Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 999 - 731 The Path of the Taoist Ancestors_2

Chapter 999: 731 The Path of the Taoist Ancestors_2

Having encountered the future magnificence, Jiang Chen’s heart stirred with the thought of modifying the Heavenly Star Banner.

No matter how one puts it, the Heavenly Star Banner was also a formation of the Demon Clan, and if Jiang Chen were to contribute it to Heaven and Earth, the Demon Clan would definitely be entitled to a share of the benefits.

The Heavenly Dao is fair and would not favor Jiang Chen over the Demon Clan by depriving them of the benefits they are due just because Jiang Chen had grievances with them.

Therefore, Jiang Chen was determined to modify the Heavenly Star Banner.

It had not been easy to suppress the Demon Clan, and if the Heavenly Star Banner allowed them to rise again, he would be incredibly distressed.

"The Heavenly Star Banner, one of the three supreme formations of the Prehistoric World, encapsulates all the wisdom of the Demon Clan and is nearly perfect, altering it is no easy task," he reflected.

Glancing at the Heavenly Star Banner beside him, Jiang Chen instinctively furrowed his brows; it was the culmination of the highest wisdom of the Demon Clan, nearing perfection, and to attempt modifying it was easier said than done.

Jiang Chen had studied the Heavenly Star Banner for years, finding it to be incredibly exquisite and without any apparent flaws. It seemed as if changing any part of it would be a desecration, rendering it no longer perfect.

A simple truth dawned on him; how could his wisdom alone surpass that of the entire Demon Clan? Even adding the entire Human Race to the mix would be insufficient.

But to say that the Heavenly Star Banner was truly without imperfections would also be incorrect. In this world, only the Great Dao is perfect; everything else, including the Heavenly Dao, is not. Thus, the Heavenly Star Banner is no exception.

It did have imperfections; it’s just that Jiang Chen could not perceive them.

"Purple Mist Star!"

"The flaw in the Heavenly Star Banner must lie within the Purple Mist Star!"

Unable to discern the imperfection in the Heavenly Star Banner, Jiang Chen could still venture a guess.

From beginning to end, Di Jun never truly mastered the Purple Mist Star. Even though he could harness its power, it was merely borrowed, not truly controlled.

As the leader of the stars, a Heavenly Star Banner without the Purple Mist Star would undoubtedly be flawed; Jiang Chen just hadn’t been able to identify it yet.

And if he were to modify the Heavenly Star Banner, he should start with the Purple Mist Star. Once he had mastered the Purple Mist Star, a review of the Heavenly Star Banner would surely reveal its deficiencies.

Besides, Jiang Chen possessed many advantages the Demon Clan did not. Endowed with Pangu’s legacy, he could adjust the positions of the heavenly stars to make them more perfect.

And within the Heavenly Palace, there is a Heavenly World that contains three hundred and sixty-five heavenly stars.

This means Jiang Chen has a Heavenly World that could aid him in unraveling the mysteries of the heavenly stars and validate his ideas. He also possesses the Innate Treasure, the banner of the sun, moon, Gouchen, and Nanji Star - advantages the Demon Clan lacks.

With so many advantages at his disposal, Jiang Chen refused to believe he could not modify the Heavenly Star Banner.

The saying goes, "What cannot be destroyed must be reconstructed; only through destruction can reconstruction occur." In the Ancient Era, the Heavenly Star Banner was breached, proving it was not invincible. Now, Jiang Chen intended to reconstruct it post-destruction, to make it even more perfect, from one of the top three to the foremost!

"Come!"

Jiang Chen softly spoke, and with a step, he arrived in the middle of Destruction Lake, personally operating the Heavenly Star Banner, to accelerate its conversion of Chaos Qi.

At the same time, the moment his voice fell, the void behind him suddenly trembled, and a resplendent Divine Palace surrounded by countless stars slowly descended, radiating an aura that suppressed all heavens.

The most powerful divine artifact of the Prehistoric World, the Heavenly Palace!

At this moment, the power of the Heavenly Palace had reached the level of a fully-realized Quasi-Saint. However, the treasures Jiang Chen brought from the Ruined Land, those star remnants, and Nine Heavens Fragments, had not been fully refined, with only a minuscule part processed.

This meant that the Heavenly Palace was still growing stronger. Once it finished refining all the star remnants and Nine Heavens Fragments, it might indeed ascend to the level of a Great Divine Transcendent.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Radiant starlight burst from the Heavenly Palace, overlapping with the Heavenly Star Banner, and in an instant, the speed at which the formation operated increased.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The stars trembled, boundless starlight swirled around, and with every breath, countless Chaos Qi was refined, transforming into non-black-non-white primordial Qi, exuding the aura of the original source.

"Beidou Nine-Star Banner, merge with me!"

There is no better day than today, and since I must enter seclusion to comprehend the mysteries of the Beidou Star, I might as well take advantage of the time I need to transform the Chaos Qi and use this opportunity to begin my comprehension of the Beidou Star’s mysteries.

Although Jiang Chen is only at the level of an Innate Dao Sovereign, he has the support of three great Dao Fruits and vision comparable to that of a Quasi-Saint at full fruition. However, when it comes to comprehending the subtleties of the stars, he still falls short of the Heavenly Divine Palace.

By integrating the Beidou Nine-Star Banner into the Heavenly Star God within the Star Array, the Divine Palace will be able to comprehend the mysteries of the Beidou Stars in an instant with the help of other star banners.

Moreover, once the Beidou Nine-Star Banner merges with the Heavenly Divine Palace, it will shatter in an instant, not to be destroyed, but to be reborn stronger than before. With the help of the Original Source of the Divine Palace, it will revert from an acquired treasure to an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

It is precisely at the moment when the Beidou Nine-Star Banner reverses from the acquired to the innate that the principles it contains will sublime in an instant, revealing all its secrets.

At that moment, Jiang Chen will be able to glimpse the true essence of the stars, the even stronger stellar truths mastered by the Demon Clan, the innate truths of the stars.

The Heavenly Star Banner in the hands of the Demon Clan is acquired, but the Heavenly Star Banner that Jiang Chen will hold is innate. This is where Jiang Chen surpasses the Demon Clan; his Path of the Heavenly Cycle is more complete.

Without real skill in hand, would Jiang Chen dare to talk about modifying the Heavenly Star Array?

...

As the Beidou Nine-Star Banner merges into the Heavenly Star Divine Palace, the Divine Palace representing the Beidou Stars suddenly bursts into brilliant light, an infinite pattern interweaving and exploding with a bang, shattering the Beidou Nine-Star Banner into fragments.

Then, nine beams of starlight shot out from the Beidou Star Divine Palace like ribbons, engulfing the fragments of the Beidou Nine-Star Banner, constantly evolving.

Whoosh...

Suddenly, the Dao Mirror flies out of Jiang Chen’s body, emitting a faint glow, enveloping the entire formation.

An instant becomes eternity, and time flows rapidly at this moment—a hundred years, a thousand years in a blink...

Transforming Chaos takes time, and comprehending the mysteries of the Beidou Nine Stars also takes time—maybe a thousand years, maybe ten thousand years.

That time is too long, and Jiang Chen cannot wait that long. If it really were to take thousands of years, he would miss too much. Therefore, he directly drives the Dao Mirror to accelerate the passage of time.

With the accelerated flow of time, nine ethereal stars rapidly take shape within the Heavenly Divine Palace. At the moment of their formation, the fragments of the shattered Beidou Stars in the distant boundless starry sky suddenly quiver, reviving from the dead silence and casting down a bounty of starlight.

At the same time, high above in the sky, the ancient and unmoving Purple Mist Star, due to the trembling of the Beidou Stars, actually drops a thread of starlight, descending into the Heavenly Divine Palace.

At that moment, it’s as if the stars have found their backbone, becoming even more stable.

"Hmm!!!"

"Purple Mist Starlight?"

With a heart full of excitement and without any hesitation, Jiang Chen releases his Divine Thought, peering into the thread of Purple Mist Starlight.

Jiang Chen’s Divine Thought contains a trace of the Tiandi Emperor Qi and is surrounded by the aura of the Beidou Stars. Therefore, upon encountering the Purple Mist Starlight, he faces no rejection and easily enters it, beginning to comprehend the mysteries of the Purple Mist Star.

Dominant, noble, suppressing all, governing everything...

This is the sensation Purple Mist Starlight gives to Jiang Chen; as if all things in heaven and earth are naturally beneath the Purple Mist Star and must be controlled by it.

A very profound feeling, and in an instant, Jiang Chen is immersed in it, completely forgetting everything else.

He has attained understanding!

...

Time hastens away, and soon, a year has passed, but within the formation, Jiang Chen has already experienced ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years is enough for many things to happen, for the sea to become mulberry fields, and for the vast Destruction Lake to be entirely transformed.