Chapter 644: The Last Opportunity

The National Master was busy with state affairs and didn't have time to help him test his sword, which Xu Jin found quite regrettable.

Although the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace was also a Ninth-Tier, the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace's cultivation was still a bit worse than the National Master's.

However, the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace and Peng Lao, who came to test Xu Jin's sword, were still very expectant.

Because the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace had performed well, Xu Jin had passed on the Eighth-Tier Star Healing to them last time, and the Wood Elephant and Thunder Elephant below the Eighth Tier had been passed on successively. Over these past few months, they had all successfully comprehended them, feeling that their strength had advanced by leaps and bounds, so they were very expectant about this sword test.

Peng Lao was the same.

Previously, when Peng Lao's cultivation was at the mid-stage of the Eighth Tier, he was able to fight against the peak of the Eighth Tier; now that his cultivation had reached the late stage of the Eighth Tier, he was also somewhat eager to try.

Especially knowing that Xu Jin had easily suppressed a Ninth-Tier early-stage expert before.

Now he wanted to test his hand a bit to see his position and incidentally find his own shortcomings.

Of course, he had no extravagant hope of defeating Xu Jin.

"Palace Master, I should be able to last three to five moves in Xu Jin's hands, right?" Peng Lao had a little expectation for this sword test and also sent a starlight transmission to National Master Cheng Yuexiao.

"It's possible, just go all out. Such an opportunity is very rare," Cheng Yuexiao replied to Peng Lao.

"Palace Master, rest assured, I won't waste such an opportunity."

Since when were opportunities to fight against the top experts of the current world not extremely rare?

Above the Thirteenth Guard City, Xu Jin looked at Peng Lao and the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace. "You two, who will come first?"

"I'll come," Peng Lao said excitedly.

"Good."

Looking at Peng Lao, Xu Jin hesitated. "Peng Lao, why don't you go all out with your defense first? I'll test my hand; I don't know my strength level after breaking through either."

Xu Jin could see that Peng Lao's strength was indeed very strong, but he was afraid of hurting him.

"Good. You test your hand first."

Peng Lao was also very accommodating, immediately deploying his defense with all his might. It took a full three breaths to set up a four-layer defense, which could be considered stacking his own defense to the limit.

This was just sparring; if it were wartime, he wouldn't have the time to deploy his defense with all his might like this.

"I'm ready."

"Be careful!"

The next instant, the Arena's Law Star flickered, thunder flashed in his palm, and a Five-Element Thunder Slash slashed toward Peng Lao instantly.

"Well come!"

Peng Lao also threw a punch, and the earth-yellow starlight roared toward Xu Jin's thunder light like a meteor!

Earth-system star technique: Falling Star.

Boom!

With preparation, Peng Lao's star technique accurately hit Xu Jin's thunder light.

In an instant, the earth-yellow starlight was dissolved like soup pouring on snow, but Xu Jin's thunder light was also blasted apart by nearly half, and the thunder light slammed into the defense Peng Lao had deployed with all his might.

Amidst the thunder light, all four layers of defense collapsed, and the low-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor on his body surface erupted with radiance, flickering continuously before the thunder light finally dissipated.

This caused Peng Lao's expression to change abruptly.

He didn't expect that even with his preparation, he still had to rely on the Seven-Star Spirit Armor to fully hold on.

It was equivalent to him deploying his defense with all his might first and then attacking, which was equivalent to him making two moves, while Xu Jin only made one move.

If it were a fair situation, under this move, he would be heavily injured!

It was even possible he would be blasted to death.

After all, in combat, there was no time for him to spend several breaths deploying his defense with all his might.

"Come again, this time, I'll take the initiative to attack."

Peng Lao still wanted to try.

Xu Jin smiled. "Peng Lao, then you deploy your defense. This time, I'm going to use Seventh-Tier power." Xu Jin looked at the sky and smiled.

Peng Lao nodded upon hearing this; he also saw that Xu Jin hadn't used Seventh-Tier power at all just now.

Three breaths later, a four-layer defense was formed, and Peng Lao signaled Xu Jin to make a move, but just after one move, Xu Jin had already discerned Peng Lao's bottom line.

"Peng Lao, you'd better inject a few wisps of special power, so as not to get hurt."

Hearing this, Peng Lao nodded doubtfully, but still injected a wisp of Earth-Heart Earth Rhyme; this power was precious, and he couldn't bear to waste it.

Suddenly, National Master Cheng Yuexiao's voice transmission came into his mind: "Peng Lao, you inject a bit more, it's too little, Xu Jin is afraid to let go."

It turned out that National Master Cheng Yuexiao was secretly watching this battle.

Peng Lao was stunned, looking at Xu Jin's smiling face, and suddenly gave a bitter smile; he finally reacted completely.

It turned out that until now, he, this sparring partner, was unqualified.

It was laughable that he was still thinking about testing his own level.

Fine, be ruthless.

The next instant, Peng Lao ruthlessly injected ten points of Earth-Heart Earth Rhyme into the strongest defense in front of him.

"King of the Domain, I have already used special power. Now with preparation, even a full-force strike from a Ninth-Tier early-stage expert can be easily received, and this time, it's me making the first move!"

At the same instant, cyan Wind-system star power and Fire-system star power erupted simultaneously; this was Peng Lao's strongest star technique at present, which he called Wind-Fire Linked Camp!

Whoosh!

Amidst the sharp whistling sound, the wind bundled the fire's momentum, and the wind helped the fire's momentum, roaring toward Xu Jin like a poisonous python.

The moment he made the move, Peng Lao felt that a sparring partner should have the self-awareness of a sparring partner; if the sparring partner wasn't qualified, then what kind of sparring partner was he?

Once ruthless, he used three wisps of Xun Wind Rhyme and Heaven and Earth Fire Rhyme respectively to strengthen the offensive.

This offensive could force back even a Ninth-Tier early-stage expert.

In an instant, Xu Jin felt those special power fluctuations, and also breathed a sigh of relief; he could finally make a move with peace of mind.

The Dao Embryo's eyes opened, the Linghuang natal star in the firmament flickered slightly, and a Thunder-system starlight flickered and fell into Xu Jin's body.

The moment it fell, the Thunder-system Law Star of Xu Jin's Arena suddenly flashed, causing this Thunder-system starlight to expand by fifty percent, and only then did it merge into the Five-Element Thunder Slash that Xu Jin had just blasted out.

In an instant, the aura of Xu Jin's Five-Element Thunder Slash doubled.

The degree to which that aura surged caused even Xu Jin's expression to change.

Doubled!

The might of his Five-Element Thunder Slash doubled!

He hadn't expected it at all.

"Be careful!"

Xu Jin shouted urgently.

But it was already too late.

When Xu Jin made the discovery, this thunder light had already been blasted out.

Like destroying dry weeds and smashing rotten wood, it blasted Peng Lao's Wind-Fire Linked Camp, which had been injected with special power and was his proudest star technique, into nothingness, and then jumped directly onto Peng Lao.

Boom!

Under the thunder light, the four-layer defense Peng Lao had deployed in advance, including the strongest defense injected with ten wisps of Earth-Heart Earth Rhyme, also shattered in an instant. The thunder light reached his body, and the low-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor appeared instantly.

But the moment it appeared, the starlight of the low-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor vanished instantly, and in an instant, it cracked into countless pieces.

At the same time, Peng Lao let out a muffled groan and fell directly toward the ground.

Xu Jin's figure flashed, and with just one flash, he scooped up the falling Peng Lao, and the majestic green starlight had already turned into the Star Healing star technique, injecting it into Peng Lao's body.

The charred skin on Peng Lao's body surface began to fall off and grow rapidly, and he also woke up.

Looking at Xu Jin who was treating him, he was extremely stunned.

"This... my strength just now could definitely fight against a Ninth-Tier early-stage expert. King of the Domain, this move of yours, isn't it..."

Xu Jin also breathed a sigh of relief.

The injury wasn't light, but it wasn't too heavy either.

The might of this thunder light of his completely exceeded Xu Jin's imagination; it was only because Peng Lao took the initiative to attack.

His full-force attack consumed a small half of the might of this strike.

If it were like the situation in the first move, where Peng Lao was only passively defending, then Peng Lao would probably have turned into charcoal by now.

That would have been a big joke.

At the same time, National Master Cheng Yuexiao's figure also flashed in the void. After confirming that Peng Lao was fine, he looked at Xu Jin in astonishment and asked, "What move is that?

How did your star technique's might surge by nearly double in an instant?"

"It's just ordinary starlight attraction and blessing. I just broke through to the Seventh Tier and wanted to test the might of starlight blessing," Xu Jin said with a bitter smile.

"Ordinary starlight attraction and blessing, the amplification is so strong?" Cheng Yuexiao was surprised.

"National Master, how much star technique might can you increase by attracting starlight?" Xu Jin asked in surprise.

"When I first broke through to the Seventh Tier, the starlight I attracted could increase the might of my star technique by ten percent. Now at the Ninth Tier, it's already near the limit, and it can increase it by twenty-five percent, estimated at most thirty percent," Cheng Yuexiao said.

Xu Jin looked at the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace. "Palace Master, what about you?"

Hearing this, the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace said respectfully, "Your Highness King of the Domain, it's about the same as the National Master. However, counting it up, I have broken through to the Seventh Tier for several decades, so my natal star has been polished to the limit.

Currently, the starlight I attract can increase the might of my star technique by thirty percent." Xu Jin frowned. "Are you all using Small World stars as natal stars?"

Both nodded at the same time.

"Is the King of the Domain using a Middle World?" The Master of the Wood Spirit Palace was stunned.

Xu Jin nodded slightly, considering it an admission. Using a Great World star as a natal star was, firstly, a secret, and secondly, too shocking; it was better not to say it.

Xu Jin also understood.

A Great World star itself was more than a hundred times stronger than a Small World star.

And the Linghuang Star Realm that Xu Jin chose was an extremely strong kind of Great World star.

This attraction of the natal star's power was a bit like borrowing someone else's power for one's own use.

Borrowing the power of different strengths from the object being borrowed from, the blessing effect was also different.

Borrowing one percent of the power of a strong man who could carry ten thousand catties, and borrowing one percent of the power of an ordinary adult male—although the range of borrowing was one percent, the power borrowed was vastly different.

Moreover, he also had the blessing of the Arena's Law Star.

And just like that, Xu Jin still held back just now.

His Thunder Palace on the natal star currently had two portions of Heaven and Earth authority, which could attract two different Thunder-system starlights to bless himself. Just now, out of caution, he only attracted one.

One should increase it by fifty percent; under the blessing of the Arena's Law Star, it was nearly doubled, about ninety percent.

If the Thunder-system Law Star transformed into an Origin Star, it would definitely be doubled.

It was also fortunate that he attracted one.

If both were attracted over, Peng Lao would probably have turned into charcoal by now.

He would have been blasted to death directly by Xu Jin.

That would have been a tragedy.

On the side, National Master Cheng Yuexiao also felt some regret and self-reproach.

He felt that Xu Jin's breakthrough this time was definitely no small matter.

But he, the National Master, still had to save face, so he didn't go to test Xu Jin's sword, letting Peng Lao and the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace go instead.

He didn't expect that he almost made a big mistake.

Of course, the main reason was that no one expected Xu Jin to be so strong after breaking through.

Even Xu Jin himself didn't expect it.

"Sigh, it was still my arrogance. My battle record has been brilliant for a while, and my cultivation has improved recently.

It's also fortunate that I listened to advice, otherwise..." Peng Lao, whose injuries had recovered seven or eight-tenths, had a lingering fear.

Fortunately, he listened to the National Master and injected ten wisps of special power.

Otherwise, whether he could live or not by now was uncertain.

Subsequently, he had a look of pain!

A low-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor that he had managed to obtain with great difficulty was destroyed just like that!

Xu Jin naturally saw this scene and casually gave a high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor to Peng Lao.

"This..." Peng Lao didn't dare to accept it; he knew the value of a high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor.

"Accept it. I captured it. Although I am strong, I won't have many days left here in the future, and I still need Peng Lao to take care of things."

Since Xu Jin said so, Peng Lao accepted it happily.

With this high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor, even if he didn't use special power, he could fight a Ninth-Tier early-stage expert with all his might.

This was actually a low-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor that Xu Jin had captured, and then Xu Jin had refined it into a high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor.

There were several such high-grade spirit armors.

Before leaving the King of the Domain's Mansion in Jinshan County, Xu Jin had specifically given the high-grade Seven-Star Mysterious Turtle Armor he had refined to Ji Hongli.

Jiang Er and Ying Ge also each had a Seven-Star Spirit Armor.

To be precise, Ji Hongli, Jiang Er, and Ying Ge were now all wearing complete sets of Seven-Star Spirit Armor.

Especially Ji Hongli, who had already broken through to the Seventh Tier using the Suppression Star Technique.

Once Ji Hongli grew for a period of time at the Seventh Tier, even if Ji Hongli was at the Third or Fourth Layer of the Seventh Tier, her combat power could directly approach the late stage or even the peak of the Eighth Tier.

Combined with spatial star techniques, she could even escape in front of Ninth-Tier experts.

"Palace Master Chi, I comprehended a sword move during this breakthrough. Why don't you try this sword move?" Xu Jin suddenly spoke.

He hadn't tested the Seven Kill Sword Art he had successfully practiced after this breakthrough yet.

What he really wanted to test was the Seven Kill Sword Art.

"This... I was watching the battle just now and suddenly had some insights, feeling I'm about to have a breakthrough. The opportunity is rare. Your Highness King of the Domain, I'll go comprehend for a while first, and when I have time in the future, I'll come to test the sword again," the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace said.

After speaking, the Master of the Wood Spirit Palace didn't wait for Xu Jin to express anything, and after bowing to Xu Jin, he instantly turned into thunder light and left.

Heavens!

He would have to have a hole in his brain to go test the teacher's latest killing move.

The sword move the teacher comprehended only after breaking through to the Seventh Tier must be outrageously strong.

He considered his combat performance with Peng Lao just now; he felt that if he fought a battle with Peng Lao, he would only have a slight upper hand and wouldn't be much stronger.

Testing the sword was fine.

But he couldn't test his life!

It was better to leave first.

The next instant, Xu Jin looked at National Master Cheng Yuexiao.

The latter didn't wait for Xu Jin to speak and said, "I was just dealing with urgent military intelligence, and hearing movement here, I rushed over. I have to go back and deal with the urgent military intelligence now."

With a flash of his figure, National Master Cheng Yuexiao also disappeared.

Only Peng Lao was left, looking stunned.

After all this, it turned out he was the most reckless and stupid one!

He directly used his life to test the sword for Xu Jin.

The Palace Master was better; he didn't even pick up the conversation and ran away.

Urgent military intelligence? He couldn't be clearer?

Where was there any urgent military intelligence right now?

For a time, Peng Lao's expression was very hurt.

Xu Jin was somewhat helpless.

It turned out he didn't even have a chance to test the sword.

He had performed the three swords of the Seven Kill Sword that had already been practiced, but he couldn't grasp their specific might.

It seemed he had to find an enemy to test the sword.

However, Xu Jin didn't want to do that kind of guerrilla warfare anymore.

If one wanted the country to be strong, one absolutely couldn't fear war.

But if the war lasted too long, the ones who suffered were still the ordinary people.

So Xu Jin wanted to end the great war on the Star River Battlefield in front of him.

When he came, Xu Jin already had an idea.

The next instant, Xu Jin's divine sense moved, and with a flash, he appeared in the Commander's Mansion of the Thirteenth Guard City.

National Master Cheng Yuexiao, who had just returned to the Commander's Mansion, saw Xu Jin chasing after him and said with a bitter face, "I really have urgent military affairs. Why don't you go to the Eight Desolations Continent for a stroll? The King of the Eight Desolations, Ju Zhang, should be an excellent opponent for testing the sword."

"This is natural!"

Xu Jin nodded and said, "However, for this sword test, I want the army and elites of the Star River Battlefield to coordinate together!"

As soon as this was said, National Master Cheng Yuexiao's eyes instantly shot out brilliant light. "What do you mean?"

"National Master, let's have an emergency meeting of the Star River Battlefield directly," Xu Jin said.

"Good, I will notify the Star River Commander's Mansion right away..."

"National Master, I mean for all high-level officials to gather their true bodies together to discuss matters, just say I have a major discovery," Xu Jin said.

Hearing this, National Master Cheng Yuexiao's eyes flickered, and he looked fixedly at Xu Jin. "Are you prepared to make a move?"

"You could say that!

But this meeting is also giving them an opportunity!

The last opportunity!" Xu Jin said.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 645 =====