"Nine days later, when the spirit tides in the Starfall Abyss are at their peak, the Starfall Road will open.""Enter the core and endure the tempering of Star Power, only those who can persevere will enjoy the blessings of the Star Abyss' baptism."
"Before the tempering, you must imprint with your Essence Blood and Divine Soul, to evoke resonance with the Star Coffin, ensuring the safe infusion of Spiritual Power as per ancient teachings."
"The opportunity is here, life and death are at the mercy of fate."
The leading elder spoke extremely slowly.
His gaze swept over every genius present.
None who entered were not the pride of major clans, possessing Demon Monarch level combat strength.
At this moment, they all held their breaths, listening carefully, afraid to miss any details.
They came, only knowing some rough circumstances from the clan's records.
In the crowd, the only one somewhat puzzled was Jiang Shu.
Although he had used the Soul Great Dao to soul-search Golden Horn's memories, the memories of a Demon Monarch spanning thousands of years were so intricate that he only extracted the more important parts.
The memories regarding this were only scattered fragments.
His expression remained unchanged, but in truth, he had associated these words with the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array.
Compared to the geniuses of the Demon Race, he possibly understood this great battle of theirs even better.
Extracting Essence Blood and Divine Soul imprints for the so-called "resonance."
This was by no means a routine procedure for invoking array hub energy but rather seemed like a kind of forced imprint binding.
What exactly does the Emperor Palace intend to do?
Is this really a trial for the geniuses, or are these geniuses being offered in sacrifice?
As Huang Ya's words fell, a vast wave of intent emanated from him, like an invisible tide covering the entire Starfall Platform in an instant.
In everyone's minds appeared a complex and precise path map, the route to the Spirit Summoning Land at the Abyss Core, marking several critical node coordinates as supports along the way, as well as extremely detailed active areas of space turbulence and locations of hazardous force fields.
The map's level of detail and the spatial knowledge it contained far exceeded what an average Demon Monarch could comprehend.
"Nine days from now, the Spirit Tides will rise, and the Starfall Road will open."
"I will personally oversee the core to guide your imprint resonance."
"You may disperse now."
After Huang Ya said this last sentence, his withered body faded into the air like a bubble, eventually disappearing without leaving any spatial fluctuations, as if he had never been there.
The overwhelming pressure also dissipated with it.
However, all the young geniuses felt a moment of relief, yet it seemed as though an even heavier burden weighed upon them.
The selection method is brutal and straightforward, venturing into perilous lands, enduring the tempering, contending for the limited thirty spots.
Moreover, it's all to be done under the watchful eyes of the profound Venerable Huang Ya, in the name of "imprint resonance."
After a brief silence, the various clans began to act.
"Hmph. It seems you've escaped a calamity, see the true chapter in nine days!"
The red-haired young man from the Phoenix Clan cast a cold glance towards the Dragon Clan's formation, leading his people in streams of light straight to the Phoenix Clan's exclusive camp on one side of the cliff wall.
...
The night was as dark as ink, the depths of the Starfall Abyss silent and still.
Endless space turbulence silently tore within.
The transformed Jiang Shu, as Golden Horn, sat cross-legged in the Dragon Clan's fortress's quiet room, appearing to rest with closed eyes, but in reality, his vast Divine Sense extended out like the most precise probe, carefully reaching outward.
Deep within the fortress, several truly stationed Dragon Clan elders' auras were dormant like an abyss, at least at the Demon Venerable Early Stage peak Realm.
But they were not the focus of Jiang Shu's investigation.
His Divine Sense flowed like water through the rock layers, avoiding those clearly formidable life fluctuations, probing towards the core region of the abyss.
An ancient, chaotic yet forcibly constrained violent energy fluctuation emanated from the depths.
It was the power of the Ancient Star Remains, filled with a sense of destruction and chaos.
Yet beneath this tumultuous wave, Jiang Shu keenly detected another aura.
Formation.
Jiang Shu was not particularly skilled in the way of formations.
After he ascended to Daoist Venerable, most of his time was spent on cultivation.
Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Formation, and Talisman were all practically set aside.
Nonetheless, his proficiency in these areas surpassed that of the average Daoist Monarch.
He could sense that this formation was not a conventional protective or offensive Killing Formation or trap array; its structure was exceedingly complex and ancient, containing profound and obscure runes that subtly resonated with the surrounding space turbulence and turbid earth energy.
Based on the earth veins of Starfall Abyss and countless ancient star remains, it formed an immensely gigantic "Field."
The core functionality of this formation, although Jiang Shu could not fully decipher it at once, its most essential Dao Rhyme that permeated outward greatly shocked him.
It was "consolidating," "converting," using the earth vein power, space power, and star remains power of the entire abyss as fuel, moreover drawing the Life Origin and Great Dao comprehension from those demon geniuses entering the core area for so-called "baptism."
Like a massive forge of flesh and blood, forcibly unifying the essences of heaven and earth with the essence of demon talents!
Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array!
No, it might even surpass the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array!
As Jiang Shu's Divine Sense attempted to delve deeper into touching the formation's core node, seeking the specific connection with the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array.
Buzz!
An overwhelmingly dense will descended without warning, like a collapsing nebula.
Far older and deeper than the previous pressure from that old demon Huang Ya, carrying an icy, aloof detachment gazing down upon all beings.
Chapter 1258: 670: Starfall Road! Pitch-Black Stone Tablet!
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