Chapter 525

Xu Jin screened the eighth-tier star cores he had obtained from the Prince Prince Zi Yi King one by one, and ultimately discovered that when he held seven of them, the Arena would have an unusual, vibrating resonance.

The next instant, Xu Jin placed one of those eighth-tier star cores directly into the Arena.

In an instant, starlight intersected on the Arena, and seven Law Stars rose simultaneously. As the starlight wove together and projected onto this eighth-tier star core, a majestic and profound bolt of lightning instantly surged out from within the core, merging into Xu Jin's lightning-attribute Law Star.

As the starlight of the lightning-attribute Law Star flickered continuously, its aura had already improved.

Xu Jin's divine sense sank into the jade tablet of the Arena, and he discovered that the lightning-attribute Law Star had already changed from 【Fifth Tier (46)】 to 【Fifth Tier (47)】.

This single star core had contributed one-tenth of the lightning-attribute Heaven and Earth Stars of the small world.

This change left Xu Jin deep in thought.

The Grand Master had previously told Xu Jin that eighth-tier experts must involve themselves with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth; once he broke through to the seventh tier and touched the threshold of the eighth, he would understand.

Now it seemed that eighth-tier experts likely comprehended or refined the will of the Heaven and Earth Stars.

Suddenly, Xu Jin somewhat understood why other sixth-tier and seventh-tier cultivators were usually crushed by those of the eighth tier.

Yet he was able to resist them, and now he could even slay early-stage eighth-tier experts.

The reason should lie right here: Xu Jin himself had also refined a great deal of the will of the Heaven and Earth Stars.

In front of Xu Jin, the advantage that eighth-tier experts held in this regard no longer existed, or rather, it was not significant.

After thinking this through, Xu Jin successively placed the remaining six unusual eighth-tier star cores into the Arena one by one.

Sure enough, every star core contributed a strand of the will of the Heaven and Earth Stars.

This Prince Prince Zi Yi King primarily cultivated lightning-attribute star arts and was also proficient in wind-attribute arts—five lightning and two wind.

This caused the Law Stars on Xu Jin's Arena to improve somewhat.

The value was equivalent to sweeping through two small-world-level star domains; the harvest could be considered quite good.

In the future, if he were to slay eighth-tier alien races, he could certainly think of ways to handle this aspect.

Subsequently, no matter what Xu Jin did, the eighth-tier star cores had no further reaction within the Arena.

In fact, before this, what Xu Jin had wanted most was for the Arena to be able to purify eighth-tier star cores.

If they could be purified into Rank Jingzhu to directly improve his cultivation, he estimated that if he killed three or five early-stage eighth-tier experts, his Cloud Tower could be forged to the extreme.

He hadn't expected that the Arena would instead acquire the will of the Heaven and Earth Stars from within the star cores.

But thinking about it, it made sense; the Arena hadn't ascended in tier for a long time.

If he wanted new functions to appear, it would inevitably have to ascend in tier.

Among the conditions required for the ascent, all other conditions had been gathered, save for the Earth Core Fire Marrow and the Fire Spirit.

There were already leads on the Earth Core Fire Marrow; it existed in sixth-tier or seventh-tier star domains with an abundance of fire-attribute power, and if he searched deliberately, he could find it.

As for the Fire Spirit, there were still no leads at all.

At least, there were no leads in the current world.

Later, he could search for the whereabouts of the Fire Spirit in the Eight Desolations Continent; the alien side involved many star domains, so perhaps he could find the Fire Spirit's location.

Now that he had found his teacher, there were also leads on the matter of rescuing him.

Then, the matter of ascending the Arena to the sixth tier should also be put on the agenda.

Subsequently, Xu Jin began to take stock of his other gains.

This trip to assassinate the Prince Prince Zi Yi King had three goals: first, to resolve his current identity crisis; second, to continue creating conflict between the Blood God Sect and the Eight Desolations Wang Ting; and third, to obtain cultivation resources.

The first two goals were completed quite well, especially since he had inadvertently killed the new special envoy, which would certainly be a major bombshell for the relationship between the Blood God Sect and the Eight Desolations Wang Ting.

Now, it remained to be seen what the harvest of the third goal would be.

The next instant, Xu Jin frowned.

The Prince Prince Zi Yi King, an eighth-tier expert, was not a pauper; his wealth was still quite substantial.

He had over fifty seventh-tier star jade tablets and many spirit medicines, but there were not many of the Rank Jingzhu that Xu Jin urgently needed.

There were thirty fifth-tier Rank Jingzhu, only eighteen sixth-tier Rank Jingzhu, and only two seventh-tier Rank Jingzhu.

Compared to the harvest from the previous special envoy, it was far worse.

But based on this analysis, the alien race that possessed the most Rank Jingzhu in the entire Eight Desolations Continent should be the Jin Zhu alien race; they controlled the supply sources and channels.

Other alien races, even those at the eighth tier, were likely only able to trade for them using large quantities of star cores.

Fifth-tier and sixth-tier star cores were easy to obtain, but seventh-tier ones were relatively difficult.

Besides this, there were quite a few spirit medicines for the divine soul within the Prince Prince Zi Yi King's Sumeru space.

They were primarily fourth-tier.

When Xu Jin subsequently placed them onto his own Sumeru space's divine soul spirit medicine rack, his gaze suddenly froze.

Among a pile of fourth-tier and fifth-tier divine soul spirit medicines, there was actually one sixth-tier divine soul spirit medicine.

This could be considered a major harvest.

Before this, Xu Jin had only obtained one sixth-tier divine soul spirit medicine, which he had kept for breaking through his divine soul cultivation or for treating severe divine soul injuries, not daring to use it.

Now he had a second one.

Once the nourishment was complete, he could use it.

Subsequently, Xu Jin threw the sixth-tier divine soul spirit medicine he had obtained, along with the three other divine soul spirit medicines and over twenty fourth-tier divine soul spirit medicines, into the Arena for nourishment.

After his Yuanling cultivation reached the peak of the Yuanling stage, fourth-tier divine soul spirit medicines were completely useless to Xu Jin, and even the effect of nourished fifth-tier divine soul spirit medicines was very weak.

Xu Jin planned to give the nourished fifth-tier and fourth-tier divine soul spirit medicines to his teacher and his junior uncle to improve their cultivation.

It had to be said that the eighth-tier kings among the Eight Desolations alien races, even without Rank Jingzhu, still had quite good personal wealth.

Subsequently, Xu Jin began to inventory the Sumeru spaces of the other six seventh-tier Prince Prince Zi Yi clansmen.

The harvest was mediocre.

Of course, that was only referring to what caught Xu Jin's eye.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, that would also be a massive fortune.

He had accumulated only twenty-seven seventh-tier star jade tablets, and had only harvested one seventh-tier Rank Jingzhu.

Without a doubt, the personal wealth of that special envoy, Ju Zong, was the main event.

Xu Jin had already thought of this before, but he hadn't expected the harvest to be even greater than that from the previously slain special envoy, Ju Bo, especially regarding the Rank Jingzhu.

The number of seventh-tier star jade tablets was small, likely because he hadn't yet reached Blood Moon City and hadn't had time to collect gifts. However, the Rank Jingzhu used to win people over were quite numerous.

There were ten seventh-tier Rank Jingzhu, fifty sixth-tier Rank Jingzhu, and one hundred fifth-tier Rank Jingzhu.

In the end, the fifth-tier Rank Jingzhu obtained in this wave of hunting reached over two hundred and twenty, the sixth-tier Rank Jingzhu reached eighty-eight, there were fourteen seventh-tier Rank Jingzhu, and over a hundred seventh-tier star jade tablets.

Looking at this harvest, a smile appeared on Xu Jin's face, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably!

Besides this, he had also obtained two complete sets of Eight Desolations communication orders from the Sumeru space of the special envoy, Ju Zong.

One gold order and ten silver orders made a set.

After refining the gold order, the other ten silver orders could establish contact with the gold order at any time, but they could not cross star domains.

Xu Jin felt it was a bit like a large-scale local area network.

Compared to the Blood God Sect's Mandarin Duck Seals, the disadvantage was that they could not transmit across star domains.

But the Mandarin Duck Seals also had disadvantages; they could only be one-to-one, the number of communications was very limited, and they were even rarer.

These Eight Desolations communication orders were indeed good things.

It was just that he didn't know if there was still a background behind these Eight Desolations gold orders.

Before he had investigated clearly, he couldn't use them casually.

The next instant, Xu Jin began to take out a seventh-tier Rank Jingzhu to begin cultivation.

Having done such a major thing, the Blood God Sect and the Eight Desolations Wang Ting had already discovered it and would certainly begin a massive search; for these few days, it was better to be steady.

Now, with so many Rank Jingzhu, the eighth-layer star patterns he had previously reinforced were somewhat insufficient and needed to be reinforced further.

However, with Xu Jin's current terrifying Yuanling cultivation and star power cultivation, the speed of reinforcing star patterns had also become very fast.

Inside the Blood Moon City Lord's Mansion, the starlight formation was raised, and while isolating the inside from the outside, the high-ranking officials of the Blood God Sect held an emergency meeting once again.

"The situation is just like this.

The new Eight Desolations special envoy and the Prince Prince Zi Yi King met with trouble on the territory of our Blood God Sect, and furthermore, before the new special envoy died, he called to Ju Zhang for help, saying that it was our Blood God Sect that sent people to assassinate them, so this matter has been pinned on our Blood God Sect.

Helplessly, I could only grit my teeth and agree to Ju Zhang's conditions!

If you have any other thoughts, speak them out." said Left Protector Fan Kai.

"Protector Fan, an eighth-tier expert proficient in lightning-attribute and spatial star arts is extremely rare; let alone our Blood God Sect, even among the current human race, they are extremely rare. How could the perpetrator possibly be from our Blood God Sect?" questioned Right Protector Lin Mingshi.

"For this question, you can go and argue with the King of the Eight Desolations and see if he listens to your explanation." Left Protector Fan Kai sneered.

"Protector Fan, I am not questioning your decision." Right Protector Lin Mingshi said, "I mean that we must analyze the underlying motives of the perpetrator assassinating the special envoy and the Prince Prince Zi Yi King from the root, so that it is possible to find the perpetrator's trail and dig out the infiltrator." added Right Protector Lin Mingshi, who had been bluntly rebuffed.

"The underlying motive?"

Fan Kai sneered, "Isn't it obvious? A great war is imminent; the current human race is doing this to destroy the relationship between our Blood God Sect and the Eight Desolations Wang Ting and weaken the combat power of the entire Eight Desolations Continent."

"This is indeed the primary motive, but there is another motive that you have overlooked."

"Oh, Protector Lin, please speak."

"Actually, your focus only fell on the special envoy, but you overlooked the Prince Prince Zi Yi King! The true characteristic of this team is the Prince Prince Zi Yi Wang Zu!

Then, what did the Prince Prince Zi Yi Wang Zu come to our Blood God Sect's territory to do?

Who would benefit from killing the Prince Prince Zi Yi King?" said Protector Lin.

Once these words were spoken, the army lords and elders in the hall cast their gazes toward Elder Mu of the Criminal Hall.

The Prince Prince Zi Yi King came to hold Xue Xiao accountable.

Everyone was clear about this purpose.

In other words, Protector Lin meant that Xue Xiao had a problem.

Upon hearing this, Elder Mu of the Criminal Hall secretly sneered; this was the fundamental reason why Right Protector Lin Mingshi was always the Right Protector, while the Left Protector could be the Left Protector, becoming the number one person under the Sect Master.

Protector Lin's vision and perspective were too small.

At this time, he was still staring at the petty gains within the sect!

The key was that he lacked self-awareness!

"Protector Lin, I have already thoroughly investigated Xue Xiao from top to bottom; let alone eighth-tier, there are not even many seventh-tier members, and as for those proficient in lightning-attribute and spatial star arts, there isn't even half a one!

How about this, Protector Lin, you go and interrogate Xue Xiao again to see if you can find any Xue Xiao member proficient in lightning-attribute and spatial star arts who can slay an eighth-tier expert?" Elder Mu of the Criminal Hall sneered.

Before Protector Lin could react, Elder Yue Qing of the Household Hall also spoke up, "The divine soul of the Xue Xiao Grand Commander is in the hands of the Vice Sect Master; how about Protector Lin go and apply to the Vice Sect Master to strictly investigate Xue Xiao or search the soul of Xue Xiao Grand Commander Zhong Ji to see if you can find the perpetrator!

However, the Vice Sect Master's material channels have always been the responsibility of Xue Xiao; if they were changed in a rush, I'm afraid it would be delayed!"

This series of blows directly choked Right Protector Lin Mingshi!

If he continued to analyze, the Blood God Sect's most important source of materials would have problems.

This warning from the Vice Sect Master's faction was also a threat!

"Two Hall Masters, I did not mean that; I was purely analyzing the motive!" Lin Mingshi said helplessly, backing down.

And to be honest, he really was just purely analyzing the motive.

If he wanted to deal with the Vice Sect Master's lineage, he wasn't stupid enough to be so blatant.

"Alright, let's not talk about trivial matters; let's talk about how to handle the thirty spots requested by the King of the Eight Desolations, and he specifically pointed out that sixth-tier ninth-layer and seventh-tier ninth-layer participants are required." asked Left Protector Fan Kai.

"Protector Fan, under the current circumstances, we cannot resist the order of the King of the Eight Desolations!

Just select and send the thirty candidates as requested!

However, we cannot just watch as the King of the Eight Desolations takes away or even kills our elite disciples!

When the Limit-Breaking Secret Realm opens, we must keep a close watch; if the Eight Desolations alien race sends in eighth-tier experts, we will insist on opposing it and will never let any disciple enter to die!

This is the bottom line!

In this case, as long as there are no eighth-tier experts, in the competition between the sixth and seventh tiers, the elites of our Blood God Sect will not necessarily lose to the Eight Desolations alien race.

At the very least, it won't lead to total annihilation." said Elder Xiao Wenfeng.

This proposal from Xiao Wenfeng was immediately agreed to by all the elders.

They could execute the order of the King of the Eight Desolations, but the Blood God Sect also had its own requirements; this was the bottom line!

Left Protector Fan Kai pondered for a while, and after carefully discussing with the other elders, he sent this requirement to the Eight Desolations Wang Ting via the Eight Desolations Silver Order.

"Great King, the Blood God Sect has reported that they will send thirty sixth-tier ninth-layer peak and seventh-tier elites to participate in the Limit-Breaking Secret Realm on time, but they demand that our Eight Desolations Holy Race cannot enter any eighth-tier experts and can only enter sixth and seventh-tier ones.

And they said this is their bottom-line requirement; they demand to supervise it personally!" reported Ju Song, an elder of the Jin Zhu clan.

Inside the Holy Palace of the Eight Desolations Ancestral City, Ju Zhang, the King of the Eight Desolations, heard this news and directly waved his hand, saying, "Agreed! Tell them they can supervise it personally throughout the whole process; it doesn't matter if more people come."

This left the elder Ju Song, who had come to report, somewhat confused, "Great King, our purpose in letting the Blood God Sect elites enter the Limit-Breaking Secret Realm is to subdue the Blood God Sect elites and eliminate those who are unwilling to surrender.

If we don't send eighth-tier experts in, I'm afraid our clan's losses will also be significant.

That wouldn't be good, would it?"

Upon hearing this, Ju Zhang laughed, "Fourteenth Uncle, who said we aren't sending eighth-tier experts in?"

"The Great King means?"

"Uncle Song, I forgot to tell you, the entrance to the Limit-Breaking Secret Realm here was temporarily opened by the Holy Ancestor."

Ju Song was instantly stunned, "The Great King means that there is another entrance in the ancestral land, and we can invite eighth-tier experts from the ancestral land to kill their way in?"

As the King of the Eight Desolations nodded, he laughed!

(End of chapter)