Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1340: Chapter 536: The Emperor’s Urgency

Underneath the sky-reaching golden pillar of the Eight Desolations’ Ancestral City, beams of starlight flew out from the Limit Breaking Secret Realm.

In an instant, the high-ranking officials of the Eight Desolate Alien Race and the Blood God Sect perceived the changes in the auras of these returning elite warriors through their Divine Thoughts.

Even the aura changes of just the first few returning elites brought some joy to the high-ranking officials on both sides.

Especially for the King of Eight Desolates, Ju Zhang, and others, as smiles appeared on their faces upon sensing the first Eighth Tier aura returning.

The results were already beginning to align with their strategic plans.

According to Ju Zhang’s projections, they could expect to add at least six new Eighth Tier warriors to their Eight Desolations Royal Court, possibly eight, including three Eighth Tiers supported by the Ancestral Land.

This wave should bring the total increase of Eighth Tier warriors in the Eight Desolations Royal Court to around ten.

The combat power of the Eight Desolations Royal Court would surge dramatically.

At that time, they would wield greater deterrence both externally and internally.

At this thought, Ju Zhang’s gaze inadvertently glanced at the Left Protector of the Blood God Sect, Fan Kai, noticing the smile on his face, a cold laugh forming internally.

Soon, or perhaps in the future, there would be opportunities for him to feel discomfort.

Fan Kai’s smile arose because the first disciple participating in the Limit Breaking Secret Realm from the Blood God Sect had emerged, and it was Qi Shanye, whom he had greatly valued and specially nurtured.

Having entered with a Sixth Tier Ninth Layer Peak cultivation level, Qi Shanye had now reached the Seventh Tier Third Layer upon exiting.

Not only had he broken through, but his cultivation level had also significantly elevated.

With Qi Shanye’s previous performance, he could barely be considered to have Eighth Tier combat power.

With further focused cultivation, he would become part of Fan Kai’s iron-clad core team.

Qi Shanye’s breakthrough was within Left Protector Fan Kai’s expectations.

The other elites should be about the same, right?

It’s just uncertain how many Eighth Tier warriors will ultimately emerge?

With seven at the Seventh Tier Ninth Layer Peak, normally, they should be able to produce at least two new Eighth Tiers; with a bit of luck, they might have three.

At the very least, there should be one Eighth Tier by default.

However, internally, Left Protector Fan Kai was cautiously optimistic about securing two to three new Eighth Tiers.

The vortex light gate of the Limit Breaking Secret Realm continuously spewed out figures, with more and more elites emerging.

The smile on the face of the King of Eight Desolates, Ju Zhang, grew broader because three Eighth Tiers had appeared so far, and some of the Sixth Tier elites entering had also broken through to the Seventh Tier.

However, Fan Kai’s brow gradually furrowed.

He sensed something amiss.

While thirty elites from the Eight Desolate Alien Race had emerged, only five from the Blood God Sect had come out.

This ratio seemed off.

Upon entering, the numerical ratio between both sides was two to one.

Since they all emerged simultaneously, there shouldn’t be such a large discrepancy in ratio.

Nonetheless, Left Protector Fan Kai reassured himself that, with the order of emergence, perhaps the Blood God Sect disciples were just slower to come out.

At the open area, Qi Shanye and Mo Ji had already come out, as had Shi Lie, who Xu Jin had transformed into.

Within the Eight Desolate Alien Race, all sixteen aliens controlled by Xu Jin had emerged, including three Eighth Tiers like Ju Qi.

These aliens were incessantly scanning the elite disciples of the Blood God Sect searching for the Human Clan member controlling their fate.

Some aliens were still unwilling to resign themselves.

If they could discover that human and directly send a sound transmission seeking help from the King of Eight Desolates.

The Ninth Tier King of Eight Desolates, Ju Zhang, could instantly kill that formidable Sixth Tier human.

They would be completely liberated.

Yet, after a round of searching, they couldn’t find Xu Jin’s shadow.

Regarding the Blood God Sect disciples at the same Sixth Tier Ninth Layer Peak, they found three.

But they couldn’t be sure.

They also considered whether he might have taken on another human appearance to deceive them?

Such a possibility existed.

However, given the uncertainty, they dared not gamble.

Not daring at all.

The reason was simple: if the human controlling them was killed, their control would be lifted; the King of Eight Desolates could trust them again and deploy them in battle.

While there would be some precautions, preventing them from assuming extremely important roles, normal duties wouldn’t be an issue.

Yet, if they reported this to Ju Zhang and Ju Zhang acted to kill those three Sixth Tiers, who turned out not to be the strong human controlling their Divine Souls.

Subsequently, their situation would become extremely awkward!

Even if Ju Zhang wanted to trust them, their Divine Souls had already been controlled by someone else, making them liable to compromise for survival.

That would only erode trust.

Moreover, their existence, with controlled Divine Souls, would become a ticking time bomb, an unstable factor.

Who would dare place an expert liable to control over life and death within the tribe?

What awaited them might be internal destruction.

With a great battle imminent, the King of Eight Desolates could not leave any unstable elements unchecked.

Faced with this, they had no choice.

In the absence of certainty, no one dared to take risks.

After a mere few breaths, they could only resign themselves to fate.

To lie low and cultivate, then await their uncertain destinies.

As for Xu Jin, he was already prepared for the worst.

In the event of a disturbance, he planned to immediately detonate the heads of several Eighth Tier Alien Tribe members, creating a bit of chaos before escaping swiftly using space movement.

He would mask his presence entirely using the Blood Concealing Pearl, refined from the star cores and essence blood of the Eight Desolate Alien Race, making himself invisible and discreetly departing.

Xu Jin had devised several plans.