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Chapter 829: Black Magic

"You tried to close off your other senses, then expand your divine sense to its limit?" Jierkefu continued from his previous statement.

"What would I see?"

Although a True Immortal's divine sense was capable of covering an entire grand thousand flagship, they wouldn't spend all day "gazing into the distance." Normally, their observation range would at most extend one or two hundred kilometers around them.

"At an extremely, extremely distant place, you would see a very dim star, emitting a pale white light. It's so dim that if we don't focus all our attention, it's hard to even spot it."

"I can't find it."

"......"

"I understand. Try to use this visualization method to observe the starry sky simultaneously?" Jierkefu pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly grasped the reason.

Ye De Xian took the visualization method with a dubious expression.

Honestly speaking, as a master schemer, he generally disliked touching things of unknown origin.

......

After a brief moment.

"I saw that star."

"It's pale white, looking as if it's infinitely far from me, yet also as if I could reach out and grasp it."

"Congratulations, you've gained entry into Black Magic." Jierkefu offered a mechanical smile.

"You set me up?!"

Black Magic. The pale white star. True Sun Star Lord.

Putting these three terms together, Ye De Xian was abruptly jolted awake from the fog.

He finally understood what he had just visualized!

"What did I just do?!" Jierkefu, startled awake afterward, finally realized his own odd behavior.

"You handed this thing to me." After sorting out the situation and barely suppressing his anger, Ye De Xian tossed the visualization method back to Jierkefu.

"I didn't expect that even after secluding myself for twenty years, I still haven't completely purged his mental contamination. Daoist Ye, I owe you a favor this time."

"You were hiding inside the Moon Coffin not just to heal?"

"His true body has successfully advanced, transforming into a star that exists in a special space. It's a peculiar star that can only be observed by those who have gained entry into Black Magic, but his self-consciousness is still trapped within the Ring of Time.

Essentially, that should be the unconscious mental contamination belonging to the True Sun Star Lord......"

Jierkefu himself wasn't sure if this mental contamination was a type of supernatural phenomenon, or merely a reflection of a vast disparity in realms.

"In other words, that star is still an unconscious shell?"

"Not entirely. Perhaps a faint trace of consciousness still remains."

"How do you know all this?"

"Don't forget, a part of the Historical Text was once in my possession for over a hundred years."

The existence of the "Historical Text" was no secret among the true high-ranking members of the Empire. After all, it was a mysterious treasure that Jierkefu had been captivated by for over a hundred years, so everyone had heard more or less about it.

"......"

"Farewell." Realizing that he too might very well be contaminated, Ye De Xian was unwilling to linger. He only wished to quickly return to his family's headquarters to enter secluded cultivation and thoroughly cleanse these things.

......

"When will your twenty-first level Black Magic be developed?"

On the Zero One Flagship, the capital Grand Thousand Flagship Malinjoia, a young girl draped in a black robe and wearing a crown, surrounded by several attendants, walked into a mysterious tavern named Source of Magic.

Crowds teemed outside the tavern, yet not a single person chose to enter. They hurried past as if they couldn't see the tavern at all.

"Soon. My Boundless Magic Net can now cover the entire range of a grand thousand flagship. Its continued expansion is merely a matter of time. Your Majesty need not be overly anxious."

Ke Mo, holding a cup of golden liquid, was sitting in a corner of the tavern, slowly savoring it.

And the young girl he was conversing with was the Empire's nominal supreme ruler, Empress Wei Ni Si.

Over two hundred years ago, she was inexplicably chosen as the Emperor of the Divine Terra Empire. Crowned with Yisage's Glory, wielding the Immortal Seal, the Imperial Seal of the Hua-Ya Federation, she ascended the throne of Carefree Palace. From then on, she began endless squabbling with the numerous vassal states within Terra.

With the blessings of the Holy Crown and the Immortal Seal, these two immortal artifacts, the Empress, possessing only Six Tiers of cultivation, could barely contend with the veteran True Immortals in terms of combat power.

But she was unwilling to remain a restricted, thousand-year-long puppet.

At the same time, newly advanced True Immortals like Ke Mo also abhorred the stagnant situation in the Empire's upper echelons and decided to bring some change to this decaying behemoth.

Both sides immediately hit it off.

One of the things Ke Mo detested most was the law within the Empire that stipulated property limits.

To institutionally block the paths of advancement for latecomers as much as possible, one hundred and thirty years ago, the Empire passed the "Property Restriction Act," strictly stipulating that one's cultivation level must be directly proportional to the maximum wealth one could possess.

Anyone possessing wealth that did not match their cultivation level was deemed illegal and could be sentenced to a maximum of five hundred years imprisonment in the Geocentric Grand Prison.

When such an absurd law was proposed back then, it caused a huge wave of protests within the Empire. But unfortunately, those with voting rights in the Imperial Council were all nobles of Five Tiers or higher, so the law passed almost unanimously.

Ke Mo was one of the biggest victims. Not only was his cultivation plan completely interrupted, but most of his property, exceeding the legal limit, was also forcibly disposed of at dirt cheap prices to several Imperial nobles.

Had he not actively applied to become a vanguard during the Empire's attack on Centaurus, and then, relying on his speed, plundered several native cities before hiding alone on a remote asteroid to silently cultivate and advance to the fifth tier, he would probably have needed over two hundred more years to complete the vast accumulation required to go from Fourth Tier to Five Tiers.

......

In their cooperation plan, Jierkefu, the Speaker, who was obsessed with finding the Historical Text and completely disregarded political affairs, was undoubtedly the best primary target.

Thus, there was a "coup d'état" over thirty years ago.

Wei Ni Si and Ke Mo acted in concert, successfully driving Jierkefu from power during the "coup d'état" and "accidentally" purging a large number of his people.

However, it was easy to kick out Jierkefu, who had become demonized and was completely disinterested in politics. Dealing with the other Electors was far more difficult, as they were not like the demonized Jierkefu, who ignored everything except the Historical Text.

Therefore, Ke Mo wanted to create a change.

A change originating from Black Magic.

"Black Magic, how many True Immortals can it handle?"

"With my power, combined with the twenty-first level ultimate Black Magic—the Boundless Magic Net, fighting five at once, suppressing five True Immortals is absolutely no problem.

Within the Empire, there are currently a total of thirty-two named True Immortals.

Among them, five are ascetic cultivators who essentially don't involve themselves in worldly affairs or care about the Empire; they can be ignored.

The Demon Race's Heavenly Sacred Domain has five Holy Beasts; they wish for nothing more than for us humans to engage in internal strife, so they can also be ignored.".