Chapter 436

June 16th, Seven Kill Secret Realm.

In the firmament, a certain star suddenly shone brightly, and a speck of starlight fell from the sky like a meteor, falling into the continuous mountain range in the southern part of the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

This scene caused Ju Xuan, who was guarding the Seven Kill Palace gate, to move his gaze, and he instantly understood something.

He also cultivated his way up, so he naturally knew what this scene represented—it represented that a certain source-type star pattern had been comprehended to the seventh tier, invoking the Heavenly Star and having preliminary Heavenly Star sensing.

It usually appears on cultivators whose cultivation has not broken through to the seventh tier.

However, for those whose cultivation has broken through to the seventh tier and above, if they comprehend and cultivate other source-type star patterns to the seventh tier, they will also have such changes.

In short, it's just one thing: within the Seven Kill Secret Realm, someone's strength has improved, and they have comprehended a certain source-type star pattern to the seventh tier.

But so what?

It's just improving a certain source-type star pattern to the seventh tier; according to his experience, the related combat power will improve by at most ten percent.

No matter!

Just continue to guard the Seven Kill Palace gate to the death.

As long as he guards the Seven Kill Palace gate until the last moment, before this sixth stage is about to end, he will enter again, and he will be victorious.

This Seven Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's inheritance, no matter how strong it is, will belong solely to him.

And in another direction, Marquis Luoshui, who was cultivating, also discovered this streak of falling starlight and naturally knew what it meant.

He knew even more clearly who it was!

Besides sighing, there was only sighing.

This Qi Qi Tian Sheng's strength has improved again.

But it was just a sigh.

Qi Qi Tian Sheng is his ally now, so his strength improvement is a good thing for him.

The greater Qi Qi Tian Sheng's strength improvement, the greater the possibility of obtaining the Seven Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's further inheritance in the future, and the greater the benefit to him.

At the moment, he continued to close his eyes to recover from his injuries and cultivate in silence.

Two days later, in the sky, another streak of green starlight descended from the sky, once again alarming Ju Xuan and Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie.

Although Ju Xuan was surprised, he remained the same.

The Marquis was even more stunned.

This talent—he could only say he looked up to it!

He was already the strongest top-tier genius within the last sixty years, besides Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao.

He remembered that when he first comprehended his first Wind Source star pattern from sixth-tier upper to seventh-tier lower, it took him a full eleven days, and even that was an extremely fast speed.

For the second Earth Source star pattern, it took him nine days to comprehend and break through.

But this Qi Qi Tian Sheng—two days!

It was four or five times his speed.

How monstrous must this talent be?

Regarding this, the Marquis could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

While envious, he soon restrained his thoughts and continued his bitter cultivation!

No matter how strong others' talent is, there is no need to be envious.

Just be content with the present, take one step at a time, and continue his cultivation path.

The ultimate goal of the cultivation path is to reach the end and walk far enough, not to compare who walks faster in a certain amount of time!

Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie's Dao heart had long been refined like iron.

But even so, on June 20th, when he saw a cluster of forest-white starlight being invoked and falling again, he was still slightly affected.

Another one.

In just a few days, this Qi Qi Tian Sheng had already comprehended three star patterns to the seventh-tier lower in a row.

This progress is truly shocking.

At the Seven Kill Palace gate, Ju Xuan just took a look and then focused on his own cultivation.

Comprehending so many source-type star patterns in a short time—isn't he afraid of biting off more than he can chew?

According to his experience, if one is too greedy, cultivation might improve, but combat power might not necessarily improve.

So he closed his eyes and continued his own cultivation.

Inside the cave, as Xu Jin urged his thoughts, five streaks of lightning instantly surged, condensing into a terrifying five-colored Five Elements Divine Thunder.

This is Xu Jin's latest version of the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

Originally, only the sixth-tier upper Gold Source, Wood Source, and Water Source star patterns were all at the seventh-tier lower.

Theoretically, the power improvement cannot be accumulated, and the upper limit is only about ten percent higher than before.

But in reality, in Xu Jin's sensing, the power has improved by more than eighty percent compared to before.

Sixty percent of this power improvement comes from the complementary improvement of the Five Elements Divine Thunder's source-type star patterns, and another twenty percent comes from the improvement of his cultivation.

The Five Elements Divine Thunder is worthy of being a special star art brought by the eighth-tier upper Lei Yuan star pattern; the cultivation difficulty is extremely high, but the power also exceeded Xu Jin's expectations.

Xu Jin estimates that the current Five Elements Divine Thunder doesn't need him to inject Nine Heavens Thunder Rhyme; just one strike would heavily injure Zhang Lin, and two strikes would kill him.

For seventh-tier source-type star patterns, most people cultivate one or two, or even two or three, which is the limit.

Wanting to cultivate all five types of source-type star patterns to the seventh tier—not to mention the cultivation difficulty and time, one might not even have them to cultivate.

Moreover, in the current cultivation system, being proficient in everything often means being mediocre in everything.

Therefore, most people only cultivate one or two types of source-type star patterns.

Those who cultivate all five are extremely rare.

Like the Grand Master, before Xu Jin provided high-tier star patterns, he only cultivated three types of source-type star patterns.

Especially for star patterns above the seventh tier, comprehending and cultivating each layer is also extremely difficult!

The key is that the difficulty of obtaining them is too great; various factions don't have them all.

And Xu Jin himself will face such problems next.

Among the Five Elements source-type star patterns, the Fire Source is eighth-tier mid, the Earth Source is eighth-tier mid—these were deduced by Xu Jin himself; the Gold Source is eighth-tier mid deduced by Ning Yuchan, the Wood Source is seventh-tier mid, and the Water Source is only seventh-tier lower.

Xu Jin will be slower in continuing to improve the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder next.

First, he must deduce the Water Source star pattern to the seventh-tier mid himself.

Xu Jin wasn't in a hurry to start deducing; he continued to comprehend star patterns and accumulate experience.

He hasn't finished comprehending the existing star patterns in his hands yet.

The eighth-tier mid Gold Source star pattern Ning Yuchan gave him has only been comprehended to the seventh-tier lower, and the Wood Source star pattern can also be comprehended to the seventh-tier mid.

It won't be too late to start deducing the Water Source star pattern after learning and comprehending all the existing star patterns.

It is worth mentioning that Xu Jin previously only used three days of bitter cultivation to consume all but one of the sixth-tier Purification Pearls in his hands.

Basically, about seven sixth-tier Purification Pearls can improve Xu Jin's cultivation in the Middle Shang Xinggong by one layer.

Currently, both the Middle and Lower Star Palaces are at the peak of the fifth-tier fourth layer, and the furthest linear radiation distance of Xu Jin's primordial spirit's fetal light has also reached an astonishing seventeen meters.

Theoretically, Xu Jin's divine soul cultivation has also improved by about forty percent. And Xu Jin also learned the specific situation of divine soul cultivation from the Grand Master.

Because divine soul cultivation is extremely difficult, very few people in the world know the methods for divine soul cultivation above the fifth tier.

Even the Grand Master doesn't know the details.

The Grand Master only knows that if divine soul cultivation breaks through to the sixth tier, it is the primordial spirit's fetal light gestating a primordial fetus.

A divine soul primordial fetus is the sixth tier of divine soul cultivation.

According to the Grand Master's knowledge, among all the top experts in the world, only the Heavenly Yang Tianyang Xingjun has the possibility of condensing a divine soul primordial fetus; for others, even late-stage fifth-tier primordial spirits are extremely rare.

Among the known top eighth-tier experts in the world, due to limited resources, it should be Grand Master Cheng Yuexiao's primordial spirit cultivation that is the weakest, barely at the early stage of the fifth tier.

If the linear radiation distance of the primordial spirit's fetal light exceeds fifteen meters, one can reach the mid-stage of the primordial spirit.

If the furthest linear radiation distance of the primordial spirit's fetal light exceeds thirty meters, the primordial spirit cultivation reaches the late stage of the fifth-tier primordial spirit.

If it exceeds forty-five meters, it reaches the peak of the fifth-tier primordial spirit.

But the upper limit of the peak of the fifth-tier primordial spirit is unclear!

Of course, this is just a rough method of dividing realms.

The Grand Master only knows roughly.

He said that after primordial spirit cultivation breaks through to the fifth tier, one can only rely on opportunity or long-term accumulation.

Among the eighth-tier experts in the world, most people's divine soul cultivation is between the mid-stage and late-stage of the fifth-tier primordial spirit.

Only the Heavenly Yang Tianyang Xingjun broke through extremely early and has many spirit medicines, so his primordial spirit cultivation might have long since broken through to the late stage or even the peak of the fifth tier.

Gestating a primordial fetus is also possible.

The specific details are unknown.

With Xu Jin's primordial spirit's fetal light fully urged now, the furthest linear radiation distance can reach seventeen meters; his primordial spirit cultivation can be considered to have broken through to the mid-stage of the fifth-tier primordial spirit.

Theoretically, among all the experts in the world, except for the very top few, others, as long as they are attacked by Xu Jin's divine soul, will be affected.

However, how much this influence is, is hard to say.

Just like Qiao Shen, who is at the early stage of the fifth-tier primordial spirit—Xu Jin's divine soul attack is effective against him, but the duration of the influence is only a very short instant.

It's still time.

If given six or seven years, Xu Jin's primordial spirit will naturally grow, and Xu Jin estimates that just with his divine soul star art, he could be invincible in the world.

June 22nd, Xu Jin comprehended the Wood Source star pattern to the seventh-tier mid.

June 26th, Xu Jin comprehended the Gold Source star pattern to the seventh-tier upper, and then began to comprehend the eighth-tier lower Gold Source star pattern.

Comprehending eighth-tier Gold Source star patterns is twice as difficult.

Previously, the Grand Master said that when he comprehended the eighth-tier upper Lei Yuan, it took him nearly a month.

Xu Jin experienced it now.

For the eighth-tier lower Gold Source star pattern, Xu Jin still had the help of the Arena Lamp Domain and the gold-element law stars, but it still took him a full five days to comprehend it successfully.

The difficulty is more than twice that of the seventh-tier star pattern.

However, Xu Jin had new gains.

July 5th, Xu Jin comprehended the Gold Source star pattern to the eighth-tier mid.

Up to this point, all the Five Elements source-type star patterns in his hands have been learned to the latest version, and he also has new gains and new discoveries.

Combining the insights and gains Xu Jin had previously comprehended from various star patterns, Xu Jin suddenly had an epiphany.

At the moment, he urged the Arena Lamp Domain again and began to directly study and deduce the Water Source star pattern.

For the source-type star patterns that previously had no clues, Xu Jin suddenly felt as if he had found the thread, peeling the cocoon, and began to complement the seventh-tier mid Water Source star pattern step by step.

But it wasn't all smooth sailing.

Sometimes he deduced several branches, but when he deduced new branches, he found that the previous ones were wrong, or they were self-contradictory, so he had to tear them down and start over.

July 9th, when Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie's assembly warning signal rose, Xu Jin had already deduced and complemented half of the seventh-tier mid Water Source star pattern.

And it only took four days.

Xu Jin estimates that in another four days—no, in another three days—he will be able to directly deduce the seventh-tier Water Source star pattern to the seventh-tier mid.

Afterwards, it will only be simpler.

This surprised Xu Jin immensely.

Suddenly, Xu Jin discovered that he can now deduce seventh-tier star patterns quickly even without Gold Stars.

This is accumulation leading to a breakthrough.

It is even more the result of long-term accumulation.

It is also the qualitative change produced by quantitative change after Xu Jin studied a massive amount of star patterns.

Xu Jin feels that if given another ten days or half a month, he can deduce the Water Source star pattern to the seventh-tier upper.

The Wood Source star pattern is the same.

As for whether it can be deduced to the eighth tier, it's hard to say.

It should be possible.

But the time consumed might be five or even ten times longer.

Coming out of the cave and taking a deep breath, Xu Jin's heart was full of irrepressible joy!

Unprecedented joy.

For a long time, a hidden worry had been lingering in Xu Jin's heart.

Could it be that without Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars, he wouldn't be able to deduce star patterns or research his own cultivation path?

If one day Xu Jin could no longer obtain Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars, where would his cultivation path go?

Would the cultivation path have to stand still from then on?

Just like the major Star Palaces, where star pattern deduction is extremely slow, let alone innovation!

If that were the case, then the Star Monarchs of the major Star Palaces would be the end of Xu Jin's strength!

But now, this hidden worry has been completely eliminated!

Even without Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars, Xu Jin himself can deduce and research star patterns and star arts.

This is a capability Xu Jin himself possesses.

It is not obtained by relying on external objects.

Even if the speed is slightly slower than using Gold Stars, it is something Xu Jin can accept.

Compared to the research and deduction speed of the major Star Palaces, it is dozens or hundreds of times faster.

Of course, Xu Jin also knows very clearly that this is the fruit he obtained after studying a massive amount of star patterns, especially the most difficult elephant-type star patterns, divine soul star patterns, and a large number of eighth-tier star patterns!

In the future, even if the Star-Plucking Tower disappears, even if he can never obtain Gold Stars and Brilliant Stars again, Xu Jin can firmly walk his own cultivation path.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin stepped on the stars and rose, rushing toward the place where Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie's warning signal rose.

There is less than two days left until the end of the sixth stage of the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

It is also time to decide the outcome with Ju Xuan!

If possible, he can also decide life and death!

(End of chapter)