Chapter 104: Star Brilliance Shakes the World!

Time continued to pass, and the rotation speed of the cosmic energy in Lantian’s dantian grew ever faster, its condensation increasingly refined, nearing the critical threshold for forming an energy singularity.

Suddenly, his body trembled as he sensed a particle of energy, purely compressed from extremely condensed cosmic energy, emerge unmistakably within his dantian.

The energy singularity was born!

In an instant, the energy singularity, no larger than a grain of rice, began to emit dazzling starlight dozens of meters long in every direction. Astonishingly, this starlight seemed to exist in a dimension different from the surrounding space. From the moment it appeared, it pierced directly through Lantian’s body, even passing through the entire cultivation chamber to manifest outside in the open air.

The blinding radiance instantly enveloped nearly half of the city lord’s mansion.

“Hahaha, the star glory has begun! Keep going, don’t stop. Pour all your strength and every possible effort into circulating the energy singularity, continue condensing it until not even the slightest bit can be condensed further!” Bai exclaimed excitedly.

Lantian naturally understood he had to press on. According to the records of the Nameless Technique, the more condensed the energy singularity became, the larger the initial cosmos it would eventually give birth to. Breaking through to the Star Glory level would bring immense power.

Outside, the city lord of Naba was dining in his room. For a cultivator of his caliber, food was almost unnecessary, since the minimal energy it provided could be absorbed in a single breath from the boundless cosmic energy around him. At his level, enjoying food had become more of a pastime.

Being so close to Lantian, he was immediately engulfed by the starlight. The terrifying star glory stretching dozens of meters stunned him so greatly that he lost control of his cultivation power, shattering the entire table of delicacies before him into dust!

Heavens! He had never heard of anyone who, at the very start of their breakthrough, could release star glory stretching dozens of meters!

Lantian was simply a prodigy!

It was known that for an average cultivator breaking into the Star Glory realm, even those of poor aptitude, merely managing to project the star glory’s light beyond their body was considered a success. Having star glory a meter long was elite; even rare geniuses could barely stretch to ten meters at most.

So what was going on with Lantian, whose star glory extended dozens of meters?

And this was only the beginning. Judging by the star glory’s relentless growth and expansion, it might well reach hundreds of meters!

Truly terrifying!

Was this the kind of genius a great power produced...?

The city lord of Naba thought back to his own pitiful six-inch star glory with overwhelming shame. Any desire to enjoy his meal vanished as he hurried outside the cultivation chamber to focus on protecting Lantian’s breakthrough.

To witness star glory hundreds of meters long with his own eyes—this would likely be the only time in his life.

With that thought, a profound sense of honor swelled within him, especially since this exceptional talent was even on brotherly terms with him.

Not only Naba, but the entire Qingshan City trembled. Almost all cultivators simultaneously turned their gaze toward the city lord’s mansion, eyes vacant, staring in shock at the dazzling star glory stretching dozens of meters. While they were no strangers to star glory, one of such magnitude was beyond imagination.

Meanwhile, deep in the cultivation chamber, Lantian remained unaware of the uproar outside. He pressed on with all his might, relentlessly condensing the energy singularity.

At the limit?

No, he could still continue!

Like a man possessed, Lantian kept pushing himself to the brink. Whenever he felt the energy singularity could no longer condense further, a fierce unwillingness to yield would arise within, forcing himself through self-hypnosis to keep going.

Thus, the energy singularity grew ever denser. Though cosmic energy was infinite, it could not withstand such voracious consumption. The surrounding cosmic energy had noticeably thinned compared to the beginning.

Fortunately, the first-grade energy crystal that Naba had prepared for him proved invaluable. Lantian rapidly probed one of the crystals with his spiritual power, unleashing a surge of magnificent cosmic energy that instantly restored the density of the surrounding energy.

The cultivation continued. Under Lantian’s mad extraction, the star glory outside had already stretched to a staggering two hundred meters! Converted to Earth’s familiar metric system, that was about 660 feet high. What did 660 feet mean?

A typical floor of a building was at most 2.8 meters high, so a ten-story building was only around 28 meters. 660 meters was the height of over two hundred floors!

The outside world had gone mad. The terrifying star glory now bathed more than half the city lord’s mansion. Waves of news cascaded through the entire Lanque Star, streams of light continuously entering Qingshan City.

The city lord of Naba was stupefied as the ruler of the Day Kingdom, to which Qingshan belonged, arrived, followed by the ruler of the hostile Ao Kingdom. Half an hour later, when Lantian’s star glory reached the ear-splitting length of three hundred meters, the star lord of Lanque Star himself appeared...

All the great figures stood silently, their expressions blank. They gathered beside the city lord of Naba, spontaneously guarding the prodigy inside the cultivation chamber.

This was a grand event for the entire Lanque Star. Though the city lord of Naba revealed that this prodigy was neither from Lanque Star nor the Yuanlan Empire, the colossal three-hundred-meter star glory had been born on Lanque Star. This was glory!

By this alone, this prodigy was destined for great achievement, and Lanque Star would be forever remembered alongside him.

Yet, while all eyes were on the prodigy, Lantian, deep inside the cultivation chamber, suddenly encountered a problem.

He had been cultivating smoothly until Bai informed him about the terrifying star glory he had produced. Overcome with excitement, Lantian’s Cang Blood Starfire spontaneously ignited within him and uncontrollably entwined itself around the ever-spinning energy singularity, refusing to be dispelled.

“What’s going on? Could this be some kind of accident?” Lantian hesitated, sending a sliver of spiritual power to communicate with Bai.

“...I don’t know either.” Bai was unusually at a loss. Even it did not know how to handle this. “How do you feel?”

“Uh... nothing much. I just feel that although the singularity was about to explode, now it can continue condensing...” Lantian carefully sensed and concluded.

It seemed... not necessarily a bad thing.

“Crazy! You scared me! Then keep condensing. One thing’s for sure: you must condense it until it cannot be condensed any further!” Bai rolled its eyes and said harshly.

Without hesitation, Lantian pressed his potential even harder, continuing to condense the energy singularity. He had a premonition: with the addition of the Cang Blood Starfire, once the energy singularity exploded, the initial cosmos he would give birth to would be beyond ordinary imagination.