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This is a small plaza made entirely of gray rocks, suspended in mid-air.
He looked up, and the starry sky that should have been filled with stars disappeared. Now, all he could see above him were enormous celestial bodies that seemed to be right above him...
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"one two Three……"
Ye Chen counted them; there were a total of 365 stars. Although they were of different shapes, they were basically the same size.
Each star emitted a faint silver light, which, when it shone on Ye Chen, brought him an extremely terrifying suppressive force...
Ye Chen tried it, but he had completely lost the ability to fly. As for trying to shake the surrounding space, that was out of the question.
This strange and magical space is probably even more ancient and stable than the vast world!
Taking a deep breath, Ye Chen withdrew his gaze and looked around the plaza. He actually discovered something new...
In the very center of this square, there stands an ancient stone temple, and in front of it, on an open space, stands a 365-step altar.
At the very bottom of the altar, on the steps, lay a dusty, gray creature, legs crossed, looking quite relaxed...
Ye Chen was both surprised and delighted by this scene.
What's astonishing is that there are still living things that can survive in such a place...
What pleased him was that he recognized the creature; it was the same dead rabbit that had tricked him into breaking free from the Star Emperor's control!
"Holy crap! I really don't know if this is like meeting an old friend in a foreign land or just a small world..."
Ye Chen was overjoyed, thinking to himself with ecstasy.
However, he didn't rush over recklessly. After all, that dead rabbit was incredibly powerful back then, and Ye Chen couldn't even fathom what level it had reached...
After carefully examining the area, Ye Chen breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, this dead rabbit is only at the Great Perfection of the Ninth Grade Supreme Realm; it shouldn't be able to defeat me..."
But Ye Chen quickly became curious. How did this dead rabbit end up here? Could it be that the Star Emperor brought it to the Dou Qi Continent from here?
With this question in mind, Ye Chen silently crept towards the dead rabbit...
"Ugh, so boring, so boring..."
Before he even got close, Ye Chen heard the rabbit's strange voice.
Yes, that makes it even more certain now. Only that dead rabbit would speak in such a strange tone, it smells like spicy rabbit head.
"I knew I shouldn't have come back. That little rascal looks so innocent and gullible. I might have found a lot of fun by following him around..."
tap!
Ye Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks, followed by a face full of black lines...
"That damn rabbit, is it talking about me...?"
next moment……
"Hehe, it's hilarious just thinking about it. That bastard Star Emperor actually dared to imprison me for tens of thousands of years! I'll find you an idiot as your successor, alright then! Hehehe..."
It's confirmed, that bastard is talking about me!
Ye Chen was so angry that he was practically fuming. He roared, "You dead rabbit, you're going to die!"
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"Holy crap! What is that...?"
The sudden shout startled the rabbit on the ground, causing it to jump ten meters away. Then, the rabbit, as tall as a person, braced itself on its legs, its ears standing up high, and its front legs even assumed a fighting stance...
Seeing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh. This was a rogue rabbit after all… and judging by its stance, it wanted to engage in some hand-to-hand combat…
"You damn rabbit! What did you just say?" Ye Chen shouted again.
"You...you're that silly boy from back then?!" Star Rabbit blinked its round little eyes frantically, tried hard to recall, and then pointed at Ye Chen and exclaimed in surprise.
"Why are you here?!"
Ye Chen chuckled coldly and continued to approach: "Why can't I be here? It seems you didn't expect this scene to unfold..."
"No, no... Don't come any closer! I'm not afraid of you!"
As it retreated, the Star Rabbit roared at Ye Chen, its bravado masking its underlying fear.
The only possibility for the other party to be here is that he has also reached that old bastard Star Emperor's level! If that's the case, then I am no match for him now.
Thinking back to what I was just saying to myself, it seems that this idiot boy heard me...
If this bastard catches me, he'll skin me alive!
"Stop! You idiot... no! I mean kid... no, anyway, stop first..." The Star Rabbit, who was already somewhat incoherent, tried her best to persuade the furious guy in front of her.
“This… young man, I know you’re very angry right now, but please don’t be angry, listen to me first…”
Ye Chen secretly rolled his eyes. This damn rabbit, where are you going to be...?
"Tell me, let's see what good things you, you damned rabbit, can say!"
Ye Chen wasn't actually angry; he just wanted to get information out of this rascal, so he grabbed its tail first...
Seeing that Ye Chen had toned down his aura, the Star Rabbit secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It then adopted a servile posture, rubbing its front paws together as it fawned over Ye Chen, saying, "Hehehe, I knew I'd chosen you, young man, to be that old Star Emperor's successor! My judgment was spot on. It hasn't been long, and you've already made it here..."
Ye Chen couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw the other person's expression.
You're clearly a rabbit, so why do you have a dog's face...?
"Alright, alright, enough of this nonsense! Tell me where this is, why you're here, whether the Star Emperor was here before, and what he did here—tell me everything!"
Chapter 558 Primordial Star Space
Under Ye Chen's threat of force, Star Rabbit wisely revealed everything, spilling the beans.
This mysterious place can be traced back to before the formation of the universe; it is an ancient stellar space that existed at the very beginning of the cosmos…
The massive, gray celestial bodies above them were the original 365 ancient stars, and the ancient star stone that Ye Chen obtained was a stone that fell from one of these stars.
"I've been here since I had memories, but I don't know exactly how long, because there's no concept of time in this space, until that old bastard Star Emperor came here..."
"I, Rabbit Lord, was kind enough to let him see my precious rabbit, but who would have thought that this old bastard would be so unethical, actually capturing me and trapping me in that damned Dou Qi Continent for tens of thousands of years!"
At this point, Star Rabbit looked bitter and resentful, his face full of accusation against the Star Emperor for repaying kindness with enmity.
Ye Chen looked at the guy and asked with some curiosity, "Since you were born here and have been here for so many years, why are you still so weak?"
The Star Rabbit, who had initially been filled with indignation, was momentarily speechless upon hearing this. His expression then shifted repeatedly, and he felt an urge to slap the speechless brat. However, after considering the difference between the two, he ultimately chose to follow his heart...
"I've been like this since I can remember, and I've never changed in the endless years... When I first met the Star Emperor, I tried to cultivate, but unfortunately, neither the Star Emperor's Myriad Transformations Star Scripture nor the Dou Qi cultivation of the Dou Qi Continent were of any use to me..."
When talking about these things, Star Rabbit's big ears drooped down listlessly, looking so dejected.
"I see..." Ye Chen nodded silently, pondering in his mind.
Perhaps not wanting Ye Chen to see everything, the Star Rabbit's ears twitched, and it stubbornly argued, "Don't underestimate me just because of this! My combat power may not be strong, but my defense is unparalleled! Even that old geezer, the Star Emperor, can't do anything to me..."
At this point, Ye Chen could clearly see that the dead rabbit became smug again, and its rabbit ears stood up proudly once more.
Ye Chen was speechless. Did this damn rabbit express all its emotions through its ears?
"Besides Senior Star Emperor, has anyone else been here?"
Scratching its head, the Star Rabbit pondered and said, "No way... Ever since I have memories, besides that old guy Star Emperor, you're the second person to come here..."
“However, every now and then a very bright light would come out of that house, and then a beam of light would shoot up from the altar and shine into the outside world. I don’t know the specifics.” As she spoke, Star Rabbit pointed to the stone hall next to her and the altar beside her.
Ye Chen frowned, then carefully examined the ancient altar next to him, but found nothing special about it.
"And what's inside that house? What's glowing?"
At this, Star Rabbit immediately became happy and hopped towards the stone hall, waving at Ye Chen as it went, saying, "Hehe, that's my treasure, Rabbit Lord. I think you're a good boy, so Rabbit Lord will take pity on you and take you to see it... Come on, come on!"
Seeing the guy's obviously eager-to-show-off expression, Ye Chen was speechless.
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Following the Star Rabbit, Ye Chen entered the magnificent and ancient stone hall.
It was nothing special, just an ordinary stone building, and its exterior was dusty and rather ugly...
"Look!"
Upon reaching the center of the stone hall, the Star Rabbit pointed directly at the stone wall beside it, proudly displaying it to Ye Chen.
"what?"
Ye Chen looked over and found it to be just an ordinary stone carving depicting the trajectory of stars. However, the sight of the enormous star at the center of the nebula made his eyes light up slightly.
Soon, Ye Chen discovered that on the huge surface around him, there was a similar stone carving at intervals. After careful counting, there were as many as 365 pictures, which corresponded exactly to the ancient stars above his head!
"No wonder this stone hall is so huge, but there's nothing inside..." Ye Chen thought to himself.
"Come on, there's also this area..."
While Ye Chen was still in shock, the Star Rabbit had already arrived at another location and was waving and calling out to him.
Ye Chen turned his head and saw the Star Rabbit standing on a strange pattern carved into the ground. At that moment, a beam of light with a diameter of one meter fell from the roof and enveloped the dead rabbit.
"Hehe, see that? From here, you can see all the stars in the sky..."
Pointing to a small, circular skylight overhead, Star Rabbit introduced it with great excitement.
"Come on, come on, try standing here..."
Dragged along by this damned rabbit, Ye Chen frowned and walked into the pillar of light.
As Ye Chen stood still on the pattern, the next moment, he felt his eyes instantly filled with blinding light...
From a third-party perspective unseen by Ye Chen, his entire body was now emitting beams of light as thick as an arm. These beams of light shot out in all directions from Ye Chen, eventually landing precisely on the star map carvings on the surrounding walls.
The next moment, each stone carving illuminated by starlight seemed to come alive; the originally gray patterns were lit up one by one, and the previously still starlight began to rotate rapidly...
"Hehe, I knew you could do it..."
Seeing this, the Star Rabbit revealed a strange smile, then excitedly ran off on all fours towards the exit of the hall...
Ye Chen was unaware of all of this.
At this moment, he felt as if he were in the space of the ancient stars, and he could reach out and touch the huge stars that were originally above his head...
Just as Ye Chen was trying to figure out what this place was, a massive amount of information surged out from the depths of his soul and then filled his brain!
"This is... the Myriad Transformations Star Codex?!"
Only at this moment did Ye Chen fully decipher all the contents of the Myriad Transformations Star Scripture that he had obtained from the Star Emperor, and this was exactly what Ye Chen needed for his next cultivation!
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Chen awoke from the vast sea of information.
He had now emerged from that radiant universe, and the starlight above his head had softened considerably, losing its glare...
Looking around, Ye Chen found everything was as before, and he was even unaware of the changes that had just occurred to the star map stone carvings around him.
They wanted to find the dead rabbit to find out what had happened, but discovered that the rabbit had disappeared without a trace.
With a slight frown, Ye Chen walked quickly out of the stone hall without saying a word.
The moment he stepped out of the stone hall, Ye Chen saw a pillar of light shooting straight into the depths of the universe from the original altar...
Thinking back to what the Star Rabbit had said, Ye Chen immediately understood that this was the scene the dead rabbit had described.
However, this situation doesn't occur at fixed times; it only happens when someone triggers it... It's likely that it was the Star Emperor who triggered this situation back then, which is why this damned rabbit remembered it and deliberately lured him there!
However, Ye Chen wasn't angry at all, since this situation would only bring him benefits, wouldn't it?
Upon reaching the front of the altar, Ye Chen raised an eyebrow... He actually saw that dead rabbit sitting on the altar near the front, squatting there like an ordinary rabbit, bathed in starlight, with a peaceful and serene expression, completely different from its previous lewd appearance!
"This is... this dead rabbit can actually become stronger by using this starlight?"
Ye Chen finally understood why the other party had been so attentive to him... So, what it said before about his inability to improve his strength was false?
Looks like I need to teach this disobedient kid a lesson...
Moreover, Ye Chen seemed to have finally seen the true form of the dead rabbit... Under the starlight, the originally tall, fluffy gray rabbit had disappeared, and what appeared in Ye Chen's eyes was a lifelike gray stone sculpture...
If Ye Chen remembered correctly, when he went up to the altar to check before, he found some friction marks at the current location of the rabbit, which was very likely the original location.
In other words, this rabbit was originally just an ordinary stone sculpture on the altar, but due to some special reasons, it gained its own sentience over time...
No wonder this dead rabbit claimed to have unparalleled defense, saying that even the Star Emperor couldn't do anything to him... Everything here is made of Primordial Star Stones. Don't be fooled by its dusty and inconspicuous appearance; even a Heavenly Sovereign wouldn't be able to damage a single thing here!