Chapter 232 - 232: When The Immortals Fight, The Mortals Suffer.
In an instant, the Star Tower had already traveled to the area outside the Heavenly Profound Realm.
Fang Hong waved his hand, and the scene of the surrounding hall rippled and changed like water, finally transforming into a transparent light screen.
Through the light screen, Fang Hong could clearly see the scene outside the tower.
"This is the vast star domain."
Fang Hong looked at the magnificent and grand scene before him, his heart stirred, deeply shaken.
What he saw was an extremely vast, dimly lit space.
In this space, countless dense white light spheres floated, each emitting a different colored halo.
And between each light sphere, golden light lines connected them, together weaving an incredibly spectacular star net.
Fang Hong understood in his heart that each of these light spheres was, in fact, an independent Small World.
As for how many such light spheres were above his head, he couldn't count them at all.
Perhaps there were ten thousand, or perhaps one hundred thousand, one million, or even more, too many to imagine.
Next to the Star Tower, a light sphere like this also floated, appearing to be only the size of a head.
This inconspicuous light sphere was actually the Heavenly Profound Realm where Fang Hong had lived for many years.
Though it appeared so small in the Star Domain, its interior contained everything, encompassing the Heavenly Profound Realm's Heavenly Law, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and all living things.
The Heavenly Profound Realm was just one of the countless stars in the sky, extremely tiny and insignificant.
Floating within the Star Tower, Fang Hong for the first time so directly felt the immense vastness of the Star Sea.
Even a Mahayana powerhouse, exhausting their entire life, probably couldn't explore this entire Star Domain, could he?
As for those brilliant light lines connecting various worlds, they should be the legendary star veins.
Star Veins are also known as world-level Spiritual Veins; they are the Origin power that maintains the normal operation of a world.
It is like a beating heart, continuously supplying vitality to the world.
Once a Star Vein in a certain world breaks or becomes depleted, the spiritual energy of that world will gradually dissipate.
The Heavenly Law will also fall into chaos, ultimately unable to escape the fate of disintegration and complete annihilation.
The closer a world is to the edge of a Star Domain, the more likely the tragic event of Star Vein depletion is to occur.
Fang Hong raised his hand and pointed into the void, and a soft light screen suddenly unfolded before him, transforming into a detailed Star Map. This was the macro map of the Profound Heaven Region left by the Gray-robed Old Man.
Traveling through the Star Sea without a map's guidance makes it easy to get lost in this boundless void, as this Star Domain is simply too vast.
On the Star Map, the Profound Heaven Region was clearly divided into four major regions: the Eastern Star Domain, Southern Star Domain, Western Star Domain, and Northern Star Domain.
Each Star Domain was like a giant honeycomb, densely packed with countless Small Worlds of varying sizes.
Fang Hong's hometown, the Heavenly Profound Realm, was located in a remote corner near the edge of the Southern Star Domain, appearing as a faint, inconspicuous light dot on the Star Map.
And Fang Hong's destination for this journey, the Profound Fallen Realm, was situated at the very center of the four major Star Domains.
That place is the source of the Star Veins, the area with the densest Origin Qi in the world, and the core of the entire Profound Heaven Region.
From the Star Map, the Profound Fallen Realm appeared very large and very bright, seemingly close at hand and within reach, but in reality, an unimaginably vast distance separated it from the Heavenly Profound Realm.
Fang Hong estimated that at the Star Tower's flying speed, it would take at least two to three years to arrive.
This was already considered relatively fast.
Without the aid of such special flying and escape techniques as a Star Domain flying artifact, even a Void Refining Cultivator would likely not be able to traverse this distance in several hundred years.
Fang Hong carefully marked the location of the Heavenly Profound Realm on the Star Map. Once he achieved success in his cultivation in the Profound Fallen Realm, he would definitely return to his hometown and completely subdue that mysterious Dragon Palace.
After making the mark, Fang Hong cast one last look back at the Heavenly Profound Realm behind him.
Immediately, he no longer hesitated. With a slight movement of his finger, he activated the Star Tower to fly at full speed towards the Profound Fallen Realm.
The Star Tower, like a white lightning bolt, rapidly traversed the void, with light spheres occasionally whizzing past along the way.
The journey was quite long, and Fang Hong did not remain idle.
He took out the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron, sat cross-legged within it, closed his eyes slightly, and devoted himself to meditating and refining qi, constantly cultivating.
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The Star Tower flew peacefully for three months.
Then, one day, the calm was suddenly shattered. The entire Star Tower began to shake violently, as if it were about to be torn apart.
Fang Hong was instantly startled awake by this sudden anomaly. With a flicker of his body, he leaped out of the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron. With a wave of his hand, a light screen unfolded before him, clearly reflecting the scene outside the tower.
"Wh-what kind of terrifying Demon Beast is that?"
When Fang Hong saw the scene ahead, his pupils suddenly constricted, and his heart gave a violent lurch.
In the distant Star Domain ahead, two enormous red and blue clouds of mist floated. The red was like burning fierce fire, and the blue was like congealed cold ice.
Within each cloud of mist, two colossal figures could vaguely be seen churning, emitting an aura like ten-thousand-foot giant waves, overwhelming and all-encompassing.
The two figures flashed rapidly within the mist, colliding fiercely. Each collision was accompanied by dazzling electric light, clearly indicating a world-shaking battle.
Each of their collisions caused violent fluctuations in the surrounding space.
Even though Fang Hong was very far away, he was still affected. The Star Tower vibrated wildly, and those Small Worlds close to the battlefield had probably already been reduced to dust in this chaotic battle, meeting a tragic end.
Fang Hong dared not hesitate for a moment. He immediately maneuvered the Star Tower to retreat frantically.
The power of these two Vicious Beasts was too terrifying, far beyond his current ability to contend with.
It would be best to quickly distance himself from this perilous area. If he were accidentally drawn into it, he probably wouldn't even have a speck left.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Just as the Star Tower was retreating at full speed, an unexpected change suddenly occurred.
The two gigantic beasts collided violently again, and this time the impact force far exceeded the previous ones.
This collision directly shattered the surrounding void, and countless spatial crack spread rapidly in all directions. Wherever they passed, even starlight was completely swallowed.
Fang Hong was very unlucky; he was just caught by the end of a spatial crack.
"Oh no."
Fang Hong's heart tightened. He immediately mobilized all his magical power, continuously pouring it into the Star Tower, attempting to stabilize the tower and break free from the spatial crack's Devour.
Once completely drawn into a spatial crack, at best he would be randomly teleported to another Star Domain; at worst, he would be torn apart by the violent spatial power within the crack, perishing on the spot.
Fang Hong finally understood the meaning of when the immortals fought, the mortals suffer.
