"It's been a long hard struggle."

  "Finally, the number of awakened life stars on the second Life Star Meridian exceeded 12,960." A glimmer of light flashed across Li Yuan's eyes, and a smile spread uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth.

  In fact, Li Yuan relied on his own intuition to sense countless life stars, and the number of life stars he had sensed had already exceeded 15,000.

  Even with strong spiritual power and super high skills, Li Yuan still failed many times, and had to stop halfway, rest for a while before continuing.

  This is still a situation where many human civilizations have borrowed from their predecessors' experiences.

  From this, Li Yuan can imagine how difficult it was for the first generation of Source Warriors to create their techniques hundreds of years ago.

  "I can easily find many common life stars based on the foundation of my predecessors." Li Yuan secretly said, "But they are groping in the dark... with a much higher number of failures than me."

  The first generation, 99% of the creation method failure rate, is by no means an exaggeration.

  "Now, as long as I spend enough time, one by one, the stars of life will light up, and I will gradually grow." Li Yuan was full of confidence.

  Through the last 'Spiritual Guidance', Li Yuan is quite expecting the number of unawakened 'Life Stars' in the Destiny Space.

  With great mental strength and excellent skills, time and effort will eventually lead to success.

  "The second star vein has initially awakened, and the star vein level has been upgraded by one level?" Li Yuan was deep in thought, observing the data display on the Divine Palace panel.

  ——

  Life Rank: 19.6 (First Order)

  Punching force: 62,500 kilograms

  Speed: 109.6 m/s

  Spiritual Power: 30.3 level

  Willpower: Level 31

  Spiritual Awakening Degree: 37.9% (Current Upper Limit 40%)

  Xīng Mài: 11th level (Cultivation Efficiency 10 + 0.5)

  Mastery Boundary: Gun Technique (5th Dan 31%), Body Technique (5th Dan 31%), Fist Technique (Perfection)

  ……

  The first star vein is perfect awakening, 129600 life stars are perfect and flawless, so it is a 10-level star vein.

  The second star vein was initially awakened and upgraded by 1 level.

  "That is to say, on each awakened star pulse, an additional 12,960 life stars can upgrade one level?" Li Yuan muttered to himself.

  This is Li Yuan's conjecture, and more examples are needed to get an accurate conclusion.

  "But what does it mean that the cultivation efficiency is 10 + 0.5 after the star pulse?" Li Yuan secretly thought: "Is the total cultivation efficiency 10.5?"

  How is this calculated?

  After some thought, Liyuan came up with a possibility, but it also needed verification.

  "Give it a try."

  Li Yuan gently closed his eyes, and with a thought, he activated the two Star Veins. In an instant, countless tiny lights burst forth within his body, converging to form threads... previously, only one thread had been formed, but now there were two.

  A very dazzling and densely packed beam of light.

  But one was rather dim.

  The surging and turbulent source power from the outside world poured into Li Yuan's body along the two threads of light, following the rotation of the star pulse, trying to further strengthen his flesh and bones... Alas, Li Yuan had only just finished cultivating "All-Heavenly Star Sutra" not long ago.

  It's as if I've already eaten my fill.

  However, Li Yuan relied on his strong spiritual power to sense and had already drawn a preliminary conclusion.

  "This extra star vein doesn't seem to have as much of an effect as I thought, it's roughly the same as what the Divine Palace panel showed, allowing me to absorb source energy at an efficiency that's increased by about 5%, matching the displayed ratio of 10 and 0.5." Li Yuan muttered to himself.

  Li Yuan has more speculations through the Shengong panel.

  If the top-level star vein is level 100, representing ten perfect star veins, the cultivation efficiency would be 100, which is a limit.

  So, each perfect stellar vein has a cultivation efficiency of 10.

  And a preliminary awakened star pulse, for every upgrade of one level, the cultivation efficiency will increase by about 0.5, and as it gradually approaches the perfect star pulse, the efficiency improvement will become greater and greater.

  "Perhaps this is the difference between perfection and imperfection." Li Yuan muttered to himself, "Maybe a 9th-grade Star Pulse can increase the cultivation efficiency of 6 or 7 grades, but once it transforms into a perfect 10th-grade Star Pulse, it will directly soar to 10."

  All of the above are Li Yuan's conjectures.

  "When I further enhance the second awakened star pulse, and awaken the third and fourth star pulses, many secrets will naturally be revealed." Li Yuan thought to himself.

  Li Yuan did not go into details.

  Many things have no precedent in the entire Seven-Star human civilization, and the Temple of God's interface doesn't provide any explanation either, so one can only explore and summarize on their own.

  Powerful.

  "It's still worth making oneself stronger, after all, it will all be understood eventually." Li Yuan said quietly: "The higher the cultivation efficiency, the better, it's not a bad thing overall."

  ……

  Starting at 7:00 am, as Li Yuan had expected, he received more and more messages.

  Many old classmates who hadn't been in touch for half a year... all sent him messages.

  Even his younger brother and sister sent him messages asking if he had already won the championship.

  It's on fire!

  Li Yuan was completely on fire, he checked the playback volume of that short video again, which had exceeded 400 million, far exceeding Ding Tai's 220 million.

  Took another look at the time.

  "Let's ask Yang Shengdian instead." Li Yuan thought for a moment and dialed the other party's V-Chat number.

  For the high-level members of Xinghuo Wudian's Flying Heaven level, Li Yuan only knew one person, and they had hardly ever interacted before.

  This was also the reason why Li Yuan didn't ask recklessly last night. Who would he ask? He didn't know anyone.

  Communication was established in just over 10 seconds.

  "Li Yuan?" A gentle female voice came through the comms.

  "Yes, I am Li Yuan." Li Yuan continued: "Yang Shengdian, it's so early to disturb you, I wanted to ask you... why did the Wu Dian make a short video of me at the tournament so quickly? Shouldn't they be keeping the news under wraps?"

  "This matter..." A gentle voice with a hint of puzzlement: "I just found out too... I don't fully understand the specific situation, this is an order from higher up."

  "I was just about to inform you."

  "There's just one thing, don't leave Kunlun Wu University for the time being. Also, over the next few days, occasionally go out during the day to stroll around various places on campus, such as the Black Dragon Building or the Vermilion Bird Building." The gentle female voice said, "You don't need to worry about anything else."

  "Don't leave Kunlun Wu Da? Go out and take a stroll?" When Li Yuan heard this, a possibility flashed through his mind.

  Soon.

  Both sides hung up the communication.

  Li Yuan fell into deep thought. Logically speaking, geniuses like himself and Ding Tai Feng should be hiding their information with all their might.

  After all, although there are few aliens hiding in human civilization, they must exist.

  Why make such a big show of it?

  As if worried that others don't know.

  "The upper level is not a fool." Li Yuan thought to himself: "By doing this, it's likely that they want to use me and Han Tai Feng as bait to lure out the hidden big fish."

  But Li Yuan still couldn't figure it out.

  Such crazy propaganda, it's actually a bit too deliberate... A strong warrior from another tribe wouldn't be able to hide in plain sight if they were an idiot.

  Go fishing!

  Will the Yi people be deceived?

  "Top management must have their reasons for doing this." Li Yuan slightly shook his head: "I also can't make a decision now."

  If he guessed it was true, Li Yuan would have no dissatisfaction with the high-level directly taking himself as 'bait'.

  "In a certain sense, it only goes to show that I've become extremely important." Li Yuan saw right through it, just like how Liu Jing and the others were defending the Ming Xuan Star Boundary was a form of sacrifice.

  Many times, in order to win a big victory, someone has to take risks and make sacrifices.

  ……

  Time is passing day by day.

  The third round of Virtual Fight 'Knockout' continues with 990 martial arts geniuses from around the world.

  Like Ding Tai Feng, Jin Hu Guo, Tian Da Zhuang and Zhu Tong, all martial arts geniuses have to fight desperately in round after round of matches, striving to defeat one opponent after another, competing for the other ten seats in the final.

  Many martial arts geniuses in Xia Guo, only Li Yuan, Yin Man and Yu Mingwei directly advanced to the final.

  From February 11th to February 18th, there were no matches for a week.

  Li Yuan is very leisurely.

  He was cultivating according to the rules, and at the same time, following Yang Shengdian's orders, he would go to the Black Dragon Building every day... but what could be seen with the naked eye was that his reputation was rapidly rising.

  Wherever he goes, it's a focal point.

  In just two days, the global playback of that short video exceeded 2 billion times.

  Li Yuan's Weibo followers have surged from over a million to more than 20 million.

  In the true sense of the word, it went viral across the entire virtual network overnight.

  Unfortunately, Li Yuan doesn't bring goods or live stream... He has always ignored this kind of activity that affects his cultivation and inner self.

  At the same time.

  Li Yuan is extremely vigilant every time he goes out, and his strong mental power spreads out, and any life that enters his line of sight or perception cannot escape his 'divine palace investigation'.

  After all, Li Yuan believed that the high-level officials of Xinghuo Wudian had secretly set up a killing move, but he himself couldn't be careless either.

  What a pity... nothing out of the ordinary.

  ……

  The blue star is vast, with hundreds of billions of humans living on it. Over the centuries, numerous interstellar entrances and exits have also emerged.

  Most star realms are either very small or don't require a lot of resources to guard, such as the Moon Demon Star Realm and the Ming Xu Star Realm.

  But there are also a few star realms that are vast and boundless, giving birth to numerous rare treasures and connecting some powerful alien civilizations, so... war broke out.

  For example, Robb's border within the Seven Kingdoms.

  Another example - Wan Han Xing Jie!

  As the only 'third-order star domain' on Blue Star, it has a vast starry sky that nurtures many wonders and connects many different time and space domains.

  The Wanhan Star Boundary has always been a place of contention for many civilizations, including the Seven-Star Human Civilization, the Tianliang Human Civilization, and the Yunshou Civilization, where numerous powerful flying experts gather.

  The entire starry sky, with a maximum diameter of over one million kilometers... The native life force nurtured by the starry sky is also extremely powerful.

  All of this has caused great chaos in the Wan Han Xing Jie, with constant warfare.

  Today.

  In the vast starry expanse, there is a mysterious place, beneath the continuous glaciers, deep within the earth.

  Inside a magnificent temple.

  A figure in a purple robe was sitting cross-legged here, silently clicking on the holographic screen in front of him, browsing through the large amount of data, including text and videos... If you look closely, you will find that the person appearing in the video is Li Yuan.

  After reviewing all the materials.

  After some deliberation.

  "Hmm!" The purple-robed figure waved its hand and clicked on the light screen, entering a special communication channel.

  Connected!

  Drip...drip...time slips away, and the figure in purple robes has been waiting patiently all along.

  Ten minutes later.

  "Zixing, what's up? Want me to call you directly?" A low voice sounded.

  "Number three."

  "This time, it's your turn." The purple-robed figure spoke in a hoarse voice: "I need you to go and kill someone."

  "Who?" asked the low voice known as 'Number Three'.

  "Xia Guo's new genius, Li Yuan." The purple-robed figure spoke out the target: "He is in Kunlun Wu Da."

  "No way." The low voice firmly refused: "I've also investigated his information, but such a large-scale promotion is absolutely the Starfire Martial Hall's high-level using him as bait... Even if I go, the failure rate would be extremely high."

  "I even suspect that he is not in K'un-lun at all, but has been secretly transferred." the low voice said.

  "There's no need to worry about this." The purple-robed figure said, "He is indeed in the Kunlun Martial Academy, there's no doubt about it. Over the past few days, we have secretly verified multiple times... We all know that Xinghuo Martial Temple is being lured, but the bait is real."

  "And this bait, we must swallow."

  "Even if it means dying like a fish, one must bite the bait."

  "This Li Yuan's threat is too great, no matter how he was tempted, but this propaganda video has one thing that is true... He indeed has the potential to reach half-god level." The purple-robed figure said: "No one wants another half-god in the Seven-Star Human Civilization."

  The low voice known as Number Three fell silent.

  Indeed.

  This is obviously a trap, but the bait is real, it's a positive conspiracy.

  "We deliberately didn't send our top warrior because it's a death trap. Only you, who have cultivated the 'Blood Shadow' star technique... even if the Seven-Star Human Civilization sends a half-god to ambush us, they can at most kill your Blood Shadow clone."

  "Even if it means sacrificing Blood Shadow Clone, I must kill him."

  "Moreover, we have confirmed that Hakusanjin is guarding Tōdai in Kyoto."

  Number Three has fallen silent.

  In Xia Guo, or on the Blue Star, there are only a handful of half-god level existences.

  If Bai Shan is not in Kunlun Wu Da, then he will take action, and the success rate is indeed very high.

  At least the probability of casualties is very small.

  "Can't you wait a little longer? There will always be opportunities." said Number Three in a low voice.

  "Do you think that if we miss this opportunity, the Seven-Star Human Civilization will give us another chance?" The figure in purple robes sighed: "After this battle, Li Yuan will definitely go to Fei Xing... Do you want to assassinate him right under Dongfang's nose?"

  Number Three stopped talking.

  "Three Blood Demon Heart Fruits." The purple-robed figure finally threw out a price: "Enough to make up for the loss of your Blood Shadow Clone's death in battle."

  "Alright." Number Three finally agreed.

  He knew that this time within the clan was indeed at all costs.