Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

The Star Ancient God moved with incredible speed, darting between countless stars as if each celestial body served as an extension of his power, guiding his path and providing channels for his movement.

Within mere moments, he arrived at the location of the Big Dipper.

The Star Ancient God carefully examined the Big Dipper before him.

Nine stars rotated according to profound and mysterious principles.

Initially, the Star Ancient God believed he could easily decipher these rules, but to his astonishment, he discovered that in such a short time, the operational principles of the Big Dipper had become completely unrecognizable and unfathomably profound. They now contained not only transformations of stellar rules but also changes involving time and space principles – altogether extremely mysterious.

Su Yuan appeared before him and asked curiously, “What brings you here, esteemed one?”

When the Star Ancient God saw Su Yuan, he noticed that Su Yuan’s cultivation realm hadn’t shown significant improvement, still remaining at the early Ancient God stage. This puzzled the Star Ancient God greatly – with such strength, how could Su Yuan possibly qualify to become the Divine Master of the Goddess of Fate?

He shifted his attention to the Big Dipper, and at this moment, he felt even more convinced of his inner speculation.

Perhaps the method to survive Ragnarök lay within this Big Dipper.

And the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign had merely benefited from the Big Dipper’s advantages to advance to the Ancient God level, then would naturally take control of the Big Dipper in the future to survive the great calamity!

But he was the genuine Star Ancient God who also controlled stellar rules – wouldn’t he be the more suitable candidate to master the Big Dipper?

Thus, under Su Yuan’s surprised gaze, the Star Ancient God released vast amounts of stellar rule power that surged toward the Big Dipper, continuously injecting into the stars’ cores, intending to refine and claim the Big Dipper right before Su Yuan’s eyes!

“What are you doing?” Su Yuan frowned.

The Star Ancient God said calmly, “Such a supreme treasure is not something you can control!”

His words carried an undeniable, imperious tone.

Su Yuan was rendered speechless – someone was actually interested in his avatar and even planned to openly seize it right in front of him.

Su Yuan’s expression turned cold. “Are you planning to openly rob me?”

The Star Ancient God paid no mind to Su Yuan’s resistance. He didn’t consider Su Yuan a match for him, and was instead concerned that deities from other pantheons might notice the Big Dipper’s existence. After brief consideration, he decided to summon other Ancient Gods from the Nature Alliance to help him guard the Big Dipper.

Seeing his attitude, Su Yuan laughed in exasperation. Witnessing such arrogance from the other party, he wanted to see exactly how much stellar rule power his opponent could consume!

He simply stood with his hands behind his back, watching from a distance.

The Star Ancient God discovered that when his stellar rule power penetrated into the Big Dipper’s stellar cores, he actually found a vast space within.

But before he could investigate clearly, the stellar rule power that had entered that starry space was instantly devoured completely. He faintly felt that he had gained a minuscule, almost negligible degree of control over these nine stars.

Feeling pleased, the Star Ancient God immediately increased the output of his stellar rule power, injecting more energy into the stellar core space.

What the Star Ancient God didn’t know was that after his Ancient God power entered the core space, Su Yuan directly transferred it into the [Tear of Eternity].

And the so-called sense of control was merely an illusion that Su Yuan intentionally provided him.

After mastering the law of object control, operations like self-objectification and fake recognition of ownership were just basic maneuvers.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye.

Nine more Ancient Gods had gathered around the Big Dipper. After their arrival, they protected the Star Ancient God while keeping a close watch on Su Yuan.

As the Star Ancient God gradually refined the Big Dipper, massive amounts of Ancient God power poured frantically into the stellar cores as if they cost nothing. Soon, half of his Ancient God power had been consumed!

Yet he felt that he still had about one-third of the distance to go before fully controlling the Big Dipper.

So he immediately redoubled his efforts. His Ancient Godhood immediately connected with his divine kingdom.

Within the divine kingdom existed a divine power pool – this was the Ancient God power that the Star Ancient God had accumulated over countless years. While the Ancient Godhood had a storage limit for Ancient God power, the divine kingdom could preserve excess divine power. Over time, substantial Ancient God power had accumulated.

Now, across endless space, the Star Ancient God directly drew upon these Ancient God powers to replenish his consumption, then injected these Ancient God powers into the Big Dipper.

But when he felt he had achieved 99% control over the Big Dipper, the remaining 1% became extremely difficult to refine.

He faintly sensed a higher-level power – that of a Creator God level.

The Star Ancient God’s eyes gleamed with intense light. Indeed, this Big Dipper was a genuine supreme treasure containing the secrets of creation, and its essence might be even higher!

The Star Ancient God grew even more excited.

Meanwhile, Su Yuan was amused.

He had merely simulated the fundamental fluctuations of a Tai Chi Realm puppet, yet he had completely fooled the Star Ancient God, who never considered that this might just be an empty display.

Actually, this wasn’t the Star Ancient God’s fault – what decent person could easily simulate Creator God-level power fluctuations? This wasn’t something one could imitate just by wanting to.

The Star Ancient God continued consuming Ancient God power. After using up at least nine-tenths of his divine kingdom’s reserves, he felt he had achieved 99.9% refinement of the Big Dipper, with only the final thousandth remaining to completely finish refining the Big Dipper.

However, within this last 0.1%, he detected Su Yuan’s aura.

Su Yuan’s imprint was like a thorn embedded in the Big Dipper’s core, preventing the Star Ancient God from completing the final refinement.

The Star Ancient God turned to look at Su Yuan, who had been watching the spectacle all along.

“Release your control over the Big Dipper immediately! I don’t want to resort to force, but I believe you understand that you’re no match for me. Opposing me will only lead to your divine soul perishing and your Godhood being seized!” The Star Ancient God’s attitude became extremely forceful.

He had kept Su Yuan watching nearby precisely because he feared that if they fought, the combat fluctuations would be too great and attract other Ancient Gods. Fortunately, Su Yuan had remained inactive, giving him peace of mind to refine. Now that only the tiniest bit remained unrefined, he no longer minded using force to solve the problem if Su Yuan resisted.

A peculiar smile appeared at the corner of Su Yuan’s mouth. He glanced inside the [Tear of Eternity], where the Star Ancient God’s power had filled an entire divine power lake.

These divine power lakes had transformed into a massive teardrop, representing their astonishing value equivalent to eighteen or nineteen low-grade Acquired Supreme Treasures.

If he had fought the Star Ancient God from the beginning, these Ancient God powers would inevitably have been consumed, drastically reducing their final value to him!

What a good person, eagerly coming to deliver divine power.

His earlier inaction was precisely because he worried combat would consume too much divine power.

But now, since the other party had already delivered all the divine power, he no longer minded using force to solve the problem.

The Star Ancient God and Su Yuan’s thoughts had unexpectedly synchronized on the same wavelength.

Su Yuan said to the Star Ancient God, “I’ll also give you one chance – abandon all the parts you’ve refined, and I won’t pursue your disrespect. Just compensate with some price, and we can consider this matter closed!”

Hearing this, the Star Ancient God laughed at Su Yuan’s ignorance, while the nine Natural Alliance Ancient Gods surrounding them also burst into laughter. Su Yuan laughed along synchronously – everyone here enjoyed a good spectacle, so they might as well laugh together!