[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati":3,"chapter-star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-371":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},959613,1254,"Chapter 371 - 371 169 Captive (Please Subscribe)_2","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-371",371,"\u003Cp>371: Chapter 169: Captive (Please Subscribe)_2 371: Chapter 169: Captive (Please Subscribe)_2 Security had increased significantly again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speed represented safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Xu Jin had chosen three Protection Star Patterns: Mid-tier Thunder Wing, Initial Tier Thunder Origin, and Initial Tier Fire Origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purple Thunder Bomb was a Star Skill Xu Jin had never seen before, its power was immense, almost comparable to Xu Jin’s Flame Burst Skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was not as practical as the Initial Tier Thunder Origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the Thunder Burst Step, safety first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Xu Jin’s urgency to upgrade the Candou Platform was unmatched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could upgrade the Candou Platform to the Fourth Tier, regardless of whether there were new features or not, representing four Star Cores was inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, he could add the Initial Tier Fire Origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention anything else, it would add another one-tenth of power to his Fire Series Star Skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If conditions permitted, Xu Jin even wanted to upgrade to the Fifth Tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if he upgraded to the Fifth Tier and could obtain one or two Thunder Spirit Star Cores, he could also enhance the power of his Thunder Star Skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon meeting Xu Jin again, having recovered from fatigue and completely out of the desperate situation from yesterday, Ji Hongli was noticeably more reserved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t cling to him like an octopus as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Xu Jin realized he had remembered wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most frequent times Ji Hongli had pounced on him like an octopus were in his previous dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Repeated dreams of the same kind really could affect reality!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Xu Jin felt a chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then again, Xu Jin quite liked that feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big Senior Brother, I’m glad you’re safe and back; if you hadn’t come, I was about to go looking for you.” Ji Hongli hugged Xu Jin’s arm closely, smiling very sweetly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Hongli’s skin was very white, her features naturally sweet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sweet smile made Xu Jin unable to help but reveal a smile too—it was infectious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later, Xu Jin and Ji Hongli left, heading quickly toward the southwest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their goal—to meet up with Ying Ge and his group of five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this half-day, Ying Ge and the others had been continually moving towards Xu Jin and Ji Hongli’s location as per his instructions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, others were apathetic towards Xu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Red Scale Heart Armor truly rallied them together, especially after Wang Jiugao joined their team and recounted numerous times the scene where Xu Jin killed Guan Ji with a single punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These fellow disciples then performed Xu Jin’s arrangements quite well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently observing through the Red Scale Heart, Ying Ge and his group were roughly over 2000 miles away from Xu Jin and Ji Hongli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both parties moving towards each other wouldn’t need two hours to meet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Xu Jin specifically had them detour because they were passing through the central area of the Purple Wind Star Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle of the central area was the Royal City of the Purple Winged Alien Race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That terrifying existence at the Ninth Layer of Star Condensation was inside the Royal City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to avoid it, Xu Jin himself also needed to stay away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the journey, Xu Jin took out a jade bead he had confiscated from a disciple of the Star Hall and observed it for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jade beads confiscated from the Star Hall disciples were strange; they only showed a relative position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, when the mind sunk into other light spots, one could faintly sense the distance to that light spot from oneself, but nothing more specific.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Xu Jin could not use it to directly lock onto the location of Star Hall disciples; it only offered a rough reference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on this point, Xu Jin was not in a hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because every two hours, the location of the National Taoist Institute disciples would be sent to the Star Hall disciples; without accidents, the Star Hall disciples should come over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally speculated, Tianyang Star Hall’s strongest genius disciple, Tian Lie, was targeting Ji Hongli; the one targeting Xu Jin should then be Cangming Star Hall’s top-grade Star Casting genius, Zhang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this day and a half, Xu Jin had continuously maintained high-speed movement, practically running from the westernmost part of the Purple Wind Star Domain to the easternmost, and now from the easternmost back to the middle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was quite normal that Zhang Shuo could not catch up, after all, the positions were only updated every two hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once Xu Jin slowed down, Zhang Shuo should deliver himself to the doorstep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours later, Xu Jin and Ji Hongli found Ying Ge and his group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Ge’s team was in the middle of a fierce battle with a horde of local Alien Race warriors, surrounded and attacked by over forty warriors of the Star Refining Realm along with over a thousand warriors of the Star Casting and Dining Dawn Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The danger was limited, but because two Ninth Layer and four Eighth Layer Alien Race warriors were present, they couldn’t quickly defeat their enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a bit tough to handle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defeating the enemy was possible, but it required time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin and Ji Hongli charged in swiftly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within just a moment of engagement, Xu Jin ambushed and killed an Alien Race warrior at the Ninth Layer of Star Refining Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the surprise attack, Ji Hongli, together with Wang Jiugao, also took down an Eighth Layer Alien Race warrior!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a blink, the pressure was significantly reduced for Ying Ge and his companions, and their spirits were greatly lifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the help of Xu Jin and Ji Hongli, within just over 20 seconds, all forty-plus Star Refining Realm warriors were slaughtered, and the fierceness of the Alien Race army was fully demonstrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star Casting Realm warriors didn’t disperse in a rout; on the contrary, each charged crazily forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the effect of the brutal Military Law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after slashing more than a third of these Star Casting and Dining Dawn Realm warriors, led by some Alien Race warriors, did they finally scatter and flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after the battle ended, Ying Ge, Wang Jiugao, Niu Ju, and the other five thanked Xu Jin, then all sat cross-legged on the ground to recover their Star Power, which was vastly depleted; they had already consumed Pills during the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the bodies strewn across the ground, Xu Jin frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifteen minutes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fifteen minutes, we must move immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place is quite close to the Royal City and encountering such a large army, we cannot stay long.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1111,"2026-06-03T07:35:47.821Z",1,"novelbin.me","de462c45548722b0100ca7d2b9ec5530b5316ff2d2187fe7ddce11400e5c3a08","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-372","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-370",1647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-cover.jpg"]