Chapter 403: Current World Authority and Stacking Armor

It was not strange that Emperor Qian'an possessed the star domain coordinates of the Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong's small world.

Twenty years ago, the party most closely related to the Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong was the Great Chen Imperial Family.

But the reason why he had kept it unused all along was hard to say.

It was possible that the difficulty of unsealing that small world was extremely high, or it was possible that unsealing that small world would be discovered by the three great star palaces.

But judging from the clues recorded in the "Secret Notes" personally written by Emperor Qian'an, it was also possible that Emperor Qian'an was plotting to obtain the Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong's secret method for breaking through the ninth tier, delusional about achieving longevity.

It was just that Emperor Qian'an himself was incompetent; let alone breaking through the ninth tier, he hadn't even broken through the seventh tier, which was why he hadn't taken action.

Various reasons were all possible.

Because of this, after much deliberation, Xu Jin still sealed Emperor Qian'an's "Secret Notes," as well as the Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong's star domain coordinates, into the deepest part of his own Sumeru space.

He used a special box for storage, and what was stored in the box were all the most important items.

Including the star domain coordinates of the sixth-tier star domain where his teacher, Seeing Qi Shanye, had gone, which were also here.

The possibility of breaking through the ninth tier, Xu Jin thought.

Longevity, Xu Jin also thought.

Leaving this world to roam the starry river, Xu Jin thought even more.

But the prerequisite for everything was for Xu Jin to break through his own cultivation to the eighth tier.

Before reaching the eighth tier, obtaining them was useless.

There was another more critical question: was there a possibility that you thought you were going to pick up treasure, but actually fell into a boss's nest?

The Spirit Chronicle Shang Xinggong had previously been the strongest among the four great star palaces.

There was also the Clear Soul Star Pattern passively improving divine soul cultivation.

Therefore, seal it for now, and don't tell the Grand Master either!

Everything would wait until Xu Jin broke through to the eighth tier.

After finishing the inventory of Emperor Qian'an's Sumeru space, Xu Jin took out the two most important spoils he had obtained previously.

One of them was twenty-three portions of Heaven and Earth Star Will; although more than half of them overlapped with the Heaven and Earth Will Xu Jin had already obtained, after refining them, they were also very useful.

What Xu Jin was most interested in at this moment was the current world authority within Emperor Qian'an's Star-Plucking Token.

Xu Jin took it out, wrapping Emperor Qian'an's Star-Plucking Token and that cluster of bright yellow radiance with his divine soul thought power.

But just like before, he was unable to refine it!

Activating the seven law stars above the Arena could only move it; he still couldn't refine it.

Xu Jin frowned.

Could there be some restriction on obtaining this thing?

After a long while, Xu Jin suddenly slapped his thigh; he had overlooked one point.

Since Emperor Qian'an's current world authority was bound to the Star-Plucking Token, why not take out his own Star-Plucking Token and try?

Almost the instant Xu Jin took out his own Star-Plucking Token and activated it, a beam of starlight appeared before him.

【Discovered Star-Plucking Tower Silver-Level Holder Authority; devour and fuse?】

The silver-level authority holder was bound to the Star-Plucking Token, so what about the current world authority?

After hesitating, Xu Jin chose to devour and fuse.

The next instant, the Star-Plucking Token in Xu Jin's hand shone brilliantly, instantly wrapping Emperor Qian'an's Star-Plucking Token.

Xu Jin felt that his own Star-Plucking Token felt a bit like a dog acting on its master's authority at this moment.

Very quickly, Emperor Qian'an's Star-Plucking Token lost all its starlight, becoming an ordinary Star-Plucking Token, falling to the ground without any spirituality.

However, Xu Jin's Star-Plucking Token was still devouring and fusing with that earthy yellow radiance.

Xu Jin subconsciously injected his own divine soul thought power into it, wanting to accelerate the devouring, but while accelerating, he felt an abnormality.

Within that cluster of earthy yellow power, there were three clusters of power with different properties.

One cluster of bright yellow radiance was the Star-Plucking Tower's copper-level authority, another cluster was the current world's laws, and the third was the current world's authority.

And the Star-Plucking Tower's copper-level authority plus that cluster of current world authority was what had allowed Emperor Qian'an to possess the Star-Plucking Tower's silver-level authority.

Sensing this, Xu Jin's heart stirred, and he fully activated his divine soul thought power to intervene.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin's Star-Plucking Token had completely fused with Emperor Qian'an's Star-Plucking Tower copper-level authority; the improvement was not great.

But Xu Jin directly refined that cluster of earthy yellow current world laws, directly causing the earth-type law star on Xu Jin's Arena to grow by a significant margin.

But the biggest harvest was the refined current world authority.

It took a full half-hour for Xu Jin to finish refining this one-tenth of current world authority.

The instant the refinement was completed, a familiar feeling arrived.

Xu Jin felt more affinity with the entire world, and the star power from all directions felt more affinity toward him.

Vaguely, there were many inexplicable feelings.

Mountains, rivers, earth, grass, trees, birds, and beasts all seemed to be Xu Jin's friends.

If one really had to describe it, it was that previously he was just a passerby in this world, but now, he had a bit of the feeling of a master.

This was very similar to the feeling of obtaining heaven and earth authority after refining Heaven and Earth Star Will following his conquest of so many star domains, but it was even more powerful.

It was only one-tenth!

According to experience, if one could obtain three-tenths of heaven and earth authority, a qualitative change could occur.

Three-tenths was enough to be a demigod-like existence in this world.

It was just that he had no clue where to find the other two-tenths.

Most likely, they were in the hands of the several Star Lords, that is, the hands of the most top-tier experts in the current world.

Xu Jin also discovered that as long as he was willing, this one-tenth of current world authority he had refined could be fused into the Star-Plucking Token at any time to improve the Star-Plucking Tower's authority, and could be separated again at any time.

If fused in, his authority in the Star-Plucking Tower would still be silver-level, but it would be the superposition of two silver-levels.

According to Xu Jin's sensing, it would take at least two more silver-level authorities to possibly obtain gold-level authority!

This overlapped with Xu Jin's previous discovery: three-tenths of current world authority!

Thus, the inventory of the harvest was completed, and the refinement was also thoroughly completed.

The law stars on Xu Jin's Arena had changed again.

【Fire-type law: seventh tier (61)】 【Earth-type law: eighth tier (71)】

【Water-type law: fifth tier (47)】 【Thunder-type law: fifth tier (46)】

【Wind-type law: fifth tier (48)】 【Wood-type law: fourth tier (30)】

【Gold-type law: third tier (29)】

After obtaining a strand of current world earth-type law, the earth-type law directly reached the eighth tier, getting closer and closer to touching the limit.

He wondered what changes would occur after reaching the limit!

He wondered if these earth-type law stars could be directly converted into combat power in the later stages!

While pondering, Xu Jin let out a long yawn, and a deep sense of fatigue surged into his heart.

He had been running continuously recently; it was time to have a good sleep and rest for a few days.

On May 3rd, Xu Jin had a full meal at the National Dao Academy's cafeteria, listening to the discussions of the fellow disciples around him, and smiling, he walked toward the main building of the Great Chen Star-Plucking Tower.

It had been five days since Emperor Qian'an was assassinated.

The new monarch had already ascended the throne; it was the sixth imperial prince, Prince Duan, without any surprises.

Although the title was set, the ritual procedures were still ongoing, and the Grand Master was so busy his feet barely touched the ground.

And inside and outside the Great Chen National Dao Academy, the most discussed topic was this political reshuffle in Dachen Wan Yi.

He heard the most discussion while eating.

It was as if everyone was a politician.

Previously it was the "Keyboard Politics Bureau."

Now it was the "Rice Politics Bureau."

The most explosive news was that Left Libationer Meng Yanhui was appointed as Left Chancellor, and Dong Zhao, in his capacity as University Rectifier, was appointed as Great Chen's Right Chancellor.

There were many similar reassignments.

As for the Grand Master, he had stepped down from the position of Left Chancellor and remained the Grand Master, but everyone knew that the one truly in charge was still the Grand Master.

Xu Jin was even clearer on this point.

In this world where great power returns to oneself, if you have strength, you can obtain power at any time; if you don't have strength, power is just a passerby.

Xu Jin no longer wanted to think about complex political struggles.

If he encountered similar things in the future, Xu Jin would rather suppress them with one punch.

Simple, easy.

Not like the Grand Master, who had to labor his heart and strength.

Therefore, Xu Jin entered the Star-Plucking Tower's Star Dome Secret Realm.

These five days were for rest, but he only had a good sleep; the rest of the time, he was still cultivating and still deducing.

Added to the accumulation from the previous period, plus the efforts of these five days, Xu Jin successfully reverse-deduced the Fire Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern and the Lei Yi Star Pattern using the star pattern inheritance essence blood he had previously obtained from the alien races. The Fire Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern was fourth-tier high-grade, and the Lei Yi Star Pattern was fifth-tier low-grade.

Just right, it was now May, and the Star Dome Secret Realm's enlightenment time had arrived again.

He would use the Gold Star and the Brilliant Star to deduce and improve his strength again.

After deducing one or two more waves and improving his cultivation again, Xu Jin could go to the sixth-tier star domain to find his teacher, Seeing Qi Shanye.

In fact, before assassinating Emperor Qian'an, in order to cope with Emperor Qian'an's possible means, Xu Jin had deduced a wave in the Star-Plucking Tower during the two days of preparation.

For example, the Bing Fire Divine Thunder used to blast Emperor Qian'an was deduced previously.

To behead Emperor Qian'an, he had to use a trump card star art.

Xu Jin's Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern and Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern were both eighth-tier mid-grade; Xu Jin wanted to choose one star pattern to deduce to eighth-tier high-grade at the time.

In the end, he chose the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Because of the reason for deducing the Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern to eighth-tier high-grade, he had accumulated over one hundred and fifty wisps of Nine Heavens Thunder Rhyme, which was Xu Jin's true trump card.

During the battle to assassinate Emperor Qian'an, he consumed nearly one hundred wisps.

But in the end, it proved that Xu Jin's consumption of one Brilliant Star to deduce the eighth-tier mid-grade Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern to eighth-tier high-grade was correct.

The eighth-tier high-grade Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern brought a thunder-type star art named Five Elements Divine Thunder, which was a very powerful thunder-type star art.

But this Five Elements Divine Thunder contained five types of thunder-type star arts, which were respectively Bing Fire Divine Thunder, Yi Wood Divine Thunder, Gui Water Divine Thunder, Geng Gold Divine Thunder, and Wu Earth Divine Thunder.

Combining the five types of thunder-type star arts into one was the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

The true Five Elements Divine Thunder had astonishing power, several times that of a single Five Elements Divine Thunder.

The previous Bing Fire Divine Thunder was already fierce enough.

If he learned the true Five Elements Divine Thunder, Xu Jin estimated that even if he couldn't blast a seventh-tier expert to death, he could easily severely injure one.

However, the Five Elements Divine Thunder required Xu Jin to first learn these five types of thunder-type star arts himself.

It wasn't difficult to say it was difficult.

Because these Five Elements thunder-type star arts only required seventh-tier or higher Five Elements source-type star patterns, combined with the eighth-tier high-grade Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, to condense into the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

Currently, among the Five Elements source-type star patterns, Xu Jin's fire-type was eighth-tier mid-grade, the earth-type was also eighth-tier mid-grade, the gold-type was sixth-tier high-grade, the water-type hadn't been learned yet, and the wood-type Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern was only sixth-tier high-grade.

The gold-type was not a problem; Ning Yuchan had already deduced it to eighth-tier mid-grade and had given it to Xu Jin.

It was just that Xu Jin hadn't had time to comprehend it.

Xu Jin also had the seventh-tier low-grade Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, which he hadn't comprehended yet.

As for the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, Ji Hongli only had the sixth-tier high-grade one, which she had already given to Xu Jin, but the Ji family had a seventh-tier mid-grade wood source, which Xu Jin should be able to obtain.

Therefore, practicing the Five Elements Divine Thunder, for Xu Jin, was just a matter of time.

During the last deduction, besides the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, Xu Jin also consumed two Gold Stars to deduce the Lei Dun Star Pattern to seventh-tier mid-grade.

A total of two Gold Stars and one Brilliant Star were consumed.

However, before breaking through to fifth-tier second-layer, Xu Jin challenged the Star-Plucking Secret Realm and again obtained two Gold Stars and one Brilliant Star.

Up to now, he still had five Gold Stars and one Brilliant Star.

The next instant, Xu Jin again challenged the fifth-tier second-layer Star-Plucking Secret Realm.

Xu Jin's current strength could be called explosive.

Without any suspense, he again obtained two Gold Stars and one Brilliant Star.

The number of Gold Stars in his hand reached seven, and the number of Brilliant Stars reached two.

Subsequently, Xu Jin began to deduce.

The first thing was naturally to deduce the Fire Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern.

The Fire Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern he obtained was only fourth-tier high-grade.

Elephant-type star patterns had always been the most difficult to deduce; even with the Star Dome Secret Realm's enlightenment time and the Arena's law star blessing, Xu Jin still consumed three Gold Stars and one Brilliant Star to deduce the Fire Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern to eighth-tier low-grade.

The number of Gold Stars in his hand also plummeted to four, and he still had one Brilliant Star.

The Lei Yi Star Pattern had to be deduced.

It was an auxiliary type that improved speed.

Whether it was the speed of Flowing Shimmer or the speed of Lei Dun, it could assist in the improvement.

However, when deducing the Lei Yi Star Pattern, the experience Xu Jin had accumulated in deducing star patterns, plus the effects of the Star Dome Secret Realm and the Arena's law stars, were thoroughly manifested.

For the fifth-tier low-grade Lei Yi Star Pattern, Xu Jin only used two Gold Stars to deduce it to seventh-tier high-grade.

On average, each Gold Star improved it by four small grades.

You have to know that before this, when Xu Jin deduced star patterns, if he was lucky, one Gold Star would improve a star pattern by three small grades; if he was unlucky, it would only be two small grades.

Now, he could reach four small grades.

It already had the flavor of "thick accumulation and thin hair" (great preparation leading to a breakthrough)!

The seventh-tier high-grade Lei Yi directly improved his speed, whether it was Flowing Shimmer or Lei Dun, by more than seventy percent.

An increase of thirty percent compared to the previous Lei Yi effect.

With this improvement, Xu Jin was confident that his speed should be able to exceed most seventh-tier experts.

At the same time, Lei Yi was another layer of defense!

Under the blessing of the Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern and the Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern, the defense of Lei Yi also became super strong.

He had stacked another layer of armor.

In the future, when Xu Jin encountered enemies, it would first be the Rain Curtain Jin Zhong, then Lei Yi, then the special star art Flower Shifting, and finally the Seven-Star spirit armor.

Under the four layers of stacked armor, combined with the Roots of the Earth, Xu Jin estimated that he would have the possibility of surviving even if he encountered an ordinary eighth-tier expert.

Speaking of defense.

Xu Jin's consciousness began to sink into the Rain Curtain Star Pattern, beginning to deduce the Rain Curtain Star Pattern.

The Rain Curtain Jin Zhong was Xu Jin's strongest defense.

But the main body, the Rain Curtain Star Pattern, was only fourth-tier high-grade.

Last time, Xu Jin wanted to deduce it, but the Star Dome enlightenment time ended.

Today was just right to deduce it.

Half an hour later, the Rain Curtain Star Pattern, which consumed two Gold Stars, was directly deduced by Xu Jin to seventh-tier mid-grade.

It improved by eight small grades.

According to the Grand Master, the Song family, which took the Rain Curtain Star Pattern as their foundation for establishing the clan, even if they hid it away, had only deduced the Rain Curtain Star Pattern to fifth-tier high-grade.

Now, Xu Jin only used two Gold Stars to deduce it to seventh-tier mid-grade.

Previously, he could only stack four layers of rain curtains; now, he could directly stack seven layers of rain curtains.

Just by trying it, Xu Jin discovered that with the improvement of the Rain Curtain Star Pattern, the defensive power of his Rain Curtain Jin Zhong directly improved by eighty percent, nearly doubling.

Defense doubled!

He felt some regret!

The Rain Curtain Star Pattern deduction was late.

If he had deduced it to this level earlier, then when Emperor Qian'an's Yellow Dragon Sword struck down that day, Xu Jin could have taken it head-on!

He had stacked another layer of armor.

The next instant, Xu Jin's consciousness sank into the Bright Chronicle Star Pattern.

The Bright Chronicle Star Pattern was one of the star patterns Xu Jin planned to deduce.

Its importance was getting higher and higher.

Especially since Xu Jin's lower star palace possessed thirty-six star patterns; if the Bright Chronicle Star Pattern was slightly improved, then the sensory effect brought by the Bright Chronicle Star Pattern would be improved exponentially.

But when Xu Jin's consciousness sank into the lower star palace, he was suddenly stunned.

The Gold Stars were gone.

After a round of deduction, he had consumed all the Gold Stars; he still had one Brilliant Star.

"This..."

The number of Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars was still not enough!

Looking at it this way, the deduction of the Bright Chronicle Star Pattern had to be postponed?

Xu Jin didn't want to think about it.

The next instant, Xu Jin took out two Ten Thousand Spirit Blood Pills and the white remnant bone!

With the assistance of these two treasures, his cultivation should be able to break through to fifth-tier third-layer in a short time.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 404 =====