Chapter 323: Late Night Surprise

Under internal vision, in the small Nascent Spirit of the Upper Shang Xinggong, thirty-six Soul Star Cores are rotating at the same time; every time they rotate, a wisp of visible Soul Power is produced, and then absorbed by one of the Soul Stars, strengthening Xu Jin's Soul cultivation.

The terrifying passive amplification effect of the Cheng Po Star Pattern, with the surge in quantity, has been thoroughly reflected.

No matter what Xu Jin is doing, the forty-six Cheng Po Star Patterns will increase Xu Jin's Soul cultivation at all times.

Xu Jin has decided that more Gold Stars must be invested in the Cheng Po Star Pattern.

This kind of Star Pattern that passively increases cultivation, the greater the investment, the earlier the investment, the more the gain.

After internal vision, Xu Jin found that the twenty-six new Soul Stars should have benefited from the massive Soul Power of the Nine-Leaf Golden Lotus Seed and the Star Jade Tablet during Xu Jin's breakthrough, and almost all of them reached the level of two halos.

That is to say, two Star Patterns can be engraved.

Since this is passively increasing cultivation, Xu Jin won't wait for anything.

He simply started to engrave the second Star Pattern for these twenty-six new Soul Stars, all engraving the Cheng Po Star Pattern.

Finally, Xu Jin engraved two Cheng Po Star Patterns on twenty-four of the twenty-six new Soul Stars, and the remaining two Soul Stars maintained the state of one Cheng Po Star Pattern.

This is just in case.

What if Xu Jin obtains a Soul secret art that needs to engrave nine Star Patterns in the future?

Up to this point, the total number of Cheng Po Star Patterns Xu Jin engraved reached a terrifying seventy.

The Soul cultivation passively increased every moment has already visibly improved.

At the same time, Xu Jin also planned the use of these Soul Stars again.

Compared to Star Power secret arts, there are much fewer types of Soul secret arts, so Xu Jin has so many Soul Stars, which are likely to be unused.

After all, other cultivators have enough with just ten Soul Stars.

Instead of leaving them empty and wasting them, it is better to engrave the Cheng Po Star Pattern early and let it passively increase Soul Power for Xu Jin early.

The work of accumulation over time is the most terrifying!

Xu Jin's Soul Stars after the sixth are all blank except for the Cheng Po Star Pattern.

At the same time, Xu Jin also wanted to try to see if he could "bug" it: engrave all the Cheng Po Star Patterns on one Soul Star, not many, just engrave ten or eight; in the future, that would be dozens or hundreds more Cheng Po Star Patterns, how terrifying would the effect of passively increasing Soul Power be?

Since there are so many empty Star Pattern positions, leaving them is a waste; thinking of doing it, Xu Jin began to engrave.

However, before engraving, Xu Jin drove the four Mingji Star Patterns of the Lower Shang Xinggong with all his strength, carefully sensing the many changes in the Upper Shang Xinggong, especially the increase in Soul Power, to make a comparison of the effects.

Now, under the operation of the four Mingji Star Patterns, this kind of perception has reached the level of "entering the subtle."

Very quickly, Xu Jin engraved the third Cheng Po Star Pattern on the sixth Soul Star.

After the engraving was successful, Xu Jin drove the Mingji Star Pattern again to sense it carefully and recorded a piece of data.

Dozens of breaths later, Xu Jin engraved the third Cheng Po Star Pattern on the seventh Soul Star, and after sensing and recording again, Xu Jin engraved the fourth Cheng Po Star Pattern on the sixth Soul Star.

Repeatedly, constantly adding and engraving, constantly recording and comparing, until six Cheng Po Star Patterns were engraved on the sixth and seventh Soul Stars.

Looking at the tested data, Xu Jin shook his head: the bug failed!

It's not to say it failed completely.

According to the data obtained, on one Soul Star, the effect of passively increasing Soul Power from the third Cheng Po Star Pattern will decrease, the fourth will decrease sharply, only half the effect of the first two, the fifth only one-third the effect of the first two, and the sixth Cheng Po Star Pattern passively increasing Soul Power, the Mingji Star Pattern can hardly sense it, but it definitely increases.

At present, on one Soul Star, engraving two Cheng Po Star Patterns has the greatest benefit, three Cheng Po Star Patterns still have relatively good benefits, and the benefits of engraving the fourth, fifth, and sixth are about the same as the amount increased by the third.

Looking at these data, Xu Jin instantly had a plan: in the future, except for a few Soul Stars, at least three Cheng Po Star Patterns must be engraved on other Soul Stars, and at least five Cheng Po Star Patterns must be engraved on eighteen Soul Stars.

Anyway, leaving them is a waste!

Total number of Cheng Po Star Patterns condensed: seventy-eight.

The Upper Shang Xinggong matter was settled, and Xu Jin wanted to try the effect of strengthening the Star Pattern for the first time.

The Grand Master had already given Xu Jin the method to strengthen the Star Pattern.

The first Star Pattern to be strengthened was naturally the high-grade Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Xu Jin drove the Soul mental power, mobilized Star Power, and began to strengthen and compress the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

After strengthening for only half an hour, Xu Jin had some understanding.

In Xu Jin's own feeling, strengthening and compressing the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern: it is a process of continuously improving iron into steel, but because of the special nature of the Star Pattern, this process can be superimposed multiple times.

Taking the star halo where the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern in the Middle Shang Xinggong is located as an example, it is actually empty; this strengthening is a process of changing from empty to solid, and then a process of becoming refined from solid.

And the strengthening speed surprised Xu Jin.

According to the Grand Master, a fifth-tier cultivator who has condensed the Nascent Spirit uses Soul mental power to strengthen a Star Pattern from the initial first layer to the second layer, and the power of the related Star Art will double, but the time required is at least one year.

As for fifth-tier cultivators who have not condensed the Nascent Spirit, relying on the Star Arena power to strengthen stars, the time is even slower; basically, the time to strengthen one layer is three years.

But with the improvement of cultivation, the speed will continuously increase.

And Xu Jin's current Soul mental power brought by the 6.5-meter Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang has a strengthening speed that is more than six times or even close to seven times that of a cultivator who has just condensed the Nascent Spirit.

Xu Jin felt that by strengthening for three hours a day, in a month and a half, he could strengthen the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern to the second layer, doubling the power of the related Star Art!

This made Xu Jin sigh in relief.

In this way, he can continue to pick Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars in the future, not to the point of not being able to pick them.

It's just that the time required for cultivation is a bit longer.

This hidden worry was considered solved.

Since this hidden worry was solved, the next step was to use the Gold Stars already in hand.

Currently, there are five Gold Stars and four Brilliant Stars, which must be converted into strength as soon as possible.

If they are not converted into strength, and if one unfortunately dies in battle, it would be a real waste.

Between life and death, regret is too late!

If it weren't for the fact that the enlightenment time in the Star Dome Secret Realm is only one hour, Xu Jin would have wanted to use up most of the Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars.

For this Star Pattern using Gold Stars for enlightenment, Xu Jin already had a plan!

The first Star Pattern is the Great Gathering Star Pattern.

The latest version of the Great Gathering Star Pattern of the Dao Academy is only sixth-tier low-grade.

And the Great Gathering Star Pattern is almost the base Star Pattern for every Middle Shang Xinggong Star Pattern; it determines the upper limit of Star Power for each Star Core.

The higher the rank, the more Star Power the same Star Core contains.

It must be improved!

After deduction, it should be able to improve Xu Jin's strength to a certain extent, while improving Xu Jin's combat endurance!

Besides this, there is another reason: improving the rank of this Star Pattern can improve the foundation strength of all cultivators in the Chen Guo Dao Academy as a whole.

In the Chen Guo Dao Academy, the latest version of the Great Gathering Star Pattern is sixth-tier low-grade.

Basically, most fifth-tier and sixth-tier or higher cultivators cultivate this extreme version.

Fourth-tier cultivators can only cultivate the fifth-tier Great Gathering Star Pattern at most.

If it can be improved, the strength of the Chen Guo Dao Academy might be able to improve to a level as a whole.

"Star Spirit, open the Star Dome Secret Realm enlightenment time."

After giving the order to the Star Spirit, Xu Jin drove one of the Gold Stars with his heart-mind, and then his heart-mind sank into the Great Gathering Star Pattern.

The starlight of heaven and earth changed, and Xu Jin's perspective was instantly brought into strange natural phenomena, with big rivers, lakes, and seas, and even plant roots.

Especially many plants, in the thin and small roots, actually store a large amount of liquid.

Scene after scene, as if it were the vicissitudes of life.

For all this, Xu Jin was already familiar with it, and Xu Jin's experience in deducing Star Patterns was even richer.

While observing, he drove the Great Gathering Star Pattern to echo frequently and made heavy deductions.

As if it were a virtual model, it was constantly deduced in front of Xu Jin, constantly failing, but constantly progressing.

After a long time, Xu Jin instantly fell from this kind of heaven and earth phenomenon.

The high-level derivation of this Gold Star ended.

This Great Gathering Star Pattern was also successfully deduced to sixth-tier high-grade by Xu Jin, and even barely entered the threshold of the seventh tier. This deduction directly deduced two and a half small grades of the Great Gathering Star Pattern.

Xu Jin didn't stop, but took advantage of the trend to drive another Gold Star and began to comprehend and deduce again.

Strike while the iron is hot!

Half a quarter of an hour later, the enlightenment ended.

Xu Jin opened his eyes, his eyes full of joy.

Seventh-tier mid-grade!

The second Gold Star only improved the Great Gathering Star Pattern by one and a half small grades.

But the total volume reached seventh-tier mid-grade, directly improving the Great Gathering Star Pattern by four small grades.

Xu Jin hesitated, should he continue to deduce with a Brilliant Star?

If he continued to deduce with a Brilliant Star, then this Great Gathering Star Pattern would inevitably be improved to eighth-tier low-grade, and the possibility of eighth-tier mid-grade was very small.

But the enlightenment time in the Star Dome Secret Realm is limited.

And Xu Jin had deduced so many Star Patterns, and found that the most difficult to deduce were still the Star Patterns above eighth-tier mid-grade, as well as Soul Star Patterns.

Soul Power is an intangible force, and it is very difficult to cultivate, let alone deduce.

The difficulty of deduction might be three or even five times that of other Star Patterns.

So Xu Jin wanted to save the Brilliant Star as much as possible for high-level Star Patterns or Soul Star Patterns.

According to the process of deducing the Great Gathering Star Pattern just now, Xu Jin felt that there was no need to use the Brilliant Star for the time being.

Then, change to deduce the next Star Pattern.

Before deducing the next Star Pattern, Xu Jin sent the seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern directly to the Grand Master, and only then began to deduce the Star Pattern.

The second Star Pattern that needed to be deduced, Xu Jin had already made a decision.

Meteor Star Pattern.

Currently, there are two speed-type Star Patterns, one is the Meteor Star Pattern, and the other is the Willow Catkin Star Pattern; the Meteor Star Pattern focuses on speed, and the Willow Catkin Star Pattern focuses on body technique.

The latest version of the Meteor Star Pattern of the Chen Guo Dao Academy was sixth-tier low-grade before, and then it was deduced to sixth-tier high-grade by Xu Jin.

However, in the process of actual combat, especially after breaking through to the fourth tier, Xu Jin found that the sixth-tier high-grade Meteor Star Pattern was already a bit insufficient.

In the world's martial arts, only speed cannot be broken.

The importance of speed goes without saying.

When killing enemies and escaping, it is basically the first element.

Especially when escaping.

It must be deduced.

The next instant, Xu Jin's heart-mind sank into the sixth-tier high-grade Meteor Star Pattern, and at the same time, he drove a Gold Star.

In the Danxia Palace of the Chen Guo Dao Academy, because of the news that Xu Jin's Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang was 2.1 meters, Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao rarely drank two cups with Peng Lao.

That was true happiness.

Only those who have condensed the Nascent Spirit know what the concept of 2.1 meters of Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang is.

Like Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao's teacher Mao Yan, when he condensed the Nascent Spirit, the Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang was 1.4 meters, and after six years of hard cultivation, the Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang reached seven meters.

After that, he cultivated hard for more than ten years, and the Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang reached twenty meters.

Basically, an improvement progress of one meter per year.

This was still because Mao Yan was the Left Libationer of the Chen Guo Dao Academy at that time, with high power and heavy responsibility, and he didn't lack any cultivation resources.

And Xu Jin, just condensed the Nascent Spirit, and the Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang was 2.1 meters; usually, the initial coverage range of the Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang is also related to the growth speed in the later stage.

Maybe after three or four years of hard cultivation, Xu Jin's Nascent Spirit Yuanling Taiguang coverage range would be about the same as his teacher who had cultivated hard for six years.

All other aspects, naturally, go without saying.

Peng Lao was naturally happy and drank a few cups painfully.

This was considered tossing and turning in the middle of the night, Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao drove Wen Meng and directly made himself fall asleep.

But it hadn't been half an hour, and the Star-Picking Token suddenly vibrated a few times.

When resting, only starlight transmissions sent by a few people would remind him, and Xu Jin was one of them.

Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao, who had just fallen asleep, sat up abruptly, and just by glancing at the Star-Picking Token, his expression became pleasantly surprised again.

Seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern.

Seventh-tier mid-grade!

If this Star Pattern is passed down, the Star Power total of sixth-tier, seventh-tier, or even eighth-tier powerhouses can increase by 40% in an instant, and the combat power can definitely be significantly improved.

Fifth-tier cultivators of the Dao Academy can directly learn the sixth-tier Great Gathering Star Pattern through merit in the future.

Third-tier and fourth-tier cultivators can directly teach the fourth-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern.

It can be said that Xu Jin deducing the Great Gathering Star Pattern to seventh-tier mid-grade has a stronger effect on the overall strength improvement of the Chen Guo Dao Academy than the previous eighth-tier mid-grade Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

The Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern can only improve the combat power of a part of the people.

But the Great Gathering Star Pattern benefits everyone in the Chen Guo cultivation system, from bottom to top!

"Peng Lao, Peng Lao, the latest version of the seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern, come and study and engrave it quickly." Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao woke up Peng Lao, who had just fallen asleep, for the first time.

Peng Lao, who was awakened, was stunned for a few breaths before exclaiming, "Seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern? Xu Jin deduced it?"

Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao nodded violently.

"This"

"This is too good!" Peng Lao got up excitedly, "If this is successfully engraved, my Star Power total can increase by 40%. Although combat power cannot increase by 40%, an increase of 20% is possible, and the ability to fight fiercely is also stronger!"

"And you, Palace Master, your strength can also advance greatly!"

"Fighting with Tianyang Star Lord in the wild, you don't have to worry at all."

"Even, you can fight to a draw."

"Indeed!" Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao nodded heavily.

On the spot, he didn't sleep either.

Even, he didn't want to wait.

In the middle of the night, Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao sent several starlight transmissions in a row, summoning Kou Jing, Meng Yanhui, Gao Xuan, Ji Bang, Commander of the Star Patrol Guard Pei Ze, Supervisor Chen Liao, University Rectors Pan Hong and Dong Zhao, Chief Instructor Yu Da, and others.

He directly taught them the seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern without reservation, letting them study and engrave it first.

The overall strength improvement of the Chen Guo Dao Academy is urgent!

As for the source, he only said that he deduced it himself.

Then he applied Soul bans one by one.

As for other disciples, they need to slow down a bit, and then through normal channels, such as a group of deputy rectors, reward and bestow higher-level Great Gathering Star Patterns.

No need for much, within three months, the overall strength of the Chen Guo Dao Academy will be able to rise significantly.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Zhou Qingzhu must be taught the seventh-tier mid-grade Great Gathering Star Pattern.

However, the Grand Master considered it comprehensively, and Liu Zhou Qingzhu must be taught privately.

Otherwise, it is easy to attract the attention of interested people.

For a time, all the high-level officials of the Dao Academy went into emergency seclusion for one to several days.

Their strength began to transform and improve one by one.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 324 =====