart steadied, and he began searching for a way to escape this place.

“Where is this?”

He frowned in thought.

He gazed at the stars in the sky, among which he spotted some exceptionally bright ones, nearly identical to the star that had been drawing him in.

And when he looked at those dozen or so stars, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if he were looking at the ten Nothingness Dominators and six Chaos Dominator Speakers.

A deep wariness arose in his heart as he searched for flaws and weaknesses around him.

He darted between the stars, casually shattering a few.

But those stars, after breaking apart, would quickly reform. No matter how much he destroyed them, he couldn’t disrupt their individual movements.

He frowned in deep thought, releasing Nothingness Power, but was shocked to find that as soon as it left the Dao Patterns around him, it rapidly slipped from his control and flew toward that star that had been pulling him all along.

He stared fixedly at that star.

The Nothingness Power easily merged into the star, then completely vanished. He instantly lost his connection to that power.

At that moment, he noticed that the pulling force was still increasing without any sign of stopping!

“I have to find a way out quickly!”

Void Venerable forced himself to calm down.

He flew swiftly in one direction, finally passing through the densely packed star region and arriving at a sparse part of the starry sky.

Turning back to look now, Void Venerable saw a thick river of stars flowing off into the distance.

He moved farther away from this river, continuously looking into the distance.

He could see the river winding and twisting, stretching far away.

As he watched, Void Venerable felt that the route of this flowing river seemed familiar.

Looking further into the distance, a flash of inspiration struck his mind, and he remembered—wasn’t this a diagram of the human meridian system?!

Countless rivers formed large and small meridians!

The star that had been pulling him came from the convergence point of the meridians—the location of the Dantian!

That was the source of the star river!

“Could it be that the exit is at the end of the meridians?”

Thinking of this, he immediately flew toward the end of one of the star river routes.

Resisting the pull behind him, he pressed forward relentlessly. Finally, after a long time, he saw the end ahead.

Those star rivers did indeed have an end!

At the end was a massive vortex, with countless smaller rivers extending out from it, connected to who knows where.

Those smaller rivers were no longer made of stars but of tiny specks of light, as minuscule as star dust. But their numbers were simply too vast, too many to fill the entire interior of the vortex.

“Is this the exit?”

Void Venerable’s expression shifted uncertainly.

This could be an opening, or it could be a trap!

But the pulling force behind him was growing stronger and stronger, like a gaping abyssal maw that wouldn’t rest until it swallowed him.

He scanned the starry sky again. He saw nothing unusual, and finding no way out, he gritted his teeth and decided—charge in!

He transformed into a streak of light and plunged into the vortex.

After entering the vortex, he saw countless tiny rivers spread apart, the interior constantly expanding as the rivers scattered further.

Finally, he passed through the vortex, following one small river as he burst out.

A flash of light blinded his vision.

When he regained his perception, he was astonished to find himself stepping out from a True Name Star.

Turning back to look at that star, he didn’t know why, but he somehow knew its name. It was called a True Name Star, belonging to a Chaos Dominator named Guo Degang. That True Name River existed within this Chaos Dominator’s Chaos, so when he rushed into that river, he had emerged from Guo Degang’s True Name Star.

He was back in the star river, and that all-too-familiar pulling force was still coming from afar. This time, however, the pull had reached a terrifying level. He had to constantly consume his own origin power just to resist it.

Despair!

A feeling of utter despair flooded his heart.

Where the hell was this?! A Dominator’s graveyard?!