Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1690: Chapter 694: Too Confident, Too Soon

The cries of agony, the roars of unwillingness, and the sighs post-elimination echoed throughout the Martial Learning Arena of the Dongxuan Dao Palace.

With the continuous operation of the Mystic Heart Sky-reaching Array, layers of Body Protective Starlight vanish like a dream and are flicked away by a nearby Star Monarch, declaring elimination.

Those eliminated at this point would only receive the lowest treatment of the eighth-tier Viscount rank.

Not to mention comparing it to the first-class or second-class rank, even with the fifth or sixth, the gap is multiples apart.

What’s more crucial is that every Viscount eliminated beyond the thousand mark understands, at first, it seems a disparity in treatment.

In the days to come, it might be a chasm!

A step behind means always being behind!

Xu Jin is also under the starlight impact of the Mystic Heart Sky-reaching Array, but the current level of starlight impact has no effect on Xu Jin.

Xu Jin’s Ice Wood Thunder Armor doesn’t even ripple a bit.

The power surge from the starlight impact is increasing rapidly.

Ascending continuously by percentage.

After twenty breaths, even Xu Jin’s Ice Wood Thunder Armor begins to ripple slightly, causing a slight surprise in Xu Jin’s heart.

He knows that he has invoked the support of his Lifebound Star Light directly.

The next moment, the starlight impact covering the top suddenly disappears.

Looking up, he sees thirty-six array flags returning behind Mars Star Monarch, announcing that the elimination has ended.

Remaining on the field are precisely a thousand Viscounts.

"The first round of elimination is over, the eliminated Viscounts all enjoy eighth-tier Viscount treatment! Once the final Viscount ranking is completed, those confident may freely challenge," announces True Monarch Tianzhang.

"Next begins the second round of drawing for the ranking battle, those with floating starlight above them should throw their Dongxuan Token into the sky, allowing another batch of Viscounts to freely choose. The loser ranks between five hundred to a thousand, enjoying seventh-tier treatment.

Winners advance to the next round.

As before, dissatisfied ones can challenge higher-ranked Viscounts after the rankings conclude.

This drawing for the ranking battle prohibits the use of one-time explosive treasures, other than that there’s no restriction," announces True Monarch Tianzhang.

Xu Jin is taken aback by words, this ranking battle is truly simple and violent.

Aren’t they afraid of accidental elimination?

If Yuan Chengfa and Su Xuan were to directly face off in this round, wouldn’t that bury a genius?

Just as Xu Jin is puzzled, starlight rises above five hundred Viscounts advancing to the second round.

Sweeping his eyes, Xu Jin immediately understands.

Those absolute geniuses, especially those who performed excellently in the two rounds of Viscount election, do not have rising starlight above them.

This is also considered as another form of protection.

The next moment, as five hundred Dongxuan Tokens fly into the sky, enveloped by starlight impenetrable by Divine Thought, Mars Star Monarch’s voice resounds, "Those without rising starlight above choose a Dongxuan Token each, then choose any Void Arena to duel, winners advance to the next round, losers continue to enjoy seventh-tier treatment."

As the words fall, Xu Jin notices Yuan Chengfa directly using Star Power to draw down a Dongxuan Token, then stepping among stars to ascend directly to Arena No. 1!

"Whose is it, come up!"

"Unlucky!"

An Eighth Tier Peak Viscount looks gloomy but still steps into the stars, charging towards Arena No. 1.

Xu Jin also intended to pick a token to participate, but seeing Yuan Chengfa’s first move, he decided to watch the battle first.

Yuan Chengfa is the main obstacle for him to capture top three.

Knowing oneself and knowing the adversary is necessary.

Two beams of starlight fall simultaneously on Yuan Chengfa and that Eighth Tier Peak Viscount, wrapping them in a thin layer of starlight, while Mars Star Monarch issues Life Replacement Tokens directly.

This is also to allow Viscounts to fight heartily.

"Please!"

Almost at the start of the fight, a purple-black lotus suddenly rises from the feet of the Eighth Tier Peak Viscount, in just an instant, it burns through the Body Protective Starlight of the Viscount.

The purple-black lotus blooms in full scope for a moment, with endless flames closing, the Life Replacement Token on the surface of the Eighth Tier Peak Viscount suddenly shatters.

The person vanishes from the arena!

Instant kill!

Yuan Chengfa wins the first victory cleanly and swiftly.

Xu Jin’s expression turns somber.

Judging by the power wave just now, Yuan Chengfa’s Fire Element Star Pattern surely reached the Peak of Ninth Rank.

Possibly even touching upon enlightenment!

This purple-black flame lotus, clearly a reactive star skill, was forcibly turned into an instant kill by Yuan Chengfa.

Xu Jin simulates it mentally.

With just the explosive power, if he were to withstand it head-on, it would likely be tough.

The Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower might resist it, but injury is inevitable.

However, with Space Star Technique in possession, who says one needs to withstand the attack head-on.

Nevertheless, Yuan Chengfa’s strength is evident.

And this is still just a casual strike, not an all-out burst.

Following that, the eight Void Arenas continue ceaselessly.

Some arenas conduct battles swiftly, ending within two or three breaths, while others fight intensely for a full fifteen minutes.

As for Xu Jin, he’s not in a hurry.

Though Yutang King Zhu Shizhen already provided all the absolute genius data to him.

But the discrepancy between paper data and actual sensing through Mingji Star Pattern is significant.

Xu Jin focuses on sensing those absolute geniuses of ninth-tier mid to late period observantly.

Su Xuan’s strength is also formidable, cultivating dual paths of wind and fire, with star skills more dominant and mysterious.

Also Shen Hui, Lu Zhen, Liu Shu, all are strong competitors for Xu Jin.

That Li Qingchen who also excels in Space Star Technique is interesting, but not a significant threat to Xu Jin.

The biggest threat is Yuan Chengfa.

"Brother-in-law, it’s your turn!"

Zhu Shizhen’s voice suddenly rings out, and Xu Jin realizes that in just one hour, only one Dongxuan Token remains in the sky above the Martial Learning Arena.

Only Xu Jin remains unchallenged.

The other, is a Ninth Tier Early Period Viscount, who at this moment watches Xu Jin with excitement and anticipation.

Mainly because Xu Jin’s Cultivation Level is very deceptive.

Eighth Tier Early Period.

Anyone encountering such an opponent would feel they’ve struck gold.

No matter how astounding previous talent performance was, the gap in Cultivation Level is a chasm.

Xu Jin summon his token, instantly stepping among stars, directly charging onto a vacant arena.

The Ninth Tier Early Period Viscount also rushes onto the arena with a smile.

From all sides, Yuan Chengfa, Su Xuan, Lu Zhen, Shen Hui, and others, who were chatting and laughing, suddenly shift their gaze to Xu Jin’s arena.

Suddenly, the eyes of the eight directions all turned!

Xuan Jin, who ranked first in both rounds of the Daozi selection, is about to reveal his true combat power.

Talents like Yuan Chengfa and Su Xuan, who aim for the top ten or even the top three, naturally have their considerations.

In watching the battle, they look for Daozi who poses a threat to them.

Next, a key observation is made, and tactics are planned in advance.

If Xuan Jin’s performance in this battle does not meet their expectations, then he won’t pose a threat.

Later on, there would be no need to pay much attention.

After all, having good talent does not mean having strong combat power.

Especially when one’s cultivation level is quite low.

However, people like Lu Zhen have a different expression, looking at Xuan Jin with eyes full of hatred.

His father, Heixuan, was crushed into mud, and even with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Medicine from the Bi Xuan True Monarch Mansion, such heavy injuries would keep his father, Heixuan, recovering for several months.

His father suffered disgrace for him, and naturally, he, as the son, wants to get it back!

"Ruan Zhen, please enlighten me!"

"Xu Jin!"

As the two cupped their hands, the starlight from the Life Replacement Token descended on them simultaneously, and the invisible Star Power barrier between them vanished instantly.

Vast waves of starlight started to rise simultaneously from both of them.

Boom!

Just as the sound of Thunder Burst spread, the flashing Thunder Light already dazzled their eyes.

At the same moment, on the platform, Ruan Zhen had disappeared.

Elsewhere, Ruan Zhen looked at the platform suddenly appearing in the sky, along with Xu Jin on it, utterly stunned.

Instinctively thinking he had fallen into some sort of Illusion Realm.

A vast amount of Divine Soul Power immediately surged around him, trying to break this Illusion Realm.

"Fool, you’ve already been eliminated!" Mars Star Monarch couldn’t help but shout lightly.

Ruan Zhen froze instantly!

Blushing on the spot.

A face full of shame!

All around, the sound of gasps echoed in unison.

Instant defeat!

It was an instant defeat!

With Thunder Star Skill, an extremely swift instant defeat.

Including Yuan Chengfa, Su Xuan, Shen Hui, and others, all frowned.

Xuan Jin’s accomplishments in Thunder Star Skill were extremely strong; this did not surprise them.

This was already revealed during the Daozi selection before.

But no one expected Xuan Jin’s Thunder Star Skill to be this powerful.

Extremely swift, extremely strong!

Caught the early Ninth Tier Ruan Zhen off guard and killed him in an instant.

Ruan Zhen had just barely raised his Body Protective Starlight and hadn’t even activated his Lifebound Star.

But then again, Xuan Jin hadn’t activated it either!

"Thanks for letting me win!"

With a slight bow, Xuan Jin instantly landed on the ground, Yutang King Zhu Shizhen looked at the returning Xuan Jin with incredible joy!

The stronger his brother-in-law performs today, the greater the benefits for their Yutang True Monarch Mansion!

Just the move of instantly defeating Ruan Zhen of the Ninth Tier Early Period represents having strength similar to Yuan Chengfa.

Su Xuan frowned deeply, already understanding that Xuan Jin is a formidable opponent.

But Yuan Chengfa was grinning, having another challenge!

Exciting!

On another side, Lu Zhen’s brows tightened, pondering how to arrange strategies to avenge his father against such rapid and violent Thunder Star Skills?

This battle, Xuan Jin won extremely cleanly, not to mention among a group of Daozi.

Even those Star Lords supervising the battles glanced over.

They could also instantly defeat Ruan Zhen, but perhaps not as cleanly as Xu Jin.

In the high sky, Song Ju, who was the first in selection ten years ago, had already focused his gaze and Divine Thought on Xu Jin, "Is there another rival coming..."

"The third round!"

In True Monarch Tianzhang’s light shout, just like before, among the top five hundred Daozi advancing, two hundred and fifty had starlight floating above their heads again.

But the starlight did not appear above Xuan Jin, Yuan Chengfa, Su Xuan, and others.

However, Xu Jin keenly noticed that there were new faces without starlight above their heads, who performed well in the previous second-round platform battles.

Yutang King Zhu Shizhen was also among them.

After all, with the cultivation level of the Ninth Tier Middle Period, along with several Spiritual Treasure and Lifebound Spiritual Treasure, their combat power was still decent.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Jin was still the last to step onto the platform.

This time stepping onto the platform was a Daozi of the Ninth Tier Middle Period.

"I’m Wen Xuan!"

"Xu Jin!"

At the moment the Life Replacement Token fell, as Wen Xuan raised the Eight-Star Spirit Armor around him, a substantially heavy Earth Series starlight emerged, and golden starlight rose behind him like a spirit snake, continuously swallowing and spitting, ready to attack or defend at any time.

Right at the start of the battle, he piled up his defenses to the extreme!

Boom!

Thunder Light burst forth, easily shattered by Wen Xuan’s golden spirit snake.

At the same moment, starlight descended from the sky, both drawing Lifebound Star Light to themselves, unleashing full power!

Receiving Xu Jin’s first strike, Wen Zhan’s mood changed from apprehensive to confident.

Calm and greatly assured.

For now, it seems he still has the hope of defeating Xu Jin...

Boom!

At the moment the starlight descended, the platform’s Origin Stars empowered the flash of Thunder Light from the Nine Heavens Thunder God Seal.

Wen Xuan only felt the Thunder Lights flashing chaotically before his eyes, the instant the Body Protective Starlight shattered, the starlight trembled slightly.

Then, he saw Xu Jin above the platform!

A sense of bitterness spread from the corner of his mouth.

He was overly confident, too soon!

All around, many Daozi looked at Xu Jin with renewed eyes.