Chapter 652: The Harvest from Beheading the Sect Leader

Regarding the Baidou Sect Leader, what Xu Jin was wary of was merely the power of the True God of Stars and Battles that he channeled.

As for the person himself, Xu Jin was not afraid.

Especially at this very moment, with the Baidou Sect Leader's physical body destroyed, his return to the Bai Hu Star City at all costs meant that either he had a backup plan there, or he had a path of retreat.

Since that was the case, arriving at his old den one step ahead was the way to go.

It was extremely difficult for others to do.

But for Xu Jin, it was very simple.

The Bai Hu Star City was in the deep rear of the Eight Desolates Continent, and the distance from the front line exceeded one hundred thousand li.

Theoretically, even if the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo used the power of the True God of Stars and Battles to return to the Bai Hu Star City at a speed more than ten times faster than before—

Not to mention the price paid, it would take at least a quarter of an hour.

With that time, Xu Jin would have arrived long ago.

But just the moment Xu Jin retracted his Eye of Oversight, he suddenly discovered that the direction in which the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo was fleeing had instantly shifted, deviating significantly from the direction toward the Bai Hu Star City.

The map of the Eight Desolates Continent had long been engraved in Xu Jin's mind.

In just a flash, Xu Jin reacted: that direction was the direction of Blood Moon City.

What was the Baidou Sect Leader going to Blood Moon City for with his Dao Embryo?

The Spatial Shift Great Array!

Blood Moon City had a spatial shift great array that went directly to the Bai Hu Star City.

This was something the Blood God Sect Leader had created previously to counter Ju Zhang, directly exchanged for with a large amount of points from the Thousand Star Token.

With the spatial shift great array of Blood Moon City as a transit point, the time for the Baidou Sect Leader to return to the Bai Hu Star City would be halved.

At the same instant, Xu Jin took a step.

The moment he stepped, the light of the Spatial Star Palace on his natal star, Linghuang, flickered slightly, and three streaks of spatial origin starlight instantly swayed down, merging into the spatial fluctuations rising around Xu Jin's body.

One and a half percent of the authority over the heavens and earth of the Eight Desolates Continent simultaneously bolstered his body.

The next instant, Xu Jin had already appeared over six thousand li away.

With a thought, Xu Jin once again channeled his natal star with his Dao Embryo and took another step.

At a terrifying speed, he rapidly shifted toward the Bai Hu Star City.

The only pity was that there was no spatial law star in the Arena of Stars and Battles; if there were, and it were bolstered and magnified again, then the distance of this spatial shift at the limit would be even further.

Although the distance was further, the consumption was not reduced in the slightest.

In fact, because he was constantly channeling his natal star for bolstering, the consumption of his primordial spirit power was even greater.

Ten breaths later, when Xu Jin, who had shifted eighteen times in succession, appeared near the Bai Hu Star City, he immediately took out a Sixth-Tier primordial spirit-type spirit medicine and swallowed it to recover his primordial spirit cultivation.

Under extreme shifting, the consumption of primordial spirit cultivation was very large.

The next instant, Xu Jin entered stealth, and then, within a few breaths, he flew rapidly to infiltrate the Bai Hu Star City, only to be greatly shocked.

Good heavens, there really was a grand formation waiting for him.

He saw that in the very center of the Bai Hu Star City, under the statue of the True God of Stars and Battles, a group of Baidou Sect star officials were all sitting cross-legged in their positions around the statue, with seals of different auras floating in front of them, the starlight brilliant.

It looked like they were preparing something, and it was already prepared.

But clearly, the core host had not arrived; once the core host, the Baidou Sect Leader, arrived, he could instantly channel the star power of the True God of Stars and Battles.

And it was the extremely vast kind.

The Baidou Sect Leader, merely using his Star and Battle Divine Seal to channel the divine power of the True God of Stars and Battles in the wild, could contend with Xu Jin and even have energy to spare.

Now that all the star officials had gathered, twenty or thirty people activating a mysterious great array, and doing so under the statue of the True God of Stars and Battles to channel the divine power—one could imagine how powerful it would be.

That power would absolutely increase manifold.

At that time, if Xu Jin were to crash in head-on, the trouble would probably be huge.

But now, it was different.

The Mingji Star Pattern swept over, and Xu Jin instantly figured out the layout of this great array of the Baidou Sect.

The internal structure of the Baidou Sect, thanks to the joining of his teacher Seeing Qi Shanye and his uncle Mo Ji, although the two were not yet at the core, the basic situation had been figured out.

Within the Baidou Sect, those with seals were honored.

There were five True Monarchs of the Five Directions, four True Persons of the Four Phases, and twenty-eight Star Officials of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, each holding the seals of the Five Directions True Monarchs, the Four Phases True Persons, and the Twenty-Eight Mansions Star Officials.

But the Baidou Sect had passed down for so many years, yet three sets of star official seals had been lost, two of which had currently fallen into Xu Jin's hands.

Besides that, there were six Hidden True Monarchs.

The seals bestowed upon Seeing Qi Shanye and Mo Ji were Hidden Tianyang Zhenjun seals, which counted as being incorporated into the core of the Baidou Sect.

But clearly, the Hidden True Monarchs were only peripheral; those Hidden Tianyang Zhenjun seals were clearly not within the establishment of the great array before him.

The number of people setting up the array at this moment was thirty-four.

Among them, the five True Monarchs were all Eighth-Tier, their cultivation levels were all extremely strong—all Eighth-Tier late-stage, and there was one Eighth-Tier peak-stage.

Among the four True Persons of the Four Phases, three were Eighth-Tier early-stage, and the other was Seventh-Tier peak-stage; that one should be the previously quite unlucky Vermilion Bird True Person who had been replaced repeatedly.

Of the twenty-five star officials, the strongest cultivation was Seventh-Tier Ninth-Layer peak-stage, and the weakest was Seventh-Tier Third-Layer.

Besides that, outside the statue of the True God of Stars and Battles, there were over sixty Seventh-Tier experts of various kinds, including aliens, and four Eighth-Tier aliens.

This strength was indeed quite strong.

If it had been a few months ago, Xu Jin could only stare blankly, but now, it was simple.

Very quickly, Xu Jin decided on the order of beheading.

There were twenty-eight star officials of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, and at this moment, only twenty were present, all still in the ranks.

This basically explained one problem: these star officials were not necessary elements of the mysterious great array before him.

The necessary elements of this mysterious great array should be the Five Directions True Monarchs and the Four Phases True Persons.

It was better to kill these few first.

"I wonder what the Baidou Sect Leader will think when he returns and discovers that his old den has been uprooted by me?"

The next instant, Xu Jin's figure appeared above the head of the statue of the True God of Stars and Battles. The moment he appeared, the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower flew out from beneath Xu Jin and smashed down violently.

The mud-sculpted statue of the True God of Stars and Battles stored a massive amount of power, but before it was channeled by anyone, it was still just a mud figure!

Boom!

The statue of the True God of Stars and Battles in the Baidou Sect's Bai Hu Star City instantly collapsed on the spot.

The moment the group of Five Directions True Monarchs, Four Phases True Persons, and Twenty-Eight Mansions Star Officials looked at Xu Jin with terrified expressions, Xu Jin had already appeared at the very center of the array they were setting up. The moment he took a step, dark green starlight spread toward all directions like ten thousand snakes leaving their den.

A very simple star technique: Green Shadow Thousand Blazes.

But in the hands of the current Xu Jin, its power was terrifyingly large.

The green light flew out like a poisonous dragon, instantly entangling the thirty-four core members of the Baidou Sect. Those with cultivation below the Eighth Tier could not even resist and were pierced into their bodies by this dark green brilliance, bound tightly.

The Eighth-Tier early-stage and mid-stage powerhouses, exerting their remaining strength, were barely able to contend with Xu Jin's green intent.

The Eighth-Tier peak-stage Tianyang Zhenjun of Punishment roared, and the moment his starlight surged out, he actually barely blocked the starlight Xu Jin was using to attack them in a group.

Boom!

Thunder light instantly darted out.

In just a flash, the physical body of the strongest Eighth-Tier peak-stage Tianyang Zhenjun of Punishment turned directly into ash.

Just as his primordial spirit escaped, Xu Jin's thirty-four Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains probed out like tentacles, directly smashing the primordial spirit of the strongest Tianyang Zhenjun of Punishment into a wisp of blue smoke.

His Tianyang Zhenjun Seal had just wanted to escape when it was circled by the Dao Embryo divine light hanging above Xu Jin's head and captured back.

At the same instant, under the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains, the physical bodies of all the Baidou Sect True Persons and star officials below the Eighth-Tier late-stage turned to ash in an instant.

The moment their primordial spirits flew about in chaos, the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains flashed again, and the primordial spirits instantly turned to ash.

The few Eighth-Tier late-stage experts who had barely survived one round of the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain attack also had their physical bodies turn to fly ash in the second round of Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains.

A total of one Tianyang Zhenjun's and two True Persons' primordial spirits survived; Xu Jin's star-power hand surged out and captured these three primordial spirits back.

At the same time, he fully channeled his Dao Embryo to imprison those seals. His Dao Embryo was already busy flying.

Fortunately, the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower had already soared into the sky, hanging high in the air, ripples spreading out in the starlight, locking this space tightly so that those seals could not escape, and then they were imprisoned one by one by Xu Jin's Dao Embryo.

Xu Jin felt that these seals of the Baidou Sect might truly be great treasures.

Better to collect them first.

Boom boom boom!

On the periphery, over a dozen various star techniques smashed onto Xu Jin's body; this was the Baidou Sect followers on the periphery who were not setting up the array, who had begun to focus their fire on Xu Jin after discovering his sneak attack.

But the incident was sudden, and this first wave of focused fire only had a dozen or so people.

The focused fire of over a dozen Seventh-Tier experts plus four Eighth-Tier experts—Xu Jin did not even dodge and took it calmly.

Mainly because his Dao Embryo was still fully imprisoning those seals; he couldn't let them escape.

If he let those seals escape, on one hand, the Baidou Sect Leader would discover the abnormality, and on the other hand, if they were lost, it would be troublesome to gather them all again later.

Under the bombardment of over a dozen streaks of starlight, Xu Jin's Cold Ice Wood Thunder Armor merely had its thunder light flicker, fluctuated, and that was the end of it.

It only consumed a little of Xu Jin's star power; it was not a threat in the slightest.

The next instant, the moment the last seal was imprisoned, the thunder wings behind Xu Jin flickered, and the moment the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains probed out, his entire person was like a multi-armed thunder god, charging into the crowd of Eighth-Tier and Seventh-Tier experts.

Below the Seventh Tier, upon touching these Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains divided by the linked star patterns, their physical bodies turned to ash in an instant; those with primordial spirits, before they could even escape, had their primordial spirits shaken into ash by the thunder light as well.

The four Eighth-Tier aliens only held on for two or three strikes.

And for the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chains, having the thunder light shake back and forth a few times was enough for half a breath.

In just the effort of one breath, Xu Jin, this multi-armed thunder god who had charged into the crowd of Baidou Sect followers, had caused hundreds of casualties.

The remaining Sixth-Tier and Fifth-Tier followers were completely dumbfounded.

They were scared silly.

Amidst the sounds of terror and screaming, they fled in all directions.

Xu Jin did not chase down these people either, merely sniping the Seventh-Tier experts.

Theoretically, all the followers who had the means to contact the Baidou Sect Leader had already been completely blasted to death by Xu Jin.

The reason was very simple: a superior could not establish contact with everyone.

For example, Xu Jin had the Star River Marshal's Mansion, the Seven-Kill Star Domain, and the elite legions of Great Chen under his command, but the number of people qualified and having the means to contact him was only that many.

It was just like how a small soldier could not contact the Marshal in time.

Next, it was up to heaven's will.

To see if the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo would flee back.

However, before welcoming the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo, Xu Jin still had a lot to do.

A lot of Sumeru spaces to pick up.

The first thing he collected was that piece of residual bone inside the statue of the True God of Stars and Battles that had been destroyed by Xu Jin.

Inside the residual bone, it was full of vast primordial spirit power, and in this piece of residual bone, Xu Jin also discovered wisps of golden light of faith.

The statue of the True God of Stars and Battles in the old den was truly different.

But now, it was Xu Jin's gain.

At the very least, Xu Jin could set up another statue of himself.

Following that, it was time to pull in the Sumeru spaces.

Upon sensing this, Xu Jin felt a bit depressed; he had killed too many people, and there were too many Sumeru spaces—a full hundred or so.

And at this moment, he didn't know who was whose.

The Sumeru spaces of those Seventh-Tier and Sixth-Tier experts who had died in battle were all mixed in between.

No choice, adhering to the principle of not wasting, Xu Jin pulled them in one by one.

Xu Jin's speed of pulling them in was extremely fast; he could pull one in in less than a breath. After pulling them out, he didn't even look at them and directly threw the things inside into his own Sumeru space.

When he had time later, he would slowly take inventory.

Of course, Xu Jin didn't have any great expectations either.

Within the Sumeru spaces of these people, the treasures were limited.

It would be good enough if they could provide Xu Jin with some cultivation resources.

When he had just pulled in two-thirds, the Mingji Star Pattern that Xu Jin had kept open suddenly moved.

The spatial shift great array inside the Star and Battle Divine Palace not far away suddenly rose with star power.

Xu Jin's gaze instantly shifted; it was here!

It should be the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo!

This speed was truly fast enough.

In an instant, he took a step, and starlight swayed down from the Thunder Palace of his natal star in the firmament, and the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal had already appeared above his head.

The next instant, the spatial shift great array rippled with silver starlight, and amidst the starlight, the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo appeared in the great array, carrying the Star and Battle Divine Seal.

The moment he appeared, the Baidou Sect Leader's Mingji Star Pattern instantly scattered in all directions.

Everything in the entire Bai Hu Star City fell into the sensing range of his Mingji Star Pattern.

This was a habit of caution.

Although before he came, he had already ordered the various True Monarchs to set up the great array.

As long as he arrived, he could activate that great array at any time.

If that Seven-Kill successor dared to chase him here, he would just happen to behead him!

This was the greatest foundation of his Baidou Sect!

But the next instant, the eyes of the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo widened violently!

A look of incredible terror appeared in his eyes.

His Bai Hu Star City had actually been slaughtered!

Even the True God statue had...

Could it be...

Not good!

Boom!

The sound of thunder crashing down rang out at the same time.

But the sound was slower than the thunder light!

The moment the sound of rolling thunder rang out, the thunder light had already landed on the Baidou Sect Leader's head.

As the thunder light poured down, the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo began to dissolve like hot water on snow.

But the Baidou Sect Leader was also capable; in the face of a life-and-death crisis, he directly placed the Star and Battle Divine Seal at the very front.

Without the support of the star power channeled from the True God of Stars and Battles, the Star and Battle Divine Seal was just an ordinary Nine-Star Spirit Treasure, and not the kind that excelled in defense.

And this strike of Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash was the strongest Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash Xu Jin had ever blasted out in his life.

In an instant, the starlight on the Star and Battle Divine Seal was smashed until it was dim, and it directly shrank back into the Baidou Sect Leader's body.

Boom!

The second strike of Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash had already smashed down.

Too fast!

This wave of sneak attacks was too fast.

Fast to the point that the Baidou Sect Leader had no time to react or prepare.

The moment despair appeared in his eyes, the Baidou Sect Leader had already been blasted into a wisp of blue smoke and completely dissipated.

At the same time, the damaged Star and Battle Divine Seal appeared.

Appearing along with the damaged Star and Battle Divine Seal were over a dozen star-light clusters with completely different auras.

After just one glance, Xu Jin was both shocked and delighted.

Too familiar!

These over a dozen star-light clusters—he was too familiar with them.

They should all be the authority over the heavens and earth of the various star domains that the Baidou Sect Leader had refined previously!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 653 =====