Star Martial Era: The Way of Star Light Cultivation
Chapter 175 - 111: Additional Test and the State Preceptor’s Prize (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 175: Chapter 111: Additional Test and the State Preceptor’s Prize (Please Subscribe)

At the waist of the mountain, Xu Jin instantly shot out from the ground, sweeping across a distance of nearly 60 meters. With every few meters he crossed, his fingers rapidly fired a Star Arrow.

With a tap of his toes, he borrowed strength from a large tree and Xu Jin burst forth again. Hidden in the forest, the Wood Spirit Clan had already sensed something was amiss and erupted forth, but were instantly annihilated by Xu Jin’s Star Arrow.

Even though they put up defenses, they couldn’t withstand Xu Jin’s Star Arrow.

Several from the Wood Spirit Clan were directly obliterated by Star Arrows from Xu Jin as he swept overhead.

They thought Xu Jin wouldn’t discover them and were waiting to ambush him.

But they were ambushed by Xu Jin first.

After three Flying Star Steps, Xu Jin unleashed thirteen Star Arrows, and the last of the Wood Spirit Clan was slain by Xu Jin with a long sword.

"Huh?"

As the long sword pierced through the heart of this Wood Spirit, Xu Jin suddenly halted his step, finding that the Wood Spirit surprisingly didn’t die, as the wound at its heart was slowly healing.

Xu Jin had now witnessed the self-healing talent of the Wood Spirit Clan.

A beheading with one strike!

The next instant, an angry roar erupted from the mountain peak.

Three brown-skinned giants, over ten meters tall, roaring as they charged towards Xu Jin.

Wood Spirits of the Star Casting Realm.

Including the Green-skinned Alien Race that Xu Jin first encountered, all belonged to the Wood Spirit Clan of the Five Spirit Clan.

Regarding these alien races, the Jinshan Taoist Institute had only briefly mentioned their characteristics and talents and had never really seen them.

However, as the instructors at the institute had mentioned, especially for alien races below Fifith Tier, those with larger bodies lack agility.

Thus, Xu Jin instantly pivoted, forcing these three Star Casting Realm giants to turn and chase after him.

Soon, these three chasers in the Star Casting Realm were aligned in a straight line and spread out.

When they were just twenty meters away from catching up to Xu Jin, he explosively used Flying Star Step to leap over the heads of these three Wood Spirit giants. In that fleeting moment, he fired two Star Arrows per individual.

The Star Arrows at close range were both swift and fierce.

One broke the defense, the other directly blew up the head.

He only killed two.

The leading Wood Spirit giant, at the Peak of Star Casting Realm, saw Xu Jin instantaneously turn back, slashing down with his long sword for a finishing blow and slaying it.

Xu Jin’s score above his head once again changed.

[Score: Eighty-four]

Xu Jin gazed at the body dissipating into starlight, thoughtful.

In this secret realm, everything seemed real yet not real.

An extremely strange experience.

By now, the Wood Spirit Clan members that died by Xu Jin’s hand had exceeded twenty-five.

Xu Jin was a bit clumsy at first, during their initial encounter, but now, he had gotten increasingly proficient in killing.

Moreover, Xu Jin had found the knack.

In this secret realm, even scents were useful.

These Wood Spirit Clan members, hiding in the woodland, had bodies nearly indistinguishable from the forest, making them difficult to spot, but their scent was quite noticeable.

Their scent was also of grass and wood, but distinctly different from the fresh scent of the vegetation in the woodland.

Underneath the Spirit Sniffing Star Pattern, not one could remain hidden.

"Hmm, there are more over there?"

Xu Jin once again pounced forth.

In the Autumn Examination Secret Realm, atop the Martial Observation Platform, the high-ranking members from the institutes of various states and counties, each dean, and Mountain Master were chatting with smiles, yet occasionally they glanced at the score ranking changes displayed in the sky.

[First place: Meng Qingqiu, fifty-six points]

[Second place: Xu Jin, fifty-two points]

[Third place: Yuan Feiqing, forty-nine points]

Many were greatly dissatisfied with these rankings.

Particularly the academicians and vice academicians of Da Chen National Daoist Institute.

Normally, the Dai Chen National Daoist Institute should dominate the top ten, or at the very least, the top six.

In the last ten years, the worst performance of Da Chen National Daoist Institute in the practical martial sections of the autumn exam was to dominate the top five.

But today, a disciple from a county institute had broken into second place.

Vice academician Liu Qingzhu was the most furious at this moment.

Since this year’s top group of students was under her guidance.

If these rankings persisted to the end, then this year’s autumn exam might be the worst performance of Da Chen National Daoist Institute in decades.

Liu Qingzhu was fuming.

Of course, not at Xu Jin, but because her own students were so disappointing.

During the martial practices in this real-life situation, they had all trained against these alien types before, but now, they were being upstaged by one...

In the next instant, Liu Qingzhu, who was standing with hands on hips, suddenly leaned forward, her chest seemed on the verge of falling as she intensely stared at the scoreboard in the sky.

She saw Xu Jin’s score on the sky’s scoreboard hopping without a stop, rapidly changing.

Amidst the changes, it had already soared to the first-place position.

[First place: Xu Jin, eighty-four points]

[Second place: Meng Qingqiu, fifty-eight points]

...

"It’s over, I’m utterly disgraced!

These students who sabotage their teacher, if even first place is lost, then I’m doomed to be nailed to the pillar of shame in the national institute for life!" Liu Qingzhu’s almond eyes were bulging, wishing she could plunge into the fight herself.

Losing first place.

Since the record of autumn exams began in Da Chen National Daoist Institute, there were times when they lost top three positions but never first place.

But if it happens under her, Liu Qingzhu’s care, it would be a lifelong disgrace for her, and she could forget about the academician position for life, let alone Libationer.

The thought of going to the battlefield displeased her even more.

"Qingqiu, you must catch up for me! My reputation all depends on you..." With her hands on her slender waist, Liu Qingzhu had started to mutter. If there wasn’t a communication barrier, she would have wanted to send a Starlight Transmission to Meng Qingqiu right then.