Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1376: Chapter 551: Counter-Hunt

February 9th, Xu Jin formed the first layer of the nine-cornered Cloud Tower in his life.

Through internal vision, a Cloud Tower stood within him, connecting the Lower Star Palace and the Central Star Palace, although it couldn’t be said to be magnificent.

But among the nineteen layers of Cloud Tower, eighteen layers were all octagonal, with one layer being nine-cornered. If it were manifested, it would have a grand feeling.

Xu Jin meticulously comprehended this, finding that the total Star Power of the nine-cornered Cloud Tower was over fifteen percent greater than that of an octagonal Cloud Tower.

Xu Jin had attempted to reforge the previously condensed octagonal Cloud Tower into a nine-cornered one.

But he failed.

Once the Cloud Tower is formed, it is difficult to change.

Unless one abandons their cultivation and starts anew.

The drawbacks of abandoning cultivation and rebuilding are numerous, with just one deterring everyone.

During the destruction of the tower, it would damage the Central and Lower Star Palace.

The Central and Lower Star Palace is the foundation of cultivation. Damage to this place could have unpredictable consequences.

Even if a nine-cornered Cloud Tower is constructed, it would be unstable.

So, this idea of destroying and rebuilding the tower flashed through Xu Jin’s mind only for a moment before he dismissed it.

It’s not worth the risk.

With Xu Jin’s deliberate control, the nineteenth layer of the nine-cornered Cloud Tower was condensed at the lowest layer.

Then, Xu Jin took out a Seventh-Order Purification Pearl and started condensing the Cloud Tower again.

Originally, condensing a layer of octagonal Cloud Tower required at most three Seventh-Order Purification Pearls, but now it required three and a half.

Seven Seventh-Order Purification Pearls were needed to condense two layers of eighth-tier Cloud Tower.

The consumption of Sixth Order Purification Pearls was even greater.

Thus, the thirty-two Seventh-Order Purification Pearls Xu Jin acquired last time in the Limit Breaking Secret Realm weren’t many. Fortunately, he also harvested over two hundred Sixth Order Purification Pearls, allowing Xu Jin to sustain his cultivation for a while.

Last time in the Limit Breaking Secret Realm, Xu Jin spent most of the twenty-one days strengthening the eighth layer of Star Patterns to deduce the Ninth-Order Star Pattern for the purpose of condensing a Ninth Layer Cloud Tower.

Now, the related Thunder Origin, Earth Origin, and Space Origin Star Patterns have been strengthened to the ninth layer, beginning the condensation of the Cloud Tower.

With sufficient Seventh-Order Purification Pearls, through day and night of intensive cultivation, less than a day was needed to condense a layer of the Cloud Tower.

Two days later, which was February 12th, Xu Jin had already condensed twenty-one layers of Cloud Tower inside, three of which were nine-cornered Cloud Towers, with the fourth nine-cornered Cloud Tower being in the process of condensation, marking progress in Star Power Cultivation.

On the morning of the 12th, Xu Jin began his daily routine of activating the Special Star Skill of the Mingji Star Pattern, the Heavenly Person Sensing and Overlooking Eye, to ensure safety.

There hadn’t been any anomalies these few days, and Xu Jin had reduced the safety sensing to three times a day, once every four two-hour periods.

If the lack of anomalies continued for a few more days, it would reduce to once a day.

As Xu Jin’s mind sank into the Mingji Star Pattern, activating the Heavenly Person Sensing Star Skill instantly, his expression suddenly became alert.

His heart becoming sharply aware, the Heavenly Person Sensing Star Skill had already brought a vague sense of crisis to Xu Jin.

This caused Xu Jin’s heart to sink.

It has come again!

So, where does this crisis originate from this time?

In the next instance, Xu Jin directly activated the Overlooking Eye, overlooking a range of over five thousand miles.

Since Xu Jin was currently choosing to cultivate in seclusion away from Blood Moon City and the major city of the Alien Race, only near a small town where the Alien Race gathered, without any eighth-tier experts.

Even no seventh-tier late period expert was present.

At this moment, under the observation of the Overlooking Eye, within a range of over five thousand miles, no aura of any eighth-tier expert was found.

Then, where does this crisis come from?

Although not strong, it’s a potential crisis.

Crisis three elements: time, location, person.

Normally, as long as any one element changes, the danger would correspondingly change or vanish.

Like an accident encounter when going out could be theoretically avoided by changing the time or route of travel.

The easiest element to change is location.

In the next moment, with Xu Jin’s mind moving, a spatial wave rose, and he vanished from where he stood.

After three consecutive Space Oriented Star Skill moves, Xu Jin appeared deep within an unnamed barren mountain, two thousand four hundred miles away.

With Xu Jin’s Space Origin Star Pattern breaking through to the ninth tier, coupled with the recent improvement in Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Cultivation, the farthest range of the Space Oriented Star Skill increased from seven hundred miles to nearly eight hundred miles.

Being two or three thousand miles away from the previous location, it’s far enough; the crisis should have been eliminated, right?

In the next moment, Xu Jin activated the Heavenly Person Sensing Star Skill again to sense the crisis.

At the moment of sensing, his heart became sharply aware again, a sense of crisis emerged.

Even slightly stronger than before.

Under the Overlooking Eye, within over five thousand miles, no eighth-tier expert was found.

Xu Jin furrowed his brow; this isn’t right!

Once again, the Space Oriented Star Skill was continuously activated, and after two breaths, Xu Jin was four thousand miles away.

Upon sensing again, Xu Jin’s brow tightened.

A sense of crisis persisted, only slightly weaker than before.

And under the Overlooking Eye, still no eighth-tier expert was found within over five thousand miles.

Xu Jin’s face instantly turned gloomy.

Even with continuous changes in location, over such a vast distance, yet the crisis couldn’t be resolved, only slightly altered, leading Xu Jin to confirm one thing: he was being tracked.

With Divine Thought washing over him like water, nothing abnormal was found.

The Spiritual Platform Star Skill and Purification Star Skill were alternately operated, then Xu Jin activated the Heavenly Person Sensing Star Skill again, but the sense of crisis persisted.

Xu Jin’s expression grew even more solemn.

After numerous eliminations, he could basically confirm that he was being tracked and locked by some the Secret Technique exceeding his level of cognition.