Chapter 723

Cultivating with Universe Star Dew was fast, but it still required a certain amount of refining time.

Even for Xu Jin, thoroughly refining one drop of Universe Star Dew required three hours.

In a day, he could only refine four drops.

However, Xu Jin had just begun refining the third drop when the world authority he controlled suddenly rippled; within the Xiazhu Star Domain, changes had already occurred.

Inside the Domain Lord's Mansion of the Xiazhu Star Domain, a temporary star gate had appeared at some point.

And one figure after another began to step out from this temporary star gate like dumplings.

Each one was a Little Tianyang Xingjun.

The divine sense black hole that each Little Tianyang Xingjun brought to Xu Jin was stronger than Liu Liu Hongzhi's; even the weakest one was about the same as Liu Liu Hongzhi.

What shocked Xu Jin most was the quantity.

Regarding the number of reinforcements in this wave from the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion, Xu Jin had also made a rough judgment when he communicated with Yutang Prince Zhu Zhu Shizhen earlier.

Although the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion was strong, the Little Tianyang Xingjun-level power they could mobilize rapidly was only six or seven people.

At most, eight or nine.

But at this moment, Guan Xiaoxing Lords were coming out of this temporary star gate like dumplings, one after another.

In the blink of an eye, there were ten!

"My goodness, twelve now, and there's more?"

After a dozen breaths, no more figures stepped out of the temporary star gate, but the number of Tenth-Tier Guan Xiaoxing Lords who had stepped in had reached a staggering fifteen!

Even Xu Jin gasped at this number.

If he were surrounded—let alone surrounded by fifteen—even if he were surrounded by three or five, Xu Jin would be blasted into fly ash.

To tell the truth, it was only because he had eighty percent of the world authority in his hands, combined with the Spatial Shift star art, that he could be elusive, and the possibility of saving his life at a critical moment was relatively high.

Otherwise, Xu Jin would definitely have to run right now.

Just as Xu Jin was pondering, one of the leading Guan Xiaoxing Lords waved his hand, and a silver flag suddenly shot into the sky, instantly rushing out of the Xiazhu Star Domain and into the star river, then hanging high above the small world star domain of the Xiazhu Star Domain in the star river.

Waves of silver ripples descended like a great net, wrapping around the Xiazhu Star Domain.

If an expert were observing from the star river, they would discover that the Xiazhu Star Domain had been thoroughly shrouded by the starlight emitted by this small silver flag.

Almost the moment it was shrouded, the starlight of the two fixed star gates and the temporary star gate within the Xiazhu Star Domain all dimmed at the same instant.

Xu Jin, who held world authority, was extremely sensitive to all of this and discovered it in an instant.

The entire Xiazhu Star Domain had been blockaded!

Xu Jin's expression changed drastically.

His divine sense was activated in an instant, space fluctuated slightly, and his expression then improved.

Fortunately, it only blockaded the star gates and did not thoroughly suppress the spatial fluctuations of the entire Xiazhu Star Domain.

Otherwise, Xu Jin's strongest means would be useless.

After calming down, Xu Jin also reacted. Blockading the star gates of the Xiazhu Star Domain was easy, but blockading the spatial fluctuations of the entire Xiazhu Star Domain should be very, very difficult.

Even if a Tianyang Zhenjun came, they shouldn't be able to do it.

Sealing a portion of space was easy, but sealing the spatial fluctuations of an entire star domain was basically impossible.

Space was the foundation of everything.

If it were all sealed, then everything in this Xiazhu Star Domain would be nearly sealed and stagnant.

Xu Jin also understood the purpose of the other side doing this in an instant.

Just catching a turtle in a jar!

It seemed the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion was determined to get Xu Jin!

Even if that small silver flag controlling the star gates wasn't a Tianyang Zhenjun killing weapon, it was absolutely a top-tier Star Sovereign suppression artifact.

Fifteen Guan Xiaoxing Lords had crossed the border.

It seemed the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion was aware of the key to this battle in the Xiazhu Star Domain.

Mobilizing so much power, they must have come with the goal of certain victory.

Subsequently, Xu Jin discovered through world authority that the Tenth-Tier powerhouses of the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion had easily taken over the elite forces of the Domain Lord's Mansion and the Army Lord's Mansion, and began to send out elites in organized formations, searching for Xu Jin in a carpet-like manner.

At the same time, the fifteen Star Sovereigns, in teams of three, set out from the very center of the Xiazhu Star Domain and began to urge their divine senses, also starting a carpet-like search.

For a time, killing intent soared within the entire Xiazhu Star Domain.

Seeing this, Xu Jin, besides rejoicing in his own foresight, activated the star patterns related to the stealth star art, hid his aura, and continued to cultivate.

Now, under the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion's methods, the entire Xiazhu Star Domain had turned into a huge killing field.

Xu Jin simply wasn't in a hurry.

Before they found Xu Jin, he would convert these cultivation resources into strength as much as possible—if they could find Xu Jin.

Leaving a portion of his divine sense to sense the changes in all directions, Xu Jin focused wholeheartedly on refining the Universe Star Dew and improving his cultivation.

Inside the Domain Lord's Mansion of the Xiazhu Star Domain, Lu Sheng, a member of the Zhenjun Bixuan Lu clan who was presiding over this operation, looked gloomily at the heavy ministers and generals of the Xiazhu Star Domain who had surrendered.

"I won't discuss the three days you've already spent searching! I'll give you three more days; if you still can't find this Xu Jin, then you lot will be of no use, and you can wait to be dealt with by military law."

The next instant, Lu Sheng waved his hand, and the several Ninth-Tier heavy ministers and generals who had surrendered left one by one, their eyes unfocused and their bodies covered in cold sweat.

Their expressions were full of nothing but despair!

They had already mobilized the elite military forces of the entire Xiazhu Star Domain, totaling forty thousand.

Reasonably speaking, with forty thousand troops searching in a carpet-like manner, no one could hide.

But the problem was, they were searching for a mysterious existence who had mastered eighty percent of world authority and was also proficient in the Spatial Shift star art.

To put it bluntly, with the aid of eighty percent world authority, it was undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack for ordinary elite armies to find this person.

Three days?

Even if given ten more days, they might not be able to find him, unless the other party took the initiative to show themselves.

"Brother Lu, do you think this Xu Jin might have fled the Xiazhu Star Domain before we arrived?" Song Ju asked.

Having led people to search for three days without results, this made Song Ju, who was accustomed to bitter cultivation, very uncomfortable.

He felt like he was wasting time, which was why he asked.

"Absolutely impossible!"

Lu Sheng's expression was very firm, "Although it took us most of a day to assemble, before we arrived, there were Star Sovereigns watching the Xiazhu Star Domain from the star river, and it can be confirmed that no one left the Xiazhu Star Domain before we arrived.

In other words, that Xu Jin is hiding within this Xiazhu Star Domain."

"But if the other party hides and has world authority in hand, if they aren't willing to come out, I fear it will be very difficult to find them. Are we just going to keep dragging this out?" Song Ju said helplessly.

"No!" "Then there's a backup plan?" Song Ju's eyes suddenly brightened when he saw Lu Sheng so firm.

"Rest assured, before sending us, the Old Ancestor had already considered the worst-case scenario: that this fellow would rely on the power of world authority to hide somewhere and not come out, leaving us helpless.

When we came, the Old Ancestor already gave us a method to deal with it, but it requires some time to prepare." Lu Sheng said.

Hearing this, Song Ju finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If this really continued, let alone a month or two, even a year or two might not be enough to achieve success.

That would be too much of a waste of time.

"Brother Lu, about how much longer will it take? Do you need my help?"

"It's hard to say. The formation has already been laid, but when we can activate the formation requires waiting for that person to arrive here through the star river." As he spoke, Lu Sheng pointed to the sky.

Song Ju understood in an instant; Lu Sheng meant that there were experts cooperating in the star river outside the Xiazhu Star Domain.

Thinking about it, it made sense. To suppress the world authority of a small world star domain, let alone a Star Sovereign, even an ordinary Star Sovereign couldn't do it without the cooperation of a secret formation.

"However, it's best if we can find him through manpower; the consumption of activating that secret formation is still very large."

As he spoke, Lu Sheng waved his hand, and the spiritual map of the Xiazhu Star Domain appeared before the two of them, "Brother Song, we have searched most of the Xiazhu Star Domain these past few days. I searched on the ground and discovered that the places where this fellow could hide are the mountains, rivers, and lakes.

The terrain there is complex and has depth, so even divine sense searching isn't very thorough.

So I think for these next few days of searching, we Tenth-Tier Star Sovereigns should focus on these mountains, rivers, and lakes as our main targets, and we must use divine sense to search on the ground.

Under these circumstances, there is a very high probability of searching out the target.

As long as the other party reveals their figure once, they will be bitten to death by us!

Then, we can complete the mission as quickly as possible."

"It should be so. I'll take people to continue." After speaking, Song Ju turned and left.

Lu Sheng looked at Song Ju's departing back, his gaze sinking slightly.

It was only because this Song Ju had super strength that he was worth his polite instructions.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Reality, however, was much crueler than expected.

Not a single trace of what Lu Sheng had expected was discovered.

However, Lu Sheng did not break his word.

He really started killing!

For every day he couldn't find Xu Jin, he would execute one Ninth-Tier surrendered general.

Until he found Xu Jin!

The heavy ministers and generals who had surrendered in the entire Xiazhu Star Domain looked at their executed colleagues, and some already regretted it.

But regret was useless now.

Moreover, the ones who took the lead in surrendering were the Domain Lord and the Army Lord; it wasn't up to them to decide.

One could only say, this was fate!

Deep underground in the southern mountain range, when Xu Jin finished refining the last drop of Universe Star Dew, it was already the ninth day since the fifteen Guan Xiaoxing Lords of the Zhenjun Bixuan Tianyang Zhenjun Mansion had descended.

Within these nine days, this mountain range area had been searched four times.

Xu Jin even recognized the searchers twice.

It was the top-tier genius Song Ju, who had been the first in the selection ten years ago.

The most dangerous time was when Xu Jin's place of secluded cultivation was discovered.

This Song Ju directly discovered the karst cave where Xu Jin was cultivating and even led two Tenth-Tier Guan Xiaoxing Lords deep into the cave, but they left in the end with no gains.

It wasn't that Xu Jin hadn't been discovered right under their noses.

It was that before they arrived, Xu Jin had already cleared away the traces and left via spatial shift in advance.

Aided by world authority, the spatial shift fluctuations were minimal.

After they left, Xu Jin shifted back to continue cultivating.

After playing hide-and-seek like this twice, Xu Jin finally finished refining all thirty-seven drops of Universe Star Dew.

Xu Jin's cultivation had advanced greatly once more.

Looking inward, around Xu Jin's Heavenly Cloud Tower, eight star towers stood like guards; the Spatial Zhai Xing Lou was sixty-five layers high, the thunder-type star tower was thirty-two layers high, the wood-type star tower was thirty-three layers high, and the other star towers were all twenty-one layers.

The Spatial Zhai Xing Lou didn't have much change, and the growth of the other star towers didn't look like much either.

However, the total number of layers added to the star towers was as high as one hundred and eleven.

On the surface, the combat power improvement didn't look large.

But if he used the eight-systems-in-one chaotic Dao-protecting killing move, its power had increased exponentially.

Originally, the shortest-board star tower only had three layers, so the maximum number of layers for the eight-systems-in-one star tower was twenty-four.

But now, the shortest board was twenty-one layers, an increase of six times compared to before.

After the eight-systems-in-one, the number of star tower layers directly surged to one hundred and sixty-eight, seven times what it was before.

This growth amplitude could absolutely increase the power of Xu Jin's Great Dao of Spatial Laws by two times.

It could be said that this chaotic Dao-protecting killing move could be considered truly successful at this very moment.

But the specific power still needed to be tested in actual combat.

"Since they haven't discovered me yet, then I'll continue cultivating! It would be best if they gave me time to also cultivate the divine ability, the Taixu Questioning Heart Platform, prepared for me by my master, before dealing with them."

At this thought, Xu Jin took out the treasure prepared for him by Emperor Master Fenghua for cultivating the divine ability Taixu Questioning Heart Platform and set about cultivating this divine ability.

As long as this divine ability was cultivated, his certainty of survival would be even greater.

By then, Xu Jin could even take the initiative to attack!

At the same time, the starlight on the Eastern Profound Token of Lu Sheng, who was sitting in the Domain Lord's Mansion, suddenly flickered.

After just one glance, a hint of joy flashed in Lu Sheng's gloomy eyes, and he immediately sent a starlight message, 【Lord Qu, have you arrived already?】

【Arrived.】

【Lord Qu, then can I start activating the formation?】 Lu Sheng asked.

【Hmm, prepare to use the secret method to activate the formation and draw my power to suppress the world authority of the Xiazhu Star Domain. Contact me again when you succeed in activating the formation with the secret method.】

【Good!】

(End of this chapter)