Chapter 555: Appearance of the Heaven and Earth Bridge

February 17th, Eight Desolations Continent, Green Snake City.

For five consecutive days, Xu Jin had been cultivating outside the city of the Green Snake clan.

This could be considered another layer of Xu Jin's safety defense; when necessary, he could mobilize the Blood Shield Pearl he had refined using the essence blood and star cores of the Green Snake alien race to hide his aura.

Inside this Green Snake City, the strongest powerhouse was Seventh-Tier Eighth Layer, and there were a total of sixteen Seventh-Tier.

Unfortunately, the Thousand Star Order did not accept Sixth-Tier star cores; otherwise, Xu Jin would have wanted to slaughter a wave of alien races to exchange for Thousand Star Order points.

In the latent cultivation place, Xu Jin, who had been immersed in bitter cultivation for five days, suddenly opened his eyes.

In his eyes, there was a trace of astonishment, but after the astonishment, it was joy.

Just now, Xu Jin had just finished condensing the twenty-seventh layer of the Nine-Horned Cloud Tower.

Five days of immersive bitter cultivation allowed Xu Jin to condense six layers of the Nine-Horned Cloud Tower in one breath, and he had already condensed twenty-seven layers of the Cloud Tower within his body.

This level had already exceeded the number of Cloud Towers condensed by ninety-nine percent of the top powerhouses in the current world.

National Master Cheng Yuexiao only condensed twenty-five layers of the Cloud Tower, and his teacher and the Hu Hu Dianzhu of the Lingji Shang Xinggong condensed thirty layers of the Cloud Tower at their limit.

And Xu Jin had already surpassed the National Master and was approaching the National Master's teacher and the Hu Hu Dianzhu of the Lingji Shang Xinggong.

Moreover, what Xu Jin condensed was the Nine-Horned Cloud Tower.

According to the National Master, the Cloud Towers condensed by him and his teacher were mostly six-horned, a small amount were seven-horned, and there was only one layer of eight-horned Cloud Tower.

The top existences in the world, such as Tianyang Tianyang Xingjun, Cangming Tianyang Xingjun, and others, were about at this level at the Sixth-Tier, and it was even possible that they were even worse than this.

However, Xu Jin was surprised and then happy, not because he might have surpassed them.

It was because the moment Xu Jin successfully condensed the twenty-seventh layer of the Cloud Tower, he vaguely sensed the Heaven and Earth Bridge mentioned by the National Master!

Originally, the Cloud Tower and the Upper Shang Xinggong in his body were two kinds of power, two kinds of worlds, operating independently.

The primordial spirit of the Upper Shang Xinggong could control and mobilize the Cloud Tower star power at any time.

But the Cloud Tower could not sense the Upper Shang Xinggong, even if it was right there; even if he sensed it deliberately, he could not sense it.

Like the distance between heaven and earth, separated by an uncrossable chasm.

But the moment the twenty-seventh layer of the Cloud Tower was condensed, Xu Jin's Cloud Tower suddenly had a little bit of connection with the Upper Shang Xinggong.

As if it were a bridge, and as if he could see it.

Very weak.

But it was indeed as the National Master said, the Cloud Tower vaguely sensed the Upper Shang Xinggong.

Under internal vision, Xu Jin suddenly had a feeling.

It seemed that his Cloud Tower was really a bit close to the Upper Shang Xinggong.

This closeness was a closeness in feeling.

"So, can it really connect heaven and earth?"

"Then what exactly is connecting heaven and earth?"

Xu Jin pondered for a long time, but smiled indifferently.

Continue to cultivate; if after thirty-six layers of the Cloud Tower, he could really connect heaven and earth, then he would know after he condensed thirty-six layers of the Cloud Tower.

However, Xu Jin did not rush to continue cultivating.

The consumption of five days of immersive bitter cultivation, plus the previous consumption, had exhausted the Seventh-Tier Purification Pearls Xu Jin had obtained in the Limit-Breaking Secret Realm.

There were over two hundred and forty Sixth-Tier Purification Pearls, equivalent to twenty-four Seventh-Tier Purification Pearls, which could also be used for cultivation, but the cultivation efficiency was slightly lower than when using Seventh-Tier Purification Pearls.

If it were immersive bitter cultivation, he could barely condense one layer of the Nine-Horned Cloud Tower a day.

But after the battle with Envoy Ju Zhang previously, Xu Jin had reviewed it, and his tactics were a bit more opportunistic.

If he encountered Envoy Ju Zhang head-on, it would still be very difficult.

Even though he had condensed six layers of the Nine-Horned Cloud Tower in one breath and his cultivation had greatly increased, if he faced Envoy Ju Zhang again, Xu Jin still had no confidence in taking his full-force attack.

And in the previous battle, the importance of the diversity of star arts had already been reflected.

Relying solely on the Running Thunder Slash, it was difficult to kill the enemy.

When the Running Thunder Slash was combined with the spatial star art Void, killing the enemy would become simpler.

But this was facing ordinary Eighth-Tier; if facing peak Eighth-Tier, especially those faster than Xu Jin, or even facing Ninth-Tier, the star art means that could be used were still relatively single.

Among the wood-type star arts used before, Verdant Shadow Thousand Weaves was quite practical.

It could kill the enemy and also restrict the enemy.

Currently, there were two strands of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao; leaving one for the National Master, Xu Jin felt it was better to convert the other one into strength early.

Then which star pattern should this strand of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao be used to deduce?

Unfortunately, the True Meaning of the Divine Dao was not enough; otherwise, Xu Jin would extremely want to deduce the Clarity Spirit Star Pattern, Mingji Star Pattern, Great Gather Star Pattern, Warm Dream, Break Evil, and other star patterns to the Ninth-Tier.

If these star patterns were deduced to the Ninth-Tier, Xu Jin believed that even if his star power cultivation did not improve again, he would be able to save his life when facing Envoy Ju Zhang.

But at this moment, there was only one strand of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao available.

After pondering for a while, Xu Jin let his divine sense fall on the law star in the arena.

How much effect the True Meaning of the Divine Dao could exert had a great relationship with the strength of the law star in the arena.

If the law star was strong, the utilization rate of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao was high; if the law star was weak, the utilization rate of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao was low; if the choice was not good, he might not even be able to comprehend one Ninth-Tier star pattern with one strand of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao.

Just after one glance, the Wood Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern was excluded.

Because the wood-type law star in the arena was only Seventh-Tier.

In the end, Xu Jin determined the deduction range of the next star pattern to be within the fire-type and water-type.

Fire-type law star Ninth-Tier, water-type law star Eighth-Tier.

After pondering again and again, Xu Jin chose to deduce the water-type law star.

Fire-type star arts mostly followed the explosive killing route, but as far as the current situation was concerned, no matter how strong the explosive killing of fire-type star arts was, it could not compare to the Five-Element Running Thunder Slash deduced from the Lightning Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

The Five-Element Lightning Light condensed by the mutual blessing and amplification of five kinds of five-element power, as far as it looked now, was not something that simple fire-type could compare to.

Choosing water-type, Xu Jin mainly wanted to strengthen defense.

Water-type star power is extremely soft and extremely tough.

The next instant, Xu Jin mobilized the strand of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao obtained from the Worship Battle God Sect, mobilized the arena's star light to reflect himself, and at the same time, his mind sank into the Eighth-Tier-plus Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Began to deduce and comprehend.

Inside the Heaven-Reaching Gold Pillar of the Eight Desolations Royal Court, the King of the Eight Desolations, Envoy Ju Zhang, was waiting respectfully.

Just now, he had sent the battle records of the first two encirclements of the descendant of Seven-Kill, as well as his battle plan for the third encirclement of the descendant of Seven-Kill, in detail to his father, True Person Jin Shuo, waiting for the comments of his father.

In two more days, he would be able to resonate with the life aura of the descendant of Seven-Kill again, and the third encirclement was about to unfold, so he attached extreme importance to it.

If he failed this time, he didn't know how to face his father.

Even, if he failed again this time, he himself felt that he was not as good as the two elder brothers he had always used for comparison.

However, he felt that his plan should be okay.

If his father supplemented it, the probability of taking down the descendant of Seven-Kill should be extremely high!

Waiting quietly for a full half an hour, the voice of True Person Jin Shuo sounded inside the Heaven-Reaching Gold Pillar, 【Envoy Ju Zhang, what do you think is the probability of success for this plan of yours?】

【Father, the child feels that the probability of success for this plan should be as high as ninety percent.】

【Ninety percent?】

Inside the Heaven-Reaching Gold Pillar came the sneer of True Person Jin Shuo, 【Ninety percent, this is just your wishful thinking. I see your plan, in essence, is not much different from the previous plans. It's just accumulating the power of late and peak Eighth-Tier powerhouses, reaching the extreme, nearly doubling it.

Did you concentrate all the late and peak Eighth-Tier powerhouses under your command?】

【Indeed! However, Father, don't worry about the defense; the child has already arranged it properly.】 Envoy Ju Zhang explained.

【I don't worry about the safety of your Eight Desolations Continent. If you can take down the descendant of Seven-Kill and offer him to the Holy Ancestor, your Eight Desolations Continent would be worth it even if it were crippled.

I am talking about this plan of yours, in fact, compared to the previous ones, there is no essential change.

It is still accumulating power and betting on probability.

If this plan of yours were used in the first encirclement, the success rate could indeed be as high as ninety percent. But used in the third time, I think, let alone ninety percent, there isn't even fifty percent.

Under the circumstances that the opponent is alert, as long as they directly use the spatial star art to withdraw, you won't even have a thirty percent probability.】 True Person Jin Shuo said.

Hearing this, a trace of helplessness surfaced on the corner of the King of the Eight Desolations, Envoy Ju Zhang's mouth.

Spatial star arts are extremely difficult to restrain, and he had indeed used up all the tactics he could think of.

Such an enemy, if he were to confront him head-on, he could easily crush him one hundred times.

But if the other party wanted to escape from the beginning, it was really very difficult.

The battle plan he gave his father, True Person Jin Shuo, had already used all the factors he could think of and all the means he could use.

If having more people were useful, he would wish he could bring all the Sixth-Tier and Seventh-Tier subordinates to participate in the battle.

But for such an opponent, having more people was useless.

【Please enlighten me, Father.】 Envoy Ju Zhang said sincerely.

To his father, True Person Jin Shuo, Envoy Ju Zhang was extremely respectful.

His father was his idol!

【Zhang'er, do you still remember the relationship and changes between friends, enemies, and patterns that I told you when you were young?】

A "Zhang'er" almost made Envoy Ju Zhang tear up; his father hadn't called him like that for several years, which also reminded him of that lesson.

【The child naturally remembers Father's teachings. In this world, there are no eternal friends and enemies; with changes in interests, the relationship between friends and enemies will also change relatively.

As for patterns, one must open up one's vision, strip away personal feelings, and look at the whole thing from a higher level perspective...】

Speaking to this point, Envoy Ju Zhang's voice suddenly stopped; he suddenly understood what True Person Jin Shuo meant.

【Father means, I can also use stronger external power?

Blood God Sect?】 Envoy Ju Zhang asked the doubt in his heart.

【It seems you are not too stupid and haven't forgotten everything I taught you.

In the third encirclement, if you add another Ninth-Tier, how much do you think the probability of success will increase?

The key is, for this power, you don't need to pay much price, you might only need one or two empty promises to get them to participate.

Why not use it?

Even if you really pay a price, compared to the harvest of our entire family, what does that count for?】 True Person Jin Shuo said.

【The child understands, thank you Father for the guidance.】

【If you understand, prepare early; there are two more days, I am waiting for your good news.】 True Person Jin Shuo said.

February 18th, in the clouds near Green Snake City.

Xu Jin waved his hand, and a cold light flew out from his palm; the moment it exploded three hundred meters away, while the cold air was biting, ice light appeared, directly freezing everything within a ten-meter radius into blue solid ice.

The power was very strong, but Xu Jin was a little disappointed.

Just now, he consumed a full ninety-five percent of that strand of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao obtained from the Worship Battle God Sect to comprehend the Water Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern to the Ninth-Tier low-grade.

After engraving it into the star core, Xu Jin immediately came to test the star art brought by the Ninth-Tier low-grade water source.

The star art was named Ice Trace by Xu Jin.

The power was also not bad, and it could be considered a quite restrictive star art.

But Xu Jin was not satisfied.

Because although this Ice Trace was a restrictive star art, compared to the Five-Element Running Thunder Slash, the bombardment speed was much slower, and the bombardment trajectory was very obvious.

Dealing with opponents similar to Xu Jin, the power was still very strong.

Dealing with opponents stronger than him, it was a bit unsatisfactory.

Xu Jin's main goal was still to deal with opponents stronger than himself.

So he was a little disappointed.

After testing continuously for a quarter of an hour, Xu Jin returned disappointed.

The Ice Trace star art was very strong and very practical, but if it were to deal with Ninth-Tier powerhouses like Envoy Ju Zhang who were extremely fast, the effect would be negligible.

Although it was not wasted, the help to Xu Jin's future battle with Envoy Ju Zhang was not great.

In fact, judging by his heart, the practicality of this Ice Trace star art was still extremely strong.

If someone was chasing and killing himself, Ice Trace could restrict and block the enemy.

If it were combined with the chain star pattern, after restricting and blocking the enemy on a large scale, the moment the enemy broke free, the Five-Element Running Thunder Slash would be blasted out, one slash one hit.

But against Ninth-Tier...

Returning to the latent cultivation place, while Xu Jin was pondering, his heart suddenly moved.

Previously, he had seen the water-fire star art used by the peak Eighth-Tier powerhouse Ju Chang of the Jin Zhu alien race when sealing off space.

At that time, he had such an idea.

But he had never tried it.

At this moment, he suddenly had an idea.

The advantages of the Ice Trace star art were very obvious, but the disadvantages were equally obvious: slow speed, has a trajectory, these were the disadvantages of the Ice Trace star art.

"How to make up for the disadvantages of the Ice Trace star art?"

"Spatial star art!"

"If the spatial star art and Ice Trace could be combined, then..."

The next instant, Xu Jin did not hesitate to try.

Mobilizing the arena's star light to reflect himself, using that remaining half-percent of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao and the previously remaining one-percent of the spatial True Meaning of the Divine Dao, Xu Jin simultaneously mobilized the water-type law star and the spatial law star, and then began to try to use Ice Trace as a foundation, trying to combine the two star power attributes.

At first, this deduction was extremely obscure.

Even with the assistance of the True Meaning of the Divine Dao, it was the same.

But very quickly, Xu Jin found the trick.

Just try to combine them directly.

Ice Trace plus spatial shift star art, in fact, was the optimal solution in Xu Jin's mind.

The key was how to combine them together and explode.

If one direction was wrong, try another direction.

Xu Jin began to operate practically, seeing if he could fuse the characteristics of the two star arts, and then find common points to return to deduce.

Constantly trying, constantly deducing and improving.

Half a day later, the moment an Ice Trace appeared out of thin air from the distance and exploded, Xu Jin smiled!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 556 =====