The deity has been controlling the order of the world since time immemorial, and the stars are an existence even older than the deity.

When chaos first opened up and gave birth to the world, elements and laws came to be, and the stars were the light and shadow embodying the primal essence of the world.

"Thousands Stars Formula", conjuring a star from the starry sky to form one's own star-core, thus mobilizing the star's source, baptizing the body and soul, illuminating one's heart, transforming into starlight, and annihilating all desolation. Without a doubt, this is a divine secret method.

This was a secret method that Lu Lin obtained from the "Fallen Abyss" through a bloodbath before his rebirth. As his cultivation method for many years, starting over now presented no difficulty.

"Observing the stars..."

He muttered, gazing up at the starry sky, then closed his eyes, slowly activating "Thousands Stars Formula" within him. His consciousness expanded, leaving his body, and went towards the stars filling the endless sky.

His consciousness constantly reached towards the sky, gliding over clouds, over turbulent winds, until he finally arrived at the top of the world, where the star lights interweave.

Countless stars scattered across the sapphire celestial canopy, their forms straddling the boundary of illusion and reality - they are physical manifestations of elements and laws; the etchings created by the illusions of elements and laws are their core, unchanging since time immemorial, and will never cease to exist.

Invisible, subtle fluctuations flowed between the stars, the celestial bodies slowly changing along their own orbits, as if the entire starry sky was in a state of delicate balance.

Lu Lin knew, that power of fluctuation, is the force of order.

The Sun Star, a symbol of blazing fire, pulsates like a heartbeat in the starry sky; the Wind Star, embodying wild wind, exists in the starry sky as though on the brink of explosion, yet continues to persist; the Life Star, imbued with the breath of life, brings a sensation as if bathing in the spring breeze. Whether large or small, regular or bizarre, all carried a hint of primal essence.

Following the cultivation path from his previous life, Lu Lin's consciousness continued to extend towards the sky, and eventually, he stood before a gigantic celestial body.

A chill swept over him, and a snowstorm raged around it, even the nearby stars seemed to have retracted their light, as if fearful of its fierceness and aloofness.

That was his originally chosen star-core.

"Do I make the same choice as last time?" He murmured, watching the snow in front of him.

Numerous memories flashed through his mind, the beautiful smile of a girl, and the moment he failed to catch up once again surfaced.

"No." A flicker of determination passed in his eyes. "This is not enough. This is not my current limit. If I am to be reborn and start over... I'm going to be the strongest!"

He chose to leave, his consciousness continued to ascend toward the peak of the world.

In terms of what star to select as his star-core, he has already found the answer deep within his heart.

After cultivating "Thousands Stars Formula" in his past life, the answer he eventually arrived at through constant deduction and observation.

"Above the Fallen Abyss, the pinnacle of starlight."

He whispered, but his consciousness crossed into the skies above the Fallen Abyss in a single thought.

As he entered, an extremely dark and sinister aura erupted from beneath him. Even with the unseen forces of order separating the Fallen Abyss from the starry sky, that sinister aura still brought Lu Lin an invisible pressure.

"It gives me a more terrifying feeling than before." Lu Lin frowned as he looked down at the bottomless abyss, which was more like a black hole, as if it held a soul-capturing power.

The four extremities of the Fugutel Continent were wastelands, representing the extremes of four elements, Ice, Fire, Wind, and the darkness represented by the Fallen Abyss. Among the four wastelands, only the Fallen Abyss was the most dangerous; once one dived deep into it, even beings of Traceability realm were fated to be forever lost in the darkness.

Lu Lin ceased to look at that darkness. He chose to keep ascending, his consciousness zipped above the Fallen Abyss at an increased speed.

Gradually, the stars became less and less, but the light of the starry sky before his eyes didn't dull in the least, as if there were even brighter stars far away.His consciousness was moving farther and farther away from his body, yet Lu Lin still persevered, steadily advancing towards the pinnacle of the world. At this moment, even his severely injured divine spirit might not be able to fully take control of this consciousness.

Yet, a smile started to tease the corners of his lips.

— He saw it.

In the sparse scattering of stars in the night sky, there was a star that shone with unrivaled brilliance.

It wasn't located at the apex of the starry sky, but the aura that it emitted, the energy that it radiated, without a shadow of a doubt, surpassed all others.

Above the deepest darkness, stood the greatest light.

"The Extreme Star."

He murmured, drawing closer to the star.

The radiant light from the star nearly rendered him unable to open his eyes, but he gazed straight at it nonetheless.

The Extreme Star didn't symbolize light, and it didn't possess any properties. Its internal inscriptions were nearly impossible to read, but the energy it radiated overpowered the glow of countless stars in the cosmos.

It represented boundless possibilities.

Just as Lu Lin approached the star, its radiance amplified exponentially. Its light pierced his consciousness, seeming to annihilate everything in its path.

Each star held a vague consciousness, some violent while others gentle, the one before him was unbearably domineering.

"Interesting,"

Lu Lin sneered coldly, not evading the oncoming cosmic energy. Allowing it to engulf him, he no longer repressed the surge of his divine power. A divine wave collapsed the surrounding void with him at its center.

The starlight warped in the void, yet Lu Lin erupted with an evermore overpowering aura, standing before the Extreme Star, his voice resounding with an emperor’s dominion over his empire.

"Surrender, or... be annihilated."