Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal

Artifact Refining Ninth Rank.

That was the key to Alkaid's stunning turnaround just now.

Through trading, he smoothly obtained all the spoils of war on the field.

Whether it was the high-rank battle armor or divine weapons carried by Thunder and the others, without exception, they were all products of the highest pinnacle in this world.

Every single one was valued at a starting price of hundreds of billions of Red Star Currency.

The highest even reached into the trillions, several thousand billions.

In addition, each of the Red Star Imperial Family members had their protective magical weapon, and because their souls were directly extracted by the Five Emperors Soul Refining Furnace, their magic artifacts did not activate, becoming Alkaid's spoils of war in perfect condition.

With the enormous profits from this trade, his [Businessman] branch experience skyrocketed, which he then unhesitatingly invested into the [Artifact Refining] branch, directly growing this branch to a level that rivaled the [Martial Path] Ninth Rank.

However...

The artifact refining system obviously was not the same as the body refinement system.

He only had three levels:artifact apprentice, artifact refiner, and senior artifact refiner.

With just three levels, and because the senior artifact refiner had not yet reached perfection, he had only formed two Dao Fruits.

One was the Heart of Artifact Refining.

It allowed for better analysis of the structure of finished magic artifacts upon contact.

The other was the Soul of Artifact Refining.

It could enhance the perception between the cultivator and the magic artifact, increasing the compatibility between their own essence, energy, and spirit, and the artifact's spirituality.

Using the rich experience of a high-rank artifact refiner, along with the two powerful Dao Fruits, he was finally able to pull off a final counter-kill on Leng Tianfeng and, while becoming the Soul Commander of the Five Emperors Soul Refining Furnace, refined the Soul Refining Furnace one step ahead.

His gaze lingered on the [Artifact Refining] branch for a moment.

Alkaid's eyes once again fell on the [Martial Path] branch.

"Treasure."

What did one treasure mean!?

The Jiang Family once intended to use this treasure to trade with the Artifact Sect for purchase of this world.

Even if that was because the Jiang Family itself had sufficient connections and heritage, it also showed from this aspect just how precious a treasure was.

It was basically equivalent to an entire world.

Therefore, having obtained this treasure, Alkaid's [Businessman] experience went through another round of explosive growth.

This time, instead of using the experience on [Artifact Refining], he used it all on the growth of the [Martial Path] branch.

The effect was immediate.

The progress of this rank shot up from the original 1% directly to 81%.

But...

It was not the regular understanding of 81% in the Star Lord Stage, but the second stage of Star Lord.

"Meteor Star, Heavenly Star, Main Star."

Alkaid murmured these three terms.

Star Lord!

It could be divided into three phases:the Star Lord's early stage where one merged with the heavenly bodies, the middle stage where one's life force field evolved into a Stellar Power Field, and the late stage where one increased their mass to become a star demon god.

However, these three stages had divided into three different forms:Meteor Star, Heavenly Star, and Main Star.

Alkaid understood it in his own way that Meteor Star was akin to a meteor, Heavenly Star to a satellite, and Main Star to a planet. The pinnacle of Star Lord Stage was when one could shake a meteor with a hundred-kilometer diameter, a satellite with a thousand-kilometer diameter, and a planet with a ten-thousand-kilometer diameter, all by their own strength.

After digesting the information for a bit, even Alkaid couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"I originally thought being resistant to a nuclear explosion at the Star Lord Stage was already quite formidable, but the peak form of a Star Lord is actually..."

He vividly "saw" within this information Star Lords propelling themselves into space, driving one-hundred-kilometer-wide meteors with their life force fields from above the Nine Heavens, plummeting down and exterminating all life on a star.

World Annihilation!

This was true world annihilation!

Such power...

No creature could resist it.

All the strong beings, creatures, and technological weapons bound together in the Artifact Nurturing Realm would only face death against such an existence.

"Whew!"

Alkaid let out a long breath.
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"Star Lord!"

He muttered the term.

Theoretically, even if it was just the first form of Star Lord—Meteor Star Level, one could still choose to evolve the Stellar Power Field and condense a demon god true body.

But this kind of Star Lord...

Had no potential for further advancement in the future.

Only by reaching the second form—Heavenly Star Level, would one achieve the ultimate breakthrough, lift the Heavenly Star above the Nine Heavens, and step into the next vast realm.

In a certain way, the three stages represented three different levels of heritage.

After pondering for a moment, he already came to understand.

"Just like all are university students, but the future prospects of students from unknown colleges, top-tier universities, and elite institutions are clearly not the same."

Gathering his spirit, Alkaid sat in the vehicle with his eyes closed, resting.

…

A day later, Alkaid returned to Emperor Yu's Mountain Villa.

The news from Red Star had not been conveyed yet.

Alkaid ignored it.

He believed that as long as the people from the Snow Dragon were slightly intelligent, they would inevitably know what they should and should not do.

After resting for another day at Emperor Yu's Mountain Villa, Alkaid's injuries had slightly healed.

Back at Longyou Creek, the place he used for cultivation, he took out the Five Emperors Soul Refining Furnace again.

"Let's talk."

Alkaid said.

Leng Tianfeng's figure immediately projected out from the Five Emperors Soul Refining Furnace.

Although it was just a projection and somewhat resembled virtual imaging technology, the Divine Sense fluctuations emanating from his figure were very much real.

"You…"

Seeing Alkaid for the first time, Leng Tianfeng immediately sensed something: "Have your memories recovered?"

Alkaid glanced at him and didn't reply, just saying, "Talk about the Moon Demon Empire, speak of the Divine City Conquest Army and your Sixth Fleet, and also, exactly what a Soul Commander is."

As he spoke, a fluctuation passed over the Five Emperors Soul Refining Furnace, causing Leng Tianfeng to shudder.

He felt as though he was stripped naked, with no secrets left to him from head to toe.

"Don't hide anything, I can now directly judge the truthfulness of your statements based on your emotional fluctuations."

Alkaid said.

Feeling the almost unstoppable Divine Sense fluctuations, Leng Tianfeng couldn't help but smile wryly: "Why go to such lengths? Although you have not fully recovered, I do not believe that apart from our own people, the local natives or even so-called Artifact Sect disciples, could grow so rapidly."

"Answer my question."

Alkaid said.

Leng Tianfeng shook his head: "The Divine City Conquest Army is a military force specially intended for subjugating foreign realms, under the jurisdiction of cities within the Moon Demon Empire. Every enforcer with a certain rank has a central control—restrictions left by the Moon Goddess, on them.

We simply cannot divulge too much information, otherwise… activating the restriction would lead us only to one path, death."

Having said this, he directly revealed an extremely mysterious and seemingly formless prohibitive restriction deep within his Primordial Spirit.

Alkaid gave it a brief perception and soon realized that this restriction was so complex that he was far from being able to unravel it at his current state.

No!

"Don't even mention deciphering, I can't even understand it."

Alkaid pondered for a moment before ultimately deciding not to press, and said somewhat ambiguously, "Perhaps we truly stem from the same source, so I won't force you. Just talk about what you can."

He added another sentence afterward, "Don't think about deceiving me — I can feel it."

Leng Tianfeng nodded, "I also believe that if you can retrieve your memories, with the Moon God Tribunal present, there's still room to resolve any misunderstandings between us."

As he spoke, he began to organize his words, "The initial form of the beings from the Moon Demon Empire is formless matter, like a transparent sheet of paper. Only through continuous interaction with other beings can information be inscribed, forming various... personalities?"

Alkaid listened and something vaguely came to mind.

"Even though our personalities become perfected after their initial inscription, if we want to grow in the future, we must interact with all kinds of beings. Therefore… we enter world after world, integrating into the beings of each world, replacing him, learning from him, becoming him... until... when we can no longer gain more soul perception from his body, then we will leave...

We call this action 'Descending."

He glanced at Alkaid, "Depending on the 'talent' we possess, the more times we Descend, the more thorough is our replacement and learning, and the richer the experiences of that being, the faster we will grow... However, beings with rich experiences often lead legendary lives. Their identity, status, and influence are not too shabby, and their spiritual wills are usually quite strong.

This kind of Descending actually carries risk; if we really encounter some special existences... our Descension can fail..."

"What happens if it fails?"

"Death."

Leng Tianfeng spoke gravely, "Our thought consciousness will be reversed and devoured, becoming nourishment for his growth."

Speaking of which, he seemed to remember something and added, "The Divine Path system in the Cangwu Realm where the Artifact Sect is located is actually not developed. Three hundred years ago, a member of the Moon Demon Empire Descended into the Cangwu Realm and failed, being reversed devoured.

That's what enabled them to deduce the Divine Path based on our spiritual cultivation system, thereby greatly flourishing the Divine Path, and at the same time, the related systems concerning the Divine Path rapidly rose."

"What related systems?" Alkaid asked.

"We enter the bodies of beings in order to comprehend their lives and produce soul perception in the process, which facilitates our growth, but our method of combat is not the same."

Leng Tianfeng said, "Only beings with bodies of flesh and blood can produce rich emotions. Other beings... their emotions are dull and numb, not our preferred choice. But... while flesh and blood beings have rich emotions, they are extremely fragile. It's time-consuming and effort-intensive to refine them bit by bit.

Hence, our true combat relies on external objects and forces... that is, what the natives of this world call technology."

At this point, he spoke somewhat proudly, "Every citizen of the Moon Demon Empire has their own combat armor, even forging their own warships. Through the use of armor and warships, the attacks released are such that even the top cultivators from the Artifact Sect cannot defend against. At the beginning of the war, we indiscriminately slaughtered countless top cultivators in the Cangwu Realm."

Upon hearing this, Alkaid's heart suddenly stirred, "At the beginning of the war? In other words, your current situation isn't as smooth as you claim."

As soon as these words came out, Leng Tianfeng's emotions immediately fluctuated.

"I want to hear the truth."

Alkaid added lightly.

Leng Tianfeng hurried to control his emotions, but after several attempts, he still couldn't completely conceal his emotional fluctuations.

In the end...

He had no choice but to say, "The cultivators of the Cangwu Realm learn very quickly."

He opened his mouth and said, "Very quickly, these cultivators learned from our warship's energy operation patterns, ignited the True Yuan within their bodies with their Innate True Fire, causing nuclear fusion to occur, then bound the immense energy with powerful Divine Sense to form a controlled fusion energy source, particularly some powerful cultivators, whose energy fusion released a brilliance comparable to a stellar body...

Some even collapsed their Golden Cores to form black holes, distorting spacetime to perform spatial jumps, attacking the empire's homeland..."

Speaking, his emotions flickered, "We lost contact with the main fleet more than a decade ago; as for the specific situation of the war... We are unclear."