Chapter 595: The Sect Master

April 16th, the Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain.

Xu Jin strolled through the Wang Cheng, gazing at the Star-Fighting True God statue that stood over sixty meters tall before him. His massive divine sense enveloped it, and in an instant, he located the other fragment of white bone at the very core of the statue.

It was just as Xu Jin had expected.

Inside every Star-Fighting True God statue, there was a fragment of ancient, white bone.

This fragment was different in size from the one Xu Jin had previously obtained, and it originated from a different part of the body, yet it was as deep and vast as an abyss inside.

However, most of the space was empty, storing only a small amount of pure divine soul power and star power.

The next instant, Xu Jin poked a finger through the statue, shattering it, while his divine sense and star power locked onto the white bone like a great net.

Sensing the intrusion of power, the divine sense within the white bone struggled violently.

Last time, Xu Jin had first slain the Star Official, then seized the seal, and only discovered the white bone at the very end, which was why it hadn't struggled much.

But this time, in this Seventh-Tier Star Domain obtained from the hidden True Monarch Chai Ce of the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect, there were only a few guards from the sect, with no Star Official on duty.

Because of this, the white bone struggled with immense intensity.

The next moment, Xu Jin's massive divine soul power surged into the white bone, instantly wiping away the divine soul imprint within it, and he began refining it on the spot.

Outside the city, watching the Star-Fighting True God statue shatter from afar, a Seventh-Tier mid-stage Star Official's eyes went wide. He roared as he rushed out from his hiding place, charging toward Xu Jin.

Seeing this, Xu Jin, who was in the middle of refining the white bone, shook his head. He had intentionally left this Seventh-Tier Worshiping Battle Divine Sect member alive and placed a tracking secret technique on him, intending to leave a tail to see which star domain this fellow would flee to, hoping to follow the vine to the melon and clear out another of the sect's star domains.

He hadn't expected this fellow to be so enraged upon seeing him destroy the Star-Fighting True God statue.

With a casual wave of his hand, an arc of electric light slashed past, and a charred lump abruptly plummeted from the sky.

But then again, the faith of these Worshiping Battle Divine Sect members was genuine faith.

They were all incredibly fanatical and pious.

Unlike the members of the Blood God Sect, whose faith was all plastic; the moment they encountered a life-or-death threat, they would immediately kneel and surrender.

From this point alone, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect was far more terrifying than the Blood God Sect.

So, in the Eight Desolations Continent, just how strong must the Sect Master of the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect be to oppose Ju Zhang, the King of the Eight Desolations who controlled the authority of heaven and earth?

However, one wouldn't run into the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master in this Seventh-Tier Star Domain.

But the fanatical loyalty of these believers caused Xu Jin's plan to fall through; he hadn't found any clues to the star domains controlled by the sect.

Xu Jin wanted to obtain a few more fragments of the white divine bone and then erect several more statues within the Seven Kill Star Domain to collect Divine Dao Gold Beads.

However, the fragment of white bone he had obtained this time would also allow Xu Jin to erect another statue.

The harvest of Divine Dao Gold Beads should be able to double.

No, more than double.

The population within the Seven Kill Star Domain had increased to over one hundred thousand, which meant there were six or seven times more believers than before. If he added another statue, as long as Hou Yunzhang governed effectively, tripling the harvest of Divine Dao Gold Beads should be no problem.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin vanished from the spot.

The subsequent process was very simple: refine the authority of heaven and earth, then sweep through this Seventh-Tier Star Domain, and let the Grand Master send people to take over.

It was a pity that only thirty percent of the authority of heaven and earth had been found in this star domain so far.

Inside the White Tiger Star City of the Eight Desolations Continent.

Star Official Xiang Congyuan, who had just broken through to the Eighth-Tier early stage, suddenly felt his divine soul and primordial spirit shake violently, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

In a state of shock, he closed his eyes to sense the situation briefly. Not even bothering to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, he stepped onto the stars and rushed straight toward the Star God Palace where the Sect Master resided to report the emergency.

"What? The Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain you previously controlled has run into trouble, your deputy left behind has lost contact, and even the Star-Fighting Divine Statue has lost contact?" The Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, sat there. Several beams of starlight descended from the firmament, continuously merging into his body. His entire being was dotted with starlight, resembling an immortal god.

"Sect Master, it's not just a loss of contact. I feel that the core of the divine statue has been taken away; otherwise, my primordial spirit could not have been damaged." After speaking, Star Official Xiang Congyuan bowed his head abruptly. "I beg the Sect Master to punish me."

"How much authority of heaven and earth did you leave behind?" the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master asked.

"Everything was according to the Sect Master's orders. I left thirty percent behind and brought thirty percent out." Star Official Xiang Congyuan directly took out the thirty percent of the authority of heaven and earth he had brought out and offered it up with both hands.

"Hmm, rise. This is not your fault."

"Sect Master, should we immediately organize experts to provide support? It should still be in time."

"There were at least two Eighth-Tier guards left behind, plus Eighth-Tier aliens, and the blessing of the authority of heaven and earth, yet they couldn't hold it. Sending a bunch of Seventh-Tier Ninth-Layer peak experts over would just be serving them up on a platter.

However, the True God divine bones within the sect are limited. Now that another has been lost, it must be recovered.

At the very least, we must find clues to recover it.

Otherwise, the number of divine statues we can erect will decrease by one more."

Hearing this, Star Official Xiang Congyuan's expression became even more terrified, and he prostrated himself to plead guilty.

"How long ago did this happen?"

"No more than a hundred breaths."

"Then that is still fine. Even if the divine statue is destroyed, the divine statue's aura imprint and the faith of countless sentient beings all remain, and there is still this authority of heaven and earth as a guide. This matter still has room for maneuver.

Give me your Shang Xinggong Seal," the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master said.

Star Official Xiang Congyuan immediately handed over his Star Official Seal and, as requested, dispersed the divine soul imprint on it.

The next instant, another Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master walked straight out of the body of the Sect Master who was sitting in meditation. Except for being only half a meter tall, everything else was exactly the same.

With just a wave of his hand, the authority of heaven and earth of the Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain and the Star Official Seal were refined into the Dao Embryo of the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master that had just walked out. The next moment, a Star-Fighting Divine Seal appeared in front of the Sect Master sitting in meditation. The moment the starlight shot into the sky, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo stepped onto the stars and vanished instantly.

Inside the Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain.

Xu Jin, who had long since refined thirty percent of the authority of heaven and earth, was continuing to forge his Cloud Tower.

During the spare time while sweeping through the Seventh-Tier Star Domains during this period, Xu Jin had continued to cultivate diligently.

The Cloud Tower of heaven and earth within his body had already been forged to a full seventy-one layers.

When he defeated the Wood Spirit Palace Master, who had just entered the Ninth-Tier, with two moves previously, Xu Jin's Cloud Tower of heaven and earth had only been forged to sixty layers.

Half a month later, Xu Jin's cultivation had improved further.

However, starting today, the speed at which Xu Jin forged his Cloud Tower would have to slow down.

There was no other reason; the many Seventh-Tier Pure Beads, Ten Thousand Blood Spirit Pills, and other cultivation resources he had harvested in the Eight Desolations Continent had been exhausted.

However, sweeping through the Sixth-Tier and Seventh-Tier Star Domains recently had allowed Xu Jin to obtain quite a few Sixth-Tier spirit herbs.

After using the Arena to melt and upgrade them, they should still allow him to quickly forge two or three more layers of the Cloud Tower.

But after that, the speed of forging the Cloud Tower would slow down again.

Xu Jin had already planned to make another trip to the Eight Desolations Continent; Seventh-Tier Pure Beads were excellent for cultivation.

He wondered if there were any newly opened black markets in the Eight Desolations Royal Court, and if they had restocked.

Just as he was cultivating, a warning sign suddenly appeared in Xu Jin's heart.

The Heaven-Man Induction of the Mingji Star Pattern suddenly issued a warning.

Stunned, Xu Jin stood up instantly and looked toward the horizon.

In the sky of the Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain, a giant eye-like shape suddenly appeared and then slowly opened.

The next instant, a miniature version of the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's divine embryo, only half a meter tall, stepped out from the eye in the firmament.

Xu Jin instantly remembered.

Last time, when he took down Star Official Deng Ruiyang in the Lanshan Star Domain, snatched his Star Official Seal, seized the white bone fragment from the divine statue, and obtained two strands of Divine Dao True Intent, the exact same scene had occurred.

But the difference was that last time, the mysterious person who stepped out appeared in the form of a primordial spirit.

Xu Jin was now incredibly familiar with primordial spirits and recognized it at a glance.

But the half-meter-tall mysterious person before him radiated terrifying divine soul fluctuations, yet it was not a primordial spirit.

In an instant, Xu Jin realized one thing: Sixth-Tier!

The way this mysterious divine soul body appeared was definitely a manifestation of divine soul cultivation breaking through to the Sixth-Tier.

He saw the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo that had appeared beckon with a single move, and massive amounts of starlight shot into the sky from the ruins of the shattered divine statue in the Wang Cheng, gathering around the Dao Embryo.

At the same instant, the eyes of the Dao Embryo in the sky looked abruptly toward the direction where Xu Jin was. Relying on the authority of heaven and earth and the residual aura in the ruins of the divine statue, it looked directly at Xu Jin's location.

In an instant, the Dao Embryo triggered the authority of heaven and earth and the residual power of the True God. At the same instant, starlight surged from the eye in the firmament, and in just one breath, it appeared several miles in front of Xu Jin.

"Hmm, it's you again?"

Clearly, this time, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master also recognized Xu Jin.

Even if his facial features had changed, his aura had not changed at all.

"Worshiping Battle Sect Master?" Seeing the other party discover him, although he didn't know what secret technique was used, Xu Jin stepped onto the stars instantly. At the same time, his primordial spirit sank into the Cloud Tower of heaven and earth, and the many stars of the Arena enveloped him, making all preparations.

"Who are you, and why do you repeatedly ambush my Worshiping Battle Divine Sect?"

"Is this the state after your divine soul cultivation breaks through to the Sixth-Tier?" Xu Jin asked a question unrelated to the one posed.

As soon as these words were spoken, a faint light flashed in the eyes of the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo. The Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo had descended using the aura of the Star-Fighting True God for the sake of that True God divine bone.

That concerned the future of the Divine Sect and his own Dao path; it had to be recovered.

As it happened, the previous piece had also been snatched by this person before him; he would just kill him and recover it all at once.

"You do have some insight, but since you have repeatedly ruined the good deeds of my Divine Sect, I cannot let you live!"

As he spoke, the Dao Embryo opened its eyes slightly, and massive divine soul fluctuations slammed toward Xu Jin instantly.

At the same instant, Xu Jin felt a powerful divine soul attack enter his body.

Inside the Cloud Tower of heaven and earth, the Suppression Intent Stele and the Spirit Platform Star Art operated simultaneously, defending with all their might.

Xu Jin did not dare to underestimate an attack from a terrifying existence whose divine soul had broken through to the Sixth-Tier.

What stunned Xu Jin was that the starlight of his Cloud Tower of heaven and earth only swayed slightly, and it dissipated half the power of this incredibly powerful divine soul attack.

The remaining attack fluctuations vanished into thin air in front of Xu Jin's primordial spirit Suppression Intent Stele and Spirit Platform.

This divine soul attack didn't even touch Xu Jin's primordial spirit body.

In an instant, Xu Jin realized this was also one of the wonders of the Cloud Tower of heaven and earth.

Boom!

Without hesitation, he launched a counterattack.

The Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash exploded in an arc toward the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo.

A look of astonishment appeared in the latter's eyes.

He had originally thought that this strike would completely annihilate the other party's primordial spirit.

"How is this possible?"

His divine soul attack just now, although not a desperate strike and without the blessing of the Star-Fighting Divine Seal, was still at the cultivation level of his Sixth-Tier Dao Embryo. Even the Heavenly Yang Star Monarch of the current world would not feel good after taking such a hit.

But why was this youth before him like nothing had happened?

And he could still launch a counterattack against him?

And although his Dao Embryo could already leave his body and walk freely, it was also most afraid of thunder light.

Without hesitation, he mobilized the residual power within the Star-Fighting True God statue he had gathered earlier, hard-carrying this swift and fierce thunder light.

The sound of rumbling thunder rang out incessantly.

The Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo was also dealing with it somewhat awkwardly.

"Battle Shift!"

An angry shout.

In the sky, a star suddenly shone brightly. As the star appeared, the phantom of a magnificent palace instantly permeated the entire star, and starlight bombarded down from beneath the star in an instant.

The Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master beckoned with a single move, and this terrifying starlight bombarded toward Xu Jin.

Boom!

The moment he slashed out a Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash, Xu Jin stepped out without hesitation.

Spatial shift to dodge.

He had vaguely sensed this move in the Eight Desolations Continent that day; even the King of the Eight Desolations, who held the authority of heaven and earth, had to deal with it with all his might. Xu Jin naturally did not dare to take it head-on.

And there was no need to take it head-on!

Xu Jin dodged.

The starlight bombarded straight into the ground, directly blasting out a giant pit several hundred meters deep.

The Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo's expression changed, because one after another, thunder lights were bombarding him again.

And these thunder lights were swift and dense.

For a time, he could only use the starlight of his natal star to protect his body again.

This was one of the drawbacks of the Dao Embryo leaving the body.

Mainly, he hadn't expected this person before him to be so difficult to deal with.

During the entanglement, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo triggered starlight to bombard Xu Jin several times, all of which were dodged by Xu Jin using spatial shift.

Looking at the eye in the firmament that was gradually dimming in the sky, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master knew he couldn't drag this out.

The next instant, he directly triggered the starlight of his natal star to land in front of him. While resisting Xu Jin's thunder light, the phantom of the Star-Fighting True God statue appeared behind him.

In an instant, tiny specks of golden light rose from the bodies of countless Worshiping Battle Divine Sect believers within the Seventh-Tier Wuchen Star Domain.

In an instant, they gathered into a bean-sized ball of golden light and fell into the Dao Embryo's hand.

The next instant, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo flicked its finger, directly taking out more than ten strands from this bean-sized Divine Dao Jin Zhu and introducing them into its eyes.

The other Divine Dao Gold Beads all submerged into his Dao Embryo.

"Die!"

As the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo sneered, its eyes opened wide abruptly. Amidst the massive divine soul fluctuations, golden light faintly exploded in the void.

At the same instant, Xu Jin also found the opportunity for battle and simultaneously launched the spatial star art, Void!

The moment it was launched, the cluster of starlight protecting the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master vanished into thin air.

Boom!

A Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash followed closely behind and slashed in.

Bang!

At the same time, the divine soul attack carrying golden light landed inside Xu Jin's body.

After being isolated by nearly half by the Cloud Tower of heaven and earth, the incredibly violent divine soul power bombarded into Xu Jin's primordial spirit body.

Especially those few strands of golden light hidden within, which shattered all the defenses laid down by Xu Jin's Suppression Intent Stele and Spirit Platform Star Art like dry wood, bombarding Xu Jin's primordial spirit body.

In an instant, Xu Jin's primordial spirit body shrank. As the primordial spirit shook violently, inch-by-inch cracks appeared on its surface.

Xu Jin himself was like being struck by lightning; as he spat out fresh blood, he had already plummeted from the sky.

At the same instant, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master, who had been hit by the Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash, trembled all over, his eyes full of anger, and his Dao Embryo shrank in circles as if melting.

Even the eye in the firmament in the sky, which served as a channel, fluctuated violently and unstably because his Dao Embryo was injured.

Seeing that if he didn't leave, this eye in the firmament would collapse, and his Dao Embryo would have to stay in this star domain temporarily.

Even for him, it would be very troublesome if the Dao Embryo stayed here and lost contact with his physical body.

The next instant, the Worshiping Battle Divine Sect Master's Dao Embryo plunged into the eye in the firmament with black thunder light and vanished.

Two breaths later, the eye in the firmament in the sky dissipated completely.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 596 =====