Chapter 446: The Gate of Return

Within the Star River, inside a dazzling star, stood a towering skyscraper. The skyscraper seemed to connect to countless stars, with endless starlight projected from the Star River into the skyscraper from afar.

In the end, this starlight converged upon a majestic figure lying on the peak of the skyscraper.

Countless starlight, following his breathing, surged into his body.

His body, like a bottomless black hole, continuously absorbed this massive amount of extraterrestrial starlight.

Suddenly, this majestic figure moved slightly; as the Dao bun on his head shifted, his eyes opened slightly, and his brows furrowed.

"Disappeared?"

"Could it be that someone has truly become a personal disciple?"

The next instant, a point of starlight rose from the top of the Extreme Dao Emperor's head, shooting straight into the Star River.

The starlight rushed into the Star River, flowing against the current, when suddenly, as if hitting an invisible barrier, it was blocked, only able to look down from afar at that somewhat unique star in the Star River.

At first glance, this star looked exactly the same as the other stars.

But if one observed carefully, one would discover that this star faintly projected hundreds and thousands of rays of starlight; it was clearly just a medium-world star, yet it had intricate connections with many great-world stars.

This star was precisely the place where the Extreme Dao Emperor attained the Dao, and the Extreme Dao Emperor named it the Kun Ling Realm.

The starlight transformed by the Extreme Dao Emperor looked down from afar, sensing the Kun Ling Realm.

After a long while, the starlight trembled slightly.

It could no longer be sensed.

In the Seven Kill Secret Realm within the Kun Ling Realm, all auras related to the Seven Kill True Monarch could no longer be sensed.

This was completely beyond his expectations.

Normally speaking, it was possible for the geniuses of the Kun Ling Realm to pass the sixth trial.

But the seventh trial was absolutely impossible.

The Seven Kill True Monarch, even if it was just his phantom body at the age of forty, was the number one person in the Kun Ling Realm throughout history.

The kind that had no predecessor and no successor.

It was impossible for anyone.

Although the Seven Kill True Monarch's phantom body at age forty only had the cultivation of the mid-stage Eighth Tier, when it erupted, even the Ninth Tier could not withstand it.

Who could pass the trial?

It was absolutely impossible to pass the trial.

Even that person could not.

But now, the aura was indeed gone.

He had only obtained the inner-chamber inheritance back then, but now, the personal inheritance might have been taken away by someone else.

After pondering for a few breaths, the starlight dissipated and returned in an instant.

Inside the towering skyscraper, the Extreme Dao Emperor, who seemed to be in a trance, slowly opened his eyes. As his thoughts stirred, he activated the starlight to contact the Star Spirit he had left in the Kun Ling Realm domain.

It was just that, separated by the distant Star River, and even more so by the world barrier, even for the Extreme Dao Emperor, making contact was extremely strenuous.

His cultivation was powerful, and he could project the meaning he wanted to convey across the distant Star River.

However, for the Star Spirit to reply to him was extremely difficult!

After a long time, the Extreme Dao Emperor finally received a vague answer.

【The strongest person to pass the sixth trial is the Eighth Tier mid-stage Golden Pillar alien Holy Blood descendant.】

Upon receiving this answer, the Extreme Dao Emperor looked from afar toward the direction of the Kun Ling Realm, and his brows gradually furrowed.

His plan had encountered a variable!

And this variable did not look small at all.

It seemed he had to find a way to continue interfering!

Xu Jin's thoughts sank into the wooden sword before him. After making a discovery, he activated his Primal Spirit divine sense to surge into the wooden sword and began to refine it.

The process of refining was also the process of understanding this wooden sword.

At the same time, during the refining process, countless pieces of information surged into Xu Jin's mind.

This information could only be known after defeating the strongest phantom body left by the Seven Kill True Monarch in the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

First, the material of this wooden sword was just ordinary ironwood; it was used by the Seven Kill True Monarch for sword practice when he was young.

It accompanied the Seven Kill True Monarch for a full dozen years or more.

It was originally a mortal object.

But because the Seven Kill True Monarch attained the Dao as a Star Monarch, it also became extraordinary.

After the Seven Kill True Monarch attained the Dao as a Star Monarch and left this domain, he used this ironwood sword as a carrier to leave behind his own will phantom body to serve as an inheritance.

Usually, this ironwood sword walked within the Seven Kill Star Domain in the guise of the Seven Kill True Monarch's phantom body.

It used the star origin and star power of the Seven Kill Star Domain as its power foundation.

Only when the strongest phantom body—that is, the phantom body at the age of forty—was shattered would this Seven Kill Ironwood Sword reveal its original form.

But it was not broken.

It was just that the accumulated power had been exhausted, especially the power of the Primal Spirit divine soul.

The Seven Kill Star Domain was considered a dead domain, so although the star origin was strong, the power of the Primal Spirit divine soul available for the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword to recover was extremely scarce.

The Seven Kill Ironwood Sword needed to lie quietly for at least a year before it could transform back into the Seven Kill True Monarch's phantom body to roam the Seven Kill Star Domain.

And this year was also the only opportunity for a personal disciple to refine and control the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword.

At this very moment, Xu Jin extremely easily refined his own Primal Spirit imprint into the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword.

At the same time, he also learned what the so-called hidden reward actually was.

There were two known ones.

First: As long as enough Primal Spirit mental power and star power were provided to the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword, the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword could transform back into the Seven Kill True Monarch's phantom body to serve as a protector for the personal disciple who refined it.

The strongest state was the Eighth Tier peak.

Moreover, the stronger the divine soul power, the stronger the combat power.

Second: The Seven Kill Ironwood Sword was the key and token to obtaining the subsequent inheritance of the Seven Kill True Monarch in the future.

If the personal disciple could leave the Kun Ling Realm in the future and step into the Star River, there would be an opportunity to obtain the subsequent inheritance of the Seven Kill True Monarch.

Besides this, during the process of refining the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword, Xu Jin also obtained a lot of information regarding the Seven Kill True Monarch's growth and cultivation process.

Especially before the age of forty.

It was quite tortuous as well.

At the same time, Xu Jin also learned for the first time the name of the world he was in: Kun Ling Realm.

In terms of rank, it was a medium-world star.

But according to the information left by the Seven Kill True Monarch, this medium-world star had quite a few special aspects.

But as to how special it was, it only gave one or two hints, and there was no other explanation.

Looking at the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword dancing and spinning before him, Xu Jin was quite delighted.

This harvest was truly big enough.

This was equivalent to him obtaining a thug—no, it should be that he obtained a bodyguard!

An Eighth Tier bodyguard with super combat power.

It couldn't be called a thug; calling it a thug was disrespectful to the Master!

Only at this very moment did Xu Jin have a sense of identification with his identity as the personal disciple of the Seven Kill True Monarch.

The next instant, Xu Jin's thoughts stirred, and he attempted to inject divine soul mental power and star power into this Seven Kill Ironwood Sword.

Just as his thoughts stirred, Xu Jin's star power and divine soul mental power surged into the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword like a pouring river.

After just one quarter of an hour, Xu Jin was drained dry.

From the inside out, the upper, middle, and lower three star palaces were all drained dry!

While smiling bitterly, Xu Jin directly cast "Warm Dream" on himself, allowing himself to quickly recover his star power and divine soul mental power.

In the situation where his divine soul power was exhausted, even with the help of "Warm Dream" and the "Spirit Platform Star Art," Xu Jin now needed a full six hours of deep sleep to thoroughly recover. Fortunately, in the current Seven Kill Star Domain, it was extremely safe, and no one disturbed him.

Xu Jin simply let go and did it.

Xu Jin wanted to try and see how much power needed to be provided for the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword to recover into the Seven Kill True Monarch's phantom body.

Of course, it was not just an attempt, but a necessity.

Xu Jin currently did not know what kind of situation he would encounter upon leaving the Seven Kill Secret Realm.

Therefore, before leaving the Seven Kill Secret Realm, thoroughly recovering the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword was a necessity.

With Xu Jin's current Primal Spirit cultivation, he only needed to focus fully three and a half times to fill the divine soul power required by the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword.

Xu Jin's current Primal Spirit linear radiation distance was twenty-nine meters.

Three and a half times; theoretically, the divine soul power within this Seven Kill Ironwood Sword, or rather, the linear radiation distance of the Seven Kill True Monarch phantom body's Primal Spirit fetal light, exceeded one hundred meters.

Terrifying!

However, this was just a speculation.

What truly made Xu Jin suffer was the recovery of the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword's star power.

After injecting the Primal Spirit divine soul power four times, Xu Jin injected star power into the ironwood sword four times.

Each time, it was the entire star power of the middle and lower star palaces.

However, the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword was still like a bottomless hole, nowhere near being filled.

And this had already taken nearly three days.

Xu Jin simply stopped waiting and directly drew over seventy rays of starlight from the Arena Platform, restoring his middle and lower star palaces to their peak, and then injected it into the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword.

After injecting it five times in a row, the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword suddenly began to flicker with starlight. As Xu Jin's thoughts stirred, the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword transformed into the Seven Kill True Monarch, standing with a sword in hand, wearing green robes.

But the cultivation aura it emitted was only Eighth Tier low-stage!

Xu Jin's face instantly turned bitter.

His seventy-two star cores were of super-grade star forging, at least equivalent to the star power level of a Refine Star Ninth Layer peak cultivator, or even stronger.

But after injecting star power eight times in total, it only restored the star power aura of the Seven Kill True Monarch phantom body within the ironwood sword to the Eighth Tier early-stage level.

If this were to be restored to the Eighth Tier peak?

How many more times would it need?

He was a bit scared!

He hoped he wouldn't consume all those rays of starlight he had accumulated on the Arena Platform.

Before the Arena Platform ascended to the Fifth Tier, the starlight on Xu Jin's Arena Platform was almost inexhaustible.

But after the Arena Platform ascended to the Fifth Tier, along with Xu Jin forging thirty-six stars in his middle and lower star palaces.

When using the Arena Platform's starlight to restore Xu Jin's cultivation, the amount of starlight consumed increased exponentially.

Nowadays, the amount of starlight on the Arena Platform had never exceeded one thousand.

And to thoroughly restore Xu Jin's middle and lower star palace cultivation once, it required at least over seventy rays of starlight.

It was getting a bit too expensive to spend.

It was only because the Arena Platform could obtain five rays of starlight every day after the Arena Worship.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford it.

"For now, let's leave it at this and let it recover slowly on its own."

Subsequently, Xu Jin put the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword into his upper star palace.

The Seven Kill Ironwood Sword itself could absorb the heaven and earth star radiance from all directions to recover itself.

Even in a dead star like the Seven Kill Star Domain, in about a year, it would be able to basically recover.

If it went to other living stars, it would be even faster.

A dead star refers to a star without living beings.

On a star without living beings, all kinds of power, including star power and the speed of nurturing heaven and earth treasures, would decrease exponentially.

This was also the true reason why, although the Seven Kill Star Domain was an Eighth Tier star domain, it didn't even have a single true Eighth Tier heaven and earth treasure.

Only stars where living beings lived were living stars, which would grow and change rapidly.

And these living beings were not restricted to any race.

Whether it was aliens, animals, plants, or humans, all were acceptable!

Among all stars, living stars had the greatest value, but living stars could not be used to become one's natal star.

At the same time, only against dead stars could one cast the "Kill Star Art"!

Casting the "Kill Star Art" on a living star was absolutely impossible to succeed!

This was something specifically mentioned in the Seven Kill True Monarch's inheritance.

Along with the Seven Kill Ironwood Sword being put into the upper star palace, the Seven Kill Palace was also refined by Xu Jin and put into the upper star palace.

This Seven Kill Palace was a treasure, and at the same time, it was a portal.

After controlling and refining it, it became the portal to the Seven Kill Star Domain.

Whoever refined and controlled the Seven Kill Palace, as long as their thoughts stirred, could use the Seven Kill Palace to open the portal and then return to the Seven Kill Star Domain.

At the same time, since the Seven Kill Palace existed, Xu Jin could open a star gate in most places in the current world.

As long as it was a place without space blockade and formation restriction, he could open a portal.

This discovery made Xu Jin overjoyed.

This meant that he could return to the current world quietly and without anyone knowing.

Not only that, but even the matter of obtaining the Divine Dao True Meaning could be hidden.

According to what Xu Jin had learned from his exchanges with the Grand Master over the past few days, with the passage of time, the various forces in the current world had reached an unprecedented level of surveillance over the various star gates of the Seven Kill Palace in the current world.

A month ago, at the Seven Kill star gates that were opened and existed, besides a large number of Sixth Tier watchers, occasionally the aura of Seventh Tier experts would appear.

However, now, around every star gate, there were already Eighth Tier experts lying in ambush.

It wasn't just Eighth Tier, but all kinds of arrangements had been made.

Such as directional teleportation formations, etc.

Especially the Seven Kill star gate deep in the Great Green Mountain; Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao sent people to investigate once and discovered that there were four non-top-tier Eighth Tier expert auras.

Moreover, there were many kinds of arrangements.

If there was a discovery, it was feared that top-tier experts would arrive in an instant.

At that time, if someone truly came out from the Seven Kill Secret Realm star gate, it was feared that it would immediately trigger a world war!

Recently, Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao had also been worried about this.

Although he had obtained that Fire-type Divine Dao True Meaning and had hope for a breakthrough in the future, it could not help him break through immediately.

With his current strength, against top-tier Eighth Tier experts, he could fight one against two, or even barely one against three!

But what about other Eighth Tier experts?

If Xu Jin truly came out from the Seven Kill star gate deep in the Great Green Mountain, then the various parties in the current world would not only think that Xu Jin had obtained the Seven Kill True Monarch's personal inheritance, but even the remaining missing Divine Dao True Meanings might have been obtained by Xu Jin.

These top-tier Eighth Tier experts would absolutely not let go of any tiny opportunity for a breakthrough.

They would inevitably besiege Xu Jin and hunt Xu Jin down!

While Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao lamented that Xu Jin might be hunted down again, he was also worried about how to safely bring Xu Jin back to Dachen Dachen Wan Yi.

As long as Xu Jin returned to Dachen Dachen Wan Yi, he would have the confidence to protect Xu Jin!

Those top-tier Eighth Tier experts, such as Star Monarch Lord Tianyang and others, were crazy about the Divine Dao True Meaning.

But each of them was also extremely shrewd; their own lives were more important than the Divine Dao True Meaning!

Inside Dachen Dachen Wan Yi, if Cheng Cheng Yuexiao went crazy and killed one or two top-tier Eighth Tier experts, it would be no problem at all!

Suddenly, Grand Master Cheng Cheng Yuexiao received a message sent by Xu Jin using the Mandarin Duck Seal.

He was immediately overjoyed.

【Is it true?】

【It is true.】

【Then don't be in a hurry; let me carefully plan this matter.】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 447 =====