Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 851: Chapter 341: Silver-level Authority

”Yu’er, let’s train here for a day or two to lay low, and I suggest you focus first on catching up with your cultivation progress in the Lower Star Palace. Then, if there’s time, try challenging the Gold Star in the Star-picking Secret Realm.

Whether or not you obtain the Gold Star is secondary.

But by challenging the Gold Star, you can constantly hone and improve your actual combat skills!”

”Senior Brother Qi, I used to challenge it before! When I was in the mid-to-late stage of Refining Star, I was always just a bit short of succeeding! But after my cultivation broke through to the Fourth Tier, those Gold Star Gatekeepers became increasingly formidable.” Ji Hongli’s expression was somewhat gloomy.

”No problem, just listen to me now. Increase your cultivation in the Lower Star Palace, then thoroughly comprehend all the Star Patterns I passed on to you earlier. Maybe there’s a chance to obtain the Gold Star.” Xu Jin said.

”I understand now.”

Xu Jin realized that the number of Gold Stars and Bright Stars he could acquire was ultimately limited, which meant that the Star Patterns he could derive in the future were also limited.

Then he suddenly thought of nurturing someone to challenge the Star-picking Secret Realm.

Wouldn’t that be a way to churn out Gold Stars?

You know, this possibility is still quite significant.

Especially since Xu Jin had cultivated the Dragon Turtle Soul Refining Pill on the Candou Platform, which can rapidly enhance a cultivator’s Divine Soul level, significantly boosting their combat power.

Unfortunately, Ji Hongli’s cultivation has already reached the Fourth Tier Third Layer, and after the Fourth Tier Third Layer, each further increase in her cultivation will nearly double the strength of the Gold Star Heart Demons and Gatekeepers she faces.

If Ji Hongli is lucky, obtaining three or four Gold Stars in the future would be the limit.

Bright Stars, that’s impossible.

However, Xu Jin thought of another method: cultivating someone completely trustworthy, intentionally suppressing their cultivation level, enhancing their Divine Soul cultivation, and then starting the Star-picking Secret Realm challenge from the Third Tier First Layer, still having a relatively high probability of obtaining Gold Stars or even Bright Stars.

But such a genius cannot be created by simply piling resources; a top-tier talent is required in all aspects to make it work.

Otherwise, piling resources is useless.

And being absolutely trustworthy is also required.

Thinking it over, for the time being, Xu Jin thought of Jiang’er.

In a while, Xu Jin plans to visit the Fifth Tier Huashi Star Domain to see Jiang’er, to assess if Jiang’er has the potential. If so, investing resources as a trial is worth trying.

Calculating the time, Jiang’er is about to undergo Star Casting.

A few moments later, Xu Jin gathered his thoughts, moved by his mind, and directly entered the Star-picking Secret Realm.

The last time he went before heading to the Spring Thunder Star Domain, Xu Jin only obtained the Gold Star and Bright Star at the Fourth Tier Fourth Layer. Now, his cultivation in the Central Star Palace has reached the late stage of the Fourth Tier Fifth Layer, while in the Lower Star Palace it’s at the early stage of the Fourth Tier Fifth Layer, it’s time to obtain the Gold Star at the Fourth Tier Fifth Layer.

Copper Stars and Silver Stars were without suspense, the battles were over as soon as they began.

[Challenge the Gold Star Level Heart Demon.]

Amid changing starlight, Xu Jin appeared in the Secret Realm. Once the light curtain vanished, he engaged in a fierce battle with the Gold Star Level Heart Demon.

However, Xu Jin didn’t use Divine Soul Star Technique.

Instead, he battled the Gold Star Level Heart Demon using other Star Skills.

Currently, the Gold Star Level Heart Demon had a cultivation level of the Fifth Tier Fifth Layer.

It only copied Xu Jin’s types of Star Patterns without copying the rank of Xu Jin’s Star Patterns.

Anyway, Xu Jin had used the Dazzling Purple Skyfire brought by his Eighth Tier Middle Fire Origin, but the Heart Demon had never used it.

Yet it was still extremely strong.

Even stronger than many of the Sixth Tier Experts Xu Jin had encountered.

With full-force attacks from a Sixth Tier Late-Period Expert, Xu Jin’s Fish Curtain Golden Bell could withstand two to three strikes, while the full-force attacks of this Gold Star Level Heart Demon barely withstood two strikes, and couldn’t hold up for three.

By the third strike, it was necessary to use the Shifting Flower Star Skill to transition!

This was an extremely strong free sparring partner.

During the arduous battle, Xu Jin continuously tested his Star Skill tactics.

Trying to compress the Great Sun Star Technique.

This was Xu Jin’s new discovery.

Xu Jin found that while the Sixth Order Star Technique Great Sun Star Technique was powerful, it felt somewhat wasteful!

It involves using the terrifying Fire Star Power to explode over an area.

It’s considered an area Star Skill.

However, the caster can control and influence the explosion range of the Great Sun Radiant Light.

Xu Jin had an idea.

If the Great Sun Star Technique could be concentrated to explode at one point, how many times would the power increase?

Normally, after the Great Sun Radiant Light explodes, the main damage range radius is three meters, and the scatter radius is ten meters!

Theoretically, if the radius is halved, the power should multiply.

Xu Jin began testing in actual combat, compressing and controlling the Great Sun Star Technique.

So far, there have been some results, primarily by using Divine Soul Power to forcibly shrink the damage range of the Star Skill, binding the power of the Star Skill to a smaller area to explode, increasing its lethality.

It was indeed effective.

But it also greatly consumed Divine Soul Power.

More crucially, although the time spent using Divine Soul Thought Power to compress and shrink the damage range of Star Power seems minuscule, it’s delayed by just an instant, but that instant is quite critical in actual combat!

In the fierce battle with the Gold Star Level Heart Demon, Xu Jin was constantly trying, changing, and testing all sorts of possibilities.

A few times, Xu Jin’s adjustments even affected the Great Sun Star Pattern.

But it was just a spark of inspiration, yet he couldn’t grasp the key point.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Jin performed a triple Flowing Flashes and successfully obtained a Gold Star!

Flowing Flashes is now Xu Jin’s killer move.

But Flowing Flashes has a downside: due to its extreme speed, it can only move in a straight line and requires a bit of distance to complete the start-up acceleration!

That’s why previously, when he killed Feng Yi, Xu Jin first left and then instantly returned to strike!