Chapter 716: The most powerful point of Thunder-type Star Arts lies in their explosive damage to the flesh and their off-the-charts d

Whether you are a Primordial Spirit or a Dao Embryo, one strike of thunder, amidst the sizzling electric light, results in either being reduced to ashes or suffering heavy damage.

It can quickly lock in victory and end the battle.

Unlike Five-Element Star Power, except for special Star Arts, the damage of other Star Arts to the divine soul is very limited.

Therefore, Xu Jin solved Army Lord Wei Song's twenty-two die-hard confidants in just one and a half breaths.

For most of them, as the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain swung continuously, their flesh and divine souls were reduced to ashes and green smoke one after another.

The extra half-breath was wasted on the leader, Wei Han.

Ninth Tier late-stage Wei Han, although not a genius-level talent, had the cultivation base there and managed to withstand Xu Jin's Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain, but that was all he did—withstand it.

Xu Jin casually threw a Running Thunder Slash, and he was reduced to dust.

Xu Jin could kill Ninth Tier at Seventh Tier middle-stage; now Xu Jin was a genuine Eighth Tier peak.

An Eighth Tier peak of peerless genius level.

The reason it was said that the Eighth Tier peak path had only just begun was simply Xu Jin's own peerless genius path.

In a flash, the Intent-Eroding Soul-Locking Star Art had already sealed Army Lord Wei Song's Dao Embryo from the inside out, like knitting a sweater, tightly.

Without Xu Jin's permission, he couldn't even speak.

His face and eyes were filled only with terror and despair.

Then he was thrown into the Sumi Space by Xu Jin.

The Mingji Star Pattern dispersed, and the three Tenth Tier Guan Xiaoxing Lords who were flying rapidly toward here were less than fifteen hundred miles away from Xu Jin.

Because in Xu Jin's divine soul sensing, they were like black holes, and he couldn't sense the strength of their power at all.

But when they flew into the sensing range of Xu Jin's Mingji Star Pattern, the sensing black hole brought about by their own aura could, to a certain extent, allow Xu Jin to roughly judge their strength.

That was the size of this sensing black hole.

Among the three Guan Xiaoxing Lords, the strongest one brought a sensing black hole nearly three times the size of the weakest Small Tianyang Xingjun.

"The strongest among the Tenth Tier Guan Xiaoxing Lords?"

Thinking of this, Xu Jin suddenly changed his mind.

Xu Jin's initial idea was to ambush and kill Army Lord Wei Song, then use Space Star Arts to ambush these three Guan Xiaoxing Lords, catching them off guard to expand the battle results, but now Xu Jin felt it was better to play it safe.

There was no need to risk an ambush.

Strengthen his power first.

In Army Lord Wei Song's hands, there was 30% of the Heaven and Earth Authority of the Xiazhu Star Domain.

Now that Wei Song's Dao Embryo had been captured alive, in no time, Xu Jin would be able to obtain this 30% Heaven and Earth Authority, increasing his combat power by at least 30%.

If the Heaven and Earth Authority was used well, the combat power increase in actual combat would be even greater.

Fire light condensed, then exploded instantly, and the terrifying Fire-type Star Power rippled toward all directions, instantly destroying most of the star power fluctuations from the previous exchange.

Xu Jin took a step and disappeared into the void instantly.

A thousand miles away, Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi, who was flying rapidly, suddenly frowned, vaguely sensing obscure star power fluctuations coming from directly ahead.

To be able to sense it vaguely from such a distance, the star power fluctuations at the scene must be super strong.

He immediately sent a starlight transmission to Army Lord Wei Song using the Dongxuan Token, but there was no response.

"Fast, speed up! Wei Song might be in trouble." Liu Hongzhi shouted, immediately leading the two Guan Xiaoxing Lords to fly at full speed, no longer hiding their aura, and their speed increased by 50% instantly.

Fifty breaths later, Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi was the first to arrive at the scene below the star gate, his face becoming incomparably ugly in an instant, and his vast divine sense immediately scattered in all directions.

A few breaths later, He Jian and Ji An arrived one after another and also began to search in all directions.

The battlefield had clearly been cleaned, and they needed to judge the battle situation from the remaining traces.

Especially under the current circumstances, Army Lord Wei Song had already lost contact.

"Liu Xingjun, I found some remains with residual Thunder-type Star Power; the target's Thunder-type Star Art is very strong."

"Liu Xingjun, I found two fragments of spirit armor; on them, there is the residual aura of Army Lord Wei Song. It can be confirmed that Wei Song has met with trouble.

Either he was killed or captured alive."

Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi frowned tightly, having just returned from probing from afar, he sensed the residual spatial fluctuations.

The enemy is very strong!

From the time Army Lord Wei Song reported the situation to their discovery that Wei Song had lost contact, it was only about ten breaths of time.

In ten breaths, cleanly killing an Army Lord with Tenth Tier Small Tianyang Xingjun combat power, plus two Ninth Tier and twenty Eighth Tier—it seems the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion's combat power is very strong.

The reinforcements might not be just one Small Tianyang Xingjun.

"The incoming enemy is very strong; you all must keep your spirits up, lest you fall into their trap."

While cautiously reminding them, Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi immediately contacted his direct superior, the Xiji Tianyang Xingjun, in an emergency.

This matter had to be reported.

Although for now, he was still confident in dealing with the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion's reinforcements.

However, letting the superior know the true difficulty of the event, or slightly exaggerating the difficulty—even if he couldn't get more rewards, reporting more battle damage was also possible.

At the very least, the credit would be a bit more.

On this point, Liu Hongzhi was clear.

Xiazhu Star Domain, Xu Jin's figure shifted one by one above the five sealed mineral veins, sensing carefully after each, then disappearing.

These five mineral veins sealed for a hundred years that could produce Star Crystals were also Xu Jin's main targets this time.

If he obtained this batch of Star Crystals, the progress of Xu Jin's ultimate Eighth Tier peak path could be accelerated by a notch.

If they had already been unsealed and the Star Crystals mined, then Xu Jin would have to change his action plan now.

Once this stuff was transported out of the Xiazhu Star Domain, the possibility of getting it back would be infinitely close to zero!

As long as it was within the Xiazhu Star Domain, Xu Jin still had room to get his hands on it.

After all, due to the limitations of the Heaven and Earth rules, within a complete small world star domain, only Tenth Tier Guan Xiaoxing Lords could enter; those with cultivation bases exceeding this who wanted to enter would either have to abolish their cultivation or, as Zhu Linxiao had said before, come by controlling vessels with their Dao Embryos.

But that risk was not ordinary.

At this very moment, Xu Jin was relieved to confirm that the five sealed mineral veins were safe.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin shifted ten thousand miles away, found a relatively hidden location, activated the Stealth Star Art to hide his aura, and at the first opportunity, released the Dao Embryo of the captured Army Lord Wei Song.

In Wei Song's terrified gaze, Xu Jin's palm covered Wei Song's Dao Embryo directly and instantly activated the Warm Dream Star Pattern.

Xu Jin's current divine soul cultivation was only one step away from the Dao Embryo late-stage, and his Dao Embryo was five feet tall, while Wei Song's Dao Embryo was barely at the early stage.

The advantage of divine soul cultivation was still very great.

Under the overwhelming advantage, the Warm Dream interrogation went very smoothly.

Many of the answers Xu Jin wanted were basically obtained.

The situation in the Xiazhu Star Domain was even worse than Xu Jin had imagined, but it was within the expectations of Yutang Prince Zhu Shizhen.

Perhaps it was a case of knowing one's own affairs.

Yutang Prince Zhu Shizhen knew the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion's current predicament too well, so he made the judgment that both the Army Lord and Domain Lord of the Xiazhu Star Domain might betray them.

It really was.

It was Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing who first defected to the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion.

That's right, the one who came to recruit them was indeed Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi of the Xiji Tianyang Xingjun's mansion, but behind the Xiji Tianyang Xingjun's mansion was the indication of the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion.

Otherwise, neither Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing nor Army Lord Wei Song could have betrayed the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion because of a Xiji Tianyang Xingjun's mansion.

If that were truly the case, their brains wouldn't be quite right.

Although the Xiji Tianyang Xingjun's mansion was in the limelight, it wasn't worth them selling out their old employer to join. The specific situation was that Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing and Army Lord Wei Song, because of the Heaven and Earth Authority, had both discovered the invaders.

While the two were meeting to discuss, Wei Song was surrounded by three Guan Xiaoxing Lords and Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing.

It was Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing who used his own Heaven and Earth Authority to cover the aura of these three, causing Wei Song to fall into an ambush.

One path was for the soul to fly away and scatter, the other path was to live well and gain great benefits, especially since the Xiji Tianyang Xingjun's mansion brought the sincerity of the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion.

It made him surrender on the spot.

Originally, Small Liu Xingjun Hongzhi wanted him to hand over the Heaven and Earth Authority, at least 20%.

But at the critical moment, he obtained the joint support of Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing.

Permanently retaining the Heaven and Earth Authority of this star domain became the condition for their surrender.

Thus, Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing and Army Lord Wei Song's Heaven and Earth Authority were retained.

This was also one of their means of self-preservation.

Otherwise, what if the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion slaughtered the donkey after the millstone was used?

As long as they held the Heaven and Earth Authority, the two working together, being careful, and with the home-field advantage, even five or six Guan Xiaoxing Lords wouldn't be able to kill them.

And in the future, there was a possibility of truly breaking through to Small Tianyang Xingjun.

Because one of the prices offered by the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion this time was the Evolution Pearl!

And it was one Evolution Pearl at the Tianyang Xingjun level for each person, to help them evolve and break through.

Besides this, there was another price that Xu Jin was quite looking forward to.

Letting an Army Lord guarding a small world star domain defect naturally couldn't be done with ordinary Evolution Pearls.

Evolution Pearls were precious, but whether one could break through still depended on personal talent and luck.

They could be considered floating wealth.

Therefore, the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion also gave Zhou Tian Star Dew.

The hardness of Zhou Tian Star Dew as a hard currency was reflected here.

To buy off an Army Lord, if you smashed out one or two hundred Seven-Star Profound Yellow Pills, people would only throw them in your face.

People would only consider it an insult.

But Zhou Tian Star Dew wouldn't.

Because many precious spirit materials, treasure materials, and even innate spirit materials and treasure materials, besides barter, only accepted Zhou Tian Star Dew for transactions.

"Do you have anything to say?" Xu Jin looked at the terrified and sluggish Army Lord Wei Song and said.

Wei Song paused and said bitterly, "Who exactly are you? Your combat power is so strong; why have I never heard of you before?"

"Xu Jin, a devotee of the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion."

"When did this happen? I've never heard of it?"

"Three months ago."

Hearing this, Army Lord Wei Song murmured, "Three months ago, three months ago!

Why?

Why!" As he murmured, Wei Song's expression even had a sense of falling into madness.

"What why?" Xu Jin was puzzled.

"To have a devotee as strong as you?

Why didn't Zhu Shizhen say so earlier!

Why didn't he say so earlier!

Is his brain full of shit?

If he had said earlier that there was a devotee as strong as you, how could we have had such thoughts!

How could there be today!" Wei Song roared!

"Is this your reason for betraying the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion?

In the records, your parents died early, and you were almost eaten out of house and home. It was the nursing homes established by the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion in various star domains that saved you, and then cultivated you to practice. You performed excellently and rose through the ranks until you became an Army Lord.

Should the weak be betrayed?

According to you, the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion shouldn't have saved and cultivated you back then?" Xu Jin sneered.

Army Lord Wei Song was stunned instantly.

The next instant, thunder light sprayed from Xu Jin's palm, and the sizzling thunder light quickly blasted Wei Song's Dao Embryo into ashes.

At the same instant, Xu Jin's vast divine sense surged out, and at the first opportunity, he discovered the Heaven and Earth Authority of the Xiazhu Star Domain refined by Wei Song, locking and sealing it instantly.

An Earth-type Ninth Tier natal spirit treasure with a dissipated divine soul aura floated out, which was also collected and sealed by Xu Jin casually.

Natal spirit treasures—this stuff could not be refined into one's own natal spirit treasure.

There were only two uses.

One was to refine and dismantle a small amount of spirit materials or treasure materials; being able to restore two or three percent was already considered a lot.

The second was to refine it into a Ninth Tier spirit treasure.

Xu Jin had already decided to refine Wei Song's natal spirit treasure, as well as the natal spirit treasure of Lu Huang he had harvested earlier, into Ninth Tier spirit treasures.

Next time he returned to the Kunling Domain, he would bring them back and reward them.

That would surely become the town-sect spirit treasure of the Star Dome Holy Temple.

On this point, it was much more generous than the previous Extreme Dao Emperor.

The previous Extreme Dao Emperor, the so-called inheritance spirit treasures left to the Four Great Star Temples, were only Eight-Star low-grade spirit treasures.

A breath later, Xu Jin pulled out Army Lord Wei Song's Sumi Space.

The moment he pulled it out and his divine sense sank in, his expression was one of joy.

The life-buying money given to Army Lord Wei Song by the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion was still quite generous.

Besides the expected one Evolution Pearl at the Tianyang Xingjun level, what surprised Xu Jin was the amount of Zhou Tian Star Dew in Wei Song's Sumi Space.

Seven drops!

There were actually seven drops!

In the previous Warm Dream interrogation, Wei Song said the life-buying money given by the Bixuan Zhenjun's mansion was five drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew.

Among them, three drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew were paid off at once, and then regardless of whether Wei Song broke through to Small Tianyang Xingjun or not, he would be given two drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew every year thereafter, allowing Wei Song to directly enjoy the treatment of a Great Tianyang Xingjun.

A total of five drops.

This time, it was seven drops.

It seemed there were two drops that Wei Song had accumulated.

Of course, this was also very normal.

According to Yutang Prince Zhu Shizhen, the Yutang Zhenjun's mansion gave these Domain Lords and Army Lords one drop of Zhou Tian Star Dew every two years, even if their cultivation base hadn't reached Small Tianyang Xingjun.

Two drops—Wei Song would have them after saving for four years.

Especially with the Ninth Tier peak cultivation base, where the cultivation base couldn't be improved, naturally, they would be saved.

This wave, however, was cheap for Xu Jin.

Seven drops—not a small amount.

This made Xu Jin think of Domain Lord Viceroy Fang Ziqing Ziqing, who had also been bought off; the Zhou Tian Star Dew in that fellow's hands should also start at five drops, right?

Besides the seven drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew, the remaining harvest was mostly not worth mentioning: there were over two hundred Eighth Tier Star Jade Tablets, and only seven Ninth Tier Star Crystals, not enough for one of Xu Jin's cultivation sessions.

However, with Zhou Tian Star Dew, this harvest had already exceeded expectations.

The next instant, Xu Jin disappeared on the spot.

Go refine the Heaven and Earth Authority first, then contact the Master!

(End of chapter) **Chapter 717: Exposure**

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