Chapter 859

Xu Jin received more elemental afterlife star essences than he had imagined.

For example, the fire element.

Before breaking through, Xu Jin comprehended and evolved sixteen cosmic laws; according to the patterns established by past elders, each cosmic law grants roughly ten afterlife star essences.

This "roughly" varies by one.

Minimum nine, maximum eleven.

Theoretically, Xu Jin should have received about one hundred sixty fire afterlife essences, not exceeding one hundred seventy-six.

But when the heavenly gift ended, the total number of fire afterlife essences he received reached two hundred twenty-six.

The average gift per cosmic law exceeded fourteen.

Of course, this was not unprecedented.

The heavenly gift is also influenced by one's primordial star; the weaker the world, the lesser the gift, the greater the world, the greater the gift.

But under normal circumstances, even with a primordial star from a great world, the heavenly gift per cosmic law rarely exceeds twelve.

Xu Jin's, however, reached fourteen.

Xu Jin believed this was closely tied to his primordial star, Linghuang Great World.

Linghuang, among great worlds, possessed one of the most supreme life essences—two or even three times that of many other great worlds!

Some manifestations were perfectly normal.

Now was the time for harvest.

The two hundred twenty-six afterlife fire essences had coalesced into an afterlife fire essence pearl—undoubtedly all supreme grade.

Yet even supreme grade varies among itself.

Guoshi Cheng Cheng Yuexiao's afterlife thunder essence pearl was only the size of an egg; Xu Jin's afterlife fire essence pearl was the size of a fist.

The difference quickly became apparent.

The afterlife Li Fire star force generated within the fire star tower was noticeably stronger than the star force from any other element's tower.

What was once ordinary crimson Li Fire had thickened to near-black, streaked with a thread of darkness.

Compared to fire, the other elements were slightly weaker.

Thunder ranked second: thirteen cosmic laws, yielding one hundred eighty-two afterlife thunder essences.

Earth, water, wood, and metal each had ten cosmic laws, yielding roughly one hundred forty afterlife essences each.

Space and wind each had nine cosmic laws, yielding roughly one hundred twenty-six afterlife essences each.

All afterlife essence pearls formed within the star towers were supreme grade.

One could even say they were supreme among suprema—but the strongest by far was fire.

Merely by sensing with his spiritual sense, Xu Jin realized that among his star forces, fire had become the strongest.

Of course, this was only an internal comparison.

Compared to others, even the weakest wind element would crush them all.

Within his inner vision, the star force within the Chaos Cloud Tower and the eight star towers was rapidly transforming; the towers themselves, resonating with the cosmic laws, were being refined and strengthened.

When this refinement and strengthening completed, Xu Jin would fully break through to the tenth realm.

Normal cultivators typically completed their breakthrough in two or three hours; Xu Jin would likely require more time.

But what intrigued Xu Jin most was the transformation of the Chaos Cloud Tower.

During the earlier process of merging all eight stars into one unified cosmic law, the Chaos Cloud Tower had undergone the most purification—it appeared unchanged at first glance.

Yet its chaotic aura had grown deeper.

Especially the chaotic star force within the tower—it felt vastly stronger than before, though still not at the level of chaotic star calamity.

In addition, Xu Jin noticed that during the breakthrough, the process of chaotic unification had infused each of his eight star towers with faint traces of chaotic aura.

They were merely infused; the exact effects remained unclear.

The current strengthening was a purely automatic process.

Bored from waiting, Xu Jin simply activated the chaotic rhythm force to refine his body, continuing the refinement of the Great Chaos Spirit Body.

Not long after beginning, Xu Jin's gaze shifted, his eyes flickering with surprise.

Perhaps because all eight star towers had been infused with chaotic aura, his star force had also acquired a faint trace of it.

Very weak.

But during body refinement, it was highly effective.

It dramatically increased the intensity of his refinement.

His refinement progress surged.

In just one day of refinement, Xu Jin could now endure the refinement of chaotic rhythm force diluted to ten percent.

Progress accelerated rapidly.

Xu Jin felt he was nearing the completion of the Great Chaos Spirit Body.

"Not finished yet?"

His body had been refined for a full day, yet the transformation and strengthening of the elemental afterlife essence pearls and cosmic laws upon the star towers had not yet completed—this surprised Xu Jin.

His spiritual sense sank inward again.

The moment he did, his gaze sharpened.

"So little left?"

Seeing the sparse star force within the towers, Xu Jin stared in disbelief.

The star towers, once brimming with star force, now held only two or three tenths remaining.

Inside the towers, they were empty—entirely unexplored star force space.

It gave Xu Jin the sensation that his cultivation had shrunk by seven or eight tenths.

After careful sensing, he understood it was not so.

His cultivation or star force had not shrunk.

His cultivation remained the same as before, even slightly stronger.

The difference was that the star towers had become vastly stronger.

Extremely stronger.

And it wasn't over yet.

For example, Xu Jin's original star towers had a capacity limit of one thousand; now it was four thousand.

His cultivation hadn't changed—only the upper limit had risen.

"A normal minor Star Lord's enhancement could never be this strong?"

Frowning, Xu Jin suddenly understood.