Chapter 320: The Secret of Doubling Strength

When Xu Jin left the Changsheng Auction House, he took away three bottles of Xuanhuang Star-Condensing Pills; firstly, there was only a stock of three bottles, and secondly, Xu Jin also wanted to try a batch first.

To see what the situation with this pill poison really is.

If it hurts the body or even the foundation, it must absolutely not be used much.

At the same time, he bought another bottle of Dragon Turtle Soul-Forging Pills; this thing is now a hard currency, whether Xu Jin uses it himself or gives it to Ning Yuchan later, it is very good, and he also bought four bottles of high-grade Transcending Mortality Pills.

Part of it is prepared to be used to clear pill poison, and part of it is prepared for his younger sister Jiang Er.

The Grand Master said that his younger sister Jiang Er and his father had already settled down in the fifth-tier Huashi Star Domain, and Xu Jin planned to find time to visit them.

He had to confirm their safety and provide them with more safety margins before Xu Jin could feel at ease.

He didn't want the things that happened in Jinshan County to happen again.

Xu Jin also packed and bought hundreds of star domain maps, just in case.

Incidentally, he found out the whereabouts of the Earth Dragon Ganoderma needed to trade for the Crimson Sparrow Feathers, but it was a bit vague.

Earth Dragon Ganoderma is a heaven-and-earth treasure for fifth-tier Gather Battle powerhouses to strengthen Earth-type Star Arenas; generally speaking, it can be found in fifth-tier or sixth-tier star domains that possess Earth-type Heaven and Earth Star Will, but it is also very rare.

For all of this, Xu Jin paid nearly 40,000 wisps of starlight, waving his hand and deducting it directly.

As for the remaining 60,000 wisps of starlight, Xu Jin had it transferred to Qi Qi Tian Sheng's Star-Picking Token.

It was not yet appropriate for it to appear on Xu Jin's Star-Picking Token; wasting a little is wasting a little.

There was no way around it; Xu Jin was now a bit "wealthy and overbearing."

After walking around Chen Guo Battle City and having a full meal, Xu Jin headed straight for the branch of the Star-Picking Tower in Chen Guo Battle City.

Spending 600 wisps of starlight to purchase six hours of cultivation time in the fourth-tier Star Power Secret Realm, Xu Jin stepped directly into the branch of the Star-Picking Tower in Chen Guo Battle City.

But he didn't start cultivating immediately; after calling out to the Star Spirit, he entered the Star Dome Secret Realm.

Xu Jin took out the Star-Picking Token with the identity of "Qi Tian Da Sheng" for the first time.

Then he used his authority to block all friends except for the Grand Master, teacher Kou Jing, Meng Yanhui, Ji Bang, and Peng Lao.

The Grand Master had already told Xu Jin that these five people knew about Xu Jin's relevant identity information.

Subsequently, Xu Jin directly transferred 13,000 wisps of starlight from Qi Qi Tian Sheng's Star-Picking Token to Qi Tian Da Sheng; a 20% tax, if it had to be paid, it had to be paid!

Next was the most important thing.

Change his name!

【Qi Tian Da Sheng, are you sure you want to modify your Star Name? Modifying your Star Name will deduct 10,000 wisps of starlight at once, and it can only be modified once every ten years. Please modify it carefully.】

A starlight prompt popped up before his eyes, and Xu Jin chose to confirm.

【Qi Tian Da Sheng, please enter your new Star Name. By changing your Star Name, you will enable the new Star Name, and all information related to the Star Name can be retained.】

Another starlight prompt popped up, and as Xu Jin thought about the new Star Name, he suddenly felt a sense of emotion.

He couldn't describe Xu Jin's complex mood at this moment.

A bit of reluctance, and even more humiliation!

This time, he was forced to hide his name and change it by the various forces in the current world.

Emotions surged like a tide!

Xu Jin himself hadn't expected his mood to become so complex at this moment; previously, he had thought it was just a name change.

Just changing a screen name.

In his previous life, there were times when he changed it three times a day.

Why was he suddenly being sentimental now?

The corners of Xu Jin's mouth were slightly bitter!

The difference between freedom and helplessness lies right here.

After pondering for a long time, Xu Jin suddenly made a decision.

【Your new Star Name is Hei Hei Wu Kong, please confirm! Once confirmed, it cannot be changed again within ten years!】

【Confirm!】

【The new Star Name, Hei Hei Wu Kong, has been successfully changed.】

【Tianyang Xingjun Hei Hei Wu Kong, welcome.】

The new Star Name change was completed, and Xu Jin took a deep breath, suppressing countless emotions.

He had broken through star domains, killed alien races, experienced assassinations, and also suffered the hardships of learning and the beatings of society in his previous life, but at this moment, what Xu Jin wanted most was to become Qi Tian Da Sheng again in the future!

To return under the name of Qi Tian Da Sheng!

To turn the world upside down!

And even return to his hometown!

The higher his cultivation, the more he understood, and the more Xu Jin felt that this possibility existed!

The next instant, Xu Jin exhaled all his emotions, sank his thoughts into the Star-Picking Token, entered the Star-Picking Secret Realm, and picked stars!

There was no suspense for the Copper Star and Silver Star.

【Challenge Gold Star-level Inner Demon】

The next instant, the starlight changed, and an inner demon with a blurred face resembling Xu Jin appeared opposite Xu Jin.

Under the operation of the four Mingji Star Patterns, Xu Jin had already sensed the inner demon's aura clearly.

Fifth-tier Gather Battle third-layer peak, Soul cultivation fourth-tier ninth layer.

The fourth-tier ninth-layer Soul cultivation was copied from Xu Jin's Soul cultivation, but the Soul Star Art could not be copied over.

The light curtain disappeared, and the Gold Star-level inner demon killed Xu Jin in an instant.

Xu Jin, as before, propped up the Fish Curtain Jin Zhong, but he wasn't in a hurry to kill the inner demon; instead, like the previous challenges, he used this Gold Star-level inner demon to hone his actual combat ability.

At the fourth-tier first and second layers, the fifth-tier Gold Star-level inner demon couldn't pose a threat to Xu Jin, but its strength was extremely strong, making it a good sparring partner.

Today was the same.

But today, after fighting for only ten-plus breaths, Xu Jin's expression changed.

Connecting two strikes from the fifth-tier third-layer Gold Star-level inner demon, Xu Jin's Fish Curtain Jin Zhong was actually blasted with cracks.

Xu Jin was horrified and hurriedly used the Flower-Shifting Star Art to prop it up once, restoring the Fish Curtain Jin Zhong.

In the subsequent battle, Xu Jin became even more careful.

A quarter of an hour later, using both Soul Star Art and Earth Magnetism Power, Xu Jin blasted the Gold Star-level inner demon to death with a Great Sun Star Art.

He obtained a Gold Star.

Then he fell into deep thought.

In this challenge, Xu Jin had two discoveries.

The first discovery was that the combat power of the fifth-tier third-layer Gold Star-level inner demon had increased by at least double compared to the fifth-tier second-layer, at least the power of the Star Art was like this!

The second discovery was that the sixth-tier Star Art Great Sun Star Art he used wasn't as strong as he had imagined.

It didn't even have the explosive power of teacher Kou Jing's sixth-tier high-grade Great Sun Emblem.

Theoretically, it shouldn't be!

Because Xu Jin was based on the eighth-tier mid-grade Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

This Great Sun Star Pattern was also sixth-tier high-grade.

Theoretically, it should explode with a full-force strike equivalent to a seventh-tier mid-stage powerhouse.

But in fact, it was just a full-force strike equivalent to a sixth-tier early-stage powerhouse.

It was only a little bit stronger than the Spiral Flame Explosion.

This reminded Xu Jin of the fifth-tier ninth-layer powerhouse Zheng Guanhe had encountered before; this Zheng Guan's Star Art power also felt very strong.

The combat power was even stronger than that of sixth-tier alien races.

Xu Jin felt something was wrong.

It seemed that the fifth-tier powerhouses and fifth-tier alien races he had encountered before weren't this strong?

But thinking carefully, the fifth-tier powerhouses he had encountered before basically didn't have the opportunity to go all out.

Xu Jin usually used Soul attacks to control and influence them, and then blasted them to death.

Fifth-tier ninth-layer and sixth-tier ones were all blasted to death directly using emblems, with occasional follow-up attacks.

Hard clashes like today were relatively rare. With doubts, Xu Jin challenged the Gold Star-level gatekeeper again.

A quarter of an hour later, Xu Jin won and obtained another Gold Star.

But he also found that the combat power of the fifth-tier third-layer Gold Star-level gatekeeper was twice as strong as that of the fifth-tier second-layer Gold Star-level gatekeeper.

Xu Jin could now easily take it down by utilizing the diversity of Star Arts.

But if it continued to improve according to this situation, it would become increasingly difficult for Xu Jin to obtain Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars in the future.

Because every time he broke through a tier, the combat power of the Gold Star-level gatekeeper and inner demon would increase exponentially.

But when Xu Jin broke through a tier, it was absolutely impossible for his combat power to double.

With the current foundation, if the combat power of this Gold Star-level gatekeeper and inner demon doubled again, it would take some effort for Xu Jin to win; if it doubled twice more, he would have to use all his means; if it doubled three times more, whether he could win was hard to say.

If it doubled four times more, if Xu Jin didn't have a major improvement, there would basically be no possibility of winning.

That is to say, if the current situation continues, when Xu Jin's cultivation breaks through to the fourth-tier Condense Star seventh layer, he will be unable to defeat the inner demon and will be unable to challenge to obtain Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars!

This judgment gave Xu Jin a big fright!

If that were the case, Xu Jin would only be able to obtain six more Gold Stars and three more Brilliant Stars in the future, which was absolutely something Xu Jin was unwilling to see.

Why would this happen?

With doubts, Xu Jin began to challenge the Brilliant Star.

With the combat power of the gatekeeper and inner demon doubling at the same time, it wasn't so easy for Xu Jin to win the challenge.

If this combat power doubled once or twice more, that would be terrible!

Half a quarter of an hour later, Xu Jin beheaded the inner demon and gatekeeper and obtained another Brilliant Star.

Up to this point, Xu Jin had four Silver Stars, five Gold Stars, and four Brilliant Stars in his hand.

The challenge ended, and Xu Jin stayed in the Star Dome Secret Realm.

According to Xu Jin's original arrangement, he intended to use the one-hour enlightenment time in the Star Dome Secret Realm, consuming one or two Gold Stars to comprehend a certain Star Pattern.

But at this moment, Xu Jin was not calm; he decisively sent a starlight transmission to the Grand Master and asked his doubts.

It was already late at night, and Xu Jin thought the Grand Master might have already slept, but unexpectedly, only five breaths later, Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao gave a reply!

【This is the fundamental reason I told you before that it is extremely difficult to pick Gold Stars after the fourth-tier late stage or even the fifth tier.】

【Grand Master, then what is the reason for this? Why does the strength of the inner demon and gatekeeper increase exponentially? And the fifth-tier ninth-layer cultivator I encountered, I feel his combat power is also very strong.】

【This has to do with the fundamental cultivation of the fifth-tier Gather Battle Realm! The fifth-tier Gather Battle Realm, also known as Strong Star Gather Battle. After achieving the Star Arena, one can continuously strengthen the Star Core using the power of the Star Arena.】

【At this time, the major influence of the rank of the Star Pattern in cultivation is reflected once again.】

【Let me give you an example. After the fifth-tier Gather Battle, if the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern you use is eighth-tier mid-grade, then you can strengthen it eight times; every time it is strengthened, the power increases exponentially.】

【If your Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern is sixth-tier high-grade, you can only strengthen it six times.】

【The gap between these two times is a huge gap in power!】

【Fifth-tier early-stage powerhouses have just started to gather battle and haven't started to strengthen the Star Core, so the change is not big, but fifth-tier mid-to-late-stage cultivators have already started to strengthen the Star Core; some veteran fifth-tier powerhouses can even strengthen a Star Core to five or even six layers, so the combat power will naturally be very strong.】

【And the reason for the doubling of the inner demon combat power you challenged is exactly this.】

【Normal cultivators cannot strengthen all the Star Patterns on the Star Core by one layer every time their cultivation increases by one tier.】

【But the inner demon and gatekeeper can.】

【This is also the reason why the combat power of the inner demon and gatekeeper you challenged will double, and the reason why the difficulty is getting bigger and bigger. It is also the reason why it is difficult to obtain Gold Stars after the cultivation reaches the fourth-tier late stage and the fifth tier.】

【Taking myself as an example, after the fourth-tier fifth layer, I have never obtained any Gold Star.】

After reading Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao's reply, Xu Jin's doubts were mostly eliminated, but this also caused Xu Jin's doubts about cultivation.

【Grand Master, then most cultivators, how many layers can they strengthen the Star Pattern to?】

【Among fifth-tier cultivators, those who can strengthen individual Star Patterns to two or three layers are considered very powerful. But sixth-tier powerhouses generally strengthen Star Patterns to more than four layers, and seventh-tier powerhouses generally strengthen main Star Patterns to more than five layers.】

【It is mainly because the difficulty of strengthening Star Patterns is extremely high.】

【Even for me, I currently only have one Star Pattern strengthened to eight layers. This is also the fundamental reason why Tianyang Tianyang Xingjun and Cangming Tianyang Xingjun have stronger combat power than me; these veteran eighth-tier powerhouses have sufficient time. They have more than one Star Pattern strengthened to eight layers, at least three or four.】

【There are even many Star Patterns that have been strengthened to the limit.】

【This is the key to the influence of the Star Pattern rank.】

【If a certain Star Pattern is only sixth-tier, you can only strengthen it to six layers at most.】 Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao replied.

【Thank you, Grand Master, for clearing my doubts. Grand Master, then it seems that after the cultivator's cultivation breaks through to the fifth tier, the strength will generally increase significantly.】

【Not necessarily; most people are doing well if they can strengthen individual main battle Star Patterns to two or three layers, and some top geniuses are extremely powerful if they can strengthen main battle Star Patterns to four layers.】

【This is related to the way of strengthening Star Patterns.】

【There are two ways to strengthen Star Patterns: one is after Gather Battle, using the power of the Star Arena to continuously infuse and strengthen to achieve the purpose of strengthening a certain Star Pattern; the strengthening efficiency is related to the strength of the Star Arena.】

【The more powerful the Star Arena, the faster the strengthening speed.】

【Therefore, fifth-tier late-stage powerhouses or even sixth-tier powerhouses will have a higher level of Star Pattern strengthening.】

【Because the Star Arena that has just been condensed wants to strengthen the Star Pattern, the efficiency is outrageously low.】

【The second way is to use Soul mental power to strengthen.】

【When a cultivator's Soul cultivation reaches the fourth-tier ninth layer peak, they can condense the prototype of the Nascent Spirit, and mental power will be born. This kind of mental power can move objects out of thin air and is an extremely profound power that produces tangible force from intangible force, but most of the time, it is still called Soul Power, or Soul mental power.】

【But the Soul Power after the birth of the Nascent Spirit is completely different from the previous Soul Power.】

【Previously it was just intangible force, but now, it is a special power that can produce tangible force from intangible force.】

【Then, you can use Soul mental power to strengthen the Star Pattern.】

【The effect of Soul mental power strengthening Star Patterns is much faster than fifth-tier cultivators using Star Arena to strengthen.】

【And the more powerful the Nascent Spirit, the more powerful the Soul mental power.】

【Therefore, the combat power of many seventh-tier or even eighth-tier powerhouses is considered superb.】

【Counting it up, I also benefited from your help; after my Soul cultivation broke through to the fifth tier, my Soul mental power increased significantly, and after two months of day and night hard cultivation, I finally strengthened a Star Pattern to eight layers.】

【Including Peng Lao, although his cultivation hasn't broken through to the eighth tier, with your help, his combat power has increased nearly double compared to before.】

【By the way, your Soul cultivation is not far from condensing the prototype of the Nascent Spirit, right?】 Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao asked.

Xu Jin could send the jade tablet containing massive Soul Power to them, so Xu Jin himself must have a lot; this is certain, which is why Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao asked this.

【Grand Master, my Soul cultivation has just reached the fourth-tier ninth layer peak, but I haven't condensed the Nascent Spirit yet.】

Xu Jin just sent a starlight transmission, and his heart suddenly moved; he seemed to understand what the Grand Master meant by asking this, 【Grand Master, do you mean that if I condense the prototype of the Nascent Spirit, I can produce Soul mental power, and then I can also strengthen the Star Pattern in advance?】

【Indeed!】

【This is also one of the methods used by the former Lingji Star Palace to cultivate top geniuses.】

【This is also one of the reasons why the top geniuses of the Lingji Star Palace crush cultivators of the same realm in combat power.】

【But even in the Lingji Star Palace, there has never been anyone who condensed the Nascent Spirit before the sixth tier.】

【The fastest recorded one was thirty-six years old when they condensed the Nascent Spirit!】

【You are a complete exception among exceptions, nineteen years old; if you hadn't said it, I would have forgotten this!】

【In this way, I will pass the method and precautions for condensing the Nascent Spirit to you now, including the method of using Soul mental power to strengthen the Star Pattern, and pass it to you together.】

【In this way, you can strengthen the Star Pattern early.】

【Perhaps, in the future, you can really create a miracle!】

Xu Jin had just finished reading this starlight transmission, and Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao immediately sent several starlight transmissions in a row.

These starlight transmissions contained the method of condensing the Nascent Spirit and the method of using Soul mental power to strengthen the Star Pattern.

Xu Jin was overjoyed.

It seems that he still needs to ask for advice more often in the future!

Xu Jin knew too little about the secrets of cultivation!

After thanking the Grand Master, Xu Jin couldn't wait to study the method of condensing the Nascent Spirit!

Since his cultivation has reached the level, why not take the opportunity to condense the Nascent Spirit?

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