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"Ah, this..."

Xiang Beifei stared at the Spirit Gathering Book in astonishment, his eyes wide open.

The Dou Constellation has seven stars, meaning it requires the spiritual power crystals from seven God Refining phases to be illuminated. Xiang Beifei hadn't considered the future, but to his utmost surprise, the thing sealed within the Dou Constellation had forcibly drawn something similar to itself, then melted it down and broke two-sevenths of its seal all by itself!

This turn of events was truly beyond his expectations!

However, before Xiang Beifei could rejoice, the aura on the Dou Constellation suddenly surged again, as if it refused to stay sealed within the constellation, roaring as it tried to break free from the Spirit Gathering Book. But the Spirit Gathering Book was no ordinary entity, it continued to suppress it, and at this time, it set its sights on Xiang Beifei!

Perhaps because it had just received Xiang Beifei's help and tasted the sweetness of his spiritual power, it started to direct its aura towards Xiang Beifei!

Hum!

A terrifying devouring force came forth from the Dou Constellation, beginning to fall upon Xiang Beifei. His spiritual power was being furiously devoured by the Dou Constellation, using it to enhance its own strength, as if it wanted to actively illuminate the remaining five stars and completely break the seal!

Xiang Beifei took in a sharp breath, having not expected the Dou Constellation to suddenly turn against him!

To know, to obtain the abilities within the constellations, he had to first use crystals of corresponding power to illuminate the constellations, that is, to first break the seals.

The reason this had to be done, as Xiaohei explained, was that some mighty entities, because they were beyond one's cultivation level, couldn't be controlled even if acquired, and might even control the user in return. Thus, these entities were sealed until one had reached a corresponding level of cultivation to then unseal them.

The number of stars in a constellation indicates how many seals there are.

His first acquisition of "Learn by Analogy" came from the Horn Constellation, which has two stars, because the power of that tortoise shell wasn't too strong, requiring only two Qi-Controlling phase seals to contain it. Therefore, Xiang Beifei unsealed it with two Qi-Controlling phase system items. The ability "Stand Aside" required three seals from the Meridian Opening initial phase to suppress.

The Dou Constellation before him, having seven stars, meant it required seven seals from the initial God Refining phase to be held down.

At this moment, the Dou Constellation realized that it had just devoured the black wood, illuminating two stars, meaning two seals had been broken. It sought to continue breaking the remaining five seals, so it turned to devour Xiang Beifei's spiritual power, not even bothering to negotiate with him, suddenly switching roles.

If things continued this way, it was clear that Xiang Beifei would become the spiritual power crystal used by the mysterious item within the Dou Constellation to illuminate the stars!

Previous items like the breath soil lacked self-awareness, but this divine item sealed in the Dou Constellation possessed self-control abilities. It was sealed by the Spirit Gathering Book, yet still released earth-shattering power and devoured a piece of black wood equivalent to the strength of the God Refining phase.

Now that it had broken two seals, it became even more unbridled, ready to start its rampage.

If it were released now, its volatile abilities meant that Xiang Beifei, with his current strength, couldn't control it and would instead be controlled by it.

Xiang Beifei immediately surged his spiritual power to retract it, not wanting to be devoured by it. However, the opposing force was too oppressive, still devouring from behind five seals, making it difficult for him to pull back his spiritual power.

"Want to devour my spiritual power?"

Xiang Beifei focused intently on his spiritual power being torn away, his spiritual power surging again!

Whoosh!

Flames immediately ignited on his body, burning from him all the way to the Spirit Gathering Book, merging into the Dou Constellation!

The flames made the Dou Constellation's devouring unstable, and it seemed to fear the flames, actually stopping its devouring process!

Xiang Beifei forcibly aborted the devouring, and the Dou Constellation appeared even more enraged. It released a terrifying pressure once more, ready to make a comeback. This time, it intended to crush Xiang Beifei like the black wood before devouring him.

Xiang Beifei's face changed slightly, but he wasn't so easily bullied. Just now the Dou Constellation had devoured so much of his spiritual power, and he could still perceive that power. If it wanted to crush him, he would just burn it directly!

Just as both parties were about to engage in a fierce contest, however, at that moment—

"Woof!"

Xiaohei leapt up, baring its teeth and closing the Spirit Gathering Book with a swipe of its paw!

Creak!

It just closed the Spirit Gathering Book directly.

The terrifying aura emanating from the Dou Constellation dissipated instantly, and tranquility was restored to the world.

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This abrupt change, from the Dou Constellation's explosive display of power being shut down by Xiaohei so quickly, left Xiang Beifei completely astonished.

"Woof, woof!"

Xiaohei stood with its paws on its waist, stepping on the Spirit Gathering Book.

This was something it had brought, and it wouldn't allow the little rascals inside to be presumptuous.

This dramatic change also left Xiang Beifei with a bewildered expression.

He had been prepared to fight the Dou Constellation with his flames, even if he couldn't subdue it, he would not let it have an easy time, but he hadn't expected the Dou Constellation, which could crush black wood and stir entire mountains, to be easily snuffed out by Xiaohei.

"It's behaving just like that?" Xiang Beifei found it unbelievable, with the flames on his body not having enough time to be retracted.

Originally, he thought the black wood on the mountain was lawless, leaving them at their wits' ends, but then the divine object from the Dou Constellation popped up, telling the black wood who the real boss was!

After swallowing the black wood, the divine object from the Dou Constellation started harboring evil thoughts and was about to unleash its power against Xiang Beifei, and then Xiaohei slapped it back with a swipe of its paw, telling the Dou Constellation it was nothing but crap!

"Is this an example of 'a bigger fish'?"

Xiang Beifei looked at the smug Xiaohei, unable to help but smile wryly.

Xiaohei actually had no real combat strength, it was just very clever. Just now, when fighting the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage, it relied on its own advantage of invisibility, spitting saliva and flinging droplets to wipe out the enemy.

And there was no need for a high level of cultivation to deal with the Dou Constellation, because it was Xiaohei who had brought the Spirit Gathering Book, and it could kill the Dou Constellation with a single swipe of its paw.

"Woof, woof!" Xiaohei declared proudly.

"No wonder," Xiang Beifei couldn't help but nod.

The more powerful the abilities of the star spirits in the Spirit Gathering Book, the more peculiar their self-awareness, like that of the divine object in the Dou Constellation. If Xiang Beifei was not strong enough and rashly tried to use it, he would end up like just then, swallowed by the Dou Constellation.

In other words, to control the divine object in the Dou Constellation, Xiang Beifei would need to reach the God Refining stage first!

Of course, this time it could be said that it was the black wood at the summit's volcanic crater that made the first move, awakening the Dou Constellation. Xiang Beifei had helped the Dou Constellation, and being targeted by it could not be blamed on him, it was just that he was not yet able to control it.

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The glow in the air had already dissipated, and the fierce wind had stopped as well. When Xiang Beifei recovered his senses, he immediately thought of Long Guocheng and the others.

The giant black tree in the sky had attempted to devour Long Guocheng and Li Zimu, pulling them high into the air, but now that the black tree had vanished and the pulling force gone, they all started falling again.

But because Xiang Beifei himself had nearly been dealt with by the Dou Constellation, delaying him for about ten seconds, the others had already fallen out of sight by now. From the nearly five-thousand-meter-high mountain, those who couldn't fly would plunge to their doom, even those in the advanced stages of Qi-Controlling would likely be done for!

Xiang Beifei turned his head around and quickly spotted several figures still falling, shrinking in size to that of ants, and fuzzy due to the great height and misty air, already scattered. He immediately turned around and rushed down the mountain to pull that group of people up.

His speed in Sword Flight was much faster than free falling, exerting all his spiritual power and pushing it to its limits as he sped downwards.

And thankfully, due to the mountain's height of several thousand meters, it took twenty to thirty seconds to fall, giving them enough reaction time. However, not many people could recover that quickly; most had exhausted themselves while fighting the pull of the black wood, leaving them drained. Some even lost consciousness and couldn't control their bodies anymore.

Xiang Beifei flew over at high speed, quickly closing the distance, and when he was about fifty meters away from them, he abruptly activated the "Abruptly Stop" ability, trying to reach them. Unfortunately, they were still too far, and Xiang Beifei managed only to grab Li Zimu and Di Sheng.

"Save others!"

They were both still dazed when Xiang Beifei shouted, waking them up in time. Li Zimu also realized that something was wrong as the others continued to fall. They immediately used their own abilities to catch the others.

As Di Sheng was falling, he forcefully flung a stream of spiritual power ahead, creating a large mass of water in mid-air with the spiritual power. They fell into the water, which caused a huge impact, and the group quickly fell through it again. Di Sheng created several layers of water in succession, nearly depleting his own spiritual power, but by that point, the water's resistance had significantly slowed their descent.

At that moment, Li Zimu cast the "Yellow River's Waters," washing everyone into the river. The rushing water carried them away, using it to lessen the impact of their fall. He directed the water's flow toward the peak.

But due to the turbulent flow, Li Zimu couldn't look out for everyone. When they were about thirty meters from the ground, Xi Keyao, caught off guard, got thrown out of the Yellow River and headed for the ground.

At the foot of the mountain, many tree people were still clustered together, looking like they were gathering as they looked up at them. Xiang Beifei spotted Xi Keyao at a glance and gave chase immediately, almost pushing his flying sword to spark with his speed, but still, he couldn't catch up.

Just as Xi Keyao was about to hit the ground, he finally closed the gap, immediately releasing a burst of spiritual power. The essence of "Abruptly Stop" acted on Xi Keyao in an instant. Thanks to Li Zimu's floodwaters, which had already reduced much of the impact, the sudden halt wasn't too harmful for Xi Keyao, who had already lost consciousness by then.

Not hitting the ground was already a stroke of good fortune.

Just as Xiang Beifei was about to grab Xi Keyao, who remained suspended in air, a tree person suddenly extended a branch and wrapped it around the hovering Xi Keyao.

"Let her go!"

Xiang Beifei landed, shouting fiercely, ready to start a fight with his water gun drawn!

The tree people, however, seemed to notice something. They looked at the mountain top then at Xiang Beifei with terror, seemingly afraid of him. The tree person that had caught Xi Keyao instinctively put her down on the ground and swiftly retreated, not harming Xi Keyao.

Xiang Beifei hurried over, checked on Xi Keyao, and found that she was just unconscious, most likely without serious injuries, which allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief. Then he stood up, vigilant against the tree people.

The tree people here were very odd, having chased them all over the place earlier.

Xiang Beifei raised his breath soil gun and said, "If you want to fight, go ahead..."

However, before he could finish his sentence, the tree people suddenly began waving their arms on the spot, gesturing at Xiang Beifei and emitting strange sounds.

"You..."

"Forgiveness..."

Each tree person had a perplexed expression, muttering these two words with conviction, their eyes earnestly fixed on Xiang Beifei. They did not charge at Xiang Beifei as they had before.

This scene also made Xiang Beifei frown.