Chapter One: Cultivating Elegance

  Dark Star Realm, Jin Xing Zong's Jin Xing Jun Wen Feng, is now an 18th Star Emperor level expert. It won't be long before he welcomes the Heavenly Tribulation and ascends after crossing it.

  Hong Jun may not know that the current Jin Xing Jun is actually Wen Feng. Even if he knew, he had no way of seeing Wen Feng. Having just ascended to a higher realm, Hong Jun only possessed the cultivation level of a first-grade heavenly immortal, which was even lower than the lowest person in the Dark Star Realm. If not for his robust physical body, the pressure on Reunion Star would have crushed him flat.

  He killed three metal beasts, including a king-level metal beast, and put the golden core into his ring. Hong Jun continued to walk, he could only walk, not that he didn't want to fly, but in this place, his first-grade Tian Xian realm couldn't fly at all.

  After three days of walking and killing a dozen or so metal beasts, Hong Jun finally met people from the Dark Star Realm.

  "Idiot! I don't know which nerve of mine went numb, taking you as my apprentice!" Hou Fei Di didn't know how many times he had demonstrated the Heaven-Shocking Thirty-Six Sticks, but in nearly a hundred years, Sun Wukong hadn't even entered the door of the Heaven-Shocking Thirty-Six Sticks.

  "Little Yellow Fish, Wukong has just arrived at the Tianyao realm, and you're asking him to master the 36 rods that only a Yao Wang can master. Isn't that making things difficult for him?" Every time Hongyun scolded Sun Wukong, she would speak up for him.

  This master and apprentice pair are truly a perfect match, one scolding the apprentice all day long, while the apprentice doesn't even bother to argue back. On the contrary, he accuses the master of being unfaithful. Hou Fei and Sun Wukong can't have a conversation without quarreling, every time they fight, Hong Yun and Zi Xia always side with Sun Wukong, which infuriates Hou Fei so much that he has already destroyed many uninhabited planets in the immortal demon world.

  "Speed, speed, why are you so slow with this stick, what's on your mind?"

  "Idiot! What's with the sloppy moves? You call that the legendary Thirty-six Sticks? Where's your stick technique gone? Soft and mushy, you're just hitting a wooden fish!"

  "I'm so frustrated! How many times have I told you? You need to be fast, focus your mind, and the most important thing about the Thirty-six Heavenly Staff is the staff's intent. You numbskull, how can you not remember?"

  Hou Fei's repeated loud shouting made Zi Xia and Hong Yun secretly laugh.

  Sun Wukong practiced bitterly, and Hong Jun didn't have a good time either. In the Dark Star Realm, Hong Jun couldn't see anyone for several days in a row, and when he finally saw someone, it was a group of over a hundred people. The other side saw that Hong Jun wasn't from the Dark Star Realm and directly suppressed him back.

  From their conversation, Hong Jun understood that these people were all villagers from Sangyuan Xing Andacun. When they came out to train collectively, they encountered this outsider. In the Dark Star Realm, only the elders of each star could dispose of outsiders. Currently, they had already notified the elder and would send this outsider to the elder.

  "Xuan Yuan Star! Why does this name sound so familiar?" Hong Jun thought as he walked, and finally remembered that his father, Qin Yu, had arrived at the Dark Star Realm for the first time in Sangna Village on Xuan Yuan Star.

  "Elder Xiu Ya! The outsider has been brought!" Led by a robust six-star king-level man, the hundred or so people delivered Hong Jun to the foot of the mountain where the elder lived, and Si Da then sent word to the elder.

  "It's all right, you can go now. Let that outsider come up by himself!" A voice echoed from the mountain, it was the voice of Elder Xiu Ya.

  "Yes, sir, we're withdrawing!" Over a hundred people didn't even give Hong Jun a glance before leaving the place. Their task was to deliver this person, and as for how the elder would deal with him, it wasn't their concern.

  "Outsider, an outsider who isn't even a king, how did you arrive at Sangyuan Star?" A pleasant voice suddenly echoed beside Hong Jun's ear.

  "Is this how you treat your guests in the Dark Star Realm? You must invite me up to speak further!"

  "You're quite arrogant, fine, I'll invite you up!"

  As soon as the voice finished speaking, Hong Jun secretly thought it was not good, a strong force came, and Hong Jun involuntarily flew up quickly to the top of the mountain. After reaching the top, he heavily fell onto the ground of the grand hall, his hair scattered all over.

  "Hmm, your physical training isn't bad, you can withstand such a heavy blow and it's comparable to the physical strength of a king-level, strange!"

  This fall also made Hong Jun feel a bit suffocated, he got up and pointed at the person in front of him, wanting to scold him. Before he could say anything, the old monk had already understood what he was going to do next. Hong Jun flew high into the air and came crashing down again. This time, it took Hong Jun a long time to get back up.

  "Imperial-level physical strength! Who are you, and what brings you to my Dark Star Realm?" The normally composed Elder Xiuya suddenly stood up from his seat on the stage, furrowing his brow as he asked.

  Xiu Ya elder, Qin Yu's first encounter with a girl in the Dark Star Realm. At that time, Xiu Ya was still at the Wang-level realm, now she is already at the 14th star Emperor-level realm. Jin Xing Jun Wen Feng layer has invited Xiu Ya to take up the position of Vice Sect Master at Jin Xing Star Sacred Mountain several times, but was rejected by Xiu Ya each time. Since breaking through to the Emperor level with the help of Qin Yu's left behind 7-star Emperor-level metal beast core, Xiu Ya took over the original elder Liu Tong's position and has been an elder for hundreds of millions of years.

  "This is the hospitality of your Dark Star Realm? I'll tell you, it doesn't matter, I'm a flying ascender!" Hong Jun rubbed the spot where he was thrown, and even though he was a 14-star emperor-level expert, the throw wasn't much weaker than the heavenly thunder of the mortal realm. Hong Jun still felt pain.

  "Ridiculous!" Xiuya sneered coldly: "I've never heard of anyone flying up to my Dark Star Realm after ascending. A newly ascended person can withstand the pressure of my Yuan Dong Star?"

  "My situation is a bit special, it's just that my body has become harder!" Hong Jun didn't know how to answer this question either. He couldn't tell the person that he had already become a divine being and had re-cultivated his skills. Even if he said so, he estimated that no one would believe him.

  "Hmph, speak up! Which faction of the Xianmo Yao realm are you working for?" Xiuya clearly didn't believe Hongjun and had already treated him as a spy from the Xianmo Yao realm.

  "I said, I just flew up, you don't believe it, that's okay. By the way, who is Jin Xingjun now? Has Wen Feng flown up or not?" Hong Jun now only has Wen Feng in mind, and there is no one he knows in the Dark Star Realm, so he can only rely on relationships. If Wen Feng flew up, Hong Jun really had no way out.

  "Your Majesty's name is not something that just anyone from the immortal, demon, or spirit realms can directly call out. Quickly, say who sent you!" Hong Jun said Wen Feng's name, which only increased Xiu Ya's suspicions.

  "No flying up, great! You tell Wenfeng that I'm Xinyuan's friend, he'll definitely see me!" Hongjun exclaimed excitedly, but unexpectedly, as soon as his words fell, a palm wind struck him and sent him flying far away, his hair even more disheveled.

  "What do you take me for? Xing Yuan, the Emperor, has ascended to heaven millions of years ago. Even Liúxīng, the Emperor, has ascended. You, a small heavenly immortal, dare to say that you are friends with Xing Yuan, the Emperor?"

  Hong Jun was shocked by this slap, wanting to cry but having no tears. He and Xing Yuan met in Misty City and had talked a lot about his father's affairs in the Dark Star Realm. However, even if he told the truth now, probably nobody would believe him.

  "Alright, I won't say anything else. Just let me see Wenfeng and that's it!" Hongjun had already been thrown out three times by this woman in front of him, and he had long been cursing his bad luck.

  "You're an interesting person, always wanting to see His Majesty. Do you think seeing His Majesty will save you? I'm telling you, if you don't tell the truth, I can have you executed on the spot!" Xiu Ya wasn't bluffing Hong Jun, and if Hong Jun didn't use his Shadowless Blade, Xiu Ya really could kill him. Hong Jun's physical body was strong, but compared to the Golden Punishment Sect's experts who specialized in body refinement, it was only comparable to those above the 16th Star Emperor level. An ordinary mid-grade immortal's physical body was just slightly stronger than a mid-grade immortal artifact's defense."

  "Xiuya, is that you? But aren't you the Xiuya who's always been on Sangyuan Star?" Hongjun exclaimed in surprise. Hongjun knew that Xiuya was the first person his father had met in the Dark Star Realm and that she had once helped her.

  "I am Xuan Yuanxing's Xiuya, how about you, won't you say that we are also friends?" Xiuya said coldly.

  "No, this is our first meeting, how can we be friends? However, I know one of your friends and the relationship is very close. Don't you want to know?"

  "Tell me, who is this person I'm so familiar with?"

  "Shooting star, Interstellar Ascetic Practitioner Shooting Star, also known as Golden Punishment Lord Shooting Star later on!" Hong Jun still remembered that his father had once said that when he was in the Dark Star Realm, he appeared with the identity of a Star Realm Ascetic Practitioner.

  "Your Majesty Meteor!" Xiuya's expression changed in an instant, standing there dazedly, her eyes complex, as if recalling, as if missing, with a hint of resentment.

  "This...” Hong Jun was also stunned, looking at Xiuya's expression, could it be that Father had done something behind Mother's back? It was impossible according to Hong Jun's understanding of his father, but the look on Xiuya's face in front of him couldn't help but make Hong Jun think wildly.

  "You're talking nonsense! The Meteor Emperor has been gone for millions of years, how could you have possibly seen him?!" Xiū Yǎ's eyes suddenly went wild, and a small sword tip appeared in her hand.

  "Divine artifact!" Hong Jun's pupils suddenly enlarged, his expression turned serious. With the divine artifact present, Xiuya could completely kill him, and Wuying Knife was also secretly preparing, seeing that the situation was not in their favor, they were ready to strike at any moment.

  "Xiu Ya, calm down. To be honest, I met the Meteor Emperor in the Divine Realm, and due to special circumstances, he descended into the mortal world, his cultivation regressing to nothing, leaving only a physical body as hard as steel!" Hong Jun didn't want to become enemies with his father's old friend, and besides, even with the Wuying Sword, it was still uncertain whether he could kill Xiu Ya at his current level of cultivation.

  "What evidence do you have that you are from the divine realm? You can't say it out, and today no one can save you!" Xiuya slowly flew to Hongjun's side, the sword tip in his palm still existed, making Hongjun's heart feel hairy. Re-cultivating Hongjun Dao came, this is the most dangerous time.

  "I recall that Meteor Emperor once said that when he saved you, he gave you three golden cores of the Metallic Beasts as a gift for their first meeting!"

  "Three golden cores!" Xiuya was stunned again, and the sword tip in her hand slowly retracted. The Flowing Star had given her three metal beasts' golden cores at the beginning, and this matter was indeed only known to two people. Xiuya had told the villagers that Flowing Star had helped her kill three metal beasts before, but she hadn't told anyone else that Flowing Star had also given those three golden cores to herself.