Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal

Bright light that was visible to the naked eye flashed across the starscape.

The very moment Alkaid collided with this planet, spider web-like cracks instantly appeared at the point of impact.

Numerous cracks, ranging in width from a few miles to dozens of miles, were rent open from the surface of the earth and spread out at an inconceivable speed toward the distant horizon, reaching lengths of thousands to tens of thousands of miles.

The terrifying width and depth of these fissures directly tore apart the planet's crust and mantle, causing magma that had seeped out to burst forth from within.

In the blink of an eye, the entire planet turned into a fireball riddled with fractures.

Yet...

This was not all.

As the force of the collision continued to propagate, the planet's layers of magma and liquid were completely ripped apart, shattered, and splattered outward.

Countless rocks, mountains, and even entire continental plates, weighing millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of tons, were torn from the planet's surface by the horrific force of the impact, tossed high into the air, and flung into the vastness of space.

As these outer materials were methodically obliterated and gradually stripped away, the planet lost the cover of its surface matter, finally exposing its inner core—a dazzling, lustrous sphere thousands of miles in diameter, almost equivalent to the entire planet itself.

"This is where the true essence of the planet lies,"

Alkaid remarked sentimentally.

Yet what astonished him even more was that, at this moment, he had, with his own strength, actually shattered a planet.

A planet with a diameter of 60,000 miles, even larger than the world in which he had lived in his past life.

Even though he had previously controlled Sea Fortification Courtyard and could effortlessly slice out beams of sword light that ripped through thousands of miles of land, also possessing the force of Star Annihilation, that kind of power, obtained through the strength of others, compared to the present feat of shattering a planet with the body of a Star God...

Was still incomparable.

"So it turns out, I've become this powerful,"

Alkaid thought to himself.

He had gone from a being of flesh and blood that couldn't even block a bullet to someone who, through gradual cultivation and growth, had reached a point where he could shatter a planet with the force of his Divine Body.

Reflecting on the time in the Alkaid Realm during the Body Refinement Fourth Layer, he couldn't help but feel as if it were just yesterday.

Looking at his past self now...

Might be no different from looking at an ant one could crush at any moment, right?

No!

The gap was even greater than that between humans and ants!

He could easily shatter this 60,000-mile diameter planet, just as he could shatter the entire Alkaid Realm.

And in doing so, individuals like those Grandmasters or Martial Saints of the Body Refinement third or fourth layer from his past years would probably not even warrant a second glance from him.

"Terrifying,"

Alkaid whispered softly.

This power...

was truly terrifying.

"To kill my past self, I wouldn't even... feel anything. Because I wouldn't know, wouldn't care, wouldn't pay heed... Even though the planet I am now destroying is a desolate world devoid of life, could there be other formidable beings in the future, who for the sake of obtaining a good quality Star Core, will disregard the life and civilization developed on a planet and, just like me now, tear through the planet's crust to directly take out the Star Core?"

Alkaid, still maintaining his Star God Body, reached out and grasped the planet's Star Core.

His gaze then shifted back to the Cangwu Great World.

It must be said, because of the existence of the Void Divine Realm and considering the top Immortal Sects of the Cangwu Great World all aimed to unify Cangwu and needed to maintain their good image, they would think about their reputation and face before acting.

Therefore, it was rare for high-rank cultivators to massacre regular people on a large scale.

But in some worlds with underdeveloped communications, where ordinary people and cultivators couldn't access much information...

High-rank cultivators could do whatever they wished.

"Morality? Law? Conscience? They do not exist!"

Alkaid took a deep breath, "Because to high-rank cultivators, common people and low-rank cultivators are no longer of the same species. Not to mention Star Gods and ordinary people, even Star Masters and Foundation Establishment Cultivators compared to regular folk are like a separation between species... Do humans feel guilt when scalding a nest of ants with hot water? Will there be moral condemnation?"

At this moment, his concept of "life" gained a whole new understanding.

Only individuals of the same level will regard each other as "life" worth facing.

All these years, his pursuit of "personal safety" was actually...

to avoid the possibility that one day, someone might destroy another inhabited and civilized planet in the same way he was now destroying this one.

And he...

would be on that planet, without even the privilege of being "noticed" by the other party.

"Buzz, buzz!"

The Star Devouring Art was initiated.

The energy from within the Star Core was incessantly drawn out, infusing into Alkaid's Star God Body.

As his body's one hundred and eight major acupoints simultaneously shimmered with starlight, the four closest on his hand were gradually filled.

In the absence of other high-energy substances to aid in cultivation, refining the Star Core—this crude method—became the only way for a Star God to replenish his acupoints.

...

One day later, Alkaid, sensing that the light from the Star Core had dimmed slightly...

"It's slower than I anticipated. It will probably take about a month to a month and a half to fully assimilate this Star Core."

He calculated.

A star core with a diameter of sixty thousand miles was not enough to completely fill a single acupoint.

The capacity of one acupoint...

It should be at the level of a star core from a planet with a diameter of over a hundred thousand miles.

The specific extent would depend on the quality of the star core.

"It must be because I'm not yet adept," he thought. "My Star Devouring Art is at the Perfection level, which makes my speed ten times faster than other Star Gods in refining and absorbing star cores. If we were talking about another Star God... Without secret techniques to amplify their power, it would take them more than a year to refine a single main star core using the straightforward method, and over a hundred years just to fill the one hundred and eight acupoints of a Third Rank Star God."

The number made him somewhat sentimental.

"To fill one thousand and eighty acupoints would take a thousand years... And that's just filling them, without counting the time to create new ones. Otherwise, just cultivating up to a Fifth Rank Star God Body could well take twelve to two thousand years."

Cultivating a Fifth Rank Star God Body would take one to two thousand years.

What about refining the Divine Body to Dharma Phase Perfection?

What about refining the Qi Refining Golden Core?

All required time.

Gold Core Cultivators of the Northern Sea Star cultivation system had a longer life span compared to those in the Cangwu Great World, reaching up to a thousand years. However, a thousand years clearly wasn't enough for these Cultivators to advance further and step into the Hollow Void Realm, where one could distort the effects of time and claim to have 'boundless longevity.'

Under the circumstance that a thousand years weren't enough to reach Hollow Void, in order to cultivate into the Hollow Void Realm and become true powerhouses...

They would inevitably have to rely on external aid.

Namely, precious cultivation resources.

With that, it wasn't hard to guess that the competitive environment in the cultivation world of the Northern Sea Star was likely much more intense than in the Cangwu Realm.

"Forget it, there are still one or two decades left. After the group of Cultivators from the Northern Sea Star return in one or two decades, and I understand the situation there, it won't be too late to make a decision. If the Northern Sea Star really is fiercely competitive and extremely dangerous, I can just stay in the Cangwu Realm. With my Realm and the Perfection level of 'Star Devouring Art', two to three hundred years should be more than enough to reach Hollow Void," he pondered.

Alkaid pondered in his heart.

The might of the Hollow Void Realm of the Northern Sea Star was not considered to be the power at the pinnacle of the world like the Sunburst Golden Core in the Cangwu Realm.

But each Hollow Void Realm cultivator was indeed a powerhouse.

Even if they were not quite at the level of the Sunburst Golden Core with its World Annihilation power, they were estimated to be at the level of the Crimson Red Gold Core.

...

It was as Alkaid was refining this planet's star core that the Nine Cauldrons Sect suddenly announced a piece of news.

"Due to the outstanding contributions of Vice Hall Master of the Mystic Formation Hall, Vice Hall Master of the Artifact Refining Hall, and Vice Hall Master of the Heritage Hall, Alkaid, the higher echelons of the Nine Cauldrons Sect have unanimously decided to promote Alkaid to a True Person and admit him into the Supreme Elder Council, making him the second Supreme Elder of the Sect after True Person Li."

This was the official message.

It was fairly brief.

Below, there was also some basic information about Alkaid.

And the most eye-catching part of these introductions...

Was about his cultivation level.

Simultaneously cultivating essence, energy, and spirit.

The Body Refining Star God, the Qi Refining Crimson Red Gold Core, the Divine Refining Dharma Phase!

When this information was made public, not to mention other forces, even the upper echelons within the Nine Cauldrons Sect themselves were utterly dumbfounded.

Qin Yi, Bai Lu, Dong Liu, Xu Kong, Zhao He—those who were acquainted with Alkaid—hurried to find Alkaid's "bodyguard" Tang Fenghua as soon as they could.

"Star God? Crimson Red Gold Core? Dharma Phase? What's happening!? Has a new Golden Core been born in the Cangwu Great World!?"

"Wasn't Alkaid's Dharma Phase only attainable through the 'Primordial Realm' treasure, with the help of the Heavenly Dao Woeful Formation? Is this Dharma Phase... real!?"

"Simultaneously cultivating essence, energy, and spirit, and reaching the peak in all three meridians? Is this still the Hall Master Alkaid we know?"

One by one, questions and doubts were hurled at Tang Fenghua, who was always with him and must have been privy to these secrets.

"Stay calm,"

Tang Fenghua looked at them and pressed his hand down in a calming gesture, smiling. "I know what you want to ask. Now that the message has been published, I can naturally answer all of your questions. These details are real. True Person Alkaid has long since broken through to the Dharma Phase Realm and subsequently cultivated an External Elixir, raising his physical strength to the Star God Realm."

"It's really true..."

Bai Lu looked dazed.

"These are all things from ten years ago. Do you remember the attack on the Immortal Alliance's Ascendant Tower headquarters ten years ago? During that battle, a mysterious Gold Core and a mysterious Dharma Phase appeared..."

Tang Fenghua said with a smile, "You should guess who it was."

"It was... him?"

"So you mean, the Immortal Alliance didn't wrongly accuse us?"

Dong Liu and Xu Kong murmured.
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And Qin Yi, the Star Master who had made the earliest contact with Alkaid, had a strange expression. "So all these years, us Star Masters, those at the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Primordial Spirits, we've been closely protecting a top-tier True Person who combined Star God, Gold Core, and Dharma Phase in one? Good gracious, how highly does he think of us?"

"Ha! It was all a temporary measure then to avoid the risk of revealing True Person Alkaid's inadequate strength prematurely and attracting danger,"

Tang Fenghua answered with a laugh.

Hearing this, Bai Lu had a thought, "So now revealing this information..."

Tang Fenghua nodded solemnly, "True Person Alkaid, including our Nine Cauldrons Sect itself, now possesses enough power to protect ourselves!"

With these words, he couldn't help but turn his head, his gaze seeming to traverse seas and the void, looking towards a more distant place. "I'm very curious now to know, when those forces that targeted and suppressed us back then learn of True Person Alkaid's true power, what kind of reaction they will have."