Chapter 65: Fei Xing Bu Reaches Initial Mastery

Xu Jin did not mention repaying the silver to Ning Yuchan.

Three hundred taels is nothing—he could repay it immediately.

But is this merely a debt of three hundred taels?

Leaving aside the silver Xu Jin currently holds, even just his monthly salary of fifty taels as squad leader and twenty taels from the Middle Courtyard—not counting other possible income—three hundred taels meant nothing to Xu Jin now.

But half a month ago, without those three hundred taels, Xu Jin might still be struggling in Meal Mist Second Layer, and none of his previous missions would have had a chance of survival.

Does Ning Yuchan lack these three hundred taels?

Absolutely not.

So Xu Jin was in no hurry to repay it—and he must not repay it.

This is a debt.

A debt of overwhelming gratitude!

Back at his small courtyard, Xu Jin immediately began practicing the Man Jin Chapter Ning Yuchan had just taught him.

“Man” hinges on momentum.

What is momentum?

Only profound strength can generate momentum.

In short, it means accumulating abundant star force within the body, then using that momentum to overwhelm others and slowly refine the Six Yang Supreme Head.

The more abundant the star force, the faster the refinement.

That is, Meal Mist Sixth Layer is purely a matter of slow, grinding effort—elixirs like Star-Replenishing Pills or Spirit-Reviving Pills have little effect.

In just half an hour, Xu Jin had already grasped the basics of the Man Jin Chapter.

All star force gathered above his chest, slowly seeping toward his neck.

After an hour, intense fatigue set in, and Xu Jin ceased cultivation.

He realized he had been wrong.

The Man Jin Chapter consumed immense spiritual soul force.

Meal Mist Sixth Layer did not require Star-Replenishing Pills, but it did require Spirit-Reviving Pills.

After taking one Spirit-Reviving Pill that had been nurtured, Xu Jin felt refreshed and began practicing the Man Jin Chapter again.

Another half hour later, Xu Jin slowly dispersed the accumulated star momentum and checked the extent of the starlight coverage.

The progress of Meal Mist Sixth Layer was excruciatingly slow.

After a full hour of cultivation, the starlight had advanced less than half a centimeter along his neck.

Slower than imaginable.

“Grinding work—must proceed slowly.

First cultivate the Chi Jin Chapter, master Fei Xing Bu.”

Yet Xu Jin did not immediately begin physical cultivation; instead, he sank his spirit into the Can Dou Tai Star Lamp and began practicing martial forms, casually placing a Spiral Blade Seal inside to nurture.

Xu Jin discovered that the greatest advantage of his Can Dou Tai Star Lamp was its minimal consumption.

Whether engraving star patterns or practicing star arts, the consumption was extremely low.

This likely stemmed from the Star Lamp being a self-contained, purely star-force-based world.

Thus, it barely drained Xu Jin’s star force or spiritual soul force.

This was currently the Can Dou Tai’s greatest advantage.

Others could cultivate dozens of times a day, at most a hundred, before exhausting their star force and spiritual soul force—but Xu Jin could practice hundreds or even thousands of times inside the lamp and still feel vigorous.

It was ideal for cultivating star arts and engraving star patterns.

The Chi Jin Chapter was merely a special method of mobilizing and circulating star force.

To put it vividly, the sensation of the Chi Jin Chapter resembled a jet engine.

When star force erupted from a point on the body, acceleration became possible.

But the Chi Jin Chapter was not so simple.

The essence of the Chi Jin Chapter was using star force bursts to gain leverage on one’s own body.

For example, when applied to the soles, the star force explosion required not only repulsion but also an upward thrust—here, the star force transformation in the Chi Jin Chapter became complex.

It had to be both gentle and powerful, while also maintaining bodily balance.

It consumed star force rapidly.

No wonder Fei Xing Bu was only taught after Meal Mist Fifth Layer.

Below Meal Mist Fifth Layer, one likely could not sustain such star force consumption.

A single Fei Xing Bu consumed as much star force as a basic star art—but Fei Xing Bu was applied continuously.

Each turn or acceleration equated to another Fei Xing Bu, consuming another burst of star force.

Within one or two breaths, using Fei Xing Bu required four to five bursts of basic star art energy.

With Xu Jin’s Minor Star Cluster Seal engraved and his Meal Mist Fifth Layer cultivation base, he could continuously perform basic star arts one hundred and twenty times.

Though this number seemed large, practicing Fei Xing Bu meant he could not sustain it for even half a quarter-hour.

But inside the Star Lamp, practicing Fei Xing Bu consumed nothing.

Inside the Star Lamp, Xu Jin practiced the Chi Jin Chapter over and over.

One hundred times, five hundred times, a thousand times.

Suddenly, the figure in the Star Lamp’s feet flashed with starlight, launching him three to four meters into the air; combined with his own jump, he could leap five to six meters. Another bound—starlight exploded—and he shot forward nearly five to six meters, combined with his momentum, covering fourteen to fifteen meters in a single bound.

Xu Jin’s face lit up—Fei Xing Bu was preliminarily mastered.

He withdrew his spirit from the lamp, stepped into the courtyard, and with a thought, starlight surged rapidly downward from the star pattern; the moment it rose, the Chi Jin Chapter activated—and Xu Jin shot skyward.

Previously, his leap reached only three meters.

Now, it soared five meters.

As he rose into the air, he felt a thought—star force erupted again, Fei Xing Bu exploded once more.

But this explosion was sluggish; the starlight only burst as his body neared the ground.

Still not proficient enough.

Xu Jin began again, repeatedly activating Fei Xing Bu, searching for flaws.

After a long while, he crouched, landed, returned indoors, and re-entered the Star Lamp—once more, he hammered at Fei Xing Bu.

After just a few real-world attempts, Xu Jin had already identified the problems.

After an hour, following over a thousand repetitions inside the Star Lamp, Xu Jin, under cover of night, activated Fei Xing Bu continuously—in a single breath, he leapt from the ground without touching any object, soaring to the crown of a fifteen-meter-tall tree.

Gazing down upon the entire Jin Shan Dao Yuan, Xu Jin’s heart surged.

This was transcendent power.

This was the allure of cultivation.

When would he, like Headmaster Dong Zhao, step high into the heavens and overlook the entire Jin Shan County City?

Or even, overlook this world.

Ning Yuchan had told Xu Jin that with the foundation of Five Dou Killing Fist’s star force manipulation, one could learn Fei Xing Bu in two or three days, use it smoothly in five or six days—but to reach great mastery required at least months.

To perfect it required years.

Yet Xu Jin had achieved smooth use of Fei Xing Bu in merely two hours.

The Can Dou Tai Star Lamp’s martial practice effect was indispensable.

Yet even Xu Jin himself had not noticed that his star force moved with perfect ease, responding to his will as if it were an extension of his limbs.

This was deeply tied to the Cheng Po Star Pattern he had engraved on his Star Palace.

But Cheng Po Star Pattern was one of those star patterns that brought no glorious feats—only subtle, quiet benefits.

Once mastered, it quietly conferred all manner of advantages.

Yet cultivators themselves, unless deliberately observing, rarely noticed Cheng Po Star Pattern’s role in this.

At least, Xu Jin had not yet realized it.

According to Ning Yuchan, the hallmark of Fei Xing Bu’s great mastery was a single leap rising at least ten meters and propelling forward twenty meters.

If perfected, a single leap must rise at least fifteen meters and propel thirty meters—furthermore, movement must be fluid, turning as naturally as running, only then is it truly mastered.

More rigorous practice was needed.

Leaping down from the treetop, Xu Jin activated Fei Xing Bu twice in succession to land safely, then returned to the parlor of his small courtyard.

He sank his spirit once more into the Star Lamp—but this time, he did not practice Fei Xing Bu; instead, he resumed engraving the Great Star Cluster Pattern.

The body refinement progress of Meal Mist Sixth Layer was excruciatingly slow.

If he could engrave the Great Star Cluster Pattern early, it should accelerate Meal Mist Sixth Layer’s cultivation.

This was the only method Xu Jin could currently conceive to speed up Meal Mist Sixth Layer’s progress.

After an hour, having taken a Spirit-Reviving Pill, Xu Jin gripped the Plucking Star Token and entered the Plucking Star Tower, then headed straight for the Martial Practice Realm.

Daily Martial Practice Realm sessions could not be skipped.

Not merely for ranking—but more importantly, for real combat.

All manner of tactics could be tested within the Martial Practice Realm, allowing one to discover the optimal battlefield application of star arts.

In the Martial Practice Realm, one could die countless times—but in reality, death was permanent.

Today’s Martial Practice Realm sessions went smoothly for the first five matches—consecutive wins, another fifteen points added.

Xu Jin’s rank in the First-Level Martial Practice Realm reached 9,755th.

The rank increase from consecutive wins was substantial.

But in the sixth match, he encountered a Star Lord named Xue Baiyi—and for the first time, Xu Jin experienced death in the Martial Practice Realm.

The main problem was that the opponent was too fast.

As the light screen dispersed, Xue Baiyi stabbed his sword straight into Xu Jin’s forehead from over twenty meters away.

Xu Jin’s head had not yet been refined; he only had a single layer of starlight shield.

The starlight shield shattered instantly. The moment Xu Jin reacted, his head exploded.

Fast!

Too fast!

In the instant his head exploded, Xu Jin gained sudden insight.

This Xue Baiyi had certainly perfected Flying Star Step and possessed at least Mealcloud Sixth Realm cultivation, possibly even Mealcloud Seventh Realm.

Finally encountered a true expert—time to change tactics.

Stationary spellcaster tactics only work against weaklings!

【Drill Points: 102】

【Drill Ranking: 21786th】

Inside Jinshan Dao Academy, in Lu Xianbing’s courtyard, as Lu Xianbing’s expression flickered with suppressed excitement, strands of starlight began gathering and glowing above his head; within a few breaths, his entire body was shrouded in starlight.

Mealcloud Sixth Realm achieved.

Not long after breaking through to Mealcloud Sixth Realm, Lu Xianbing took out the Star-Picking Token, activated it, and entered the Star-Picking Tower directly.

As a cultivator’s scion, Lu Xianbing understood the Star-Picking Tower far better than Xu Jin.

He understood its importance even more clearly.

So he entered the Star-Picking Tower at once.

After entering the Star-Picking Tower, Lu Xianbing went straight into the First-Level Drill Realm and challenged.

This was currently the only place where he could engage in real combat without risk of damage.

It was also what his father Lu Chang had specifically instructed: after reaching Mealcloud Sixth Realm, he must enter the Drill Realm daily to challenge.

Twenty minutes later.

Lu Xianbing exited, his expression slightly dejected.

After only five battles, he felt utterly exhausted and had to withdraw.

Of the five, he won three and lost two.

【Star Lord: Lu Poudou】

【Drill Points: 3】

【Drill Ranking: 1673665th】

(End of Chapter)