Maximizing the Taoist Merit benefit in the God-Killing Battlefield depended entirely on not delaying the progression of Cultivation.
One could not stop cultivating just for a few extra points of Taoist Merit.
For the Speed Star Patterns, it would take at least one more day to successfully engrave one.
Thus, Xu Jin decided to first engrave the Whale Swallow Star Pattern in the Lower Star Palace.
Before coming to the National Daoist Institute, Xu Jin could already engrave the Whale Swallow Star Pattern a thousand times over on the Star Lamp, having achieved a hundred percent success rate.
This time, the actual engraving on the Mingji Star Core in the Lower Star Palace went very smoothly and was accomplished in one go.
However, clearly, it was not as smooth and fluid as the previous engraving of the Mid-Tier Fire Origin Star Pattern of the Fourth Tier Upper.
In particular, the time it took was a full half-hour to complete the engraving.
The moment the Whale Swallow Star Pattern engraving was completed, an indescribable sense of weirdness spread through his body.
Under the operation of Whale Swallow Star Pattern, Xu Jin felt as if his whole body had vortex funnels growing from it, and many of the movements he couldn’t complete before became effortless.
Such as standing upside down under the eaves.
Before, he could only hang upside down from the eaves.
Now, Xu Jin truly stepped his feet on the eaves and stood upside down completely.
Without any attachments, just a slight stimulation of Star Power was enough to generate a suction force under his feet that allowed him to stand upside down beneath the eaves.
Xu Jin quickly developed a new trick based on this Whale Swallow Star Pattern.
Long durations of standing or hanging upside down in mid-air.
Previously, Xu Jin could only hover briefly.
But that involved rapid bursts of Star Power allowing him to suspend in the air for just two or three seconds.
Now, with a slightly stronger stimulation of the Whale Swallow Star Pattern, any part of his body could create a rather strong Star Power Vortex that would then hang Xu Jin there.
Suddenly, Xu Jin understood why Qi had said that the Whale Swallow Star Pattern was the perfect match for his Kite Ring Strategy.
Before, he had to wrap the Star Rope around the enemy to use the Kite Ring, which was highly limiting.
Now, whenever Xu Jin wanted to implement the Kite Ring, he could do so immediately; the suction from the Whale Swallow Star Pattern would create an invisible and unseen rotating arm to suspend Xu Jin.
Moreover, Xu Jin found that, as the amount of Star Power he invested varied, this invisible rotating arm could grow or shrink in length.
That reflected in the Kite Ring, allowing the high-speed spinning Xu Jin to move high and low, far and near, slow and fast.
The Kite Ring Strategy became more peculiar and had stronger combat effectiveness.
Xu Jin estimated that many people would find it incredibly problematic to face.
The improvement in strength excited Xu Jin tremendously, making him wish he could go to the God-Killing Battlefield to challenge himself and push his limits right away.
But after a hard day of Cultivation, Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Power was less than one-third remaining.
Since it was about reaching limits, he would need to be in his best state to push those limits.
In the next instant, as Xu Jin activate the Warm Dream Star Pattern, Jiang’er, who was still chatting, and Yuchan fell asleep within two seconds.
Xu Jin entered Jiang’er’s dreams once again, acting as the hero brother who came to her rescue.
This completely relaxed the sleeping Jiang’er’s expression.
The effect was still very strong.
In recent days, Jiang’er’s laughter had been increasing, as had her smiles.
The downside was, she was getting more clingy with Xu Jin.
But, being clung to also felt quite good.
On the morning of August 28, within the Minglun Hall of the Dachen National Daoist School, this year’s Academician Kou Jing, who was in charge of Minglun Hall, sat at the head of the long table, with three other Academicians and twelve Vice Academicians seated along the sides.
At the other end of the long table sat the newly-appointed Vice Supervisor Dong Zhao.
And behind the long table, rows of chairs were occupied by nearly a hundred instructors and teachers of the National Daoist Institute.
According to the rules of Dachen National Daoist School, Minglun Hall conducted a teaching meeting every half-month, during which the Academicians reviewed and discussed the teaching and cultivation work of the various Academic Halls.
Those who excelled received encouragement, and those who were lacking were critiqued.
Every meeting was attended by a Vice Supervisor to record the proceedings.
It was considered a rather important internal meeting.
At this moment, the Academician Kou Jing, responsible for Minglun Hall, spoke, "Everyone is here, let’s start then! The focus of this month is naturally on the cultivation progress of the newly promoted True Inheritors and Core Disciples, you all go ahead and report."
As soon as these words were spoken, Vice Academician Liu Qingzhu’s face showed an unnatural expression.