Chapter 458: Strengthening and Intelligence Sources

September 7th, Falling Plum Star Domain, Blood Spirit Holy City.

Today was already the fifth day Xu Jin had entered the Falling Plum Star Domain.

"Daniu, are you ready?"

"Senior Brother, I am ready." Mo Daniu nodded heavily, his small face full of determination.

Daniu, who had struggled in hardship, understood better how hard-won the opportunity to gain power was, and was especially eager for the chance to gain power.

This young expert before him said he was a friend of his father, but he wasn't sure.

His father was also very mysterious to him.

But he clearly knew that this powerful Senior Brother before him was truly helping him.

In just five days, he not only let his primordial spirit condense stars but also taught him two very brilliant Star Patterns.

Compared to the primordial spirit Star Patterns he had learned in the Blood God Sect, they were far more brilliant.

Although he hadn't been on the path of cultivation for long, some things were very intuitive.

Just like eating; although he was a country child with no experience, he could still distinguish between delicious food and pig swill.

At this moment, he completely trusted this young expert before him.

He even wanted to call him Master.

But this young expert before him wouldn't let him, only letting him call him Senior Brother, which he couldn't quite understand.

"It will be very painful in a moment, painful enough to make you doubt life! But remember, hold onto your primordial spirit, continuously circulate the Clear Soul Star Pattern, and don't worry about the injuries and pain on your body! As long as I am here, you will not die!" Xu Jin said.

In these few days, Xu Jin had used elixirs to let Daniu directly condense stars in his primordial spirit, and then taught him the Clear Soul and Suppress Intent Star Patterns.

Originally, learning them should have been very difficult and slow.

Even if Daniu had high talent, it would still be very slow.

But Xu Jin had created a dream-teaching practice method last time, shortening the entry difficulty of the Clear Soul Star Pattern by ten times, which allowed Daniu to successfully engrave the Clear Soul Star Pattern in three days.

Although it was only Third Tier high-grade, it was enough.

"I believe you." Mo Daniu looked at Xu Jin and nodded heavily.

"Guard the spirit platform, hold onto the primordial spirit."

Amidst Xu Jin's light shout, Mo Daniu slowly closed his eyes.

The next instant, Xu Jin's palm, which was resting on Mo Daniu's chest star palace, emitted a slight burst of star power!

Boom!

A flash of starlight blasted into Mo Daniu's middle star palace like lightning, accurately blasting onto that blood-colored star core, and the blood-colored star core shattered into pieces in an instant!

Blood light scurried, colliding in Mo Daniu's middle star palace.

Instantly, Mo Daniu's internal organs shook, the blood color on his small face disappeared in an instant, and his entire body trembled violently.

But to Xu Jin's surprise, even though blood kept overflowing from the corners of his mouth uncontrollably, and the pain was extreme, Mo Daniu bit his lips hard, and even though he bit his lips to pieces, he didn't make a single sound.

This willpower was something even Xu Jin found surprising.

However, this was just the beginning of Star Shattering.

The moment the middle star palace star core shattered, the primordial spirit star core in Mo Daniu's upper star palace was also affected, trembling violently.

But it only trembled and did not show cracks, nor did it show a state of losing will or fainting.

This showed that Daniu's divine sense had been guarding the spirit platform all along, without the slightest wavering.

This point was the most critical.

Flesh is easy to heal, but the heart and intent are hard to cultivate.

If he lost his spirit platform due to extreme pain, that would be a nightmare for Daniu for the rest of his life, and even if he stepped onto the path of cultivation again in the future, his achievements would be extremely limited.

This was also the reason why Xu Jin had strengthened his primordial spirit beforehand.

But what was even more important was his own willpower.

The next instant, Xu Jin's star power probed into Mo Daniu's middle star palace, as if scraping bone, and began to clean up the remaining blood-colored star core fragments in the middle star palace.

This process was similar to the feeling of having surgery without anesthesia in later generations.

Even though Xu Jin's cultivation was powerful, it took him a full quarter of an hour to finish cleaning up for Mo Daniu.

At this moment, Mo Daniu looked like he had been fished out of water, sweating like rain, but he was still conscious.

"Alright, it's over."

Bright green Star Healing light surged into Mo Daniu's middle star palace along Xu Jin's palm, beginning to repair the damaged middle star palace.

Mo Daniu opened his eyes with difficulty, "Senior Brother, is it okay?"

"It's okay."

The moment Xu Jin nodded, Mo Daniu let out a sigh of relief, but at the same time, the corners of his mouth relaxed, and his whole body curled up like a shrimp in pain.

The next instant, Dream Warmth was activated.

Mo Daniu immediately fell into a deep sleep.

Once the treatment was finished, the Star Shattering would be over.

Once Xu Jin used the Transformation Pill and used primordial spirit mental power to re-refine Mo Daniu's body, he could re-forge stars and cultivate.

This kid had good talent and very resilient willpower, and with his cultivation and some resource investment, Xu Jin estimated that this kid's future prospects would be immeasurable.

In this way, Xu Jin could be considered to have resolved a worry.

In the future, if he really discovered that Uncle Mo Ji had died in battle in that Sixth Tier star domain, Xu Jin would also be at ease.

The only regret now was Teacher Seeing Qi Shanye.

If Teacher Seeing Qi Shanye had really died in battle, what should he do?

Teacher Seeing Qi Shanye had no bloodline legacy in the current era.

Xu Jin wanted to repay this kindness, but had no opportunity.

To be honest, without Seeing Qi Shanye back then, without the Clear Soul Star Pattern, there would be no Xu Jin now.

However, Xu Jin also thought of one point.

He remembered Old Qi chatting with him that when the Spirit Discipline Shang Xinggong was killed and locked, he was a branch palace master, but his family was in the main palace of the Spirit Discipline Shang Xinggong.

This was the rule of the Spirit Discipline Shang Xinggong.

The families of high-level members needed to be sent to the main palace, one for protection, two as hostages.

He could search in this direction to see if he could find Teacher Seeing Qi Shanye's family.

The Spirit Discipline Shang Xinggong was only locked; as long as Xu Jin's strength was strong enough, he could find a way to get in.

And the reason Xu Jin was so pessimistic, thinking that Teacher Seeing Qi Shanye and Uncle Mo Ji were in dire straits in that Sixth Tier star domain, was because of Xu Jin's predicament in the Sixth Tier Falling Plum Star Domain these few days.

The alien experts within the Sixth Tier star domain still had extremely strong control over the local area.

Two human beings from the current world broke in, and they were just like lightbulbs; sixth-tier and seventh-tier combatants, who were stronger than them, could be seen everywhere.

Especially Seventh Tier experts, the number should not be small.

The difficulty of survival was too great.

However, what the final situation was still required Xu Jin to break in and search once!

At that time, see the person if alive, see the corpse if dead!

Looking at Mo Daniu who had fallen into a deep sleep, Xu Jin first swallowed a Three-Essence Long Gui Forging Duan Longgui Duanpo Dan himself and began to absorb and refine it.

Half an hour later, the refining ended.

Xu Jin introspected; the medicinal power of the Three-Essence Long Gui Forging Duan Longgui Duanpo Dan was as always, every five pills could increase the linear radiation distance of his primordial spirit fetal light by 0.1 meters.

Persisting with one pill a day, the improvement was not small.

As for the quantity?

During the Great War in the Seven Kill Secret Realm, he had captured many in succession, enough for Xu Jin to eat for a long time.

After refining the medicinal power, Xu Jin took out a Fifth Tier primordial spirit elixir that had been well-nurtured, the Hundred-Year Yin Spirit Crystal, and swallowed it again to begin refining and absorbing the medicinal power.

Counting the ones he had obtained and accumulated before, Xu Jin still had at least eleven Fifth Tier primordial spirit-type elixirs in his hand. He had started taking them intermittently recently.

The medicinal power of this elixir would decay if taken continuously, but taking one every seven or eight days would have a very good effect.

Anyway, there were plenty, so convert them into strength first.

Two hours later, the primordial spirit aura rising in Xu Jin's body gradually dissipated, but the medicinal power had already been absorbed.

The next instant, Xu Jin circulated his primordial spirit, and the vast primordial spirit fetal light immediately radiated linearly, about 31.9 meters.

This nurtured Hundred-Year Yin Spirit Crystal directly increased Xu Jin's primordial spirit cultivation by about 1.9 meters, the effect was not bad.

Glancing at Mo Daniu who was still sleeping, Xu Jin's thoughts sank into the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, and he began to strengthen the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Strengthening primordial spirit cultivation before was actually also to speed up the strengthening of the Star Pattern.

The speed of strengthening the Star Pattern was related to the strength of the star bucket and the strength of the primordial spirit cultivation.

Among them, the stronger the primordial spirit, the faster the strengthening speed.

Xu Jin remembered that at the beginning, when his primordial spirit cultivation was still in the early stage of primordial spirit, the primordial spirit fetal light was about six or seven meters.

Strengthening a Star Pattern by one layer required six to eight days.

Even that was already top speed.

Like Hou Yunzhang, because he hadn't condensed a primordial spirit, even if his cultivation reached the Fifth Tier, Ninth Layer peak, wanting to strengthen a Star Pattern by one layer required more than a month and a half.

But now, Xu Jin's primordial spirit cultivation had reached the late stage of primordial spirit, directly doubling the speed of strengthening the Star Pattern.

At the same time, Xu Jin's cultivation had also reached the Fifth Tier, Ninth Layer peak, and the star bucket was condensed from thirty-six star cores, so the speed of mobilizing star power to strengthen the Star Pattern was theoretically three or four times that of ordinary cultivators.

In this situation, Xu Jin's speed of strengthening the Star Pattern was one layer per day.

If he borrowed the assistance of corresponding Fifth Tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Xu Jin could strengthen two layers in one day.

Therefore, Xu Jin began to improve his strength from this aspect.

In the past, because of the time required for strengthening, he could only strengthen main combat Star Patterns.

But now, it was different.

Xu Jin felt that all source power or combat-type Star Patterns could be strengthened.

Even with Xu Jin's current strength, strengthening a Star Pattern by one layer only increased the combat power of Xu Jin's related star arts by about ten percent.

But Xu Jin's combat power foundation was there, and just increasing by ten percent was also very considerable.

If he strengthened by thirty or fifty percent, or even sixty or seventy percent, then his strength could also be greatly improved.

What Xu Jin looked forward to even more was, if he strengthened all the source power Star Patterns that condensed the Five Elements Divine Thunder, would the power of his Five Elements Divine Thunder be able to improve again?

With the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder, even if it only improved by ten or twenty percent, the improvement in power would be very large.

Xu Jin was doing this right now.

The Thunder Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, as well as the Earth Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern and Wind Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, had already been strengthened to the fifth layer.

Now, Xu Jin planned to spend a few days strengthening the Fire Source, Wood Source, Metal Source, and Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Patterns to the fifth layer.

Among them, the Fire Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern had already been strengthened to the fourth layer, while the Wood Source, Metal Source, and Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Patterns had not yet begun to be strengthened.

Xu Jin had collected dozens of Fifth Tier Wood-element heavenly materials and earthly treasures before, and leaving them was a waste, so he used them all to strengthen the Star Pattern at this time.

Driven by the primordial spirit, star power surged from the star bucket toward the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, beginning to continuously expand and strengthen the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern, making the channels inside wider and the patterns more stable. The most obvious effect was making the Star Pattern three-dimensional; strengthening one layer like this was like building a layer of star tower.

This was also the foundation for breaking through to the Sixth Tier Cloud Tower.

When Xu Jin swallowed a Fifth Tier Wood-element elixir, the speed of strengthening the Star Pattern accelerated again.

Half a day later, the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern was successfully strengthened to the second layer.

The next instant, Xu Jin opened his eyes, raised his head, and a Wood Divine Thunder was thrown out; raising his hand again, he threw out the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

At the same time, the Bright Discipline Star Pattern used for sensing was driven to the extreme by Xu Jin.

Outside the Blood Spirit Holy Palace, a group of alien experts on duty were trembling with fear from this terrifying thunder light.

If this were thrown on their heads, all of them would be directly blasted into slag.

Xu Jin frowned slightly.

Just now he was testing the improvement in the power of related star arts after strengthening the Star Pattern.

After strengthening the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern to the second layer, the power of the Wood Divine Thunder improved by about ten percent, but the improvement in the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder was not large, not even five percent.

However, there was an improvement.

Thinking for a moment, Xu Jin began to strengthen the Metal Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern.

To see how much the power of related star arts improved after the Elephant-type Star Pattern was strengthened.

Half a day later, the Metal Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern was successfully strengthened to the first layer, and then Xu Jin conducted a series of tests.

Represented by the Geng Metal Divine Thunder, the power improvement was only five percent, and the improvement in the Five Elements Divine Thunder was even smaller, only a tiny improvement. Xu Jin estimated that the overall improvement might only be between one and two percent.

However, if the number of layers strengthened was large, the improvement would also be very considerable.

"The cost-effectiveness of strengthening source-type Star Patterns is higher than strengthening Elephant-type Star Patterns. It seems that source-type Star Patterns should be prioritized for strengthening."

The next instant, Xu Jin began to strengthen the Metal Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Strengthening source-type Star Patterns only increased the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder by about three percent.

This was the result Xu Jin obtained after multiple strengthenings and tests.

The improvement was very small.

However, what if he strengthened it by a dozen layers?

If he strengthened the Metal Source, Wood Source, and Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Patterns, which were currently all at the first layer, to the fifth layer, that would be an increase of twelve layers, accumulating to at least a forty-two percent increase.

With the terrifying power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder, such an improvement was very terrifying.

If he strengthened all Elephant-type Star Patterns to the fifth layer, accumulating them, the power might be doubled.

However, if Xu Jin strengthened the Star Pattern to the fifth or sixth layer, he could consider breaking through.

For several days in a row, Xu Jin was cultivating and strengthening the Star Pattern, and Mo Daniu also began to temper his body and start cultivating again.

The Grand Master gave several suggestions, but after discussion, none of them worked.

He still needed to scout the latest situation of Falling Plum Manor.

September 12th, while cultivating, Xu Jin's heart suddenly moved.

It was the Heaven and Earth Authority of the Falling Plum Star Domain fluctuating slightly.

There were outsiders entering!

More than one person!

There were five people!

This outsider was relative to the Falling Plum Star Domain.

In an instant, Xu Jin's thoughts sank into the Heaven and Earth Authority of the Falling Plum Star Domain, and immediately driving it, like the most precise radar, in just one instant, he found and locked onto the aura of those few intruders.

Sixth Tier, Ninth Layer peak cultivation, humans from the current era, five people.

At this time, they had just scattered to all directions of the Falling Plum Star Domain.

Xu Jin smiled; they had arrived!

The intelligence source he was waiting for had finally arrived!

"You five, go to this direction, there are humans from the current era breaking in, capture them alive if you can, if not, kill them, I will guide you on the way." Xu Jin ordered.

"Yes!"

The Seventh Tier and Sixth Tier alien elites whose primordial spirits were controlled by Xu Jin immediately set off in batches.

Xu Jin arranged for three teams of alien experts to set off in total.

And Xu Jin himself also soared into the sky, charging toward another direction.

There were two, and Xu Jin wanted to capture them alive himself to obtain intelligence.

As for the other three, Xu Jin needed them to transmit intelligence!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 459 =====