Chapter 2059: Chapter 2060: The Path of the Star River Begins

A bout of dizziness hit, and Ye Qiu missed his footing with one step and fell straight to the ground.

The main thing was that his current condition was extremely bad, worse than that of an ordinary person.

Passing through the light gate, Ye Qiu had stepped onto the Star River Road; it was just that he had no idea where exactly on the Star River Road he was right now.

To be honest, what Ye Qiu wanted most at this moment was to absorb Spiritual Energy and restore his strength.

He no longer had any pills on him; after entering this Star River Road, he could only rely on himself for everything.

Fortunately, he could feel that the air here was filled with dense Spiritual Energy. Ye Qiu struggled to sit up and immediately began absorbing.

Above Ye Qiu’s head, a vortex formed as large amounts of Spiritual Energy spun continuously and poured into his body.

He had no idea how long this absorption lasted; Ye Qiu’s aura gradually grew stronger, and his strength recovered bit by bit. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Just as Ye Qiu had recovered about thirty percent of his strength, he suddenly sensed several powerful auras approaching.

Immediately, Ye Qiu slipped into the Taihuang Bell in an instant and vanished from where he was.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Several tall figures appeared at the spot where Ye Qiu had disappeared.

"I clearly smelled the aura of an outsider just now. How did it suddenly vanish..." The speaker was a tall figure, radiating the aura of a Saint Realm expert.

The figures beside him were all at the Saint level as well.

Eight Saint Realm experts appearing in an instant made Ye Qiu break out in a cold sweat afterward. It was only because he possessed a Divine Artifact like the Taihuang Bell; otherwise, once discovered by these Saints, he would most likely be in grave danger.

"These damned outsiders must be trying to come here to cultivate, raise their strength, and compete for our resources. We must find them quickly and kill them. Otherwise, our place will become a training ground for outsiders."

"It’s just a pity that this human ran too fast. Counting this guy, together with the outsider auras we detected previously, there are already close to ten outsiders. Truly damned!"

"Don’t worry. They’ve been hiding in the dark and don’t dare show themselves. As long as they use their power to slaughter our people here, our Heavenly Dao will detect them. The advantage is still on our side. If they dare to massacre on a large scale, we won’t even need to act—Heavenly Dao itself will kill them."

"Every year there are outsiders descending. What we have to do is wipe them out and minimize our losses."

After discussing for a while and finding no trace of Ye Qiu, these figures quickly left.

A moment later, Ye Qiu jumped out from within the Taihuang Bell, pulling all his aura back into his body.

He had heard every word those people said just now loud and clear, and from that, Ye Qiu realized he had arrived on a strange planet.

Could it be that the Star River Road was actually a path leading into various planets?

And judging from what they’d said, nearly ten people like him had already descended here.

Could those people be the top prodigies from the Ancestral Land?

Or perhaps the Beast God was here as well?

If that was the case, he felt he would definitely run into them.

Another point he’d gleaned from the mouths of those Saint experts was that once you killed the locals here, you would be targeted by this world’s Heavenly Dao.

This genuinely surprised Ye Qiu. In other words, it was best not to use his own strength to kill the native lifeforms on this planet, or he might be exposed and besieged by the local powerhouses.

"Looks like I’ll have to be careful. I’ve no idea where those guys are right now either."

In any case, the best thing for him now was to hurry up and recover. That way he’d be able to face any crisis; he couldn’t keep dragging around an injured body.

There was one thing, though, that Ye Qiu couldn’t quite figure out. Coming to this planet was one thing—but if he wanted to leave, what was he supposed to do?

Ye Qiu was completely in the dark on this. He felt he had to find another outsider who had entered here with him, to get a grasp of the rules.

Even though he had entered here through the Gate of Life and Death, it still felt kind of unfair—he didn’t even know the purpose of coming here.

In the end, Ye Qiu stopped worrying about it and decided to fully recover his strength first.

He spent three full days, changing locations several times while absorbing Spiritual Energy so that the commotion wouldn’t be too big and draw the local experts over.

In this way, Ye Qiu’s condition returned to what it had been in the past.

The only thing troubling Ye Qiu was that he now felt it was getting a bit hard to suppress the urge to advance into the Saint Realm.

Because his accumulation and foundation in the Return-to-Ruin Realm were simply too deep.

Back before he even entered the Southern Wasteland, he had already stepped into the late-peak stage of the Return-to-Ruin Realm. After that breakthrough, he’d gone to shout at the Supreme Saint Jiu Jue, fought with Jiu Jue’s disciple, and later battled the Supreme Saint himself. Due to the interference of a Heaven-tier mighty figure, he’d unexpectedly arrived in the Southern Wasteland and experienced a whole series of events there, which made his late-peak Return-to-Ruin Realm strength grow more and more refined.

He had even nearly triggered a Saint Realm Heavenly Tribulation during one closed-door cultivation session, and in the end, he had forcibly pushed it back down.

After that, he stepped onto the Gate of Life and Death and went through many more battles. Especially in the final trial, he had gritted his teeth and persevered, and he had gained quite a bit—obtaining the martial memories of ten ghostly bodies, which caused his foundation in the Return-to-Ruin Realm to skyrocket to an extremely terrifying level.

This led to his current predicament—he had to spend quite a lot of effort suppressing the urge to break through.

Anyone else, if they had the chance to ascend from the Return-to-Ruin Realm into Sainthood, would probably be overjoyed long ago, but right now Ye Qiu couldn’t feel happy at all. He absolutely did not want to enter the Saint Realm and undergo Heavenly Tribulation here.

As an outsider, if he triggered a nine-layer Heavenly Tribulation, it would be like shouting to every native on this planet: I’m the outsider, hurry up and come kill me.

Wasn’t that just asking to die!

He absolutely could not break through on this planet, and based on Ye Qiu’s understanding of advancing into the Saint Realm, the place where one underwent Saint Realm Heavenly Tribulation couldn’t be treated lightly. In places where the Heavenly Dao was unstable or its power was weak, even if one successfully advanced to the Saint Realm, their strength would be greatly diminished.

Whether a tribulation was fierce or not directly determined how strong one would be after surviving it.

Who knew how the rules of this planet compared to those of the Ancestral Land? If they were inferior to the Ancestral Land’s, then crossing tribulation here would be completely ruining his own future.

According to Ye Qiu’s guess, this place seemed to be inferior to the Ancestral Land. Back in the Ancestral Land, he had never even heard the term "outsider," which meant that, in relation to the Ancestral Land, this place was just a training ground and could not be mentioned in the same breath.

Ye Qiu had no idea whether his analysis was correct, but his intuition told him that although there was a Heavenly Dao here, breaking through in this place would absolutely not be as good as doing it in the Ancestral Land.

"I’ll just keep suppressing it for now." Ye Qiu diverted part of his power to curb the urge to break through and calmed his mindset.

Now that his body had recovered, it was time for him to start learning about this world. Only then could he properly prepare countermeasures.