Chapter 170

The moment he was knocked down by the headless corpse, Tao Tiancheng's world completely collapsed.

His living companions Zhou Yuanguang and Wang Anye had turned into corpses in an instant.

No, one was a piece of a corpse, and the roasted kind at that; there were several pieces under Tao Tiancheng's feet.

The other was a corpse, with blood still bubbling from the neck.

Tao Tiancheng's lips began to tremble unconsciously, and his teeth began to chatter!

He had seen blood, and he had killed people.

Theoretically, he shouldn't be this afraid!

But he was trembling all over from fear.

The reason was very simple: no matter who he had killed before, he himself had never faced a life-or-death threat!

But at this moment, everything told him that he was already on the verge of life and death, facing death directly!

The next instant, he could become a corpse!

This was extreme fear from the depths of his heart!

"What is your name?" Xu Jin asked.

"Tao... Tao Tiancheng... Don't kill me, I'll do whatever you want!"

"Really?"

Xu Jin leaned over and sneered, directly scaring Tao Tiancheng into a shudder.

Just as Tao Tiancheng was nodding vigorously, suddenly, there was a sharp pain in the back of his neck, and Tao Tiancheng's vision went black, and he fainted.

The next instant, Xu Jin's Gentle Dream star pattern was activated, directly pulling the unconscious Tao Tiancheng into a deep sleep, and then he began to ask the questions he wanted to know.

Tao Tiancheng's dream-like voice sounded.

For a prisoner whose mental will had been completely destroyed, interrogating him with the Gentle Dream star pattern was simply too easy.

He didn't even need to enter the dream.

After he was asleep, he could just interrogate him directly with Gentle Dream.

This was much more convenient than interrogation.

Although Tao Tiancheng had already said he would confess everything, with direct interrogation, Xu Jin still needed to distinguish which sentences were true and which were false, which was painstaking and laborious.

In this state now, everything asked was true.

After asking a few questions, Xu Jin understood the cause and effect.

It was indeed planned by them, but it was a temporary plan.

Tao Tiancheng's group encountered an alien army searching for intruders and immediately took out the purple broken feather that carried the aura of their king, immediately obtaining the cooperation of this alien army.

They also obtained a lot of information.

For example, Zhang Shuo and He Yulan had already entered the royal court of the Prince Prince Zi Yi alien race and had instructed them to help find their fellow disciples.

If they saw fellow disciples, they were to let them go to the royal city to rendezvous.

Originally, they were going to the royal city because, although they had discovered the location of Ying Ge's group of five, they didn't have the certainty to take them down.

At this time, encountering the alien army searching for intruders, they had a flash of inspiration and used this alien army to help them act as the vanguard.

The order of this alien army itself was to search for intruders.

Under the guidance of Tao Tiancheng and the others, they quickly discovered Ying Ge and the others, and then, under deliberate cooperation, led Ying Ge and the others to be surrounded.

Tao Tiancheng and the others wanted to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor.

After all, they were five geniuses of the Chen Guo National Dao Academy.

If someone really fought for their lives at the last moment, there would still be some damage.

So they just waited one by one for Ying Ge's five to be consumed, and when they were consumed to the extreme, they would then strike and take them down easily.

The plan was good.

Unfortunately, they ran into Xu Jin.

Subsequently, Xu Jin obtained an important piece of information from Tao Tiancheng.

The purple broken feathers were different.

The two Star Palace supreme Forge Star geniuses held purple broken feathers that were feather tips, and their rank was higher than the ones they held.

The purple broken feathers held by these ordinary Star Palace geniuses only had one function—after showing them at a critical moment, the Prince Prince Zi Yi race would not attack them.

And the purple broken feathers held by the two Star Palace supreme Forge Star geniuses could represent the two great Star Palaces to act to a certain extent.

That is to say, the purple broken feathers held by Tian Lie and Zhang Shuo had the ability to cooperate with the Prince Prince Zi Yi alien race.

At this moment, Xu Jin finally understood completely why Tian Lie could cooperate with Lord Zi Yang, a fourth-tier Condense Star seventh-layer expert, and the city lord of Fire Wood City.

Not only were there those precious elixirs and promised rewards, but behind it, it also represented the promise of the Star Palace.

Suddenly, Xu Jin's pupils shrank, and his expression changed.

Then, what would Zhang Shuo, the supreme genius of the Cangming Star Palace, go to do after going to the royal city of the Prince Prince Zi Yi race?

What could he do?

From this piece of intelligence, Xu Jin thought of many possibilities in an instant!

Cooperation!

The greatest possibility was to invite the Prince Prince Zi Yi royal family to join forces with them to deal with them.

Just like what Tian Lie had done previously.

It was not difficult for Zhang Shuo to do what Tian Lie could easily do!

What was even more fatal was that Tian Lie only cooperated with a city lord at the fourth-tier Condense Star seventh layer, and the power he could mobilize was limited.

But the one Zhang Shuo went to find was the King of the Prince Prince Zi Yi race.

He himself was a city lord at the fourth-tier Condense Star ninth layer, and the key was that the power he could mobilize was too terrifying!

Lord Zi Yang, this city lord, could only mobilize a few Condense Star stage experts.

But this King of the Prince Prince Zi Yi race could mobilize all the Condense Star stage experts of the entire third-tier Purple Wind Star Domain.

When the time comes, would Xu Jin and the others still have a way to live?

If it were only the Condense Star stage experts of the Prince Prince Zi Yi race hunting them down, then by relying on flexible tactics and constant movement, Xu Jin's group of seven would still have a chance of survival.

But if the Star Palace disciples joined in.

Every hour, they could obtain the position push of Xu Jin and the others, cooperating with the speed of experts at the middle and late Condense Star stage, especially since the Prince Prince Zi Yi royal family all knew thunder-type star arts, their speed was extremely fast.

Wiped out!

There was a possibility of being wiped out!

Thinking of this, Xu Jin's expression was incomparably gloomy, his brows furrowed into a "chuan" shape.

This off-the-board move by the Cangming Star Palace was too vicious!

Basically, as long as it was used, it could wipe out all the disciples of the entire Chen Guo National Dao Academy.

Moreover, in order to wipe out the disciples of the Chen Guo National Dao Academy, the Cangming Star Palace actually cooperated deeply with the alien race!

No bottom line!

In an instant, Xu Jin labeled the Cangming Star Palace as such.

Guys without a bottom line, must be extremely careful in the future!

"What star patterns do you know?" Xu Jin asked cautiously.

Twenty breaths later, Xu Jin shook his head in some disappointment.

Bang!

Star light spat out, and Xu Jin blasted Tao Tiancheng's head to pieces directly.

No value left.

Xu Jin had also thought about whether this Tao Tiancheng of the Cangming Star Palace would have learned the special star patterns of the Cangming Star Palace.

He would have let him engrave it into the jade tablet for Xu Jin, and Xu Jin wanted to try to see if he could steal the learning.

But the result was that the star patterns this guy learned were all common star patterns.

The star patterns he currently learned, the Chen Guo National Dao Academy also had.

Like Fire Source, what he learned was still the Primary Fire Source star pattern, not even as good as Xu Jin's.

What Xu Jin learned was the fourth-tier superior Intermediate Fire Source.

There were no special star patterns at all!

But thinking about it, it was normal.

Even on the side of the Chen Guo National Dao Academy, except for the accidentally obtained Rain Curtain and Whale Swallowing star patterns, Xu Jin had not learned any star patterns unique to the Chen Guo National Dao Academy.

Even the spiral star pattern where the Chen Guo National Dao Academy was ahead in terms of deduction level, he had only learned up to the fourth tier, and he couldn't learn higher tiers yet.

All parties were still very cautious about the transmission of unique star patterns and high-tier star patterns!

It should also be to prevent the occurrence of the situation before his eyes.

Old habit, looting the corpse!

The harvest of elixirs was quite a lot. The three people contributed five bottles of Fourth-Mystery Star-Returning Elixir, one bottle plus three pills of One-Qi Star-Returning Elixir, five and a half bottles of top-grade Refreshing Elixir, four bottles of top-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan, and five bottles of ordinary Forge Bu Bu Xing Dan to Xu Jin.

This actually supplemented Xu Jin with a lot of cultivation resources.

Besides that, there were two Moon-Chasing Emblems and seven Primary Star-Healing Emblems.

These Primary Star-Healing Emblems had quite a high value; after returning, he could sell a portion of them.

He also obtained over seventy fourth-tier star jade tablets, six fifth-tier star jade tablets, and over a hundred third-tier star cores.

Xu Jin's heart stirred, and he directly let the Arena convert all the remaining five hundred third-tier star jade tablets on the Arena into star light, and then collected these star jade tablets.

The upper limit for a third-tier Arena to contain star jade tablets, regardless of grade, was one thousand pieces.

Xu Jin didn't know if it was related to the one thousand strands of star light condition for the third-tier Arena upgrade, or other reasons; he could only make a record.

See if this quantity could be increased after upgrading to a fourth-tier Arena in the future.

As for the star cores, they could only be put into the backpack.

When Ji Hongli, Ying Ge, and the other six rushed over, Xu Jin had just stripped off the remaining third-tier supreme star weapons from these three people.

Excluding the destroyed ones, there were still five pieces!

If he took them back, he could also sell them for quite a lot!

These were third-tier supreme star weapons, the kind produced by the Star Palace.

However, they were not easy to carry.

Carrying them on his back was too cumbersome.

"Senior Brother, I'll help you carry them, and give them back to you when we return!" Wang Jiugao took the initiative to step forward and said.

Xu Jin felt happy in his heart; this junior brother was not saved in vain.

And it was also Wang Jiugao's words that woke up Ying Ge and the others who were in shock.

"Senior Brother, did you kill all three of these people?" Ying Ge, Niu Ju, Bu Niuni, and Yin Mingzhang, the four of them, looked at Xu Jin in incomparable astonishment.

On the contrary, Ji Hongli and Wang Jiugao had normal expressions.

They had seen Xu Jin's performance; killing these three people independently shouldn't be Xu Jin's basic operation!

"Otherwise?"

Xu Jin looked at Ying Ge and the others and asked in confusion.

"No... nothing!"

Ying Ge swallowed hard, his face full of astonishment.

Previously, having seen Xu Jin kill an alien at the ninth layer of the Refine Star stage in one move, he only felt that it was Xu Jin's ambush.

An alien at the ninth layer of the Refine Star stage, he could also kill if he ambushed!

But now...

Three genius disciples of the Star Palace, even if he ambushed them, he would be on a dead end!

He was truly convinced!

Suddenly, Ying Ge understood a little why Wang Jiugao called him Senior Brother every time.

Why Ji Hongli, who was stronger than him, also called him Senior Brother every time!

They must have been conquered by Xu Jin's strength!

Xu Jin was still deliberating on how to tell everyone about Zhang Shuo inviting the fourth-tier experts of the entire Prince Prince Zi Yi race to deal with them.

Just as he was deliberating, in the sky in the distance, suddenly there was a sound of muffled thunder.

When everyone looked over, they saw three purple thunder lights constantly exploding in the sky in the distance.

The next instant, the purple thunder lights exploded again, but they were getting closer and closer.

"Prince Prince Zi Yi royal family!"

Ying Ge roared.

"They should be coming for us; it's very likely they discovered us!" After Niu Ju finished speaking, he subconsciously looked at Xu Jin, only then discovering that Ji Hongli, Wang Jiugao, and the others were already looking at Xu Jin, waiting for Xu Jin's instructions.

Xu Jin didn't rush to answer, but fully activated the Mingji star pattern, sensing from afar.

Two breaths later, after the purple thunder lights had exploded four or five more times, Xu Jin already had a sense.

"They are three fourth-tier Condense Star stage experts; they should all be at the early Condense Star stage."

While speaking, Xu Jin turned his head to look at his fellow disciples and said, "If we flee, among us, at most three or four people can escape; those who are slowest will have no chance!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the fellow disciples immediately revealed nervous expressions.

Everyone was afraid that the combat plan Xu Jin set was to flee, which would mean three people would have to be sacrificed!

"Wait quietly. If they are not coming for us, then everything is fine!

If they are coming for us, or have discovered us! Then let's meet them in battle.

The one with the strongest cultivation, leave him to me!

The other two, you six, every three people deal with one, or dragging them for a while is also fine," Xu Jin said.

As soon as these words were spoken, the six were immediately invigorated!

"I'll lead the team with Ying Ge; I, Wang Jiugao, and Niu Ju, the three of us will meet one, and the rest will meet one with Ying Ge. No problem, right?" Ji Hongli changed from her weakness in front of Xu Jin and became capable.

"No problem!"

"Okay, prepare for battle."

Five breaths later, three purple thunder lights exploded instantly in front of everyone; almost the moment they saw them, they charged toward everyone.

Xu Jin could roughly guess that nine times out of ten, this was brought by the fleeing soldiers they had scattered!

The next instant, Xu Jin's Flying Fei Xing Bu exploded, and he soared into the sky instantly, charging toward the strongest fourth-tier Prince Prince Zi Yi royal family member at the third layer of the Condense Star stage!

"Fourth layer of the Refine Star stage, bold enough, leave him to me!"

The leading fourth-tier Prince Prince Zi Yi race member at the third layer of the Condense Star stage laughed loudly, and in an instant, thunder light had already blasted toward Xu Jin, who was meeting him.

Two layers of stacked Rain Curtain Fire Shields met him instantly, and as they shattered one after another, they blocked this strike.

Instantly, Xu Jin's Flying Fei Xing Bu exploded again, fiercely pulling the distance between him and this fourth-tier Prince Prince Zi Yi race member at the third layer of the Condense Star stage to within twenty meters.

Soul fluctuations were activated fiercely!

Xu Jin prepared to blast them with Soul-Breaking; Xu Jin didn't intend to hold back!

But unexpectedly, this fourth-tier Prince Prince Zi Yi alien at the third layer of the Condense Star stage had extremely rich combat experience, and suddenly, he sensed the terrifying soul aura emanating from Xu Jin.

The terrifying degree of this soul aura directly shocked him.

In his memory, even the King of their Prince Prince Zi Yi race, the soul aura he emanated, was not this scary!

Therefore, without hesitation, Thunder Blast!

Avoiding backward in an instant!

This made Xu Jin slightly annoyed.

The distance limit for the soul attack star pattern Soul-Breaking was also quite large.

It was not the kind that could ignore distance.

The distance of soul consciousness projection is the distance of soul attack.

After Forge Star, the distance of soul consciousness projection is two meters, and each layer adds two meters.

Now Xu Jin's soul is at the eighth layer of the Refine Star stage, and the projection distance is eighteen.

This is also the maximum distance for Xu Jin's Soul-Breaking attack, and the optimal attack distance is around ten meters.

Xu Jin originally wanted to close the distance, cast Soul-Breaking, and kill the enemy in one fell swoop; he didn't expect this guy to be so alert!

And this guy was moving away from Xu Jin with all his might right now; looking at the situation, Xu Jin wouldn't be able to catch up in a short time.

Unless he used the Thunder Blast Step!

Seeing this, Xu Jin sneered and used the Thunder Blast Step without hesitation!

Boom!

Xu Jin's figure flashed like a thunder snake and appeared within five meters of this expert at the third layer of the Condense Star stage; as the latter was terrified, the Soul-Breaking attack, which consumed ten percent of Xu Jin's soul power, had already blasted out!

The next instant, this Prince Prince Zi Yi royal family member clutched his head in extreme pain and fell directly from the sky.

Xu Jin caught up, Flame Blast blasted out, directly blasting his head to pieces!

Two breaths later, Xu Jin instantly transferred to the side of the Condense Star stage expert that Ying Ge and the others were besieging; Ying Ge and the three were dealing with it very arduously, and Ying Ge, who was the main combatant, had already vomited blood once.

Soul-Breaking blasted out again!

Flame Blast!

Double kill!

The third Prince Prince Zi Yi race member at the second layer of the Condense Star stage, besieged by Ji Hongli and the three, saw his two companions slaughtered, and in panic, turned to flee, but was entangled by Ji Hongli's Water Snake; the moment his figure stalled, Xu Jin arrived.

Flame Blast!

Triple kill!

Within five breaths, with Xu Jin's help, all three fourth-tier early Condense Star stage experts were killed!

Ying Ge, Niu Ju, and the others, including Wang Jiugao and the others, were shocked again.

These were fourth-tier experts!

How come in Senior Brother's hands, there was a feeling of killing chickens!

Was this too easy?

"Quickly search, we need to move immediately; we can't stay here!"

While Xu Jin was speaking, he began to think about another question: were these three fourth-tier Condense Star stage experts a coincidence?

Or were they sent out by the royal city?

The former was fine!

If it were the latter, it would be too terrifying!

(End of chapter)