Chapter 262: Sixth Tier

Compared to the Third-Tier star domains, the Fire Spirit clan of the Fourth-Tier star domain had already begun to transition from a tribal form toward that of a nation.

Xu Jin found the Fire Spirit clan's national treasury with ease.

Even in the midst of chaos, the Fire Spirit clan's power-holders had still managed to dispatch men to seal the treasury located within the Fire Spirit Wang Gong at the first opportunity.

In normal times, if Xu Jin dared to launch a frontal assault on the Fire Spirit clan's treasury, he would be making an enemy of the entire Fire Spirit clan's experts.

But now, the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan's massive army was pressing down on the city from the outside, the star power fluctuations were incomparably chaotic, and inside the city, the new Fire Lei Lingwang was dead, the Fire Spirit clan was leaderless, and the Fire Spirit tribesmen were in a state of panic.

As a result, Xu Jin directly took action and wiped out all two hundred Fire Spirit guards protecting the treasury without anyone noticing.

Of the two hundred guards, two hundred were Third-Tier, and there were five Fourth-Tier elites, but not a single Fifth-Tier expert.

Therefore, Xu Jin killed them with extreme ease.

These Fire Spirit guards couldn't even manage to send a signal.

When he violently blasted open the treasury and rushed inside, Xu Jin's gaze faltered for a moment.

Because compared to the Third-Tier star domains, the Fourth-Tier star domain was simply too wealthy.

Inside the vast treasury, star jade tablets of different colors were piled up like small hills, along with mountains of refined iron, refined copper, star-fallen iron, gold, and quite a few other metals Xu Jin did not recognize.

One must know that prior to this, in the Second-Tier and Third-Tier star domains Xu Jin had raided, most of the various heaven-and-earth treasures that could be used for forging weapons existed in the form of raw ore.

Raw ore had a massive volume.

Xu Jin couldn't even take it back if he wanted to.

But the forging materials here in the Fire Spirit clan were actually all refined.

Thinking about it, it made sense; the Fire Spirit clan excelled in fire-type star arts and knew how to refine various heaven-and-earth treasures, so it was only natural.

Without further ado, Xu Jin did not stand on ceremony.

He directly activated the Arena Platform to absorb them.

Within a few breaths, the requirements for Xu Jin's Fourth-Tier Arena Platform to ascend to a Fifth-Tier Arena Platform—ten thousand catties of refined iron, one thousand catties of refined copper, one thousand catties of gold, ten thousand catties of silver, and ten catties of star-fallen iron—were all absorbed and fulfilled.

Among these, refined iron, refined copper, and star-fallen iron were all military-controlled materials; although it wouldn't be difficult for Xu Jin to obtain them with his ability, it would still be quite troublesome to get them in large quantities.

At this moment, he had gathered them all at once.

It was a pity that the Arena Platform could not carry more of these things.

Otherwise, he could have made a small fortune.

But Xu Jin immediately moved a large amount of star-fallen iron into his Sumeru space.

Xu Jin's Sumeru space was about seven cubic meters.

Xu Jin loaded all the star-fallen iron from the treasury inside, and it only occupied half the space, about forty to fifty thousand catties or so; he then loaded a portion of the refined copper, leaving two cubic meters of space, and only then did he stop.

At this moment, Xu Jin felt again that his Sumeru space was too small; when he had time, he still had to work hard to expand it.

Unfortunately, this Sumeru space was a matter of slow, grinding effort; the larger it got, the slower the expansion speed became.

He could only accumulate it slowly.

Afterward, it was time to collect the star jade tablets.

There were actually star jade tablets here that were purely fire-attributed.

These fire-attributed star jade tablets were even more powerful when used to craft fire-type emblems.

However, Xu Jin did not intend to keep the Third-Tier ones.

He converted them all into star light for the Arena Platform.

Absorbing ten thousand Third-Tier star jade tablets at once, Xu Jin performed the absorption twelve and a half times before he had cleared out all the Third-Tier star jade tablets in the treasury.

They were all converted into Fourth-Tier star light.

He converted a little over five thousand strands, averaging over twenty Third-Tier star jade tablets converted into one strand of Fourth-Tier star light.

At this point, the total quantity of star light in Xu Jin's Fourth-Tier Arena Platform was approaching nine thousand strands.

It was still one thousand strands short of the ascension condition.

But Xu Jin was not in a hurry, because there were still a large number of Fourth-Tier star jade tablets left to collect.

It was evident that the main output of the Fourth-Tier Fire Cloud star domain was still Third-Tier and Fourth-Tier star jade tablets; the production of Fifth-Tier star jade tablets was still very scarce, though much more than in the Third-Tier star domains.

Xu Jin collected a total of over seven thousand Fourth-Tier star jade tablets, among which over two thousand were fire-attributed.

Xu Jin kept one thousand non-attributed Fourth-Tier star jade tablets and two thousand fire-attributed Fourth-Tier star jade tablets, and converted all the others into Arena Platform star light.

The star light of the Arena Platform reached over thirteen thousand strands in an instant.

By then, even if ten thousand strands of star light were deducted when ascending to the Fifth-Tier Arena Platform, Xu Jin would still have over three thousand strands of star light left.

He had suddenly become wealthy.

There were over two hundred and seventy Fifth-Tier star jade tablets, all of which Xu Jin collected.

Previously in the Third-Tier star domains, collecting Fifth-Tier star jade tablets was done a few at a time; occasionally collecting a dozen or so was a surprise.

At this moment, he had over two hundred at once.

The total quantity of Fifth-Tier star jade tablets in Xu Jin's hands had broken the four-hundred mark.

This was a massive amount of wealth.

Even for the Great Chen Guo Academy, the external purchase price for a single Fifth-Tier star jade tablet started at a minimum of eight thousand Dao merits.

On the black market, the price was even higher.

This was hard currency, second only to the star light from the Star-Plucking Tower.

Throughout the entire process of Xu Jin's looting, not a single Fire Spirit tribesman came in to disturb him.

Xu Jin finished looting leisurely, only then exited the treasury, and came to a high point in Fire Cloud City while remaining invisible.

Xu Jin's previous idea was very simple: fish in troubled waters.

If the King of the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan appeared, Xu Jin would take advantage of the chaos to wipe him out.

The King of the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan definitely cultivated wind-type star arts as his primary focus, so compared to when Xu Jin beheaded the Fire Lei Lingwang, the difficulty would be significantly reduced.

Moreover, Xu Jin's combat power at this moment had seen no small improvement compared to when he beheaded the Fire Lei Lingwang.

Therefore, Xu Jin felt he had a high degree of certainty.

But what surprised Xu Jin was that among the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail alien army attacking Fire Spirit City, he actually did not discover the trace of the Leopard-Tail King.

The commander of the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan was a Fifth-Tier Gather Battle Eighth-Layer alien, carrying a large bow on his back; he was exceptionally fierce and could shoot and kill Fourth-Tier elites of the Fire Spirit clan from an ultra-long distance.

The Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan had a total of two Fifth-Tier Eighth-Layer, four Fifth-Tier Seventh-Layer, and over a dozen Fifth-Tier mid-stage experts attacking.

Originally, the Fire Spirit clan was not weak either.

But the Fire Spirit clan's King, as well as their left and right Grand Commanders, had all been finished off by Xu Jin.

With no one to deal with the experts, they had already fallen into a disadvantage.

It was estimated that they would not be able to hold on for long before Fire Spirit City was breached.

After hesitating for a few breaths, Xu Jin did not take action against the commander of the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan, but instead left silently and headed straight to slaughter his way toward the Leopard-Tail clan's Wang Cheng—Wind Spirit City.

It was about three thousand li away from here.

An ordinary Fourth-Tier cultivator would need two or three hours.

Now, Xu Jin could fly by stepping on stars and arrive in a little over half an hour.

Xu Jin intended to pounce directly on Wind Spirit Wang Cheng.

He wanted to see what the situation was with the so-called expert hidden behind the Leopard-Tail clan that the Fire Lei Lingwang had mentioned.

Besides this, a plan faintly emerged in Xu Jin's mind.

But to successfully execute it specifically, he still had to clearly understand the situation of the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan.

Half an hour later, when Xu Jin saw the cyan Wind Spirit Wang Cheng from afar, he casually drew two strands of star light from the Arena Platform to replenish his star power, and then sneaked into Wind Spirit Wang Cheng while remaining invisible.

This was the mindset after becoming wealthy.

Previously, when Xu Jin had some consumption, he mainly used Wen Meng to recover.

Now, he directly activated the Arena Platform's star light to recover.

Of course, if the divine soul power was consumed too much, the most convenient way to recover was still to activate Wen Meng and then sleep to recover.

Because the entire army had been dispatched, the Leopard-Tail clan's Wind Spirit Wang Cheng had long since entered a state of martial law.

But at the same time, also because the entire army had been dispatched, the martial-law-enforced Wind Spirit Wang Cheng appeared relatively empty.

There were only a hundred or so Fourth-Tier elites guarding the city walls.

And as for Fifth-Tier Gather Battle experts, before Xu Jin sneaked into the Wang Gong of Wind Spirit City, he had only discovered two.

This was simply much better than the situation in Fire Spirit City earlier.

Besides this, the entire Wind Spirit City also appeared very quiet.

Even though it was broad daylight!

This made Xu Jin somewhat surprised.

This was too quiet, right?

Even if the army went on an expedition, it was impossible to take away the ordinary tribesmen, right?

The next instant, Xu Jin, who was sneaking, suddenly paused his footsteps; arriving at the center of Wind Spirit City, a huge divine statue suddenly appeared, almost startling Xu Jin so much that he fell out of his invisibility.

With just one glance, Xu Jin had a judgment.

It was the Star-Battle True God divine statue of the Worship-Battle Divine Sect.

The divine statue's face was void, and the divine statue's whole body was wreathed in star light.

If one didn't pay attention, one wouldn't discover anything.

But if one paid attention to the divine statue and used divine sense to sense the divine statue, one would sense a pressure like awe-inspiring divine might.

A few months ago, when rescuing Jiang Er on Autumn Leaf Island, Xu Jin had already seen it.

But what shocked Xu Jin even more were the believers.

The Star-Battle True God divine statue on Autumn Leaf Island had only abducted one or two thousand believers.

And at this very moment, a dense crowd of the Leopard-Tail clan were all kneeling in all directions of the Star-Battle True God divine statue, silently praying.

There were both old and young. Looking at the number of people, there were at least forty or fifty thousand.

How much pure divine soul power must this accumulate?

This was Xu Jin's first thought.

The second thought was that he had struck it rich!

He had stumbled upon it.

Just like the Spirit Discipline Star Palace twenty years ago, once news of the Worship-Battle Divine Sect was discovered, it was more exciting than the New Year.

It was just that Xu Jin didn't expect that the Worship-Battle Divine Sect had actually come into the star domain to develop.

But thinking about it from another angle, these star domains were simply heaven for the Worship-Battle Divine Sect and the Blood God Sect.

In the current world, various countries suppressed the Worship-Battle Divine Sect and the Blood God Sect extremely severely, so they had to be sneaky.

But if they were in these star domains, as long as they had the idea of becoming kings and hegemons, this would become a very official matter.

They could openly play with these things.

Then, within the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan, who was the outsider?

Or were they controlled?

Xu Jin took a look at the dense, quiet scene of divine worship, and then walked toward the Wang Gong of Wind Spirit City while remaining invisible.

And even the guards at the gate of the Wang Gong were at this time devoutly kneeling and bowing toward the direction of the Star-Battle True God, and they couldn't discover Xu Jin at all.

Of course, even if they were guarding with full concentration, they still couldn't discover Xu Jin.

The Bright Discipline Star Pattern turned slightly, and Xu Jin discovered that inside the Wang Gong of Wind Spirit City, there were five Fifth-Tier aliens and about a hundred Fourth-Tier aliens.

There was an aura of a Fifth-Tier Ninth-Layer peak, which was very obvious.

That should be the aura of the Leopard-Tail King.

Xu Jin sneaked all the way over and discovered that all the guards in the entire Wang Gong, regardless of distance, were at this time kneeling and bowing toward the direction of the Star-Battle True God.

Leopard-Tail Queen?

In front of a large hall in the Wang Gong, a Leopard-Tail woman exuding wild beauty, including the other four Fifth-Tier aliens, were all kneeling and praying toward the direction of the Star-Battle True God.

A question suddenly emerged in Xu Jin's mind.

Even the Leopard-Tail Queen was a believer, so who had transmitted the Worship-Battle Divine Sect?

Suddenly, Xu Jin remembered that sentence from the Fire Lei Lingwang: the expert hidden behind the Wind Spirit Leopard-Tail clan!

That meant there was an outsider.

Where was this outsider?

Xu Jin carefully searched the Wang Gong of Wind Spirit City, and apart from the experts of the Leopard-Tail clan, he didn't discover any other outsider.

Suddenly, Xu Jin knew where the expert in the Fire Lei Lingwang's mouth was hidden!

The divine statue.

It should be hidden within the star light under the Star-Battle True God divine statue.

Only in that place could Xu Jin's Bright Discipline Star Pattern not sense it.

"That?"

An expert who could make even the Fifth-Tier Ninth-Layer peak Leopard-Tail Queen of the Leopard-Tail clan submit, at least in terms of strength, should be able to suppress this Fifth-Tier Leopard-Tail Queen, right?

"Then..."

After pondering for a few breaths, Xu Jin had a combat plan.

At the same time, the prototype of the plan that had emerged in his mind earlier was perfected a bit more.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin chose a position from which he could attack the Leopard-Tail Queen but was also quite far from the Star-Battle True God divine statue.

The next instant.

A massive divine soul fluctuation rose.

Startling Dream!

In an instant, the strongest Fifth-Tier Ninth-Layer peak Leopard-Tail Queen showed a look of horror and was directly hard-controlled.

In the instant her divine soul was heavily damaged, she had already fallen into the dreamscape carefully woven by Xu Jin!

Also at the same time, the Seventh-Tier-plus high-tier Fire Source Star Pattern was activated, the barely Fifth-Tier Fire Spirit Heart in the Middle Star Palace shone brightly, boosting Xu Jin's fire-type star arts to the maximum; on the Arena Platform, the two enshrined Fifth-Tier-plus Fire Spirit Star Cores also flickered with star light.

The Red Dragon Thumb Ring newly obtained on his right thumb flashed with red light, and a Spiral Flame Explosion was instantly blasted toward a Fifth-Tier Eighth-Layer Leopard-Tail clan expert.

Xu Jin's figure also emerged at this point.

At the same instant, the other three Fifth-Tier experts of the Leopard-Tail clan, as well as the hundred or so Fourth-Tier elites in all directions, all stared at Xu Jin and surrounded him.

All of this happened in an instant.

But the next instant, the Leopard-Tail clan's Left Commander, whose cultivation was second only to the Leopard-Tail Queen, was suddenly swallowed by a flash of fire.

Without even letting out a scream, he was swallowed, and only black ash flew past!

The Leopard-Tail clan's Right Commander, who had just rushed toward Xu Jin, instantly showed a look of horror in his eyes, stopped and turned around like lightning, and the moment he raised his strongest defense, another Spiral Flame Explosion blasted toward him.

He was swallowed again!

But this time, the Right Commander persisted for one second under Xu Jin's Star Heaven Fire before being incinerated into nothingness.

A look of realization appeared on Xu Jin's face.

The Star Heaven Fire brought by the Seventh-Tier-plus high-tier Fire Source, the boost from the barely Fifth-Tier Fire Spirit Heart, the boost from the two mid-tier Fire Elephant Star Patterns, and the boost from the Red Dragon Thumb Ring.

These multiple boosts made the power of Xu Jin's Star Heaven Fire reach an unimaginable level.

Under a sneak attack, he directly incinerated a Fifth-Tier Eighth-Layer expert.

Then, under a frontal bombardment, he also incinerated another Fifth-Tier Eighth-Layer expert.

This was Xu Jin's greatest confidence right now.

With multiple foundations accumulated to this day, and under multiple boosts, only then did the Star Heaven Fire have its current power.

The next instant, the Leopard-Tail aliens who reacted quickly turned and fled, while those who reacted slowly rushed up, and Xu Jin blasted them all to death with one Spiral Flame Explosion each.

If Fifth-Tier Eighth-Layer experts couldn't hold on, let alone Fourth-Tier aliens.

As for the disadvantage of excessive star power consumption, for Xu Jin, who sat on over ten thousand strands of star light in the Arena Platform, it was no longer a disadvantage.

It was just one word: Boom!

Not a single Leopard-Tail alien could rush within fifty meters of Xu Jin.

Suddenly, Xu Jin's Bright Discipline Star Pattern vibrated; it was the Fifth-Tier Ninth-Layer peak Leopard-Tail Queen waking up from Startling Dream.

Just by glancing at Xu Jin, the Leopard-Tail Queen let out a terrified scream and turned to flee!

In the dreamscape of Startling Dream, the Leopard-Tail Queen was frightened by the dreamscape Xu Jin had carefully woven beforehand.

But the moment the Leopard-Tail Queen turned to look at Xu Jin, Xu Jin's eyes glared fiercely, and the moment their gazes met, Killing Dream was activated!

In an instant, the world changed, and Xu Jin pulled the Leopard-Tail Queen into the dreamscape of Killing Dream.

Originally, Xu Jin's first plan was to use Killing Dream to finish off the Leopard-Tail Queen!

But now, seeing the terrified Leopard-Tail Queen, he changed his mind.

If the Leopard-Tail Queen could submit to an unknown mysterious existence, then it was possible for her to submit to him.

It could be said that the Leopard-Tail Queen had already been tamed by the expert in the Fire Lei Lingwang's mouth!

A tamed expert was much easier to control.

Especially when Xu Jin discovered that the Leopard-Tail Queen was frightened by Startling Dream, he had an idea.

In the Killing Dream dreamscape, Xu Jin was high above, looking like a god.

The Leopard-Tail Queen's right-hand men and guards who had just been killed all reappeared, and then, in front of the Leopard-Tail Queen, they all roared and rushed toward Xu Jin.

But Xu Jin, looking down, was like a god at this moment; with just a light flick of his finger, thunder blasted down, blasting the Left Commander into slag.

Then thunder blasted down again, blasting the Right Commander into slag!

With one flick of his finger, he blasted a Leopard-Tail clan expert to death.

The Leopard-Tail Queen, who had just broken free from the Startling Dream dreamscape, was already frightened, especially in a state of terror.

Looking at Xu Jin's god-like means, she was almost scared out of her wits.

This feeling was like the Star-Battle True God descending.

"Wind, come!"

Violent winds suddenly rose between heaven and earth!

"Rain, come!"

Heavy rain poured down instantly.

"Thunder, arrive!"

Amidst Xu Jin's shout, a cluster of purple thunder was already suspended above the Leopard-Tail Queen's head.

The Leopard-Tail Queen was trembling with fear, even her leopard tail was shaking, terrified to the extreme!

"Submit, or die!"

Xu Jin's awe-inspiring voice descended, but to the Leopard-Tail Queen's ears, it sounded like heavenly music!

"I submit, I am willing to submit!" The Leopard-Tail Queen was afraid that if she spoke too slowly, she would be blasted to death.

"I accept your submission! Kneel there for a long time, touch your head to the ground, and until I allow you to get up, you cannot get up!

If you dare to move even a little bit!

Execution!"

The word "Execution," accompanied by the sound of thunder between heaven and earth, blasted directly into the Leopard-Tail Queen's mind.

The Leopard-Tail Queen didn't even say half a word more, but knelt there for a long time, touching her head to the ground, not moving at all!

The next instant, the world changed.

Killing Dream dissipated.

Xu Jin and the Leopard-Tail Queen returned at the same time.

But the Leopard-Tail Queen was already kneeling for a long time toward Xu Jin, touching her head to the ground, not daring to move at all!

Xu Jin was happy to see this.

This plan had already succeeded halfway.

Of course, it wasn't that his Killing Dream was so powerful, but that the faith of the Leopard-Tail Queen, a Fifth-Tier Ninth-Layer expert, had already been destroyed by that expert behind the scenes.

Or rather, it had been destroyed by the Star-Battle True God of the Worship-Battle Divine Sect!

Only then could Xu Jin succeed so easily.

In just a moment, Xu Jin suddenly sensed an incomparably powerful aura suddenly rising from the direction of the Star-Battle True God in the distance.

"Which sect's disciple are you, actually daring to trespass into this star domain? If you know what's good for you, get out!" A man in Daoist robes had his aura rising rapidly.

In the instant he appeared, his aura rose to the Fifth-Tier Gather Battle peak.

But the next instant, he saw a seal flying above the Daoist-robed man's head, directly drawing a massive amount of star light from within the Star-Battle True God divine statue and injecting it into his body.

The aura of this Daoist-robed man began to rise again.

The aura he exuded actually broke through to the Sixth Tier in an instant!

Xu Jin's pupils shrank fiercely!

Sixth Tier!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 263 =====