O43novel Chapter 733: All-Heavens Star Grand Array
Chapter 733: All-Heavens Star Grand Array
Chapter 733: All-Heavens Star Grand Array
After Furnace Fence’s figure vanished into the glow of the teleportation array, Jie Ming withdrew his gaze and began directing the black giants to evacuate the molten planet in batches. On the lava plains, temporary teleportation arrays lit up one after another.
Silver-white light flickered across the scorching surface, making the churning magma seem to cool for an instant.
Millions of black giants carried the remaining building materials and dismantled temporary equipment, marching in orderly ranks onto the teleportation arrays. Their heavy footsteps intertwined with the low resonant vibrations from their chest cavities.
Jie Ming did not intervene much.
The black giants had grown increasingly proficient at these evacuation operations, and everything was proceeding steadily enough.
He himself flew out of the planet’s atmosphere into space, hovering at the center of the previous refining formation.
Before him floated a massive fireball still burning fiercely.
Calling it “massive” was no longer entirely accurate.
After being refined, the star’s volume had shrunk to one hundred-billionth of its original size. The fireball’s current diameter was roughly equivalent to that of a medium-sized planet. Yet the light it emitted was far more intense than the original star. Even through the protection of the Return to Ruins Armor, Jie Ming could feel waves of heat rushing toward him. The fireball’s color was completely different from the previous star.
It was no longer the usual surface white tinged with blue and yellow of an ordinary star, but an abnormally vivid and intense crimson, as if the entire star’s blood color had been forcibly condensed into a single mass of flame.
Deep within that crimson hue, countless silver light points flickered and flowed continuously, like an entire galaxy embedded inside a ruby. This was one of the results of the refinement: Supreme Yang True Fire.
Jie Ming had read records of this material in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, but this was his first time seeing the real thing.
In the cultivation world, this counted as one of the top-tier materials.
It was so high-end that the vast majority of cultivators might never see even a single strand in their entire lifetime.
The reason was simple.
Refining this material required consuming an entire sun each time.
Moreover, not just any star would do—it had to be a stable, energy-rich main-sequence star in its prime. This prerequisite alone raised the threshold to above the Dao Integration Realm.
Few people could even refine a sun.
Even fewer were willing to refine a prime-age sun into material.
Supreme Yang True Fire had extremely wide applications as a conceptual material.
As a one-time explosive method, a single strand of Supreme Yang True Fire could burn through the protective dharma form of a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator.
As a flame seed, it could be used to refine the highest-grade pills and artifacts, causing qualitative leaps in both pill success rate and artifact quality.
If one cultivated special fire-attribute techniques, it could even be directly refined into the body to boost combat power and cultivation.
Of course, the most extravagant use was further refinement.
From Supreme Yang True Fire, one could extract a conceptual material called “Supreme Yang.”
That was something that truly stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world, ranked alongside “Supreme Yin” and was considered capable of directly describing the essence of the world.
For Jie Ming, however, Supreme Yang True Fire was merely an additional harvest from this refinement.
What he truly wanted was not the fire itself, but another substance within it.
At this moment, a group of black giant priests were scattered around the edges of the refining formation, heads lowered as they operated control panels.
Several sixth-level black giants finished calibrating the runes on the final segment of the slender ring. The formation switched its operating mode, and the dark-golden ring began pulsing at a more complex frequency.
A special power slowly emanated from the ring. It penetrated the outer layer of the Supreme Yang True Fire like an invisible hand reaching into the depths of the flames, then began extracting something outward.
In the next instant.
The silver light points that had been faintly visible within the Supreme Yang True Fire were drawn by this power and continuously stripped away from the flames. Silver streams converged from all directions of the fireball toward a collection node on the ring, gathering more and more densely.
At the same time, the Supreme Yang True Fire itself continued to shrink.
Yet its red color grew increasingly pure and intense.
The previous vivid crimson had still carried faint traces of orange and golden mixed radiance.
But as the silver light was continuously extracted, those impurities faded away bit by bit, ultimately leaving only a near-solidified blood-red.
It was as if the flames had been compressed to the extreme, revealing another form.
On the other side of the ring, the extracted silver light points had already coalesced into a mountain-range-sized mass of silver-white material.
It floated in space, quietly emitting a soft yet cold silver-white glow.
Its texture seemed to lie between liquid and gaseous states. Fine ripples constantly spread across its surface, and with each ripple, an extremely faint ripple of laws stirred in the surrounding space.
This was Star Power—the very thing Jie Ming truly needed.
A conceptual material that could only be produced by refining the concept of stars.
Jie Ming wanted this Star Power because he intended to construct a grand array for the Infernal Sulfur Plane.
A top-tier array even by the standards of the cultivation world: the All-Heavens Star Grand Array!
These Star Powers would serve as the core raw materials for building it.
The Great Dao Book Pavilion contained multiple variant records of the All-Heavens Star Grand Array.
The simplest version required only thirty-six array flags to channel Star Power and form the array.
Its power was not heaven-defying, but it was still quite excellent among ordinary defensive formations.
The most complete version, however, required three hundred and sixty-five stars as primary array eyes, supplemented by one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred stars as auxiliary stars, to fully unleash the array’s complete might.
Once established, the entire formation would function as one integrated whole, excelling in both offense and defense.
The array’s strength would be elevated to an extremely exaggerated level. Any external invader would have to face the combined counterattack of all the stars within the entire world.
Moreover, this array had one major advantage.
Flexibility.
The stars serving as the array’s core inherently left considerable room for manipulation.
What Jie Ming planned to do now was precisely this: instead of directly using the plane’s existing stars as array eyes, he would use Star Power as the main raw material, supplemented by other materials, to artificially refine three hundred and sixty-five stars as the formation’s core.
Stars refined this way would be inscribed with array runes from the moment of their creation, giving them far higher compatibility with the array than natural stars.
If conditions allowed, the auxiliary stars should ideally be manufactured the same way.
If this All-Heavens Star Grand Array could truly be successfully deployed, the Infernal Sulfur Plane would become an impenetrable fortress plane excelling in both attack and defense. At that time, even an eighth-ring wizard who dared to cause trouble in his plane would be something he had confidence in capturing.
Even if a ninth-level being intruded, he would have the assurance to exchange several moves.