Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1012: Chapter 404: A Fallen Star

The negative effects of casting thirty-six stars within the Central Star Palace finally manifested when Xu Jin wanted to break through.

Previously, when cultivating from Fifth Tier First Layer to Fifth Tier First Layer Peak, it was within the Altar Sky Road, under the circumstances of extremely strong Star Power concentration, the speed was very fast, basically without sensing it.

Breaking through to Fifth Tier Second Layer was just a final step and was very easy.

But now when Xu Jin wished to elevate his cultivation from Fifth Tier Second Layer Early Period to Fifth Tier Third Layer, he felt the immense burden brought by the thirty-six Star Cores.

Taking the Fifth Order All Spirit Blood Elixir Fu Ying brought with Blood God Son Token as an example.

An ordinary cultivator only needs one Fifth Order All Spirit Blood Elixir to enhance their cultivation by one layer.

But Xu Jin took two in succession, and the cultivation in the Central Star Palace was only barely at the Fifth Tier Second Layer Late Period, still not breaking through.

After drawing out a tenth of the Star Power infused within the white remnant bone, Xu Jin’s cultivation in the Central Star Palace barely broke through to Fifth Tier Third Layer.

Casting thirty-six stars, the strength is several times that of ordinary cultivators, but the difficulty in cultivation is equally multiplied.

Ordinary Fifth Tier cultivators need at least two months to enhance their Fifth Tier cultivation.

Theoretically, Xu Jin might need eight months to enhance one layer of cultivation.

Fortunately, Xu Jin’s current Divine Soul Thought Power is extremely strong, with a relocation style of cultivation, the speed is four to five times that of ordinary cultivators.

With this decrease and increase, Xu Jin still needs two months to break through one layer of cultivation.

Theoretically, elevating a single Star Palace’s cultivation to Fifth Tier Ninth Layer Peak requires about two years.

The Central and Lower Star Palaces require four years.

This speed is very fast for ordinary cultivators.

But in Xu Jin’s view, it is still a bit slow.

After four years, the cultivation might break through to Sixth Tier.

The Star Power within the white remnant bone can save him about half a year of time.

In the future, perhaps ways can be thought of in this aspect.

On May 4th, Xu Jin’s cultivation broke through to Fifth Tier Third Layer, only the Central Star Palace broke through, while the Lower Star Palace’s cultivation remained at Fifth Tier Second Layer Early Period.

But this does not hinder Xu Jin in challenging the Star-picking Secret Realm.

At Fifth Tier Second Layer, when Xu Jin challenged the Star-picking Secret Realm, it was explosive style, effortlessly able to instantly kill the Golden Star Heart Demon and Golden Star Gatekeeper.

But at Fifth Tier Third Layer, the difficulty was clearly different.

Xu Jin’s Bing Fire Divine Thunder and Earth God Thunder, needed two strikes to smash the Golden Star Heart Demon and Gatekeeper.

It is evident that at Sixth Tier, the combat power of Golden Star Heart Demon and Gatekeeper has multiplied.

Xu Jin estimates, when his cultivation rises to Fifth Tier Fifth Layer or Sixth Layer, challenges against Gold Star and Bright Star will become challenging.

Or perhaps, when Xu Jin reaches Sixth Tier, challenges to obtain Gold Star and Bright Star will become extremely difficult!

The reason for such speculation is due to previously observing in battles with Qian’an Emperor and the battles of these eighth-tier experts State Preceptor, Xu Jin discovered a common trait among experts above seventh tier: being able to connect to the power of the stars to strengthen themselves.

Qian’an Emperor’s cultivation had just barely broken through, the Star Power that could be connected was very weak, but veteran seventh-tier experts are different.

Experts like Feng Yi, who was previously slain by Xu Jin at seventh tier, were indeed unlucky.

He hadn’t fully exerted himself, nor stimulated the Star Tower to connect to the Star Power, and was quickly obliterated by Xu Jin within a short time.

Xu Jin cannot gauge the specific degree of challenge enhancement for future Star-picking Secret Realm.

But it can be foreseen, in the future, the amount of Gold Star and Bright Star Xu Jin can obtain will be limited.

Based on current cultivation, the future quantity of Bright Stars obtained might be between ten and fifteen.

Thus, careful usage is necessary.

However, it’s unwise to economize on the deduction of Mingji Star Pattern.

Thirty-six engravings were made.

After completing the Star-picking Secret Realm challenge, and acquiring two Gold Stars and one Bright Star, Xu Jin began deducing the Mingji Star Pattern.

Mingji Star Pattern is one of the most difficult star patterns to deduce within Lingji Star Hall, second only to Clearing Soul Star Pattern, with difficulty almost comparable to it.

From the very start of deduction, Xu Jin discovered himself.

Mingji Star Pattern is at Sixth Tier Middle.

With previous star pattern deducing, one Gold Star could boost four small ranks.

Yet during deducing the Mingji Star Pattern, the efficiency directly halved, or even more.

The first Gold Star deduced Mingji Star Pattern from Sixth Tier Middle to Seventh Tier Lower, an advancement of two small ranks.

The second Gold Star deduced Mingji Star Pattern from Seventh Tier Lower to barely Seventh Tier Middle.

Not even a full two small ranks.

Afterward, Xu Jin decisively utilized a Bright Star.

Initially employing the high-tier Tao Derivation of Bright Star, deducing Mingji Star Pattern from Seventh Tier Middle to Seventh Tier Upper.

During the process of deducing Mingji Star Pattern from Seventh Tier Upper to Eighth Tier Lower, the difficulty doubled again, Xu Jin felt it reached the difficulty level of certain star patterns.

Eventually, even after exhausting the high-tier Tao Derivation of Bright Star, it did not break through Mingji Star Pattern to Eighth Tier Lower.

Yet the special function of the Bright Star directly enhanced one small rank, resulting in Mingji Star Pattern advancing to Eighth Tier Lower.

As Mingji Star Pattern advanced to Eighth Tier Lower, countless information flowed into Xu Jin’s mind.

As Xu Jin anticipated, after Mingji Star Pattern broke through to Eighth Tier Lower, he also acquired a special Star Skill.

Celestial Sensing: Able to establish faint connections with all things and beings in heaven and earth, allowing you to subtly perceive mutual influences, offering you guidance.

Upon seeing this information, Xu Jin’s expression tensed, suddenly frozen.

Upon rereading the Star Skill Celestial Sensing of Mingji Star Pattern word by word, an irrepressible joy appeared in his eyes.