Chapter 937: The Emperor Jun Strikes Again (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

On the seventeenth day of the twelfth month, Xu Jin returned to Wuyang Star Island.

He returned to Wuyang Star Island rather than Changxing Star Island because his return deadline had not yet arrived.

Due to two extraordinary merits, his return deadline was extended; the military order set the deadline for next year’s tenth day of the first month, leaving him twenty-four days.

Xu Jin would absolutely not waste these twenty-four days.

For other strong players, the twenty-four days offered extremely limited combat power gains.

But for Xu Jin, twenty-four days equaled two hundred and seventy-six days—over nine months—more than enough to further enhance his combat power.

Though he had his Master and Mistress, both Emperor Jun, as backing, if he himself failed, no amount of backing would help.

Xu Jin’s return filled Bai Changshan and Man Island True Person with great joy.

During the month Xu Jin was away, three Star Surges occurred, two of which produced Star Realm fragments.

One medium, one small.

But unfortunately, none were reclaimed.

The small one arrived too late; by the time they got there, the Hu Ling Star Island forces had already seized it.

They arrived in time for the medium one, but held no clear advantage, and ultimately chose to destroy it rather than let either side claim it.

Gains were minimal, and several were seriously wounded.

Morale was slightly low.

Yet the news of Xu Jin’s return lifted the morale of Wuyang Star Island’s troops dramatically.

“Huh, Old Bai, your aura seems to have broken through again?” Xu Jin’s gaze flickered as he saw Bai Changshan.

Bai Changshan chuckled. “This is all thanks to your Great Sage’s gifts—those two extraordinary merits granted me one breakthrough limit. Now, I’m already an Eleventh Catastrophe True Person, the stuff of legend.”

He paused, then added, “Besides, that black bastard Guan Laohei used these two merits to reach the peak of Ninth Catastrophe—he’s on the verge of breaking his limit. If I don’t break through too, he’ll laugh at me.”

“Eleventh Catastrophe True Person with a broken limit? When do you plan to seek the Emperor Jun realm?” Xu Jin asked with a smile.

“Seek the Emperor Jun realm?”

At this, Bai Changshan’s face instantly fell. “Too soon! Our Tongxuan War Zone has countless Ninth Catastrophe True Persons, but only a handful of Emperor Jun. It’s hard! Emperor Jun can’t be stacked up—it demands insight, and you need a killing calamity. And even then, a killing calamity is trouble.”

“With your current strength, what are your odds against an Emperor Jun?” Xu Jin asked.

“Odds?”

Bai Changshan shook his head. “Essentially impossible. But against a Minor Forbidden Emperor Jun, I could still save my life.”

Hearing this, Xu Jin’s mind stirred with an idea, but he suppressed his probing words, exchanged a few casual remarks, and left.

Xu Jin had just been testing Bai Changshan’s attitude—whether he might become an ally against the Emperor Jun.

But after thinking it over, he abandoned the idea.

A seasoned True Person like Bai Changshan, stationed as a guardian, couldn’t be swayed by a few words.

He would stand united with him against alien races without hesitation.

But asking him to aid Xu Jin against the Tongxuan War Zone’s Emperor Jun? Too many variables.

It would only make things worse.

This matter involved too many factors—he had to prepare quietly on his own.

Continue Star Nourishment and refining the Purple Yuan Bone Veins.

On the nineteenth day of the twelfth month, the Earth Star Tower completed Star Nourishment, suppressing fifty-one Dao Laws, consuming six hundred and ninety-three Star Ruin Elemental Sand.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth month, the Water Star Tower completed Star Nourishment, suppressing fifty Dao Laws, consuming six hundred and eighty-five Star Ruin Elemental Sand.

On the twenty-first day of the twelfth month, the Metal Star Tower completed Star Nourishment, suppressing fifty-one Dao Laws, consuming six hundred and ninety-eight Star Ruin Elemental Sand.

On the twenty-second day of the twelfth month, a Star Surge occurred.

But the fragment it produced was inert, shattering immediately; Xu Jin continued his cultivation.

On the same day, the Fire Star Tower completed Star Nourishment, suppressing fifty-two Dao Laws, consuming seven hundred and thirty-eight Star Ruin Elemental Sand—the highest among all Star Towers so far nourished.

On the twenty-third day of the twelfth month, the Thunder Star Tower completed Star Nourishment, suppressing fifty-one Dao Laws, consuming seven hundred and twenty-four Star Ruin Elemental Sand.

Thus, all eight elemental Star Towers had completed Star Nourishment; only the Chaos Cloud Tower remained un-nourished.

“I still have over sixteen hundred Star Ruin Elemental Sand left—will it be enough for the Chaos Cloud Tower? Probably.”

Xu Jin’s Chaos Cloud Tower had not yet undergone Star Nourishment because it had not yet reached its limit.

To date, the Chaos Cloud Tower already suppressed two hundred and eighty-eight Dao Laws.

Yes, two hundred and eighty-eight.

All Dao Laws that the eight elemental Star Towers could no longer suppress after reaching their limits were transferred to the Chaos Cloud Tower.

For instance, Xu Jin had cultivated the fewest Thunder Dao Laws—seventy-five total; his Thunder innate suppressor only held fifty-one, leaving the remaining twenty-four entirely under the Chaos Cloud Tower’s suppression.

The most cultivated Dao Laws were Fire—ninety-three in total; his Fire innate suppressor held fifty-three, with the rest all suppressed by the Chaos Cloud Tower.

The Chaos Cloud Tower was currently terrifyingly powerful.

Just a few days ago, when Xu Jin asked his Master, Emperor Jun Fenghua, to test the Chaos Cloud Tower’s power, Fenghua Emperor Jun gave it only six words: “It already possesses Emperor Weapon power!”

Emperor Weapon power!

An Emperor Weapon was a treasure only an Emperor Jun could cultivate and forge.

Yet Xu Jin, merely a Star Commander, now possessed one.

This power was not insignificant.

Without exaggeration, the strongest thing on Xu Jin’s person right now was the Chaos Cloud Tower.

Xu Jin looked forward to the changes after the Chaos Cloud Tower reached its limit and underwent Star Nourishment.

It’s already this strong, already possesses Emperor Weapon power—how much stronger would it become after Star Nourishment?

Leaving aside other matters, after the eight Star Towers completed Star Nourishment, Xu Jin’s Star Power capacity doubled.

But currently, this only extended his combat endurance.

Because Star Nourishment had not yet fused with the Star Towers, his Star Power could not be unleashed all at once—it was merely like carrying a giant power bank.

Only after breaking through to True Person and harnessing the power of the Primordial Thunder Tribulation could he continuously fuse and enhance them.

But now, Xu Jin could already be called a Half-Step True Person.

With Star Nourishment now complete in all towers except the Chaos Cloud Tower, Xu Jin’s time became more flexible.

Each day, he either refined his Purple Yuan Bone Veins or experimented with various Rule Arts.

Having cultivated so many Dao Laws, among all elements, he had already grasped four Thunder Primordial Rule Dao Laws and developed three Rule Arts—but only one, Thunder Powder, was truly practical.

Recently, Xu Jin had been studying it, trying to create a fused Rule Art.

Fused Rule Arts were nearly impossible for other cultivators!

It wasn’t that the deduction was hard—it was that even after deducing them, there was no way to manifest them.

A dual-element fused Rule Art required a dual-element fused innate suppressor; the same applied to three-element, four-element, five-element arts.

Among human cultivators, dual-element fused Rule Arts existed, but three-element and above were exceedingly rare.

Among alien races, however, many possessed dual-element, even three-element fused Rule Arts—they could rely not only on suppressors but also on bloodline.