The vast Starry Domains were dotted with stars.
The sun and moon moved in their cycles, repeating endlessly.
In this world where the sky was square and the earth was square, the so-called Starry Domains were not infinitely vast like the universe of Chen Yi's previous life on Earth, measured in light-years.
The largest stars within the Starry Domains were only about one-thousandth the diameter of Earth.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be so common to use the Stellar River Divine Art to drag them down from the sky.
But the scale of the Starry Domains was still incredibly exaggerated compared to the ground below.
Even if the Shen Family had been reproducing in the Starry Domains for thirty thousand years, their population couldn't possibly cover every star, and their eyes couldn't possibly watch every corner.
Near the Sky-Earth Barrier, far from the areas where Shen Family personnel were active, a breach had appeared.
"Hiss—"
White clouds and gases from the ground below were pouring into the Starry Domains through this breach.
The warning formation the Shen Family had laid over the Sky-Earth Barrier was triggered.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
A patrol team, led by a Star Lineage elder, arrived at the location of the breach on their Star Shuttles to investigate.
Star Shuttles were the Spirit Artifacts Chen Yi had seen in the simulation, resembling a skateboard.
Almost every Shen Family clansman below the Martial King Realm had one.
Star Shuttles helped them ascend from a star's surface into the Starry Domains and fly faster and more flexibly in the weightless environment of the domains.
Fuel consumption: one Low-grade Spirit Crystal per hundred kilometers.
"Elder, look! Someone from the ground has forcibly punched a hole through it!"
The Star Lineage elder leaned close to the Sky-Earth Barrier and examined it carefully.
"Simple and unadorned, no spiritual energy residue. This was opened by brute force. The one who came must be at the Martial King Realm."
A patrol member was puzzled.
"If a Martial King expert wishes to visit the Starry Domains, our Shen Family would naturally open a door for them. Why would they need to do this?"
"What else could it mean? The visitor must have ill intentions!"
"Judging by the rate and degree of the breach healing, it seems only one person entered. Which family's Martial King is this confident, daring to cause trouble alone in our Shen Family territory?"
"Elder, should we search the surrounding area? They might not have gone far yet!"
The Star Lineage elder gave the last speaker a speechless look.
"Since they broke in, who would stay here waiting for you to find them? They've surely already blended into the Starry Domains. We have guests in the domains recently. Quickly notify the Moon and Sun Lineages. Have the clansmen increase their vigilance!"
The patrol team members left on their Star Shuttles.
Nearby, there was a desolate, uninhabited star overgrown with weeds. From a distance, it looked like a spherical loaf of bread covered in green mold.
This patrol team happened to pass directly overhead.
"Captain, look! The weeds on this 'Weedy Star' have grown even longer. They must average over a hundred meters tall now. This isn't grass; it's taller than trees!"
"Stop the nonsense. Keep up with the elder!"
Below, within the massive thicket of weeds, Chen Yi was squatting.
Equipped with "Silent Step" and "Three Swordsmen in the Grass," unless the people passing above deliberately and carefully scanned his location with their divine sense, they wouldn't detect his presence.
After they left, Chen Yi slowly rose into the air, standing above the grass.
"I'm in. But I don't sense any Dragon-Man tribe aura in this area. Need to go look elsewhere..."
The Starry Domains were vast.
Chen Yi had specifically chosen a sparsely populated area to ascend. Finding the Dragon-Man tribe aura immediately wasn't that easy.
Chen Yi used "Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger" to lower his detectable realm aura to the Golden Body Realm.
A Martial King was far too conspicuous. Every Martial King within the Shen Family was either famous throughout the Starry Domains or certainly not an unknown figure.
If he ran into Shen Family members, he could easily be seen through.
The Golden Body Realm was different. There were many of them, and they weren't bottom-tier martial artists, offering more room for maneuver.
Fortunately, there was no gravity in the Starry Domains, so Chen Yi flying through the air here wasn't a giveaway either.
"'The Aura of Ten Thousand Races,' do your thing! The Shen Family definitely has Dragon-Men!"
Chen Yi searched the Starry Domains for the Dragon-Man tribe aura.
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was once again puzzled by Chen Yi's confusing behavior.
"Bro! What are you busy with day in and day out? Why did you come to the Starry Domains? This is Shen Family territory! If you're looking for Earth Veins, look on the ground! Where would they be in the Starry Domains?"
The Demon Refining Pot criticized the Ten Thousand Souls Banner for meddling.
"I say, why do you, a banner, have so many thoughts? Does the boss need to discuss his actions with you? Do your own job well. Don't tell the boss what to do, you crude Earth-Grade Spirit Artifact."
"I am an Immortal Artifact! Ah! This is truly... a tiger fallen to the plains is bullied by dogs, a dragon stranded in shallow water is teased by shrimp!"
"You, a dragon and tiger? I think you're just a mess!"
Da Chun was also present.
He was currently merged into the Nine Provinces Cauldron in his Artifact Spirit state, eating peaches inside the Cauldron Realm.
Seeing the two artifacts arguing again inside Chen Yi, he watched the commotion with a chuckle.
"The Ten Thousand Souls Banner is so eloquent. The Demon Refining Pot speaks so nicely."
Chen Yi was now well-trained.
No matter how earth-shatteringly the banner and pot argued, he could selectively turn deaf.
Unless they said something actually nutritious.
Otherwise, he would have long since tossed these two troublesome things away.
One Tang Seng and Sun Wukong were hard enough to bear. Two Tang Sengs? That would be unbearable!
Chen Yi proceeded with extreme caution, exploring the Starry Domains star by star.
When he encountered stars with no human activity, he conducted carpet searches directly, moving without restraint.
If a star was inhabited.
Chen Yi would lie in wait in the nearby Starry Domains.
When a group of Shen Family members on Star Shuttles came over from another star, chatting and laughing, he would also ride a Star Shuttle to blend into their midst, acting familiar and integrating perfectly.
Finally, they would land together, and he would slip away quietly.
You ask where Chen Yi got his Star Shuttle?
He naturally borrowed it from a fortunate Shen Family clansman.
During this time, Chen Yi also discovered something good.
"Beauty Liquid?"
On a star named "Pretty Star," there was a distinctive thousand-year-old shop with a constant stream of customers.
They sold a special medicinal liquid. Applying it to the face allowed one to sculpt their facial features arbitrarily, changing their appearance.
However, the underlying bone structure couldn't be altered, so the sculpted face still looked somewhat similar to the original.
Moreover, the effect only lasted twelve hours each time. Continuous application was needed to maintain it.
This liquid was extremely popular among women in the Starry Domains.
Even though long-term use was expensive, many beauty enthusiasts tirelessly purchased it.
Chen Yi also bought a bunch.
Then he sculpted his face to have about sixty percent similarity to his original appearance.
This kind of facial change couldn't reveal the original appearance even under divine sense inspection.
Because it genuinely altered some facial details, like turning single eyelids into double eyelids, or creating under-eye crescents where there were none before.
"When traveling outside, changing your face is still very important."
Chen Yi didn't want to make contact with the Shen Family in reality just yet.
Because the Shen Family wouldn't understand his current actions.
So, using his original appearance wasn't ideal.
Wearing a disguise spared him from worrying about such problems.
"It's been a month already, and still no discovery..."
Although he hadn't walked through every corner of the Starry Domains, Chen Yi was starting to doubt himself.
Had he speculated wrongly? Did the Shen Family not have a mole?
Or perhaps, not at this point in time?
Just as Chen Yi, holding two skewers of barbecue, was leaving "Barbecue Star" on his Star Shuttle, eating while heading to the next star, a somewhat familiar voice called out from behind.
"Little brother over there, please wait!"

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