Splitting the Heavens

Chapter 1151: Secret Bronze Fragments

“Stop… Stop right there!” When Captain Fang and the others closed in on the Star Observatory, he could feel the presence of some sort of barrier created by someone’s domain. Understanding what that meant, he quickly called for everyone to stop, even those rushing in from another direction.

“Deputy Camp Commander…” The captains of the other 3 squads who were charging over from other directions couldn’t help but ask. After all, even if their squads activated their Star Robes, they wouldn’t be able to reach the level of a True Immortal and couldn’t feel the presence of a domain.

“The enemy has already set up a barrier with his domain. Grandmaster Xiao and the other Stargazers should have already been taken hostage and if we force our way in, the results might be disastrous.” Captain Fang growled. Even though his heart was already burning with impatience and he knew that he would most likely lose his post due to his failure to secure the Star Observatory after everything was over, he could only suppress his emotions and command the Star Origin Guards of the Seventh Camp to deal with the current situation.

After a period of silence, one of the captains muttered in a low voice, “Are we just going to stay here and not do anything? How likely are we to succeed if we force our way in?”

Captain Fang sighed softly, “There’s no hope. This is the core region of the Star Observatory and the moment we start fighting here, the Star Observatory is finished. If the Star Observatory is destroyed, no matter how many lives we have, it won’t be able to make up for the losses.”

Another captain cursed, “How the hell can there be other Martial Void Realm experts in the city?! How did the guards from the other camps allow such experts to enter the city?! Weren’t they patrolling the city?”

“What’s the point of mentioning all these now? We better think about what we can do next. If we count Grandmaster Xiao, there should be 11 Stargazers in the Star Observatory. Actually, every single Stargazer in our city should be gathered here, right? If anything happens, the thousand years of Stargazer inheritance of our Star Origin City will be severed forever!”

Another captain spoke, causing everyone’s hearts to run cold. However, he continued to ask, “Deputy Camp Commander, our fellow Star Origin Guards from the other camps should also be in here, and I’m afraid things aren’t looking good for them. What should we do now? Should we try to negotiate with the other side?”

“Wait.” Under everyone’s astonished gaze, Captain Fang continued, “Right now, we don’t hold the initiative anymore. In fact, everything is out of our control. The higher-ups of Star Origin City should already know what happened here, and Temporary Guards Commander He should arrive. I have also informed Liu Jiuzhen about the situation here, and he should be coming over soon.”

In the secret room that contained the inheritance of Star Origin City, Shang Xia didn’t have time to properly sort everything out. He simply swept up everything he got his hands on into the spatial artifacts he grabbed earlier.

All of a sudden, his movements froze as he turned to look in the direction of where they came from. He chuckled in a low voice, “Not bad, at least they aren’t stupid.”

At that moment, Shang Xia’s domain didn’t just cover the Stargazers of the Star Observatory. There were also 14 Star Origin Guards whose cultivation had been sealed off by him. He only needed a single thought to kill all of them at the moment.

There was no need to mention the members of the Seventh Camp. Even if the Star Origin Guards sent everyone they had to surround the Star Observatory, they wouldn’t dare to do anything for fear of him killing every Stargazer within.

The reason why he could act so unbridled was because he had long since realized the importance of the Star Observatory from what Xiao Shengyi revealed to Captain Fang and Xin Lu back when they were leaving the prison.

Watching how Shang Xia grabbed everything from the secret room, Xiao Shengyi felt an extreme ache in his heart. It was so painful he could feel blood dripping from it.

When Shang Xia was about to emerge from the secret room, he paused slightly before turning back under Xiao Shengyi’s curious gaze. The next moment, he glanced at the corners of the room before the space around him started to twist unnaturally.

Xiao Shengyi might not know what was going on exactly, but he knew that Shang Xia was looking for something.

From what Xiao Shengyi knew, there shouldn’t be a secret mechanism hidden in the secret room…

However, from how seriously Shang Xia was taking it, Xiao Shengyi also started to become a little doubtful of what he knew. Thinking about it, Xing Xingtian, an ordinary Star Origin Guard back then, received the Stargazer inheritance after himself, but he managed to become a Grand Stargazer with extreme speed. That wasn’t all. His mastery of the art was also better than everyone else. Because of his status as a Grand Stargazer, his position in the Star Origin Guard also rose accordingly. With the provision of more cultivation resources by the Star Origin Guards, his cultivation continued to rise and eventually, he became the Seventh Camp Commander and took charge of the Star Observatory.

In the past, Xiao Shengyi thought that Xing Xingtian’s rise was related to his talent. However, if there was a secret inheritance he didn’t know about in the secret room…

“Hah! There really is a secret compartment!” Shang Xia chuckled to himself, interrupting Xiao Shengyi’s train of thought. That was enough to dispel all his doubts.

In the secret room, the twisted space around Shang Xia started to calm down. Next, a screen of light appeared before him before filling the room.

If Xiao Shengyi was still unable to determine Shang Xia’s Six Direction Qi when it filled the room earlier while causing the space before him to tremble, the screen of light that appeared was something he couldn’t be more familiar with!

The screen of light that appeared before Shang Xia was what the Stargazers had been gathering the entire time! It was the power of the stars!

Xiao Shengyi wasn’t even thinking about how the mysterious expert before him had the ability to use the power of the stars! He thought back to the disruption of the grand formation around the prison and how a hole had been blown out of it for the others to escape. He even managed to realize how those experts who had been trapped within managed to recover their strength.

This mysterious expert has to be the person behind all of this! He had been hiding in the prison the entire time, and he had been stealing the power of the stars we had been absorbing!

He finally understood what happened, but it was too late. He was completely defeated, and even if he knew what happened, it was too late.

With Shang Xia urging the Crimson Soul Tablet to devour the power of the stars that was leaking out of the secret room, it was as though some mechanism was activated. Loud rumbles were heard as the floor in the middle of the room opened and a platform slowly emerged.

Xiao Shengyi, who was staring at the tens or so pieces of copper on the platform, gasped in disbelief as his eyes widened in shock.

Narrowing his eyes, Shang Xia looked at those copper pieces and he could tell that they were made from the same material as the Tongyou Institution’s Star Map. He turned around and grabbed Xiao Shengyi.

A formless power landed on him, but all Shang Xia heard was a low chuckle coming from the Grand Stargazer. In a horse and pained voice, Xiao Shengyi sneered, “The direct inheritance of the Heaven Observation Sect… This is the Secret Bronze Book that contains the core inheritance of the Heaven Observation Sect! Haha… Looks like I was only an outsider to them!”