[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-star-martial-era":3,"chapter-the-star-martial-era-the-star-martial-era-chapter-968":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Star Martial Era",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2275826,4448,"Chapter 968: Giant Star Surge (Requesting Double Moon Tickets)","the-star-martial-era-chapter-968",968,"\u003Cp>The Qingman Xu market has disbanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In comparison, cultivators selling here were even more straightforward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once offered the psychological price, they’d close the deal right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today marked the fifth day Xu Jin had been at the Qingman Xu market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over five days, Xu Jin had systematically scoured both markets, entering each time with altered qi and appearance to avoid detection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent days, Xu Jin had been buying slowly at the open market—sometimes luckily securing ten or twenty branches, sometimes only a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was mainly waiting for the opportunity Fang Ji had mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Ji’s words were true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Xu Jin could not enter the Qingman Star Island, he could sense it with Mingqian Touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was one Emperor-level cultivator, but over seventy True Persons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of them were mid- to high-grade True Persons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true gathering of experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were clearly waiting for the so-called large star surge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with such phenomena, you could only know they might occur in the future, never when.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You could only wait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After contacting his master, Fenghua Emperor, via Book-Communication Disc, Xu Jin decided to stay and wait here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he activated the token to display his identity and his qi and cultivation base matched, there was no issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using time acceleration to rapidly nurture and upgrade, Xu Jin waited while refining his Purple Yuan bone veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his supply of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches was limited, so most of his time was spent cultivating the Deep Domain technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the Deep Domain’s growth rate had accelerated sharply in recent days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, it required integrating eight elemental Dao principles to grow; now, only seven were needed, yet its growth rate had doubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under time acceleration, normal cultivation for half a day would increase its area by only two or three square meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it increased by six or seven square meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After much analysis, Xu Jin concluded his previous Tunshi had primarily absorbed the boundary domain of the Void Deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these conditions, Xu Jin’s Deep Domain had risen rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin grew increasingly at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enveloping Chaotic Star Force had become denser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this rapid advancement, it wouldn’t be long before he could forcibly Tunshi the Void Deep’s domain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With sufficient Purple Yuan Bodhi branches temporarily available, Xu Jin’s Purple Yuan bone veins began increasing at a rate of one per day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the number of nurtured-and-upgraded Purple Yuan Bodhi branches consumed per vein was rising rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From forty-four branches per vein, it quickly climbed to fifty-six branches per vein.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his stock of Purple Yuan Bodhi branches was nearly exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the dozen or so recently acquired that were still undergoing nurturing and upgrading, all were gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent days, Purple Yuan Bodhi branches at both markets had not only skyrocketed in price but also become extremely scarce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the shortage, many cultivators rushed to buy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the amount Xu Jin could purchase dwindled further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the anticipated large star surge had not appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People kept leaving, and people kept arriving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin’s patience was gradually wearing thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cultivation base couldn’t advance, and he couldn’t buy Purple Yuan Bodhi branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, Xu Jin specifically contacted his master, Fenghua Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet under the current Star Calamity, a Dead Zone might also emerge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, this entire star Xu region, due to some unknown cause, will no longer produce star surges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hallmark of a Dead Zone is no star surge for three months!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait another half-month and see.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Thank you, Master.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the next dozen days, Xu Jin wandered about and acquired over two hundred more Purple Yuan Bodhi branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the scarcity, many cultivators came here to sell their stock for cash, but prices had indeed risen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By February 21, Xu Jin had refined fifty-nine Purple Yuan bone veins; progress was slowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the good news was that the Deep Domain’s area had nearly doubled, and its growth rate remained unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void Deep’s domain he had previously Tunshi had not yet been fully digested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the Void Deep’s domain was a tremendous boon to Xu Jin’s Chaotic Deep Domain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now went once every two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He should gain another dozen or so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During teleportation, he continuously activated Mingqian Touch to sense his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that same instant, a jolt of unease surged through Xu Jin’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he sensed it, he instantly turned his head toward the distant location where the anomaly had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distant star Xu sky, a single point of starlight exploded in dazzling brilliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew how far away it was, but its luminosity far exceeded any star surge Xu Jin had ever witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the disturbance—it was several times stronger than any star surge he had ever experienced before.\u003C\u002Fp>",1142,"2026-06-19T23:56:35.933Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","510049ddb173072d9cbcb3615aa425225782dea9bed34ae040434614d85043da","the-star-martial-era-chapter-969","the-star-martial-era-chapter-967",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-star-martial-era-cover.jpg"]