Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1776: Chapter 737: Choice

On June 16, Xu Jin was still awaiting the detailed investigation results from Zhu Linxiao’s side, but instead, he first received Xiji Star Monarch Liu Xi.

It was natural for Xiji Star Monarch to visit with the intention of trading the West Wind Chaotic Sky Banner.

The transaction process was very simple, and Xu Jin did not appear in person.

This was also slightly out of consideration for concealing some strength.

Since the great battle in the Lower Pool Star Domain, the situation of the Jade Hall True Monarch Mansion has greatly changed. Previously, every month they would lose control of one or two Small World Star Domains on average, but now the trend of losing has completely stopped, and the focus of various forces within the Star Realm on the declining Jade Hall True Monarch Mansion has triggered a small surge of attention.

At the same time, the tentacles of the Jade Hall True Monarch Mansion are also collecting reactions from various forces within the Star Realm, including the overall evaluation of the great battle in the Lower Pool Star Domain.

What made Xu Jin happy was that the analysis circulated by various forces within the Star Realm, including the major True Monarch Mansions, about the battle in the Lower Pool Star Domain, somewhat diminished Xu Jin’s weight.

Of course, Xu Jin is a key figure in this battle, and that fact has not changed.

However, the role he played has been altered.

Originally, the truth of the battle was that Xu Jin directly achieved victory after gaining the blessing of the Heaven and Earth Authority.

But in the extremely rational and reasonable analysis of various forces, Xu Jin created the opportunity for victory and was the main force, but the one who truly completed the swift killing was Star Monarch Zhu Linxiao, who used the Daoist Embryo to wield the artifact from within.

There are even reasonable conjectures suggesting that Zhu Linxiao refined a portion of the Heaven and Earth Authority, then used the Daoist Embryo to wield the artifact from within, completing the decisive strike with Xu Jin’s help.

Regarding Xu Jin’s performance, the mainstream opinion believes that Xu Jin’s combat power is similar to a Little Star Monarch who has evolved two Tao Rules. With the aid of the Heaven and Earth Authority, he can slay an ordinary Little Star Monarch and can contend with top-level Little Star Monarchs like Song Ju but cannot defeat them.

Of course, there are also some who believe that Xu Jin has the combat power to defeat Song Ju by leveraging the might of the Heaven and Earth Authority.

Xu Jin is quite pleased with these assessments.

Concealing some strength is quite advantageous.

Thus, Xu Jin has deliberately cooperated with their reasonable analyses.

When trading the West Wind Chaotic Sky Banner, it was Zhu Linxiao and Zhu Shizhen who went, and Xu Jin did not show up at all.

However, when Yutang King Zhu Shizhen delivered the transaction materials brought by Xiji Star Monarch Liu Xi, it still made Xu Jin beam with joy.

Recently, the harvest has been continuous, and another batch of cultivation materials has arrived.

Twenty drops of All Heaven Star Dew.

Space treasure material: Sky Split Butterfly Wings, Thunder series treasure material: Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood.

These were the treasures Xiji Star Monarch Liu Xi used to exchange for the West Wind Chaotic Sky Banner, and let’s say there was no perfunctory treatment.

Of course, it’s not that Xiji Star Monarch Liu Xi didn’t want to be perfunctory, but rather that space and thunder series treasure materials are extremely rare. Given the urgent timing, it was already quite good to procure them. There was no chance to cobble together subpar items.

Sky Split Butterfly Wings are the wings of a rare space alien race, inherently possessing the power to shatter space, and they align extremely well with Xu Jin’s already evolved Fragmented Space Law, making them very practical.

Thunder Wood is relatively common, but Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood is extremely rare.

Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood refers to a wondrous wood that has survived at least nine tribulations of thunder strikes. It typically exists in deep mountains and ancient forests, extremely hard to find.

The piece of Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood at hand has already crystalized. When one’s Divine Thought delves into it, the overwhelming thunder power contained within rushes forth, and more intriguingly, it contains a trace of vitality within the thunder, making it even more precious. It is also an excellent thunder series treasure material.

”Brother-in-law, I know you want to forge a lifebound spiritual treasure. Lately, I’ve been asking around in various star realms. Unfortunately, the Jade Hall True Monarch Mansion’s finances are limited for now, and we could only obtain a portion of Thunder series treasure material called Cloud Thunder Essence. You hold on to it for now, and I’ll keep looking.” While speaking, Yutang King Zhu Shizhen handed over a light sphere heavily sealed.

”Thank you!”

Xu Jin did not stand on ceremony and accepted it outright.

This was the treasure material Zhu Shizhen promised to provide to Xu Jin back then, and now all the promises are being fulfilled one by one.

After Yutang King Zhu Shizhen left, Xu Jin started to consider and contemplate.

Forging a lifebound spiritual treasure is very complex; it is not just about piling up a heap of treasure materials randomly.

They are classified into primary, auxiliary, and complementary categories based on their roles.

Theoretically, any treasure material can serve as the primary material for a lifebound spiritual treasure, but usually, the primary material needs to be sufficiently inclusive, with not too strong or overly specific characteristics, or it would limit the later growth of the lifebound spiritual treasure.

The requirements for auxiliary materials are relatively simple; they should ideally complement the primary material for the best effect.

Complementary treasure materials generally have no restrictions; their main role is to enhance the power of the lifebound spiritual treasure.

Therefore, in the crafting of a lifebound spiritual treasure, the choice of primary material is the most critical, followed by auxiliary material, while complementary spiritual materials are quite easy to find, essentially serving as an escort to enhance the power.

If stronger treasure materials are found later, they can be re-forged into the lifebound spiritual treasure to enhance its power.

As a result, a lifebound spiritual treasure requires a minimum of three types of treasure materials, and the upper limit, as long as the attributes are compatible, is the more the better.

Currently, there is only one space-type treasure material, but there are two thunder-series materials.

If adding the previously obtained Innate Crystal Egg, which is an innate-level treasure material, it’s sufficient for Xu Jin to refine thunder series treasure materials.

The Innate Crystal Egg, which is an attributeless treasure material, can only serve as the primary, Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood can be auxiliary, and Cloud Thunder Essence, which can summon thunderclouds and gather the thunder from clouds, can be the complementary treasure material.

This combination is quite good.

The only concern Xu Jin has now is the crafting of the space lifebound spiritual treasure.

Space-type treasure materials are hard to find, and those suitable as primary materials are even harder to come by.

For instance, the Sky Split Butterfly Wings sent by Xiji Star Monarch this time are indeed nice, but in actual crafting, they are only suitable as complementary materials, barely fitting as auxiliary materials, because their characteristics are too prominent and too singular.

On the contrary, the rank of the Innate Crystal Egg is high enough with strong inclusivity, making it an excellent choice as the main material for a space Lifebound Spiritual Treasure.

So Xu Jin is hesitating about this right now.

Should he directly use the Innate Crystal Egg, Nine Tribulations Thunder Wood, and Cloud Thunder Essence to refine a Thunder Series Lifebound Spiritual Treasure?

Or should he temporarily not refine it and leave the Innate Crystal Egg for a future space Lifebound Spiritual Treasure as the main material?

After all, the main material for a space Spiritual Treasure is more challenging to find!

For a moment, even Xu Jin is somewhat hesitant.

This made Xu Jin think more about another cultivation-related issue.

Earlier, when exchanging with his mentor, Emperor Fenghua in the Lower Pool Star Domain, they had discussed the forms of Xu Jin’s multiple Lifebound Spiritual Treasures. For this, Emperor Fenghua suggested a directional approach.

He advises Xu Jin to consider comprehensively when refining Lifebound Spiritual Treasures.

No matter how many Lifebound Spiritual Treasures are ultimately refined, it would be best if the Lifebound Spiritual Treasures have correlations and can utilize their characteristics to aid each other, forming a system.

Such systematic multiple Lifebound Spiritual Treasures become increasingly terrifying the later it progresses.

Most Emperors have refined two or three Jidao Emperor Weapons.

The combat power of an Emperor whose Jidao Emperor Weapons can be interconnected is much stronger than that of an Emperor whose Emperor Weapons cannot interconnect and assist each other.

Perhaps the current one-tenth change will only give Xu Jin a slight edge, but at the level of True Monarch or Emperor, it becomes a decisive advantage.

Even more critically, the Lifebound Spiritual Treasures Xu Jin wants to refine should number more than three.

Therefore, Xu Jin is considering this issue, which is extremely complex.

It is uncertain what kind of treasure materials can be obtained in the future, and also considering the interconnection and assistance between forms is very difficult!

For a moment, there is no progress, just a jumble of confusion.

Xu Jin simply stopped thinking about it and decided to consume the newly obtained All Heaven Star Dew first.

With twenty drops, it is enough to enhance Xu Jin’s strength, especially the combat power after the outbreak.

As for the issue of the Great Dao Oath, once the All Heaven Star Dew is refined, the information from Zhu Linxiao over there will have been almost sorted out.

The reason the intelligence is slow to gather is mainly due to the reason for hiding tracks.

This matter, Xu Jin can only handle personally.

If the movement is too large and others find out, when Xu Jin goes over to solve the problem, he might be ambushed or completely thwarted from completing the task, which would be troublesome.

Therefore, the investigation arranged by Zhu Linxiao is extremely cautious and requires some time.

Xu Jin then focused on cultivation, striving to convert the twenty drops of All Heaven Star Dew into combat power in the shortest possible time.

Xu Jin took just five days to refine all twenty drops of All Heaven Star Dew in one go.

The newly added Star Tower in his body increased by sixty layers.

Under inner sight, around the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower, there are eight Star Towers of varying heights, their starlight flashing, quite spectacular.

The Space Star Tower remains at sixty-five layers, the Thunder Series Star Tower reaches forty-eight layers, the Wood Series Star Tower forty-eight layers, and other Star Towers are all at forty-five layers.

The total number of Star Tower layers during the burst of interconnected eight towers’ chaotic path-guarding killing strike has reached three hundred and sixty layers.

When Xu Jin used the Heaven and Earth Authority’s power to slay Lu Sheng and Song Ju, the total number of layers when the eight towers were interconnected was only one hundred and ninety-two layers, now it has nearly doubled.

The combat power during the burst will not say it has doubled, but it’s not far off.

Now, encountering Song Ju again, without the boost from Heaven and Earth Authority, Xu Jin feels he could slay Song Ju without needing the Tai Xu Heart Inquiry Platform.

This is equivalent to having the combat strength of an elite Great Star Monarch.

Under normal circumstances, with the help of the Tai Xu Heart Inquiry Platform, even if encountering the strongest among the tenth rank Star Monarchs, Yu Dejun, Xu Jin would still have the ability to protect himself and escape!

Therefore, when going out in the future, there is no need to be as cautious and careful as before.

Meanwhile, Zhu Linxiao has already thoroughly investigated detailed information on the Wu Bei family’s related matters secretly, waiting for Xu Jin to personally resolve the issue of the Great Dao Oath.

The family where Wu Bei resides is a small family living within the Dongxuan Star Realm.

Otherwise, they would not have an incomparably clear understanding of the True Monarchs and Star Monarch nobles in the Dongxuan Star Realm.

[Lin’er, I am going to the Wu Family to resolve this issue.]

Zhu Linxiao, who was handling official duties at the Punishment Hall, received Xu Jin’s Starlight Transmission and replied immediately, [Husband, just go and be extremely careful. If anything seems off, promptly trigger the split of my Suppression Artifact, and I will rush there immediately.]

After reading, Xu Jin smiled slightly. This woman is so concerned about him.

With the next step, Xu Jin disappeared into thin air instantly.

Direct space movement made it inconvenient for those guarding outside the mansion to track him down!

After resolving this issue, Xu Jin would need to make a choice.

Should that Innate Crystal Egg be kept unused, to first refine a Wood Series Spiritual Treasure, or first refine a Thunder Series Spiritual Treasure!