Chapter 654: The Death of Envoy Ju Zhang

Whether it was the authority over the heavens and earth of the Kunling Domain or the Eight Desolates Continent, these were treasures among treasures, and Xu Jin naturally refined them at the first opportunity.

Xu Jin spent a full half-hour refining the one and a half percent of the Kunling Domain's authority over the heavens and earth into his body.

This was the slowest authority over the heavens and earth Xu Jin had ever refined in his life.

What made Xu Jin feel surprised was that the moment the refinement was successful, this one and a half percent of the Kunling Domain's authority over the heavens and earth not only had no connection with the authority of his Star-Plucking Tower, but it actually had some unusual movement with the authority over the heavens and earth of the Eight Desolates Continent that Xu Jin had already refined previously.

These two portions of authority over the heavens and earth influenced each other, and vaguely, it was as if there was some connection.

This made Xu Jin thoughtful.

Was the connection between the Eight Desolates Continent and the Star River Battlefield extremely great?

And was the so-called Silver-Level authority of the Star-Plucking Tower merely some special authority bestowed by the Star-Plucking Tower, unrelated to the authority over the heavens and earth?

Xu Jin could only think of these two points.

Subsequently, Xu Jin spent another quarter of an hour refining the one percent of the Eight Desolates Continent's authority over the heavens and earth he had obtained from the Baidou Sect Leader.

One could only say that this old fox was formidable; secretly, he could even obtain the authority over the heavens and earth of the Eight Desolates Continent.

Now, it was Xu Jin's gain.

The moment the refinement was completed, the authority over the heavens and earth of the Eight Desolates Continent instantly approached two and a half percent.

Two and a half percent of the authority over the heavens and earth was different from one and a half percent.

Without needing to channel the Eye of Oversight, Xu Jin could already vaguely sense certain changes.

The range of the Eye of Oversight expanded rapidly, reaching about fifteen thousand li, which had become very convenient.

At the same time, within this fifteen-thousand-li range of the Eye of Oversight, Xu Jin could transmit sound at will.

However, compared to the role of the authority over the heavens and earth of a Small World, the divine power of the authority over the heavens and earth of a Middle World did not seem to be that great.

Besides that, among the authority over the heavens and earth seized from the Baidou Sect Leader, most were only two or three percent of the authority over the heavens and earth; just by looking at the aura, Xu Jin knew that those were the authority over the heavens and earth of the Small Worlds conquered by the Baidou Sect.

But there was one portion of a Small World's authority over the heavens and earth that reached as high as ninety percent.

Ninety percent of the authority over the heavens and earth—this was no small matter.

Within a Small World, one could be called a god-like existence.

Let alone surpassing one major realm, one could even behead those who surpassed two major realms.

Without asking, Xu Jin also knew that this ninety percent of the authority over the heavens and earth should be the authority over the heavens and earth of the Lingji Small World, the base camp of the Lingji Star Palace.

Under normal circumstances, there was still a limit to obtaining authority over the heavens and earth.

In most cases, obtaining seventy percent of the authority over the heavens and earth of a certain star domain was the limit.

Xu Jin knew of two ways to obtain more authority over the heavens and earth: first, the Seven-Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's Killing Star Art; second, after controlling seventy percent of the authority over the heavens and earth, one began to slowly govern and manage this heaven and earth, and over a long period of time, one would slowly obtain more authority over the heavens and earth.

So this ninety percent of the authority over the heavens and earth was undoubtedly that.

It was just that he didn't know if the Baidou Sect Leader had obtained one hundred percent of the Lingji Small World's authority over the heavens and earth?

Because this made Xu Jin think of the Tianyang Xingjun Tianyang.

Xu Jin had already made up his mind to go and deal with this fellow, Tianyang Xingjun Tianyang, after the war.

But if Tianyang Xingjun Tianyang were to turtle up in the Tianyang Small World, that would be quite troublesome.

In that situation, this point had to be figured out.

There was still a difference between controlling one hundred percent of the authority over the heavens and earth and ninety percent.

Therefore, Xu Jin decided to make a trip to the Lingji Small World before going to deal with Tianyang Xingjun Tianyang.

First, to see if the various Star Palaces had any other backup plans; second, Xu Jin wanted to refine the ninety percent of the Lingji Small World's authority over the heavens and earth to see the specific situation.

The Small Worlds of the three major Star Palaces should be similar, so the reference significance was great.

This point still had to be prepared for.

He would not fight an unprepared battle.

Suddenly, amidst the flickering spatial fluctuations not far away, the figure of the National Teacher Cheng Yuexiao appeared.

After receiving Xu Jin's notification, it took an hour for the National Teacher Cheng Yuexiao to arrive at the Bai Hu Star City.

"This Bai Hu Star City has also been breached?" The urgently arriving Cheng Yuexiao swallowed a Fifth-Tier primordial spirit spirit medicine to recover while looking at the Bai Hu Star City, which was strewn with corpses, his face full of surprise.

"Breached!

And theoretically, the Ninth-Tier experts of the Eight Desolates Continent have already been completely beheaded by me, and the Eighth-Tier main force should have been killed quite a few as well.

The army on Great Chen's side can advance wantonly to reap the battle results to the greatest extent," Xu Jin said.

Although Xu Jin was the Grand Marshal of the Star River Battlefield, Xu Jin himself originated from Great Chen.

Naturally, he hoped that Great Chen could obtain more battle results in this battle.

This matter was naturally notified to the National Teacher at the first opportunity.

At the same time, letting the National Teacher come to the Bai Hu Star City was also to let the National Teacher take over the Bai Hu Star City at the first opportunity.

Xu Jin didn't look down on the things in the Bai Hu Star City's treasury, but for Great Chen, they were still of extreme value and could even strengthen the national power in a short period of time.

"This battle merit I will..."

The National Teacher Cheng Yuexiao wanted to say something, but was stopped by a wave of Xu Jin's hand. "National Teacher, are they still recording battle merits for you now?"

Cheng Yuexiao laughed upon hearing this.

"National Teacher, you should mobilize the army immediately. It is best to divide the army into various routes, but elites must be sent to the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng, Blood Moon City, and Blood Yuncheng.

My teacher Qi Shanye and the others will cooperate with you to take over Blood Moon City and Blood Yuncheng.

As for the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng side, have them speed up their march to come and take over.

As for the battle results in other places, you can handle them as you see fit," Xu Jin said.

"Good! But if we do this, the lion's share will all be eaten by us; the other few families are afraid..."

"It's good enough that they have something to eat; if they aren't satisfied, tell them to come find me!

Also, keep an eye on the power of the Tianyang Star Palace."

"Good."

After handing over these matters and ensuring that Great Chen would obtain the strongest battle results, Xu Jin spatially shifted toward the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng.

While shifting, he channeled the Lingtai star technique to recover his primordial spirit cultivation.

But this time shifting, Xu Jin did not channel his natal star, so the consumption was greatly reduced, yet the shifting distance did not decrease much.

The reason was that the authority over the Eight Desolates Continent, which reached as high as two and a half percent, not only compensated for the shifting distance but also made the shifting consumption smaller.

Inside the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar of the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng, a wisp of illusory residual shadow was looking blankly at the top of the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

It could be vaguely seen that it was the residual god shadow of Envoy Ju Zhang.

Envoy Ju Zhang's trusted aides, Ju Rong and Ju Sheng, were looking miserable as they followed Envoy Ju Zhang's requirements, placing a large amount of Sixth-Tier and Seventh-Tier star jade tablets beneath the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

The Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar was built after Envoy Ju Zhang successfully established a foothold in the Kunling Realm, using many precious materials he brought with him, as well as a massive amount of heavenly materials and earthly treasures he collected, according to a special method, with a wisp of powder from the golden horn on the Holy Ancestor's head as the core.

After it was built, it became the nation-suppressing weapon of their Eight Desolates Continent; not only could it gather power to exert astonishing lethality, but it could also communicate with the Ancestral Realm very simply.

Under normal circumstances, once he conquered the Star River Battlefield, this Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar could suppress the entire Eight Desolates Continent and the Star River Battlefield, merging the two into one, and then assist him in killing his way into the present world to completely occupy the Kunling Domain.

Therefore, when the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar was first formed, in order to ensure that the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar would always be under his control, Envoy Ju Zhang endured extreme pain and used a secret method to directly split off a wisp of primordial spirit origin to refine a wisp of split god.

Then he used this wisp of split god to refine and control the core of the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

This was also the fundamental reason why Envoy Ju Zhang's Sumeru space did not explode, even though his physical body and primordial spirit were beheaded by Xu Jin; his split god was still alive because of the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

But it was merely alive.

The reason a split god was a split god was that in most cases, a split god was just an existence and had no power.

Just like now, Envoy Ju Zhang's residual god only had a virtual shadow and had no power; he didn't even have the power to channel the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar anymore.

He could only let his two iron-clad trusted aides take a large amount of star jade tablets from the national treasury, and only after they activated them could he channel the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar. He channeled the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar not to escape.

His current residual god, even if he really had a chance to leave, after one transmission, his residual god would completely collapse.

He channeled the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar merely to bid his father farewell.

Ever since he was sensible, he had always wanted to be the son who made his father, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo, proud.

He had always been working hard for this.

Before this, he thought he had almost done it.

But now, everything had already turned to ash.

He was very disappointed in himself!

But regardless, before leaving, he wanted to kowtow to his father, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo.

As for a comeback?

He no longer held that extravagant hope.

From the moment Xuan Hu was beheaded, he knew that the general trend had gone.

Originally, he had hope of escaping.

As long as he successfully returned from Xu Jin's hands and channeled this Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar at all costs, it was still possible for him to escape alone.

But firstly, there was no chance.

Secondly, he had no face to escape back to see his father and the various clansmen.

He came with solemn vows and high spirits.

If he went back like a stray dog, he himself could not accept it.

"Great King, it is ready."

The two Eighth-Tier trusted aides, Ju Rong and Ju Sheng, had already placed a large amount of star jade tablets beneath the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar according to his requirements.

Seeing this, Envoy Ju Zhang's virtual shadow sighed and waved his hand. "Alright, take as much as you can from the national treasury, then hide your tracks and be careful; perhaps you might be able to survive."

"Great King, we are not leaving!"

Ju Rong and Ju Sheng knelt down simultaneously, their faces full of misery.

"Go quickly; if it's too late, perhaps you won't be able to leave!"

"Great King!"

Envoy Ju Zhang's residual god virtual shadow waved his hand again.

A few breaths later, Ju Rong and Ju Sheng kowtowed to Envoy Ju Zhang three times, and only then did they turn and rush toward the national treasury of the Eight Desolates Continent.

A dozen breaths later, the two of them, having filled their Sumeru spaces, could not care about notifying others and soared into the sky at the first opportunity.

But looking around, they didn't know where to flee.

The two discussed for a few breaths, and suddenly they looked toward the direction of the Bai Hu Star City.

When the Baidou Sect Leader first arrived, he had channeled the might of the stars to fight a battle with their Great King, and they were evenly matched.

That Baidou Sect Leader's strength should be the strongest in the world besides their Great King.

These two decided to go and defect to the Baidou Sect Leader.

Eighth-Tier powerhouses themselves were of huge value; perhaps there was still a chance to avenge their Great King!

The two had flown no more than thirty breaths when two streaks of thunder light slashed over one after another. Caught off guard, the heads of the two Eighth-Tier experts, Ju Rong and Ju Sheng, were slashed off, and in an instant, they turned into charred remains.

Their primordial spirits flew out in terror, but before they could react, one person's primordial spirit was blasted into fly ash, and the other person's primordial spirit was captured alive by Xu Jin.

Xu Jin had already activated the Wenmeng star technique and began to interrogate them.

Xu Jin himself had not expected that he would encounter two Eighth-Tier aliens on the way to the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng.

Naturally, he slaughtered them while he was at it.

In a mere few breaths, Xu Jin had figured out the situation of the Eight Desolates Wang Cheng.

He also knew the state of the King of the Eight Desolates, Envoy Ju Zhang, and the fundamental reason why his Sumeru space did not appear after he was beheaded.

It turned out to be the reason for the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

It was very clear that Envoy Ju Zhang also knew that the general trend had gone.

The next instant, Xu Jin accelerated instantly; he didn't care about Envoy Ju Zhang.

But his Seven-Kill Iron Wood Sword had to be taken back!

Inside the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar of the Eight Desolates Royal Court.

The King of the Eight Desolates, Envoy Ju Zhang, whose residual god had just contacted his father, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo, was kowtowing respectfully to his father, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo, beneath the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

Because he was a residual god, this kowtow was also trembling.

But in the starry sky virtual shadow of the Ancestral Realm that the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar led to, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo's expression was exceptionally gloomy.

【Zhang'er, what has happened to you? What exactly has happened?】

【Father, your child is unfilial; now the mission has failed, and I have been completely defeated!】

【What?】 Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo exclaimed in shock. 【Didn't I let Xuan Hu go over to help you? There was also the Jin She Boom, and those divine path true meanings, as well as another Ninth-Tier expert, which could not only increase your combat power but also cause the number of Ninth-Tier experts under your command to explode.

With the Eight Desolates Golden Seal possessing the Holy Ancestor's aura and the Jin She Boom, even a Small Tianyang Xingjun could be killed.

That Kunling Domain is absolutely impossible to have a Small Tianyang Xingjun right now!

What kind of stupid thing have you done to fail the mission?】 On the other side, Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo's exclamation had turned into angry cursing!

【Father, your child is unfilial, and your child is also stupid; the might of the Eight Desolates Golden Seal had not yet been truly channeled when I was killed by the Seven-Kill successor.】

【You stupid... what did you say? You were killed?】 Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo was shocked and pale.

【Father, your child has already been beheaded, and only a wisp of residual god left in the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar has been spared! I only use this residual god to bid you farewell. If there is an afterlife, your child will definitely find a way to repay your upbringing!】 Envoy Ju Zhang cried blood.

【What?】

Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo was both shocked and angry. 【Envoy Ju Zhang, where is Xuan Hu? What is the situation in the Eight Desolates Continent now?】

【Father, Xuan Hu has already been beheaded. In the Eight Desolates Continent, there is no more reason to survive. All the Ninth-Tier experts are no match for that Seven-Kill successor. I estimate that my Eight Desolates Wang Cheng will fall soon, so I have come specifically to bid you farewell!】

【Zhang'er, don't be anxious, don't be anxious, let me think! I want to bring you back; even if it's a residual god, I will bring you back. The Holy Ancestor will definitely have a way to restore you.】 Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo said.

【Father, your child has no face to see you and the Holy Ancestor in the clan! I beg for your forgiveness!】

【Bastard, I am your father; did I allow you to die! Shut your mouth and listen to my arrangements!】 Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo's angry roar rang out inside the entire Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

Envoy Ju Zhang was slightly startled; under his father Tianyang Zhenjun Jin Shuo's strong pressure, he suddenly found a reason for himself to live.

But at the same instant, thunder light exploded, and the gate of the Golden Pillar Holy Palace was blasted to pieces in an instant.

Envoy Ju Zhang suddenly froze.

He understood that he had no chance anymore.

Silently, he bowed once more toward the giant virtual shadow inside the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar. 【Father, he has killed his way over; I am leaving. Father, take care; your child will miss you!】

Boom!

Almost at the same instant, Xu Jin, who had killed his way into the Golden Pillar Holy Palace, sensed Envoy Ju Zhang's residual god and, without any hesitation, blasted out thunder light in an instant.

This was the Eight Desolates Clan's Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar!

He had to be careful!

The thunder light merely flickered, and Envoy Ju Zhang's residual god completely vanished into smoke.

Xu Jin found Envoy Ju Zhang's Sumeru space at the first opportunity. The moment he began to pull it in rapidly, brilliance flashed wildly inside the Heaven-Connecting Golden Pillar.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 655 =====