This was Xu Jin’s last question.
After all, Xu Jin now possessed a high-tier Fire Origin Star Pattern of the Seventh Tier Upper. If he could engrave it into the emblem, wouldn’t its power be greatly enhanced?
"This is a good question," said the speaker, "but to answer this, I have to tell you about the difference between Seventh Tier experts and Sixth Tier experts.
Sixth Tier experts, although they can mobilize a portion of Star Power from Heaven and Earth, essentially use their own power to initiate changes in Star Power.
Seventh Tier experts, however, can comprehend existing Seventh Tier Star Patterns and then conceive their own related Seventh Tier Star Patterns, thus establishing a connection with the stars of Heaven.
The Sixth Tier refers to Wei Cloud Tower.
It is preparation for breaking through to the Seventh Tier and drawing the power of the stars from Heaven.
Therefore, the essence of the Seventh Tier Star Pattern is to harness the power of the celestial stars for oneself.
We cultivators, wanting to harness the power of the celestial stars, like me right now, am contemplating the Fire Origin Star Pattern of the Seventh Tier Upper newly acquired by the National Master. However, during contemplation, I must use my Divine Soul to remotely sense the celestial stars, then lock onto a certain star, and through this Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern, comprehend my own Seventh Tier Star Pattern that resonates with that star, and then..."
At this point, Kou Jing suddenly paused.
The next instant, a majestic presence rose up from Kou Jing.
Even during broad daylight, a certain star in the sky suddenly began to shine brightly, a ray of starlight on the verge of emergence, while Kou Jing’s aura continued to climb, as if desperately trying to draw down that flicker of starlight.
But the flicker of starlight just wouldn’t come down.
It always felt like something was missing.
And Kou Jing’s aura had been pushed to its limit.
Both his Star Power and Divine Soul Power were being driven to the extreme.
Xu Jin instantly realized that Academician Kou Jing, long stuck at the Sixth Tier Peak, must be attempting a breakthrough.
But it seemed that this breakthrough was proving difficult.
At the same time, the high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern engraved within Xu Jin’s Central Star Palace suddenly lit up faintly, and Xu Jin’s Mingji Star Pattern also shone at the same time.
The next instant, Xu Jin sensed a very strange scene.
He seemed to perceive another Fire Origin Star Pattern from within Academician Kou Jing’s body.
But this Fire Origin Star Pattern was vastly different from the high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern Xu Jin had derived himself.
As the one who had personally derived this high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern, Xu Jin immediately noticed the issue.
With the situation proceeding , Academician Kou Jing’s breakthrough attempt would surely fail.
Xu Jin couldn’t quite put his finger on the feeling.
It was just a sense that Academician Kou hadn’t grasped the main point of the star he was calling upon.
But how could he help?
It seemed he couldn’t help at all.
But in the next instant, Xu Jin discovered that the Fire Origin Star Pattern inside Academician Kou, and the fluctuations of the high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern inside him, had a slight similarity.
"I wonder if it could have an influence?"
With a thought, Xu Jin actively stimulated his own high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern; in an instant, the star in the sky blazed with intensity, almost as if its starlight wanted to project downwards.
But beside him, Academician Kou Jing’s face suddenly turned pale.
Because in that instant, he felt the connection with the corresponding star weaken.
Would this intuitively initiated breakthrough fail again?
Xu Jin also realized something.
His stimulation of the high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern seemed to have caused trouble for Academician Kou.
Had he accidentally made things worse?
However, Xu Jin did not give up so easily.
In the next instant, his Divine Soul Power voluntarily enveloped Academician Kou Jing, willing to give it another try.
Academician Kou Jing had great trust in his student.
He had no guards up at all.
Xu Jin’s Divine Soul Power thus covered Academician Kou Jing, and in an instant, Xu Jin’s high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern seemed to overlap with the Fire Origin Star Pattern within Academician Kou Jing.
The two star patterns of the same origin began to pulsate at an increasingly closer frequency.
The star in the sky that was being drawn upon also began to flicker and pulsate slowly, yet it was still unable to draw down the starlight.
Outside Academician Kou Jing’s Academic Hall, the students alarmed by the massive fluctuations of Star Power had been chased away by the arriving State Preceptor, alerted to the anomaly!
"By order, within the next two quarters of an hour, no one within the National Taoist Institute is permitted to use Star Power!
Whoever disobeys, execute!
Star Patrol Guards, declare martial law!"
"Yes, Chief Instructor Yu Da obeys!" commanded Chief Instructor Yu Da as he hurriedly left to carry out the order.
After issuing a strict command, National Master Cheng Yuxiao tried his best to restrain his own presence, fearing any disturbance to Kou Jing’s breakthrough.
Academician Kou Jing had been at the Sixth Tier Peak for more than a decade, and yet had always been trapped there, without any breakthroughs.
Recently, National Master Cheng Yuxiao had let Kou Jing contemplate the high-tier Seventh Tier Upper Fire Origin Star Pattern that Xu Jin had deduced.
During that time, Kou Jing had shown signs of breakthrough twice, but both failed.
Today was the third time.
This weighed heavily on National Master Cheng Yuxiao.
Breaking through to the Seventh Tier was difficult!
The fact that Dachen’s current Seventh Tier experts did not exceed the count of two hands was clear evidence.
Moreover, in the process of breaking through to the Seventh Tier, the more times a breakthrough failed, the smaller the chances of succeeding became.
Usually, the first time one senses a breakthrough, it is the easiest to succeed, second time less so, the probability of success in a third attempt won’t exceed thirty percent, and in the fourth, it won’t exceed ten percent; as for a fifth time...
Most people unable to sense that celestial star again after failing four times.