Chapter 389

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Eight Desolations Continent.

In nine days, this was the eighth time the special envoy Ju Zhang had come to see that Altar Heavenly Road.

Basically once a day.

It could be seen how much he valued this Altar Heavenly Road.

"Why is it still so far?" Looking at the Altar Heavenly Road that could only be seen faintly, the special envoy Ju Zhang couldn't help it anymore, "Ju Ling, when I came to see it yesterday, this Altar Heavenly Road should have been higher than this, right?

Why do I feel like it has shrunk back again?"

Ju Ling also had a bitter face; he had never seen such a strange Altar Heavenly Road.

According to previous experience, nine days was enough for this Altar Heavenly Road to approach the Ancestral Land.

The Altar Heavenly Road that rose previously, the fastest one to connect to the Ancestral Land cave heaven, took twelve days, and the slowest took eighteen days.

But this star region in front of him was too damn strange.

Staring here every day was almost making Ju Ling annoyed.

It rises for a day, falls for two days, and just doesn't come up.

Theoretically, this Altar Heavenly Road should have been more than half finished, but in reality, judging from the current situation, it might not even have finished one-fifth of the Heavenly Road.

"Lord, it has indeed shrunk back a little bit." Ju Ling replied.

"How could it be like this?

Have you contacted them?

Have you confirmed which messenger it is?" Ju Zhang asked.

"Back to Lord, I briefly contacted them for a while yesterday; it is the previously missing messenger Ju Jiu, and the information matches, but his situation seems not very good. This Altar Heavenly Road rises and falls, and the specific reason is unclear." Ju Ling said.

The special envoy Ju Zhang stared down at the Altar Heavenly Road for a while and said helplessly, "Then you continue to watch. If this Altar Heavenly Road rises a little more and you can contact them, contact them immediately to see what kind of situation Ju Jiu is in.

Why is it rising and falling?"

"Lord, rest assured, I will watch it."

After staring down for more than ten breaths, the special envoy Ju Zhang could only leave first.

He valued the connection of this star region very much and needed it very much.

But he had a thousand things to do in his hands right now, and there were many important things to handle.

Now, the Eight Desolations Continent had been established.

So his title as special envoy had to be changed.

Otherwise, how could he command the many alien elites of the Eight Desolations Continent?

This matter could not just be given any title; otherwise, how would it be different from a mountain king?

There must be an order from above and a request from below.

They were all a bunch of things that didn't understand, and simple things needed him to arrange several times.

It was only the left and right protectors of the Blood God Sect that were easier to use; otherwise, he would have been annoyed to death.

Inside the Lanshan Star Region Altar Heavenly Road.

Since the Altar Heavenly Road was raised, ten days had already passed.

The actual cultivation time was actually only six days.

The reason was also very simple: they still had to drive the Heaven and Earth Star Will to draw massive amounts of star power from the underground of the star region, condense it into the Altar Heavenly Road, and then release the control to obtain massive concentrations of star power.

They needed to spend part of the time to increase the Altar Heavenly Road.

Although they only cultivated for six days, everyone's cultivation had made significant progress.

Like Ning Yuchan, her cultivation had just reached the Fifth Tier Seventh Layer.

The 'pay-to-win' player Little Yuer was even more exaggerated; when she came, her cultivation was already at the Fifth Tier First Layer peak. At this moment, she was fully enhancing her cultivation, and it was the kind that fully enhanced the Middle Shang Xinggong cultivation.

She followed a path different from Ning Yuchan, who was constantly refining herself for excellence.

The suggestion her grandfather gave her was to cultivate to the Fifth Tier Ninth Layer at extreme speed, and then use the strengthening star patterns to enhance combat power.

The efficiency of strengthening star patterns at the Fifth Tier Ninth Layer was several times that of the Fifth Tier early-to-middle stages.

As for Jin Xing, after breaking through to the Fifth Tier, he gave up.

Ning Yuchan, however, still planned to pluck another Gold Star.

The reason was simple: because in these two months, Ning Yuchan had actually relied on the deduction method given by Xu Jin and a large amount of Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern inheritance essence blood obtained from the star region to research and reverse-engineer the Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern.

According to her, she consumed a full thirty-one strands of Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern inheritance essence blood.

This made Xu Jin marvel endlessly.

He could only say that Ning Yuchan's accumulation in Gold-type star arts was extremely high, and her talent was also extremely high.

Xu Jin had the help of the Star Firmament Secret Realm and the Arena, and when he participated in the Thunder Elephant and Earth Lei Lei Xiangxing Patterns, he used ten and eleven strands of star pattern inheritance essence blood respectively.

If there was no help from the Star Firmament Secret Realm and the Arena, it might have taken more than forty strands.

So when he prepared the Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern inheritance essence for Ning Yuchan, it was as high as fifty strands.

He didn't expect that only thirty-one strands were consumed.

If it were under the same conditions as Xu Jin, Ning Yuchan's speed in researching and deducing the Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern would only be faster than Xu Jin's.

Then, Ning Yuchan used the ten Silver Stars and two Gold Stars she had just obtained to directly deduce the Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern to the Seventh Tier top-grade.

According to Ning Yuchan, she had already deduced a part of the Eighth Tier Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern, but the Eighth Tier was too difficult.

If she wanted to deduce the Gold Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern to the Eighth Tier low-grade, she would need at least one more Gold Star, and she would also need Xu Jin's help.

While marveling, Xu Jin knew that this point could not be compared.

Xu Jin himself liked quite a few; he practiced Fire-type, Earth-type, Thunder-type, and even Wood-type, Wind-type, and Gold-type were all involved.

But Ning Yuchan was single-mindedly focusing on the Gold-type.

She was walking the path of 'Extreme'.

As for Xu Jin himself, the breakthrough of his Lower Shang Xinggong cultivation was a matter of course.

Middle and Lower Star Palaces had both broken through to the Fifth Tier, and the gathering battle was successful, so his combat power naturally soared exponentially.

These past few days, Xu Jin had also been cultivating bitterly.

The cultivation of his Middle Shang Xinggong, even in the Altar Heavenly Road, took a full three and a half days to enhance to the Fifth Tier First Layer peak.

This cultivation enhancement speed was about the same as the enhancement speed of Hou Yunzhang and others before.

Hou Yunzhang previously in the Altar Heavenly Road, at the Fifth Tier, enhanced one layer of cultivation in about three and a half days.

And theoretically, Xu Jin's cultivation speed was four or five times that of Hou Yunzhang.

But the actual cultivation speed was about the same.

Even compared to Little Yuer, the cultivation speed was a bit slower.

Little Yuer enhanced one layer of cultivation in three days, and now she was already at the Fifth Tier Third Layer, and it looked like she was about to reach the Fifth Tier Fourth Layer.

Face to face, Xu Jin knew the reason.

Star cores!

Others had ten star cores, he had thirty-six star cores; the difficulty of enhancing cultivation was four times that of others, so it was very normal to be slow.

Very slow, but also very powerful.

Previously, when he was bored while driving the Altar Heavenly Road to grow, Xu Jin and others played small games and compared the thickness of their star power.

After the Fifth Tier gathering battle, the star power in the star palace, under the connection of the foundation star patterns, fused into one; as long as there was sufficient preparation time, all the star power could be blasted out at once.

The star power of Hou Yunzhang, whose cultivation reached the Fifth Tier Ninth Layer peak, was naturally more majestic than Xu Jin's.

When the two compared, Hou Yunzhang pushed Xu Jin's star power back by three feet.

This made Hou Yunzhang incomparably shocked!

He roughly deduced that his young master's star power thickness at the Fifth Tier First Layer was about the same as his at the Fifth Tier Seventh Layer.

He estimated that at the Fifth Tier Second Layer, the star power thickness would be about the same as his.

At the Fifth Tier Third Layer, it could far exceed his Fifth Tier Ninth Layer peak.

When comparing star power with Ning Yuchan, who was at the Fifth Tier Seventh Layer, Xu Jin was only slightly weaker.

That is to say, although Xu Jin's cultivation was only at the Fifth Tier First Layer, his star power thickness was about the same as the Fifth Tier Seventh Layer. Then, enhancing cultivation by one layer would double the star power thickness!

When Xu Jin's cultivation enhanced to the Fifth Tier Second Layer, the star power thickness could exceed the ordinary Fifth Tier Ninth Layer.

And, Xu Jin also discovered another thing.

Including Ning Yuchan, wanting to pour out all the star power in their star palaces at once required preparation time.

Hou Yunzhang needed three breaths of preparation time, and Ning Yuchan needed nearly two breaths of preparation time.

Xu Jin didn't need preparation.

In actual combat, the gap appeared.

As long as Xu Jin was willing, he could perform a star power saturation bombardment in an instant, but Hou Yunzhang could only call upon twenty percent of his star power in an instant, and Ning Yuchan could only call upon thirty percent of her star power in an instant.

This was also Xu Jin's huge advantage in future battles.

The root of the advantage came from divine soul cultivation.

After breaking through to the Fifth Tier, the role of divine soul cultivation became more and more important.

The stronger the divine soul cultivation, the more star power could be called upon at once.

However, Ning Yuchan had already engraved multiple Clear Soul Star Patterns, and her future divine soul cultivation would become stronger and stronger.

Besides this, the cultivation of the senior sister Yang Miaozhen also successfully broke through to the Fifth Tier, and her cultivation was soaring.

Ying Ge's cultivation was also constantly breaking through.

And what Xu Jin found most interesting was that the subordinate of that Holy Clan special envoy Ju Zhang was actually constantly asking about his current situation through the Holy Clan Gold Order, and then asking which messenger he was, and so on.

Xu Jin's original intention at the beginning was to scold him back directly.

But after thinking about it, why bother?

Pretending to be him, maybe he could extract some useful information.

It just so happened that when he was in the Spring Thunder Star Region, he had carefully interrogated the messenger Ju Jiu, and knew all kinds of intelligence.

Naturally, Xu Jin pretended to be the messenger Ju Jiu.

That subordinate Ju Ling also wanted to perform more identity verification, but currently in the Altar Heavenly Road, there was no way.

When he could contact them in these few days, Xu Jin wanted to try to see if he could extract some useful information.

Whether there was any or not, he would grab a handful first!

On April 13th, it was the tenth day since Xu Jin raised the Altar Heavenly Road. On this day, Xu Jin returned the six strands of Heaven and Earth Star Will to their original positions as usual, gathered everyone's strength, and began to rapidly enhance and grow the Altar Heavenly Road to obtain cultivation space.

Half a day later, when the Altar Heavenly Road grew to a certain extent, Ju Ling, who was watching here, suddenly asked.

"Ju Jiu, what is your situation over there? Why does it feel like the Altar Heavenly Road you raised has been shrinking instead of growing in the past few days, and the position is getting lower and lower?" Ju Ling's voice came again.

Xu Jin smiled upon hearing this, and while deliberately imitating Ju Jiu's voice, he made the voice very weak.

"Ju Ling, I'm afraid I can't hold on! There are only four strands of Heaven and Earth Star Will, the Altar Heavenly Road grows for a while and falls for a while, my consumption is too great!

I can't hold on anymore!

This requires me to drive it without sleep or rest!

I have already driven it for twenty days, and I feel like I can't hold on!

Perhaps tomorrow or the day after, the Altar Heavenly Road will dissipate.

Ju Ling, I'm sorry!

I cannot complete the special envoy's instructions."

Anyway, Xu Jin held the idea of grabbing a handful whether there was grass or not; at this moment, he also let himself go and directly took out the means of selling misery from his previous life.

Whether it was useful or not, he would sell it first.

In the Eight Desolations Continent, Ju Ling was anxious.

He had observed the Altar Heavenly Road raised by Ju Jiu for more than twenty days, and Ju Jiu's efforts were something he had personally witnessed.

The Altar Heavenly Road kept rising and falling; how many rises and falls there were represented how hard Ju Jiu was working!

"You hold on a little longer, I will go and ask the Lord to see if I can give you some help."

"Good, thank you, Ju Ling."

Although he sympathized with Ju Jiu very much and understood Ju Jiu's hardship under the ups and downs of the Altar Heavenly Road.

But when Ju Ling asked the special envoy Ju Zhang for instructions, he still didn't dare to say directly that he wanted to give help.

That was not something he could decide or give advice on.

He could only provide the situation, and the real decision had to be made by the special envoy.

"Lord, Ju Jiu said that he is afraid he cannot hold on, and perhaps in a day or two, he will not be able to maintain it, and the Altar Heavenly Road he raised will collapse." Ju Ling reported dutifully.

"It will collapse in a day or two?

This Altar Heavenly Road has been raised for twenty days, right?" Ju Zhang asked.

"Yes, twenty days." Ju Ling replied.

Upon hearing this, Ju Zhang nodded, "That is also true. In the case of insufficient Heaven and Earth Star Will, it requires Ju Jiu to drive it without sleep or rest, almost without recovery time. Being able to persist for twenty days can be considered his perseverance.

It is just..."

Ju Zhang's eyes flickered, making the final decision.

He needed to send over one point of world origin, and these two points of world origin could come back.

Would there be any accidents?

Would that Qi Qi Tian Sheng, who destroyed his two Altar Heavenly Roads before, appear again?

Probably not, right?

How could he appear every time?

Not necessarily!

There was a small probability of losing this one point of world origin.

However, if he didn't act, the two points of world origin at Ju Jiu's place would definitely be lost.

In the comparison between inevitable loss and small probability, the special envoy Ju Zhang suddenly made a decision.

"Has the identity been verified?" Ju Zhang asked.

Ju Ling nodded, "Conventional verification has all been verified; it is indeed Ju Jiu! Among the several verification methods the Lord gave, because of the ups and downs of the Altar Heavenly Road these past few days, the verification was not thorough."

"Then what do you think?" Ju Zhang asked suddenly.

Actually, it wasn't that Ju Zhang was indecisive, but that he was afraid of losing world origin.

"This subordinate dare not make the decision, it all depends on the Lord's decision." Ju Ling was still very dutiful, or rather, had his own wisdom.

"One point in exchange for two points; if it succeeds, it can bring back two points!

But if nothing is done, these two points will be completely gone.

Go!

Give him some help!"

Suddenly, Ju Zhang made up his mind.

It wasn't just one point in exchange for two points; he also thought of other problems.

If he stood by and watched him die, would the cronies following him have any thoughts?

Why not do something that benefits both?

Half an hour later, Ju Zhang arrived at the edge of the Eight Desolations Continent again and tried to contact Ju Jiu, but it was intermittent.

Inside the Lanshan Star Region, Xu Jin wanted to end his cultivation, but didn't expect Ju Ling to contact him again.

He could only let the Altar Heavenly Road rise a little more.