Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1203: Chapter 480: Seven Killings Sword Heart

”Senior Brother!”

Ji Hongli, dressed in mourning clothes, rushed into Xu Jin’s arms as soon as she saw him, her eyes already swollen from crying.

Everything felt so natural.

Xu Jin couldn’t think of any comforting words and just gently patted Ji Hongli’s shoulder.

This little girl was raised by her grandfather Ji Bang after her father left to secure the remote Star Domain.

Ji Bang’s death was a huge blow to her.

Off to the side, Ning Yuchan just glanced at Xu Jin, then looked away, her gaze lowered.

Fortunately, Jiang’er, that little chatterbox, sensed her brother’s unease and dragged Ning Yuchan along to chat somewhere else.

Previously, Jiang’er and her father Xu Dajiang had been staying in the Fifth-tier Huashi Star Domain, where Ji Cheng resided.

With Ji Bang’s death in battle, Ji Cheng, his son, was trapped in the Star Domain and couldn’t come to bid farewell, so he sent some relatives instead.

The National Master personally sent people to assist.

Coincidentally, they also brought Xu Jin’s father Xu Dajiang and his sister Jiang’er.

Now, Xu Jin has returned, and the Wukong Academy has been newly established.

Though there’s still danger, as long as they live within the National Taoist Institute, they are safe.

After a busy day, Xu Jin settled his sister and father, and in the evening, he finally had time to sit down and chat quietly with his teacher, Kou Jing.

”The secret technique Star Core you got from the Alien Race, which you gave me last time, I’ve been researching it recently and have made some progress. But its power is still very limited, not even matching a top-grade Sixth Tier emblem.”

Kou Jing was most passionate about emblems.

Yet, ordinary emblems could only refine top-grade Sixth Tier ones.

Previously, Xu Jin had captured a Seventh-tier Star Core with sealed secret techniques from an alien special envoy during the battle in the Star Domain and gave it to his teacher Kou Jing for research.

Unexpectedly, there had already been some progress.

”Teacher, where does the problem lie that affects its power?” Xu Jin asked.

”It’s primarily the purification of the Star Pattern.

If the purification isn’t thorough, the remaining original aura is too much, causing the Star Skill sealed within to draw on very mixed Star Power, significantly impacting its power.”

”Currently, I’m researching methods to improve the purification of the Star Core,” Kou Jing said.

Upon hearing this, Xu Jin was moved.

This seems to be the most critical point.

The Alien Race’s research in this area is far superior to the Human Clan.

Especially those purification pearls, which make cultivation more convenient.

Thinking it over, Xu Jin handed over two remaining Sixth-tier purification pearls from his previous cultivation to his teacher, Kou Jing, to see if he could research a new method for purifying Star Cores.

If a more advanced method for purifying Star Cores can be developed, then Dachen can mass-produce purification pearls.

Purification pearls can directly enhance cultivation levels.

If achieved, Dachen’s elites could enter the Star Domain and sustain themselves through combat.

Continuously killing enemies while continuously enhancing their cultivation levels.

The rate of improvement in Dachen’s elite cultivation levels would only accelerate.

Including Xu Jin’s own cultivation level, it would also improve rapidly.

Obtaining these trainable purification pearls, Kou Jing was immediately enthralled and wanted to find a place to study them, but Xu Jin forcibly pulled him back.

Xu Jin’s time was limited, and opportunities were rare.

So Xu Jin brought Kou Jing and Ning Yuchan to his side, along with Ying Ge, Mountain Master Dong Zhao, Teacher Liu Qingzhu, and Elder Peng, once again activating the Candou Lamp Domain to enable them to comprehend the Star Pattern.

As for Meng Yanhui and National Master Cheng Yuxiao, there were numerous affairs within Dachen recently; even when Xu Jin had time, they did not.

The reason for bringing Teacher Kou Jing into this was that Xu Jin wanted his teacher to quickly learn Fire Elephant and Earth Elephant Star Patterns within a short time.

The death of Old Master Ji Bang had deeply affected Xu Jin.

If Old Master Ji had learned the Earth Elephant Star Pattern earlier and accumulated several hundreds of Earth Core Earth Charms, he might have held through.

Therefore, Xu Jin now wanted his teacher Kou Jing and Ning Yuchan to quickly comprehend these Star Patterns.

Ning Yuchan was doing fine; she had learned the Earth Elephant previously and had comprehended it to the Eighth Tier Middle.

Kou Jing, though he got hold of the Earth Elephant, had only recently begun comprehending it and was at the Seventh Tier, not yet reaching the Eighth Tier.

As for Xu Jin himself, besides infusing power into the Seven Killings Iron Wood Sword, he also started spending fixed time daily comprehending the Seven Killings Sword Heart.

Only by forming the Seven Killings Sword Heart can one cultivate the Seven Kills Sword.

And only then can one practice the Star Killing Skill and master the Star Killing Sword.

The Seven Killings legacy says that the Seven Killings Sword Heart requires sensing the rhythm of life from small details, ultimately perceiving the subtle rhythm of life within the Star, to fully form the Seven Killings Sword Heart.

This step is extremely difficult.

However, the Seven Killings legacy also has a complete set of cultivation methods.

The first step is to perceive the life rhythms of humans and various animals.

Because the biological rhythms of humans and animals are the most apparent.

Next come plants.

So, these days, Xu Jin has been carrying a small rabbit in his arms.

Aside from cultivation, he stimulates the Mingji Star Pattern, sensing the rabbit’s life rhythm.

It is a very peculiar feeling.

The rabbit breathes, its heart beats, and the blood around its body flows continuously.

Life resembles an incredibly precise machine, orchestrating everything in operation.

And the essence of the Seven Killings Sword Heart is to find the most critical point in an instant; one strike can pause all life rhythms.

By then, finding the life rhythm within the Star, one strike can harm the Star’s origin.

Finding this point on these small lives only requires a touch to instantly bring demise.

This is the true meaning of the Seven Killings Sword Heart.

For several consecutive days, while others were contemplating cultivation, Xu Jin continuously held a rabbit, sensing and comprehending.

He would go through three to four rabbits a day on average.

Whenever there was a breakthrough in self-sensation, he would lightly tap with a finger, without any Star Power, just a soft touch.

Then, the rabbit would either bite, become lame or crippled, or be directly disabled.

However, the sign of success in sensing is: with a single point, the rhythm of life is disrupted, and vitality is cut off.

This shows how difficult it is to condense the Seven Killings Sword Heart!

However, the cultivation levels of the teachers and others like Ning Yuchan, under the assistance of the Candou Lamp Domain, advanced by leaps and bounds.

The dozen Fourth-Order Divine Soul Spiritual Medicines given to him earlier by the National Master have all been nourished completely. Xu Jin himself found no more effect from them, so he distributed them to Kou Jing and Ning Yuchan.

With Xu Jin’s current cultivation at the later stage of the Primordial Spirit, ordinary Fifth Order Divine Soul-type Spiritual Medicines are useless.

Only nourished Fifth Order Divine Soul-type Spiritual Medicines can enhance the cultivation level of the Primordial Spirit.

On November 12, Ji Bang was buried, and aside from kin needing to observe mourning, the others didn’t have much to do.

Xu Jin originally planned to depart on the 13th to the Sixth-Tier Star Domain to search for his teacher Qi Shanye’s whereabouts.

But Xu Jin felt that the entrance to the Seven Killings Sword Heart was imminent, so he stayed for another day or two.

On the evening of November 13, while Xu Jin was sensing and comprehending while holding a rabbit, he suddenly had a sense of intuition. Suddenly, he gently pointed out a finger without using any Star Power, incredibly softly.

But the rabbit that was pointed at became stiff all over in an instant and lost its life breath in a moment.

Xu Jin was overjoyed.

He directly brought over another rabbit from the cage, and after more than twenty breaths, he gently pointed out a finger again, resulting in another death.

Another one, this time sensing for over a dozen breaths.

Subsequently, Xu Jin’s speed in killing rabbits became increasingly faster.

At first, it took more than ten breaths to sense, but later, it only took three to five breaths to find the rabbit’s life rhythm.

After consecutively killing a hundred, as soon as the rabbit was in his arms, he could sense the life rhythm, and kill with one point.

Xu Jin was overjoyed.

His Seven Killings Sword Heart had made a preliminary entry.

But it was still far from achieving the desired Great Success to slay stars.

This sensing of life rhythm requires continually changing the types of living things, gradually reaching the level where any living thing’s life rhythm can be sensed in the first instant for a one-point kill.

Then switch to plants.

Thereafter, switching to dead objects like mountains, stones, water, and fire.

Finally, it will be stars.

Each step is harder than the last.

However, being able to enter is good.

Failing to enter; that is the most frightening.

According to the Seven Kills inheritance, if the Seven Killings Sword Heart does not enter within three years, then one can abandon the Star Killing Skill and switch to the Star Harmony Skill.

Although Xu Jin was pleased with the entry into the Seven Killings Sword Heart, the disciples of Wukong Academy, like Mo Daniu, Ji Fei, Lou Xiaojie, looked at the mountain of rabbit corpses with their faces crying like chrysanthemums.

They had been eating rabbits for seven or eight consecutive days, three or four a day, almost to the point of vomiting.

Now with over a hundred, how long would it take to finish eating them?

On November 14, this period of secluded cultivation came to a formal end.

Teacher Kou Jing also comprehended the Earth Elephant Star Pattern to the middle of the eighth-tier, and Ning Yuchan comprehended the Earth Elephant to the upper eighth-tier.

With the special powers brought by these two Star Patterns, as long as built up over time, even if encountering the eighth-tier, they have a chance to escape for their lives.

With Xu Jin’s help, Ying Ge successfully forged her Primordial Spirit.

Under this long-term secluded cultivation, combat power greatly improved.

Although just at the Fourth Layer of the Fifth Tier cultivation, Xu Jin estimated that Ying Ge advancing a major realm to challenge would not be a problem.

Golden Elephant middle of the eighth-tier, Earth Elephant middle of the eighth-tier, with the special powers accumulated by these two, they could explode and slay upon encountering the seventh tier.

In the future, presiding over Wukong Hall won’t have any problems.

As for the three youngsters being trained, Mo Daniu’s cultivation is naturally far ahead; Ji Fei and Lou Xiaojie, in this brief period of seven or eight days, had their Divine Soul Cultivation Level pushed by Xu Jin to above the Sixth Layer of Refining Star.

It is estimated that by the time they participate in the autumn exam, reaching the Ninth Layer of Refining Star in Divine Soul Cultivation Level won’t be any problem.

Such improvements, if they still can’t achieve the top of the autumn exam, Xu Jin would have nothing more to say.

Ning Yuchan’s improvement was even greater.

The latest Breaking Evil, Mingji, and Great Gathering Star Patterns were all taught to Ning Yuchan, although it would take some time to completely turn them into her own combat power.

His sister Jiang’er also reached the Fourth Layer of the Third Tier Refining Star, on the verge of breaking through to the Fifth Tier.

Her Divine Soul Cultivation Level had long been pushed by Xu Jin to the Fourth Tier.

The increase in cultivation level is not huge, but every step is solid.

But what was even more astonishing was another point.

Sister Jiang’er had already accumulated eight Gold Stars and four Bright Stars.

With a definite lead in Divine Soul Cultivation Level, the challenge was not particularly difficult.

This is also the reason why Jiang’er’s cultivation level improved relatively slowly recently.

With so many Gold Stars and Bright Stars, Xu Jin doesn’t plan to have Jiang’er use them now.

He plans to wait until her cultivation level breaks through to the Fourth Tier when her experience and research on Star Patterns have reached a certain level, otherwise, it would be a waste.

Before Xu Jin’s departure, he arranged for his sister Jiang’er to enter the Library of the National Taoist Institute.

For the next one or two years, Jiang’er must immerse herself here, studying the seniors’ Star Pattern manuals.

Only after completely learning all the experience of the predecessors can Jiang’er start accumulating and deducing her own Star Patterns.

As for the continuous increase of Gold Stars in the Star-picking Secret Realm, it has not caused too much shock.

First, because the quantity of Gold Stars in the Star-picking Secret Realm has been increasing ever since the appearance of the two palaces within the past year.

Secondly, there has been unrest in the world recently.

Whether it is in the Tianyang Star Hall or Cangming Star Hall, they have more important matters, hence no trouble like Xu Jin faced previously.

But come to think of it, now there’s no fear even if trouble arises!

*****

On November 15, after arranging the affairs of Wukong Hall, Xu Jin said a word to the National Master and instantly stepped onto a star, leaving Wanyi City.

Fifty miles away from Wanyi City, in a deserted place, Xu Jin directly opened the Star Domain Gate to the Seven Killings Star Domain and entered it.

Then, he appeared in his self-made Treasure Vault.

The spoils of the prior battle finally had time to be inventoried.

Regarding the colossal wealth of Great Elder Sun Xianzu, Xu Jin was indeed very interested!