[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-star-martial-era":3,"chapter-the-star-martial-era-the-star-martial-era-chapter-994":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},2275852,4448,"Chapter 994","the-star-martial-era-chapter-994",994,"\u003Cp>Master’s wife’s plan was slightly complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the core point right now was that she would go ahead to scout for Fenghua Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple: although Fenghua Emperor’s strength was no weaker than an ordinary Great Prohibition Emperor, with the Star Calamity looming, their small group needed a true Great Prohibition Emperor to intimidate all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, they needed a true Great Prohibition Emperor to scout ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Fenghua Emperor had originally been reluctant, but was persuaded by a single remark from Duyue Emperor: the difficulty of both of them attaining Emperor Immortal status at once was too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could settle for a lesser goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of that remark, Xu Jin, after consolidating his cultivation for one day, first arrived at Fenghua Star Island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Fenghua Emperor’s imperial star island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current guardians were Second Senior Brother Mu Jia True Person and Third Senior Sister Zi Dian True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After exchanging greetings and formalities, Xu Jin immediately proceeded to Duyue Emperor’s imperial star island—Duyue Star Island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original guardian of Duyue Star Island was Lou Yang True Person, but after Lou Yang True Person was urgently reassigned to You Shi Star Island, the current guardian was Duyue Emperor’s second disciple, Yuan Ling True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ninth-reckoning peak cultivation base, just one step away from breaking through to the tenth-reckoning limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yuan Ling True Person looked at the order Xu Jin presented, her emotions slightly complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to put it? In Master’s order from Duyue Emperor, there were two points: first, Xu Jin could act at his discretion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning Xu Jin could do whatever he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, Yuan Ling True Person was to actively cooperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning Xu Jin not only could do whatever he wanted, but Yuan Ling True Person also had to actively obey and assist him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Xu Jin’s reputation was not loud within the Thousand Star Combat Zone, but among Duyue Emperor’s disciples, it was already well-known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether from Duyue Emperor’s repeated mentions or First Senior Brother Lou Yang True Person’s frequent references, they all had some understanding of Xu Jin’s strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He definitely possessed the strength of a ninth-reckoning True Person, and could not be treated as an ordinary ninth-reckoning True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the treatment Master granted him was truly irritating to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin could do whatever he pleased, and she had to actively give full cooperation—wasn’t that the treatment reserved for an ancestor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In plain terms, Master had sent her an ancestor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could not refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she could not voice any complaint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Master’s instruction!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when Xu Jin arrived, Yuan Ling True Person held back her anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more infuriating was, on the second day after Xu Jin arrived at Duyue Star Island, Yuan Ling True Person discovered another incident that nearly made her explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lecherous demon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin came to Duyue Star Island to fight, not to indulge in comfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she found that this fellow had brought along two exquisite concubines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After daily cultivation, he would indulge in wild revelry within the True Person’s Hall, all three sharing the same bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had sealed his aura, she held partial authority over Duyue Star Island’s celestial domain and could still sense it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the more she saw Xu Jin, the less she liked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Yuan Ling True Person’s perception of Xu Jin underwent a complete transformation three days later, on March 28th.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On March 28th, a star surge occurred near Duyue Star Island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a minor star surge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the star surge was detected, the lecherous Xu Jin gave her a heads-up and vanished via spatial teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance of that spatial teleportation startled Yuan Ling True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, he disappeared beyond her divine sense range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She immediately resonated with the spatial primordial rule to track him, yet failed to catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only certainty was that Xu Jin’s spatial teleportation distance was at least fifty thousand li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That distance was nearly equal to her own as a ninth-reckoning space True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Xu Jin’s current cultivation base was merely a first-reckoning True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, fifty thousand li was merely the limit of what Yuan Ling True Person could sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Xu Jin attained True Person status, his power increase surpassed even his own expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All eight Star Towers had reached the level of fourth-reckoning True Persons, but his eight primordial True Person weapons had undergone transformation under the chaos thunder tribulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, the enhancement was even greater than he had anticipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their power was fiercer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, under this special state, Xu Jin’s combat power had two forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was the Eight-Star Tower state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the standard fourth-reckoning True Person state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, even before his breakthrough, due to his prior extreme accumulation, his casual rule-art attack roughly equaled the explosive power of a fourth- or fifth-reckoning True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that his Eight-Star Towers had risen to fourth-reckoning True Person level and his True Person weapons had transformed further, each casual strike equaled the full-power explosion of an eighth- or ninth-reckoning True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made the chain power of Xu Jin’s rule-art combos even more monstrous!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His current strongest form was a twenty-seven-link combo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could a minor Prohibition Emperor dare stand firm against twenty-seven ninth-reckoning True Persons firing in unison?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from absolute prodigies, few would dare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was merely Xu Jin’s ordinary Eight-Star Tower state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin’s strongest state was still the Chaos Star Tower state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current manifested power of the Chaos Star Tower was merely first-reckoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it could summon eight primordial cosmic rules simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the level of an eighth-reckoning True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chaos Star Tower itself was an anomaly among True Person primordial weapons; Chaos Star Miasma was immensely fierce, and with his ultra-powerful Nascent Soul burst, Xu Jin believed his power in Chaos Star Tower state should reach ninth-reckoning level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only current problem was that his realm had advanced, but his star energy cultivation was still far behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His endurance and explosive capacity were severely insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why Master had instructed him to settle down for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, his actual combat power still needed testing in real battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This star surge on Duyue Star Island was an excellent opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Jin immediately located the star-realm fragment—no surprise there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, his Ming Qian sense range was only thirty thousand li, and within the chaotic star surge zone, merely three thousand li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after attaining True Person status, this range surged to four hundred thousand li, and within the chaotic star surge zone, it reached forty thousand li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Xu Jin stood before this star-realm fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over four hundred li long, approaching a mid-sized star-realm fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the fragment, faint, visible starlight shimmered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the protection from the residual cosmic rules and primordial laws within the nascent star-realm fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, once allied True Person elites arrived, they would each activate their primordial rule laws to suppress and fully subdue the fragment before stepping onto it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had become a fixed procedure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, it took some time to suppress and capture it—the more True Person elites and the stronger their power, the shorter the suppression time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, while Ning Yuchan and Zhu Linxiao gathered benefits from all directions, Xu Jin activated his Chaos Sword Heart, his eyes filled with astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, the moment he activated his Chaos Sword Heart, he suddenly sensed the life pulse of this star-realm fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the Seven Kill Sword Heart’s perception, this sensation was purer, more direct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fragile thread of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Xu Jin wished, a single sword strike would shatter this star-realm fragment’s life thread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the powerful life pulse of this star-realm fragment would scatter, rapidly turning into a dead star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One sword decided life or death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet beyond that, Xu Jin’s Chaos Sword Heart revealed something even more astonishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within Xu Jin’s Chaos Sword Heart perception, the protective field enveloping the star-realm fragment was laid bare in every detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This protective field was formed by the fusion of residual cosmic laws and the internal primordial rules, with part of its power being immensely potent Chaos Star Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, even thirty True Persons working together would require over half an hour to suppress it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the protective field surrounding this star-realm fragment was fully revealed in Xu Jin’s Chaos Sword Heart like a network of veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where there were veins, there was structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, this protective field had weaknesses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, Xu Jin’s star-energy hand slammed down, immediately sensing the immensely powerful field fused with cosmic laws.\u003C\u002Fp>",1450,"2026-06-19T23:56:35.933Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","541f3754055ca83f1796c4057f6dee009b567bda606b2b1f499072e5ee50756d","the-star-martial-era-chapter-995","the-star-martial-era-chapter-993",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-star-martial-era-cover.jpg"]