Letting the Clearing Soul Star Pattern transition from imaginary to real, then engaging in Star Casting, reaching the Perfection of Star Casting, and finally advancing to the Third Layer of Refining Star had increased his power manifold, Xu Jin couldn’t calculate precisely how much, but it was dozens of times indeed.
However, the problem was that the actual combat power of his Star Skill had increased by only forty percent.
It was quite disappointing.
Afterward, Xu Jin successively tested other Star Skills, including Star Ring, Starlight Shield, Star Shield, Star Radiance, and Flying Star Step; all had improved by only about forty percent.
With the addition of Chasing Star Boots and reaching Great Perfection, the distance of a single leap increased from nearly forty meters to about sixty meters, yet still shy of sixty meters.
The improvement was substantial, but much smaller than Xu Jin had imagined.
"How about it, are you a bit disappointed with this improvement?" Suddenly, Qi Shanye’s voice reached his ears, and by the time Xu Jin stood up, Qi Shanye had already revealed himself.
"Teacher, indeed I am disappointed. I feel my Divine Soul Power has increased dozens of times, but the increase in strength..."
"You’re looking in the wrong direction."
"The wrong direction?" Xu Jin was puzzled.
"The strength of the Divine Soul, aside from adding a part to basic combat power, mainly influences two things. One is significantly speeding up your cultivation. Try cultivating the Golden Spreading Chapter." Qi Shanye said.
In the next instant, Xu Jin sat cross-legged, his thoughts stirring, and instantly gathered all his Star Power to his head, creating an immense Star Pressure, and began to slowly refine his head.
But just at the start, Xu Jin suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, and two streams of blood burst out from his nostrils. Not only from the nostrils, blood was spurting out of all seven orifices.
Xu Jin was terrified and immediately stopped.
"You, can’t you increase gradually? Taking it up bit by bit, are you trying to kill yourself?" Qi Shanye broke out in a cold sweat too, he hadn’t expected Xu Jin to be so rash.
After that, Qi Shanye immediately realized where the problem lay; Xu Jin probably hadn’t realized the magnitude of the Divine Soul Star created in the Third Layer of Refining Star.
"Let me put it this way, not just Third Tier, but many Fourth Tier, and even Fifth Tier cultivators, most of them haven’t formed the Divine Soul Star! Only a very few Fifth Tier cultivators might have the chance to form it.
And most Sixth Tier cultivators, their Divine Soul Power just barely reaches Star Casting.
Only a very few Sixth Tier cultivators can bring their Divine Soul Star to or break through the early period of Refining Star." Qi Shanye explained.
He originally thought that Divine Soul Star Casting, although rare, would definitely be present among third and fourth-tier experts, but unexpectedly, it only began to prevail among Fifth Tier experts.
Qi Shanye quickly explained the reasons.
Apart from the special inheritance of the Lingji Star Hall, other Star Halls and Taoist Institutes’ cultivators usually could only enhance their Divine Soul Power and form Divine Soul Stars after their Cultivation Level broke through to the Fifth Tier Gathering Battle, through cultivation methods.
Of course, this is just the usual method.
Below the Fifth Tier, there are no methods actively focusing on cultivating Divine Soul Power.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that Lingji Star Hall is unbeatable.
On the contrary, cultivating Divine Soul Power from the start is a weakness of Lingji Star Hall.
Among the disciples of Lingji Star Hall, those with special opportunities like Xu Jin are one in ten thousand.
Progress in Divine Soul Cultivation is quite slow.
Because a lot of energy is required to cultivate Divine Soul Power, the rise in Star Power Cultivation is also relatively slow.
Only after over a decade of cultivating Divine Soul Power, can they begin to see the benefits and possibly make a remarkable breakthrough.
Later, under the guidance of Qi Shanye, Xu Jin slowly increased the Star Pressure and enhanced the cultivation of the Golden Spreading Chapter.
When he felt a headache and discomfort, he would stop.
An hour later, Xu Jin was astonished by the progress of his cultivation.
Previously, two hours of cultivation of the Dining Dawn Sixth Layer Golden Spreading Chapter would only increase his Body Refining progress by a centimeter.
But today, just an hour of cultivation had added two centimeters, the speed of cultivation had increased at least fourfold.
Moreover, this was when Xu Jin wasn’t using his full strength.
With full effort, Xu Jin didn’t know how many times faster his cultivation speed could be, six times, or ten times?
Maybe, he could break through to Dining Dawn Sixth Layer tonight.
But even if he couldn’t use full force, Xu Jin estimated that by tomorrow night at the latest, he would reach Dining Dawn Sixth Layer.
The speed of this cultivation was truly...
Xu Jin had experienced the first great benefit of Divine Soul Power Star Casting.
After that, Qi Shanye taught Xu Jin to appreciate the second great benefit.
"The influence of Divine Soul Power on the strength enhancement of Star Skills, aside from the basic enhancement, the biggest change is actually the increase in the amount you can mobilize.
To put it simply, the reason your Star Arrow only had that much power is not only because of the Star Skill itself but also because of how much Star Power you could mobilize in executing that particular Star Skill.
Every breakthrough you make, whether in Cultivation Level or an increase in Divine Soul Power, is because you can mobilize a higher total Star Power at once when executing that Star Skill, which is why its strength increases.
Now, with your Divine Soul Power increased a hundred times, in theory, the power you can mobilize has also increased a hundredfold.
Try now, don’t hurry to launch the Star Skill, but first use your mind to mobilize Star Power, try to mobilize as much as possible, then blast it out and see." Qi Shanye said.
The next instant, Xu Jin concentrated intensely, and suddenly, a large amount of Star Power surged towards his right palm, which flashed with dazzling Starlight in that moment.
When he felt it reached its peak, Xu Jin moved his mind, and instantly, a Star Arrow shot out from the fingertips of his right hand.
A breaking sound arose, and the Star Arrow, like a meteor, soared towards the sky.
And Xu Jin, instinctively felt a sense of emptiness.
It felt like he had shot out his energy!
"About forty meters, the power is already comparable to the damage of middle-period Refining Star." Qi Shanye commented.
Hearing this, Xu Jin’s heart leaped.
Didn’t this mean that his strike had the combat power to severely injure or even kill a middle-period Refining Star cultivator?
However, high destructive power also means high consumption.
That strike just now had drained forty percent of Xu Jin’s Star Power.
With his current Star Power, he could execute such an attack only two times.
Previously, attacking a middle-period Refining Star with Star Arrow was like scratching an itch, striking dozens of times without much effect; now one hit was effective!
"Got it now?" Qi Shanye smiled.
"Thank you, Teacher Xie." Xu Jin expressed his gratitude.
Qi Shanye chuckled and waved his hand, "Since your Divine Soul has already cast a star, and moreover reached the Third Layer of Refining Star, you can engrave a new Star Pattern now.
Tonight, I will teach you a new Divine Soul Star Pattern."