CHAPTER 798: CHAPTER 323: MIDNIGHT SURPRISE

Upon introspection, within the diminutive Primordial Spirit in the Upper Star Palace, thirty-six Divine Soul Star Cores were rotating at the same time. With each rotation, a strand of visibly tangible Divine Soul Power was generated and then absorbed by one of the Divine Soul Stars, bolstering Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Cultivation Level.

The terrifying passive enhancement effect of the Clearing Soul Star Pattern was exponentially increasing with the number and had now been fully realized.

No matter what Xu Jin was doing, the forty-six Clearing Soul Star Patterns were continuously enhancing his Divine Soul Cultivation Level at all times.

Xu Jin had already decided that he must invest more Gold Star into the Clearing Soul Star Pattern.

The more, the earlier one invests in this type of passive Cultivation Level enhancement Star Pattern, the more the benefits.

After introspection, Xu Jin found that the newly added twenty-six Divine Soul Stars, which most likely benefited from the massive influx of Divine Soul Power from the breakthrough using the Nine-leaf Golden Lotus Seed and the internal power of the Star Jade, had almost all reached the level of a second halo.

That is to say, they could now be engraved with two Star Patterns.

Since these would passively increase his Cultivation Level, Xu Jin didn’t wait for anything else.

He simply started engraving the second Star Pattern onto these twenty-six new Divine Soul Stars, all with the Clearing Soul Star Pattern.

Eventually, Xu Jin engraved two Clearing Soul Star Patterns on twenty-four of the twenty-six new Divine Soul Stars, while the remaining two Divine Soul Stars retained a single Clearing Soul Star Pattern.

This was to safeguard against any unforeseen circumstances.

What if Xu Jin obtained a Divine Soul Secret Technique in the future that required engraving nine Star Patterns?

As of now, the total number of Clearing Soul Star Patterns engraved by Xu Jin had reached a fearsome seventy.

The passive increase in Divine Soul Cultivation Level that was happening every moment could now be seen with the naked eye.

At the same time, Xu Jin also began to plan the uses for these Divine Soul Stars again.

Compared to Star Power Secret Techniques, there were far fewer types of Divine Soul Secret Techniques, so many of Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Stars were unlikely to be used up.

After all, other cultivators with only ten Divine Soul Stars found them sufficient.

Rather than leave them empty and wasted, it made more sense to engrave the Clearing Soul Star Patterns early to passively increase Divine Soul Power sooner.

The cumulative effort over time was indeed terrifying!

Currently, Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Stars from the sixth onward, apart from the Clearing Soul Star Patterns, were all blank slates.

At the same time, Xu Jin also wanted to test if he could exploit a BUG: engraving all the Clearing Soul Star Patterns on a single Divine Soul Star, without needing many, just ten or eight would do. In the future, that would mean nearly a hundred additional Clearing Soul Star Patterns—how terrifying would the passive enhancement of Divine Soul Power be?

Since there were so many empty Star Pattern positions, it would be a waste not to use them. Thinking it, Xu Jin began to engrave.

However, before starting the engraving, Xu Jin fully activated the four Mingji Star Patterns of the Lower Star Palace and carefully sensed the various changes in the Upper Star Palace, particularly the rate of increase of Divine Soul Power, for a comparative effect.

Now, with the operation of the four Mingji Star Patterns, this sensing power could be described as extremely nuanced.

Soon, Xu Jin engraved a third Clearing Soul Star Pattern on the sixth Divine Soul Star.

After successfully engraving it, Xu Jin once again activated the Mingji Star Patterns to sense carefully and recorded some data.

After several dozen breaths, Xu Jin engraved a third Clearing Soul Star Pattern on the seventh Divine Soul Star, sensed and recorded again, and then engraved a fourth Clearing Soul Star Pattern on the sixth Divine Soul Star.

In this manner, he repeatedly added new engravings and kept recording and comparing them until he had engraved six Clearing Soul Star Patterns on both the sixth and the seventh Divine Soul Stars.

Looking at the tested data, Xu Jin shook his head: exploiting the BUG had failed!

It wasn’t a total failure, though.

According to the data obtained, the effect of passively increasing Divine Soul Power would diminish upon engraving a third Clearing Soul Star Pattern on a single Divine Soul Star. The fourth would decrease sharply, to only half the effect of the first two, the fifth would have only a third of the effect of the first two, and the sixth Clearing Soul Star Pattern’s passive increase of Divine Soul Power was almost imperceptible through the Mingji Star Patterns—but there was definitely an increase.

Currently, it seemed that engraving two Clearing Soul Star Patterns on a Divine Soul Star yielded the greatest benefit, three still had a good benefit, and the gains from engraving the fourth, fifth, and sixth were roughly the same as the third’s increase.

Looking at this data, Xu Jin had a plan in an instant: in the future, besides leaving several Divine Soul Stars for potential use, the other Divine Soul Stars should have at least three Clearing Soul Star Patterns engraved on them, and among these, at least eighteen Divine Soul Stars should have a minimum of five Clearing Soul Star Patterns engraved.

After all, leaving them empty was a waste!

Current total of condensed Clearing Soul Star Patterns: seventy-eight.

Having dealt with the matters of the Upper Star Palace, Xu Jin’s first thought was to try the effects of strengthening Star Patterns.

The State Preceptor had already given Xu Jin the method to strengthen Star Patterns.

The first Star Pattern to be strengthened was naturally the high-tier Fire Origin Star Pattern.

Xu Jin then activated his Divine Soul Thought Power and began manipulating the Star Power, starting to strengthen and condense the Fire Origin Star Pattern.

After only half an hour of strengthening, Xu Jin came to an understanding.

Using his own feelings as a gauge, strengthening and compressing the Fire Origin Star Pattern was a process of turning iron into steel and elevating it continually, but due to the particular nature of Star Patterns, this process could be overlaid multiple times.

Taking the Star Halo where the Fire Origin Star Pattern in the Central Star Palace was situated as an example, it was actually empty. This strengthening was a process of turning the intangible into tangible, and then refining it until it was pure.

The speed of the strengthening surprised Xu Jin even more.

As the State Preceptor said, for a Fifth Rank Cultivator who had formed a Primordial Spirit and used Divine Soul Thought Power to strengthen a Star Pattern from its initial layer to the Second Layer, the power of the related Star Skill would double. But it would require a minimum of one full year to start.