Chapter 571: . The dark side's path of the star, Level Thirteen mental power, the inheritance core of the divine crystal path

Book 571: The Stellar Path of the Shadowed Side—Thirteenth-Level Mental Power, the Core Inheritance of the Divine Crystal Way

For a fleeting moment, Lu Sheng seemed once again to behold the thirteenth-level commanding beast he had slain.

Its entire body bristled with countless eyes, all glaring at him with venomous malice, their pupils seething with profound hatred.

Its mandibles writhed ceaselessly, opening and closing as though uttering some unspeakably vile curse.

Strange syllables spilled from its maw, repeating endlessly.

Lu Sheng listened for a while, and from those fragmented sounds, he discerned echoes of words like *“Greatness,”* *“Forget All,”* and *“Annihilation.”*

Suddenly, comprehension struck him.

This creature—was it invoking the name of that so-called *“Lord of Oblivion”?*

“What nonsense,” he mused idly, “casting curses upon me, hoping your shadowy master gains time to strike?”

With a mere ripple of his divine soul, he crushed the last vestiges of the beast’s consciousness into oblivion.

Curses? Retribution from some grand overlord?

Lu Sheng didn’t care in the slightest.

After all, on Azure Star, he’d long since incurred the wrath of a fifteenth-level beast sovereign.

Could this *“Lord of Oblivion”* possibly be more formidable than that?

As the old saying went: *When lice swarm, one no longer fears bites.*

Let them come now and finish him off—if they dared.

Otherwise—

Queue up behind the rest.

The instant the beast’s consciousness shattered, an immense torrent of mental energy surged into Lu Sheng’s soul.

In that flash, chaotic, fragmented visions flooded his mind—disjointed, violent, overwhelming.

This power reeked of pure malevolence and cosmic disorder; even a twelfth-level lawmaster, let alone a thirteenth, would likely be driven instantly mad if struck unprepared by such force.

Yet Lu Sheng had endured memory-shocks since the very dawn of his martial cultivation.

Now, he routinely absorbed the collective memories of entire planets—billions upon billions of lifetimes.

To him, this psychic onslaught felt no more disruptive than walking through a rainstorm without an umbrella—wet, yes, but hardly devastating.

As for the malignant aura embedded within this mental force?

Even simpler.

With a single thought, Lu Sheng projected a thread of his soul across countless light-years, descending upon Azure Star, far beyond the edge of known space.

Deep within the lightless abyss of the ocean’s trench,

a colossal shell-like monstrosity lay dormant.

Its surface was armored in irregular, jet-black scales, radiating waves of chaos and corruption.

Then—suddenly—the scales flared open.

Beneath each obsidian plate, a new eye bloomed.

Thousands spun wildly, and the massive bivalve split down the center.

Amidst a forest of jagged, serrated teeth and pulsating pink flesh, a slumbering humanoid form stirred awake.

“So this is what my mutated-cell avatar looks like now?”

Lu Sheng examined his secondary vessel.

Shielded by the immense, hardened shell, he rested like a pearl nestled within an oyster—his lower body fused seamlessly with the interior of the black shell, perpetually drawing nourishment from it.

And to his surprise, he discovered his avatar had already ascended to the twelfth level—surpassing even his own progress.

“This existence is absurdly luxurious…”

He thought of that indescribable entity which nurtured this avatar as if it were its own beloved child—and Lu Sheng wasn’t sure whether to feel gratitude…

or just plain delight.

He probed further and found the imprint of the *Fire’s Utmost Yin Aspect* he’d left within the avatar had been cultivated with remarkable fidelity.

Perhaps guided by primal genetic instinct, the avatar had independently deduced the path of Fire’s Utmost Yin—

and astonishingly, it followed precisely the same trajectory as Lu Sheng’s own *Stellar Path*:

Protostar phase, Main Sequence phase, Red Giant phase…

It had already reached the Main Sequence stage.

Only its protostar glowed not with the brilliant, incandescent violet of lightning—but a deep, murky purple,

shadowed, enigmatic, steeped in chaos and corruption.

The higher the stellar evolution, the darker its hue grew.

“Could it be…”

Lu Sheng speculated, voice hushed,

“the sun of the Shadowed Universe itself?!”

Not impossible at all.

That ineffable being had devoted itself so thoroughly to nurturing this avatar—imparting ancestral memories, guiding its growth—that such an outcome was entirely plausible.

From those inherited fragments, the avatar had naturally extrapolated the *Stellar Path of the Shadowed Side*.

Perfectly logical.

“Then here—you shall have more sustenance.”

Without hesitation, Lu Sheng jettisoned every harmful fragment of the thirteenth-level beast’s mental energy straight into his avatar.

Instantly, the shell-shaped body swelled violently—like a balloon inflating—

and began mutating at breakneck speed, twisting toward grotesque, chaotic forms.

Faintly, an aura surging directly toward the thirteenth rank emanated from its body.

The silent ocean abyss was entirely convulsed by the aura radiating from Lu Sheng's avatar, causing countless strange beasts to let out wails of agony.

An incomparably vast consciousness extended from the deepest recesses of the abyss.

Within it, there seemed to carry threads of joy.

It was the kind of joy a parent felt upon seeing their child achieve great success.

"Good... good child... grow... grow quickly."

In order not to shatter the other party's joyful mood of wishing one's child to become a dragon, Lu Sheng swiftly withdrew his divine soul.

He departed quietly.

Just as he had quietly come.

"Whew—"

His divine soul consciousness returned to his original body.

With all harmful impurities eliminated, what remained of the thirteenth-rank commander beast's mental power was pure nourishment.

Countless fragments of memories regarding martial arts, regulations, and even laws flooded into Lu Sheng's body.

In a mere instant, three of Lu Sheng's fifth-realm martial arts were replenished to their peak state.

Moreover, four additional, brand-new fifth-realm martial arts emerged.

Thirteenth rank!

How profound was the lifelong accumulation of a true thirteenth-rank being in reality?

Lu Sheng knew now.

In terms of quality, it might be inferior to the thirteenth-rank overlord named "Lei Futian" from the dream space whom he had previously inherited.

After all, that person belonged to the same starry sky human race as he did.

But in terms of quantity, it completely crushed Lei Futian's memories.

After all, Heaven only knew how long this thirteenth-rank commander beast had survived in the dark side universe.

In the process of its growth to the thirteenth rank, Heaven only knew how many memories of living beings it had devoured and absorbed.

Even with Lu Sheng's current mental realm at the peak of the twelfth rank, he almost could not withstand the impact of this memory.

In just an instant, his divine soul suffered a shock, and golden blood rapidly flowed from his seven orifices.

Indeed.

After the number of immortal cells reached five million, Lu Sheng's blood had completely turned into a reddish-gold color.

Like amber, or like molten red crystal.

Faintly, it even seemed to carry a few hints of purple, presenting a purple-gold hue that bestowed a feeling of ultimate majesty and nobility.

"Crack, crack—"

After a few breaths, the four-colored crystal in Lu Sheng's mind, which represented his mental power cultivation, suddenly expanded by a large margin.

A fifth color appeared.

Concurrently, Lu Sheng's mental power cultivation officially broke through the twelfth rank, marching toward the height of the thirteenth rank.

Simultaneously, a vast power filled with rage, anger, and fury emerged, rapidly surging into that newly born five-colored crystal.

Within the five-colored crystal, where the colors had originally been evenly distributed, the section belonging to red began to expand and increase rapidly.

When almost the entire crystal stone was covered by red.

"Crack—"

The five-colored crystal in Lu Sheng's mind

Split open.

At that exact same instant, a brand-new memory concerning the subsequent inheritance of the Path of the Divine Crystal emerged from the depths of Lu Sheng's mind.

Accompanying the absorption and digestion of this inheritance, five colors interwoven and flashed in Lu Sheng's eyes, and a trace of clear enlightenment surfaced on his face.

"So...

This is the true core of the Path of the Divine Crystal's inheritance."

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