Chapter 531

The moment he stepped into the five-colored chaotic glow area, a thick pressure immediately came crashing down from all directions.

Under the pressure, inside his Upper Shang Xinggong, Xu Jin's Original Spirit instantly contracted, and the thirty-six Divine Soul Star Cores burst with brilliant starlight, instinctively resisting this pressure; Xu Jin's expression changed instantly.

He somewhat understood why this place was a forbidden zone.

Just this pressure alone—not to mention a seventh-tier, ninth-layer peak expert—would be difficult for even an ordinary eighth-tier who had just condensed an Original Spirit to withstand.

Xu Jin's Divine Soul cultivation had long since reached the peak of the fifth-tier Original Spirit, and now that he had significantly broken his limits, he still had to exert his full strength to resist this pressure.

Those whose Divine Soul cultivation had not reached the late stage of the Original Spirit would likely be terrified into retreating the moment they entered.

For those whose Divine Soul cultivation had not reached the mid-stage of the Original Spirit, facing this pressure would cause their Divine Soul power to circulate poorly, allowing them to exert at most fifty or sixty percent of their full combat power.

Even if they only encountered an early-stage eighth-tier phantom spirit, one wrong move would mean death!

No wonder it was a forbidden zone.

Bearing the terrifying pressure, Xu Jin walked step by step toward the very center of the five-colored chaotic glow area.

The further he moved toward the center, the more intense the pressure became, to the point that even Xu Jin could barely hold on.

Having no other choice, Xu Jin directly activated his Spirit Platform Star Art; a spirit platform appeared within his Upper Shang Xinggong, emitting a hazy clear light that enveloped his Original Spirit. In an instant, the pressure Xu Jin faced was greatly reduced.

The special Spirit Platform Star Art brought by the brilliant star patterns integrated defense, purification, mind-calming, and recovery into one; it was not strong in any single aspect, but it was not weak in any either.

It was perfectly suited for resisting this kind of pressure.

It was just that the phantom spirits Xu Jin was expecting had not appeared yet.

Xu Jin wondered, if he killed the five-colored phantom spirits in this five-colored chaotic glow area, would the Heaven and Earth Star Will he obtained be able to help him deduce ninth-tier star patterns?

If it really could, then it would truly be a priceless treasure.

But judging from Xu Jin's existing knowledge, Heaven and Earth Star Will did not have that possibility.

The most likely outcome for the Heaven and Earth Star Will left behind by the five-colored phantom spirits was to assist Xu Jin in deducing star patterns up to the eighth-tier supreme grade.

But regardless, Xu Jin had to take a look.

Only after seeing it would he be able to give up.

He traveled four or five miles, and no phantom spirits appeared; he traveled another five miles, and still, no phantom spirits appeared.

This made Xu Jin somewhat surprised.

He had been in the five-colored chaotic glow area for nearly a quarter of an hour; why hadn't any phantom spirits appeared?

After advancing another five miles, the Mingji Star Pattern that Xu Jin was exerting with full force suddenly stalled; the Mingji Star Pattern had actually encountered an invisible barrier ahead, and it could not probe inside.

"Could it be that Xuanxu is in there? Or have I reached the center?"

While he was surprised, suddenly, the chaotic glow ahead fluctuated violently, and a five-colored phantom spirit emerged from the chaotic glow; its massive early-stage eighth-tier aura locked onto Xu Jin the moment it appeared.

"It's here!"

Although this five-colored phantom spirit brought certainty, a trace of disappointment surfaced in Xu Jin's heart.

It was just an ordinary five-colored phantom spirit; there was no change from the patterns of the previous three-colored and four-colored chaotic glow areas.

In other words, there would be no pleasant surprises from the products within this five-colored chaotic glow area.

But the next instant, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on Xu Jin's face.

In the distance of the five-colored chaotic glow area, another five-colored phantom spirit appeared; the moment it emerged, its aura also locked onto Xu Jin.

A different change meant there would be a different harvest.

A third five-colored phantom spirit emerged, and Xu Jin's pleasant surprise reached its peak.

The moment the fourth and fifth five-colored phantom spirits emerged, the pleasant surprise turned into alarm.

Five early-stage eighth-tier five-colored phantom spirits, combined with the incomparably massive Original Spirit pressure here—even an eighth-tier peak powerhouse would be in trouble!

Even for Xu Jin, he was under immense pressure in an instant.

But fortunately, these were five early-stage eighth-tier phantom spirits, not five eighth-tier powerhouses.

If they were five eighth-tier powerhouses, Xu Jin would have no choice but to run.

Having dealt with so many phantom spirits, Xu Jin had already discovered their weaknesses.

And it was Xu Jin's luck.

The true combat power of these phantom spirits was similar to powerhouses of the corresponding cultivation level; when facing any cultivator of the same tier, their star arts would not be suppressed, and they would not suffer a major disadvantage.

However, they were suppressed by lightning-type star arts, and their spatial perception was quite dull.

It could be said that lightning-type star arts and space-type star arts were the nemesis of these phantom spirits.

Xu Jin happened to be most proficient in these two.

The next instant, the five five-colored phantom spirits lunged at Xu Jin simultaneously, and various colors of starlight came crashing down toward Xu Jin in a massive barrage.

Xu Jin did not dare to take the concentrated fire of five early-stage eighth-tier entities head-on.

Unless Xu Jin was willing to inject over a hundred strands of the special power, Earth Core Soil Rhyme, that he had accumulated.

But there was no need to waste that precious special power here.

Massive Divine Soul fluctuations rose, and Xu Jin had already vanished from his original spot.

Spatial Displacement.

Boom!

Appearing in another direction, the moment the five five-colored phantom spirits instantly turned to lock onto Xu Jin, five-colored Five-Element Divine Lei Guang crashed down abruptly.

As the lightning crashed down, the other four five-colored phantom spirits that were about to attack Xu Jin actually turned their five-colored starlight barrage toward the one being attacked by Xu Jin!

Sizzle!

The various colors of starlight merged in an instant, colliding with Xu Jin's Five-Element Divine Lei Guang.

In the end, Xu Jin's Five-Element Divine Lei Guang simply dissipated.

A single strike of Five-Element Divine Lei Guang had not harmed this five-colored phantom spirit in the slightest.

Whoosh!

With the strike proving fruitless, Xu Jin directly activated his five-fold Triple Liushuo.

Amidst the piercing whistle of breaking air, the Huang Long Sword, augmented by the Mountain-Moving Star Art, had already passed through a five-colored phantom spirit.

But a situation that stunned Xu Jin even more occurred.

The five-colored phantom spirit that had been pierced through was like mist; it dispersed and then reformed, its aura unchanged.

It still hadn't taken any damage.

It wasn't afraid of this kind of physical attack?

While Xu Jin was shocked, the concentrated fire of the five-colored phantom spirits came crashing toward him again; Xu Jin once again exerted spatial fluctuations and vanished instantly.

In the next few breaths, Xu Jin exhausted almost all his methods, yet he hadn't harmed the five-colored phantom spirits.

He used all the star arts he could, but these five-colored phantom spirits seemed to be one entity; as long as he attacked one, the others would exert their full strength to link together as one.

The five phantom spirits shared the burden of Xu Jin's attacks, rendering them useless.

Even continuous strikes from his strongest Five-Element Divine Lei Guang were useless.

They had no physical form, and they weren't afraid of sword light or similar attacks.

Turning back around, they could madly concentrate their fire on Xu Jin again.

If it weren't for the fact that Xu Jin was proficient in spatial star arts, any other eighth-tier who came in here would have been finished off long ago!

Now, Xu Jin completely understood why this five-colored chaotic glow area was a forbidden zone.

An ordinary eighth-tier, even an eighth-tier mid-stage expert, would undoubtedly die if they came here.

As for Xu Jin, he now had only two choices: retreat using spatial star arts, or use the accumulated Nine Heavens Lei Guang Rhyme to strengthen his power.

As long as one attack broke the defense threshold limit of these five phantom spirits, he could break their joint defense and seize the opportunity to slay one of them.

But the remaining four would likely continue their joint defense.

Xu Jin estimated that to break this joint defense, he would most likely have to exhaust all the special power he had accumulated over these days.

But wouldn't the price be too high?

If he exhausted it all, the confidence Xu Jin had for self-preservation in the Eight Desolations Continent would also be exhausted.

This accumulated special power was the confidence that allowed Xu Jin to dare to mix into the Eight Desolations Continent; even if he were exposed in front of eighth-tier peak powerhouses or even multiple eighth-tier powerhouses, Xu Jin had the confidence to escape thanks to this special power.

While he was pondering, Xu Jin's heart suddenly stirred; there was one direction he hadn't tried yet. The next instant, massive Divine Soul fluctuations appeared on Xu Jin, and they were constantly condensing and rising.

After dodging the concentrated fire with another spatial displacement, the massive Divine Soul fluctuations exploded violently.

Special Divine Soul Star Art: Thought Blade Explosion!

The condensed Divine Soul blade moved extremely fast; almost the moment it was fired, it blasted into the body of one of the five-colored phantom spirits.

Bang!

Amidst an invisible piercing shriek, one of the five-colored phantom spirits exploded instantly, bursting into a mass of incomparably brilliant starlight.

Xu Jin was overjoyed.

He had finally found a way to deal with these things.

These things were afraid of powerful Divine Soul attacks.

There were still four five-colored phantom spirits left.

The next instant, the moment another Thought Blade Explosion was fired and another five-colored phantom spirit was blasted to death, the mass of brilliant starlight left behind by the first phantom spirit he had killed suddenly turned into a stream of light and returned to the very center of the five-colored chaotic glow area.

The next instant, another five-colored phantom spirit rushed out from within the five-colored chaotic glow area!

Almost the moment Xu Jin was stunned, the brilliant starlight left behind by the second five-colored phantom spirit he had just killed also returned, and another five-colored phantom spirit rushed out.

They were resurrected.

Five!

There were still five five-colored phantom spirits besieging Xu Jin; for a time, Xu Jin was once again chased and harried, constantly using spatial displacement to save his life.

Forbidden zone!

A truly genuine forbidden zone!

Xu Jin estimated that in this place, if an eighth-tier peak powerhouse retreated even a little too slowly, there was a possibility of falling!

But Xu Jin still had ideas, and he still had methods.

The next instant, another Thought Blade Explosion was fired, and the moment a five-colored phantom spirit was blasted to death, Xu Jin vanished from his original spot instantly.

While the other five-colored phantom spirits were searching for Xu Jin's position, Xu Jin had already appeared within the mass of brilliant starlight left behind by the five-colored phantom spirit that had just been blasted to death.

Massive Divine Sense instantly enveloped it.

Inside, there were only five strands of Heaven and Earth Star Will, very ordinary, similar to the Heaven and Earth Star Will discovered in the four-colored area.

Xu Jin frowned and directly threw these five strands of Heaven and Earth Star Will into his own Arena Platform.

Before the concentrated fire from the other four five-colored phantom spirits could crash down, Xu Jin vanished again via spatial displacement.

Without this mass of brilliant starlight, the five-colored phantom spirit that had been slain indeed did not resurrect again.

"Could it be that the true secret lies at the very center of the five-colored chaotic glow area?"

While surprised, Xu Jin repeated his old trick; every time he killed a five-colored phantom spirit, he would seize the opportunity to throw the brilliant starlight left behind after its death into his Arena Platform.

Before long, there were only two five-colored phantom spirits left!

But at this moment, Xu Jin changed his tactics.

Boom!

Five-Element Divine Lei Guang crashed down instantly.

The two five-colored phantom spirits joined forces to defend with all their might.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With four consecutive strikes of four-colored Five-Element Divine Lei Guang crashing down, Xu Jin forcibly blasted the remaining two five-colored phantom spirits to death.

Violent killing!

Of the places where the two masses of brilliant starlight remained, Xu Jin only took away one.

A breath later, the other mass of brilliant starlight was mysteriously recovered by the core area of the five-colored chaotic glow, and another five-colored phantom spirit rushed out.

Continuing to blast it to death with lightning, Xu Jin once again focused his senses and determined that the Heaven and Earth Star Will left behind by this five-colored phantom spirit could at most guide him to comprehend star patterns up to the eighth-tier supreme grade; determining it was useless, Xu Jin threw it into his Arena Platform, where it was absorbed by the Law Stars.

Over these two days, Xu Jin's Law Stars had indeed grown quite a bit.

Casually swallowing a fourth-tier Divine Soul elixir that had been nourished to recover his consumed Divine Soul power, Xu Jin sat cross-legged in meditation while activating his Spirit Platform Star Art to restore his Original Spirit state.

The battle just now had used many spatial displacement star arts, and his Divine Soul cultivation had been consumed quite heavily.

Xu Jin had already determined that the core secret of this Secret Realm of Breaking Limits lay in the core area of the five-colored chaotic glow that his Mingji Star Pattern could not penetrate.

He was definitely going to go inside to explore.

But before going in, he had to restore his state to its peak.

In order to deal with any accidents that might occur.

After all, even outside this core area, it was incomparably dangerous.

Xu Jin highly suspected that if an eighth-tier peak powerhouse who didn't know spatial star arts came in, they would either have to retreat or perish in the face of these immortal five-colored phantom spirits.

Wanting to completely slay them was also very difficult.

After a full three hours, under the combined effect of elixirs, pills, and the Spirit Platform Star Art, Xu Jin's Divine Soul cultivation finally recovered to its peak.

Dozens of breaths later, Xu Jin walked slowly to the front of the five-colored chaotic glow core area, which even his Mingji Star Pattern's senses could not penetrate.

Ahead, there seemed to be an invisible barrier that could neither be seen nor touched standing there.

Neither his Divine Sense nor his Mingji Star Pattern could enter.

Xu Jin first used his Huang Long Sword to test it; it could probe inside.

But the portion of his Divine Sense that he had attached to the Huang Long Sword to probe inside disappeared the moment it entered.

The next instant, Xu Jin activated his Fish Screen Golden Bell to its limit, simultaneously activating his Spirit Platform Star Art to augment his Original Spirit, and once again activating his Suppressing Intent Star Pattern; inside his Upper Shang Xinggong, a Suppressing Intent Stele spanned Heaven and Earth, enveloping his entire Original Spirit.

Having made all preparations, Xu Jin took a step and entered the very core area where even Divine Sense could not enter.

The moment he stepped in, Heavenly Gang Lei Guang Chains condensed from Five-Element Divine Lei Guang appeared, dancing in all directions around Xu Jin's body to deal with the unexpected.

Boom!

Almost the moment he stepped in, the Heaven and Earth before his eyes changed; hundreds of five-colored phantom spirits suddenly appeared in all directions.

The moment these hundreds of five-colored phantom spirits appeared, they concentrated their fire on Xu Jin.

Various colors of starlight came crashing toward Xu Jin in a massive barrage, as if the world were ending, wanting to blast Xu Jin until not even dregs remained.

But at that same instant, Xu Jin laughed.

He was most skilled at playing with this kind of method.

The moment he stepped in and saw the Heavenly Gang Lei Guang Chains he was waving around his body disappear, he knew what this was!

An illusion!

It was just a phantasm!

The next instant, Xu Jin closed his eyes.

The Spirit Platform Star Art shone brilliantly.

In an instant, all sounds and all influences disappeared.

The next instant, Xu Jin sensed the Heavenly Gang Lei Guang Chains he controlled.

Boom!

The moment the Heavenly Gang Lei Guang Chains exploded in all directions, strands of residual thoughts were directly blasted to pieces by Xu Jin's lightning light, and Xu Jin opened his eyes.

Here and now, there was not a single five-colored phantom spirit left outside.

There was only the five-colored chaotic glow.

And at the very center of the five-colored chaotic glow, beneath a golden light flowing like clouds, a mass of seven-colored brilliant starlight was hanging there, shining brightly.

Xu Jin walked quickly toward it, extended a strand of Original Spirit Divine Sense, and cautiously probed that mass of seven-colored brilliant starlight.

His Divine Sense probed inside in an instant, as if entering an unpopulated land.

The next instant, Xu Jin's massive Divine Sense directly occupied this mass of seven-colored brilliant starlight.

An indescribable joy had already surfaced in his eyes!

He had already sensed that several of his star patterns above the eighth tier had begun to scatter blinding starlight.

This mass of seven-colored brilliant starlight was a nearly complete Law Power of a Middle World.

But what caused his star patterns above the eighth tier to move was the golden light flowing like clouds that surrounded this Law Power of the Middle World.

(End of chapter)