Somewhere in the universe, a dazzling white light suddenly rose into the sky amid the boundless darkness. Thousands of Immortal Sparks circulated, illuminating the dark skies, and countless auspicious transformations emerged all over the universe.

Then, a gigantic, magnificent white-jaded Immortal gate emerged in the universe and radiated with Immortal Sparks that traveled countless light-years.

Nine-thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine white-jade dragon and phoenix pillars stood above a planet, followed by the emergence of a majestic aura.

Some great ones in the universe were shocked to see the white-jaded Immortal gate.

“T-That’s the Immortal Ascension Path?!”

“But why is the aura of the Immortal Ascension Path different this time?”

Something strange happened while everyone was in shock.

Daoist chimes suddenly resounded from the gigantic white-jade Immortal gate, and countless Daoist patterns interweaved to form three ancient and powerful characters on the gate — Southern Heavenly Gate!

Upon seeing that, the great ones immediately understood.

“This is the real Immortal Ascension Path!”

“The Immortal World Four Heavenly Gates, namely Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern, are the passages to enter the complete Immortal World. I guess other Immortal Ascension Paths of the Fragmented Immortal World have been taken away and only these four Immortal Ascension Paths are left now.”

“The Southern Heavenly Gate, huh? Tsk, tsk. I heard there were ancient Immortal Halls in the complete Immortal World, and they, too, had the Four Heavenly Gates that seem to imitate the Immortal World’s Four Heavenly Gates.”

Besides the Southern Heavenly Gate, the other three Heavenly Gates also appeared in the universe, shocking major civilizations and orthodoxies.

On that day, a tyrannical figure stepped onto the Immortal Ascension Path of the Southern Heavenly Gate, where hundreds of dragons and phoenixes soared into the sky, filling it with Immortal Sparks.

“Complete Immortal World, here I come!”

The figure dashed into the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Following the first person’s entry into the Immortal World, sky-prides and senior elites also wanted to enter the Immortal World.

Many people flocked into the complete Immortal World.

At that moment, the forces that had long known that the Fragmented Immortal Worlds would merge had some great advantages.

They had placed their forces in various Fragmented Immortal Worlds for many years, and now that the Fragmented Immortal Worlds were merging, they gathered their forces at an extremely fast speed.

In the complete Immortal World, the wind was billowing while the great forces were busy occupying resources and dividing territories.

Meanwhile, in a galaxy, a Giant Stellar Beast was rapidly devouring planets everywhere as if it was mad hungry.

It shocked some of the forces.

Generally, although planets were Giant Stellar Beasts’ food, they would not devour as many planets as it was now in such a short period. As such, the Giant Stellar Beast’s act puzzled everyone.

Not only that, but some people also noticed that the Giant Stellar Beast showed no sign of energy growth even though it was constantly devouring planets. On the contrary, it was growing weaker.

Such a scene attracted many forces’ attention.

If the Giant Stellar Beast was in its heyday, few to no forces would dare disturb it.

However, many people were now tempted because it had become extremely weak for reasons they did not know.

After all, a Giant Stellar Beast’s corpse had a lot of value. Its corpse’s liquid could help improve cultivation speed, its bones could be used for weaponsmithing, and some Giant Stellar Beasts would even derive a treasure named Stellar Core from their bodies.

A Stellar Core was simply priceless in the universe.

On that day, the Giant Stellar Beast was devouring a planet, and the planet was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The strange thing was that the Giant Stellar Beast’s body did not show signs of digesting the celestial energy. Instead, its life essence was constantly weakening.

In the distance, a few warships approached and surrounded the Giant Stellar Beast. The leader of the group was a Heavenly Immortal dressed in golden armor with a majestic, imposing aura.

“Attack!”

The Golden-armored Heavenly Immortal roared, and the warships began to emit energy light beams to attack the giant beast incessantly.

Bang, bang, bang!

Countless energy light beams slammed onto the giant beast, causing it to wail.

Shortly after, starlight flowed on the giant beast’s surface, forming a thin layer of energy shield to block the surrounding energy light beams.

The Golden-armored Heavenly Immortal could not help but frown because the starlight energy shield seemed… weak!

“Why is the Giant Stellar Beast so weak?” asked the Golden-armored Heavenly Immortal.

He had seen a Giant Stellar Beast with celestial energy that even a Heavenly Immortal like him feared. However, the one before him was just… far too weak!

Bang, bang!

Countless energy light beams slammed onto the giant beast. Under the continuous bombardment, the starlight shield on the giant beast exploded with a loud bang as it could no longer hold on!

“Roar, roar…”

Daoist patterns circulated the giant beast’s body as if it was gathering celestial energy to attack.

Unfortunately, the starlight went out after flickering twice.

“What’s going on?”

Everyone was puzzled, but they were delighted to see the giant beast weak. Hence, they attacked more vigorously.

After a while, the weak Giant Stellar Beast died in a miserable howl, and its gigantic body floated in the universe like an island.

“Haha! It worked.”

“We finally succeeded.”

“Quick. Get up there to collect some materials.”

Some cultivators approached the corpse of the Giant Stellar Beast excitedly and began to collect materials. However, they soon realized that something was wrong.

The Giant Stellar Beast contained very few materials.

Its blood and flesh activity was insufficient, and its bone density was so low that it would be difficult to make an Immortal Weapon. They could find the Stellar Core, but its celestial energy had disappeared.

The entire Giant Stellar Beast seemed to be hollowed out not in terms of blood, flesh, and internals but in terms of celestial energy.

“What the hell is happening?”

Some cultivators were furious.

They had spent a fortune gathering manpower to hunt the Giant Stellar Beast, but the gain was far less than expected.

They had lost a lot.

Eventually, a commotion broke out in the crowd.

The Golden-armored Heavenly Immortal was displeased as he was the one who had initiated the operation, but it ended with disappointment. If there were no explanation for it, he would lose his dignity.

Bang!

At that moment, the corpse of the Giant Stellar Beast under everyone’s feet suddenly trembled, and a beam of light gushed out from the giant beast’s body.

When the beam of light dissipated, a figure emerged.

It was a black-haired, handsome-looking man in white clothes.

What everyone was concerned about was the powerful celestial energy fluctuation that surrounded him.

“What’s going on? How can there be a human in the giant beast’s body?”

“Where did he come from?”

Everyone was confused.

After a while, the celestial energy fluctuation on the figure in white gradually dissipated.

The man was, of course, none other than Chu Kuangren. He glanced at the crowd, slightly puzzled. ‘Why are there suddenly so many people?’

He mobilized his Immortal Consciousness while everyone was discussing and finally figured out the reason. Then, he chuckled and shook his head.

“Unfortunately, I’ve absorbed all the Giant Stellar Beast’s celestial energies. Their work was all in vain.”

However, if it were not for the fact that he absorbed the Giant Stellar Beast’s celestial energies, how could these people manage to kill it?

With that, he ignored them and turned around to leave.

“Stop!” A cold grunt sounded.

The Golden-armored Heavenly Immortal suddenly stood before Chu Kuangren.

“What’s the matter?”