Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 359: Chapter 168: The Past Can Be Changed, the Future Is Set!_1

After extracting all the propelling forces from cause and effect from Bai Zhao, Shen Yuan found it difficult to maintain the Eyes of Stars phenomenon and chose to let it dissipate on its own.

The stars should have returned to their places and everything should have returned to calm, but to Shen Yuan’s surprise, the Heaven-choosing Compass controlled by Bai Zhao traced the stars’ light back to the Courtyard Secret Realm.

Looking at the supreme grade spirit treasure before his eyes, Shen Yuan didn’t even react at first to what had happened.

It wasn’t until Shen Yuan used the Star Astrology Divine Power for deduction that his face involuntarily showed a strange expression.

“I didn’t expect it was because Bai Zhao had completely lost his cultivation.”

After Bai Zhao was drained of all propelling forces from cause and effect and lost all his cultivation, the restrictions binding the Heaven-choosing Compass naturally dissipated alongside his cultivation level.

With the loss of the controlling restrictions, the Heaven-choosing Compass became an ownerless object, under such circumstances, Bai Zhao was unable to control a supreme grade spirit treasure.

Especially since the Heaven-choosing Compass originally fell from a Taoist artifact of inferior quality, its spirituality far surpassed ordinary spirit treasures; Bai Zhao, having lost both cultivation and the propelling forces from cause and effect, was frowned upon by the Heaven-choosing Compass.

And coincidentally, the manifested phenomenon of the Eyes of Stars by Shen Yuan was fundamentally an extension of the Star Astrology Divine Power.

As one of the 72nd Earthly Destroyer Divine Powers, the Star Astrology Divine Power’s achievement in the deductive method could be said to be unparalleled across the entire Primal Chaos Realm.

Being a treasure for deduction, the Heaven-choosing Compass was attracted by the Star Astrology Divine Power and thus, followed the returning light of the stars into the depths of the Courtyard Secret Realm.

Having understood the reasons behind this, Shen Yuan couldn’t help but sigh at Bai Zhao’s misfortune.

“As the reincarnation of a Demon Saint, faced with consecutive defeats at the Yunfu Mountain Range and the debate conference, and now abandoned by his own spirit treasure, it’s quite unique to see a reincarnated Demon Saint falling to such a plight.

Could it be that in his previous life, Bai Ze encountered something foul that reduced his fortune?”

Shen Yuan couldn’t help but silently wonder.

However, Bai Zhao’s loss of the Heaven-choosing Compass was also a good thing for Shen Yuan as it meant that Bai Zhao’s deductive abilities would be greatly weakened, making it easier for Shen Yuan to control him.

The reincarnated body of the Demon Saint posed no threat to Shen Yuan for a long time to come; as long as Shen Yuan found ways to circumvent his self-preservation methods, he could easily suppress him.

Not concerned with Bai Zhao’s predicament, Shen Yuan began to focus his attention on the Heaven-choosing Compass before him.

Picking up the Heaven-choosing Compass, the large compass shrank to palm size in Shen Yuan’s hands. As the Star Astrology Divine Power quietly operated, the heavenly stems and earthly branches on the Compass slowly concealed themselves, replaced by the constellations of the Universe Stars.

The Heaven-choosing Compass was aglow with myriad stars, and the trajectories of countless stars intertwined before Shen Yuan’s eyes. He felt that the speed at which the Star Astrology Divine Power operated was multiples faster than before, as if he had switched from an antique computer to a high-performance one.

Amidst the intertwined destiny of the stars echoing the stars in the firmament, Shen Yuan could even feel the boost provided by the Heaven-choosing Compass, directly elevating the Star Astrology Divine Power to the peak of the Second Realm.

Had the spirit essence of the Heaven-choosing Compass not been worn and no longer at its peak, Shen Yuan might even have been able to control the Star Astrology Divine Power of the Third Realm in advance.

The degree of this enhancement was almost comparable to the large-scale instruments of those ancient grotto heavens sacred ground.

But large instruments require the consumption of many precious spirit objects and are immovable, far inferior to the portable Heaven-choosing Compass.

Having only briefly tried out the Heaven-choosing Compass’s functions, Shen Yuan couldn’t help but show an emotional reaction.

“Is this the efficacy of a treasure for deduction?”

“This is still an imperfectly preserved Heaven-choosing Compass with worn spirit essence. If it were a complete Compass, the enhancement to the deductive method would be even more formidable.

No wonder Demon Saint Bai Ze managed to leave such a grand reputation during the era of the Great Schism, just this Heaven-choosing Compass alone enabled him to surpass countless cultivators in the way of deduction.”

Compared to Bai Zhao, Shen Yuan also possessed a tremendous advantage that Bai Zhao could not match.

Bai Zhao relied on his reincarnated body to control the Heaven-choosing Compass and needed to use the propelling forces from cause and effect to activate this treasure for deduction; ordinary mana or demonic power could not stir this treasure.

But Shen Yuan was different. Mastering the Star Astrology Divine Power at the peak of deduction, he only needed to harness the power of the stars to supply the Heaven-choosing Compass, completely without the need to expend his foundation as Bai Zhao did.

With the Star Astrology Divine Power ceasing its quiet operation, Shen Yuan closed his eyes slightly and carefully sensed the changes before and after the enhancement, his understanding of the Star Astrology Divine Power subtly deepening.

Jujube tree leaves slowly drifted down, and the night sky of the Courtyard Secret Realm was tranquil.

Starlight sprinkled down, and Gong Buyu, dressed in a light blue palace gown, sat quietly to the side, as if an immortal had stepped out of the Moon Palace.

She watched Shen Yuan, her admiration evident in her beautiful eyes.

After a long moment, Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, a trace of enlightenment flashing within.

Having just entered the Second Realm, the somewhat tenuous foundation of the Star Astrology Divine Power became more solidified.

While the Heaven-choosing Compass provided a lot of insight to Shen Yuan, he chose not to delve deeper into contemplation. The gains of the night were already plentiful, and the rest could be slowly digested in time.

Casually stowing away the exquisite compass in his hand, Shen Yuan turned his gaze towards Gong Buyu, his eyes carrying the rotation of stars.

For this journey thousands of years in the past, Shen Yuan could say his harvest was extremely abundant, and one of the important reasons for such a gain was hearing the legend of the Supreme Taoist from Gong Buyu’s mouth.

The events that occurred during Shen Yuan’s trial in the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda perfectly corresponded with the tale Gong Buyu had told; to some extent, Shen Yuan had completed his task by following the answer.