Star-Moon Valley, interior.
The dilapidated stone buildings are the remains of the former Xingyue Sect.
More than two hundred independent cultivators, wearing different clothes but mostly practicing the spiritual arts of the stars and the moon, gathered in the valley at this moment, bathing in the light of the stars and the moon.
They sat on the ground, looking up at the night sky which seemed particularly bright tonight, but they had no intention of appreciating it.
Strands of pure star power and moonlight fell from the galaxy outside the Purgatory dome, as if they had a special preference for the Star-Moon Valley, gathering more pure star and moon power here.
This is because this deep valley, which once belonged to the Star Moon Sect, contains an array that can absorb the light of the stars and the moon, and there are also special veins underground.
In the center of the valley, there is a white jade altar shaped like a crescent moon.
Next to the altar, there are several stone pillars made of the same material.
On the column, there are carvings of patterns such as the waning moon, full moon, and crescent moon. Under the moonlight, those patterns shine brightly, as if they are swimming within the column.
In the center of the altar, sat a beautiful woman with long hair draped over her shoulders.
She had a thin figure, a very beautiful face, and a pair of eyes filled with coldness and viciousness.
"I have been preparing for so long just to obtain the magic of the moon. You must not ruin my plan!"
She bit her lip lightly and waved towards a stone pillar.
Below the stone pillar, several young boys and girls who were practicing the Moon Spirit Technique were immediately hacked to death by the independent cultivators who obeyed her orders.
The blood of the dead was absorbed by the various moon patterns in the pillars, making the waning moon, full moon and crescent moon more lifelike.
"Goddess, everything is ready!"
An old man in a moon-white robe bowed respectfully towards her, indicating that the ceremony could begin.
Sitting in the valley, those practitioners who were practicing the Star Moon Sect's legacy of magic, and who had recently sensed the presence of gods from outer space, all looked at the sinister woman on the altar with awe.
They are called evil cultivators, practicing secret techniques that are not recognized by the righteous, and secretly establishing perception with alien gods from outer space through altars.
The woman sitting in meditation on the altar claimed that she had received an oracle from the Moon Goddess. She had been recruiting people everywhere recently and had gathered many people who relied on the stars and the moon to improve their cultivation.
She also killed a large number of independent cultivators who were unwilling to accept her orders and who were also practicing the Star and Moon Spirit Art.
She prepared rich sacrifices, built an altar in the Star-Moon Valley according to the instructions of the Moon Goddess, and killed some boys and girls, all in the hope of gaining the favor of the Moon Goddess.
She longed to obtain a magical power that would allow her to advance by leaps and bounds.
"The surviving member of the Xingyue Sect, Ling Yue'e, asks the Moon Goddess to bestow divine grace upon us!"
She buried her head in her chest and raised her hands high.
Streams of pure moon essence shot out from those white jade pillars into the air, along with the residual soul and blood power of the boy.
The mountains and rock walls of the entire Star-Moon Valley also became dazzling.
Especially the crescent altar where Ling Yue'e was, which was rising in the air little by little, like a bright and flawless crescent moon.
When the altar rose to a certain height, the full moon outside Purgatory suddenly lit up, and a mysterious divine consciousness, accompanied by a beam of moonlight, suddenly shot down.
It shot down onto Ling Yue'e's crown.
The moment the moonlight fell, Ling Yue'e's self-will was instantly wiped out, and all irrelevant parts of her memories and thoughts were eliminated, leaving only the marks related to the Xingyue Sect.
"Bang!"
The crescent moon altar fell to the ground, and the original Ling Yue'e was dead.
Because Purgatory had no believers of its own, it secretly operated this matter and had no choice but to place a divine consciousness in the body of the human race, the Moon Goddess, who officially descended into Purgatory in the image of Ling Yue'e.
It is not a divine soul, but only a part of the divine consciousness condensed, and a lot of divine power has been poured into this physical body.
Ling Yue'e, who was vicious by nature, had a beautiful body, which was immediately tempered by His divine power.
His bones became crystal clear, and his skin and flesh were as white and tender as jade. Because his soul had undergone a transformation, his entire temperament and image were also completely renewed.
"I..."
As soon as the Moon Goddess opened her mouth, she realized that she couldn't address herself as she was used to.
It is clearly the image of the same person, and it is clearly the same voice.
However, those wandering cultivators who used to fear and hate Ling Yue'e were suddenly convinced, and each of them left Xingyue Valley willingly.
No one raised any objection.
The Moon Goddess, who is used to commanding her followers from a high position, has a voice, demeanor, and behavior that exude the awe-inspiring aura that only a god can possess.
This influence that penetrates deeply into the souls of believers also convinces all those casual cultivators who practice the Moon Spirit Technique and want to gain the favor of the gods.
Just as the casual cultivators were getting up and evacuating from the valley, He coughed lightly and said, "Please keep an eye out for a boy named Pang Jian and see where he is."
"Pang Jian? Pang Jian from the Sword Tower?"
"Goddess, he has disappeared for a long time. I heard that after he killed the Yao Clan's Godson Lieyi, he went into seclusion."
"Goddess, we can't afford to provoke the Sword Tower, and you... are no match for Pang Jian."
The casual cultivators were talking at once.
The Moon Goddess's expression remained unchanged, but a chill quietly appeared in her eyes. She said indifferently, "Go out."
Through these people's words and some fragmentary information, he knew that it would definitely not be an easy task to find Pang Jian quickly.
"The body is too weak, and the human race's soul wandering realm cultivation, the soul is full of filth and flaws..."
He frowned and decided to first refine this body that he had taken over before moving on to other things.
When the wandering cultivators left and he was the only one left in Xingyue Valley, his pupils suddenly changed.
One of his eyes is a full moon, the other is a crescent moon, and on his forehead there are strange moon symbols.
His body seemed to have turned into an abyss that could absorb the moon's light.
The moonlight in the sky and the moon power in the Star-Moon Valley, like rust attracted by a magnet, madly merged into his human body.
After a few hours.
“It’s still too fragile.”
"Unfortunately, in this purgatory, there are no intelligent beings who believe in me, and there is no more suitable body available."
"Underground, there are veins where the power of the stars and the moon crystallizes. They can be used."
He stretched out his hand and pointed, and a deep hole suddenly appeared in the ground.
The moon goddess who possessed Ling Yue'e and descended into purgatory in her own body floated into the cave.
He reached a depth of a hundred feet underground, touched the veins of the stars and the moon, and saw the light of the stars and the moon shining underground.
“The power of the stars and the moon that has accumulated over tens of millions of years has actually crystallized under the earth. This is not bad.”
He sat in meditation a hundred feet underground.
He used the moon magic that he was well versed in to absorb the pure moon energy from the veins that contained the moonlight.
They also extracted golden light that could temper bones from some special moon stone ores near the moon veins.
Five hundred feet underground, at the end of those star and moon veins, there was another person sitting.
Pang Jian was still using the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" to absorb the brilliance of the stars and the moon in order to strengthen the stars and the moon above his dantian.
The Moon Goddess was at the upper end of the Star Vein and Moon Vein, while he was at the lower end. Neither of them particularly spread their spiritual awareness and thoughts to penetrate everything above and below.
At this time, they kept to themselves and each drew power from the underground star veins and moon veins.
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(End of this chapter)