Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 354: Chapter 164: Broken Feather and Jade Pearl (Subscription Request)_2

”If it had been discovered before entering, it would have been solid evidence, but after entering, it would have turned into a war of words.”

Wang Jiugao had also seen this, but clearly, he had thought of this point too.

”Big Brother, let’s put it away first; this thing can be said to have been with him when he entered, but it can also be said that he collected it in the Purple Wind Star Domain,” Wang Jiugao said.

”Right, when you meet the others later, remember to remind them to be careful about the cooperation between Star Hall disciples and the Alien Race, especially be wary of the top experts of the Alien Race.”

After Xu Jin finished speaking, he pointed to the spoils below and said, ”Pick whatever you’re missing quickly, I still need to go find Ji Hongli!”

Currently, Ji Hongli was the only one unaccounted for.

If Ji Jingli had died in battle, it would have been a huge loss for the National Taoist Institute.

Among the current true inheritors of the National Taoist Institute, Ji Hongli ranked fourth in potential and third in combat power, which was very strong.

”Isn’t this... inappropriate? Aren’t these your spoils?” Wang Jiugao asked awkwardly.

”What are you thinking about? Of course, they are my spoils! But pick quickly whatever you are missing or need; later, settle it with me based on Taoist Merit,” Xu Jin said.

Directly giving it away wasn’t Xu Jin’s style.

But turning it into Taoist Merit or Starlight, which additionally could enhance Wang Jiugao’s ability to protect himself, was very good.

After all, Xu Jin wasn’t lacking in those.

Upon hearing it would cost Taoist Merit, Wang Jiugao became happy.

Disciples from great families knew this all too well; for things that could be settled with money, never settle them with favours.

Monetary debts are easy to repay; favours are not!

”Big Brother, I used one Chasing Moon Emblem before, I’ll take another one, and I also need this top-grade Third-Tier Star Weapon longsword. I don’t need Pills for now, so I won’t take those.

What do you think, five thousand Taoist Merit for the Star Weapon, five hundred for the Chasing Moon Emblem, is that okay?”

”Alright, that works.”

A general Third-Tier Emblem would cost around four thousand taels of silver each; if bought with Taoist Merit, it would be a bit cheaper. For a top-grade third-tier emblem, a price of five hundred Taoist Merit was quite reasonable.

Third-Tier Star Weapons, especially longswords, were relatively cheaper; the market price was around forty thousand taels. A top-grade Third Tier Star Weapon had a certain premium; five thousand Taoist Merit was a slightly high price.

This Wang Jiugao kid was still rather honest.

Xu Jin put away the other items and then instructed Ying Ge and three others through the Red Scale Heart to head in his direction.

Xu Jin planned to have Wang Jiugao meet up with Ying Ge and others, teaming up as a group of five for stronger combat power.

As for Xu Jin himself, he had to go find Ji Hongli, and he felt that teaming up with Wang Jiugao and the others might slow him down.

The gap in strength was still quite significant.

After resting on the spot for an hour, once Wang Jiugao was much recovered, Xu Jin directly pointed out a direction for him to progress towards Half-Winged Peak.

The meeting place for Wang Jiugao and others was Half-Winged Peak.

Two or three hours later, they would be completely safe.

And with the Star Hall disciple Guan Ji being slain, Wang Jiugao was going to be quite safe in the short term.

Because the seven disciples of the Star Hall and the seven disciples of the Da Chen National Taoist School were essentially paired one-on-one; each Star Hall disciple, upon entering the Purple Wind Star Domain, was assigned a specific disciple of the National Taoist School as their direct target.

The position of the Star Hall disciple was only pushed to the location of this assigned disciple from the National Taoist School.

Now that Guan Ji had been slain, the position push for Wang Jiugao was useless.

Unless he was extremely unlucky, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack to encounter another Star Hall disciple in this vast Third-Tier Star Domain.

After sending off Wang Jiugao, Xu Jin began to analyze Ji Hongli’s position based on the map.

Xu Jin’s previous movement, in addition to rescuing Wang Jiugao, had actually moved from the western part of the Purple Wind Star Domain to slightly east of the middle.

But with such a large scope of movement, even the Red Scale Heart, which had a sensing range of up to four thousand li, had still not sensed the Red Scale Heart Armor carried by Ji Hongli.

That left only two possibilities.

Ji Hongli had encountered an accident.

Or Ji Hongli had met with danger and was trapped somewhere.

Because according to the prior agreement, all fellow disciples, as long as they were capable of moving, had to advance towards the four great mountains of the Purple Wind Star Domain, towards the central area.

As long as they advanced to a certain range, they would inevitably be discovered by Xu Jin.

Especially Ji Hongli, who was the first to support Xu Jin in using the Mother-Child Heart Demon Emblem, would not have any psychological resistance.

So, there must have been a problem.

But normally speaking, with Ji Hongli’s strength, unless extremely bad luck befell him, he wouldn’t have so quickly encountered an accident.

According to Xu Jin’s judgment, Ji Hongli’s strength, even if encountering an Alien Race of the early period of the Fourth Tier Star Condensing Realm, would still possess a certain ability to survive.

Therefore, Xu Jin still wanted to rescue him if possible.

So, in which direction might Ji Hongli be?

This peripheral area is the hardest to locate.

It’s extremely time-consuming.

Looking at the map, Xu Jin had come from the Western peripheral area, so Ji Hongli wouldn’t be in the western peripheral areas, but rather in the East, South, or North.

Eventually, Xu Jin chose the Eastern and Southern peripheral areas.

If these two areas were searched and Ji Hongli was still unaccounted for, then there would be no need to search the North.

Because after searching these two areas, Xu Jin estimated it would take at least a day and a half.

If Ji Hongli had really encountered danger for that long, he probably would have been doomed.

Xu Jin, finding his direction, moved towards the east of the Purple Wind Star Domain at seventy percent of his maximum speed.

Even though Xu Jin possessed a Leakless Innate Star Body and despite the concentration of Star Power in the Third Tier Star Domain being as dense as in the Third Tier Star Power Secret Realm, the consumption of Xu Jin’s Star Power was quite significant.

Generally, he would expend twenty percent of his Star Power in two hours.

But by continuously alternating the use of different Pills to replenish, he could just barely recover.

Two hours later, Xu Jin suddenly felt a slight vibration of Star Power in his arms.

Xu Jin was astonished.

Looking down, he saw that within a normal fist-sized jade bead, there was Starlight flashing rapidly.

Xu Jin subconsciously immersed his thoughts into it, and in an instant, he sensed a vague location through the flashing Starlight inside the jade bead!

This location was coincidentally in a far eastern direction.

At the same time, five points of Starlight were flashing inside this seemingly ordinary jade bead.

Xu Jin discovered that as long as he immersed his thoughts into it, he could vaguely sense the direction of that Starlight.

Among them, two of the Starlight points overlapped.

Xu Jin guessed that this inconspicuous jade bead might be a treasure used for internal communication and location confirmation among Star Hall disciples.

This truly was a display of divine skills!

And it was also fortunate that the National Daoist Institute had Xu Jin’s Red Scale Heart Armor this year; otherwise, they would have incurred a great loss!

The two overlapping points of Starlight almost certainly indicated that two Star Hall disciples had already converged.

Then, could the Star Hall disciple located at the eastern edge, who might be entrapping Ji Hongli, be one of them?

This possibility was still very high.

Xu Jin sensed through the positions of the other six points of Starlight one by one, and there was only one on a peripheral location.

If it were said that Ji Hongli was in danger, then it was highly likely to be related to this Star Hall disciple.

At this thought, Xu Jin increased his speed.

An hour later, when Xu Jin activated the Red Scale Heart again to sense, he suddenly felt a surge of joy.

He had found it!

The sixth piece of Red Scale Heart Armor had been located.

But whether it was Ji Hongli was still hard to say.

Xu Jin immediately activated the Red Scale Heart Armor, inquiring about Ji Hongli’s condition.

But the Red Scale Heart Armor held by Ji Hongli gave no response.

Fifteen minutes later, just as Xu Jin thought that Ji Hongli had been killed and the Red Scale Heart Armor had fallen into the hands of the Alien Race or enemies, suddenly, Ji Hongli’s response came.

”Death ground, do not come!”

The feedback from the Red Scale Heart Armor to the Red Scale Heart was only the simplest of prompts.

Seeing this prompt, Xu Jin was dumbfounded.

Was Ji Hongli trapped in a desperate situation?

A situation so dire he knew it was to death?

Even Ji Hongli believed that even if Xu Jin arrived, it would be futile!

From this fact, it probably wasn’t an encounter with a Star Hall disciple.

If it were just an encounter with Star Hall disciples, it wouldn’t have driven Ji Hongli to such despair!

There was only one possibility then!

Alien Race.

Ji Hongli had encountered a Fourth Tier Star Condensing Realm member of an Alien Race!

This was truly bad luck!

Should Xu Jin still go to rescue him?