Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation

Starlight metamorphosed.

This time, after Xu Jin initiated the high-tier Tao Derivation of the Gold Star, the starlight carried Xu Jin's consciousness, plunging down incessantly as if sinking into a bottomless pit.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin came to realize that he had sunk into the earth.

Or rather, he had fused with the earth.

At this moment, he was the earth, and the earth was him.

The high-tier Tao Derivation allowed him to merge with the earth, to experience everything, so as to gain insight into the Earth Origin Root between Heaven and Earth and perceive the roots of the Earth Origin Star Pattern.

It felt like a moment, yet also as if tens of thousands of years had passed.

Seas have changed into mulberry fields.

Immersed in this experience, on Xu Jin's seventh-tier lower Earth Origin Star Pattern, branches and leaves began to slowly grow out, incredibly naturally, as if it was meant to be that way.

All of this resulted from Xu Jin's recent accumulations; everything naturally fell into place.

When Xu Jin encountered the first obstacle, he awoke from this natural, effortlessly flowing state.

Xu Jin's seventh-tier lower Earth Origin Star Pattern had successfully extrapolated to the seventh-tier middle.

But with the vast, mulberry-field-like changes of the earth, Xu Jin suddenly found himself a bit lost.

This feeling was something a veteran of numerous high-tier Tao Derivation sessions like Xu Jin was very familiar with and clear about.

It generally meant that the path he was on with his Tao Derivation was either impassable for him, or he lacked enough accumulation, or he was not high enough in rank, or he had not yet found the entry point, needing to take another direction to continue the extrapolation.

After all, there were myriad paths within the Tao.

This time, however, Xu Jin did not immediately switch directions in his extrapolation. With a thought, he directly summoned the Earth Spirit Heart of the fifth-tier lower within the Central Star Palace.

This was an Earth Spirit Heart formed of seven low-tier Earth Series Hearts of Heaven and Earth Star Will obtained from various Star Domains, which, to a certain extent, was the embodiment of the Earth Origin Heaven and Earth Star Will.

The moment Xu Jin invoked it, the Heaven and Earth before him changed in an instant.

The previously obscure and difficult extrapolations suddenly became clear.

It was like during a research process when, just as one is about to give up, suddenly there are new elements, new data that make everything clear at a glance.

Many things that were incomprehensible suddenly became understandable, transparent.

Xu Jin's Earth Origin Star Pattern began to grow and consolidate once again.

One by one, the mainstems and branches steadily expanded.

In a short time, the seventh-tier upper Earth Origin Star Pattern was completed.

Xu Jin continued to extrapolate, and upon adding two more branches, even though the seventh-tier upper Earth Origin Star Pattern had yet to break through to the eighth tier, Xu Jin's consciousness suddenly burst forth from the Earth.

This was because the time for the high-tier Tao Derivation brought by the Gold Star had ended.

Xu Jin slowly opened his eyes, feeling somewhat regretful, for he sensed that he could still extrapolate, that he hadn't reached the limit.

So, continue?

But should he use the Gold Star or the Bright Star?

At present, discounting the one just used, Xu Jin still had one Gold Star and two Bright Stars in hand.

Using another Gold Star might allow him to extrapolate to the eighth-tier lower.

But then, Xu Jin would have no Gold Stars left.

If there was any essential Star Pattern to extrapolate in the future, there would be no Gold Stars available, and using a Bright Star directly would be too wasteful.

Considering the Earth Origin Star Pattern had already been extrapolated to the seventh-tier upper, he might as well use a Bright Star.

Xu Jin made his decision in an instant.

With a thought, he tapped into the Bright Star and initiated it.

In a blink, two beams of starlight appeared before Xu Jin.

[Every Bright Star can directly complete one small realm of any star pattern below the ninth-tier and then immediately enter high-tier Tao Derivation time. Do you wish to complete it now?]

[Enter high-tier Tao Derivation time]

Having used the Bright Star twice before, Xu Jin knew how to maximize its benefits.

He chose to enter high-tier Tao Derivation time on the spot.

Using this high-tier Tao Derivation time, he continued to extrapolate the Earth Origin Star Pattern.

With the previous foundation, he was back in familiar territory. Just like before, Xu Jin summoned the assistance of the fifth-tier lower Earth Spirit Heart.

At this time, Xu Jin already had a very clear feeling: After extrapolating the Earth Origin Star Pattern to the eighth tier, the assistance it provided for further extrapolation was no longer that great.

But it was not entirely useless.

It was just not as significantly helpful as it was during the seventh tier.

Xu Jin thus arrived at a conclusion: The assistance of Heaven and Earth Star Will was most effective when extrapolating lower-tier star patterns.

The higher the rank of the star pattern, the less assistance it provided.

Of course, this should be related to the amount of Heaven and Earth Star Will Xu Jin had acquired.

This time the extrapolation was particularly grueling.

With the slight progress made earlier, plus a session of high-tier Tao Derivation time, along with the assistance of the Earth Spirit Heart, Xu Jin barely managed to extrapolate the Earth Origin Star Pattern to the eighth-tier lower before the high-tier Tao Derivation time ended.

The moment he extrapolated to the eighth-tier lower, the Earth Origin Star Pattern within flashed brilliantly.

The originally earthy-yellow Source Power suddenly transformed into an extremely viscous dark golden force.

Under the impetus of this dark golden force, mountains rose from the ground like airplanes taking off, only to crash down again. Giant birds passing overhead would suddenly have mountains hanging off their wings, plummeting to the ground, and then ground into a paste by an invisible force.

Suddenly, Xu Jin had an epiphany.

This was the special power obtained from extrapolating the Earth Origin Star Pattern to the eighth-tier lower—the Earth Magnetic Power.

It was likely a high-tier form of the Earth Series power.

Just the information gained from the extrapolation process excited Xu Jin immensely.

The power could be used for attack, defense, or control; it was extremely formidable.

Worth it!

The mere attribute alone made the Bright Star worth its cost.

Xu Jin dubbed this power the Earth Elemental Magnet.

But the real value of the Bright Star had not yet been fully realized.