Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 969 -388: Breaking Through the Fifth Tier (2)

Special Envoy Ju Zhang’s eyes suddenly widened!

“A Star Domain has opened the Altar Sky Road, connecting towards the Ancestral Land Cave Heaven? Do we still have a Messenger left outside?” Special Envoy Ju Zhang exclaimed in surprise.

“This… Master, previously, there were four Messengers who were considered missing.

Because of long-term disconnection, the Holy Clan’s Golden Order received no response and deemed them dead.” Ju Ling said.

“Let’s go, follow me to take a look!”

In the next instant, Special Envoy Ju Zhang soared into the sky, with Ju Ling quickly following. After an hour, they reached the extreme edge of the Eight Wastelands Continent.

As far as the eye could see, it was an endless expanse of chaotic starlight.

But amidst this chaotic starlight, one could vaguely see a bright band of starlight extending this way.

“It truly is!”

Special Envoy Ju Zhang, looking at this scene, was instantly delighted.

“Keep an eye on it. If this succeeds, it’ll ease our burden quite a bit.

When it’s possible to make contact, reach out to them, verify their identity, encourage them, and urge them to link successfully as soon as possible.” Special Envoy Ju Zhang ordered.

“Understood.” Ju Ling responded but then hesitated, “Master, what if they request aid?”

“How can we aid them? Once the Altar Sky Road is opened, apart from the World Origin, there’s nothing more we can provide!

No aid can be given!

Let them find their own solution.” Ju Ling decisively dismissed the idea of aid, recalling how he was tricked out of one-tenth of their World Origin in his impatience during the first Star Domain.

The World Origin cannot be lost again.

“Master, I understand.” Ju Ling acknowledged.

*****

In the Fifth-order Lan Mountain Star Domain, Xu Jin and others have activated the Altar Sky Road for a day.

However, the group has not started their cultivation, as the Altar Sky Road needs to reach a certain height before extracting the Heaven and Earth Star Will to let the Star Power flow down, facilitating cultivation.

Of the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth Star Will, Xu Jin only drew upon two, allowing the Star Power to flow downward, and in an instant, the Altar Sky Road became exceedingly abundant with Star Power.

“Begin.” Xu Jin commanded, and the group commenced their cultivation.

Having experienced this multiple times, Ning Yuchan, Ji Hongli, Hou Yunzhang, and others started without hesitation, directly taking out the Gathering Star Array Plate to begin cultivation, while newcomers like Ying Ge, Yang Miaozhen, and the four members of the Sword Hero Mercenary Team, including Ning Yuchan’s Personal Guard Captain Yuan Jing, followed suit, albeit with some doubt.

But just minutes into their cultivation, each of their eyes widened dramatically.

This concentration of Star Power, can it get any more extravagant?

While the group began their cultivation, Xu Jin immersed his thoughts into the Central Star Palace. Within the Upper Star Palace, as the Primordial Spirit Embryo Light radiated brilliance, all of Xu Jin’s Divine Soul power converged into the Central Star Palace.

Upon each Star Core was attached a wisp of Divine Soul power.

This is the reason a certain level of Divine Soul Cultivation is required to break through to the Fifth Tier.

For ordinary people, attaching Divine Soul power to ten Star Cores is already tense.

Let alone thirty-six Star Cores.

If ordinary people gather too many Star Cores, and their Divine Soul Cultivation is not strong enough, there’s only one possibility: the time to break through to the Fifth Tier is indefinitely postponed.

Even lifelong inability to break through.

But for Xu Jin, the vast Divine Soul power enveloped each Star Core, with strength to spare.

For a moment, Xu Jin considered casting a few more Star Cores.

With his Divine Soul power, he could add ten or so more Star Cores.

But after some thought, he decided otherwise.

One should not be too greedy.

The path ahead is uncharted by predecessors, better not to overextend, which might lead to difficulties in future breakthroughs.

“Rise!”

At the next moment, the thirty-six Star Cores within the Central Star Palace spun simultaneously in one direction, with the Thunder Origin Star Core as the core within the core, the thirty-six Star Cores began synchronized rotation.

In the next instant, the thirty-six Star Cores seemingly coalesced into a whole, as a torrent of Star Power surged in, Xu Jin moved with a thought, once again activating the Great Gathering Star Pattern comprising thirty-six basic Star Patterns.

This is why the Bottom Base Star Pattern needs to be unified.

As soon as the thirty-six Great Gathering Star Patterns were activated, they resonated in unison, during which, under Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Thought Power, the thirty-six Great Gathering Star Patterns seemed to proliferate, projecting vein-like Star Pattern extensions.

The torrent of Star Power continued to surge in, merging incessantly among the thirty-six Star Cores.

The thirty-six Great Gathering Star Patterns, like a spider weaving a web, those extending Star Pattern lines started rapidly entwining and interweaving, in a quarter of an hour’s effort, forming an extremely dense net.

In places invisible to the naked eye, the thirty-six Great Gathering Star Patterns continued entwining and fusing.

With the integration of the Bottom Base Star Patterns, the thirty-six Star Cores thoroughly merged into one, allowing Star Power to integrate seamlessly, previously thirty-six individual Cores.

Now rapidly united as one.

Xu Jin continued to use Divine Soul power to drive the Great Gathering Star Patterns, completing the integration.

Although apparently merged, Xu Jin sensed many subtle areas that hadn’t fused entirely; it required time for complete integration.

If halted now, it could sow hidden dangers for the future.

This process persisted for an hour and a half.

After an hour and a half, with Xu Jin’s breath, within the Central Star Palace, following the thirty-six Stars as meridians, just a thought, and the Star Power flowed swiftly through like a flood, reaching the intended Star Pattern smoothly.

Unimpeded and exceptionally smooth.

“Succeeded!”

The Fifth Tier is achieved!

Inside the Central Star Palace, a small Galaxy-shaped like a Star is hovering there, the thirty-six Star Cores, resembling Stars, gently rotating and each trailing a tail of light.

With just a thought, the Star Power circulates rapidly like a mighty river.

Previously, Xu Jin could only employ the power of one Star Core at most at a time.

But now, with a single thought, the power of thirty-six Star Cores is invoked!

The Star Power is incredibly imposing.

Theoretically, after Xu Jin’s breakthrough to the Fifth Tier, the total Star Power infused into one Star Skill might increase up to thirty-six times.

Of course, this is merely a theory.

The maximum Star Power that can be activated is also related to Divine Soul power and the Rank of the Star Skill.

But a gap has indeed emerged.

Ordinary Fifth Tier cultivators, even at the extreme, can only mobilize the Star Power of ten Star Cores, but Xu Jin, when pushed to the limit, can mobilize the power of thirty-six Star Cores at once.

The maximum capacity is entirely different.

Moreover, right now, it is different.

As Xu Jin sensed just now, if he fully exerted a certain Star Skill, he could mobilize the power of twelve Star Cores at once.

In terms of the sheer amount of Star Power, a Star Skill, when fully unleashed, has increased its potency twelvefold compared to before.

However, the prowess of a Star Skill is not solely based on the quantity of Star Power; otherwise, Star Patterns would be useless, and accumulating Star Power would suffice.

Nonetheless, with such a significant increase in the mobilized Star Power, the potency of a single Star Skill can likely be enhanced two to three times.

In other words, after breaking through to the Fifth Tier, the potency of Xu Jin’s Star Skill could be expected to double at least.

Tripling might also be possible.

After this round of cultivation, a proper test can be arranged.

Previously, two Star Skills were enough to destroy a Sixth Tier Ninth Layer expert.

Now, one might be sufficient!

Perhaps even stronger!

The enhancement is quite substantial!

But for Xu Jin, the improvement has only begun!

In the next instant, the entire Star Battle accelerated its rotation again, and in a split second, an immense influx of Star Power surged into the Altar Sky Road.

The Star Power aura of the entire Star Battle rapidly intensified.

However, after just cultivating for an hour, Xu Jin realized that not casting more Star Cores earlier was indeed the correct decision.

His number of Star Cores increased to thirty-six, and breaking through to the Fifth Tier made the number of Star Cores nearly four times that of others, with Star Skill potency far exceeding others.

But the cost is that the difficulty of Cultivation Level advancement at the Fifth Tier is also nearly four times that of others.

This concept Xu Jin fully comprehends and understands.

The way of Heaven and Earth is indeed so!

One does as much as one’s strength allows.

But likewise, doing more work consumes more!

There isn’t always a direct proportion between effort and reward.

But to reap rewards, one must exert effort!

After two hours, Xu Jin immersed his thoughts into the Lower Star Palace!

Since the Central Star Palace has been breached, why not break through the Lower Star Palace to the Fifth Tier in one go!