Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1150: Chapter 459: Time and the Return of the Death Soldier

In the Luomei Star Domain, a human cultivator at the ninth-layer peak of the sixth tier was racing towards the Blood Spirit Holy City, pushing his speed to the extreme.

Boom!

Suddenly, a bolt of heavenly thunder appeared out of nowhere, striking him right on the head.

In an instant, his body protective starlight and his sixth-tier star armor were shattered by the thunder light, and as he fell heavily, countless vines sprouted from the void, binding him tightly.

At the same time, Xu Jin suddenly appeared, gestured, and the dark green light receded, bringing the tightly bound sixth-tier ninth-layer peak human into Xu Jin’s palm.

As his palm covered the back of the captive’s head, the Warm Dream technique was activated.

The sixth-tier ninth-layer peak cultivator immediately fell into a deep slumber.

Captured alive.

However, Xu Jin did not immediately begin the interrogation, instead, he pondered how to conduct it.

As for the star skill he just used, which caused vines to sprout from the void, it was a special star skill, Green Shadow Thousand Weaving, obtained when Xu Jin advanced the Wood Origin Star Pattern to the eighth tier lower.

Highly practical.

It could spawn hundreds or even thousands of vines out of thin air, to trap, bind, and obstruct enemies, making it a particularly strong auxiliary star skill.

Xu Jin first inspected the entire body of the captive to see if there were any identifying marks.

Now, with the fall of the Sixth Order Luo Mei Star Domain, anyone sent in by the Blood God Sect’s Vice Sect Hierarch to gather intelligence must be a death soldier.

Especially when Xu Jin discovered that this captive death soldier was not cultivating with the Blood God Sect’s techniques, but with mainstream techniques, he knew things were complicated.

If the Vice Sect Hierarch of the Blood God Sect could send in non-Blood God Sect death soldiers, it means either urgency or confidence that Xu Jin wouldn’t discover their identity.

Also, sending five sixth-tier ninth-layer peak death soldiers at once elevated the Vice Sect Hierarch’s status even higher.

Whether in Dachen or Dahong, state-level main officials usually had a cultivation level of late sixth tier or early seventh tier; mid to late seventh-tier experts were exceedingly rare.

With the problem stated, the answer emerged.

Among cultivators, the strong held authority. Normally, an early seventh-tier cultivator would find it difficult to control so many sixth-tier ninth-layer peak death soldiers.

Much less control the Blood God’s Son, Lu Hong, with a cultivation level reaching the seventh-tier ninth-layer peak.

If Lu Hong were controlled, it could have happened before entering the sixth-tier star domain.

When controlled, his cultivation might have been fifth tier, or early to late sixth tier, but certainly not seventh tier.

Now, the emergence of these five sixth-tier ninth-layer death soldiers nearly eliminated much of the suspicion within Dahong Empire’s upper echelons regarding a high-ranking Blood God Sect Vice Sect Hierarch.

For example, a senior official in the Mei State’s government was now unlikely.

Since Luomei Manor was located in Mei State, Xu Jin initially suspected the Blood God Sect’s Vice Sect Hierarch might be a senior official in Mei State’s government.

Now, it seemed this Vice Sect Hierarch might hold an even higher position within the Dahong Empire.

The number of suspects dwindled sharply.

Xu Jin thoroughly searched the captive death soldier from head to toe, but found no information pointing to their identity.

After much contemplation, Xu Jin began direct dream interrogation.

"What is your purpose here?"

"To investigate the changes within the Luomei Star Domain and report immediately to the boss."

Instinctively, Xu Jin wanted to ask who ’the boss’ was, but ultimately, he didn’t dare to ask.

Asking directly might cause the captive’s head to explode.

"Which village did you enter from?"

"Yes."

"On your way here, how many eighth tiers did you see?" Xu Jin didn’t dare ask directly, cautiously beating around the bush.

"Two."

"And on your way here, how many seventh tiers did you see?"

"Six."

"Are they currently at Luomei Manor...?"

Bam!

Just as Xu Jin mentioned the three words ’Luomei Manor,’ the death soldier’s head exploded.

Xu Jin fell silent.

Indeed, that Vice Sect Hierarch was cautious enough to possess a divine soul type star artifact, with the ability to enact divine soul sealing anytime, anywhere.

The divine soul seal concerning the Luomei Manor information was probably added just before this death soldier entered.

This indicated that the Vice Sect Hierarch was very likely one of the two eighth-tier experts guarding Luomei Manor!

Of course, it’s also possible they weren’t.

If not, then there were probably three eighth-tiers guarding Luomei Manor.

Two in the open, one in the shadows.

If the Vice Sect Hierarch could easily mobilize two eighth-tiers and six seventh-tiers, along with so many sixth-tiers, they were undoubtedly an eighth-tier expert.

Who in the high-ranking positions of the Dahong Empire could this Blood God Sect Vice Sect Hierarch be?

Could it be an elder of the Tianyang Star Hall?

In confusion, Xu Jin drew out the Sumeru Space of the sixth-tier death soldier.

As Xu Jin anticipated, it was eerily clean!

Aside from a space shifting symbol for life preservation, two star healing emblems, a bottle of pills for star power recovery, and two mother-child heart demon emblems for communication, there was nothing else.

Not a single item to prove identity.

Not even any labels on the pill bottles.

Clearly, everything had been meticulously cleared out before entering.

Xu Jin considered trying to send false information using the communication mother-child heart demon emblem, to see if he could disrupt the enemy or get a response for information.

But to his frustration, as soon as his divine thought probed, the mother-child heart demon emblem exploded.