Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Chapter 1810: Chapter 755: Changes on the Candou Platform (Double-Length)

You don’t even know who took away your Lifebound Suppressing Artifact, so how are you supposed to get it back?

No matter whether you try to buy it back, pull favors, or pay a price and use some means to snatch it back, you don’t even have a target to act on.

All you can do is cry helplessly.

Precisely because of this situation, Chiyun Emperor gave a second method to restart her Dao path.

The second method is also very simple: re-forge a Wind Series lifebound spiritual weapon, then once again enlighten several Wind Series Law Paths, use them to nourish the lifebound spiritual weapon into a Lifebound Suppressing Artifact; after it becomes strong enough, use the newly forged Lifebound Suppressing Artifact to re-suppress the other Wind Series Law Paths, and thus restart the Dao path.

At first glance, this method seems workable.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that within Zhu Linxiao’s Wind Series Law Path there is already an extremely fierce aura from a Lifebound Suppressing Artifact.

Two tigers cannot share one mountain.

Even with its master protecting it, the newly forged Lifebound Spiritual Treasure would be shattered by the residual aura of the original Lifebound Suppressing Artifact and the instinctive backlash of the Law Path before it even had time to suppress the newly evolved Law Path.

The main issue is that the original Lifebound Suppressing Artifact, Green Fall Shocking Swan, was simply too powerful; it evolved and suppressed seven Wind Series Law Paths. Even with Zhu Linxiao, its master, suppressing it, and with Zhu Linxiao as the primary protector of the new Lifebound Spiritual Treasure, the new one still has to be able to stand its ground before there’s any chance of taking the next step.

It’s like the dog you raise being carried by its owner to stand in front of a tiger—no matter that there’s a protective net separating them, a single tiger’s roar is enough to make it piss itself on the spot.

The timid ones might even be scared to death.

The key to this method is that the newly forged Lifebound Spiritual Treasure has to be strong enough.

At least in terms of its origin, it has to be much stronger than the previous Lifebound Suppressing Artifact.

According to Chiyun Emperor’s research, when Zhu Linxiao’s Lifebound Suppressing Artifact Green Fall Shocking Swan was originally forged, both its main and auxiliary materials were Innate spiritual materials; as for the subordinate materials, three types were used in total, one Innate spiritual material and two Treasure Materials.

If Zhu Linxiao forges a new Lifebound Spiritual Treasure to restart her Dao path, and if both the main and auxiliary materials of this Lifebound Spiritual Treasure are Innate Treasure Materials, then there’s a twenty to thirty percent chance it can stand firm.

If she can use three Innate Treasure Materials, the chance of it standing firm can reach forty percent.

If she can use four Innate Treasure Materials, or if the main material can be Chaos Elemental Materials, then the chance of it standing firm would reach as high as sixty to eighty percent.

At that time, she would be able to restart her Dao path.

This is the second solution.

But this is a method that drives the Yutang Royal Mansion to despair.

Let’s not even talk about Chaos Elemental Materials.

Just Innate Treasure Materials alone have always been things you can only stumble upon by chance, never by searching.

Suppose you have abundant financial resources and doggedly stare at the markets across various Star Realms; then it’s still possible to buy a single Innate Treasure Material.

The problem is, she needs at least three Innate Treasure Materials, maybe even four!

This solution plunged Zhu Linxiao straight into despair.

Leaving aside that the Yutang Royal Mansion simply doesn’t have such financial power, even if they did, they still wouldn’t be able to buy them.

After hearing Zhu Shizhen finish explaining these two methods of restarting the Dao path, Xu Jin felt somewhat helpless as well. After downing several bowls of wine with Zhu Shizhen, he returned to his Ritual Officer residence with a bit of pent-up frustration.

The first method is indeed the most straightforward, but right now it’s like a tiger swallowing the sky: there’s nowhere to even bite, and they don’t even know the culprit’s identity.

And even if they did, so what?

According to Zhu Linxiao’s conjecture, the other party is at least a Four Tribulation True Monarch, maybe even Five or Six Tribulations—extremely strong.

Even if you know, you still can’t deal with them.

The second method is even more despair-inducing.

As the saying goes, even a penny can stump a hero.

Right now it’s not a matter of one or two pennies, but a hundred million of them!

The Treasure Materials on the market all have prices; for the Wind Series ones, they generally start at twenty drops of All Heaven Star Dew.

Innate spiritual materials are even more expensive and can only be auctioned. Depending on their characteristics, the final transaction price is at least over a hundred drops, and often over two hundred.

As for Innate Treasure Materials of the Wind Series, they’re rarely seen in any of the major Star Realms even once in several decades; whenever one appears, people go mad killing over it.

All Heaven Star Dew is already useless for measuring their value.

Usually, their price is determined based on their characteristics and traded by adding or subtracting All Heaven Star Dew on top of an Innate Treasure Material of the same tier.

As for Chaos Elemental Materials?

Don’t even think about it!

If they showed up at a public auction, the nearby Emperors would immediately throw away their dignity, disguise themselves as mysterious figures, and make a move to snatch them!

All one can say is that, for now, neither of these two paths has any chance of being completed.

Originally, Xu Jin had planned to figure out Zhu Linxiao’s situation clearly and then find a way to help her solve this biggest problem.

He never expected that there would be no way to solve it at all.

That really hurts!

After a long while, Xu Jin let out a long breath and temporarily pressed these thoughts down.

He couldn’t afford to be impatient.

He had to be patient!

If he waited slowly, who knew—maybe one day an opportunity would appear.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin pushed all stray thoughts and pent-up frustration to the back of his mind and began his evening practice.

The mighty power accumulated day after day is what must never be betrayed!

At midnight, a beam of Starlight fell into the Ritual Officer residence; Zhu Linxiao had returned.

The moment she came back, Zhu Linxiao hurriedly washed up, then personally carried in a basin of hot water. She lightly knocked on the door and only entered the quiet room when Xu Jin opened his eyes and his aura fluctuated.

She naturally squatted in front of Xu Jin and began to serve him.

"Husband, I’ve been too busy these days and have kept you waiting," Zhu Linxiao said, apologizing first as she took Xu Jin’s right foot into her arms and began to massage it.

"Not really, it’s just been hard on you. By the way, are there a lot of cases in your Punishment Hall lately?" Xu Jin asked casually.

The Punishment Hall of the Dongxuan Dao Palace is, by analogy, equivalent to the highest judicial institution; ordinary cases never make it to the Punishment Hall, and under normal circumstances it shouldn’t be this busy.

"Husband, there actually aren’t that many cases. Any case that reaches our Dao Palace’s Punishment Hall is a major case—a top-level case. They all involve Tenth Rank experts or powerful nobles and officials; at the very least, they’re cases involving Ninth Tier experts.