Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest-Chapter 1277 Star Sea (82)

Inside the underground divine temple, Wang Chen opened his eyes.

Suspended before him was a dark golden ring!

This ring’s design was incredibly simple, overall unadorned yet exuding a heavy, solemn divine light, clearly something extraordinary.

Wang Chen let out a long breath.

At this very moment, he had exhausted all of his accumulated spiritual energy, including the source force that once filled his body, and even his spiritual power was completely drained.

His strength had temporarily decreased by ninety-nine percent!

All the effort resulted in this very ring before him.

And this ring before him was crafted with all his might, using the Corestar Gold pillar infused with Source Fire.

Wang Chen reached out, removed this invaluable ring, and placed it on the ring finger of his left hand.

An inexplicable mystical feeling instantly surged through his heart.

Wang Chen couldn’t help but smile.

This ring was identical to the Cangqing Ring, not only containing the source force of this world and serving as a waypoint in the Starry Seas Vast World, but also formed into its own space capable of storing all things.

Its capacity greatly exceeded that of the Cangqing Ring!

Wang Chen tested it, effortlessly storing the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net inside and retrieving it again.

The consumption to his power was minimal.

He lovingly touched his second world spiritual artifact, feeling utterly satisfied.

Its name should be: Starry Seas Ring.

The gains this time were truly immense, far exceeding Wang Chen’s initial goals upon arriving in this realm.

With the power of this Starry Seas Ring, Wang Chen could lock onto the waypoint of the Haotian Realm, hence he could immediately return there, as long as he wished.

But Wang Chen didn’t do that.

Since arriving in this vast world, he had formed numerous karmic ties, and abruptly returning without resolving them could leave marks on his heart, hindering his cultivation.

Although possessing the Starry Seas Ring could allow him to return, the high status of the Starry Seas Vast World far surpassed that of the smaller Cangqing World, and the cost of descending is incredibly high, so he couldn’t act recklessly.

Suppressing a flicker of impulse within, Wang Chen began to search the divine temple.

He discovered many valuable items, including a large number of documents and archives.

Wang Chen perused some of the documents, gaining a detailed understanding of the temple.

The world Source Fire he obtained was excavated over fifty years ago, right at this location.

Due to the Source Fire’s nature, anyone approaching it would be burned to ashes, and all instruments not only couldn’t detect it, but would also be damaged within its radiant range.

Thus, the miners who unearthed it revered it as Holy Fire and kept it a secret.

Fifteen miners witnessed the world Source Fire at that time; three were killed by it, while the other twelve, bathed in its light, astonishingly awakened various superpowers.

To guard this Holy Fire, the twelve miners secretly allied and formed the Holy Fire Hall.

Utilizing their superpowers, these miners quickly developed a certain influence on Senhai Star, progressively expanding the power of the Holy Fire Hall, even opening a mining company.

Over fifty years, the Holy Fire Hall’s members numbered over ten thousand, controlling hundreds of thousands of peripheral members.

Though many of these members had long since left Senhai Star to develop on other life planets, for them, this is the sacred force of faith, and those who can afford to return for annual pilgrimages to receive the Holy Fire’s baptism.

With the funds pooled by these members, the Holy Fire Hall constructed the divine temple and underground city around the Source Fire, guarded day and night by the most pious believers.

Because the Holy Fire Hall itself couldn’t be exposed, under the empire’s laws and regulations, it undoubtedly belonged to prohibited heretical sects, so they conspired with rebel forces to obtain various contraband, produce and manufacture various "primitive" weapons.

Therefore, the Holy Fire Hall became a force within the empire’s rebel faction!

Through prolonged offering, these believers also mastered some dharma techniques for harnessing source force, enough to fend off invading enemies.

After all, high-tech weapons were useless here, and even an S-level war professional couldn’t withstand the combined spiritual attacks from the Holy Fire fanatics.

Then they encountered Wang Chen.

To Wang Chen, although the so-called Holy Fire Hall’s grasp and utilization of source force barely scratched the surface, it did pose some threat to him.

Unfortunately, these people’s abilities were still at the most superficial level, knowing the phenomenon without understanding the reason, entirely indulging in primitive worship, naturally no match for the extraordinary Wang Chen.

Wang Chen didn’t have the time to read through all the secret archives regarding the Holy Fire Hall.

He stored the useful materials in the Starry Seas Ring, departed from the divine temple to the outside underground city, and awakened the imperial soldiers captured by the rebel forces—dozens of soldiers from the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet.

Then Wang Chen found another tunnel leading to the surface.

What followed was straightforward.

Upon contacting Meng Liangao, Wang Chen learned of Senhai Star’s returning normal geomagnetism and disappearance of special energy fluctuations.

This was obviously the result of him taking the Source Fire!

Under Wang Chen’s suggestion, Meng Liangao reported to the empire’s higher-ups via the space station and dispatched a battalion of soldiers to seize control of this rebel forces’ nest of an underground city.

After three to four days of efforts, the arrival of a special expeditionary fleet finally settled everything.

As Wang Chen acquired a batch of the Holy Fire Hall’s confidential documents, a grand arrest operation targeting Holy Fire Hall members and rebel forces unfolded within the empire.

When Wang Chen returned to the TK043 Space Fortress, the latest intelligence from above indicated that over fifty thousand people had been captured, with the implications growing larger, seemingly forming a storm!

But those were no longer Wang Chen’s concern.

He had completed his mission and left the entangled affairs of Senhai Star according to plan, so regardless of the external turmoil, he peacefully stayed in the TK043 Space Fortress, exploring the path beyond the spiritual energy Seventh Ring.

A month later, Wang Chen received another commendation from the Imperial Military Department.

He was promoted to Major of the Imperial Army and also knighted as an Empire’s Third-Class Scholar!

The lowest rank of the imperial nobility is Baron, and ordinary citizens must first become part of the scholar families to become nobles.

A scholar is a member of the scholar families, classified into five classes.

Third-Class Scholar belongs to the mid-tier rank, although lacking hereditary rights, it already exceeds 95% of the population within the imperial system and provides a foundation for ascending to nobility.

Of course, to Wang Chen, not to mention mere scholar; even a true noble title wouldn’t mean much.

But to say it has no benefits at all would be incorrect.

Firstly, his salary tripled, along with a stipend for a Third-Class Scholar, and he got a two-week vacation.

This allowed Wang Chen to return to Taiwu Star and reunite with his two girlfriends.

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