Chapter 291

When Xu Jin left the Danxia Palace, his mood was slightly complicated, and a classic allusion from his previous life suddenly emerged in his heart.

If a ruler treats me as a national scholar, I must repay him as a national scholar.

The price paid by the Grand Master, Cheng Cheng Yuexiao, to purchase the high-grade third-tier Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern from the Wood Spirit Palace was a second-tier star domain.

To be precise, it was a second-tier star domain plus one-tenth of the Heaven and Earth Star Will of this second-tier star domain.

Because the standard for controlling a star domain, besides conquering the target star domain, also requires obtaining at least one-tenth of the Heaven and Earth Star Will.

In this way, when entering with this Heaven and Earth Star Will, one will not be excluded by the current star domain, but will instead naturally integrate into the current star domain, which is of great significance.

The value... it can be called priceless!

Xu Jin had recently obtained a lot of Heaven and Earth Star Will, so Xu Jin knew very well the value of this Heaven and Earth Star Will!

Priceless!

Using a priceless treasure to exchange for a high-grade third-tier Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, it is hard to say whether it is a profit or a loss.

But what is certain is that if Xu Jin didn't need it, the Grand Master would likely not have exchanged it.

For a single line of star power, if one wants to form combat power, having only the source star pattern is not enough.

Therefore, when Peng Lao traded with the Wood Spirit Palace, he got some add-ons.

Chain Star Pattern.

It is considered a relatively powerful auxiliary star pattern, most suitable for Thunder-type star arts and Wood-type star arts.

In short, a high-grade third-tier Chain Star Pattern can make a Thunder-type star art split into two branches.

Blasting out one, it is actually three.

The blasted thunder light can be called chain lightning.

It is also very practical.

If deduced to a high tier, the effect of this star pattern is terrifying.

It can be used for group attacks or concentrated fire.

But generally speaking, there are very few people who spend a huge price on an auxiliary star pattern of the high-grade third tier.

As for investing gold stars to deduce it to the sixth or seventh tier and above, it is even more unprecedented; the main battle star patterns that really need to be deduced are not enough.

Xu Jin didn't have any thoughts in this regard for the time being, so he would use it first.

There were too many things to do, and there were many star patterns that needed to be deduced.

But there were only so many gold stars and bright stars.

When he returned to his small courtyard, Xu Jin checked the fifth jade tablet.

The fifth jade tablet recorded two parts of content.

One was an authorization seal issued by the Wood Spirit Palace.

Those holding this authorization seal could produce and engrave low-tier Star Healing Emblems and sell them publicly without being investigated by the Wood Spirit Palace.

After the authorization seal, there was also a warning.

If anyone sells low-tier Star Healing Emblems without an authorization seal, the Wood Spirit Palace will fight them to the death. At the same time, the Wood Spirit Palace will sever all trading relations with the forces to which the person belongs, including the trading of fourth-tier, fifth-tier, and sixth-tier Star Healing Emblems.

If anyone sells Star Healing Emblems obtained from the Wood Spirit Palace to forces wanted by the Wood Spirit Palace, the Wood Spirit Palace will immediately sever contact with them and sever all trading!

Xu Jin looked at it, stunned.

Isn't this just a pure monopoly declaration!

The Wood Spirit Palace is so powerful!

As long as the low-tier Star Healing is learned, as long as one has the intention, it can definitely be spread out.

It is easy to sanction one or two, but it is probably very difficult to sanction ten, eight, a thousand, or ten thousand?

Theoretically, this kind of monopoly is not feasible.

But Peng Lao handed this jade tablet to him very solemnly and told him to carry it with him. If he sells low-tier Star Healing in the future and there are Wood Spirit Palace disciples checking, he can show it.

This shows that this monopoly is recognized by all major forces.

Then...

Holding the mentality of deciphering, Xu Jin sank his mind into the Star Jade Tablet that recorded the low-tier Star Healing.

The moment he sank in, Xu Jin was stunned.

This...

First, a green light screen appeared in front of Xu Jin, and text appeared on the light screen.

This text was the instruction manual for this low-tier Star Jade Tablet.

The Wood Spirit Palace called this low-tier Star Healing Star Jade Tablet a "Mother Seal."

When using it, sink the power of the divine soul into the Mother Seal, then trigger the Wood Source power within the Mother Seal, and introduce it into a third-tier or fourth-tier Star Jade Tablet that possesses Wood-type star power, letting it flow naturally. The engraver only needs to continuously input the power of the divine soul to guide it.

Two quarters of an hour, and the emblem can be formed.

Every time the Mother Seal is used five times, it needs to be replenished with a fourth-tier Wood-attribute Star Jade Tablet to replenish the star power inside.

If it is used continuously for more than five times without replenishing the Wood-attribute star power, the Mother Seal will be damaged due to the exhaustion of star power.

If the Mother Seal is damaged or lost, the Wood Spirit Palace will not replace it; it needs to be purchased again.

This series of explanations made Xu Jin's teeth ache and he was also shocked.

If this explanation is true.

Then isn't this Star Healing Mother Seal from the Wood Spirit Palace a photocopier from his previous life?

The so-called emblem making only requires providing a Wood-attribute base seal and continuous divine soul guidance.

One can understand the Wood-attribute base seal as photocopy paper, the continuous divine soul guidance as toner, and the Mother Seal as a photocopier plus the original document; it is directly a photocopier of star power.

This is no longer a simple monopoly.

It is a monopoly of technology plus hegemony.

Xu Jin somewhat understood why this kind of monopoly by the Wood Spirit Palace could succeed.

Technology comes first, hegemony comes second; one can only accept it.

It's just that Xu Jin was a bit unconvinced; he is now considered a master in emblem research.

He didn't believe it; couldn't he understand the star patterns inside the Mother Seal?

If he understood it, couldn't he copy it directly?

Xu Jin had third-tier and fourth-tier Star Jade Tablets with Wood attributes; he had obtained them before in the third-tier Flourishing Flower Star Domain.

At the moment, Xu Jin produced a third-tier Wood-attribute base seal in the shortest possible time.

Subsequently, Xu Jin followed the previous operating instructions, sank his mind into the Star Healing Mother Seal, and began to produce.

Xu Jin's production this time was for the purpose of learning and exploration.

But after sinking his mind into it to explore, he was completely confused.

It really is... a technological monopoly!

Until two quarters of an hour later, when a low-tier Star Healing Emblem was produced, Xu Jin still hadn't figured out the trick.

The third-tier, fourth-tier, and even fifth-tier emblems that Xu Jin had produced before were actually all star arts he had learned, solidified into the Star Jade Tablet through specific star pattern connections in the order of casting. When erupting, he just needed to mobilize the star power contained in the Star Jade Tablet to erupt.

But Xu Jin couldn't see through this low-tier Star Healing Emblem of the Wood Spirit Palace at all.

It seemed as if all the relevant star patterns had been kneaded together, making it impossible to distinguish.

It was like completely crushing rice, millet, sorghum, and buckwheat, and then adding water to knead them into a ball.

You know it is composed of several different star patterns.

But you can't sort them out.

This made Xu Jin greatly convinced.

This Wood Spirit Palace really has ability.

Just the technological content contained in this Star Healing Mother Seal is really not ordinary.

You can only be convinced by this technology!

It successfully aroused his interest in the Wood Spirit Palace.

If there is an opportunity in the future, perhaps he can have in-depth contact with the Wood Spirit Palace.

Besides this, Xu Jin could also use the power of the divine soul to trigger the Star Healing Mother Seal and then cast the Star Healing Star Art to treat a target, but similarly, it required using a Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Jade Tablet to replenish the consumption of the Star Healing Mother Seal.

After studying these, Xu Jin began to re-plan his goals for these few days.

Because after obtaining the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, he had to change it slightly.

In Xu Jin's current combat system, Thunder Wings are a very important combat means, with super strong short-distance movement speed.

Previously, he only relied on the mid-tier Lei Yi Heart and the protection star patterns provided by two high-grade fifth-tier Thunder Spirit Star Cores to cast it.

Now that he had the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, the power of Xu Jin's Thunder Wings, including his Thunder-type star arts, could be greatly improved.

The Grand Master only deduced the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern to the mid-fourth tier. As long as Xu Jin makes another effort to deduce it to the fifth tier, it can be of great use and can also greatly improve the power of the Thunder Wings.

Then he must plan a star core to engrave the Thunder-type star pattern.

But in the current plan, the second star core of the Middle Shang Xinggong is Earth-type, and the second star core of the Lower Shang Xinggong is the sixth-tier object-controlling star art, Void Breaker.

There is not enough space for star cores.

But this couldn't stump Xu Jin.

Xu Jin's cultivation base in the Middle Shang Xinggong has reached the peak of the first-layer Condense Star of the fourth tier. With a little time, he can break through.

The cultivation base of the Lower Shang Xinggong has also reached the late stage of the first-layer Condense Star of the fourth tier. With a little time, he can also break through.

But breaking through does require time.

It is worth mentioning that for current practitioners, after the cultivation base breaks through to the fourth tier, the effect of elixirs in cultivation will drop significantly.

The fourth tier is the beginning of competing for talent. In the current world, there is no Condense Bu Bu Xing Dan that can quickly improve cultivation.

It's not that it hasn't been studied.

Countless elixir masters have studied it for this; whoever researches it will definitely be worshipped by all forces.

The main reason is that after a practitioner breaks through to the fourth-tier Condense Star, because there are at least two star cores in the body, the speed of absorbing star power from heaven and earth has been doubled.

As the cultivation base improves by one layer and each additional star core is added, the speed at which a practitioner obtains star power from heaven and earth will increase exponentially.

The star power provided by the fourth-tier Condense Star Pills refined by many masters before was much slower than the efficiency of the practitioners themselves absorbing star power, but the cost was extremely high and it was not cost-effective at all.

If one enters the Gather Star Array or the third or fourth-tier star power secret realm of the Star-Plucking Tower, the absorption speed is even faster.

According to Xu Jin's understanding, it is just a concept version, not a mass-produced version.

Of course, there is also a way to "pay to win."

That is to use purified star cores or Star Jade Tablets to cultivate.

This is not something ordinary people can afford to play with.

Whether it is a fourth-tier star core or a fourth-tier Star Jade Tablet, not to mention the expensive value, it also requires a specialist to purify it before it can be absorbed.

Therefore, from the fourth tier upwards, it is the beginning of competing for talent.

The higher the cultivation base, the more one competes for talent.

Because when you reach the fifth tier or even the sixth tier, if you want to absorb sixth-tier star cores to improve your cultivation, you don't have that quantity.

However, for his own cultivation improvement, Xu Jin has his own ideas.

After the cultivation base breaks through to the fourth-tier Condense Star, the high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan is indeed useless for Xu Jin.

But the one-essence high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan, compared to ordinary high-grade Refine Star Pills, has doubled its medicinal power and can still be of some use.

The two-essence high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan has three times the medicinal power of an ordinary high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan and should be able to improve cultivation.

Needless to say, the three-essence high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan has six times the medicinal power of an ordinary high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan and can definitely improve Xu Jin's cultivation speed.

However, the nourishment cycle of the three-essence high-grade Refine Bu Bu Xing Dan is a big problem.

For an elixir to have three essences, it takes at least fourteen days.

Xu Jin currently has four star lamps, and can nourish at most sixteen high-grade Refine Star Pills at one time, with a cycle of fourteen days.

It is impossible to cultivate by taking elixirs like before.

He can only save up for a while and then cultivate by himself for a while.

But Xu Jin believes that his own cultivation talent is no worse than anyone else's.

Nine body tempering, super-grade star forging, and the flawless innate star body are all prepared for this moment!

These, but these all require time.

Currently, the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan is the best choice for Xu Jin to break through in a very short time.

The Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan is most suitable for breaking through the small and large bottlenecks of various cultivation stages.

But when he obtained the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan, the Dean Dong Zhao warned Xu Jin that the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan should not be taken too much, especially not continuously.

The specific side effects, Dean Dong Zhao did not know.

But according to Dong Zhao, the high-level members of the Blood God Sect often act crazily and have many strange behaviors.

The reason is unknown.

But Dong Zhao's teacher, the former Grand Master, speculated that it should be related to the Blood God Secret Method cultivated by the Blood God Sect, especially the initial Blood Soul Guide, and the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan used to improve cultivation.

The Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong once had an eighth-tier elder who was extremely keen on encircling and suppressing the Blood God Sect and captured a large number of Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills. His cultivation speed was extremely fast, and it is said that his breakthrough to the eighth tier was also helped by the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan.

But after breaking through to the eighth tier, he often acted crazily; he was himself during the day, but loved to wear women's clothing at night, and occasionally spoke like a child.

Later, during a great battle, he suddenly went crazy and was killed by the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong.

It is regarded as a warning.

Of course, this refers to a large quantity.

According to Dong Zhao, not only the Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong, but also other star palaces obtained a large number of Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills when encircling and suppressing the Blood God Sect.

They also roughly deduced a safe quantity.

If the total amount taken reaches the total amount of one eighth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan, big problems will inevitably occur.

The amount below a seventh-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan is basically safe.

One seventh-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan is at least equivalent to ten sixth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills, which is equivalent to one hundred fifth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills, and one thousand fourth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills.

As long as it does not exceed this amount, it is safe.

Of course, this safety margin also varies from person to person.

In short, if obtained, it can only be used occasionally to break through bottlenecks and should not be taken regularly.

Judging from Dong Zhao's instructions, Xu Jin currently has more than thirty fourth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills and three fifth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills in his hands; even if he takes them all, it should be safe.

Therefore, thinking about his current needs, he must break through to the second-layer Condense Star of the fourth tier in the shortest possible time, and then engrave the Thunder-type star pattern.

In the quiet room, Xu Jin put a fourth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan into his mouth.

There was no bloody smell as imagined; it actually had a faint fragrance. This Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan melted in his mouth and turned into majestic star power in an instant.

The next instant, Xu Jin's divine soul surged and sent this majestic star power directly into the Middle Shang Xinggong.

The Middle Shang Xinggong, whose cultivation base had already reached the peak of the first layer of the fourth tier, immediately surged with star power.

Xu Jin, who was already familiar with the road, instantly triggered the star power to begin condensing the third star.

Supported by the massive star power, the third star was condensed and completed within half a quarter of an hour based on the Great Gather Star Pattern.

With the help of one fourth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan, Xu Jin's cultivation base broke through to the second layer of the fourth tier in half a quarter of an hour.

However, the medicinal power contained in this fourth-tier Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan was more majestic than Xu Jin imagined.

Breaking through to the second layer of the fourth tier only used one-third.

There were still two-thirds left.

The next instant, Xu Jin's heart moved, and he introduced the remaining majestic star power into the Lower Shang Xinggong and injected it into the second star in the Lower Shang Xinggong.

Very quickly, the cultivation base of the Lower Shang Xinggong climbed rapidly to the peak of the first layer of the fourth tier.

And one-third of the star power of the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan remained.

With this one-third of the majestic star power, Xu Jin took advantage of the situation to guide it up and broke through the cultivation base of the Lower Shang Xinggong to the second layer of the fourth tier.

The third star of the Lower Shang Xinggong was condensed.

However, until all the star power was consumed, the cultivation base of Xu Jin's Lower Shang Xinggong was only barely at the second layer of the fourth tier, far from reaching the early stage of the second layer of the fourth tier.

But just at the moment Xu Jin finished absorbing it, a bloody light rushed directly into Xu Jin's divine soul, causing Xu Jin to instinctively feel a sense of annoyance.

This bloody light rushed directly into Xu Jin's Upper Shang Xinggong and dyed Xu Jin's Upper Shang Xinggong with a faint bloody color.

If Xu Jin sank his mind into this bloody color, the whispers of thousands of people would seem to surge into his ears.

But currently, it was very slight.

If you don't pay attention, it's not there.

This still made Xu Jin's face change.

Side effects.

These are the side effects of the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan.

I don't know if there will be a way to eliminate it in the future.

Otherwise, if he uses the Ten Thousand Blood Wanshui Lingdan to cultivate in the future, he really needs to be cautious!

The feeling of the whispers of ten thousand people that just appeared in his mind made Xu Jin very uncomfortable, annoyed and wanting to vomit!

After a few breaths, Xu Jin kept his mind on the Upper Shang Xinggong and no longer paid attention to that wisp of bloody light, only then did he settle his mind again.

Xu Jin roughly estimated this amount; about two Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills should be able to improve his cultivation base by one layer.

For example, in the Middle Shang Xinggong, if he takes two Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills in a row, he can break through from the second layer of the fourth tier to the third layer of the fourth tier.

The thirty-plus pills in his hand were not few.

It's a pity that the side effects of taking one pill made Xu Jin feel very uncomfortable, and he didn't dare to take them continuously.

He could only observe slowly to see if it could be eliminated naturally.

Or ask the Grand Master in the future if there is a way to eliminate it.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded outside the quiet room; it was Jiang Er who came over.

"Brother, Senior Brother Ying Ge is visiting. Do you want to see him?" Jiang Er asked.

"See him."

Xu Jin had originally planned to visit Ying Ge in the next few days, but he didn't expect Ying Ge to come first.

(End of chapter)