Chapter 133: Harvest and Pockets (Please Subscribe)

"A mere late-stage Forge Star, yet you dare to be rampant!"

When he saw Xu Jin using Star Arrows to slaughter the tribal Forge Star elite, the high-level Refine Star expert of the Fire-Li Tribe, Chi Guoli, who had rushed over upon hearing the alarm, was incredibly furious.

He leaped up instantly, his flaming long saber cleaving out a flame light dozens of meters long, and slashed toward Xu Jin with the force of a mountain-splitting strike.

This scene left Xu Jin somewhat stunned.

To be honest, having swept through two tribes, only this Refine Star Sixth Layer expert before him was the most wild, the most confident, and the most direct.

Xu Jin liked such an expert.

The next instant, Xu Jin's Flying Star Steps exploded simultaneously under his feet and at his waist; his figure was like a ghost, instantly circling behind Chi Guo, and then he punched Chi Guo's back like lightning.

Into this punch, Xu Jin directly injected two and a half percent of the Star Power within his body.

The starlight exploded.

The Refine Star expert Chi Guo, who had been roaring in anger just a second ago, was torn to pieces the next second.

The three Refine Star Fourth and Fifth Layer experts who had just arrived were left completely dumbfounded!

They were terrified.

Xu Jin even saw a Refine Star Second Layer Red Scale youth get so scared by this scene that he wet himself.

Seeing this, Xu Jin laughed.

It was too damn interesting; he was already at the Refine Star Second Layer, yet he could still be scared into wetting himself?

Under the enhancement of the Swift Lightning Star Pattern, his figure flashed rapidly; within a few breaths, Xu Jin had resolved the Refine Star Fifth and Fourth Layer Fire-Li Tribe experts who had arrived.

If these people had united, formed a battle formation, feared no death, and advanced and retreated together, they really could have caused Xu Jin great trouble, and even had the possibility of surrounding and killing him.

After all, there were many of them.

But with Xu Jin striking first to gain the upper hand, their hearts and courage were shattered, and they were soon slaughtered by Xu Jin.

It must be said, this Fire Tribe still had some brave souls.

Those young people at the Forge Star or even Meal of Mist Realm, one by one, roared and charged at Xu Jin as he stepped into the tribal main hall, only to be casually blasted to death by Xu Jin using Star Arrows.

They couldn't even charge within twenty meters of Xu Jin.

In front of the Fire Tribe's main hall, it could be called a river of blood.

"Devil!"

"Demon!"

"This is an invincible devil!"

No one knew who shouted it, but the remaining Fire Tribe warriors completely collapsed and scattered in flight.

Xu Jin stepped into the Fire Tribe's main hall, because he wanted to see that Refine Star warrior who had wet his pants.

A Refine Star Second Layer Red Scale warrior who could be scared into wetting his pants—Xu Jin was truly a bit curious.

Inside the main hall, a youth was cowering behind the tribal chief's seat, curled into a ball, shivering, with water stains all over the ground beneath him, the stench unbearable.

Xu Jin was just about to finish him off with a casual saber strike when he suddenly discovered that the attire worn by this Refine Star Second Layer youth was different from the other Refine Star experts.

Besides the clothes being more exquisite, he was also wearing finely crafted leather boots, and on his head, he wore a bone crown.

It was a bit like the bone crown of the chief he had killed at the Fire Tribe earlier, but not quite.

Pulling the chair further away, Xu Jin sat on this chair representing the chief's power, and three meters of starlight erupted from his Star Weapon, resting on the youth's neck.

"Speak, what is your identity! If you are useful, I can spare your life."

The youth looked at Xu Jin in extreme terror and said with a trembling voice, "God's Envoy, spare me, I... I am the Fire Tribe's Young Chief... Chi Xiang! I... I am very useful. Whatever the God's Envoy wants to know, I... I can tell you!"

Xu Jin looked at the youth with some surprise; he was actually a Young Chief. It seemed his judgment was correct.

However, the Young Chief before him, with such a cowardly appearance, must be a coddled Young Chief.

"When will your Wang Ting reinforcements arrive?" Xu Jin asked.

"My father said the reinforcements aren't coming, and told me to flee, but I didn't make it in time."

"Speak properly. If you stutter again, I'll slaughter you!" The stuttering made Xu Jin very unhappy.

"I... I won't stutter anymore!" In order to survive, Chi Xiang straightened his body and finally crawled away from the puddle of urine, which Xu Jin looked at with utter disdain.

"Then where did the Wang Ting reinforcements go?"

"God's Envoy, I don't know about that; my father didn't say."

"Then how did your father contact you? Also, how does your Wang Ting contact you?" Xu Jin asked. This was the intelligence Xu Jin most wanted to know at the moment.

Currently, it seemed that the Red Scale Wang Ting should be able to quickly warn all tribes, but there were differences in the warning information.

For example, was it only a vague warning, or could it mark locations in real-time, or was it even more detailed? This concerned Xu Jin's subsequent actions, so it had to be clarified.

At this moment, two Refine Star Third Layer experts suddenly rushed over at the main hall entrance, "Young Chief, we have come to save..."

Before the word "save" was finished, these two Refine Star Third Layer experts were blasted to death by Xu Jin with several Star Arrows.

And Xu Jin didn't even move his butt, just sitting in place.

The Fire Tribe's Young Chief Chi Xiang watched this scene, his eyes trembling continuously. Looking at Xu Jin, who was like a demon god, he threw away even the last shred of unrealistic thought.

"Red Scale Heart."

"All tribal chiefs will break off two pieces of the Red Scale Heart Armor unique to our Red Scale clan from their own chests, and then go to the Wang Ting to ask the Great King to use the Red Scale Heart to perform a ritual, after which they can transmit information very quickly," Chi Xiang said.

"Oh, to what extent can information be transmitted?"

Chi Xiang heard this and looked at Xu Jin blankly, not quite understanding.

"Then show me the information your father and the Wang Ting sent you."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Subsequently, Chi Xiang took out a palm-sized Red Scale Heart Armor from his bosom and demonstrated it to Xu Jin.

Unlike what Xu Jin had imagined, it was not text information.

Instead, it transmitted information through the color and the number and method of the Red Scale Heart Armor's throbbing vibrations. It was a bit like a codebook, but very primitive, and the information that could be transmitted was very limited.

For example, the warning information previously sent by the Royal Court to the Fire Tribe was very simple.

The gist was just a very simple alarm like "an external enemy has arrived at your tribe, prepare for battle."

"Then have you reported anything to the Wang Ting?" Xu Jin's eyes narrowed, and a plan began to emerge.

"Not yet! God's Envoy, I didn't dare, and there was no time!" Chi Xiang seemed to sense something and kept promising.

"Wait for me here."

Xu Jin gave an instruction, turned and left the main hall, crushed a Spirit-Awakening Pill, a Blood-Replenishing Pill, and a pinch of Golden Wound Powder, mixed them with dirt and blood, stirred them, and re-rolled them into a black, ugly pill.

"Open your mouth!"

Chi Xiang obediently opened his mouth, but his whole body was trembling, and then a pill emitting a pungent, strange odor was flicked into his mouth by Xu Jin.

"Swallow it!"

Realizing that this might be some kind of poison, Chi Xiang's tears fell, but he still obediently swallowed it.

This made Xu Jin click his tongue; this was no Young Chief, clearly just a child who hadn't grown up yet.

"What I just gave you is the 'Gut-Piercing Brain-Rotting Pill' I refined myself! Do you feel anything?"

Xu Jin grinned. The next instant, Chi Xiang hugged Xu Jin's thigh, wailing and snot-nosed, "Spare me, Divine Envoy! I will do whatever you tell me to do, please spare me, my lord!"

Bang!

Chi Xiang was kicked away by Xu Jin in disgust.

He was covered from head to toe in either excrement or snot; he was too filthy!

Disgusting!

"I'm asking you, do you feel anything?"

"Yes, yes, yes! I feel a burning sensation in my stomach, and there's a cold breeze drilling straight into my head! Divine Envoy, I will truly be very obedient, please spare my life!" Chi Xiang was frantic; the feeling of being poisoned was too terrifying.

Hearing this, Xu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

The burning sensation in the stomach was the feeling of the Star power contained in that tiny bit of Spirit-Refreshing Pill dispersing; as for the cold breeze drilling into his head, that was the effect of the Spirit-Awakening Pill.

As long as he felt something, that was good.

"Listen, this Gut-Piercing Brain-Rotting Pill of mine will only take effect after three months. As long as you are obedient and do as I say, I will give you the antidote after some time, understand?" In an instant, Chi Xiang began kowtowing like a pestle pounding garlic.

"As long as you give me the antidote, my lord, I will definitely be obedient, I will definitely be very obedient!"

"Good. Change your clothes, bring some food, and then arrive here in the shortest time possible!" Xu Jin drew a point on the map, roughly in a central location—not too far from the Fire Li Tribe, about two or three hundred li from the Fire Yuan Tribe, six or seven hundred li from the Red Scale Wang Ting, and not too far from another tribe, the Fire Armor Tribe.

Xu Jin wanted to utilize this captive young chieftain, Chi Xiang, but he could not trust him completely.

"Understood, understood, I'll go right now."

"By the way, tell me, where is your tribe's treasury? Also, your father—that is, your chieftain—must have a place where he keeps his private treasures, right?" Xu Jin asked.

"Our tribe's treasury is here. My father does indeed have a small treasure vault, but I can't open it; it's just behind here." At this moment, Chi Xiang was truly telling everything he knew without reservation.

A few breaths later, Chi Xiang led Xu Jin to a bedroom. The bedroom had an entrance to an underground passage. After passing through a five-meter-long tunnel, there was a heavy stone door with a lock on it.

Chi Xiang truly could not open it.

But Xu Jin blasted it open with a single punch.

A matter of wasting a bit of Star power.

It was a treasure room with dozens of Star weapons. Their quality was better than the Star weapons he had seen before, but they were still useless.

But the next moment, Xu Jin's pupils suddenly constricted.

Star Jade Tablets.

At least a hundred Star Jade Tablets.

Among them, sixteen were pale cyan Star Jade Tablets. Even from several meters away, Xu Jin's Underworld Star Pattern could sense the thick Star power aura emanating from within them.

Pale cyan Star Jade Tablets belonged to the Earth-tier Star Jade Tablets. To be more precise in rank, they were fourth-tier Cyan Jade Tablets.

Over in Chen Guo, they were the main material for refining fourth-tier emblems, and a single piece cost a thousand taels of gold.

"Do you produce these here?" Xu Jin asked, looking at the Star Jade Tablets.

"We do, but this cyan kind is very, very rare! The Wang Ting demands that all of them be handed over; it is said they are to be given to the Superior Kingdom! These were still saved secretly by my father," Chi Xiang replied.

Xu Jin began to understand the value of this second-tier Star Domain.

Just the production of these Star Jade Tablets alone was a massive harvest.

Inside the Fire Li chieftain's private treasure room, the items of greatest value were these sixteen pale cyan fourth-tier Star Jade Tablets.

The other hundred-plus Star Jade Tablets were mostly Human-tier, with second-tier being the majority and a small amount of third-tier.

Suddenly, Xu Jin's gaze fell upon several large chunks of metal at the very edge of the treasure vault.

"What is this?" Xu Jin was very familiar with the aura of this metal.

"This is Star Meteor Iron ore that was mined. It was also kept privately by my father, but since it couldn't be refined, it was just left here."

Xu Jin frowned.

This Star Meteor Iron ore was very heavy; a few chunks weighed at least a hundred jin.

He had just tried it, and perhaps because it was still iron ore, he couldn't store it on the Arena Platform.

However, since this Fire Splendor Star Domain already had Star Meteor Iron ore, would there be refined Star Meteor Iron?

For Xu Jin, this was something he urgently needed.

Because among the materials required for Xu Jin's Arena Platform to upgrade from third tier to fourth tier, a significant amount of Star Meteor Iron was needed.

The next instant, Xu Jin's mind stirred, sinking into the Jade Tablet of the Arena Platform. In an instant, the upgrade information appeared.

【Can ascend tier: Requires 1,000 wisps of Star light, 36 fourth-tier Star Jade Tablets, 1,000 jin of Iron Essence, 100 jin of Copper Essence, 1,000 jin of silver, 100 taels of gold, 1 jin of Star Meteor Iron, one 1,000-year-old turtle shell】

Xu Jin had known about the heavenly treasures required to upgrade the fourth-tier Arena Platform for a long time, but he had never been too proactive in preparing for it.

The main reason was that the required items were too numerous; they were simply not things that Xu Jin at his current stage could gather.

Compared to the upgrade materials for the third-tier Arena Platform, it had increased more than tenfold.

Previously, it required refined iron; now, it required Iron Essence.

Don't look at the difference between refined iron and Iron Essence as just a reversal of two characters; their value differed by more than tenfold, and they were also military-controlled materials.

However, this was an unexpected joy.

Sixteen fourth-tier Star Jade Tablets, each worth a thousand taels of gold, had actually been found here.

If he was lucky, he might even be able to gather all the fourth-tier Star Jade Tablets in the Fire Splendor Star Domain.

Gathering one type counts as one type.

Subsequently, Xu Jin waved his hand and collected the sixteen fourth-tier Cyan Jade Tablets into the Arena Platform, along with the other hundred-plus second and third-tier Star Jade Tablets.

However, these second and third-tier Star Jade Tablets turned into powder the moment they were collected into the Arena Platform.

Yet, above the Arena Platform, more than a dozen wisps of Star light had appeared.

For second-tier Star Jade Tablets, every ten pieces could directly add one wisp of third-tier Star light to the Arena Platform; for third-tier Star Jade Tablets, one piece could add one wisp of Star light to the Arena Platform.

That was quite convenient.

This was one of the new functions of the Arena Platform that Xu Jin had recently discovered.

"Alright, hurry up and set off. I will come to find you later."

"You shouldn't tell the Wang Ting or your father that you were captured, right?" Xu Jin said.

"I won't, I won't, absolutely not. I'm not stupid!"

Hearing this, Xu Jin nodded.

This captive was not bad; he didn't fear a captive being too smart, he only feared a captive being too stupid!

After sweeping through the Fire Li chieftain's treasure vault, Xu Jin let the young chieftain Chi Xiang, whom he controlled, leave.

As for the Fire Li tribe's treasury, unsurprisingly, there was no harvest at all.

And Xu Jin already knew the reason.

It was because the Wang Ting had previously ordered the chieftains of all tribes to distribute all the Jade Tablets in their treasuries to the elites to improve their cultivation, in order to cope with the invasion of the Chen Guo warriors descending in three months.

Leaving the Fire Li tribe, Xu Jin set off toward the Fire Yuan tribe, which was quite close to the Fire Li tribe.

"Everyone, perk up! My King has already sent a warning, saying that the Great Chen intruder is rapidly approaching the Fire Yuan tribe where we are located! Follow my orders and set up an ambush. As long as that bastard dares to show his face, wipe him out for me."

Inside the Fire Yuan tribe, the Wang Ting General Chi Dian, who had arrived at the Fire Yuan tribe long ago, was making the final pre-battle deployments.

This battle must result in the capture of that Great Chen genius!

With the elites of two tribes slaughtered, the losses of the Red Scale clan were already heavy enough.

Two quarters of an hour later, Chi Dian led his elites to search throughout the entire Fire Yuan tribe, occasionally leaping onto the alert arrow towers to search for traces of the enemy, his brows tightly locked.

The Wang Ting had already sent two warnings.

The warnings said that the Great Chen enemy had already approached or even entered the Fire Yuan tribe, telling them to be careful.

But the problem was, Chi Dian led his elites in a desperate search inside and outside the Fire Yuan tribe, and let alone the enemy, they hadn't even found a ghost of a shadow.

What Chi Dian didn't know was that Xu Jin was currently in a forest within the Fire Yuan tribe, silently recovering his consumed Star power.

As for the enemies gathered here, he had already discovered them.

They were truly a gathering of experts.

There was one Refine Star, Eighth Layer, and surprisingly four Refine Star, Seventh Layer experts, not to mention dozens of Red Scale elites at the mid-Refine Star stage.

This lineup was truly luxurious.

If Xu Jin were to plunge in headfirst,

it was truly possible he would never return.

Since there was a trap, he simply wouldn't enter.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Xu Jin, whose Star power had fully recovered, sped toward the next tribe of the Red Scale clan—the Fire Armor tribe!

(End of chapter)