Chapter 98: Body of Purity and Late-Night Visit (Seeking Subscriptions)

Instantly killed!

Lu Xianbing, who was instantly killed in one move, was completely confused.

Completely unbelievable.

Just now, when Lu Xianbing and Xu Jin were sparring and challenging in the Star-Picking Tower Practice Arena, Lu Xianbing felt that he was the one who proposed it, so he took the initiative to request that he defend in the first round and Xu Jin attack.

If Xu Jin attacked, he would mainly practice offensive Star Arts, such as Star Ray, Star Ring, and Star Arrow.

He would defend to the death, mainly practicing defensive Star Arts, such as Star Shield, Star Light Cover, and Flying Fei Xing Bu.

In Lu Xianbing's concept, the power of the two people's Star Arts should be about the same.

One of Xu Jin's offensive Star Arts would at most break his defensive Star Art.

So in order to practice Star Arts to the greatest extent and fastest, he requested that the two of them come directly head-on.

You blast me, I take it hard.

This way, both sides' Star Art attainment would improve quickly.

Xu Jin originally wanted to refuse this proposal.

But after thinking about it, he agreed.

Facts speak louder than words.

If Xu Jin said his Star Arts were something Lu Xianbing couldn't take, Lu Xianbing absolutely wouldn't believe it.

How could that be possible?

In terms of cultivation, Lu Xianbing had broken through to the sixth layer of Meal of Mist more than ten days earlier than Xu Jin, and he had already completed two cuttings of hair and washings of marrow for the seventh layer of Meal of Mist, and his total Star Force had increased by 20%, not far from the peak of the seventh layer of Meal of Mist.

While Xu Jin had only just broken through to the sixth layer of Meal of Mist.

Therefore, Xu Jin could only use facts to convince Lu Xianbing.

Just one Star Ring swing, and it extremely directly shattered Lu Xianbing's Star Shield and killed Lu Xianbing.

You must know that Lu Xianbing's Star Ring impact range was less than three feet.

While Xu Jin's was already over six feet.

Of course, when Xu Jin executed it, he was extremely close to Lu Xianbing, not letting Lu Xianbing see the maximum distance of Xu Jin's Star Arts.

But what surprised Xu Jin was that the facts didn't beat Lu Xianbing into submission either.

"Instantly killed? Could it be that I was distracted?" After being confused for a few breaths, Lu Xianbing decisively chose to challenge Xu Jin again.

When the two appeared on the Practice Arena battlefield, Xu Jin took the initiative to say, "Brother Lu, this time, why don't you attack and I defend?"

Xu Jin meant well.

Otherwise, it would only waste Lu Xianbing's challenge count in the Practice Arena.

"Try again, I was careless in the last match," Lu Xianbing said.

Actually, it wasn't that he was careless, but that Lu Xianbing couldn't accept the fact that he was instantly killed by Xu Jin.

In terms of superficial things—strength, cultivation, resources, talent, etc. —he was far superior to Xu Jin, but why was he the one instantly killed?

"Good, then come again."

"Hmm, this time, you continue to use the Star Ring."

"Good!"

In an instant, the two approached to a distance of one meter, Lu Xianbing defended with all his might, and Xu Jin attacked.

Of course, Lu Xianbing wasn't purely looking for abuse.

This time, Lu Xianbing had some thoughts.

When Xu Jin's Star Ring swung over, Lu Xianbing not only struck a 'Five-Battle Killing Fist' to support a Star Light Cover, but also supported a Star Shield.

"Come!"

Bang!

The Star Ring swung out, Lu Xianbing's Star Shield and Star Light Cover shattered continuously, and Lu Xianbing himself was blasted back five steps continuously.

Lu Xianbing widened his eyes fiercely. "No, Brother Jin, how can the power of your Star Arts be so strong? I feel that the Star Arts of the Star Forging Realm senior brothers might not be stronger than yours."

"I practice Star Arts quite a bit."

"Hmm?"

Lu Xianbing looked at Xu Jin suspiciously and said, "Come again, don't stop!"

"Good."

The consequence of not stopping was that Lu Xianbing was instantly killed again.

Lu Xianbing's Star Arts hadn't reached the level of Great Completion instant casting; whether it was the Star Light Cover or the Star Shield, they were only at Great Completion, requiring a move to be struck to be issued.

With advance preparation, he defended against Xu Jin's first Star Ring, but when Xu Jin's second Star Ring swung out, he was instantly killed.

This time, Lu Xianbing was educated by reality.

"Brother Jin, why don't I attack and you defend?"

"Good."

This time, Lu Xianbing fought incomparably happily.

Star Arrow, Star Ray, Star Ring, Flying Fei Xing Bu, he blasted wildly, however violent he could be.

Conversely, Xu Jin took it very easily.

One Star Shield, and he took two of Lu Xianbing's attacks without breaking.

Later on, Xu Jin simply practiced actual combat footwork.

He practiced the turn of the Flying Fei Xing Bu at ultra-close range.

How to achieve a turn at an impossible angle through the explosion of Star Force.

He studied the application of the 'Repelling Jin Zhang', which was the Flying Fei Xing Bu, in other parts of the body.

Now that the whole body could explode Star Force, theoretically, the Repelling Jin Zhang could be executed in any part.

The Repelling Jin Zhang exploded mainly under the feet, which was speed, but exploding in other parts was the agility of footwork.

Doing this wasn't a waste of time.

Moreover, this kind of ultra-close-range footwork cultivation couldn't be practiced inside the Star Lamp.

But it could be practiced in the Practice Arena.

Very quickly, the quarter-of-an-hour limit for a single battle in the Practice Arena was reached, and the two exited the Practice Arena battlefield simultaneously.

The intense consumption in the Practice Arena even made Lu Xianbing pant.

"Brother Jin, this quarter of an hour of Star Art cultivation, whether in quantity or speed, is comparable to the cultivation effect of the past three or four days."

After speaking, Lu Xianbing added, "It's just that the consumption is quite large; ordinary people can't handle it."

"How much Starlight did you consume just now?" Xu Jin asked with a smile.

"Just now in a quarter of an hour, I activated Star Arts over a thousand times, consuming a total of three strands of Starlight."

Hearing this, Xu Jin nodded. This number was really not something ordinary people could handle.

One challenge consumed three strands, and Lu Xianbing said that in a full Divine Soul power state, he could fight five matches in a row; if he took two Refreshing Pills a day, he could fight at most fifteen matches in a row.

If these fifteen matches were fought to the end, it would be forty-five strands of Starlight in one day.

If he used silver to buy Starlight, that would be 9,000 taels, and even if he got it from other channels, the lowest limit was 100 taels per strand of Starlight, which would be 4,500 taels.

A daily expenditure of 5,000 taels, even the County Commandant's Mansion couldn't support it for too long, right?

And in this, there were also the more than 100 strands of Starlight that Lu Xianbing had accumulated himself before.

Xu Jin just practiced the application of the Repelling Jin Zhang in other parts, and the consumption was relatively smaller, only using half a strand of Starlight.

However, the improvement in footwork was also very large.

"Brother Jin, then should we continue?" Lu Xianbing asked with some trepidation.

After several battles, Lu Xianbing had already seen that this was not a sparring session between the two, but purely Xu Jin acting as his sparring partner.

So he was a bit trepidatious.

"Then continue, I also want to practice footwork."

An hour later, Lu Xianbing took the initiative to propose ending it. The results of this hour of cultivation were astonishing; Lu Xianbing's Star Ring had actually achieved instant casting, which was the Great Completion state.

When he left, Lu Xianbing asked with some embarrassment, "Brother Jin, then can I continue to find you tomorrow?"

Lu Xianbing had already understood that Xu Jin's Star Art attainment was already on a different level than his; practicing like this was purely acting as his sparring partner, and he was cultivating, but he was wasting Xu Jin's time.

"Continue, but I can accompany you to practice for half an hour every day, and fighting four matches is about enough," Xu Jin said.

"Thank you, Brother Jin, thank you very much, Brother Jin."

Lu Xianbing was overjoyed, thanked him again, and left.

In fact, his father had also arranged several seventh-layer Meal of Mist cultivators in the Star-Picking Tower to be his sparring partners, but the older cultivators stuck at the seventh layer of Meal of Mist were not very good in all aspects, and when Lu Xianbing sparred with them, he had to be extremely careful.

He was afraid that if he blasted too hard, he would kill them, which would be a waste.

Only here with Xu Jin could he fight extremely recklessly, extremely casually, attacking however he wanted, and attacking however fierce he wanted.

Because no matter how fierce or tricky his attack was, Xu Jin could take it.

Sparring with Xu Jin, his improvement was the fastest.

In this way, he would spar a few more matches with the seventh-layer Meal of Mist sparring partners his father arranged, and consuming twenty-something strands of Starlight a day would be about enough.

Any more, and even the County Commandant's Mansion couldn't afford it.

This consumption supply was only limited to before the Autumn Exam.

In fact, sparring with Lu Xianbing, Xu Jin also had great gains.

Practicing Star Arts inside the Star Lamp could only practice the proficiency of Star Arts, at most practicing to the Great Completion state.

But the actual combat application of Star Arts under various different battle conditions could not be practiced inside the Star Lamp.

This was also the reason why Xu Jin was keen on Practice Arena challenges before, because he could practice actual combat.

However, Xu Jin couldn't realize many ideas during challenges, and the opponents didn't cooperate or give him time.

But when sparring with Lu Xianbing, many ideas could be realized and tried one by one.

For example, the application of the Repelling Jin Zhang had made great progress.

In just over an hour, Xu Jin's body could turn from all kinds of unimaginable angles.

For the next few days, Xu Jin planned to practice these when sparring with Lu Xianbing.

And the newly learned Star Arts, Star Rope and Star Mist.

Star Mist could not be displayed in front of Lu Xianbing.

While Star Rope needed to be practiced to Great Completion inside the Star Lamp, and then explore the specific application methods in actual combat.

At night, after Xu Jin became proficient in the Refining Jin Zhang, he swallowed a Shedding Mortality Pill that had only been nourished for half a day.

Xu Jin had long discovered this point.

For pills, as long as they were put into the Star Lamp to start nourishing, nourishing for one hour had the effect improvement of one hour, and nourishing for half a day had the effect improvement of half a day.

It was just that after nourishing for one day, it could show a bit of strange phenomena, appearing with starlight-like brilliance.

However, the pill nourishing effect was most obvious on the first day; from the first day onwards, the submission effect became relatively weak.

Now that Xu Jin's Divine Soul power was at the third layer of Refine Star, Divine Soul power didn't need pills for recovery under normal circumstances; even if 20% or 30% was consumed, sleeping for two hours would completely restore it.

So Xu Jin planned to replace all the pills nourished in the Star Lamp with Shedding Mortality Pills, and at the same time pick a few Shedding Mortality Pills for experiments.

To see what effects Shedding Mortality Pills nourished for three days, five days, seven days, nine days, or even more than nine days would have, or to see what differences the different nourishing days had on the effects.

One Shedding Mortality Pill entered his abdomen, and Xu Jin began to urge Star Force, like a flood raging, continuously circulating and surging up and down in his body, and like a flood peak passing through the border, continuously wandering back and forth in his body. Every time after wandering, thanks to the increasingly strong perception ability of the Mingji Star Pattern, Xu Jin felt that the operation of Star Force in his body was one point faster.

It should be that the body had become more transparent under the tempering of Star Force.

After one round of cultivation, Xu Jin felt itchy all over, missing something.

"Hmm? Your first cultivation of the Refining Jin Zhang has a very strong effect. You should take one or two more Shedding Mortality Pills to cultivate, and you should have phased gains." Seeing Qi Shanye's voice suddenly rang out.

It was Old Qi who had already arrived, but hadn't appeared, and had been observing Xu Jin's cultivation in secret.

"Phased gains?"

Xu Jin took another Shedding Mortality Pill that had been nourished for half a day and started cultivating the Refining Jin Zhang again.

Half an hour later, just before this cultivation session was about to end, Xu Jin suddenly felt extremely itchy all over, and then there was a feeling of something surging onto his skin, and then, a pungent, fishy smell instantly filled the entire room.

Xu Jin opened his eyes in astonishment.

He saw that his whole body, including the back of his hands, was covered with black, sweaty-like things.

Especially on his chest and back, a layer of black, greasy-like things emerged, smoking Xu Jin until he almost stopped breathing.

"First cutting of hair and washing of marrow, you are quite fast; others need three days, you actually only used half a day." Seeing Qi Shanye said while covering his nose and retreating, "Brat, if you don't want this room to be uninhabitable for three days, hurry up and take a bath!"

Hearing this, Xu Jin rushed to the courtyard like a rabbit, directly drawing well water beside the well in the courtyard, and rushed down from his head.

But he could only wash off the general part; the greasy, black layer on his chest couldn't be washed off.

In the end, Xu Jin could only run quickly to the Academy's bathhouse, using quite a bit of soap, and washed for a full five times before he washed himself clean.

"How can it be so smelly?"

On the way back, Xu Jin directly threw away the clothes that were covered in filth just now.

It was better not to make things difficult for Jiang Er's small hands.

"Heaven creates all things to nourish people; people eat them into their mouths, and a part of the useless things or even harmful things that cannot be discharged are permanently accumulated in the body. This is also one of the reasons why people start to get sick after their youth.

At the same time, this is also the main reason why many seventh-layer Meal of Mist cultivators can live to eighty years old without illness or disaster.

Frequently tempering the flesh with Star Force can discharge the impurities and toxins accumulated in the body.

Usually, after three cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, one can achieve a body of purity, and cultivation will be twice the result with half the effort, and the upper limit of Star Force will also increase significantly." Seeing Qi Shanye said.

"Body of purity?"

In fact, Xu Jin had already discovered it at this moment.

Just after the first cutting of hair and washing of marrow, Xu Jin already had a feeling of being as light as a swallow, a sense of relaxation from the inside out, much more relaxed than the massage he had in his previous life.

"Yes, three cuttings of hair and washings of marrow can temper a body of purity, which is the basic requirement for Star Forging.

Unfortunately, the Lingji Star Palace has already locked its doors; otherwise, I could get you some high-grade Shedding Mortality Pills, which could allow you to achieve four or even five cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, and then I would use my Star Force to irrigate your star and temper your body, which could at least allow you to achieve six cuttings of hair and washings of marrow."

Speaking of this, Seeing Qi Shanye's voice paused, "But it doesn't matter. After you complete three cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, I will use my Star Force to irrigate your star and temper your body, which can at least allow you to achieve five cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, achieving a body of no filth.

Generally speaking, the top geniuses of the major Star Palaces will achieve six cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, but you are only one short, and the gap is not big.

I will look again in these few days to see if I can help you find high-grade Shedding Mortality Pills."

Only then did Xu Jin understand.

It turned out that the three cuttings of hair and washings of marrow at the seventh layer of Meal of Mist were only aimed at most people.

"Teacher, then what is the difference between this body of purity and the body of no filth?"

"Let me put it this way: Meal of Mist, Seventh Layer, is the foundation of Forge Star, the foundation of cultivation.

All your cultivation improvements in the future, including the quality of Star Forging, are based on the seventh layer of Meal of Mist.

Star Forging with a body of purity can at most forge a mid-grade star core; this is the upper limit.

While Star Forging with a body of no filth can forge a high-grade star core.

If one can achieve six cuttings of hair and washings of marrow, then your Star Force star core has a very small probability of forging a top-grade star core.

And the gap in the total amount of Star Force contained in these star cores of different qualities is..."

Suddenly, Seeing Qi Shanye's face changed, "Not good, someone is coming, and their cultivation is not low. I have to avoid them."

The moment he spoke, Seeing Qi Shanye disappeared, his voice and figure completely disappeared, but the smell still had a little bit of residue, which Xu Jin's spiritual smell Star Pattern could smell.

That was about ten seconds after Seeing Qi Shanye disappeared.

At the gate of Xu Jin's small courtyard, there was a knocking sound.

After Xu Jin opened the door, he was very surprised; it was Ning Yuchan.

Ning Yuchan came to find him in the middle of the night?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 99 =====