Chapter 413: Seven Kill First Kill

Dong Zhao was not a petty person.

If a disciple truly surpassed him, that would be the blue coming out of the indigo and being better than the indigo; he would be too happy to be unhappy.

But this Xu Jin...

It was no longer the blue coming out of the indigo and being better than the indigo.

It was several times better than the indigo.

Several times over, at that.

It directly made Dong Zhao feel so stifled it was indescribable.

He estimated it would take him a day to break down and deduce the first star pattern of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

Five star patterns would take at least five days.

But Xu Jin, it had only been five hours; even if calculated generously, counting half a day, all five star patterns had been broken down and deduced.

At least ten times his talent!

It was only because Dong Zhao's character had been thoroughly ground down during those few years in the low point of his life.

Otherwise, this gap would have directly shattered his Dao heart!

One must know, he was once the top-tier, top-tier genius of the Chen Guo Dao Academy.

The Seventh Tier Watching Zhang Lin was now the supreme genius of the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong.

And for a few years, he had steadily suppressed Watching Zhang Lin.

If Xu Jin were half a percent, one percent, or even two or three or five percent stronger than him, he could accept it.

He would only be happy!

But now, he wanted to curse!

It was too discouraging!

Dong Zhao once thought he was among the small group of the most talented people in this world.

But now, he had been discouraged by Xu Jin.

Taking several deep breaths, Dong Zhao adjusted his mood and began to study the Jade Tablets Xu Jin gave him.

Copying homework was naturally fast.

But it also made Dong Zhao feel even more stifled.

He took half a day just to copy the homework.

While Xu Jin, decomposition plus deduction, only took half a day in total.

Half a day later, this set of Jade Tablets was passed to Liu Zhou Qingzhu.

Liu Zhou Qingzhu took more than half a day before passing it to the next person, but Dong Zhao himself made another set of Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake Jade Tablets and also began to pass them down.

And when Liu Zhou Qingzhu passed the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake Star Jade Tablets to the next person, Xu Jin had already broken down and deduced the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake to the second layer.

The star technique of the second layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake had one more star pattern, and at the same time, the rank of all star patterns had been raised from the Fourth Tier-and-above to the Fifth Tier-and-above.

For Xu Jin, the difficulty was not great.

In just two days, Xu Jin completed the second layer.

According to the improvement of the second trial of the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

Performing the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake once would allow one to pass the trial and directly enter the next trial.

However, Xu Jin was not in a hurry at all.

The third layer was a must.

Xu Jin even wanted to try the fourth layer.

The third layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake still had six star patterns, but each star pattern had been raised to the Sixth Tier-and-above.

For Xu Jin, the difficulty was still not great.

Two days later, in the star core of Xu Jin's Lower Shang Xinggong, all the star patterns of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake had been engraved to the Sixth Tier-and-above, and he had cultivated to the third layer.

Now, Xu Jin could perform the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake at any time.

And he thoroughly understood the function of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

It was different from the Blood Puppet.

The Blood Puppet required time to refine and required personal essence blood; after performing it, it could form an illusion and then escape one thousand meters away.

But the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake required advance preparation.

The so-called "Dragon Stake" in the Dragon-Escaping Stake was actually a spatial beacon.

For example, at Xu Jin's current position, he could mark and refine this position into a spatial beacon through the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique, which was the stake position.

Within ten thousand meters, when encountering an emergency, it could be activated instantly.

Moreover, the biggest difference between the first layer and the third layer was that the first layer could only refine one stake position, while the third layer could refine three stake positions.

If this star technique was used well, it was an absolute life-saving divine artifact!

The prerequisite was to cultivate it to the third layer.

Moreover, the effect of the fourth layer would definitely be stronger than the third layer.

Especially the range!

The Seven Kill Secret Realm's introduction mentioned a range of one hundred miles; if this was prepared in advance, it was not just a life-saving divine artifact, it could even become a great killing weapon.

Therefore, Xu Jin was determined to obtain the fourth layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake!

The next instant, Xu Jin began to deduce and study the fourth layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

The star patterns of the fourth layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake were all Seventh Tier-and-above.

Once a star pattern exceeded the Seventh Tier, the difficulty doubled.

Even for Xu Jin, the speed of research and deduction slowed down a lot.

Three days!

Xu Jin watched the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique constantly evolving in the sky; it took a full three days for the first star pattern to go from Sixth Tier-and-above to Seventh Tier-and-above.

This was purely a case of accumulating and then breaking out, and it also began to consume talent.

The initial decomposition and deduction could still be helped by the Star Lamp of the Arena.

Here, it relied on Xu Jin's own accumulation.

It relied on his attainments in this area.

There were six star patterns; the few star patterns afterward took slightly less time, but it still took a full fifteen days.

When the fourth layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique was all successfully engraved, there was still one day left until the end of the second trial of the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

A portion of the people had already directly passed the trial and left the spatial secret realm of the second trial.

The reason was simple: learning the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique had already taken most of the time, and the second layer was impossible.

It was better to pass the trial early and see if there were any benefits.

Beside Xu Jin, Dong Zhao watched Xu Jin open his eyes, and having felt stifled for many days, he hurriedly asked, "Which layer have you comprehended to?"

"The third layer is finished, but the fourth layer is too difficult."

In the end, Xu Jin still held something back and did not mention the fourth layer.

Mainly because Xu Jin had seen Dong Zhao's stifled appearance earlier and did not want to stimulate the Academy Head anymore.

Upon hearing this, Dong Zhao nodded, but he felt slightly relieved.

Fortunately, judging from the final result, he was not too bad.

He had barely deduced and learned to the third layer, though he hadn't successfully engraved it yet, but it wouldn't take much time.

The result was about the same as Xu Jin's, but he had received Xu Jin's help earlier, saving at least five days of time.

He knew very well that the gap between him and Xu Jin was still very large.

But it was not to the extent of the gap that gave people a sense of despair at the beginning.

As if it were a difference between clouds and mud.

"I have no hope for the third layer; I only finished the second layer six days ago," Liu Zhou Qingzhu, who was on the side, said.

This was also very normal; Liu Zhou Qingzhu's talent was still a bit worse than Dong Zhao's, but compared to other disciples, it was a bit better.

"Then I will go over first."

Xu Jin said a word to the two teachers, his heart stirred, and he instantly activated the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique; the moment he activated it, starlight flickered before his eyes, and Xu Jin's figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

【Congratulations, you have comprehended the third layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake; your comprehension, among the human race, is already as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. In the following few trials, if you encounter battle and are eliminated, you will have three chances to substitute death and be reborn.

Of course, you can also choose to leave the Seven Kill Secret Realm alive.】

Starlight flashed before his eyes, and the information that emerged made Xu Jin somewhat thoughtful.

This meaning was highly likely that the competition afterward would involve life-threatening danger. However, those who could enter the subsequent trials were at least elites who had comprehended the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake to the first layer.

In other words, everyone had at least obtained one chance to substitute death and be reborn.

But one could choose to continue participating or leave.

If one left, one could leave alive.

But if one chose to continue participating, then dying in battle again would be a true death.

From this point of view, the Seven Kill True Person, although called "Seven Kill," was not a madman who only knew how to kill.

He still left a way out for the elites participating in the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

Xu Jin sized up his surroundings.

This Seven Kill Secret Realm was very strange; his Mingji Star Pattern's sensing distance could not penetrate out, and the sensing was very small, but when looking opposite, it felt very far away.

He didn't know how big it was.

If the real slaughter began, he didn't know how big the space was.

If it was big enough, that would be fine.

Then there would be various tactical depths.

But if the space was too small, then the cultivation advantages of the Eighth Tier expert Ju Xuan and the Seventh Tier experts would be too great.

At this very moment, the second trial was nearing its end, and in the star gate spaces Xu Jin could see, such as the Jin Zhu alien race, and the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong, including the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples.

About only half of the disciples successfully passed the trial.

Another half of the disciples remained in the second trial.

But it did not mean that those remaining in the second trial were to be eliminated.

On the contrary, those who passed early and came over were mostly those who only studied and learned the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

Those remaining in the second trial were either still deducing and learning the second or even third layer, or were still trapped in the first layer.

However, according to Xu Jin's own deduction feeling.

It was estimated that very few could complete the third layer.

The number of those at the second layer should not be small.

Like him, completing the fourth layer, there shouldn't be any, right?

Afterward, Xu Jin took out some clear water and dried meat from his Sumeru space and chewed slowly, replenishing what his body needed.

Even if one reached the Fifth or even Sixth Tier, one could not go completely without eating.

However, the frequency of eating had been significantly reduced.

【The countdown for the second trial of the Seven Kill Secret Realm has begun; before the countdown ends, those who have not successfully performed the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique will be considered eliminated!】

【The Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake is a secret transmission of the Seven Kill True Person; now that you have learned it, it is also the fate of your entry into the Seven Kill Secret Realm, but it is limited to your own learning; after the second trial, it must not be passed on to anyone else.

I will place a soul seal on you; those who leak my secret transmission will naturally die on the spot.】

The next instant, over a thousand rays of starlight descended from the sky and instantly fell into everyone's bodies.

Xu Jin only felt something strange on the top of his head for a moment before a ray of starlight fell into his Upper Shang Xinggong.

In an instant, Xu Jin felt some constraints within his primordial spirit.

This made Xu Jin incomparably astonished.

For the first time, he had great interest in the Seven Kill True Person's inheritance!

The reason was simple: the soul sealing method Xu Jin had learned from the Grand Master previously, including the soul sealing method the Grand Master used when performing with the National Dao Artifact Nine-Sheng Bell, required the cooperation of the recipient, who had to relax and open their soul for the soul seal to be successfully applied.

If the recipient was unwilling, the soul seal could not be applied.

But this soul seal of the Seven Kill True Person was more than one level higher.

Regardless of whether you were willing or not, a ray of starlight fell, and the soul seal was completed; it was more than one level more brilliant.

The soul sealing method was already so brilliant?

Then what about other star technique secret methods? They shouldn't be much worse, right?

According to the information passed down by the Grand Master, the inheritance of the Four Great Star Palaces was that they divided the inheritance of the Extreme Dao Emperor into four, and the inheritance of the Extreme Dao Emperor originated from the Seven Kill True Person!

If Xu Jin could obtain the Seven Kill True Person's inheritance, then it would mean Xu Jin could bypass the Four Great Star Palaces and obtain the inheritance of the Extreme Dao Emperor!

This was too important for Xu Jin!

Previously, the Grand Master had told Xu Jin that below the Seventh Tier, inheritance was not too important.

Above the Seventh Tier, inheritance would become increasingly important.

The Chen Guo Dao Academy suffered precisely because of this.

It was only because Xu Jin had exploded recently and continuously obtained multiple Eighth Tier star patterns; otherwise, the Chen Guo Dao Academy would definitely be steadily suppressed by other Star Palaces.

After one hundred breaths, the countdown for the second trial of the Seven Kill Secret Realm ended.

Before the countdown ended, everyone still in the second trial had performed the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake star technique and successfully passed the trial.

When the countdown ended, whether it was on the alien side or the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong side, only a few people were sent away and eliminated by starlight.

In this trial, the number of people eliminated was very small, only about five percent.

Thinking about it, it was normal.

Those who could enter the Seven Kill Secret Realm through the star gate were all elite geniuses of various forces.

This second trial, the Comprehension trial, comprehending and learning the first layer of the Seven Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake was not difficult.

What was difficult was learning the second or even third layer.

In an instant, the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples and the group from the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong all appeared in the same star gate space again.

The Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong disciples had reduced by five people, but the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples had not lost a single one.

Watching Zhang Lin, the Seventh Tier expert of the Heavenly Yang Shang Xinggong, was curiously sizing up the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples.

Not a single one lost?

Was the talent of the Chen Guo Dao Academy disciples that overpowered?

However, after just sizing them up for a few glances, starlight emerged in the sky, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

【Second trial of the Seven Kill completed, 1,376 people passed.】

【Seven Kill Secret Realm Third Trial, also the Seven Kill First Kill: Slaughter of All Living Things!】

【The moment to test your true strength has arrived; there are seven star paths. Everyone, choose one to step into within five breaths. After stepping in, you will enter the Seven Kill Slaughter Field.

Within the Seven Kill Slaughter Field, there are no taboos.

Among the seven Seven Kill Slaughter Fields, the top thirty who survive the longest will enter the fourth trial of the Seven Kill!】

The rules of the third trial emerged one by one, and just as everyone was discussing, seven star paths suddenly appeared before everyone.

Everyone had them.

Almost instantly, those who understood the rules looked at the Eighth Tier alien Ju Xuan in the star gate space of the neighboring alien race.

In fact, it was randomly entering seven different Seven Kill Slaughter Fields, and then slaughtering at will.

The top thirty who survive the longest enter the next trial.

In this, the probability of luck was just too great.

If one encountered a companion, for example, if Xu Jin, Dong Zhao, and Liu Zhou Qingzhu were together, then even if they encountered a Seventh Tier expert, they could persist until the end.

But if one was unlucky and not together, or encountered the Eighth Tier Ju Xuan of the Jin Zhu alien race, then one would be out of luck.

To be precise, whoever encountered the Jin Zhu alien Ju Xuan would be in great trouble.

But one-seventh were destined to encounter this great trouble.

【Within five breaths, choose a path to step into; those who do not enter will be directly eliminated.】

Starlight emerged before everyone.

Xu Jin's heart stirred, and he activated the special star technique Heaven-Man Induction of the Mingji Star Pattern again.

He wanted to see if this Heaven-Man Induction could give him a prediction of good or bad luck!

As long as it allowed him to avoid the Eighth Tier alien.

If he could step into the same slaughter field as Dong Zhao and Liu Zhou Qingzhu, that would be even better!

But the next instant after activating the star technique Heaven-Man Induction, Xu Jin was stunned!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 414 =====