Chapter 236

"Lord Lingji remnant!

Such a coincidence?"

Watching Hu Zhen's soul thoroughly dissipate, the Third Elder of the Lord Tianyang Star Palace turned his head suddenly, staring fixedly at the laughing Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao, his eyes wanting to spray fire.

This was the last step, and the matter was already done, yet it was killed by a Lord Lingji remnant who suddenly appeared and was skilled in purple thunder.

This is simply...

The Lord Tianyang Star Palace, even the Tianyang Xingjun had been dispatched!

"What are you looking at me for? A Lord Lingji remnant did it, what does it have to do with me!"

Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao's mood was incomparably happy at this time; he also never expected that a Lord Lingji remnant would appear!

It just so happened that among the experts Qin Da brought, there was one with a fast mouth.

He defined it in one bite!

Otherwise, even if this Lord Lingji remnant displayed the signature ability of the Lord Lingji Star Palace, wanting to define it as a Lord Lingji remnant would have required some tongue.

Qin Da obviously realized this point too, glaring hatefully at the seventh-tier expert who had just spoken fast.

Then he ordered, "Search!"

"Search in all directions!"

"That thief just emitted the aura of a Condense Star early stage, and used the Chaotic Star Secret Art when fleeing! With that thief's cultivation, he definitely couldn't have cast the Chaotic Star Secret Art; it's nine out of ten that it was a star artifact or an emblem.

Using a star artifact or emblem, the distance of the Chaotic Star Secret Art is generally around a hundred miles.

Search in all directions for me!

Capture any suspicious person alive!

Those who resist after being warned, kill!"

Following Qin Da's order, the dozens of experts from the Lord Tianyang Star Palace and the six Hu family members brought by Hu Hu Jinshan instantly scattered into starlight, shooting in all directions.

"Grand Master, a Lord Lingji remnant has appeared within Da Chen's borders; according to the agreement between our two families, if a Lord Lingji remnant appears, your Da Chen must fully cooperate in the encirclement and suppression; I ask the Grand Master to also send people to search for this Lord Lingji remnant in all directions!" Qin Da thought for a moment and directly requested Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao's assistance.

This is the agreement between Da Chen and the Lord Tianyang Star Palace and the Cangming Star Palace.

It is a principled bottom line.

He assumed Cheng Cheng Yuexiao wouldn't dare not to cooperate!

But what surprised Qin Da was that Cheng Cheng Yuexiao was very cooperative.

Almost the instant he opened his mouth to request it, Cheng Cheng Yuexiao ordered, "Did you hear that? The Third Elder of the Lord Tianyang Star Palace orders you to assist in searching for the Lord Lingji remnant just now.

You must cooperate immediately, divide into several teams, cooperate with the experts of the Lord Tianyang Star Palace, and search in all directions; you must not let go of any suspicious personnel, but you must not kill wandering cultivators indiscriminately!"

"Yes!"

With an order, over a thousand Da Chen elites scattered in all directions instantly.

At the same instant, Cheng Cheng Yuexiao privately transmitted to Meng Meng Yanhui and Peng Lao.

"Meng Yanhui, you and Peng Lao go over and keep an eye on things, act according to the situation."

These two were Cheng Cheng Yuexiao's confidants; they understood Cheng Cheng Yuexiao's meaning in seconds, and instantly turned into starlight and scattered in all directions.

Cheng Cheng Yuexiao himself looked into the distance in all directions, wanting to see if there were any anomalies.

If this Lord Lingji remnant was really discovered, he would have to make some mistakes and commit some low-level errors.

And at this very moment, Qin Da suddenly reacted.

This isn't right!

At this moment, the group of Da Chen elite experts were too grateful to this Lord Lingji remnant to even think about it; how could they sincerely encircle and suppress this Lord Lingji remnant!

Letting them search, nine out of ten they would release water!

This...

Qin Da felt like he had lifted a rock only to drop it on his own feet.

The next instant, Qin Da rushed into the sky, also wanting to participate in the search.

And the moment Qin Da rose into the sky, Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao was somewhat distracted looking at a meteor-like starlight in the sky.

This starlight appeared extremely abruptly.

It appeared suddenly a hundred miles away.

Then the starlight rose and actually shot toward the direction of Taohua Prefecture.

This starlight was somewhat strange.

Qin Da rose into the sky a bit late and didn't notice this starlight.

When Qin Da rose into the sky, he only saw a stream of starlight falling into the direction of Taohua Prefecture.

He didn't pay attention.

Today's matter was so big; at this moment, the sky was like a meteor shower, with streams of starlight coming and going, just a fifth-tier expert rushing toward the direction of Taohua Prefecture, it wasn't strange!

However, Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao, who had seen the complete rise and fall of this starlight, began to mutter in his heart.

Because this starlight escaped too fast.

In the blink of an eye, it crossed a distance of nearly two hundred miles and fell into Taohua Prefecture.

It only took two breaths from rising from the ground to falling into Taohua Prefecture.

Crossing a distance of nearly two hundred miles in two breaths, even he, this eighth-tier expert, couldn't do it.

Unless it was an expert proficient in space star arts, it would be possible.

But if it were a space star art, it should be flickering, not a flowing starlight.

Combining the rise and fall of this starlight, the direction, the landing point, and the extraordinary speed, Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao suddenly confirmed one thing.

Star Dome Shelter!

Nothing else, just that before setting off, Xu Jin had pushed the Shooting Star Star Pattern to Sixth Tier High-Grade, which directly increased Xu Jin's speed by twenty percent.

And before this, relying on the Sixth Tier Low-Grade Shooting Star Star Pattern and the Thunder Wings, plus the Fourth Tier Star Artifact, his speed was already about the same as a mid-Fifth Tier Gather Battle powerhouse.

With his speed increased by another twenty percent at this time, he should be able to be faster than those Fifth Tier peak powerhouses who weren't proficient in speed.

At the very worst, being on par was also possible.

But... what if!

In an instant, Xu Jin put escape last.

Before running for his life, he still had to make an effort.

Especially since this opportunity was rare—this Fifth Tier powerhouse who was chasing him must also be proficient in tracking and hiding, and shouldn't know that Xu Jin had discovered him.

Because at this very moment, this person was still approaching Xu Jin at an extremely slow speed.

This was a battle opportunity!

The next instant, Xu Jin's mind sank into the Arena, preparing his killing move!

For example, the Da Chen Zhaixing Tower main building, all applied to the main will of the Zhaixing Tower for approval, and only after providing massive resources were they bestowed.

He had truly caught up!

Tracking that single fleeing aura, in essence, was just him wanting to gamble on his luck and pick up a leak.

If it succeeded.

Then it was picking up a big leak, having great luck.

If it didn't, then it was just a night tour, and there was no loss, it didn't matter.

But he didn't expect that by tracking this third aura sneaking along the ground, he had truly caught the target.

This made him overjoyed.

Today's luck was truly exploding!

If the Star Tower branch was truly on this third person, then his world-defying merit would be set.

Taking a step back, even if the Star Tower branch wasn't on this third person, catching a Lord Lingji remnant was, at the very least, a great merit!

A profitable business with no loss!

However, Cha Wei also knew that caution is the parent of safety.

A frontal kill is not as satisfying as a sneak attack and capture!

So, he was still cautiously approaching.

He was getting closer and closer.

He was already approaching within a hundred-meter range.

At the same time, Cha Wei also sensed the true cultivation aura of this Lord Lingji remnant.

Refine Star, Ninth Layer!

After sensing it clearly, Cha Wei was slightly disappointed; with this cultivation, the Star Tower branch was highly unlikely to be on him.

However, even with such cultivation, as long as it was a Lord Lingji remnant, capturing him alive and handing him over would also be a great merit.

Not a loss!

The only thing that worried Cha Wei was, what was this Lord Lingji remnant doing here in the middle of the night?

Was he waiting for reinforcements or meeting up with other Lord Lingji remnants?

Thinking of this, Cha Wei's greed flared up again. He had to get closer!

Then he would be able to take down this Lord Lingji remnant without making a sound!

Even if other Lord Lingji remnants came over to meet up in the distance, they wouldn't be alerted.

Under cover, he might even be able to catch another Lord Lingji remnant!

Capturing one ordinary Lord Lingji remnant alive is a great merit, but capturing two is an extraordinary merit!

An extraordinary merit, which wasn't easy to obtain even on the Star River Battlefield.

Cautiously, Cha Wei approached slowly.

But at the very next instant, extremely abruptly, the Lord Lingji remnant fifty meters ahead flashed, and the moment Cha Wei realized something was wrong, a massive soul fluctuation instantly rose.

Soul Star Technique: Startling Dream!

Cha Wei was hit squarely.

Cha Wei's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose sprayed blood simultaneously, his eyes bulging, but he instantly fell into confusion; this was the effect of Warm Dream. The next instant, Cha Wei's expression became extremely terrified, but he had no movement.

This was the effect of Illusion and Fear.

He was hard-controlled by Xu Jin.

Although Cha Wei was a Fifth Tier Gather Battle peak powerhouse, his soul cultivation was only at Refine Star, Seventh Layer.

Almost the moment he was hard-controlled, Xu Jin's mind sank into the Arena, instantly detonating that Sixth Tier Mid-Grade Wind Spirit Star Core. The next instant, violent cyan starlight rushed out from Xu Jin's palm, blasting directly at Cha Wei!

It hit squarely!

What was even more coincidental was that Cha Wei, because he wanted to sneak, because he wanted to hide his aura, hadn't put up his protective star light. Just as he realized something was wrong and wanted to put up his protective star light, he had already been hard-controlled by Xu Jin and interrupted.

At this moment, he was hit by the full-power blow erupted by Xu Jin using a Sixth Tier Mid-Grade Star Core without any defense.

The terrifying cyan starlight tore Cha Wei's protective star armor to shreds; a Fourth Tier star artifact flashed with star light, rushing out and appearing above Cha Wei's head, wanting to protect its master spontaneously, but without anyone operating it, its power was greatly reduced.

Xu Jin, who rushed over, blasted it with a Flame Explosion, directly shattering the spiritual light of this Fourth Tier star artifact before it could even unfold, blasting it back into his body.

At the same instant, the cyan starlight erupted from the Sixth Tier Mid-Grade Star Core blasted a huge hole directly into Cha Wei's chest; the heavy injury also directly caused Cha Wei to wake up from the Startling Dream, instantly letting out a terrified scream.

At this time, blasting Startling Dream again wasn't realistic; it wasn't of much use.

But a strong soul fluctuation rose again, and Break-Evil plus Fear blasted into Cha Wei's upper Star Palace again, causing Cha Wei's head to ache violently, and the moment blood sprayed from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose again, the protective star light he had just put up vanished again!

His expression was already terrified to the extreme!

His fighting spirit also collapsed completely at this instant!

He wanted to escape!

He wanted to escape, he didn't want to fight anymore!

However, Xu Jin wouldn't give him any chance to escape.

He didn't know when this guy had chased him from, and he might have seen something, so he couldn't leave a living mouth.

Almost the moment the soul attack blasted out, another Fifth Tier High-Grade Earth-type Star Core was detonated by Xu Jin, and at close range, it was directly thrust by Xu Jin into the huge wound in Cha Wei's chest.

In an instant, Cha Wei's upper body was blasted into a mess, with blood and internal organs spraying wildly.

But even so, the terrified Cha Wei still wanted to escape.

Subconsciously turning to escape for his life.

He never expected that he would provoke such a terrifying monster!

A Lord Lingji remnant disguised as Refine Star, Ninth Layer!

Damn it, why harm people like this!

But the moment Cha Wei turned to escape, his whole body had already fallen headlong from low altitude.

With such heavy injuries, it was only because he was a Fifth Tier peak expert; if it were anyone else, they would have died long ago.

Xu Jin didn't dare to have any relaxation.

He rushed over like lightning, blasting continuously with Purple Thunder, directly blasting Cha Wei's head into charcoal, and only then did Xu Jin breathe a sigh of relief!

Executed!

Fortunately, he had previously bought a Sixth Tier Mid-Grade Star Core, which could be detonated by the Arena to erupt with a full-power blow from its lifetime.

Theoretically speaking, it counted as a Sixth Tier Mid-Grade attack emblem, but the real lethality might be a bit worse than an emblem, but it was a Sixth Tier attack after all!

Otherwise, if Xu Jin wanted to execute Cha Wei, it would probably be very troublesome!

Xu Jin quickly searched the corpse, but immediately frowned!

The previous attacks were all aimed at the chest and abdomen of this person, and the full-power blow erupted by the Sixth Tier Mid-Grade Star Core had actually destroyed that Fourth Tier star artifact as well!

That was truly bad luck!

He didn't find anything!

Suddenly, Xu Jin saw a cloth bag hanging from the corpse's waist and was instantly overjoyed.

There should be a harvest here.

Opening it, he was instantly stunned.

Stinky!

Such a pungent smell.

The smell of urine!

Why would a Fifth Tier powerhouse carry three bags of soil with urine?

Xu Jin subconsciously wanted to throw it away.

But just as he was about to throw it, he suddenly froze; he realized!

It seemed he understood a bit about how he had been exposed and how this person had quietly tracked him.

In an instant, he switched to the Third Tier High-Grade Snake Spirit and instantly activated the Spirit-Scent Star Pattern.

Just by sniffing slightly, Xu Jin confirmed it.

It really was!

One of the bags of soil carried a strong personal scent of Xu Jin!

And some of the smells in it, if distinguished carefully with Spirit-Scent, could also be found on Xu Jin!

This taught Xu Jin another lesson.

In the future, when traveling abroad, he had to pay attention to this aspect.

Otherwise, if he encountered a tracking expert, it would be easy for people to tail him!

Today, it was only because Xu Jin had the Bright-Era Star Pattern; otherwise, he absolutely wouldn't have discovered this tracker. If he, a Refine Star, Ninth Layer, even with many life-saving treasures, had been sneak-attacked by a Fifth Tier peak powerhouse with a ruthless blow...

It wouldn't have killed him, but it would absolutely have cost Xu Jin half his life!

This Bright-Era Star Pattern truly had infinite wonderful uses.

In the future, when he had the chance, he still had to strengthen it.

The next instant, Xu Jin checked the corpse one last time and didn't find anything about his identity or origin, but he did find a Star Token soaked in blood.

At this very moment, this person's Star Token was flashing continuously, and it was flashing very urgently; it looked like there was some matter of extreme urgency.

On the back of the Star Token were the two characters "Cangming"; it was a Second Tier Star Token!

From the Cangming Star Palace, being able to possess a Second Tier Star Token.

Inferring from this, this tracker's status wasn't low.

There wouldn't be other people, right?

Thinking of this, Xu Jin's heart jumped, and he directly blasted it with a Flame Explosion to destroy the corpse and remove the evidence, then swept out with Thunder-type Star Power to clear his aura as much as possible, while burning the three clumps of soil with strong personal scent with Star Fire, only then preparing to leave rapidly.

But just as Xu Jin was about to leave, the starlight that exploded in the direction of Shi Long County in the distance lit up half the night sky again.

In just a single moment, the night sky in the direction of Shi Long County was lit up several times in succession, constantly brightening and dimming, as if it were daylight!

This made Xu Jin even more suspicious, and even more worried!

What exactly happened in the direction of Shi Long County?

Suddenly, Xu Jin saw streaks of light soaring into the sky in the night sky, rushing toward the direction of Shi Long County from different directions.

Looking at that starlight, large and small, strong and weak, there were over a hundred streaks.

Especially from the direction of Taohua Prefecture, Songzhou, more streaks of light rose.

The first wave of light had only over ten streaks.

But the second wave that rose and flew toward Shi Long County had over a hundred!

"So many people went over?"

This made Xu Jin's heart move.

Many people.

He could fish in troubled waters!

Many people, chaotic aura, chaotic scene; if he rushed over, the danger wouldn't be great!

The next instant, Xu Jin turned his direction and turned toward the direction of Shi Long County, Taohua Prefecture, Songzhou.

With such a big commotion there, if he didn't go and see it with his own eyes, Xu Jin wouldn't be at ease!

And that place wasn't too far from Xu Jin's location.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 234 =====

The Qian'an Emperor frowned, "Then tell me, what other methods, or what kind of heavenly treasures, can help you break through to the eighth tier early?"

"Your Majesty, currently known, there is only that method from before..." Chief Steward Chu said with lowered brows.

(End of chapter)