Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 588: Chapter 243 Fish Curtain Golden Bell (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival)_2

”When the time comes, once the news leaks, not just every major Star Hall, but all experts in the current world will see Xu Jin as Monk Tang’s Meat.”

”So, I must hold back a bit longer.”

”I must wait for the right opportunity, find a good way to conceal the effects of the Pill, and then figure out a way to enhance Liu Qingzhu’s Divine Soul Power, to help my teacher break through.”

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By the time Xu Jin personally began to comprehend the Earth Origin Star Pattern at the lower Seventh Tier, he finally understood what the State Preceptor meant when he said Xu Jin didn’t understand.

He truly didn’t understand.

Before this, with any other Star Pattern, even the upper Sixth Tier Divine Soul Star Pattern, Xu Jin could completely grasp it within two hours inside the Star Lamp, and within three or four more hours, he would be able to successfully engrave it with a hundred percent certainty.

However, with this lower Seventh Tier Earth Origin Star Pattern, Xu Jin had spent a full eight hours in the Star Lamp and still hadn’t succeeded once.

Xu Jin finally understood the need for comprehension when it came to Seventh Tier Star Patterns.

Wanting to grind out the Seventh Tier Star Patterns through sheer familiarity, like before, was impossible.

After realizing this, Xu Jin abandoned the idea of achieving it all in one step.

Instead, he began to grind on the Earth Origin Star Pattern at the upper Sixth Tier.

This time, progress was swift.

With his previous foundation, it only took Xu Jin four hours to succeed and then successfully engrave it onto the Central Star Palace.

For the ninth Star Pattern spot on the Central Star Palace, Xu Jin engraved the upper Sixth Tier Earth Origin Star Pattern, and for the tenth spot, he engraved the No Rank Golden Bell Star Pattern.

Afterward, Xu Jin tried it out.

The Earth Star Technique really was different.

Dominated by its overwhelming weight, if combined with Xu Jin’s already mastered Fire Series and Thunder Series Star Skills, the tactics would become even more varied and cunning.

For example, the single-target Star Skill Big Handprint could be cast with fire or with earth.

But the power difference between using fire and earth was like heaven and earth.

To strike someone, using an Earth Big Handprint was about the same as using a hammer.

This inspired Xu Jin with many wild and wonderful ideas.

Could Fire Series and Earth Series Star Skills be combined?

However, this time the five-day evolution in the Star Lamp was reserved for the Golden Bell Shield.

Following his teacher Liu Qingzhu’s instructions, Xu Jin successively engraved the upper Sixth Tier Earth Origin Star Pattern and the middle Fifth Tier Golden Bell Star Pattern and then combined them with the Rain Curtain Star Pattern to form an extremely strong Defense Star Skill, the Rain Curtain Golden Bell.

To test its might, Xu Jin specially entered the 149th level of the God-Killing Battlefield to challenge an enemy.

Very strong!

The defense really was exceptionally strong.

The alien race at the 149th level, a fourth-tier Star Condensation Fourth Layer alien.

Xu Jin tried several times and found he could use the Rain Curtain Golden Bell to withstand the full-force attacks of two or three fourth-tier Star Condensation Fourth Layer aliens.

Protected by the Rain Curtain Golden Bell based on the upper Sixth Tier Earth Origin Star Pattern, it took three fourth-tier Star Condensation Fourth Layer aliens to break Xu Jin’s defense.

Even an alien Heavenly Pride at the fourth-tier Star Condensation Fourth Layer level needed two to three breaths’ worth of time to break through Xu Jin’s defenses.

This greatly excited Xu Jin.

Shielded with the Rain Curtain Golden Bell, he fought his way to the 167th level of the God-Killing Battlefield.

Yet, he used his authority to hide his ranking.

However, the 166th level was not Xu Jin’s limit.

It was just that at the 166th level, two alien elites at the upper Sixth Tier Star Condensation Level, working together, could break Xu Jin’s Rain Curtain Golden Bell with a full-force blow.

It was almost as his teacher Liu Qingzhu had predicted.

The Rain Curtain Golden Bell really could allow Xu Jin to defend across realms.

With the Rain Curtain Golden Bell, Xu Jin’s battlefield survivability did massively increase.

After tasting the benefits, Xu Jin suddenly wanted to strengthen the Rain Curtain Golden Bell again.

So, among the Star Patterns he already possessed, which one could pair with the Rain Curtain Star Pattern to increase the defensive might of the Rain Curtain Golden Bell?

Xu Jin thought about it and only found one Star Pattern – the Swimming Fish Star Pattern.

The Swimming Fish Star Pattern on its own greatly increased Xu Jin’s defenses; with just a stir of his intent, he could directly lighten more than one-tenth of the Star Power from Star Skill attacks.

But the Swimming Fish Star Pattern only attached to the surface of Xu Jin’s body.

That is to say, only after Star Power attacks had made contact could the Swimming Fish Star Pattern take effect.

So, could it be combined with the Rain Curtain Golden Bell?

Thinking it, Xu Jin decided to test it.

He used the Star Lamp for the evolution directly.

The Earth Origin Star Pattern, Golden Bell Star Pattern, Rain Curtain Star Pattern, Swimming Fish Star Pattern - Xu Jin sequentially put the four Star Patterns into four Star Lamps.

[Evolution]

Afterward, Xu Jin quietly watched the starlight from the four confluent Star Lamps constantly flashing and fusing together.

Xu Jin had a feeling, it would be a success!

Based on his previous experiences in evolving Star Skills, the more similar the Star Patterns and their qualities were, the higher the chances of a successful evolution; and the less they related, the greater was the likelihood of failure.

Fifteen minutes later, amid the revolving and evolving bright starlight above the Candou Platform, the lights suddenly parted, and one sphere of starlight forcefully leaped into Xu Jin’s mind. All the information regarding the evolution flooded into his brain.

In the next instant, Xu Jin’s expression lit up with joy.

It was a success!

The Earth Origin Star Pattern, Golden Bell Star Pattern, Rain Curtain Star Pattern, and Swimming Fish Star Pattern—these four Star Patterns had evolved into a new Defense Star Skill.

Just as Xu Jin had envisioned, the Swimming Fish Star Pattern attached itself on the outside of the Golden Bell, providing an additional layer of defense.

This significantly bolstered the Golden Bell Shield’s defense.

And that wasn’t all.

If Xu Jin’s Golden Bell Shield were to be shattered, the Swimming Fish Star Pattern clinging on the surface of his body would still be effective.

This meant the Swimming Fish Star Pattern played a dual role.

Without delay, Xu Jin re-entered the God-Killing Battlefield, challenging its 168th level to test this mighty power!

The results amazed Xu Jin.

Previously, his Golden Bell Shield would have shattered under the combined strike of two Fourth Tier Sixth Layer experts from an Alien Race.

Now, it held firm until the third strike before shattering, a substantial increase in defense!

This caused Xu Jin’s sense of security to soar!

A few breaths later, Xu Jin temporarily solidified this brand new Star Skill on the second Star Lamp.

At the same time, he named this incredibly strong Defense Star Skill: Fish Curtain Golden Bell.

Currently, the Star Skill solidified on Xu Jin’s first Star Lamp was Invisibility, on the second Star Lamp was Fish Curtain Golden Bell, and on the third Star Lamp was Soul-shaking Golden Lotus.

The Fish Curtain Golden Bell, although similar in name to the Rain Curtain Golden Bell, offered a multiplicative increase in defensive power!

And yet, Xu Jin still felt an unquenchable thirst.

A potent Defense Star Skill truly brought an immense sense of security.

So, how could he continue to enhance the defensive power of the Fish Curtain Golden Bell?

There was only one direction for improvement now—the Earth Origin Star Pattern.

If Xu Jin could comprehend the Seventh Tier Lower Earth Origin Star Pattern, then the defensive power would increase by at least one-tenth.

A one-tenth increase in defensive power might sound minor, but in actual combat, it made a significant difference!

If Xu Jin were to later use a Gold Star to upgrade the Seventh Tier Lower Earth Origin Star Pattern to Seventh Tier Upper, the defensive power would become astonishingly impressive!

The thought of Gold Stars reminded Xu Jin that it was about time.

He had yet to challenge the Gold Star at his current Ninth Layer Cultivation Level.

With a thought, Xu Jin held the Star-picking Order and directly entered the Star-picking Secret Realm.

[Will you challenge the Gold Star Level Heart Demon?]

[Challenge]

In the next instant, shadows flickered and battle commenced.

Xu Jin also wanted to test whether the Heart Demon could learn Fish Curtain Golden Bell or if it could break his own Fish Curtain Golden Bell?

Very quickly, he found the answers.

The Heart Demon could use Fish Curtain Golden Bell, but its power fell slightly short of Xu Jin’s execution.

Then, a bizarre scene unfolded; the Heart Demon couldn’t break through Xu Jin’s defense, but Xu Jin could just manage to shatter the Heart Demon’s.

After a dozen or so breaths, having obtained the test results, Xu Jin launched the Soul-shaking Golden Lotus and immediately interrupted the Gold Star Level Heart Demon’s defense.

He unleashed a continuous barrage of Spiral Flame Bursts!

Annihilation!

The eleventh Gold Star was his.

If a Gold Star Level Heart Demon was this easy,

Then the Gold Star Level Gatekeeper would be a breeze.

Even a Gold Star Level Gatekeeper, with a high aura of Fourth Tier Ninth Layer, needed two strikes to breach Xu Jin’s Fish Curtain Golden Bell!

This time, it was enough for Xu Jin to kill a Gold Star Level Gatekeeper two or three times over!

The twelfth Gold Star was his!

Without hesitation, Xu Jin continued to challenge the next level, the Bright Star.

The main reliance was the Fish Curtain Golden Bell.

In this challenge, Xu Jin didn’t even need to use his self-created Divine Soul Star Technique, Shock Dream; he easily annihilated both the Gold Star Level Heart Demon and Gatekeeper using merely the Fish Curtain Golden Bell, Soul-shaking Golden Lotus, and his movement technique!

This was Xu Jin’s smoothest challenge in the Star Secret Realm ever since he started challenging the levels.

The fourth Bright Star was his.