Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1745: Chapter 723: Blockade and Reinforcements from Beyond the Stars (Part 2)

To put it bluntly, even with eighty percent of the Heaven and Earth Authority assisting, an ordinary elite army trying to find this person is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

Three days?

Give them ten more days and they might still not find him, unless the other party is willing to show himself.

"Mr. Lu, do you think this Xu Jin might have already escaped from the Lower Pool Star Domain before we arrived?" Song Ju asked.

They had searched with their people for three days straight and found nothing, which made the always-hard‑cultivating Song Ju very uncomfortable.

He felt this was a waste of time, so he asked.

"Absolutely impossible!"

Lu Sheng’s expression was very firm. "Although it took us more than half a day to assemble, before we came there was already a Star Monarch watching the Lower Pool Star Domain from the Galaxy. We can be sure that before we arrived, no one left the Lower Pool Star Domain.

In other words, that Xu Jin is hiding right here inside this Lower Pool Star Domain."

"But if the other party is hiding, and he also has the Heaven and Earth Authority in hand, if he refuses to come out, it’ll be very hard to find him. Are we supposed to just keep wasting time like this?" Song Ju said helplessly.

"No."

"Then there’s a backup plan?" Seeing how firm Lu Sheng was, Song Ying’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Don’t worry. Before sending us out, the Old Ancestor had already considered the worst‑case scenario, that this bastard would rely on the power of the Heaven and Earth Authority, hole up somewhere and refuse to come out, leaving us with no way to do anything.

When we set out, the Old Ancestor already gave us a countermeasure, but it needs some time to prepare," Lu Sheng said.

Hearing this, Song Ju finally let out a breath of relief.

If things really kept dragging on like this, never mind one or two months, even one or two years might pass without them gaining any merit.

That would be far too much of a waste of time.

"Mr. Lu, about how much longer will it take? Do you need my help?"

"Hard to say. The Big Array has already been laid, but when we can activate it depends on that person crossing the Galaxy to arrive here." As he spoke, Lu Sheng pointed to the sky.

Song Ju instantly understood. What Lu Sheng meant was that there was an Expert in the Galaxy outside the Lower Pool Star Domain cooperating with them.

Which made sense. To suppress the Heaven and Earth Authority of a Small World, even with a Secret Technique Big Array assisting, let alone an ordinary Star Monarch, even a typical Star Monarch couldn’t do it.

"But if we can find him by manpower, that’s still the best. Using that Secret Technique Big Array will cost a lot."

As he spoke, Lu Sheng waved his hand, and a spirit map of the Lower Pool Star Domain unfolded in front of the two of them. "Mr. Song, in these past few days we’ve already searched most of the Lower Pool Star Domain. From my on‑site searches, the places that can hide this bastard are the mountains, rivers, and lakes.

Those terrains are complicated and have depth. Even with Divine Thought searching, it’s hard to be thorough.

So I think that for us Tenth Rank Star Monarchs, the focus of our searches for the next few days should be these mountains, rivers, and lakes as our main targets. We must press our Divine Thought close to the ground as we search.

Under such conditions, there’s a very high chance we’ll locate the target.

As long as the other party reveals his form once, we’ll latch onto him and never let go!

Then we can complete the mission as quickly as possible."

"That’s how it should be. I’ll take people out immediately." With that, Song Ju turned and left.

Lu Sheng watched Song Ju’s departing back, his gaze slightly dark.

It was only because this Song Ju’s strength was extremely formidable; otherwise, he wouldn’t be worth so many soft‑spoken instructions.

Three days passed in a flash.

Reality, however, was much crueler than expected.

Not a trace of what Lu Sheng had expected to find showed up, not even the slightest clue.

Even so, Lu Sheng did not go back on his word.

He really started killing people!

Every day they couldn’t find Xu Jin, he would behead one Ninth Tier surrendered general.

Until Xu Jin was found!

The high ministers and Generals who had surrendered across the Lower Pool Star Domain, watching their colleagues being executed, already had people who regretted it.

But regret was useless now.

Besides, back then the ones who had taken the lead in defecting were the Domain Master and the War Master. It hadn’t been their decision to make.

They could only say: this was fate!

*****

Deep beneath the southern mountain range, by the time Xu Jin finished refining the last drop of All Heaven Star Dew, it was already the ninth day since the fifteen Little Star Monarchs from the Bi Xuan True Monarch Mansion had descended.

In these nine days, this section of mountain range had been searched four times.

Xu Jin even knew two of the searchers.

It was that peerless genius who had ranked first in the talent selection ten years ago: Song Ju.

In the most dangerous instance, the place where Xu Jin was in seclusion had already been discovered.

This Song Ju directly found the karst cave where Xu Jin was cultivating in seclusion, and even took two Tenth Rank Little Star Monarchs with him deep into the cave, but in the end they left with nothing.

It wasn’t that Xu Jin had stayed under their noses and they still hadn’t noticed him.

Rather, before they arrived, Xu Jin had already wiped away all traces and used Space Movement to leave in advance.

With the help of the Heaven and Earth Authority, the ripples from Space Movement were extremely small.

After they finished their sweep, Xu Jin would move back and continue raising his Cultivation Level.

After playing this hide‑and‑seek game twice like this, Xu Jin finally finished completely refining all thirty‑seven drops of All Heaven Star Dew.

Xu Jin’s Cultivation Level improved greatly once again.

In his inner sight, around Xu Jin’s Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower, eight Star Towers stood like encircling guards. Among them, the Space Star Tower had reached sixty‑five floors, the Thunder Series Star Tower thirty‑two floors, the Wood Star Tower thirty‑three floors, and all the other Star Towers were at the twenty‑first floor.

The Space Star Tower hadn’t changed much, and the growth of the other Star Towers didn’t look like a lot either.

But if one counted the total number of floors added across all Star Towers, it came to as many as a hundred and eleven floors.

On the surface, his Combat Power didn’t seem to have risen by much.

But if he used the eight‑series‑as‑one Chaos guardian killing move, its power had multiplied.

Originally, his shortest‑board Star Tower only had three floors, so the maximum number of floors he could fuse in eight‑series‑as‑one was twenty‑four.

Now, however, his shortest board was twenty‑one floors, six times higher than before.

After combining the eight series, the Star Tower floor count directly shot up to a hundred and ninety‑two floors, seven times what it had been.

This rate of increase could definitely double the power of Xu Jin’s Space Law Path.

One could say that only at this very moment had this Chaos guardian killing move truly succeeded.

But its exact power still needed to be tested in actual combat.

"Since they still haven’t found me, I’ll keep cultivating! Best would be if they give me enough time to finish cultivating the Divine Power Taixu Heart Inquiry Platform that Master prepared for me, then I’ll deal with them."

With that thought, Xu Jin took out the treasures Emperor Fenghua had prepared for him to cultivate the Divine Power Taixu Heart Inquiry Platform, and began cultivating this Divine Skill.

As long as this Divine Skill was completed, his odds of survival would be even greater.

By then, Xu Jin could even take the initiative to strike!

At the very same time, in the Domain Master Mansion where he was sitting in town, Lu Sheng’s face changed as the Starlight on the Dongxuan Order suddenly started Flashing.

With just one glance, a hint of joy flashed through Lu Sheng’s gloomy eyes, and he immediately sent out a Starlight Transmission: [Mr. Qu, have you already arrived?]

[I have.]

[Mr. Qu, can I start activating the Big Array now?] Lu Sheng asked.

[Mm. You get ready to use the Secret Technique to activate the Big Array and draw on my power to suppress the Heaven and Earth Authority of the Lower Pool Star Domain. When you succeed in using the Secret Technique to start the Big Array, contact me again.]

[Understood!]