[{"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-884":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},960794,1254,"Chapter 883 - 352: Special Envoy Ju Zhang","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-884",884,"\u003Cp>Among the four major Alien Races in the Fifth-Tier Huashi Star Domain, the Rock Armor Clan is not the most offensive, but it is the most defensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their Rock Armor Royal City, fortified over generations, is as impregnable as a natural barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The base width of the outer city wall is a hundred meters, with the height also exceeding a hundred meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Sixth-Tier experts cannot topple it with full-force attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, such height cannot stop Fifth-Tier and Sixth-Tier experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it can prevent the Third-Tier and early Fourth-Tier elites of the attacking side from participating in the battle, while the defending side’s Third-Tier and early Fourth-Tier elites can array in formation on the walls and focus their firepower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is known that, for any faction, the Third-Tier and Fourth-Tier are the main combat elites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this is under the premise that the elite strength of the Sixth and Fifth Tiers is not too disparate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the fundamental reason why the Holy Clan Messenger chose the altar at Rock Armor Royal City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, due to the Earth Spirit King’s defeat, the situation has somewhat reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Domain Master Ji Cheng is stationed in Hongli City, presiding over the planning of a major retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one leading the team is Military Adviser Ji Xiuchuan, but the person truly in charge is still Xu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Counting Xu Jin and the others, a total of fifty people arrived aboard the starship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from Ji Xiuchuan, a Sixth-Tier, the rest are all Fifth-Tier elites, including Xu Jin, Cui Chongguang, Hou Yunzhang, Li Zhen, Ning Yuchan, and Ji Hongli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No captured Sixth-Tier aliens were brought along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a lesson learned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, when Domain Master Ji Cheng attempted to attack Rock Armor Royal City with a large troop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Ji Cheng’s forces were strong enough that even if they couldn’t win, they wouldn’t suffer a total defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at a crucial moment, the varied promises of the Holy Clan Messenger influenced the Sixth-Tier aliens accompanying the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Sixth-Tier aliens didn’t overtly betray, but each was lackluster in effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led to Ji Cheng’s catastrophic defeat, with six Human elite war deaths, including another extremely crucial Sixth-Tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, it resulted in Domain Master Ji Cheng’s grave injury and coma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, with such a composition of forces, the potential to conquer Rock Armor Royal City was slim to none.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But firstly, Xu Jin’s combat power is extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, Military Adviser Ji Xiuchuan calculated for everyone that the number of Sixth-Tier aliens in the Fifth-Tier Huashi Star Domain was limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to previous intelligence, the three major alien races in the Fifth-Tier Huashi Star Domain have a total of thirty-one Sixth-Tier aliens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the last attack led by Ji Cheng on Rock Armor Royal City, three were eliminated, and one was severely injured; at the Star Gate, Xu Jin took out four; when the Earth Spirit King led an attack, a total of eleven were captured, three were captured, and the others annihilated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, even if all the elite forces of the three major alien races merged, Rock Armor Royal City would at most have twelve Sixth-Tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, according to previous intel, at least six Sixth-Tier aliens were occupied with the altar and could not engage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maximum opposition we need to face head-on is six Sixth-Tiers and nearly two hundred Fifth-Tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s worth attempting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the starship flew several hundred miles from Rock Armor Royal City, Xu Jin saw the so-called Altar Sky Road from the captives’ accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the direction of Rock Armor Royal City, a massive, dazzling starlit passage rose into the sky and pierced the vault of heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the other end, another realm seemed to draw closer to the Altar Sky Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even figures could be seen in that other realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four words flashed through Xu Jin’s mind: Ancestral Land Cave Heaven!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer they got, the more clearly they could see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Altar Sky Road was slowly extending towards that hazy other realm in the vault of heaven, moving at a not-so-fast pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By naked eye estimation, within a day or two, this Altar Sky Road would certainly extend above that Ancestral Land Cave Heaven and connect with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, Xu Jin and others could also see the Ancestral Land Cave Heaven emitting a lot of brilliant light into the Altar Sky Road, seemingly in a pulling motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistily, this Altar Sky Road appeared to have established some connection with that Ancestral Land Cave Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they drew closer, they could vaguely see a dense crowd standing in that Ancestral Land Cave Heaven, gazing at this realm as if waiting and welcoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the distance was too great to see clearly, and sensing was impossible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Xu Jin understood that if the connection succeeded, the Holy Clan in Ancestral Land Cave Heaven would likely charge in at the first moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, the Humans within Huashi Star Domain would surely have no chance of survival!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gentlemen, if there’s a chance, we must seize it,\" Xu Jin said solemnly on the starship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Ji Hongli felt most at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Huashi Star Domain successfully connects with the Ancestral Land, others wouldn’t be affected much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the speed of cultivators, at most, in less than half a day, they’d retreat from the Huashi Star Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her father could only hold fast to the Huashi Star Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the successful connection, her father would surely die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her father’s path of survival was solely to destroy the connection to the Ancestral Land Cave Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Xu Jin’s words elicited no response, with everyone gazing at Rock Armor Royal City’s walls, expressions grave!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Military Adviser Ji Xiuchuan predicted, there weren’t many Sixth-Tiers in Rock Armor Royal City, fewer than expected, only five!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on Rock Armor Royal City’s walls, there were as many as one hundred Fifth-Tieres and two thousand Fourth-Tiers arranged in a heavy military formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten Fifth-Tiers formed a small combat formation, with a hundred Fourth-Tiers as a combat formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each small combat formation was equivalent to a Sixth-Tier’s combat power, defending the city walls, further assisted by five Sixth-Tiers menacingly watching from above, making it impossible for their small team to conquer, even if they fought to the last man!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll handle the siege; you disrupt their formations, and you all assault and slay on the walls. Yuchan, can you command?\" Xu Jin asked.\u003C\u002Fp>",1075,"2026-06-03T07:36:08.224Z",1,"novelbin.me","171d7c4e9c9e3211f9d7e837ae19cca28488c034883aced963a5d9f84bdf878f","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-885","star-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-chapter-883",1647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-martial-era-the-way-of-star-light-cultivati-cover.jpg"]