Chapter 737: Choice

June 16th, Xu Jin was still waiting for the detailed investigation results from Zhu Linxiao, but he was first met by Tianyang Xingjun Xiji, Liu Xi.

Tianyang Xingjun Xiji was naturally here to visit and trade for the West Wind Chaos-Empty Banner.

The trading process was very simple, and Xu Jin did not even show his face.

This was also out of consideration for hiding his strength slightly.

Since the great battle in the Xiazhu Star Domain, the situation of the residence of True Person Yutang had changed greatly; previously, they lost control of one or two small world star domains every month on average, but now the trend of loss had basically stopped, and the attention of all parties in the star realm toward the declining residence of True Person Yutang had triggered a small climax.

At the same time, the residence of True Person Yutang was also collecting the reactions of all parties in the star realm, including the overall evaluation of the great battle in the Xiazhu Star Domain.

What made Xu Jin happy was that the analysis of the great battle in the Xiazhu Star Domain circulating from all parties in the star realm, including major True Person residences, more or less weakened Xu Jin's weight.

Of course, Xu Jin was a key figure in this battle; that point hadn't changed.

But the role played had changed.

Originally, the truth of the battle was that Xu Jin obtained the blessing of Heaven and Earth Authority and then directly decided the outcome.

But in the extremely rational and reasonable analysis of all parties, Xu Jin created the battle opportunity and was the main force, but the one who truly completed the rapid absolute kill was the Tianyang Xingjun Zhu Linxiao, who entered with a Dao-Fetus artifact.

There was even a reasonable inference that Zhu Linxiao refined a portion of the Heaven and Earth Authority and then entered with a Dao-Fetus artifact, completing the absolute kill with Xu Jin's help.

Regarding Xu Jin's performance, the mainstream view was that Xu Jin's combat power was about the same as a Little Tianyang Xingjun who evolved two law Daos; with the help of Heaven and Earth Authority, he could kill ordinary Guan Xiaoxing Lords and could confront top Guan Xiaoxing Lords like Song Ju, but could not defeat them.

Of course, there were also individuals who believed that Xu Jin had the combat power to defeat Song Ju by relying on the power of Heaven and Earth Authority.

Xu Jin was very happy with these judgments.

Hiding some strength was still quite good.

So Xu Jin also deliberately cooperated with their reasonable analysis.

When trading the West Wind Chaos-Empty Banner, he let Zhu Linxiao and Zhu Shizhen go, and Xu Jin didn't show his face at all.

However, when Yutang King Zhu Shizhen sent the traded materials sent by Tianyang Xingjun Xiji, Liu Xi, it still made Xu Jin beam with joy.

Recently, there had been a continuous harvest, and another batch of cultivation materials had arrived.

Twenty drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew.

Spatial treasure material: Rift-Empty Butterfly Wings; Thunder-attribute treasure material: Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu.

This was the treasure Liu Xi used to exchange for the West Wind Chaos-Empty Banner; how to put it, there was no perfunctoriness at all.

Of course, it wasn't that Tianyang Xingjun Xiji, Liu Xi, didn't want to be perfunctory, but spatial and Thunder-attribute treasure materials were extremely rare to begin with, and now, with the urgent time, it was good enough to be able to purchase them; there was no opportunity to find something similar to make up the numbers.

Rift-Empty Butterfly Wings were the wings of a rare spatial alien race, carrying the power to shatter the void, and had a high compatibility with the Shatter-Empty Law that Xu Jin had already evolved, making them very practical.

Thunder wood was relatively common, but Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu was extremely rare.

Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu referred to strange wood that still existed after being struck by lightning at least nine times, usually found in deep mountains and old forests, and was extremely hard to find.

The Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu in front of him had already crystallized; when his divine sense sank in, the surging thunder power contained within rushed toward him, and what was even more strange was that within the thunder, there was actually a wisp of vitality, which made it even more precious and also a top-grade Thunder-attribute treasure material.

"Brother-in-law, knowing that you want to forge a life-bound spiritual treasure, I have been asking people to search in various star realms recently, but unfortunately, the current financial resources of the residence of True Person Yutang are limited, and I only managed to get one Thunder-attribute treasure material, Cloud Thunder Essence Soul, for now. You keep it first, and I will continue to have people search." While speaking, Yutang King Zhu Shizhen handed over a light cluster covered in heavy seals.

"Many thanks!"

Xu Jin didn't stand on ceremony either and accepted it directly.

This was the treasure material Zhu Shizhen had promised to provide to Xu Jin initially; the original promises were now all being fulfilled one by one.

After Yutang King Zhu Shizhen left, Xu Jin began to take stock and ponder.

Refining a life-bound spiritual treasure was extremely complex; it wasn't like you could just pile a bunch of treasure materials together and it would be done.

It was classified into three categories: main, auxiliary, and collaborative.

Theoretically, any type of treasure material could be used as the main material for a life-bound spiritual treasure, but usually, the main material needed sufficient inclusiveness, and its characteristics couldn't be too strong or too single; otherwise, it would limit the later growth of the life-bound spiritual treasure.

The requirements for auxiliary materials were relatively simple; it was best if they complemented the main material, which yielded the best effect.

Collaborative treasure materials basically had no restrictions; their main role was to enhance the power of the life-bound spiritual treasure.

Therefore, when refining a life-bound spiritual treasure, the choice of main material was the most important, auxiliary material was secondary, and collaborative spiritual materials and treasure materials were very easy to find; they were essentially wingmen for enhancing power.

Moreover, if powerful treasure materials were found later, they could be re-forged into it to enhance the power of one's own life-bound spiritual treasure.

Therefore, a life-bound spiritual treasure had to be refined from at least three types of treasure materials; as for the upper limit, as long as the attributes were compatible, the more the better.

Currently, there was only one type of spatial treasure material, and two types of Thunder-attribute treasure materials.

If he added the previously obtained innate-level treasure material, the innate crystal egg, it was enough for Xu Jin to fuse and refine a Thunder-attribute spiritual treasure.

The innate crystal egg, this non-attribute treasure material, could only be used as the main material; Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu could be used as auxiliary, and Cloud Thunder Essence Soul could summon thunder clouds and gather thunder in the clouds, which could be used as a collaborative treasure material.

This combination was actually quite good.

It was just that Xu Jin currently had a worry, and that was the refining of the spatial life-bound spiritual treasure.

Spatial treasure materials were hard to find, and treasure materials suitable as main materials were even harder to find.

For example, the spatial treasure material Rift-Empty Butterfly Wings sent by Tianyang Xingjun Xiji this time was indeed not bad, but in actual refining, it was only suitable as a collaborative treasure material; it was barely even suitable as an auxiliary material because its characteristics were too prominent and too single.

Conversely, the innate crystal egg had a high enough grade and enough inclusiveness, making it an excellent choice as the main material for a spatial life-bound spiritual treasure. So Xu Jin was hesitating about this point.

Should he directly use the innate crystal egg, Nine-Tribulation Lei Mu, and Cloud Thunder Essence Soul to refine the Thunder-attribute life-bound spiritual treasure?

Or should he temporarily not forge it and save the innate crystal egg for the future spatial life-bound spiritual treasure as the main material?

After all, the main material for a spatial life-bound spiritual treasure was harder to find!

For a moment, even Xu Jin was somewhat hesitant.

This made Xu Jin think of another cultivation-related problem.

Previously, when communicating with his master, Emperor Fenghua, in the Xiazhu Star Domain, they had chatted about the forms of the multiple life-bound spiritual treasures Xu Jin was forging, and regarding this, Emperor Fenghua gave a directional suggestion.

He suggested that Xu Jin should consider it holistically when forging life-bound spiritual treasures.

Regardless of how many life-bound spiritual treasures were finally forged, it was best for the life-bound spiritual treasures to be related to each other, utilizing their characteristics to assist each other and form a system.

Such multi-life-bound spiritual treasures that formed a system would have increasingly terrifying power in the later stages.

Most Emperors had forged two or three extreme-path Imperial weapons.

The combat power of an Emperor whose Imperial weapons could link together was far stronger than an Emperor whose Imperial weapons could not link together and assist each other.

Perhaps a one-percent change now only allowed Xu Jin to have a slight upper hand, but at the True Person or Emperor level, that was a decisive advantage.

What was even more critical was that the life-bound spiritual treasures Xu Jin wanted to forge should be more than three.

So Xu Jin was considering this point at this moment; it was extremely complex.

It was uncertain what kind of treasure materials could be obtained in the future, and he also had to consider the linking, assistance, and coordination between the forms; it was too difficult!

For a moment, there was no progress, and his head was a mess.

Xu Jin simply stopped thinking about it and finished consuming the Zhou Tian Star Dew he had just obtained first.

There were twenty drops, which could improve his strength by another notch, especially his combat power after erupting.

As for the problem of the Dao oath, after these Zhou Tian Star Dews were refined, the information from Zhu Linxiao's side would be almost ready.

The reason the information was slow was mainly because of hiding his tracks.

This matter, Xu Jin could only do it himself.

If the movement was too large and others knew about it, Xu Jin going to solve this problem would either mean being ambushed or having the possibility of completing the task thoroughly cut off, which would be troublesome.

So the investigation arranged by Zhu Linxiao was extremely cautious and careful, requiring some time.

Xu Jin focused on cultivation, striving to convert the twenty drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew into combat power in the shortest possible time.

Xu Jin only used five days to refine all twenty drops of Zhou Tian Star Dew in one go.

The number of Star Towers added in his body increased by another sixty layers.

Looking inward, around the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower, eight Zhai Xing Lou guards of different heights were flashing with starlight, which was quite spectacular.

The spatial Zhai Xing Lou was still sixty-five layers, the Thunder-attribute Zhai Xing Lou reached forty-eight layers, the Wood-attribute Zhai Xing Lou was forty-eight layers, and the other Star Towers were all forty-five layers.

The total number of layers for the Eight-Tower-Merged Chaos Protective Killing Move when erupting had reached three hundred and sixty layers.

The total number of layers when Xu Jin killed Lu Sheng and Song Ju with the blessing of Heaven and Earth Authority was only one hundred and ninety-two layers, and now it had nearly doubled.

The combat power when erupting, not to mention doubled, was not far off.

Now, if he encountered Song Ju again, without the blessing of Heaven and Earth Authority, Xu Jin felt that even without using the Grand Void Questioning Platform, he could kill Song Ju.

It was equivalent to possessing the combat power of an elite Great Tianyang Xingjun.

Under normal circumstances, with the help of the Grand Void Questioning Platform, even if he encountered the strongest among the Tenth-Tier Star Lords, the Imperial Tianyang Xingjun, he would have the ability to protect himself and escape!

In the future, when going out, he wouldn't have to be as fearful and cautious as before.

And Zhu Linxiao had already investigated the relevant detailed information of Wu Bei's family clearly in secret, just waiting for Xu Jin to go and solve the problem of the Dao oath himself.

The family Wu Bei belonged to was a small family living within the Dongxuan Star Realm.

Otherwise, they wouldn't know the information about the True Persons and Tianyang Xingjun powerful figures of the Dongxuan Star Realm so clearly.

【Lin'er, I am going to the Wu family to solve this problem.】

Zhu Linxiao, who was handling official business in the Punishment Hall, received Xu Jin's starlight transmission and replied at the first opportunity, 【Husband, just go; act with extreme caution, and if anything is wrong, husband, trigger my suppression artifact split-body at the first opportunity, and I will arrive to support you at the first opportunity.】

Xu Jin smiled slightly after reading it; this woman was too caring toward him.

In the next step, Xu Jin took a step out and instantly disappeared into thin air.

Direct spatial shifting, making it inconvenient for those guarding outside the residence to track him!

After solving this problem, Xu Jin would need to make a choice.

Should he keep the innate crystal egg unused and forge the Wood-attribute spiritual treasure first, or forge the Thunder-attribute spiritual treasure first!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 738 =====