Chapter 145

One Star-Refining Pill was consumed in just over a quarter of an hour.

Looking inward, around Xu Jin's middle star palace's Star-Gathering star core, there were strands of sparse star light circling, and the quantity was clearly visible.

With a sweep of his mind, the quantity became clear.

Consuming one Star-Refining Pill added seventy-six strands of star light to Xu Jin's middle star palace's Star-Gathering star core.

This quantity is really a bit far from a breakthrough.

Regarding cultivation in the Refine Star Realm, Liu Zhou Qingzhu had told Xu Jin, and she told him very specifically, even to the point of being data-driven.

It should be said that the experience explored by contemporary cultivators has been digitized.

The Refine Star Realm is about expanding the star palace and refining star light to condense into circling star clouds; every time one more layer of circling star clouds is added, one more star pattern can be engraved.

Different star forging requires different quantities of star light to condense into circling star clouds.

Low-grade star forging only requires over one hundred and fifty strands of star light to break through to the early stage of the first layer of Refine Star.

At most, it only requires over five hundred strands of star light to reach the peak of the first layer of Refine Star.

But for mid-grade star forging, this number doubles; it requires over one thousand strands of star light to break through to the peak of the first layer of Refine Star. Top-grade star forging requires one thousand five hundred strands, while supreme-grade star forging requires two thousand strands.

Xu Jin calculated; his is super-grade star forging, reaching three point one inches.

Theoretically, if Xu Jin wants to cultivate his current cultivation to the peak of the first layer of Refine Star, he needs to cultivate over two thousand five hundred strands of circling star light.

And what Liu Zhou Qingzhu calculated for him before was that with one Star-Refining Pill morning and night, plus cultivating for a few hours in the Third-Tier Star Power Secret Realm, plus cultivating for one hour every day in the Flying Swallow Hall's Star-Gathering Array, Xu Jin's cultivation would be able to reach the peak of the first layer of Refine Star within six to seven days.

Because Liu Zhou Qingzhu treated Xu Jin's star forging as top-grade star forging, of course, close to the level of supreme-grade star forging.

This is the result announced by the Grand Master.

What Xu Jin reported to the Grand Master was star forging of two point six inches, just reaching supreme-grade star forging.

But the star forging result of Xu Jin that the Grand Master announced within the National Dao Academy was two point four inches for the middle star palace and two point two inches for the lower star palace.

Both are at the level of top-grade star forging close to supreme-grade star forging.

The Grand Master also explained this to Xu Jin this morning.

He said it was for the sake of protecting Xu Jin.

Supreme-grade star forging, even within the major star halls, is a top-tier genius.

Xu Jin, this champion of the Great Chen National Dao Academy's autumn examination, was already exceptionally eye-catching; if he had supreme-grade star forging, he would be even more targeted.

So Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao announced Xu Jin's star forging result as two point four inches.

Xu Jin didn't care about this point.

He's still number one anyway, and nothing is affected.

But cultivating like this, he needs to hurry.

If he doesn't work hard to cultivate and can't keep up with the previously scheduled progress, wouldn't that make people think Xu Jin isn't working hard?

Or even that he is like Zhong Yong, whose talent faded.

That wouldn't be fun.

The key is that Xu Jin himself was hiding something, and the Grand Master hid a bit more, so the gap in this hiding is a bit large.

If it's at this speed, with one Star-Refining Pill morning and night, plus hard cultivation, it would take at least ten days to cultivate to the peak of the first layer of Refine Star.

And this is still under the condition that Xu Jin's divine soul strength is powerful and he has the bonus of the Leakless Innate Star Body.

According to what Liu Zhou Qingzhu said, the medicinal effect of Star-Refining Pills is fixed, and under different talents and divine soul strengths, the cultivation effect is also different.

Generally speaking, the top three True Inheritor disciples of the National Dao Academy, such as Meng Qingqiu or Yan Chen, can increase their circling star light by about fifty strands with one Star-Refining Pill.

But for Xu Jin, it's seventy-five strands.

The effect has surged by fifty percent.

But he can't help it; Xu Jin is super-grade star forging.

Subsequently, Xu Jin took out another top-grade Star-Refining Pill.

The quality gap between top-grade Star-Refining Pills and Star-Refining Pills is huge, so the medicinal effect decay when taken consecutively is very small, and can even be ignored.

I have to say, the effect of top-grade Star-Refining Pills is indeed good.

In the same time of just over a quarter of an hour, the inner circling star patterns in Xu Jin's middle star palace increased by over one hundred and fifty strands.

Subsequently, Xu Jin relied on his own star power, constantly consuming star power and constantly restoring star power to expand and refine stars.

He cultivated for a full two and a half hours.

The middle star palace increased by another forty strands of circling star patterns.

Calculating it, Xu Jin has already cultivated for three hours, six hours, and the time is already approaching midnight, which counts as hard cultivation.

The star light in Xu Jin's middle star palace is only a little over two hundred and sixty-five strands.

It just barely reached one-tenth of the star light required for his breakthrough to the peak of the first layer of Refine Star.

If he cultivates like this morning and night, he will break through in about five to six days.

But the consumption of pills is very unusual.

The pills given by Liu Zhou Qingzhu are only enough for Xu Jin to consume for three or four days.

If pills were sufficient, refining stars to the third or even fourth layer in a month wouldn't be a problem.

But if there are no pills, he might not even be able to break through to the first layer of Refine Star in one or two months.

No wonder those people with family support behind them have such fast cultivation speeds.

Pay-to-win players, huh.

Xu Jin has already made up his mind; he also needs to pay to win.

No one is paying for him!

He will pay for himself!

After finishing cultivation, Xu Jin directly entered the second-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm.

Last night, Xu Jin won fifteen consecutive matches in the second-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm, and his ranking went directly from over fifty thousand into the top five hundred.

Continue today.

Still a second-kill.

After ten times, Xu Jin's ranking had already reached eighth place.

Luck is not bad; when challenging today, the top ten were all there.

It seems most geniuses are like they agreed on the time, concentrating on going online for practice and actual combat during the midnight period.

For the fifteenth time, Xu Jin challenged the third place in the second-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm.

Won easily.

The next instant, a starlight message flew over.

【Qi Tian Da Sheng Equal to Heaven, congratulations on winning third place in the second-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm. Maintain it for seven days, and you will receive a reward of five strands of starlight.】

【Qi Tian Da Sheng Equal to Heaven, you have permanently obtained the title of Plain Field Starlight in the first-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm; please continue to maintain it.】

These two starlight messages made Xu Jin a bit depressed.

So the title reward for the top three in the second-tier Practice Arena Secret Realm is still Plain Field Starlight.

That's no fun.

In an instant, Xu Jin lost the motivation to rush the rankings.

He also stopped thinking about dragging out his cultivation to obtain titles.

Tomorrow, he will go to the Third-Tier Star Power Secret Realm to cultivate, and he should be able to successfully break through to the early stage of the first layer of Refine Star.

Coming out of the Star-Plucking Tower Practice Arena Secret Realm, Xu Jin didn't rush to sleep.

Instead, after swallowing a once-nourished top-grade Refreshing Pill to restore some of the divine soul strength that had been consumed too heavily, he began to engrave star patterns on his Divine Soul Star.

Star Pattern—Warm Dream!

Of the three divine soul star patterns, the fourth-tier low-grade Warm Dream is relatively the simplest; Xu Jin had already practiced it to perfection in the Star Lamp.

Actually, not just Warm Dream; in these three days, the two divine soul star patterns of Calm Intent and Break Evil had also been engraved successfully one hundred percent in the Star Lamp.

It's just that he only found time to engrave them tonight.

Nowadays, Xu Jin engraving star patterns can already be considered familiar, especially under the condition of having engraved them thousands of times in the Star Lamp.

After a quarter of an hour, on the third layer of halo of Xu Jin's Divine Soul Star, the Warm Dream star pattern had been completed in one stroke, naturally and smoothly.

In an instant, a kind of warm and moist feeling flowed through his whole body, making Xu Jin both spirited and comfortable. It felt as if his whole head was soaked in warm water.

Looking inward, the recovery speed of Xu Jin's divine soul strength also directly accelerated.

Slightly urging the Warm Dream star pattern, in an instant, Xu Jin had a feeling of being sleepy.

Quickly dispersing it, Xu Jin then became spirited.

Suddenly, Xu Jin's heart moved, and he began to urge the Warm Dream star pattern again.

Almost the moment he urged it, Xu Jin fell into a deep sleep.

After a quarter of an hour, Xu Jin, who had kept his intent, woke up on time.

Looking inward at the Divine Soul Star again, his expression was a bit pleasantly surprised.

The Warm Dream star pattern recommended by the Mountain Dean was indeed not chosen wrongly.

Just now, he had urged himself into a dream and deep sleep for a quarter of an hour; in that quarter of an hour, the divine soul strength that Xu Jin had previously consumed actually recovered by half a percent quickly.

This effect was already stronger than the effect of a once-nourished top-grade Refreshing Pill.

From now on, theoretically, even if Xu Jin's divine soul strength is consumed completely, Xu Jin only needs to sleep for at most two and a half hours by urging the Warm Dream star pattern to restore his divine soul strength to its peak state.

And before this, Xu Jin needed to sleep for at least four hours or more to restore seventy or eighty percent of his divine soul strength.

Divine skill!

If this were placed in his previous life, it would be a divine skill among divine skills!

Countless insomniac men and women would probably be scrambling to call Xu Jin "Daddy"!

Even Xu Jin himself would love it to death!

When suffering from insomnia, the feeling of lying in bed trying hard to sleep but being unable to is too painful.

Xu Jin was also preparing to rest, but before sleeping, Xu Jin heard little Jiang Er, who was living in the other room, still chattering with Ning Yuchan.

He went out, walked to the door, knocked lightly on the door, and said in a deep voice, "Jiang Er, still not sleeping? Do you want to disturb Sister Yuchan's cultivation tomorrow?

Starting tomorrow, for the books I've arranged for you, you must read half a book a day, and I will check!"

In the bedroom, little Jiang Er, who was lying on the same bed as Ning Yuchan, helplessly stuck out her tongue and made a face at Xu Jin outside the window.

Before this face was even finished, hearing Xu Jin's arrangement, her little face became bitter like a melon; she hurriedly hugged Ning Yuchan, half-crawled on Ning Yuchan, shaking her and begging for mercy.

"Xu Jin, don't blame Jiang Er; it's me who wanted to chat with Jiang Er."

"Hmm, Sister Yuchan, then you should also sleep early."

"You too."

Although Jiang Er and Ning Yuchan both said they would sleep immediately, the perception transmitted by Xu Jin's Mingji Star Pattern told Xu Jin that these two were more spirited than the other right now.

Suddenly, Xu Jin's heart moved.

Should I try?

Xu Jin urged the Warm Dream star pattern, and a strand of extremely gentle and imperceptible divine soul strength shrouded Jiang Er and Ning Yuchan.

In just an instant, Jiang Er turned her head and fell into a deep sleep, making an even breathing sound.

"Sleeping so fast..."

Seeing Jiang Er fall into a deep sleep immediately, Ning Yuchan was surprised in her heart, still thinking it was because the child's mind was pure and she could sleep immediately; the moment she thought that, endless sleepiness also struck.

The next instant, Ning Yuchan's head tilted, and she also fell into a deep sleep.

This gave Xu Jin a big fright.

Is this Warm Dream star pattern too fierce?

This powerhouse at the peak of the ninth layer of Condense Star was just made to fall into a deep sleep by himself?

What if this were in actual combat?

Xu Jin immediately rejected this idea.

In actual combat, the effect is not great.

In actual combat, the opponent's spirit is highly concentrated, plus there is hostility and vigilance; unless Xu Jin continuously urges the Warm Dream star pattern at an ultra-close distance, it is impossible to pull them into a dream.

Moreover, it also has to do with Ning Yuchan's divine soul not having forged a star.

However, the Warm Dream star pattern has another most important function, which is the ability to enter dreams.

Interrogating enemies by entering dreams.

Of course, it's not entirely interrogation.

Also, if this Warm Dream star pattern were used to do bad things, it would be simply...!

It is simply a perfect match for a lecher.

As long as the person on the opposite side has no vigilance and no defense, they fall asleep in one second.

It's a pity, Xu Jin is not a lecher!

However, he still has to remind Jiang Er and Sister Yuchan to be vigilant often!

Suddenly, the Mingji Star Pattern in Xu Jin's lower star palace shook, and Xu Jin perceived that Jiang Er, who was in a dream, suddenly shrank her whole body.

This made Xu Jin's heart tighten?

Did this girl have a nightmare?

It happened to be that she was urged into sleep by the Warm Dream star pattern, so Xu Jin tried urging the Warm Dream star pattern again to bring out a strand of divine soul strength and sent it into little Jiang Er's body.

In an instant, Xu Jin appeared on an island.

On the island, a young girl was being hung on a pole and whipped by a few fierce-looking guys.

In the distance, a divine statue was glowing slightly there, and in all directions, there were countless young girls wearing gray long shirts, shivering as they watched the manager whip this young girl.

Suddenly, Xu Jin realized where this was.

Thousand Leaf Island!

Baidou Divine Sect.

This is Jiang Er's dream.

Although Jiang Er was rescued, Jiang Er herself often falls into this nightmare.

In the words of the previous life, it is that she suffered trauma mentally and has not yet recovered.

Then what should be done?

How to weave a dream?

Xu Jin urged his divine soul strength, trying to start weaving Jiang Er's dream.

The next instant, in Jiang Er's dream, Xu Jin in golden helmet and golden armor descended from the sky, directly killed the manager, and then slaughtered all the thieves of the Baidou Divine General.

Only then did he appear in front of Jiang Er and reveal his true face!

"Brother!"

In the dream, Jiang Er threw herself into Xu Jin's arms and cried loudly.

And in the real world, Jiang Er in her sleep was tearful, but her body gradually relaxed, her breathing began to stabilize, and her little face also became comfortable and relaxed.

Xu Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

He used the simplest and crudest method to break this dream.

Unexpectedly, the effect was quite good.

However, dreams often change patterns and repeat themselves.

Xu Jin plans to give Jiang Er a dose of Warm Dream every day before sleeping recently; if a nightmare appears, he will break Jiang Er's dream.

After accumulating a few times, it should be able to heal this kind of psychological trauma of Jiang Er.

Returning to his own room, Xu Jin sighed to himself in amazement.

Only until now, when he came into contact with and performed the Warm Dream star pattern, did Xu Jin realize that the extraordinary arts of this world were even more magical and powerful than he had imagined.

What Xu Jin came into contact with was only the tip of the iceberg.

He must be more vigilant in the future.

On August 24th, when Xu Jin had just gotten up to do his morning lessons, the Inner Court disciple Lu Kun arrived in front of the study hall of Great Dean Fang Shinan, then stood solemnly with both hands and waited quietly.

This wait lasted for one hour.

And it was in Xu Jin's small courtyard, just when Xu Jin had finished his morning lessons, that a ray of starlight landed in front of the study hall; it was none other than Great Dean Fang Shinan.

The moment Fang Shinan appeared, Lu Kun, who had been waiting for an hour, stepped forward quickly, knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Inner Court disciple Lu Kun, my heart for the Dao is unyielding; I ask the Great Dean to have mercy!"

Great Dean Fang Shinan glanced at Lu Kun and went straight into the study hall without paying attention.

And Lu Kun knelt for a full two hours.

At noon, Great Dean Fang Shinan left the study hall and saw Lu Kun still kneeling there; his expression changed instantly.

Subsequently, Lu Kun was summoned into the study hall by the Great Dean.

A quarter of an hour later, the news spread throughout the entire National Dao Academy.

Great Dean Fang Shinan, out of pity for Lu Kun, and because of his sincerity, specially granted Lu Kun one quota for a specially recruited core disciple, allowing him to be apprenticed to learn!

(End of chapter)