Chapter 891: Chapter 356: You Lost
Twelve days!
The disintegration of the Altar Sky Road lasted for a full twelve days.
Xu Jin, Ning Yuchan, Ji Hongli, and Hou Yunzhang cultivated inside the Altar Sky Road for twelve days.
Li Zhen, Cui Chongguang, and others envied them for twelve days.
Before the Altar Sky Road completely dissolved, Cui Chongguang and Li Zhen had already waited outside early, their expressions quite complex.
The reason they waited there was actually due to an obsession.
They wanted to see how much Hou Yunzhang and Ji Hongli had progressed in their cultivation.
In essence, they hoped that these people’s cultivation levels wouldn’t increase too much.
Otherwise, the more these people’s cultivation levels increased, the more they would regret it in the future.
Especially Li Zhen.
Wow!
When there were only two meters left of the Altar Sky Road, it disintegrated early, with the core Star Pivot Array Plate inside collapsing inch by inch.
The cultivating Xu Jin, Ning Yuchan, Ji Hongli, and Hou Yunzhang slowly opened their eyes.
The others were okay, but the excitement in Hou Yunzhang’s eyes was indescribable.
Only those who had personally experienced it knew what he had gained.
Not only had his cultivation level increased significantly, but during this cultivation, Young Master Qi continually performed a mysterious Star Skill on him, allowing him to rest for only one-hour and cultivate for a whole day. The improvement in his cultivation felt greater than the progress of the past four or five years.
At this moment, Hou Yunzhang’s cultivation in the Central Star Palace had reached the peak of the Fifth Rank Ninth Layer, an increase of two and a half realms.
Just sensing the improvement of Hou Yunzhang’s cultivation aura made Li Zhen feel extremely bitter.
But on his face, he had to force a smile and repeatedly salute to Hou Yunzhang!
Before going in, Hou Yunzhang was at the Fifth Rank Seventh Layer, with his cultivation level lower by one tier compared to Li Zhen.
In just twelve days, Hou Yunzhang had reached the peak of the Fifth Rank Ninth Layer, while Li Zhen was still at the Fifth Rank Eighth Layer.
This gap of one and a half cultivation stages, regardless of resources, in terms of time alone, would take him about two years of hard training.
Not to mention the vast amount of resources.
However, what Li Zhen did not know was that Hou Yunzhang not only improved his cultivation in the Central Star Palace, but the enhancement in the Lower Star Palace was the greatest.
Since advancing to the Fifth Rank, Hou Yunzhang primarily focused on the Central Star Palace, with his Lower Star Palace cultivation being stuck at the First Layer of the Fifth Rank Gathering Battle.
This time, thanks to the Altar Sky Road, Hou Yunzhang advanced the cultivation of the Lower Star Palace from the Fifth Rank First Layer to the Fifth Rank Fourth Layer in one go.
This made his combat power soar greatly!
In comparison to Hou Yunzhang, Ning Yuchan’s cultivation improvement was not as high.
Ning Yuchan entered the battle with a cultivation of Fifth Rank Third Layer, and now her cultivation barely reached the peak of the Fifth Rank Fourth Layer.
But what Li Zhen did not know was that Ning Yuchan’s Lower Star Palace cultivation had also reached the Fifth Rank Fourth Layer.
Moreover, Ning Yuchan leveraged the vast amount of Star Power here to successfully strengthen her Gold Origin Star Pattern from the Second Layer to the Third Layer.
The power of her Gold Element Star Skill increased significantly again.
Ji Hongli was similar.
Ji Hongli’s cultivation rose from the Fourth Rank Fourth Layer to the peak of the Fourth Rank Sixth Layer.
The range of improvement seemed similar to Ning Yuchan’s, but in reality, Ji Hongli had successfully made up for deficits, advancing her Lower Star Palace cultivation from the Fourth Rank First Layer to the peak of the Fourth Rank Sixth Layer.
After a period following the battle, once Ji Hongli engraves the Star Pattern on the newly acquired Star Core, her combat power will soar greatly!
In contrast, Xu Jin’s cultivation improvement seemed the least impressive.
The cultivation of the Central and Lower Star Palace only advanced from the Fourth Rank Seventh Layer to the peak of the Fourth Rank Eighth Layer.
Among the four, the extent of improvement was the smallest.
But only Xu Jin knew how substantial the true enhancement in strength was.
In the twelve days, the coverage range of Xu Jin’s Primordial Spirit Embryo Light increased from 8.1 meters to 8.7 meters.
Under these circumstances, Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Cultivation advanced again, as did the speed of cultivation and the speed of Star Pattern enhancement.
Xu Jin, who was already fast at enhancing Star Patterns, benefited from the near inexhaustible Star Power within the Altar Sky Road, allowing the Star Pattern enhancement speed to accelerate once more.
For the last nine and a half days, Xu Jin mainly strengthened two Star Patterns: one was the Fire Origin Star Pattern, the other was the Thunder Origin Star Pattern, both being Main Battle Star Patterns.
The Fire Origin Star Pattern was strengthened to the Second Layer, and the Thunder Origin Star Pattern was strengthened to the Third Layer.
It is worth mentioning that until strengthening the Thunder Origin Star Pattern to the Third Layer, Xu Jin suddenly understood the origins of the term "Establishing the Tower" in the context of the Cloud Tower Realm, especially regarding the "Tower" in the Sixth Rank Cloud Tower Realm.
Under inner vision, the Thunder Origin Star Pattern, strengthened to the Third Layer by Xu Jin, was layered like a three-story Thunder Tower, flashing with thunder and looking intimidating!
The enhancement of a Star Pattern by a Fifth Rank expert only affects combat power, not cultivation level.
However, without the enhancement of a Star Pattern, one cannot break through.
Xu Jin had acquired a general understanding of the cultivation system through extensive reading in the Library of the National Taoist Institute.
Many cultivators start enhancing Star Patterns only after their cultivation reaches the Fifth Rank Ninth Layer Peak.
Firstly, the efficiency is faster, and secondly, the cost-effectiveness is higher.
This is one reason many cultivators are stuck at the Fifth Rank Ninth Layer Peak for many years without a breakthrough.
But Xu Jin, although still in the Fourth Order, had already established a tower and strengthened the Thunder Origin Star Pattern to the Third Layer.
However, the combat power of the Thunder Element Star Skill was not theoretically tripled directly.
It should have increased by two times on the original basis.
Strengthening the Thunder Origin Star Pattern from the First Layer to the Second Layer is equivalent to 1+1, strengthening to the Third Layer is equivalent to adding another 1, not doubling!
But even so, if the Thunder Origin Star Pattern can be strengthened to the Seventh Layer or even the Eighth or Ninth Layer, the power enhancement would be extremely terrifying.