Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1648: Chapter 676: Unexpected Gains (Double-Length, Seeking Monthly Votes)

Gu Raising Domain, beneath Ten Thousand Gu Peak.

Xu Jin, Zhu Shizhen and the other two had already been quietly waiting for a day and a half.

Cultivators who can reach the Ninth Tier all have decent patience.

The purpose of waiting was still to let the number of Eighth Rank and Ninth Tier Gu Beasts on Ten Thousand Gu Peak keep dropping.

This Gu Mother should be under someone’s control, constantly sending Eighth Rank and Ninth Tier Gu Beasts out in all directions; some did return to the peak, but overall, more left than came back.

The number of Gu Beasts on Ten Thousand Gu Peak was continuously decreasing.

The battle plan had already been set.

Now, it was just a matter of waiting for the best moment to strike.

Originally, they had been extremely close to Ten Thousand Gu Peak, but because Xu Jin kept using the Gu Mother Dragon Bone Flute, the Gu Beasts were avoiding them from far away.

"Mr. Xu, there’s only half a day left before the Selection ends." Yutang King Zhu Shizhen reminded him.

"No rush, keep waiting. We’ll move when there’s only the last two hours before the end." Xu Jin said.

After more than a day of outflow, there were still over eighteen hundred Eighth Rank Gu Beasts on Ten Thousand Gu Peak, and more than twenty Ninth Tier Gu Beasts.

In this situation, if Xu Jin failed to kill with one strike, he would only be able to flee far away.

As for the form of address, this was one of the changes after Xu Jin agreed to become a Ritual Officer of the Yutang Royal Mansion.

Otherwise, if Yutang King Zhu Shizhen kept calling him benefactor, once they went outside, it would be hard not to attract attention.

As for his background, Chang Lin, Wang Ji, and Zhu Shizhen had already forged one for Xu Jin.

It was crafted to be virtually flawless.

Xu Jin was said to come from Yutang Sect, which was inside the Small World of Bridge Star Domain governed by the Jade Hall True Monarch’s True Monarch Mansion.

The reason he came from a Small World was that under normal circumstances, Experts of the Tenth Rank or above couldn’t enter a Small World.

And Bridge Star Domain was a Star Domain completely controlled by the True Monarch Mansion of Jade Hall True Monarch, with Heaven and Earth Authority; if anyone wanted to secretly investigate, they would be discovered as soon as they entered the Star Domain.

Yutang Sect itself also originated from the True Monarch Mansion of Jade Hall True Monarch.

Since the background had been forged, a 15 minutes after the Selection ended, inside the Bridge Small World, not only Xu Jin as a person, but his whole growth trajectory would appear there.

Two hours later, another three hundred-plus Eighth Rank Gu Beasts on Ten Thousand Gu Peak were gone.

All of a sudden, Xu Jin’s eyes snapped open.

"Get ready to move."

"Ritual Officer, if we wait another two hours, won’t there be even fewer Gu Beasts?" Wang Ji asked.

"If we wait another two hours, there will only be more."

As soon as he said that, Wang Ji and Gao Lin’s faces changed at the same time. "They’re flowing back."

"Mm. One last confirmation: try your best to help me hold them off. If you can’t, then leave immediately. Especially you, Your Highness—the Life Replacement Token absolutely cannot be used up.

If there’s danger, call for help immediately.

And you two, sharing the pressure for me is secondary; your main duty is emergency response if the Prince is in danger." Xu Jin instructed.

By now, Xu Jin could be sure that more than half of the Heaven and Earth Authority in this Gu Raising Domain had been seized by someone, at least sixty percent.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to impose such a degree of restriction.

Because inside the Gu Raising Domain, the Space Star Techniques he cultivated still worked, but one-off consumables such as the Transferring Emblem could not be used.

This kind of restriction could only come from the level of Heaven and Earth Authority.

In the next instant, Xu Jin’s Nine Heavens Thunder God Seal had already flown into the sky. Under his urging it began to accumulate thunderclouds.

This counted as another function of the Nine Heavens Thunder God Seal, one that was rarely useful under normal circumstances.

Once activated, it could continuously accumulate thunderclouds and boost the power of Thunder Star Skills.

The longer it accumulated, the greater the might.

Of course, Xu Jin had tested this beforehand as well.

The maximum was thunderclouds accumulated for 15 minutes; that was the limit.

It could increase the power of Thunder Star Skills by about twenty percent.

Unfortunately, all the Gu Beasts in the Gu Raising Domain not only had relatively low intelligence, but each and every one of them was unaffected by Divine Soul Star Technique.

Otherwise, dealing with them would have been much easier.

Above Ten Thousand Gu Peak, rolling thunderclouds converged from all directions.

Perhaps sensing the pressure of the thunderclouds, the Gu Mother on Ten Thousand Gu Peak stirred slightly, and the more than a thousand Eighth Rank Gu Beasts below it were also somewhat restless.

But that was all the reaction there was.

These Gu’s spirituality was locked directly into the Gu Crystals, unaffected by Divine Soul Star Technique; likewise, when faced with this kind of crisis, they wouldn’t react in advance.

If it were other cultivators, seeing this formation of thunderclouds, they’d have exploded into an uproar already!

"Ready!"

Xu Jin suddenly looked at Zhu Shizhen and the other two.

The instant the three of them vigorously nodded at Xu Jin, in the firmament, the Lifebound Star Spirit flared dazzlingly; in the next heartbeat, Xu Jin vanished on the spot. Space ripples rose, and Xu Jin was already in the sky above Ten Thousand Gu Peak.

At the same time, a point of Starlight shot up from behind Xu Jin, gathering but not yet released, while a vast amount of Starlight was already swaying down from the heavens like a falling Galaxy.

Starlight swayed and gathered, coalescing into a sword of stars!

Wooo!

A shrill scream that seemed intent on piercing eardrums abruptly rang out from within the Gu Mother below.

Xu Jin’s intrusion into its territory had provoked its instinctive fury.

Boom!

A terrifying five-colored Thunder Light poured down in an instant, cutting off the Gu Mother’s shriek. At the same time, the Star Killing Sword also slashed down toward the Gu Mother.

Although the shriek was cut short, the remaining more than a thousand Eighth Rank Gu Beasts and twenty-some Ninth Tier Gu Beasts below seemed to have heard some sort of summons.

Their beady little eyes snapped onto Xu Jin, cold and utterly devoid of emotion.

In the next instant, all the Gu Beasts shot into the sky from all directions, charging toward Xu Jin.