Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1200: Chapter 478: Showing Weakness and Absolute Impossibility

The death of the four elders directly unsettled the Cangming Star Lord.

Nearly half of the Cangming Star Hall’s power in the real world was wiped out.

The loss is enormous.

The key is, the Cangming Star Lord does not yet know who did it.

Under these circumstances, the Cangming Star Lord couldn’t care less about saving face and personally traveled to West Sea State to look for clues about the four elders’ deaths.

If they can’t find out who did it, with an enemy capable of silently killing four Eighth Tier individuals lurking in the shadows, the Cangming Star Lord Wu Shou will surely have trouble sleeping peacefully.

And because of the Cangming Star Lord’s arrival in West Sea State, State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao, who originally intended to try pursuing a few retreating elites of Tianyang Star Hall, also had to divert to West Sea State.

The Dean of the West Sea State Branch Academy, upon seeing State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao personally arrive, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He found that when the Cangming Star Lord arrived in West Sea State, his legs nearly buckled.

He thought he was doomed to face a disaster.

Unexpectedly, the State Preceptor arrived.

This brought stability.

The Cangming Star Lord did not come to attack the West Sea State Branch Academy. Instead, he was sensing along the way, searching for residual combat auras, trying to trace the source and uncover the enemy.

After State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao arrived at the West Sea State Branch Academy, he did not immediately look for the Cangming Star Lord. Instead, he first gathered the elites who had seen Xu Jin rush out of the Star-picking Tower Branch on his own to divert the experts from the Cangming Star Hall, and one by one applied Divine Soul Sealing to them.

In theory, now Xu Jin doesn’t need this kind of protection anymore.

But State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao still felt it was necessary.

One cannot underestimate the shamelessness of the Cangming Star Lord and the Tianyang Star Lord.

Twenty years ago, the Lingji Star Lord underestimated the shamelessness of these two and ended up being attacked and killed, with towers sealed and halls locked.

Once both the Cangming Star Lord and the Tianyang Star Lord perceive Xu Jin as a threat, they could find a common ground of interest and join forces to eliminate Xu Jin.

Of course, Cheng Yuexiao knew clearly, Xu Jin couldn’t be hidden anymore.

A few months was the maximum they could hide him, basically not long at all.

But even a few months is extremely valuable.

In a few months, Xu Jin’s strength could improve again.

In this previous month of secluded cultivation with Xu Jin, he, Meng Yanhui, Dong Zhao, Elder Peng, Ying Ge, Liu Qingzhu, and others could fully absorb the results of retreat, significantly increasing their strength.

While defending the tower, there were over a thousand disciples taken into the Star-picking Tower.

However, most were on the lower levels.

Only those on the sixth and seventh levels, around a few dozen elite experts, saw Xu Jin.

State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao did not mind the trouble, simultaneously applying Divine Soul Sealing with Xu Jin, strictly forbidding the leakage of information related to Xu Jin.

After quickly handling these, Cheng Yuexiao took a step forward to seek the Cangming Star Lord who was tracking the traces.

”Star Lord, the matter of Jing State can no longer be thoroughly pursued!

Now that the Star Lord has again come to our Great Chen West Sea State, isn’t it a bit too much?”

Currently, it’s not appropriate to have a falling out with the Cangming Star Lord, even though Ji Bang’s blood feud still exists there.

However, this blood feud will never be forgotten by Cheng Yuexiao and Great Chen.

A gentleman’s revenge, ten years is not too late!

For now, Great Chen just needs a little more time!

The closer to growth, the closer to success, the more cautious Cheng Yuexiao is.

He absolutely does not wish to repeat the tragedy of the Lingji Star Hall.

The Cangming Star Lord Wu Shou, who was meticulously sensing the battlefield where Xu Jin fought the four elders of Cangming Star Hall, turned around upon hearing the words, silently looking at Cheng Yuexiao, while also sensing Cheng Yuexiao’s aura.

State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao remained immobile as a mountain.

However, in the Cangming Star Lord’s heart, waves of shock and awe surged!

He had already found the location of the battle, right where he stood was where the four elders of Cangming Star Hall were slain.

The Star Power fluctuations here had very clear traces of being swept clean.

Though swept clean, the Cangming Star Lord still found some clues.

There was an Eighth Tier Peak aura.

Very strong, very unfamiliar.

But because it was cleaned, he couldn’t be sure if he’d seen it before.

The perpetrator was almost identified: an Eighth Tier Peak expert.

Yet what puzzled him was that all the battle aura had been swept by powerful Space Star Power.

This pointed to a suspect target—the Sumeru Palace Master.

But then another problem arose, if it was indeed the Sumeru Palace Master, why use Space Star Power to clean the battlefield?

It had certain framing implications.

Meanwhile, upon turning his head, the Cangming Star Lord continuously sensed that the remaining Eighth Tier Peak aura differed greatly from Cheng Yuexiao’s aura.

So who could be the Eighth Tier Peak perpetrator?

Tianyang Star Lord?

Sumeru Palace Master?

Wood Spirit Palace Master?

Or the Doom-suppressing Star Lord?

Or perhaps another unknown top-tier Eighth Tier Peak expert hidden in the shadows?

The Cangming Star Lord was full of confusion.

”State Preceptor Cheng...”

The Cangming Star Lord was about to speak when he suddenly turned his head to the West Sea.

At the same time, Cheng Yuexiao looked over, and upon seeing the meteor-like blaze, the State Preceptor Cheng Yuexiao voluntarily retreated thirty miles.

In the sky, the rolling thunder-like angry roar of the Tianyang Star Lord already echoed.

”Wu Shou, can’t you act like a man and fight our Tianyang Star Hall head-on!

Always sneaking around like a woman, attacking from the shadows!

Does that amuse you?”

The Tianyang Star Lord cleared of losses, charged towards the Cangming Star Lord in a fury that reached the sky.

With troop withdrawals, the Tianyang Star Lord quickly tallied the losses.

Three Eighth Tiers, six Seventh Tiers!

The great loss caused immense pain in the Tianyang Star Lord’s heart.

The elite forces weren’t retrieved, and there were such heavy losses.

This directly led to Tianyang Star Hall losing more than a third of their power.

It is simply beyond belief.

So who did it?

The Great Chen National Taoist Institute was the first to be ruled out.

If the Great Chen National Taoist Institute had such capability, even more from Tianyang Star Hall would have died.

Quickly, the Tianyang Star Lord formed a judgment based on the reports from various sides.

Cangming Star Hall.

Although all branches and institutes of the Cangming Star Hall have closed for intensive Star Pattern study, the Tianyang Star Hall, after so many years, still has some deep-seated spies.

Thus, they obtained intelligence on the secret collective actions of the elders of the Cangming Star Hall.

Based on some corroborative evidence, the Tianyang Star Lord quickly made a judgment and came straight over.

At this moment, the Cangming Star Lord was also in an unspeakable predicament.

He could only keep a cold face and battle with the Tianyang Star Lord.

Because the Cangming Star Lord was still uncertain about who killed the four elders.

Did these two in front know the truth?

If they knew, and he revealed it, it would only be a disgrace!

If they didn’t know, and he revealed it, besides being ridiculed, it could also bring a crisis to the Cangming Star Hall.

With the four elders dead, power was halved.

Today, the Cangming Star Hall already vaguely shows signs of becoming like the Great Chen National Daoist School of yesterday.

Fortunately, in this battle, they also killed two Eighth Tier members of the Tianyang Star Hall.

Their strength was diminished.

Otherwise, Cangming Star Lord Wu Shou wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.

Above the West Sea, Tianyang Star Lord Zhuang Zhen and Cangming Star Lord Wu Shou were in fierce combat.

At first, the Tianyang Star Lord came to vent his anger and curse.

But the more the Tianyang Star Lord fought, the angrier he became.

Remembering the pain of being backstabbed several times by the Cangming Star Hall over the years, he fought more fiercely, gradually igniting true anger!

The Cangming Star Lord was also bottling up a lot of frustration with no outlet, and the arrival of the Tianyang Star Lord was timely.

Then let’s battle!

I’m not afraid of you!

From afar, State Preceptor Cheng Yuxiao watched the battle of these two top Eighth Tier experts with a look of excitement.

The opportunity to witness a battle between top Eighth Tier experts is very rare.

Especially since the two had become truly serious in their fight.

They were using all their techniques, with a faintly desperate stance!

Cheng Yuxiao even pondered whether to join forces with one of them to take down the other.

Fifteen minutes later, earth-shattering starlight spread from above the West Sea to the east coast of the West Sea.

To the east, there was a small fishing town inhabited by thousands of people.

At this moment, each of them felt as if they were facing the end of the world, filled with utter despair.

State Preceptor Cheng Yuxiao, however, shook his head helplessly.

After all, he could not sit by and watch his subjects be killed by the collateral damage from others’ battles!

No matter how blinded by greed or desire, he couldn’t stand by watching his people die!

Bong!

When the resonant sound of the Nine Bright Chime echoed through heaven and earth, State Preceptor Cheng Yuxiao quickly approached the battling Tianyang Star Lord and Cangming Star Lord with the Nine Bright Chime in hand.

”Two Star Lords, if you must fight, please take it to the sea, the ordinary people are innocent...”

Cheng Yuxiao had just arrived and spoken when the Tianyang Star Lord and Cangming Star Lord, as if startled and frightened, quickly stopped and separated, each warily watching the other two.

The Tianyang Star Lord feared being attacked by both the Cangming Star Lord and Cheng Yuxiao; if these two joined forces wholeheartedly, he would not escape severe injury if not death, which would be quite the trouble.

Similarly, the death of the four elders had made the Cangming Star Lord paranoid!

Previously, he was firmly convinced that the Great Chen National Daoist School could not cooperate with the Tianyang Star Hall.

But now, the mysterious deaths of the four elders made him consider many possibilities!

If Cheng Yuxiao cooperated with the Tianyang Star Lord to trap him, there was even a possibility of killing him.

So he preemptively kept his distance!

The three watched each other warily, carefully maintaining distance.

”State Preceptor Cheng, you’ve played a good game of chess!” Tianyang Star Lord Zhuang Zhen spoke.

”Not as ingenious as Mr. Wu’s machinations!” Cheng Yuxiao replied with a smile.

”Hmph, I’m nowhere near as crafty as you, Zhuang Zhen, playing all sides!” Cangming Star Lord sneered in return.

The foddered Tianyang Star Lord, with a cold snort, turned to Cheng Yuxiao and said, ”State Preceptor Cheng, today’s gift from Great Chen will surely be repaid another day!”

With those words, the Tianyang Star Lord swiftly turned, transforming into a meteor and left.

Inside the Tianyang Star Hall, facing both internal troubles and external threats recently, and now suffering major losses, he needed to return quickly to calm the people’s hearts.

As long as this Star Lord appears, the internal affairs of the Star Hall will stabilize.

Cheng Yuxiao originally intended to reply: today is merely the dues Tianyang Star Hall owed Dachen over the past twenty years.

But with the Cangming Star Lord present, he said nothing and remained silent.

At this moment, it’s not advisable to irritate the Cangming Star Lord too much.

Having lost four Eighth Tier experts, including his most capable Great Elder Sun Xianzu, the fact that the Cangming Star Lord did not attack Jing State in a fury already shows great restraint.

”Mr. Wu, our Great Chen has always been weak in numbers and strength, originally Ji Bang had hope to break through to the Eighth Tier, but now... alas!” Cheng Yuxiao pretended to be pitiful to mislead the Cangming Star Lord!

”Only lost a Ji Bang!”

The Cangming Star Lord snorted coldly, forcibly swallowing the second half of the sentence, and turned to leave.

In the second half, he had intended to say that his Cangming Star Hall had lost four Eighth Tiers.

Yet, in the end, he didn’t say it.

”Mr. Wu, perhaps we could forgo the selection this year,” State Preceptor Cheng Yuxiao called out to the departing Cangming Star Lord.

”Absolutely impossible!”

The void transmitted four words.

The remaining State Preceptor Cheng Yuxiao frowned slightly.

With this year’s selection issue, having already fallen out entirely with the Tianyang Star Hall, the forces stationed by the Tianyang Star Hall in various parts of Dachen were also all driven away, making it impossible for the Tianyang Star Hall to have a selection.

But the Cangming Star Hall’s right to selection still remained.

Especially at this crucial moment, it’s not appropriate to fall out directly with the Cangming Star Hall.

If we fall out directly now, it will prompt the two major Star Halls to re-form an alliance.

Originally, I wanted to use this matter to have the Cangming Star Hall voluntarily give up the selection.

But now, it seems impossible.

This selection issue still requires careful consideration.

I no longer want to destroy the cultivation prospects of any capable Dachen talents.

But the Cangming Star Hall’s side must still be appeased!

This is a tricky matter.