[{"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-76":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},959818,1254,"Chapter 76 - 76 72 Life-saving Divine Skill","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-76",76,"\u003Cp>76: Chapter 72: Life-saving Divine Skill 76: Chapter 72: Life-saving Divine Skill “Third-tier Snake Spirit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ritual Officer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The additional information on the Candou Platform’s Jade made Xu Jin quite puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the idea of giving it a try, Xu Jin thought about it and immediately transferred the newly acquired, still warm Green Snake Star Core directly into the Candou Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a faint flicker of light, and the Green Snake Star Core appeared above the Candou Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its position was beneath the front altar of the Candou Platform—beneath!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t it the Ritual Officer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did it go under the altar?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprised by this, Xu Jin focused his thoughts once more on the Green Snake Star Core under the altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, streams of information surged in his mind, and Xu Jin immediately understood how to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ritual Spiritual Object One: Third-tier lower-grade Snake Spirit, consumes a strand of Starlight to obtain or replace Spiritual Protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fill with Star Power to unleash the peak strongest strike of the current spiritual object, carrying a slight Divine Soul attack, after which, the spiritual object disappears.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Available Protections: Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern, Concealing Star Pattern”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stream of information made Xu Jin visibly delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like he had gained an additional Star Pattern ability, which, in Xu Jin’s understanding, seemed like a passive skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, but he also gained another means of preserving his life—unleashing when filled with Star Power, a one-off deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once used, this object would disappear, but it could still be a lifesaving skill at a critical moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key point was that this Third-tier Snake Spirit was more cost-effective than the Star Emblem, at least less painful to consume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Vortex Blade Emblem owned by Ning Yuchan would cost four thousand taels in the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the market price of this type of Star Beast Star Core was only between one thousand and two thousand taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, its power should be less than that of the Vortex Blade Emblem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The functionalities of this Candou Platform were becoming increasingly surprising to Xu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just didn’t know what other surprises it could bring him in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, this was just Ritual Spiritual Object One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Second-tier Candou Platform, one can support Spiritual Object Two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Offering one spiritual object allowed Xu Jin to obtain one Star Pattern, so what about upgrading the Candou Platform to Third-tier, Fourth-tier?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, the two obtained Star Patterns were passive skills, but would there be active skills in the future?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern: Enhanced sensitivity to changes in the surrounding environment, extremely sensitive to changes in smell and temperature.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Concealing Star Pattern: Can conceal all signs of life, nearly undetectable when stationary, effectiveness decreases when moving slowly, and is lost when moving fast.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two Star Patterns brought by the Third-tier Snake Spirit were another wave of surprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two Star Patterns were divine skills for preserving life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One for detecting hidden dangers, the other for concealing one’s own presence, both extremely practical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regretfully, only one could be used or exchanged for another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking it over, Xu Jin unhesitatingly injected a strand of Starlight and chose the ‘Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost at the moment of choosing the protection of the Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern, an unusual sensation spread throughout his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sneezing, Xu Jin found that his perception of the surrounding environment was completely transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Xu Jin leaped backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above his head on the vine, a dark green spider was swaying as it lunged towards Xu Jin, something he hadn’t noticed before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing could be killed with just a slap, but Xu Jin just found it repulsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few moments later, Xu Jin’s expression turned slightly bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being too sensitive in perception was not necessarily good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, Xu Jin thought this grassland was just a simple grassland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, he found hundreds of insects and even rats, which he found even more repulsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a problem left over from his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mother had told him a story she had witnessed herself about a woman working in the fields, wearing loose trousers, when suddenly she screamed and clenched her thighs tightly, turning rigid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took great effort, but when they pried her hands open, they found a crushed rat at the root of her thigh inside the pants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That woman, once awake, was a bit mentally unstable thereafter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, he had retained a repulsion for rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from discovering various small animals, Xu Jin also smelled dozens of scents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oddly, Xu Jin was even able to roughly distinguish the categories of the scent’s owners based on these smells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were snakes, leopards, owls, and even more snakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, one of the scents made Xu Jin slightly frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, there were human scents that had passed by, and more than one person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had brothers from the institute been here and not noticed the Shattered Star Mushrooms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s undeniable that the Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern acquired now enhanced Xu Jin’s ability to preemptively warn of dangers in the wild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike before, relying solely on the naked eye to search.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Movements can be concealed, but the smell and body temperature are extraordinarily difficult to hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Divine Skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the Third-tier Green Snake under the altar of the Candou Platform, Xu Jin suddenly chuckled to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This section might be for an altar, but the way the items were taken and immediately made to disappear, is this really an act of offering?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, the art of language!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casually taking some tender snake meat for dinner, Xu Jin placed all the Shattered Star Mushrooms under the Star Lamp for nourishment before leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Songluo Grass that had been placed there the day before had, after a day and night of nourishment, all turned into one-star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two one-star plants, faintly surrounded by swirling starlight, had become very dense, likely turning into two-star Songluo Grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was completely normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because ordinary Songluo Grass is usually one or two years old, one-star is ten years old, and two-star is twenty years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, one day and night of nourishment would elevate ordinary to one-star, and one-star to two-star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for two-star to become three-star, it would probably take another four to five days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because three-star Songluo Grass is fifty years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A night passed without words; deep in the mountains and forests, where the Star-picking Order was out of service area, there was nothing but cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tough cultivation, tough cultivation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, having completed his morning cultivation, Xu Jin, carrying an immensely heavy snake skin, hurried to the nearest supply point on the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After several days of tough cultivation under the Star Lamp in the Martial Learning Hall, Xu Jin’s Flying Star Step had achieved Great Success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without relying on physical strength, he could execute the Flying Star Step on the spot, leaping up ten meters, or surging forward twenty meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the aid of his physical strength, he could jump up to thirteen or fourteen meters and dart forward almost thirty meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This drastically increased the efficiency of Xu Jin traversing mountains and making his way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would have taken two hours to reach the supply point, Xu Jin arrived in just one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a supply point on the outermost edge of Green Mountain, operated by Jinshan Taoist Institute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instructor Zheng from the Forging Hall was stationed here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was all muscle, strong and dark, standing out like a huge water buffalo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, Instructor Zheng noticed Xu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing the large bundle of scale armor snake skin Xu Jin was carrying, Instructor Zheng was taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the speed of lightning, he took the scale armor snake skin from Xu Jin and exclaimed in surprise, “Kid, you encountered a Star Beast?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An early-stage Green Snake, why didn’t you call for help?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you injured?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In between his rapid-fire questions, Instructor Zheng circled Xu Jin, put a hand on his shoulder, and sensed him with Star Power, “Eh, only slightly injured, and almost healed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did you kill it alone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin nodded his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impressive, even if you used some treasure, you’ve got guts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, hunting such a big creature is certainly worthwhile.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instructor Zheng nodded and praised as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin could hear that Instructor Zheng implied he must have used a life-saving Emblem, so he didn’t argue and just accepted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Instructor Zheng pulled out his Star-picking Order, quickly identified and recorded Xu Jin’s harvest, which surprised Xu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eh, Instructor, your Star-picking Order works here?” Xu Jin asked, then felt it was a bit inconsiderate since he hadn’t disclosed that he could use his Star-picking Order because of his five-tier Dining Dawn status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as Instructor Zheng was tallying Xu Jin’s harvest, he didn’t seem to notice this detail, perhaps it was normal for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It can’t be used; mine is a two-star Star-picking Order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, you need a three-star Order to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it can still tally and record harvest values, which is convenient and fair, avoiding any possibility of cheating.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Instructor Zheng was counting, he commented, “Not bad, kid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh my, so many one-star Songluo Grasses, did you stumble upon a Songluo Grass goldmine?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And two-star ones too, you’re impressive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This Stone Shimmer is also one-star, good job.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But next time, you should stack them carefully to avoid damaging the edges.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your snake gallbladder wasn’t preserved well enough; next time, wrap things like snake gallbladder and fangs separately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin found that Instructor Zheng was quite the chatterbox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since his arrival, the man hadn’t stopped talking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A real chatterbox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, all that was needed was to listen and nod; otherwise, he’d be parched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where’s the snake blood?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You didn’t bring back snake blood?” Instructor Zheng suddenly raised his voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t have anything handy…” Xu Jin said, somewhat embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember to bring more water bags next time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A catty of snake blood is worth at least twenty taels of silver.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Songluo Grass, Stone Shimmer, snake gallbladder, and snake teeth harvest amounts to 1600 taels of silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scale armor snake skin, over a meter wide and ten meters long, well-preserved, is valued at 2100 taels, making it 3700 taels for a day and half’s harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad, kid.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of a sudden, Instructor Zheng paused, “Feels like something’s missing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right, the Star Core, the Star Beast’s Core, where is it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s a valuable thing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s your first kill, you didn’t forget to harvest the Star Core, did you?” Instructor Zheng urgently said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin was pondering how to respond when Instructor Zheng found the answer for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You fool, that third-tier lower-grade Star Core is worth at least 1500 taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quick, go back and search the snake corpse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin spread his hands helplessly, “I killed it last night and came over in the morning; the snake corpse was gone, probably eaten by wild animals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, you fool, no experience!” Instructor Zheng sighed, handed back the empty backpack he had finished tallying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Be careful, stay alert, there have been sightings of Blood God Sect’s Evil People, and two disciples have already been victimized,” Instructor Zheng solemnly warned as Xu Jin was leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, I think with your harvest, you could aim for the top twenty in the harvest rankings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rewards for the top twenty are quite good,” Instructor Zheng added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xu Jin was about to leave, he suddenly turned back and asked, “Instructor Zheng, what’s my current ranking?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Based on the information received from the Star-picking Order during my shift this morning, the first place is Wang Weisheng with 4600 taels, and the twentieth is 3100 taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was the count this morning; it’s definitely higher by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You should make an effort; you might reach it,” Instructor Zheng replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, I’ll try my best, thank you, Instructor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he watched Xu Jin swiftly leave, Instructor Zheng suddenly called out urgently, “Remember, safety first, safety first!”\u003C\u002Fp>",2014,"2026-06-03T07:35:47.820Z",1,"novelbin.me","d6a8bfcc226cbd72b155a6a96d18d40c6acd9ffbaf82beeb77de2902f3778c17","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-77","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-75",1647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-cover.jpg"]