Chapter 412: Seven Kill Second Trial

Xu Jin, who stepped into the Life star path, only felt a flash of light before his eyes, as if he had passed through a barrier, and instantly stepped out.

Ahead, Academy Head Dong Zhao was looking at him, his eyes filled with inexplicable astonishment.

Dong Zhao understood Xu Jin's extraordinariness.

The battle in the Fifth Tier Spirit Martial Star Domain left an impression on Dong Zhao that was profound beyond measure.

Later, it even helped him break through to the Sixth Tier.

Dong Zhao knew of Xu Jin's extraordinariness.

However, Xu Jin's performance today once again broke the upper limit of his understanding of Xu Jin.

Too strong.

And too mysterious.

Combined with the various information he had learned during this period, Dong Zhao was one hundred percent certain that Xu Jin, who came from the Jin Shan Dao Academy, definitely had stronger combat power than him.

This was also the source of Dong Zhao's confidence in facing the Seventh Tier Watching Zhang Lin of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace.

Dong Zhao had confidence in his own strength, but even more self-awareness; it was impossible for him to defeat the Seventh Tier Watching Zhang Lin, who was also a top-tier genius.

But adding Xu Jin, it was different.

The next instant, Liu Zhou Qingzhu stepped out, her beautiful eyes fixed on Xu Jin, light flowing, strange and inexplicable.

In the last ten years, the most correct thing she had done was to lower her face and, sparing no cost, personally invite Xu Jin, the top-tier true disciple, into the Flying Swallow Hall.

The rescue in the Spirit Martial Star Domain, helping her break through, and even giving her the Eighth Tier Willow Catkin Star Pattern—every single item was a explosive harvest.

Especially the Eighth Tier Willow Catkin Star Pattern, which directly made her the apple of her family's eye.

But until now, she had only taught the Seventh Tier-and-below Willow Catkin Star Pattern to her family.

Back then, she had begged her grandfather and grandmother before they allowed the family to pass the Fourth Tier-and-above Willow Catkin Star Pattern to Xu Jin.

And the upper limit of their Liu family's Willow Catkin Star Pattern was only at the Sixth Tier mid-stage.

Now, giving back to the Seventh Tier-and-below was already an ultra-high return.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Zhou Qingzhu's status in the Liu family was now skyrocketing.

She was already one of the decision-makers of the Liu clan.

In the distance, in other star gate regions, people also appeared.

Those who stepped into the Life star gate passed the fastest.

In the neighboring alien star gate region, five people had already passed.

Xu Jin's heart stirred, and with a wave of his hand, several rays of starlight rushed toward all directions.

Boom!

An invisible spatial barrier emerged, blocking the starlight Xu Jin had blasted in all directions.

The star gate spatial barrier was still there.

This made Xu Jin somewhat disappointed.

Xu Jin had originally thought that after passing the first trial, the star gate spatial barrier would disappear, and taking this opportunity, he would first kill a few aliens.

With the three of them—himself, Dong Zhao, and Liu Zhou Qingzhu—joining forces and coordinating well, they could even kill a Seventh Tier expert.

Now, they could only wait.

In each star gate region, people had successively passed the star paths.

The Life star path was the fastest; one stepped in directly.

Those who stepped into the Death star path were killed on the spot, and those in the Repel star path were sent away.

Those who stepped into the other four types of star paths were still struggling within the star paths.

But it didn't last too long.

After dozens of breaths, people successively stepped out from the Struggle, Injury, Illusion, and Surprise star gates.

The situation of the first trial gradually became clear.

The Struggle star path involved the appearance of an illusion with strength similar to the intruder; one only needed to defeat it to pass.

The Injury star path was a wave of attacks from all directions; one could pass if they could withstand it, and if they couldn't, they died.

Illusion and Surprise tested willpower or soul cultivation.

Those who passed could also step in.

Those who didn't, some died, some were sent away.

In these four types of star paths, there were still those who were eliminated.

Suddenly, Dong Zhao and Liu Zhou Qingzhu's gazes froze, pointing toward the spatial region opposite them.

They had passed the star path, but they could see the situation in the spatial star domain opposite.

It was the peerless genius of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace, Sun Fujia; the star path he stepped into actually showed a huge "Death" character!

The moment the "Death" character appeared, everyone's expression became solemn.

Watching Zhang Lin and the group of geniuses from the Heavenly Yang Star Palace even held their breath.

If Sun Fujia died here, the loss to the Heavenly Yang Star Palace would be too great!

Sun Fujia, as the peerless genius of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace, was a pillar-like existence destined to ascend to the Eighth Tier in the future.

Dong Zhao, Liu Feiyan, and Xu Jin all looked over at the same time.

Their moods were somewhat complicated.

They hoped that this Sun Fujia would meet with an accident and die, weakening the power of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace.

But they also hoped Sun Fujia would live.

If such a top-tier genius survived, he could be one more main force against the alien elites in the future.

On the star path Sun Fujia stepped into, the "Death" character transformed into terrifying starlight, strangling toward Sun Fujia from all directions, leaving Sun Fujia nowhere to hide.

Sun Fujia, however, was not flustered at all.

Flames radiated from his entire body, like a terrifying sun, scorching to the extreme.

Clusters of massive star power fluctuations exploded rapidly, blasting toward those terrifying strangling starlight rays.

Attack instead of defense!

The flames around Sun Fujia and the "Death" starlight constantly flickered in and out of existence.

A Seven-Star Spirit Armor on Sun Fujia's body also erupted with dazzling light.

Two breaths later, Sun Fujia fell out of the star path and appeared in the space of the second trial.

The moment he fell out, blood sprayed wildly from his mouth, and the Seven-Star Spirit Armor on his body disintegrated into fragments inch by inch.

The next instant, the people from the Heavenly Yang Star Palace who had passed previously protected Sun Fujia heavily, fearing that the people from the Chen Guo Dao Academy would harm him; at the same time, the light of mid-tier star healing rose.

Xu Jin and the others would not do such a thing.

For one, it would only make the aliens laugh, and for another, killing Sun Fujia in such a situation would likely make the Heavenly Yang Star Lord fight them to the death afterward!

In each star gate region, people appeared from the star gates one after another.

This situation lasted for a full half-hour.

Half an hour later, starlight emerged again above the Seven Kill Secret Realm star gate.

【The time for the first trial of the Seven Kill has ended; those who did not successfully pass are sent out.】

The moment the starlight appeared, dozens of silhouettes were transformed into starlight and ejected from the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

【First trial of the Seven Kill completed, 1,453 people passed.】

【The second trial of the Seven Kill will begin in one hour.】

The emergence of the starlight made Xu Jin and the others thoughtful.

2,100 people participated in the first trial.

A total of over thirty percent were eliminated.

Xu Jin first glanced at the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples in his own area; when they gathered previously, there were 64, and now there were 52 left.

The elimination rate was close to twenty percent, not yet twenty percent.

On the Heavenly Yang Star Palace side, 142 people had gathered previously; at this very moment, 99 remained.

A solid thirty percent had been eliminated. In the neighboring Jin Zhu alien race, 169 people participated before the start of the first trial.

After the first trial, 121 remained.

The elimination rate was also barely close to thirty percent.

Calculated this way, there must be other star gate spatial regions where the elimination rate was far higher than thirty percent.

The Chen Guo Dao Academy side had an eighty percent pass rate, which was thanks to Xu Jin.

More importantly, among the eliminated Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples, not many had died.

Because very few stepped onto the Death star path.

For other sides, there were somewhat more.

It is worth mentioning that all the Seventh Tier experts Xu Jin discovered passed the trial; not a single Seventh Tier expert was lost in the first trial.

Occasionally encountering a Death star path, they could also break through with force!

This also gave Xu Jin an idea.

It seems that some things in this Seven Kill Secret Realm are not absolute.

Ju Xuan, the Eighth Tier expert of the Jin Zhu alien race, also passed successfully.

One hour later, starlight emerged again above the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

【Above the earth, beneath the starry sky, comprehension is first: comprehend the earth, comprehend the heaven, comprehend the Dao, comprehend the human heart. Since you have passed the first trial, you are all people with fate with this True Person; if you have a certain level of comprehension, I will definitely not let you return empty-handed.】

【Seven Kill Secret Realm Second Trial: Comprehension】

【When I traveled through small worlds in my early years, I practiced a life-saving star technique called the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake. I will now teach it to you.

The Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake is divided into four layers. Comprehend the first layer, and you can substitute death once and escape one hundred meters away when encountering a fatal crisis; comprehend the second layer, and you can substitute death once and escape one thousand meters away when encountering a fatal crisis. Comprehend the third layer, and you can substitute death once and escape ten thousand meters away when encountering a fatal crisis.

Comprehend the fourth layer, and you can substitute death once and escape one hundred miles away as you wish when encountering a fatal crisis.】

【Time limit is twenty-one days. Those who comprehend the first layer can pass the trial and gain a chance to be reborn once after being eliminated in the Seven Kill Secret Realm; those who comprehend the second layer can also pass the trial and gain a chance to be reborn twice after being eliminated in the Seven Kill Secret Realm; those who comprehend the third layer can gain a chance to be reborn three times after being eliminated in the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

Being able to comprehend the third layer is already as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns; the fourth layer is not forced.】

【Seven Kill Secret Realm Second Trial, Comprehension. It will begin in one hundred breaths. After it begins, there will be a demonstration of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake in each space. During the period of comprehension, there must be no behavior of attacking or interfering with others.

Those who do so will be erased.】

In the sky of the Seven Kill Secret Realm, a countdown instantly appeared.

Everyone participating in the secret realm was filled with excitement.

A life-saving secret technique.

This Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake was an absolute life-saving secret technique.

Not asking for the third or even fourth layer, if one could comprehend the first or even second layer, it would be a great fortune.

But in Xu Jin's view, this Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake, although a life-saving secret technique, was not as powerful as it appeared at first glance.

First of all, the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake felt of little use.

Substituting death and escaping one hundred meters away is fine for those below the Fourth Tier, but for cultivators above the Fourth Tier, one can flash to one hundred meters away with a mere thought and then deliver a fatal blow again.

To put it humorously, it is just giving the enemy another chance for a beheading.

Even the second layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake is not of much use; one thousand meters away, enemies above the Fifth or Sixth Tier can arrive in one or two breaths.

But the third layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake has a great effect: ten thousand meters away.

A life-saving divine skill.

This Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake is somewhat similar to the Blood Puppet secret technique Xu Jin learned from the Blood God Sect, but the Blood Puppet secret technique is only equivalent to the second layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake, and refining it is very troublesome.

After using it once, it takes several days of effort to refine another Blood Puppet.

Now, it depends on whether the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake is convenient to use.

Otherwise, for Xu Jin, it is also a chicken rib!

However, just looking at the description of the cultivation method, one knows the difficulty is not simple.

The one-hundred-breath countdown passed in a flash.

The moment the countdown disappeared, a brief textual description of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake appeared in the sky of the Seven Kill Secret Realm, followed by a three-dimensional, flowing starlight star pattern.

It was different from the star patterns Xu Jin and the others had learned previously.

This three-dimensional Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping star technique star pattern was constantly evolving.

As long as one stared at it carefully, it would display more detailed demonstrations, and one could even immerse oneself in it.

Otherwise, just giving a star pattern would make it difficult for most people to even enter the door!

But even so, many participants, after finishing the first demonstration of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping star technique, all wailed together.

They were as excited as they were when they first saw it, and now they were just as desperate!

Difficult!

Too difficult!

A Fifth Tier star technique is, of course, difficult!

This is still the first layer.

The second layer should be a Sixth Tier star technique, and the third layer is estimated to be a Seventh Tier star technique or star pattern.

Xu Jin only looked at it once before he analyzed and deduced the logic.

This Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping star technique looks extremely difficult, but when broken down, the first layer actually only has five star patterns.

If broken down step by step, the difficulty would be greatly reduced.

This first step of observation, performance, and decomposition is very difficult.

However, for Xu Jin, who had deduced countless star patterns, it was very easy.

After the first pass, he decomposed five star patterns.

What surprised Xu Jin was that there was actually a spatial star pattern in this Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping star technique!

This was the second spatial star pattern Xu Jin had come into contact with, which aroused his great interest.

Just as he was about to study and deduce it, Dong Zhao's voice suddenly rang in Xu Jin's mind, "Xu Jin, you are the peerless genius of our Chen Guo. I looked at it once and only saw that it could be broken down into five star patterns, but after breaking them down, it will still take a lot of time.

If you don't mind after breaking them down, you can give your insights to others for reference.

It can also allow more people to pass the trial.

Even if they can't obtain the inheritance, they can still gain some benefits."

"I can."

Xu Jin understood Dong Zhao's request very well.

Dong Zhao was the commander of this Seven Kill Secret Realm assigned by the Grand Master this time.

Moreover, the disciples present were all elites of Chen Guo; if they were guided afterward, the probability of these elite disciples surviving in future major battles would be higher.

The next instant, after Xu Jin broke down the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake into five star patterns, his mind sank into the Star Lamp of the Arena, and he began to deduce and engrave.

The rank of the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake was not high.

All the star patterns were below the Fourth Tier-and-above.

Therefore, Xu Jin's research and deduction speed was extremely fast.

For each star pattern, the time spent did not exceed one hour.

Five hours later, Xu Jin had completely researched and deduced the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique.

And he found a star core from the Lower Star Palace and casually engraved it.

Completing all this only took five hours.

The next instant, Xu Jin took out five blank Star Jade Tablets, engraved the five decomposed star patterns into the five Star Jade Tablets separately, and then quietly handed them to Dong Zhao.

It was still better to let Dong Zhao handle this matter.

Xu Jin did not want to be in the limelight.

Looking at the Star Jade Tablets Xu Jin handed over, Dong Zhao was somewhat surprised and hurriedly sent a telepathic message, "What do you mean? I haven't deduced it yet; I estimate it will take another half a day before I can deduce the first star pattern."

"Academy Head, no, I have already broken down, deduced, and engraved the five star patterns of the first layer!" Xu Jin sent a telepathic message.

The next instant, Dong Zhao, who was sitting on the ground, widened his eyes, his body trembled violently, and he was almost shocked to his feet.

"So fast, all five are done?"

Dong Zhao, amidst his shock, took the five Star Jade Tablets, feeling a little doubtful.

The next instant, Dong Zhao, whose mind sank into them, was stunned!

He felt so stifled he almost wanted to vomit blood!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 413 =====