Chapter 72: Life-Saving Divine Skill

"Third Tier Snake Spirit? Worship?"

The extra information on the Arena jade plate made Xu Jin very puzzled.

Holding the idea of giving it a try, with a thought, Xu Jin directly collected this green snake star core, which had just arrived and was still hot, into the Arena.

With a flash of light, this green snake star core appeared above the Arena.

But the position where it appeared was—under the worship table at the very front of the Arena!

Isn't it worship?

Why did it run under the worship table?

Xu Jin was surprised, and focused his mind on the green snake star core under the worship table. In an instant, pieces of information surged into Xu Jin's mind, making Xu Jin understand the usage immediately.

【Worshiped Spiritual Object 1: Third Tier Low-Grade Snake Spirit, consume one wisp of starlight to obtain or replace the spiritual object's protection. Inject full Star Power to activate, can explode the current spiritual object's peak strongest blow, accompanied by a slight Spirit-Soul attack; after the explosion, the spiritual object disappears.】

【Obtainable protection: Spirit-Sniffing Star Pattern, Concealment Star Pattern】

These lines of information made Xu Jin unable to help but show joy.

This was allowing him to obtain an extra star pattern ability. According to Xu Jin's understanding, it was a bit like a passive skill.

Not only that, he also obtained another means of saving his life, which was injecting full Star Power to explode—this was a one-time deal.

After using it, this thing would disappear, but at a critical moment, it was also a skill to save his life.

The key was that the cost-effectiveness of this Third Tier Snake Spirit was higher than the Star Pattern; at least it didn't make his heart ache as much when consuming it.

Ning Ning Yuchan's Blade-Spinning Pattern was four thousand taels on the market.

And this kind of star beast star core was only between one thousand and two thousand taels on the market.

Of course, the power should be worse than the Blade-Spinning Pattern.

Not bad.

The functions of this Arena were making Xu Jin more and more pleasantly surprised.

It was just that he didn't know what kind of surprises it would bring to Xu Jin in the future.

And this was just Worshiped Spiritual Object 1.

The Second Tier Arena could worship Spiritual Object 2.

Worshiping a spiritual object allowed Xu Jin to obtain a star pattern, so what about upgrading the Arena to Third Tier, Fourth Tier in the future?

The two star patterns obtained currently were passive skills, so would there be active skills in the future?

【Spirit-Sniffing Star Pattern: Enhanced perception of environmental changes, extremely sensitive to changes in smell and temperature】

【Concealment Star Pattern: Can collect all life aura, as long as you are stationary, it is extremely difficult to be perceived; if you walk slowly, the effect is reduced; if you run fast, the effect is lost】

The two star patterns brought by the Third Tier Snake Spirit were another wave of surprises.

These two star patterns could be called life-saving divine skills.

One is to discover hidden dangers, and the other is to hide one's own aura, which is very practical.

But the pity was that he could only use one, or replace it with another.

Thinking about it, Xu Jin injected a wisp of starlight without hesitation and chose the 'Spirit-Sniffing Star Pattern'.

Almost at the same time he chose to obtain the protection of the Spirit-Sniffing Star Pattern, a strange feeling surged through his whole body. After sneezing, Xu Jin discovered that his perception of the surrounding environment was completely different.

Suddenly, Xu Jin leaped back a step.

Damn.

On the vine above his head, a dark green spider was swaying and pouncing on Xu Jin; he hadn't discovered it before.

This thing could be slapped to death with one palm, but Xu Jin was just disgusted by this thing.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin's face was a bit bitter.

This perception being too sharp was also not good.

Before, Xu Jin felt that this patch of grass was pure grass.

But now, he discovered hundreds of insects, and mice that Xu Jin was even more disgusted by.

These were all bad habits left over from his previous life. His mother had told a story she witnessed with her own eyes: a rural woman was working in the fields, and at that time, everyone wore loose trousers. Suddenly, a scream, she grabbed her inner thigh tightly with both hands, and it went stiff.

After a lot of effort, they pried her hands open and found a crushed mouse in her large trousers near her inner thigh.

After that woman woke up, her spirit was a bit abnormal.

Since then, she had left behind the habit of being disgusted by mice.

Besides discovering all kinds of small animals, Xu Jin also smelled dozens of auras.

What was strange was that Xu Jin could actually distinguish the category of the owner of these auras roughly through these auras.

There were snakes, leopards, night owls, and even more snake-like ones.

Humans?

Suddenly, one of the auras he smelled made Xu Jin frown slightly.

Here, there were auras left by humans passing by, and there was more than one?

Senior and junior brothers from the Daoist Academy had come here, but hadn't discovered the Star-Fragment Mushrooms here?

Or?

It must be said that this Spirit-Sniffing Star Pattern obtained this time made Xu Jin's early warning ability for dangers in the wild even stronger.

Unlike before, relying entirely on the naked eye to search.

Traces can be hidden, but smell and body temperature are extremely difficult to hide.

True divine skill.

Looking at the Third Tier green snake spirit under the Arena's worship table, Xu Jin suddenly laughed dumbly.

This is already under the worship table, and it is taken and given, and it can be exploded and disappeared immediately. Is this worship?

The art of language!

After grabbing some fresh snake meat for dinner, Xu Jin placed all the Star-Fragment Mushrooms under the star lamps to nurture before leaving. The pine-moss grass he had placed in earlier had all turned into one-star after a day and night of nurturing, and the two one-star sprigs had developed very dense, faintly swirling starlight, meaning they should have become two-star pine-moss grass.

This was also completely normal.

This is because ordinary pine-moss grass is generally one year old, one-star is ten years old, and two-star is twenty years old.

Theoretically, nourishing for a day and a night, ordinary ones upgrade to one-star, and one-star upgrades to two-star.

But if you want to upgrade two-star to three-star, it is estimated that it will take four or five days.

Because three-star pine-moss grass is fifty years old.

One night passed without words, deep mountains and old forests, the Star-Plucking Token was out of service area, besides cultivation, there was nothing else to do.

Hard cultivation, hard cultivation!

Early on the morning of July 10th, after finishing his morning cultivation, Xu Jin carried the incomparably heavy snake skin and rushed to the nearest supply point on the map.

After several days of hard cultivation in the Star Lamp, Xu Jin's Flying Fei Xing Bu had already reached great success.

Without relying on physical strength, exploding the Flying Fei Xing Bu in place, he could leap ten meters upward and jump twenty meters forward.

Relying on physical strength, he could leap thirteen or fourteen meters upward and jump nearly thirty meters forward.

This made Xu Jin's efficiency in crossing mountains and traveling increase exponentially.

The supply point that originally took two hours to reach, Xu Jin only spent one hour to reach.

This is the outermost supply point of the Hu Jinshan Daoist Academy in the hinterland of the Great Green Mountain.

Guarding here is Zheng Jiaoxi of the Forging Hall, with tendons and muscles all over, black and strong like a large water buffalo, standing there, very conspicuous.

From afar, Zheng Jiaoxi discovered Xu Jin.

After seeing clearly the large pile of snake skin with scales carried by Xu Jin, Zheng Jiaoxi was taken aback.

He flashed over like lightning, took over the snake skin carried by Xu Jin, and said in surprise, "You kid, encountered a star beast? A green snake at the early stage of star-forging, why didn't you call for rescue? Any injuries?"

While asking continuously, Zheng Jiaoxi looked Xu Jin up and down, put his hand on his shoulder, and sensed it with Star Power, "Eh, only suffered light injuries, and they are almost healed? You kid killed it alone?"

Xu Jin nodded.

"Powerful, even if you used some treasure, it counts as having courage, and hunting such a big guy is not a loss."

Zheng Jiaoxi nodded while praising.

Xu Jin could also hear that Zheng Jiaoxi meant he should have used a life-saving pattern. Xu Jin didn't

Subsequently, Zheng Jiaoxi took out his Star-Picking Token and quickly identified and recorded Xu Jin's harvest, which Xu Jin found somewhat surprising.

"Eh, Zheng Jiaoxi, can your Star-Picking Token be used here?" Xu Jin asked, only realizing he had spoken out of turn; after all, the fact that he could use a Star-Picking Token while only at the fifth layer of the Meal of Mist Realm had not yet been exposed.

Zheng Jiaoxi, who was counting Xu Jin's harvest, did not notice this point; perhaps in their view, the Star-Picking Token was a very normal thing.

"It can't be used; mine is a two-star Star-Picking Token. Here, a Star-Picking Token must reach three stars to be used. But it can still be used to count and record harvest values, which is most convenient and very fair, preventing all possibilities of cheating."

Zheng Jiaoxi said while counting, "You kid have quite a harvest. Damn, so many one-star pine-moss grass; did you find the grandmother of all pine-moss grass?"

"And there are two-star ones too; you kid are impressive."

"This stone-awn also has one-star ones; not bad."

"But when placing these, they should be stacked so the corners aren't easily damaged."

"You didn't preserve this snake gallbladder well enough. Next time, things like snake gallbladders should be wrapped separately, and the fangs too."

Xu Jin discovered that this Zheng Jiaoxi was a chatterbox.

Since he arrived, his mouth hadn't stopped.

A chatterbox Blackie.

Fortunately, he only needed to listen and nod, otherwise his mouth would have gone dry.

"What about the snake blood? You didn't bring back the snake blood?" Zheng Jiaoxi's voice suddenly rose.

"I didn't have a suitable container..." Xu Jin felt a bit awkward.

"Remember to bring more water skins next time. A catty of snake blood is worth at least twenty taels of silver."

"Your pine-moss grass, stone-awn, snake gallbladder, and snake fangs total 1,600 taels of silver. This scaly snake skin, over a meter wide and ten meters long, is well-preserved and valued at 2,100 taels. A day and a half's harvest is 3,700 taels; you kid are not bad."

Suddenly, Zheng Jiaoxi froze, "Feel like something is missing?"

"Right, the star core, where is the star beast's star core? That's a valuable item! It's your first time killing one, don't tell me you forgot to extract the star core?" Zheng Jiaoxi urged.

Xu Jin was just worrying about how to answer when Zheng Jiaoxi had already found the answer for him.

"You melon-headed kid, that third-tier low-grade star core is worth at least 1,500 taels. Go quickly, go find it in the snake carcass."

Xu Jin spread his hands helplessly, "I killed it last night, and when I came over this morning, the snake carcass was gone. It was probably eaten by wild beasts."

"Sigh, you melon-headed kid, no experience!" Zheng Jiaoxi sighed and returned the empty backpack to Xu Jin.

"Be careful, stay vigilant. Blood God Sect demons have appeared, and two disciples have already been harmed." Before leaving, Zheng Jiaoxi suddenly reminded him solemnly.

"Right, I feel your harvest volume could challenge the top twenty of the harvest leaderboard. The rewards for the top twenty are quite good," Zheng Jiaoxi said.

Xu Jin, who was about to leave, suddenly turned back and asked, "Zheng Jiaoxi, what is my current ranking?"

"According to the information received by the Star-Picking Token when I took over this morning, the first place is Wang Wang Weisheng with a harvest of 4,600 taels, and the twentieth place is 3,100 taels, but that was the morning's quantity; it has definitely exceeded that by now.

If you work hard, you should be able to do it," Zheng Jiaoxi said.

"Okay, I will work hard, thank you Zheng Jiaoxi!"

Watching Xu Jin quickly distance himself, Zheng Jiaoxi suddenly shouted loudly and urgently, "Remember, safety first, safety first!"

(End of chapter)