Chapter 968: Giant Star Surge (Requesting Double Moon Tickets)

The Qingman Xu market has disbanded.

Xu Jin, posing as Qin Kun, was strolling here; whenever he spotted someone selling Purple Yuan Bodhi branches, he’d chat briefly, offer a fair price, and complete the deal immediately.

In comparison, cultivators selling here were even more straightforward.

Once offered the psychological price, they’d close the deal right away.

Today marked the fifth day Xu Jin had been at the Qingman Xu market.

Fang Ji’s words were accurate: the combined total of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches available at Qingman and Hongxia Xu markets in the short term was roughly five hundred.

Over five days, Xu Jin had systematically scoured both markets, entering each time with altered qi and appearance to avoid detection.

The value of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches at both markets had risen by over ten percent, and Xu Jin had acquired more than five hundred branches.

In recent days, Xu Jin had been buying slowly at the open market—sometimes luckily securing ten or twenty branches, sometimes only a few.

He was mainly waiting for the opportunity Fang Ji had mentioned.

Fang Ji’s words were true.

Although Xu Jin could not enter the Qingman Star Island, he could sense it with Mingqian Touch.

There was one Emperor-level cultivator, but over seventy True Persons.

Half of them were mid- to high-grade True Persons.

A true gathering of experts.

They were clearly waiting for the so-called large star surge.

But with such phenomena, you could only know they might occur in the future, never when.

You could only wait!

After contacting his master, Fenghua Emperor, via Book-Communication Disc, Xu Jin decided to stay and wait here.

With the identity token he obtained from Fang Ji and others, Xu Jin was safe as long as he didn’t wander recklessly or approach the star island.

As long as he activated the token to display his identity and his qi and cultivation base matched, there was no issue.

After using time acceleration to rapidly nurture and upgrade, Xu Jin waited while refining his Purple Yuan bone veins.

But his supply of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches was limited, so most of his time was spent cultivating the Deep Domain technique.

Notably, the Deep Domain’s growth rate had accelerated sharply in recent days.

Previously, it required integrating eight elemental Dao principles to grow; now, only seven were needed, yet its growth rate had doubled.

Under time acceleration, normal cultivation for half a day would increase its area by only two or three square meters.

Now, it increased by six or seven square meters.

After much analysis, Xu Jin concluded his previous Tunshi had primarily absorbed the boundary domain of the Void Deep.

This portion of the boundary domain mostly originated from the vast number of celestial treasures the Void Deep had previously integrated—such as Star Realm Source Cores.

Under these conditions, Xu Jin’s Deep Domain had risen rapidly.

Xu Jin grew increasingly at ease.

During the Deep Domain’s ascent, he clearly sensed that after four or five days of enhancement, his Chaotic Deep Domain’s suppression over the Void Deep’s domain had grown stronger.

The enveloping Chaotic Star Force had become denser.

With this rapid advancement, it wouldn’t be long before he could forcibly Tunshi the Void Deep’s domain!

With sufficient Purple Yuan Bodhi branches temporarily available, Xu Jin’s Purple Yuan bone veins began increasing at a rate of one per day.

But the number of nurtured-and-upgraded Purple Yuan Bodhi branches consumed per vein was rising rapidly.

From forty-four branches per vein, it quickly climbed to fifty-six branches per vein.

On the thirteenth day of his stay at Qingman Xu market, Xu Jin had refined his fifty-sixth Purple Yuan bone vein, adding twelve new ones, and his Soul Cultivation base had improved further.

But his stock of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches was nearly exhausted.

Aside from the dozen or so recently acquired that were still undergoing nurturing and upgrading, all were gone.

In recent days, Purple Yuan Bodhi branches at both markets had not only skyrocketed in price but also become extremely scarce.

Due to the shortage, many cultivators rushed to buy.

As a result, the amount Xu Jin could purchase dwindled further.

Yet the anticipated large star surge had not appeared.

Because the large star surge had not occurred, some of the elite teams who had arrived early to support Qingman Star Island had turned back and left.

People kept leaving, and people kept arriving.

Xu Jin’s patience was gradually wearing thin.

His cultivation base couldn’t advance, and he couldn’t buy Purple Yuan Bodhi branches.

For this reason, Xu Jin specifically contacted his master, Fenghua Emperor.

[Jin’er, wait a little longer! Large star surges are unpredictable, but the situation you described does indeed suggest a high likelihood of one occurring.

Yet under the current Star Calamity, a Dead Zone might also emerge.

That is, this entire star Xu region, due to some unknown cause, will no longer produce star surges.

The hallmark of a Dead Zone is no star surge for three months!

Wait another half-month and see.]

[Thank you, Master.]

Over the next dozen days, Xu Jin wandered about and acquired over two hundred more Purple Yuan Bodhi branches.

Due to the scarcity, many cultivators came here to sell their stock for cash, but prices had indeed risen.

By February 21, Xu Jin had refined fifty-nine Purple Yuan bone veins; progress was slowing.

But the good news was that the Deep Domain’s area had nearly doubled, and its growth rate remained unchanged.

The Void Deep’s domain he had previously Tunshi had not yet been fully digested.

Indeed, the Void Deep’s domain was a tremendous boon to Xu Jin’s Chaotic Deep Domain!

On February 23, Xu Jin made his usual round at Qingman Xu market’s open market, acquired eleven Purple Yuan Bodhi branches, and prepared to visit Hongxia Xu market.

He now went once every two days.

He should gain another dozen or so.

Because he was using a false identity in a foreign land, impersonating a Thunder Star Lord, Xu Jin only used spatial teleportation in secluded areas, and even then, he deliberately limited the distance.

During teleportation, he continuously activated Mingqian Touch to sense his surroundings.

On this day, after teleporting over a dozen times and reaching thirty thousand li from Qingman Xu market, Xu Jin’s Mingqian Touch’s Tiger Response Whip suddenly blazed with starlight.

In that same instant, a jolt of unease surged through Xu Jin’s heart.

The moment he sensed it, he instantly turned his head toward the distant location where the anomaly had appeared.

In the distant star Xu sky, a single point of starlight exploded in dazzling brilliance.

No one knew how far away it was, but its luminosity far exceeded any star surge Xu Jin had ever witnessed.

And the disturbance—it was several times stronger than any star surge he had ever experienced before.