Chapter 933: The Trouble of Super-Grade (Seeking Monthly Votes)
In the station, silver light suddenly shone from Xu Jin's whole body, and the silver star tower flew out of his body directly, hovering in front of Xu Jin.
And in front of Xu Jin, a large amount of Star Ruins Yuan Sand was piled up.
As Xu Jin drove his divine sense, a Star Ruins Origin Sand grain immediately flew up, and the surging vitality contained within was instantly triggered by Xu Jin; a Great Dao of laws immediately surged out from within the silver Zhai Xing Lou.
Originally, this Great Dao of laws could not exist independently after leaving the Zhai Xing Lou, but at this moment, it found a place to reside due to the surging vitality. The instant it slowly reached out and merged with the vitality within the Star Ruins Origin Sand, under Xu Jin's full-force activation, the surging vitality within the Star Ruins Origin Sand suddenly reached in, straight into the core of Xu Jin's Zhai Xing Lou, the acquired Qiankong Origin Bead.
A wisp of vitality plunged in and connected with the core of Xu Jin's spatial star tower.
It was also at this time that Xu Jin began to refine one piece of Star Ruins Yuan Sand after another, drawing its vitality to connect with the star tower core, while gathering the star power carrying vitality within the Star Ruins Yuan Sand.
In just a few breaths, a star-nurturing the size of a fingertip floated below the star tower.
The first step of star-nurturing was successful.
This was also the first step to attaining the True Person path, and this first step was not difficult.
Next, it only needed to be constantly strengthened.
Divine sense surged out, one piece of Star Ruins Yuan Sand after another flew up, and the star power containing vitality constantly drew the Post-Heaven Dry Space Source Pearl within the star tower, constantly connecting while strengthening the star-nurturing at the very bottom of the star tower.
Every time it was strengthened, there was a Law Dao constantly flashing.
In this strengthening, the nascent star-nurturing and the spatial star tower's aura became consistent, finally completely the same, achieving the effect of strengthening the star tower and improving the total amount of star power.
It was also the key to casting the foundation of attaining the path.
The stronger the foundation of attaining the path, the greater the improvement in the total cultivation amount every time one broke through a tribulation after attaining the True Person path in the future.
In the cultivation world, there was also a simple division regarding the grade of star-nurturing.
They were lower-grade, middle-grade, upper-grade, supreme-grade, and super-grade.
Usually, refining less than eighty pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand was called lower-grade star-nurturing; those with lower-grade star-nurturing usually used spiritual materials to cast their life-bound suppression weapons, and star-nurturing was basically their limit; attaining the True Person path was hopeless in this life, of course, there was nothing absolute.
Refining between eighty and one hundred and sixty pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand was called middle-grade star-nurturing; usually using treasure materials to cast life-bound suppression weapons, those with middle-grade star-nurturing had hope of attaining the True Person path.
Refining between one hundred and sixty and two hundred and forty pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand was called upper-grade star-nurturing; those with upper-grade star-nurturing usually used innate spiritual materials to cast life-bound suppression weapons, and the probability of attaining the True Person path was a bit higher, one or two out of ten.
Refining between two hundred and forty and three hundred and twenty pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand was called supreme-grade star-nurturing; those with supreme-grade star-nurturing usually used innate treasure materials to cast life-bound suppression weapons, and the probability of attaining the True Person path was higher, three or four out of ten.
Like when Xu Jin was given innate spiritual materials by Emperor Fenghua, the lowest lower limit was upper-grade star-nurturing; if there was a certain amount of innate treasure materials refined later, it was also possible to have supreme-grade star-nurturing.
Above supreme-grade star-nurturing, there was super-grade star-nurturing.
Usually, those who refined three hundred and twenty pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand were called super-grade star-nurturing, and the probability of attaining the True Person path exceeded fifty percent.
But it was extremely rare.
Because theoretically, super-grade star-nurturing must use chaotic source materials to cast life-bound suppression weapons.
In fact, this theory was correct; the root cause of Zhu Linxiao's super-grade star-nurturing was that she used chaotic source materials, and more than one piece.
There was one point Xu Jin was very sure of at this moment: super-grade star-nurturing was certain for him.
The key depended on how super-grade he was.
Theoretically, the limit of spatial Law Daos that his spatial star tower could suppress was forty-nine, and theoretically, the final Star Ruins Yuan Sand he consumed was four hundred and ninety pieces.
But before, his teacher, Emperor Fenghua, had told him that the influencing factors of star-nurturing were mainly the grade of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures casting the life-bound suppression weapon, the quantity refined later, and the total amount of Law Daos contemplated and suppressed.
Many people could not contemplate and suppress to the limit.
Contemplating Law Daos for many people whose comprehension was not enough, one was several years of time or even ten years, too slow.
This was the main factor, but besides this, there were some hidden factors, such as the grade of the star tower source pearl condensed when breaking through to the Tenth-Tribulation.
That foundation of breakthrough would only be completely revealed when starting to attain the True Person path.
The source pearls of all systems within the star tower were also divided into lower-grade, middle-grade, upper-grade, supreme-grade, and super-grade.
The influence of these three grades—lower, middle, and upper—was actually not big, just a matter of absorbing less or absorbing more.
But the influence of supreme-grade star tower source pearls and super-grade star tower source pearls was exponential.
But specifically how much it could influence was hard to say, because the research samples were too few.
Taking him and the disciples in the sect as an example, most of them cast supreme-grade star tower source pearls; this kind of blessing improvement was at least ten percent, and at most fifteen percent.
Each had differences.
So when Emperor Fenghua asked Xu Jin to prepare as fully as possible back then.
This kind of foundation had little influence at the Tenth-Tribulation, but became relatively large when attaining the True Person path, and became very large when attaining the Emperor path.
Often, a difference of one grade meant a multiple difference in strength.
So at this moment, Xu Jin couldn't be sure how many pieces of Star Ruins Yuan Sand his star-nurturing would consume.
Because the star tower source pearls of all systems he condensed back then were not only super-grade source pearls, but also super-grade among super-grade.
As time passed, the pile of Star Ruins Yuan Sand in front of Xu Jin was decreasing rapidly.
One piece after another.
One hundred pieces, two hundred pieces, four hundred pieces...
The silver star-nurturing below the spatial star tower was also constantly growing, gradually filling the bottom of the entire star tower, but Star Ruins Yuan Sand was still being refined in one piece after another.
Six hundred pieces.
Six hundred and ten pieces.
Six hundred and twenty pieces.
Six hundred and twenty-six pieces.
The moment Xu Jin intended to refine the six hundred and twenty-seventh piece, his spatial star tower and Post-Heaven Dry Space Source Pearl transmitted a feeling of limit at the same time.
Up to this point, Xu Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Limit.
His star-nurturing finally reached the limit.
Divine sense retracted, and the spatial star tower with the star-nurturing slowly retracted into his body.
No suspense, super-grade star-nurturing.
Still the kind of super-grade star-nurturing that
Zhu Linxiao had four hundred and thirty, which was already a very strong super-grade star-nourishing count, but Xu Jin had six hundred and twenty-six.
Xu Jin understood that this should be the influence of the Origin Bead rank that his master, Emperor Fenghua, had spoken of back then.
The bonus brought by his super-grade acquired Qiankong Origin Bead should be just under thirty-five percent.
This should have been a very joyous thing, but Xu Jin's face turned bitter.
How bitter!
When he first broke through to the tenth tier and condensed the Origin Beads for each system's Zhai Xing Lou, they were all super-grade Origin Beads, but among the eight super-grade Origin Beads, the space and wind systems were the weakest.
For instance, the spatial acquired Qiankong Origin Bead absorbed one hundred and twenty-six strands of acquired nourishing power rewarded by heaven and earth, while the fire system had the most, and the slightly inferior thunder system absorbed a full one hundred and eighty-two strands, with the other systems all above one hundred and forty strands.
If this weakest spatial Zhai Xing Lou star-nourishing consumed six hundred and twenty-six Star Ruins Origin Sand grains, then for all eight systems, wouldn't that require five thousand?
And there was still the even stronger Chaos Cloud Tower!
Xu Jin had originally thought that he had prepared over two thousand Star Ruins Origin Sand grains, and if he got another thousand or so, it would be about enough.
He hadn't expected that now, he didn't even have half of that.
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