Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 591: Chapter 245 Killing Dream

”State Preceptor, do you have any instructions?”

After entering the Star Dome Secret Realm, Xu Jin thought for a moment and looked toward the State Preceptor.

The reason he asked was that Xu Jin wanted to know if the State Preceptor had any special arrangements.

Such as asking Xu Jin to prioritize deducing that Star Pattern.

Or which Star Pattern could enhance his strength and the like.

Because Xu Jin’s performance today clearly showed that it was not about using just one Gold Star.

To Xu Jin’s surprise, the State Preceptor shook his head, ”There’s nothing special to instruct. Just proceed with your deductions, a breakthrough with any Star Pattern is a gain and progress for the National Taoist Institute.

During the deduction process, there’s no need to be obsessed with gains and losses.

Some Star Patterns might yield results with just one Gold Star, while others might need two or even three Gold Stars to see any fruition.

But the process of your comprehension is the real significant gain, understand?”

Xu Jin suddenly frowned; he understood the initial part of what the State Preceptor said, but the latter part seemed somewhat clear yet unclear.

Cheng Yuxiao, with his unparalleled experience and as someone who had been through it all, naturally understood Xu Jin’s confusion at this moment.

”Xu Jin, you should know that the process of Tao Derivation with Gold Stars, whether it yields a result or not, is in itself a significant gain.

You might not feel it once or twice.

But after ten or eight times, the overall enhancement to you will be substantial.

To put it more simply, it’s kind of like gaining experience!

Or wisdom!

Thus goes the saying, ’Many changes do not diverge from their source.’

And also, ’Understanding one aids understanding others.’

And even, ’All laws converge to one.’

The extensive process of Tao Derivation with many Gold Stars and Bright Stars will eventually bring your understanding of the Tao to an unprecedented height.

With such accumulation, even without Gold or Bright Stars in the future, your speed of deducing Star Patterns will be twice, three times, or even ten times that of others!

At this stage, the process of Tao Derivation is actually more important to you than the results.

Do you understand what I mean?” Cheng Yuxiao explained.

”I understand!”

Xu Jin nodded emphatically.

This time, he truly understood.

The initial point made by the State Preceptor was about quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

But the ultimate meaning was accumulation.

The process of Tao Derivation was somewhat like feeding an AI.

Once that process accumulates sufficiently, the AI will become a true AI, not a defective one.

At the same time, it affirmed Xu Jin’s current decision to extensively use Gold Stars.

”Then you may begin, I will stand by here; you can call me directly if you have any doubts.”

After saying this, Cheng Yuxiao went to the other side of the Star Dome Secret Realm, sat down with his legs crossed, and immersed himself in his own comprehension.

Xu Jin also sat down with his legs crossed.

But he didn’t start the Tao Derivation immediately; instead, he sorted through the sequence of today’s Tao Derivation.

So far, Xu Jin had amassed twelve Gold Stars and four Bright Stars.

Four Gold Stars had already been used previously.

He still had eight Gold Stars and four Bright Stars left in his hand.

As for Silver Stars, he had used ten last time and currently had eight left; he needed two more to use them.

With so many Gold Stars, Xu Jin planned to consume most of them today, at least half.

It would be good to convert them into strength earlier.

The first was naturally the Fire Origin Star Pattern.

A single fierce move is better than many weaker ones.

If Xu Jin could deduce the Fire Origin Star Pattern to the Eighth Tier, then even using the most common Fire Series Star Skill, he could unleash very strong power.

This was something Xu Jin clearly saw from his real combat training with Star Fire.

In terms of Fire Series Star Skills, Zhou Xinghuo from the Tianyang Star Hall indeed knew more than Xu Jin.

Like his Fire Meteor, in terms of speed and power, it was stronger than Xu Jin’s Spiral Flame Burst.

Yet it couldn’t defeat Xu Jin’s Spiral Flame Burst.

There’s nothing else to it; Xu Jin’s Spiral Flame Burst used a Seventh Tier Fire Origin Star Pattern, fundamentally stronger than his Fire Meteor.

It’s like weaponry; Zhou Xinghuo’s weaponry crafting was exquisitely intricate, but made of wood, while Xu Jin’s weaponry was plain but made of Refined Iron.

No matter how intricate and beautiful your craftsmanship, if the material is inferior, it will break upon the strike of an iron weapon.

Now, Xu Jin was planning to upgrade his Refined Iron to steel.

So, the first Star Pattern to comprehend was the current Seventh Tier Upper high-tier Fire Origin Star Pattern.

[Would you like to spend a Gold Star to enter high-tier Tao Derivation?]

[Yes]

After choosing affirmative, in the next instant, Xu Jin’s mind was immensely elevated, as if overlooking countless flames in the universe, yet with a thought, he could enter the very core of a flame and experience its genesis and extinction.

Combining the snippets of accumulations Xu Jin had used before, strands of new fragments of Fire Series Star Patterns emerged and passed by continuously, yet integrating them with Xu Jin’s current Seventh Tier Upper high-tier Fire Origin Star Pattern was extremely challenging.

It was somewhat like trying to crack a combination lock using the most primitive methods.

Requiring one number after another to try.

Yet it also resembled solving a puzzle; in the process of your comprehension, it gives you vague and ambiguous hints.

Whether you can comprehend it depends on your own insight.

Xu Jin was piecing it together like solving a puzzle.

Suddenly, as if from the perspective of God’s eye, Xu Jin’s view plummeted, sending him crashing out from that profound state.

Xu Jin smiled wryly.

The high-tier Tao Derivation with a Gold Star had ended.

But the gains from his comprehension were minimal.

The Seventh Tier Upper high-tier Fire Origin Star Pattern had only gained two branches so far.

It could barely be said to have broken through to Eighth Tier Lower, but the breakthrough was very limited.