Chapter 157

Inside the quiet room, Ning Yuchan's Shenpo aura began to climb again, and very quickly, it broke through to the peak of the third Refine Star layer, and then smoothly broke through to the early fourth Refine Star layer.

At this point, Xu Jin had already breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if it stopped here, the effect of this Mind-Calming Golden Pill was not wasted.

Ning Yuchan had previously taken an ordinary Mind-Calming Golden Pill, and Teacher Liu Qingzhu had given Xu Jin an extra Mind-Calming Golden Pill, so Xu Jin wanted to test the medicine on Ning Yuchan.

To see how much the medicinal effect decays after taking an ordinary pill and then taking a third-level pill.

Of course, the main purpose was still to improve Ning Yuchan's cultivation.

Even if it only allowed Ning Yuchan's Shenpo cultivation to improve by half a layer, it was worth it.

After all, Ning Yuchan was about to go to the extremely dangerous Star River Battlefield.

A quarter of an hour later, Ning Yuchan's Shenpo Star cultivation reached the peak of the fourth Refine Star layer, and just as she broke through to the fifth Refine Star layer, the medicinal power completely disappeared.

The effect of this third-level Mind-Calming Golden Pill on Ning Yuchan was one and a quarter layers.

Xu Jin's previous result was two layers.

Calculated this way, the decay was very limited, less than forty percent.

Xu Jin was instantly happy.

Old Qi will have good fortune in the future.

In the future, if Xu Jin has the opportunity, he can save up a Mind-Calming Golden Pill and then save up a Refine Spirit Golden Pill; perhaps he can improve Old Qi's cultivation by a significant margin.

If he can let Old Qi personally defeat Hu Xuechuan and take revenge, that would definitely be extremely satisfying.

"What are you laughing at?"

Ning Yuchan had already woken up, her beautiful eyes opened, staring fixedly at Xu Jin.

"How do you feel?" Xu Jin asked.

"Like a dream!"

Ning Yuchan tilted her pretty face, her eyes shining as she looked at Xu Jin, "The bitter cultivation and tempering of the Shenpo over the past six years is not even one-tenth of the improvement today.

This makes me feel like I'm in a dream."

"Is that so? Then let me wake you up."

Xu Jin took the opportunity to sit beside Ning Yuchan, one hand grabbed Ning Yuchan's jade hand, and the other hand pinched the skin that could be broken by a blow, and then twisted it hard.

"Ah!"

Feeling the pain, Ning Yuchan subconsciously threw her hand away violently; Xu Jin held on tight, and under this great force, Xu Jin was thrown flying.

When she exerted force, Ning Yuchan realized something was wrong; Xu Jin was joking with her, was it too much for her to throw him out like this?

Thinking of this, fearing that she had thrown Xu Jin too hard, she pulled him back violently.

The space in the quiet room was not large; this throwing and pulling directly caused Xu Jin to crash through the window. Xu Jin was prepared to land, but was pulled back by Ning Yuchan.

Xu Jin directly withdrew his defensive posture, his body suddenly lightened, which directly caused Ning Yuchan to use too much force.

Xu Jin, who was pulled and thrown by her, bounced back like a rubber band, and then landed solidly on Ning Yuchan.

Xu Jin hugged her without hesitation; his hands hugged Ning Yuchan's waist. In summer, the clothes are relatively light, which directly made Ning Yuchan panic and her hands and feet go soft.

"Sister Yuchan, what happened?"

Little Jiang'er, who heard the window shattering next door, rushed over upon hearing the news, and happened to see Xu Jin pouncing on Ning Yuchan on the ground. At the same time, Qingfan also came out upon hearing the news and saw it.

"Eh, you guys continue. Let's go, Qingfan, let's go play."

Little Jiang'er, being mischievous, directly pulled Qingfan out the door.

Ning Yuchan's pretty face had long been red and hot, and her whole body was soft.

For so many years, she had never been hugged so closely by a man, especially Xu Jin's aura...

"You... you still won't get up, how long are you going to hug?" Ning Yuchan, whose hands and feet were soft, was anxious.

Xu Jin leaned over Ning Yuchan's hairline and took a deep breath, "So fragrant."

Only then did he get up.

Xu Jin got up, but discovered that Ning Yuchan was still hiding there and wouldn't get up, fearing that Ning Yuchan had gone into a cultivation deviation, so he hurriedly went to pull her.

When he pulled her, he discovered that Ning Yuchan's small hands were burning hot.

"Yuchan, you... have you gone into a cultivation deviation?"

"You're the one who went into a cultivation deviation, don't touch me!" Ning Yuchan, whose face was blushing, scolded angrily.

However, Xu Jin still pulled Ning Yuchan up.

"Go explain it to Jiang'er yourself." Ning Yuchan, who sat up, turned her back and said.

"Explain what?"

"Just now that..."

"Just now it was all your doing, you pulled me, I didn't do anything."

"You!"

Ning Yuchan was so angry she wanted to beat Xu Jin, but Xu Jin jumped out the window and left.

"Sister Yuchan, hurry up and consolidate your Shenpo cultivation! Also, your Shenpo Star is now at the fifth Refine Star layer; besides the Mind-Calming star pattern, you had better engrave as many Shenpo star patterns as possible before heading to the Star River Battlefield," Xu Jin said.

Ning Yuchan didn't make a sound, staring fixedly at the direction Xu Jin disappeared. After a long time, the blush on her pretty face gradually faded, and only then did she begin to sit cross-legged and cultivate again.

That night, Jiang'er and Qingfan wandered around the Academy for an hour and a half before returning.

"Ah, Sister-in-law, you're cultivating again."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang'er screamed in misery, as she was directly grabbed by the ear by Ning Yuchan, who jumped up, and was suppressed by force.

"At such a young age, who told you to call me that?" Ning Yuchan's face was blushed with shame again.

"Sister-in-law, I didn't call you that randomly."

"You still say you didn't. I am your sister, when did I become your sister-in-law?"

"No, we saw it with our own eyes, you guys were already like that!"

"Like what!"

"Do I still need to say it? You were like that! Qingfan saw it too."

At the courtyard entrance, Qingfan, who was hiding far away, nodded vigorously, "That's right, you were like that."

Xu Jin touched his forehead; these two girls are too good at causing trouble.

"What are you making a fuss about? Hurry up and go to sleep."

Seeing Xu Jin come out, Ning Yuchan could only let go of little Jiang'er.

Little Jiang'er took the opportunity to make a face, "Brother, Sister-in-law, I'm going to sleep first."

"You!"

"Wait a minute, I haven't nourished your Middle Shang Xinggong tonight yet..."

In just a few breaths, from little Jiang'er's room, came the sound of little Jiang'er laughing miserably.

Xu Jin listened, but was happy.

It's quite joyful to have things like this in the courtyard.

Returning to his room, Xu Jin continued to steal a bit of time from his busy schedule to begin refining the fourth-tier star weapon, the Star-Falling Drop, given by the Grand Master.

Because he had to ascend the Heavenly Staircase every day these past few days, his cultivation time was fully scheduled, and he could only steal a bit of time every day to refine the Star-Falling Drop.

But after several days in a row, Xu Jin already felt that he had refined it almost enough.

Half an hour later, the Star-Falling Drop in Xu Jin's palm suddenly had a connection with Xu Jin's Shenpo Star.

That feeling was as if they were connected by flesh and blood.

Just by a thought, the Star-Falling Drop emitted a faint light.

Xu Jin put on the Star-Falling Drop and then input a wisp of star power; from then on, the star power circulated, and unless there was an extremely strong external attack, the Star-Falling Drop would have no possibility of falling off.

At the same time, as long as Xu Jin had a thought, he could activate it.

This counted as thoroughly refined, and Xu Jin also understood the relevant usage of the Star-Falling Drop in an instant.

What is precious is the weapon.

Star weapons, in the current world, are generally star soldiers with special functions that can be called weapons.

A fourth-tier star weapon means it has a basic ability and also possesses a special ability.

By analogy, a fifth-tier star weapon is one that has a basic ability and also possesses two special abilities.

The sixth tier is a star weapon with three special abilities.

This special ability often refers to engraved and solidified star patterns or star arts.

The value of a star weapon depends on its rank, and even more on the rank of the special ability engraved within it.

The fourth-tier star weapon, the Star-Falling Drop, counts as a defensive star weapon; it possesses the fourth-tier defensive star art, Jin Zhong Protection, and at the same time possesses a special star art—Star-Falling!

The fourth-tier defensive star art, Jin Zhong Protection, is very simple; it can defend against a full-force strike from a fourth-tier, peak ninth Condense Star expert.

After being destroyed, it takes one day to recover on its own, but the refiner can also inject star power to recover quickly.

It also has a certain defensive effect against attacks from fifth-tier experts.

But if encountered with a direct attack from a peak fifth-tier expert or even a sixth-tier expert, there is a possibility of it shattering.

This counts as a treasure given by the Grand Master to Xu Jin to save his life. With this, even in front of an early-to-mid fifth-tier expert, Xu Jin still has a wisp of survival.

But what can best save Xu Jin's life is this special star art—Star-Falling.

After activation, it can allow the refiner to instantly move a hundred miles away.

The moment Xu Jin perceived it, he was stunned.

A divine skill.

This Star-Falling is absolutely a life-saving divine skill.

It is basically teleportation.

When encountering a strong enemy that cannot be resisted, one can teleport a hundred miles away.

A hundred miles, even for a fifth-tier Gather Battle Realm expert who is extremely skilled in speed, would take about a hundred breaths of time, equivalent to two hundred seconds.

Two hundred seconds is enough for Xu Jin to escape.

The pity is that after using it once, it takes one day to recover.

And it should be because it involves mysterious spatial star power, so the cultivator cannot charge it to speed up the recovery time.

Xu Jin felt that this Star-Falling Drop should have been deliberately chosen by the Grand Master.

Not to mention anything else, just based on the special ability of Star-Falling, this fourth-tier star weapon, the Star-Falling Drop, is absolutely a top-tier item among fourth-tier star weapons.

The value of a top-tier fourth-tier star weapon is even higher than an ordinary fifth-tier star weapon.

This made Xu Jin feel Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao's deep care and love, and also made Xu Jin truly have a sense of security.

On the morning of September 8th, Xu Jin's Lower Shang Xinggong cultivation reached the peak of the third Refine Star layer, and Xu Jin conveniently engraved another speed-type fourth-tier Upper Star pattern, Meteor, into his Lower Shang Xinggong.

From then on, Xu Jin's Lower Shang Xinggong already had four star patterns engraved: Mingji, Willow Catkin, Whale Swallowing, and Meteor.

The fourth-tier Upper Meteor star pattern is worthy of being a star pattern skilled in speed and burst.

After engraving, it caused Xu Jin's speed to directly surge by more than thirty percent.

His original limit was 150 meters for one Flying Star Step; after engraving the Meteor star pattern, his speed surged, and one burst of Flying Star Step became 200 meters.

The surge in speed, for Xu Jin, is actually a surge in strength.

Without hesitation, Xu Jin directly went to challenge the Killing God Battlefield.

Previously, for the ninetieth level, Xu Jin could actually have won, but in the end, he gave up; it's better to be a bit cautious.

But what should be displayed still needs to be displayed.

After reaching the third Refine Star layer and engraving two star patterns, the difficulty of Xu Jin challenging the ninetieth level was significantly reduced.

The alien genius at the ninth Refine Star layer, whom he had previously struggled extremely hard to slay, was easily slain by Xu Jin this time.

The reason is very simple: the Spiral star pattern directly caused all of Xu Jin's star art power and bombardment speed to surge by more than thirty percent.

The output was nearly doubled.

And speed made Xu Jin even more at ease in the siege.

Subsequently, Xu Jin began to challenge the ninety-first level.

For the ninety-first level, Xu Jin originally thought it would be a Star Condensation Realm expert.

But he didn't expect it to still be a Refine Star Realm expert, but a genius at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer.

Xu Jin easily slew him.

The ninety-second level was two geniuses at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer; Xu Jin slew them.

The ninety-third level was three geniuses at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer; Xu Jin slew them with some difficulty.

The ninety-fourth level was four geniuses at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer, who also had a set of combined attack techniques; Xu Jin was slain.

After reviewing the battle, Xu Jin felt that he still had a chance to win.

He re-customized his tactics, formulated a plan based on the power characteristics of the four geniuses at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer he had encountered before, and challenged again.

In this challenge, Xu Jin was miserably defeated again!

Because the four geniuses at the peak of the ninth Refine Star layer who appeared had changed.

【First place, Xu Jin, ninety-fourth level】

【Second place, Meng Qingqiu, seventy-ninth level】

【Third place, Yan Chen, seventy-eighth level】

【Fourth place, Ji Hongli, seventy-eighth level】

Xu Jin just took a look at the leaderboard ranking and then left.

Looking at it this way, the second-place Meng Qingqiu is still stuck at the eightieth level, so don't even think about the even harder ninetieth level.

In the short term, no one should be able to threaten his ranking on the Killing God Battlefield.

"Young Master, someone has sent a letter." Suddenly, Qingfan knocked on the door of Xu Jin's quiet room.

"Where is the person?"

"In the front hall, I followed the Young Master's instructions and kept him there on the grounds of giving him a reward," Qingfan said.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin appeared in the front hall; it was a servant on duty at the Academy.

Casually rewarding him with a tael of silver, Xu Jin asked about the origin of this letter.

As for the content of the letter, Xu Jin had already read it, which made him very unhappy.

"Replying to Senior Brother, a child sent a letter over, and inside was a ten-tael silver note, asking me to help deliver it to Senior Brother here."

"Hmm? A child?"

The next instant, Xu Jin activated the Wenmeng star pattern, instantly causing this servant to fall into a dream.

He asked again, and it was the same story.

In the dream, a child holding a candied hawthorn stick gave this letter to the servant.

A snap of his fingers woke the servant, and then he let him leave.

Xu Jin, however, had a gloomy face.

The content of this mysterious letter was becoming more and more outrageous.

"Lord Xu, tonight at the third quarter of the Xu hour, I will wait for your arrival on the fourth floor of the Zhaoxing Tower. There is an important matter to discuss, concerning Lord Xu's future and the safety of your family. I hope Lord Xu will definitely honor me with your presence, and do not make a mistake!"

The previous mysterious letter was still somewhat polite, but this letter was already a blatant threat, and even threatened Xu Jin's family.

This was the kind of method Xu Jin could accept the least.

Who could it be?

Counting it up, besides that Lu Kun, Xu Jin hadn't offended anyone?

Or could it be the Baidou Divine Sect, or one of the Three Princes and Seven Marquises, the Marquis of Yangdu?

Plus a fish that slipped through the net from the richest family in Jinshan County, Zhao Weizhen of the Zhao family.

Who could it be?

This made Xu Jin extremely irritable!

If they only threatened him, Xu Jin, he wouldn't be very afraid.

He is in the State Academy; even if it's not absolutely safe, ordinary dangers cannot reach him.

Including his younger sister, as long as she is in the State Academy, she is safe.

But his father is still in Jinshan County.

Besides, there is no such thing as a thousand days of being a thief, but there is no such thing as a thousand days of guarding against a thief.

Even if he brings his father over, is he supposed to let his father and sister never leave the State Academy for the rest of their lives?

How should he handle this matter?

After a long while, Xu Jin made a decision.

A quarter of an hour later, Xu Jin appeared in the Danxia Academy.

"Senior Brother Pang, I have an important matter and request to see the Grand Master!" Xu Jin, who had arrived, said with an urgent face.

"Junior Brother Xu, wait a moment; the Grand Master is currently discussing matters."

As soon as Pang Yu finished speaking, the white-haired and white-bearded Peng Zongguan, who rarely appeared, appeared in front of Xu Jin.

"Come with me."

Pang Yu was stunned to see Peng Zongguan, who rarely appeared, come to pick up Xu Jin!

"What is the matter? It's the same if you tell me." The white-haired and white-bearded Peng Zongguan looked at Xu Jin full of smiles.

Xu Jin tightened his face and solemnly presented the mysterious letter, "This is what the disciple received half an hour ago; this is the second mysterious letter."

"Hmm?"

Just by glancing at it, Peng Zongguan's face sank.

In the autumn examination secret realm of the Great Chen State Academy, Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao, who was waiting for the Star Lords of the Tianyang Shang Xinggong and the Cangming Shang Xinggong to arrive and was preparing to start the Selection of the Best meeting, suddenly frowned and left the autumn examination secret realm.

The next instant, he appeared in front of Xu Jin.

"Hmm, you go back first; before the Zi hour tonight, I will definitely give you an explanation!" Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao took the letter and said.

"The disciple bows to the Grand Master!" Xu Jin bowed deeply!

(End of chapter)