Chapter 540

"Thunder-type star technique? That place should be the Blood Owl headquarters, right?"

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, and the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, who had ascended into the sky, looked at each other, both seeing surprise in the other's eyes.

But what surprised them was the thunder-type star technique.

In an instant, the two thought of many things.

Thunder-type star techniques were still very special.

Among the Eight Desolation alien races, some cultivated thunder-type star techniques; within the Blood God Sect, there were quite a few who knew them, but most were only at the introductory level. No one could use such a high-power thunder-type star technique.

At the same moment, several streams of light had already rushed toward the scene, including an Eighth Tier late-stage aura, which should be the Punishment Hall Elder, Mu Geng.

"You stay to command; I will go take a look. I fear Mu Geng alone is not enough," the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, said.

"If that person has truly appeared, it would be better for us to go together." Although the Left Protector, Fan Kai, and the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, were constantly fighting for power internally, they were never ambiguous when it came to major matters.

They both knew clearly that fighting for benefits was one thing, but standing united against outsiders was another.

If the Blood God Sect's top power was weakened, the only ones to suffer would be the Blood God Sect itself.

"Very well."

"You all guard the City Lord's Mansion well; without our orders, do not leave without authorization."

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, gave instructions, and he and the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, turned into two streams of light, rushing rapidly toward the scene.

During the rapid dash, the Left Protector, Fan Kai, took out an Eight Desolation Gold Token and continuously issued orders.

Since the Blood God Sect had joined the Eight Desolation Royal Court, they had also been bestowed several sets of these Eight Desolation Gold Tokens, which were relatively more convenient for communication.

Xu Jin, hidden in the shadows, did not use his eyes to watch the departure of the two Protectors.

At such a close distance, the focus of a gaze would also be sensed by those with powerful cultivation.

After sensing the departure of the two strongest late-stage Eighth Tier experts with the Mingji Star Pattern, Xu Jin felt settled.

The goal of the first step, luring the tiger away from the mountain, had been initially achieved.

The next instant, the invisible Xu Jin restrained his aura, pressed his palm lightly, and vaulted over the courtyard wall. His landing was silent, and he rapidly approached the quiet room where the three Seventh Tier experts who had been awarded the Thousand Star Token were cultivating.

Although experts were stationed there, the entire City Lord's Mansion's defensive force was not weak, with Sixth Tier sentries everywhere.

But for the current Xu Jin, Sixth Tier sentries were of no use.

While invisible, Xu Jin passed by them from ten meters away, and these Sixth Tier sentries did not notice a thing.

He could even be bolder and pass by from five meters away, and it would still be hard to be discovered, but that would involve probability.

Caution is paramount.

Two breaths later, Xu Jin had silently approached the quiet room of the three Seventh Tier experts refining the Thousand Star Token.

And above the City Lord's Mansion, the four Eighth Tier experts were walking on starlight, gazing in all directions, their divine sense constantly patrolling back and forth, serving both as a warning and a deterrent.

"I only have one chance." Reaching the designated position, Xu Jin prepared to act.

With the Mingji Star Pattern sensing with all its might, Xu Jin had already clearly sensed the situation inside and outside the quiet room.

He also sensed the situation of the Thousand Star Tokens he needed most.

All three Seventh Tier experts were refining the Thousand Star Tokens with all their might, and these tokens were floating in front of them.

The next moment, Xu Jin silently activated "Dream-Warmth." The Sixth Tier guard stationed beside Han Yuan, a Seventh Tier First Layer expert, suddenly slumped backward, leaning against the wall; his chest was still heaving, but he had already fallen into a deep sleep.

With a significant gap in divine soul cultivation, he was directly pulled into a deep sleep by Xu Jin.

At the same moment, Han Yuan, the Seventh Tier First Layer expert refining the Thousand Star Token, was also pulled into a deep sleep by "Dream-Warmth." The Thousand Star Token dropped to the ground with a "plop"; the sound was very light, and no one noticed.

Leng Zhou, the Seventh Tier Second Layer expert refining the Thousand Star Token in the quiet room, was also pulled into a deep sleep by "Dream-Warmth." The refining stopped, and the Thousand Star Token also fell to the ground.

At the same time, a Sixth Tier guard had already seen the guard sleeping at Han Yuan's door, and his expression changed instantly.

But his first reaction was that this brother had dozed off.

Sleeping while on duty was a serious crime.

He flicked a finger, sending a gust of wind at the thigh of the sleeping guard, wanting to wake his brother on duty.

They were all colleagues; helping each other out was very normal.

The finger wind hit the thigh, but the sleeping guard still did not wake up.

This made the guard who discovered this scene change his expression abruptly, but he still did not think of the worst.

Xu Jin knew he didn't have much time left.

Almost simultaneously, Xu Jin gently pushed open the door to Han Yuan's quiet room and stepped inside.

The guard watching his colleague sleep widened his eyes.

No one was walking, yet the quiet room door opened, and there was his colleague sleeping on the ground; this immediately made him realize something was wrong.

He called out and immediately took people to investigate first.

At the same time, Xu Jin had just picked up the first Thousand Star Token.

And at this very moment, several guards who had come to investigate the situation had already seen Han Yuan lying unconscious on the ground through the open door crack.

"My lord, the person in deep cultivation is dead!"

The first thing this guard did was shout in alarm while also issuing a warning.

The four Eighth Tier experts above the City Lord's Mansion had their divine sense and star power instantly shroud this quiet room, and the moment they rushed toward it, majestic starlight already covered the room.

Xu Jin had just put the first Thousand Star Token into his Sumeru space when he sensed the anomaly.

Almost simultaneously, a majestic fluctuation of star power erupted with Xu Jin as the center. The Fish-Curtain Golden Bell was raised, the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain, sourced from the Five-Element Divine Thunder, extended like fangs and claws in an instant, and at the same time, Xu Jin accelerated instantly.

Charging through everything.

Using his physical body as the vanguard, he smashed through the walls of two quiet rooms in a flash, rushed into Leng Zhou's quiet room, picked up the second Thousand Star Token, and with a sweep of the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain's lightning, the Seventh Tier Second Layer Leng Zhou was directly blasted into charcoal.

At the same time, the lightning-transformed Xu Jin had once again pierced and smashed through the wall of the quiet room in front of him, rushing into the quiet room where Lian Xiang was refining the Thousand Star Token.

Behind him, the terrifying starlight of the four Eighth Tier experts had already destroyed the quiet rooms Xu Jin had rushed through, blasting toward Xu Jin's back.

It followed him like a shadow, blasting toward Xu Jin, who had just rushed into Lian Xiang's quiet room.

Lian Xiang, sensing the disturbance, was surprised; the moment he turned around, his expression became incomparably astonished.

The terrifying lightning had already blasted toward his head.

He had only just managed to activate his defense when his entire person was submerged by the lightning.

The Thousand Star Token in front of him was already gone.

At the same moment, the majestic lightning crashed down like a flood, mixing with the previous lightning; the physical body of the Seventh Tier Ninth Layer Lian Xiang was directly turned to ash.

As for whether he was blasted to death by Xu Jin or by the four Eighth Tier experts, it no longer mattered.

The next instant, the majestic starlight had already blasted Xu Jin.

These four Blood God Sect Eighth Tier experts were biting too tightly, giving Xu Jin almost no chance to catch his breath.

It could only be said that the Blood God Sect members were all veterans of a hundred battles, with combat experience and awareness that were incomparably rich, unlike the Eighth Tier experts Xu Jin had encountered before.

Xu Jin's original intention was to charge like this and then escape directly using the Seven-Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

He did not expect these four Eighth Tier experts to bite tighter and tighter, giving Xu Jin absolutely no chance to escape.

In an instant, Xu Jin was blasted flying.

Even for Xu Jin, under the concentrated fire of four Eighth Tier experts, his Fish-Curtain Golden Bell shattered in the first instant.

However, it was also because the situation was urgent that Xu Jin had not had time to activate the "Root of the Earth" star technique.

The Seventh Tier supreme-grade Seven-Star Fire Rhinoceros Armor appeared, and the thunder wings curled back, barely allowing Xu Jin to take this blow.

At the same moment, Xu Jin's counterattack had already begun.

Star technique: "Flower-Shifting"!

The starlight blasted by the strongest mid-stage Eighth Tier expert turned a corner in an instant and actually blasted toward another Eighth Tier expert.

At the same moment, the Five-Element Divine Thunder blasted repeatedly!

Boom! Boom!

The first mid-stage Eighth Tier expert who had rushed to the front was blasted into serious injury by Xu Jin in an instant, and the second Five-Element Divine Thunder landed in front of that early-stage Eighth Tier cultivator. Combined with the concentrated fire of the "Flower-Shifting" star technique, this early-stage Eighth Tier expert didn't even have time to scream before his physical body shattered, leaving only his primordial spirit to escape!

Inside the Blood Owl headquarters, the Punishment Hall Elder, Mu, arrived first. After just one breath, the Left and Right Protectors and the Iron-Blood Army Commander also arrived.

"Aside from some corpse ash and the incomparably majestic thunder-type star technique fluctuations, there are no other traces. I asked others; the Blood Owl Grand Commander, Zhong Ji, was originally cultivating in this quiet room.

It is highly likely he was assassinated!" Elder Mu said, raising his hand and gently beckoning. A wisp of spatial fluctuation began to be drawn out extremely slowly, but it would take at least twenty or thirty breaths to draw it out completely. "This is the Sumeru space fluctuation I sensed remaining here; if there are no accidents, it should be the Sumeru space of the Blood Owl Grand Commander, Zhong Ji," Elder Mu said to the two Protectors who had just arrived.

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, and the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, activated their divine sense with all their might to sense all the residual power.

It was not that they didn't believe Elder Mu, but rather that their cultivation was more powerful by comparison.

Suddenly, the Left Protector, Fan Kai, frowned and said, "A familiar, powerful, and tyrannical thunder-type star technique fluctuation, exactly the same as the thunder-type star technique fluctuation sensed at the scene where the envoy was assassinated."

The Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, nodded but frowned. "Did you sense a wisp of extremely faint spatial fluctuation?"

"I did not. Where?" The Left Protector, Fan Kai's expression changed drastically.

Under the guidance of the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, the Left Protector, Fan Kai, sensed that wisp of spatial fluctuation Xu Jin had left behind when activating the Seven-Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake, which had not yet completely dissipated.

"Killing a Zhong Ji—what is this assassin trying to do?" the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, exclaimed.

"Not good! Return quickly!"

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, realized something and pulled the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, as they rushed into the sky.

The moment the two rushed out of the Blood Owl headquarters, they saw terrifying thunder light fluctuations erupting in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Elder Mu, go activate the Blood Blade Array, immediately!"

After a sharp shout, Fan Kai and Lin Lin Mingshi turned into starlight lightning and rushed toward the City Lord's Mansion.

The distance was short; they didn't even take half a breath to rush back to the City Lord's Mansion, but the scene they saw made their eyes widen, their killing intent soaring to the sky.

They had just arrived when they saw Xu Jin blast a mid-stage Eighth Tier elder into serious injury and vomiting blood, and blast the physical body of the early-stage Eighth Tier Blood Moon Army Commander into nothingness, leaving only his primordial spirit to escape, nearly falling!

"You seek death!"

Almost the moment they saw that, Fan Kai and Lin Lin Mingshi activated their star power, their star towers appearing behind them, starlight swaying in the sky; they used their full strength the moment they attacked.

At the same time, the Seventh Tier experts of the entire City Lord's Mansion also set up a great array, surrounding Xu Jin layer by layer from all directions.

Looking at this scene, Xu Jin knew that if he didn't escape now, he would have no chance.

His thunder wings flapped, and he shot into the sky, intending to escape the City Lord's Mansion and then use the space-shifting star technique to flee.

"Where do you think you're going!"

The Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, sneered, and the blood-colored light in his palm coiled around Xu Jin's body like lightning in an instant; the Left Protector, Fan Kai, shot two blood dragons from his palms, blasting toward Xu Jin.

The other three Eighth Tier experts also attacked Xu Jin simultaneously.

At the same moment, the Seventh Tier experts below also concentrated their fire on Xu Jin's position.

The blood-colored light coiling around Xu Jin's body once again prevented him from activating the space-shifting star technique.

Fire light surged out, and the moment it burned away this blood line, before the concentrated fire arrived, Xu Jin's thunder wings flapped, instantly turning into eight peak shadows that exploded in all directions.

Star technique: "Fluffy Shadow Clone."

"Petty tricks!"

The Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, sneered, and the blood light in his palm moved as fast as lightning, breaking all seven of Xu Jin's clones in an instant and directly marking Xu Jin's true body.

Xu Jin, who had just avoided the concentrated fire and was about to activate the spatial star technique to flee far away, was once again entangled by the blood-colored silk threads.

Lei Guang surged out, and the moment he blasted away this blood light, the Left Protector, Fan Kai, arrived again with three Eighth Tier experts and many Seventh Tier experts.

In the distance, more powerful starlight was gathering in this direction.

Boom!

The "Falling Star Technique" suddenly appeared in front of Xu Jin, using offense as defense, blocking the concentrated fire of two Eighth Tier experts. The Five-Element Divine Thunder blasted out instantly, crashing onto the head of the Left Protector, Fan Kai, who was rushing to the front.

The latter was startled, his protective starlight blasted into dissipation, and the Seven-Star Spirit Armor appeared to block the remaining power.

"Protector, the Blood Blade is in position!"

In the void of Blood Moon City, a long whistle sounded.

The moment the Left Protector, Fan Kai, who had just been startled by the lightning, had a blood-colored seal appear in his palm, a blood-colored battle blade suddenly appeared in the sky.

Whoosh!

One blade slashed out!

Like a blood-colored lightning bolt, it slashed toward Xu Jin.

The speed was also fast to the extreme.

The moment he was locked onto by the aura of this blood blade, Xu Jin felt a moment of dizziness and shaking.

This blood blade could actually affect the divine soul.

But at the same time, the "Lingtai Star Technique" operated, eliminating the influence.

In Xu Jin's heart, an indescribable feeling of palpitation emerged.

The Mingji Star Pattern brought Xu Jin a sense of extreme danger.

This blood blade had the power to kill him!

Almost in an instant, Xu Jin did not hesitate to activate the power of twenty "Earth-Heart Earth Rhymes," injecting them into the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell.

Clang!

The blood blade slashed onto the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell, emitting a muffled sound like a mountain ringing; the golden light on the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell flickered rapidly, constantly dissolving.

Thunder wings and the Heavenly Gang Lei Liandun condensed simultaneously for internal defensive stacking. This terrifying blood blade power was weakened layer by layer, and finally, the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell shattered, the Heavenly Gang Lei Liandun shattered, the thunder wings shattered, and the luster of the Seventh Tier supreme-grade Fire Rhinoceros Armor was shaved off by half before this blood blade attack finally dissipated.

Xu Jin, however, was blasted from the sky to the ground.

"Again!"

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, sneered, and as the blood-colored seal on his chest flashed with light, four Eighth Tier experts, twelve Seventh Tier experts, and thirty-six Sixth Tier experts stood in the array eyes of the Blood Blade Array in all directions around Blood Moon City, activating the Blood Blade Array with all their might.

The moment the blood light flashed, another blood blade condensed.

At the same time, the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, rushed toward Xu Jin like lightning, and his blood-colored silk threads, which specifically restrained spatial star techniques, once again coiled around Xu Jin like maggots on a bone.

Xu Jin's gaze swept toward the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, like cold ice.

He had been blocked from activating the spatial star technique for the third time.

This blood-colored silk thread seemed to be able to lock him in the current space, making it impossible to activate the spatial star technique.

Xu Jin already knew what he needed to do.

At the same time, the blood blade activated by the Left Protector, Fan Kai, had already slashed toward Xu Jin's head.

The Fish-Curtain Golden Bell, thunder wings, and Heavenly Gang Lei Liandun had already been raised, and the star technique "Root of the Earth" was also activated.

And at the very moment the terrifying blood blade slashed down, Xu Jin injected forty "Earth-Heart Earth Rhymes" directly into the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell!

At the same time, the special star technique "Flower-Shifting" was activated!

But what surprised Xu Jin extremely was that under the "Flower-Shifting" star technique, this blood blade was basically undamaged; only a bit of blood-colored starlight was shifted away, and the power was only weakened by about half a percent.

The blood blade arrived again.

Xu Jin's thunder wings and Heavenly Gang Lei Liandun shattered one after another.

But this time, the Fish-Curtain Golden Bell, bolstered by the "Root of the Earth" and injected with forty "Earth-Heart Earth Rhymes," lived through this blood blade attack.

The Fish-Curtain Golden Bell did not shatter, and Xu Jin had a chance to catch his breath.

With a movement of his gaze, his entire person disappeared from the spot instantly.

Just as everyone was looking for Xu Jin, Xu Jin had already appeared in the sky behind the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi.

"Protector Lin, watch out!" an Eighth Tier expert shouted in alarm.

At the same time, the Left Protector, Fan Kai, once again activated the seal to condense the blood blade.

The terrifying Five-Element Divine Thunder blasted toward the head of the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, but the mid-stage Eighth Tier elder, Xiao Xiao Wenfeng, who had been seriously injured earlier, discovered that this time, the Five-Element Divine Thunder blasting toward the Right Protector was actually more than twice as thick as the one that had blasted him.

The aura was even more terrifying!

"Die!"

Boom!

The Five-Element Divine Thunder, injected with a full one hundred "Nine-Heaven Thunder Rhymes," blasted onto the head of the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi.

Under the pouring thunder light, the protective starlight of the late-stage Eighth Tier Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, dissipated like snow meeting boiling water.

Because he was still looking for Xu Jin's position and preparing to restrict the spatial star technique, he had not discovered Xu Jin and thus had not defended with all his might.

After his protective starlight shattered, the Seven-Star mid-grade Spirit Armor emerged from his body surface for active defense.

But the next instant, Lin Lin Mingshi's gaze became incomparably terrified, because his Seven-Star mid-grade Spirit Armor was also blasted through and shattered in this instant.

The moment the indescribable intense pain and the burning pain brought by the lightning struck, his physical body had already been blasted into charcoal in an instant!

"Protector Lin!"

The Left Protector, Fan Kai, who had just condensed the blood blade, saw the physical body of the Right Protector, Lin Lin Mingshi, blasted to death; his eyes widened instantly, his eyes splitting with rage, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. The blood blade in front of him grew by another thirty percent and slashed toward Xu Jin instantly.

At the very moment the blood blade slashed at him, Xu Jin's mind had already activated the Seven-Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake.

Before the blood blade could touch his body, he disappeared from the spot instantly!

The activation speed of the Seven-Kill Dragon-Escaping Stake was faster than the space-shifting star technique!

"Search, search for him!" the Left Protector, Fan Kai, roared.

(End of Chapter)