Chapter 441

Seven Kills Secret Realm, August 15th.

Xu Jin, who had been cultivating in the Star-Plucking Tower for over a month, slowly stood up.

After consuming two Golden Stars and deducing the seventh-tier "Break Evil" to the eighth-tier mid-stage, Xu Jin continued to bury himself in cultivation within the Star-Plucking Tower branch.

As of today, his cultivation in both the middle and lower star palaces had been elevated to the peak of the fifth-tier ninth layer.

After polishing for a while longer, Xu Jin would be able to start raising his Cloud Tower and break through to the sixth tier.

However, time no longer allowed it.

As of today, thirty-five days had passed in the seventh stage of the Seven Kills Secret Realm.

There were fourteen days left before the seventh stage of the Seven Kills would end completely.

Xu Jin calculated for a long time and felt it was time to act.

Ju Xuan was not a living target; if he could not be killed, and Ju Xuan managed to hold on until the last day of the seventh stage of the Seven Kills Secret Realm, then Xu Jin's efforts would have been in vain.

By then, whether it was the Seven Kills Secret Realm inheritance or the two Divine Dao True Intents that Xu Jin was thinking about day and night, everything would be lost.

As he stepped out, Xu Jin had already stepped out of the Star-Plucking Tower branch. With a slight thought, the Star-Plucking Tower branch, which connected heaven and earth, instantly emerged from the void, and as Xu Jin activated it, it began to shrink rapidly with a roar.

"Why didn't you even say hello? You almost trapped this young lady inside," the Star Spirit's dissatisfied voice sounded from within the star tower.

"Uh, you're still here?" Xu Jin was surprised.

"When did I say I was leaving?"

"Then you can leave now!"

"You..."

Xu Jin did not indulge the Star Spirit. As the Star-Plucking Tower branch continued to shrink, just before it was about to disconnect from the main Star-Plucking Tower in Chen Guo, the Mingji star patterns Xu Jin had been activating faintly sensed a very strange aura leaving the Star-Plucking Tower branch.

This indicated that the Star Spirit actually had a carrier for its power.

However, the level of this current power carrier or nature was too high, not yet a level Xu Jin could touch.

The next instant, this Star-Plucking Tower branch turned into a streak of starlight, flew into Xu Jin's body, and disappeared.

At the same time, Xu Jin rose into the air, thunder wings appeared on his back, and he instantly turned into a streak of thunder light, fleeing rapidly into the distance.

Almost the moment he started flying, Xu Jin felt the difference.

The significant improvement in his cultivation level had allowed his thunder escape speed to increase again, and the magnitude of the increase was not small.

When activating the thunder escape star technique, it was actually five star patterns being activated together.

Great Gather Star Pattern, Thunder Source, Thunder Elephant, Lei Dun, Thunder Wings.

With the improvement in star power cultivation, the speed naturally increased.

At the same time, there was another invisible condition, and that was the primordial spirit cultivation!

All star power activation and all star technique execution were actually inseparable from primordial spirit mental power.

And it was extremely critical.

It was just that in the process of cultivation, this was a matter of course, and most cultivators were not aware of it at all.

But in Xu Jin's view, primordial spirit cultivation should be the core.

In Xu Jin's understanding, both star power cultivation and star patterns were just hardware and energy.

But in this process, the most critical thing was actually the software.

Without software, no matter how powerful the hardware and energy were, they could not function.

It was just that everyone had primordial spirit cultivation naturally, so most of the time, it was considered normal.

In reality, it was not.

Improving primordial spirit cultivation was actually upgrading the software.

The more powerful the primordial spirit cultivation, the more powerful the star power and speed that could be activated with the same hardware.

This was also the reason why powerful primordial spirit cultivation naturally improved the power of star techniques.

At this very moment, Xu Jin discovered that his speed had increased by thirty percent, which was actually the result of the combined effect of his cultivation improvement and primordial spirit cultivation improvement.

After flying for only a few breaths, Xu Jin's expression became incomparably confident.

With this speed, he absolutely had no problem saving his life in front of Ju Xuan.

The speed of the thunder escape was already this fast, so the five-fold Flowing Shimmer would only be faster.

In an instant, Xu Jin was full of confidence.

Not to mention that after he deduced the Break Evil star pattern to the eighth-tier mid-stage, he had obtained two powerful primordial spirit star techniques, one of which was called Thought Blade Explosion.

It was an advanced version of Break Evil; it hit as soon as the thought was cast, and it exploded upon hitting, which could severely damage the target's primordial spirit.

However, because it pursued speed, each time the thought blade was condensed, it consumed at most half a percent of his primordial spirit power.

The primordial spirit secret technique obtained from the eighth-tier mid-stage Break Evil was called Soul-Startling Hammer!

By comparison, Xu Jin liked this Soul-Startling Hammer even more!

The Soul-Startling Hammer required time to condense, but at most, it could gather thirty percent of his own primordial spirit power to condense into a hammer to strike the target.

The power was immense.

The consumption was also extremely huge!

With Xu Jin's current primordial spirit cultivation, he could only blast out three hammers.

However, one advantage of the Soul-Startling Hammer was that it would only dissipate after hitting the target.

If it missed, it would not dissipate.

At the same time, the striking range was only twice the linear radiation distance of the primordial spirit embryonic form.

The power was strong, but the distance was short.

These two primordial spirit secret techniques could also be considered to have made up for Xu Jin's shortcomings in primordial spirit cultivation.

Used well, they were great killing weapons.

Previously, he had fled ten thousand miles away from the Seven Kills Palace; flying back now would also take several hours.

Xu Jin was not in a hurry, flying straight toward the Seven Kills Palace at a speed that consumed very little.

Three hours later, Ju Xuan, who was cultivating and recovering from his injuries near the Seven Kills Palace, suddenly opened his eyes and looked up.

"This kid, he's prepared, so confident?"

The eighth-tier expert of the Jin Zhu alien race, Ju Xuan, had already discovered Xu Jin's aura.

"Just in time, my injuries have recovered seven or eight-tenths! If he wants to fight, then I'll just send him on his way."

The next instant, Ju Xuan also rose into the air, heading toward Xu Jin's direction.

After more than a month of hard cultivation, Ju Xuan's internal and external physical injuries had completely recovered, and his primordial spirit injuries had also basically recovered with the help of the spirit medicine he carried.

At the same time, Ju Xuan had also done a lot of thinking.

Although he had been killed before, it was because Qi Qi Tian Sheng and Song Shoujie had joined forces, and he had been injured by the other party's master's heavy treasure.

However, the role Qi Qi Tian Sheng played in it was also critical.

He had reviewed it carefully and had already thought of a corresponding battle tactic.

Half a quarter of an hour later, two streaks of starlight stopped in the void at the same time.

The moment he saw Xu Jin, Ju Xuan frowned, "Your cultivation level has improved fast enough!

In just over a month, you've improved from the fifth-tier fourth layer to the peak of the fifth-tier ninth layer?

Kid, you don't think this is your confidence, do you?" Ju Xuan asked while sensing and sizing him up, carefully observing the changes in Xu Jin's expression.

Xu Jin just glanced at Ju Xuan and was relieved.

The two Divine Dao True Intents obtained by Ju Xuan were radiating brilliant starlight directly from Ju Xuan's bosom.

Even from nearly a thousand meters away, Xu Jin could sense them clearly.

"Can't it be? Your cultivation has dropped, while mine is improving rapidly! One advancing and one retreating, this is where my confidence lies," Xu Jin smiled.

Of course, there was one thing Xu Jin did not say.

His true confidence was the seventy-two peerless super-grade star cores he had cast in his middle and lower star palaces, and the fact that he had cast the Flawless Innate Star Body in the beginning.

What Xu Jin could be sure of was that his star power cultivation should have far exceeded that of genius cultivators at the sixth-tier ninth layer peak.

It had definitely reached the seventh-tier level.

But what level of the seventh tier it was, Xu Jin had not yet come into contact with the seventh tier, so it was not easy to estimate.

It could only be said that his star power cultivation far exceeded that of genius cultivators at the sixth-tier ninth layer peak. Whether now or in the future, if his opponent regarded him as an ordinary or genius-level fifth-tier ninth-layer cultivator, that would be the beginning of their mistake!

"Makes sense!"

Ju Xuan gave Xu Jin a thumbs up, "Between one advancing and one retreating, the gap between you and me has indeed narrowed significantly.

But a gap is a gap.

It won't cease to exist just because it has narrowed!

I am eighth-tier, while you are only at the peak of the fifth-tier ninth layer!" Ju Xuan said while moving slowly, preparing for battle.

In today's battle, he must use his full strength even when fighting a lion!

"In that case, let's speak with strength."

"Chen Guo National Dao Academy, Qi Qi Tian Sheng!" Xu Jin bowed to Ju Xuan.

"To be able to stand calmly before me and challenge me so composedly, you are also a person of note, worthy of a serious battle with me."

"Jin Zhu Holy Race, Holy Ancestor side branch, Ju Xuan!"

"Please!"

"Please!"

Boom!

Almost the moment the words fell, without hesitation, Xu Jin's Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted out instantly.

Ju Xuan had seen Xu Jin's Five Elements Divine Thunder before and expected that Xu Jin would inevitably use it to blast him; almost the moment Xu Jin made his move, Ju Xuan moved instantly.

With a flash of golden light, he dodged from his original spot before the Five Elements Divine Thunder fell.

The Five Elements Divine Thunder missed.

At the same instant, the cold white brilliance within the golden horn became intense to the extreme, and a white tiger phantom suddenly materialized and pounced, biting toward Xu Jin.

The moment Xu Jin confronted this white tiger phantom head-on, he knew how terrifying it was.

It bit down, but what it bit was endless, sharp golden star power, each strike of which was enough to pierce metal and break stone!

Even before it bit down, Xu Jin's Fish Screen Jin Zhong was already rippling.

An eighth-tier full-strength strike was indeed remarkable.

However, Xu Jin did not move, and looking at the rushing white tiger phantom, he blasted a Five Elements Divine Thunder head-on!

Woo!

The white tiger phantom hit by the Five Elements Divine Thunder let out a mournful cry, its body blasted away by eighty percent in an instant.

Just as Xu Jin was about to kill it, Ju Xuan's second wave of big moves blasted over.

From all directions, countless golden lights rotated like a hurricane, blasting and shooting toward Xu Jin.

Ju Xuan's star tower connected with more than ten stars faintly visible in the void, and the moment the massive star radiance fell, it surged out from the bottom of the star tower, turning into a Geng Metal storm, blasting toward Xu Jin.

Xu Jin's expression suddenly changed.

If he were swept into the core of this Geng Metal storm, no matter what skills Xu Jin had, he would only have a dead end.

With a thought, he wanted to activate the Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake to flee this place!

"Want to escape? No way!"

Ju Xuan laughed, and a small primordial spirit appeared behind his head; the majestic primordial spirit power instantly exploded in all directions, instantly shaking the space in all directions as if it were trembling, causing Xu Jin, who was just about to perform the Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake, to suddenly lose his sense of the other stakes.

The Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake was broken!

And the Geng Metal storm shrouded and swept toward Xu Jin, while the white tiger phantom that had just been blasted away by eighty percent also recovered and grew stronger in an instant, pouncing on Xu Jin again.

It looked like Xu Jin was about to fall into a desperate situation.

Ju Xuan had also used his full strength.

And Xu Jin, confronting an eighth-tier early-stage powerhouse alone for the first time, finally felt the terrifying power of an eighth-tier powerhouse's star technique!

Although he was strong, facing the eighth tier still required him to go all out; one careless mistake could lead to regret!

The next instant, Xu Jin's figure sank, landing like a shooting star, while the Geng Metal storm and the white tiger phantom blasted toward Xu Jin like shadows.

The moment he landed, as the Root of the Earth was activated, Xu Jin's Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted upward instantly!

Attack instead of defense!

The five-colored thunder light roared, howling out from Xu Jin's palm.

The speed was extremely fast.

Strike after strike!

Boom, boom, boom!

Three strikes in a row annihilated the eye of Ju Xuan's Geng Metal storm, and even the white tiger phantom that had pounced again was blasted once.

This time, the white tiger phantom was blasted away directly.

With a mournful cry, it turned into a streak of white light and fled back into Ju Xuan's golden horn.

Ju Xuan's expression suddenly became astonished.

This thunder light was much stronger than he had imagined.

The next instant, the Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted toward Ju Xuan again.

Ju Xuan did not want to take it head-on and instinctively wanted to dodge.

But at the same instant, Xu Jin tapped his foot slightly!

Earth Element Magnetism!

And it was the Earth Core Magnetism injected with five strands of Heaven and Earth Fire Rhyme.

In an instant, Ju Xuan's figure became incomparably heavy, as if several massive mountains were hanging on the soles of his feet, making his originally strange movement technique instantly become incomparably slow!

Boom!

The Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted down instantly.

It directly poured down and shattered Ju Xuan's protective starlight.

But just when Xu Jin thought he was going to severely injure Ju Xuan, a piece of golden armor flashing with mysterious patterns suddenly appeared on Ju Xuan's body!

This was Ju Xuan's bloodline divine ability.

It was a life-saving supreme treasure brought by his physical body.

Within the Jin Zhu Holy Race, only those with the Holy Ancestor's bloodline could grow such bloodline golden armor.

Under the pouring thunder light, the bloodline golden armor on Ju Xuan's body rippled, surviving the remaining power.

Almost instantly, Ju Xuan re-activated his protective starlight.

Boom!

The Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted again!

The protective starlight was extinguished again, the remaining power poured onto the bloodline golden armor, still causing no significant damage, and the protective starlight rose again!

"It seems this is your killing move?" Ju Xuan sneered, while dead-locking Xu Jin's Five Elements Divine Thunder, he activated the golden horn atop his head, and cold white Geng Metal star light slashed toward Xu Jin like sword light, one after another.

Only two strikes shattered Xu Jin's Fish Screen Jin Zhong.

Xu Jin had no choice but to use the Heaven Gang Thunder Chain Shield and thunder wings to layer armor for himself.

But this distraction made Ju Xuan's offensive even fiercer!

Seeing this, Xu Jin sighed helplessly.

It seemed that relying on his own strength, he still could not thoroughly kill Ju Xuan.

He still had to use the accumulated Nine Heavens Lei Yun.

The next instant, Xu Jin had a thought and directly injected fifty strands of Nine Heavens Lei Yun into the next Five Elements Divine Thunder!

In an instant, the five-colored Five Elements Divine Thunder expanded by more than double, becoming incomparably bright.

Almost at the same time, Ju Xuan's expression became horrified!

This move again!

This guy Qi Qi Tian Sheng actually still had a master's killing move!

Without hesitation, Ju Xuan urged his divine sense wildly, intending to use the Seven Kills Escape Dragon to flee and avoid this strike.

His physical body felt like it was falling into a massive mountain, his movement technique could not avoid it, he could only use the Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake!

At the same instant, a sneer appeared on the corner of Xu Jin's mouth!

His hammer had long been hungry and waiting for a long time!

It was for this very moment to decisively kill Ju Xuan!

Ju Xuan had a way to restrain the Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake, and he, Xu Jin, also had one!

The next instant, the Soul-Startling Hammer, which had been condensed for a long time, blasted into the top of Ju Xuan's head.

Bang!

Ju Xuan felt as if an ordinary person had been hit on the back of the head by an iron hammer; he was dizzy, and blood sprayed wildly from his seven orifices—eyes, ears, mouth, and nose!

The primordial spirit that appeared behind his head was directly blasted with heavy cracks by a hammer and fled back into his body!

Naturally, Ju Xuan's Seven Kills Escape Dragon Stake secret technique was also interrupted!

Boom!

The Five Elements Divine Thunder injected with fifty strands of Nine Heavens Lei Yun poured down on Ju Xuan's head.

The protective starlight shattered first, and in the fierce confrontation between the bloodline golden armor and the Five Elements Divine Thunder, it disintegrated into ashes piece by piece, but the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder was also being consumed rapidly.

Ju Xuan's entire body trembled with electric light, instinctively letting out a painful roar, but his primordial spirit was injured and shaken, unable to react for a while.

Strike while the iron is hot!

The second, the third, the fifth!

Within half a breath, Xu Jin blasted ten Five Elements Divine Thunders!

Each Five Elements Divine Thunder poured onto Ju Xuan's physical body without any obstruction.

Each Five Elements Divine Thunder turned a part of Ju Xuan's physical body into charcoal, leaving only the golden horn intact.

Suddenly, Ju Xuan's physical body completely disintegrated into ashes, and the primordial spirit, full of cracks and terrified, had just appeared and wanted to drill into the golden horn.

Xu Jin had already suffered from this golden horn before.

With a thought, the Five Elements Divine Thunder blasted down instantly.

Before Ju Xuan's primordial spirit could drill into the golden horn, it poured onto the primordial spirit!

Sizzle!

In the electric light, Ju Xuan's primordial spirit turned into a wisp of green smoke and completely dissipated!

In the thunder light, only the golden horn and two Divine Dao True Intents remained.

At the same instant, an imprint of a Sumeru space also slowly emerged.

(End of chapter)