Chapter 195: Dongfang Bubai

The moment the Divine Refining Jin Dan entered his abdomen and the medicinal power dissolved, Xu Jin suddenly shivered.

The medicinal power was too concentrated.

When the cool divine soul power dissolved, it was like ice, directly making Xu Jin shiver violently.

At the same instant, Xu Jin's divine soul star in the upper star palace also sensed the incomparably concentrated divine soul power rising, and it instantly spun rapidly.

As if it were a glutton, it swallowed the divine soul power transformed by the Divine Refining Jin Dan in large gulps.

Every layer of the star halo was shining.

The ninth layer star halo's radiance was rapidly solidifying and becoming complete, and Xu Jin's cultivation was also improving rapidly.

Two hundred breaths later, the ninth layer star halo of Xu Jin's divine soul star reached its limit—divine soul ninth layer peak.

Xu Jin knew that the time for his divine soul star to break through to Condense Star had arrived.

With a thought, the divine soul star turned, directly sending the absorbed divine soul power to a corner of Xu Jin's upper star palace. At the same time, Xu Jin's mind triggered this divine soul power and began to engrave star patterns.

The star pattern to be engraved was naturally the 'Clear Soul' star pattern.

After being guided by Old Qi to engrave the Clear Soul star pattern once, Xu Jin could engrave it himself, and the engraving speed would be very fast.

Old Qi had previously told Xu Jin that the Clear Soul star pattern was the foundation of all divine soul stars; even for the second, third, or even fourth or fifth divine soul stars after Condense Star, they all had to be based on the Clear Soul star pattern.

The effect of the Clear Soul star pattern didn't look very obvious on the surface, but a divine soul star based on it was stronger than an ordinary divine soul star, and it had the miraculous effects of accumulating and strengthening the divine soul over time, stabilizing the divine soul, and accelerating the recovery of divine soul power and divine soul injuries.

The most critical point was that the more Clear Soul star patterns there were, the more obvious the effect.

Especially in terms of strengthening divine soul power over time, one Clear Soul star pattern wasn't very obvious, almost imperceptible, but after having two or even three Clear Soul star patterns, this effect would become stronger and stronger, more and more obvious.

Some people in their Lingji Star Hall would even deliberately engrave a few more Clear Soul star patterns for this purpose, hoping to rapidly strengthen their divine soul.

The reason was also very simple: the power of divine soul secret arts was based on divine soul power.

The stronger the divine soul power, the stronger the power of the divine soul secret arts.

So-called "mastering one skill is enough to rule the world."

Instead of learning ten or eight divine soul secret arts that didn't hurt when hitting people, it was better to learn fewer divine soul secret arts, make the divine soul power fierce, and then defeat the enemy with one move.

Xu Jin had remembered this suggestion from Qi Shanye, but Xu Jin hadn't implemented it yet.

Mainly because the improvement of divine soul cultivation was actually very limited.

Many sixth-tier or even seventh-tier experts only had Condense Star early or mid-stage divine soul cultivation.

Late-stage Condense Star was rare.

Because compared to star power, divine soul power improved very slowly, and there were fewer related heavenly treasures and elixirs.

In this situation, divine soul star pattern positions were limited.

So Xu Jin hadn't been in a hurry to engrave a second Clear Soul star pattern.

But now that he was condensing stars, he had to engrave a second Clear Soul star pattern.

Xu Jin's idea was to feel the effect after the second Clear Soul star pattern was successfully engraved, and then consider whether to engrave a third or even a fourth Clear Soul star pattern.

Xu Jin's consistent view had been: trust the teacher, remember the teacher's suggestions, but don't follow the teacher blindly; what suits you is the best.

Thirty breaths later, the second Clear Soul star pattern was hooked by Xu Jin's mind in one stroke. The moment the star pattern was hooked, spiritual light shone, and it instantly began to absorb medicinal power to strengthen itself.

At the same time, Xu Jin began to use the power of the first divine soul star to drive this second Clear Soul star pattern to rotate.

As the Clear Soul star pattern rotated, it absorbed divine soul power faster and faster, and its rotation speed also became faster and faster, just like when Xu Jin first forged stars with his divine soul.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, a ball of light with the Clear Soul star pattern as its core took shape, but this wasn't the end. Xu Jin activated his mind, constantly strengthening and compressing this star core.

This star core also constantly expanded and strengthened.

A quarter of an hour later, this divine soul star core reached the limit that the Clear Soul star pattern could constrain, and the entire Clear Soul star pattern had become the internal skeleton and support of this star core during the constant casting process.

Smooth and round, as if one body.

At the same instant, the first divine soul star, in its high-speed rotation, brought a force field that quickly incorporated the second divine soul star. After a brief adaptation, the two divine soul stars, one strong and one weak, began to rotate at the same frequency.

The divine soul radiance also completely fused into one, shining with star light.

Condense Star successful.

However, the medicinal power of the Divine Refining Jin Dan in his abdomen was still rising.

This made Xu Jin overjoyed.

A three-times-nourished Divine Refining Jin Dan, after helping him condense stars with his divine soul, still had leftovers. He didn't know how long it could strengthen the second divine soul star?

Continue absorbing.

The next instant, the star halo radiance on the second divine soul star began to condense and appear rapidly, and then strengthened.

A quarter of an hour later, the second divine soul star reached the first layer of Refine Star, and subsequently broke through to the second layer.

Half a quarter of an hour later, after the second divine soul star broke through to the mid-stage of the second layer of Refine Star, the medicinal power transformed by this Divine Refining Jin Dan completely disappeared.

A three-times-nourished Divine Refining Jin Dan allowed Xu Jin's divine soul cultivation to break through from the ninth layer of Refine Star to Condense Star, reaching the early stage of Condense Star—to be precise, the early stage of the first layer of Condense Star.

If Xu Jin could condense a third divine soul star, that would be the second layer of Condense Star.

However, when cultivation broke through to the Condense Star Realm, whether it was divine soul cultivation or star power cultivation, the strength within the first layer of Condense Star was also very different.

This strength was actually related to the cultivation rank of the second star.

If this second divine soul star reached the fourth layer of Refine Star, that would be the mid-stage of the first layer of Condense Star.

Cultivation at the mid-stage of the first layer of Condense Star was certainly stronger than the early stage of the first layer of Condense Star.

But combat power was hard to say.

Combat power mainly depended on a person's star arts and star patterns, as well as whether the star arts and star patterns were systematic.

It was no wonder that the higher the cultivation of wandering cultivators, the weaker their combat power in the same realm.

Lacking star patterns, they were almost getting one and poking one, and in the end, they couldn't become systematic, so their combat power was naturally weak.

Looking inward, in Xu Jin's upper star palace, two divine soul stars were rotating, one strong and one weak. As long as Xu Jin moved his mind, he could simultaneously mobilize the divine soul power within the two star cores.

Compared to before the breakthrough, Xu Jin's divine soul power had improved by about 30% to 40%.

Xu Jin tried the 'Break Evil Arrow,' and suddenly he was surprised and delighted to find that the power of the Break Evil Arrow had directly surged by half.

Looking inward, Xu Jin discovered the root cause.

Previously, when Xu Jin used the divine soul secret art 'Break Evil Arrow,' only the first divine soul star provided divine soul power for the attack.

But when he condensed stars, the second divine soul star also participated in the energy supply.

With the same mobilization time, the power increase of the Break Evil Arrow was bound to be significant.

This discovery gave Xu Jin food for thought.

This should be the reason why many experts only cultivated one or two types of star power.

The more one cultivated, the weaker the combat power would be in the later stages.

Then, according to this characteristic, Xu Jin's own cultivation plan also needed to be readjusted.

Once this thought arose, Xu Jin simply decided to go all the way and took out the Divine Refining Jin Dan he had obtained in the Purple Wind star region.

This Divine Refining Jin Dan was seized from Lord Zi Yang, a seventh-layer Condense Star expert from the third-tier Purple Wind star region; it was bought by Tian Lie, a genius disciple of the Tianyang Star Hall, to bribe Lord Zi Yang, and finally fell into Xu Jin's hands. When he got it, Xu Jin threw it into the Arena for nourishment.

Now it had just been nourished three times.

Go all the way, take it together now.

Previously, Xu Jin was still thinking, since the Arena was now at the fourth tier, was it possible for the elixir to be nourished four times?

This possibility existed, but it needed testing.

Previously, nourishing an elixir three times took thirteen days, and from two times to three times took nine days. According to this time rule, if an elixir could be nourished four times, then the time required for four times might be about a month.

A bit long.

Future things are not as good as present ones.

Especially after encountering the assassination, Xu Jin felt that no amount of paper strength was as good as real strength; it was critical at key moments.

It had been nourished three times, so use it first to improve strength.

If it was tested that the elixir could truly be nourished four times, then with Xu Jin's current resources, obtaining a Divine Refining Jin Dan wouldn't be difficult, and the effect of taking it after nourishing it four times wouldn't be too bad.

The next instant, another three-times-nourished Divine Refining Jin Dan entered his mouth, and instantly, a cool aura shot straight into his brain, and Xu Jin's divine soul star strengthened rapidly again.

A quarter of an hour later, the second divine soul star in Xu Jin's upper star palace reached the peak of the third layer of Refine Star.

Another quarter of an hour later, it reached the peak of the fourth layer of Refine Star.

However, the medicinal power of this second Divine Refining Jin Dan allowed Xu Jin's second divine soul star to break through to the fifth layer of Refine Star, and after reaching the mid-stage of the fifth layer of Refine Star, the medicinal power was completely consumed.

Improved by three layers of divine soul power.

It also successfully allowed Xu Jin's divine soul cultivation to reach the mid-stage of the first layer of Condense Star.

Trying it again, the power of the Break Evil Arrow improved again; compared to before, the improvement was more than 80%.

This made Xu Jin full of confidence.

He felt that the possibility of plucking a Brilliant Star had improved once again.

Up to this point, the most precious elixirs Xu Jin had in his hands for improving divine soul power were considered used up.

There were still nineteen Dragon Turtle Forging Soul Elixirs left; Xu Jin planned to nourish them three times before taking them. He didn't know if they could allow Xu Jin's divine soul cultivation to break through to the second layer of Condense Star?

Of course, he still had to leave a few for Ning Yuchan.

Up to this point, there were eight empty star pattern positions on Xu Jin's divine soul star core.

Xu Jin's first divine soul star core had a total of ten star pattern positions, and currently, he had engraved six star patterns: Clear Soul, Return Hidden, Conceal Image, Warm Dream, Suppress Intent, and Break Evil, leaving four empty spots. The second divine soul star core currently had five star pattern positions, and he had only engraved one Clear Soul, also leaving four spots.

The star pattern positions on the second divine soul star core had to be systematic and complete divine soul star patterns, so he had to be extremely cautious.

However, Xu Jin could start engraving the four star pattern positions on the first divine soul star.

With the second divine soul star as the main combat foundation, the star patterns of the first divine soul star core could focus on being practical.

After thinking, Xu Jin took out the divine soul inheritance jade slip of the Lingji Star Hall given to him by Old Qi.

Inputting star power and divine soul power, the light flowed, and in an instant, he broke the seal left by Old Qi, and the introductions to three star patterns appeared before Xu Jin.

These three divine soul star patterns were 'Illusion Intent,' 'Control Object,' and 'Fear.'

Illusion Intent star pattern, fourth-tier upper, could pull the target into an illusion through divine soul attack, and simultaneously cooperate with Star Mist to create illusions; it was also one of the component star patterns of the Clone Art.

Fear, fifth-tier lower, a divine soul attack star pattern, could be used for group or single-target attacks, could create fear in the target, evoke the most fearful emotions deep in the target's heart, amplify them, and constantly amplify them, thereby interfering with the target to the extreme and creating combat opportunities.

These two star patterns were considered standard, both within Xu Jin's expectations.

From the introduction, it could be seen that these two star patterns were not very strong in single-target effect, but if they cooperated with other star patterns, it would be different.

Xu Jin first thought of the cooperation between Break Evil and Fear, which would certainly be able to strengthen the power of the Break Evil Arrow.

After this star pattern was successfully engraved, during the next Arena deduction, Xu Jin might be able to try evolving divine soul star arts.

But what surprised Xu Jin the most was the Control Object star pattern, especially the Lingji Star Hall's introduction to the Control Object star pattern.

Control Object: fifth-tier upper star pattern, the effect is extremely sharp; it was once the most important basic star pattern of the Control Object faction of the Lingji Star Hall, and at the same time, it was also one of the basic combination star patterns for spatial shifting.

From this introduction, it was very important.

But this mention of the Lingji Star Hall's Control Object faction made Xu Jin feel it was very interesting.

Control Object faction?

Sword Control?

Could the Lingji Star Hall have Sword Control practitioners?

Xu Jin thought about it, and the more he thought, the more he felt there was such a possibility.

Star artifacts.

Star artifacts—good star artifacts could be large or small.

Like the fourth-tier star artifact 'Step Star Boots' Xu Jin was wearing now, it could change size and automatically fit the feet; large feet or small feet could wear it.

Then if he got a sword-shaped star artifact?

Could he fulfill Xu Jin's dream of flying with a sword?

It was entirely possible!

As for the related star art combinations, others wouldn't dare to try.

But Xu Jin dared.

It wasn't recklessness, but Xu Jin had the Star Lamp Evolution.

As long as he used Control Object as a foundation and evolved it by combining it with other star patterns, perhaps he could really make it.

At worst, Gold Stars could also derive Dao.

If it really didn't work, controlling an embroidery needle, the power would also be very terrifying.

Ghostly and unpredictable, killing the enemy invisibly.

Then what would that count as?

An otherworld version of Dongfang Bubai?

However, the good thing should be that there was no need for self-castration.

If he really made it, it would also be quite good.

In an instant, Xu Jin was full of interest.

Decided, for the next few days, Xu Jin would focus on these three star patterns in the star lamp.

First, get these three divine soul star patterns out and engrave them onto the first divine soul star.

The star pattern position of the second divine soul star couldn't be moved lightly yet.

Having made the decision, Xu Jin slowly stood up and stretched comfortably!

A night full of harvest.

Suddenly, Xu Jin saw the small cowhide bag he had picked up when he was assassinated that day.

Inside was a jade tablet.

Xu Jin hadn't looked at it, fearing it would be tracked, so he directly put it in the Arena for storage.

At this moment, his divine soul cultivation had greatly improved, so he should be able to look at it.

The next instant, Xu Jin took out this captured jade tablet, activated the Suppress Intent star pattern, and his mind surged in!

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