I, Who Hate Marine So Much, Have Become A Future Nika?

Chapter 24: Fourth Level of Qi Refining, Eternal Sword Heart

"Buzz..."

The surging mana accumulated a force. When the force reached a certain level, Zhong Cang activated this force and forcefully collided it against the "barrier" of his body.

"Boom!" In the impact, Zhong Cang's body trembled violently, and blood overflowed from his mouth.

He was injured, and the accumulated mana dissipated, but... the barrier remained.

Feeling the situation inside his body, a hint of gloom appeared on Zhong Cang's face, but he did not despair.

"Ah, I knew it would be like this."

Having an uncle at the Ninth Level of Qi Refining, Zhong Cang was not ignorant of the breakthrough in the Qi Refining realm. He knew very well the reason for his lack of breakthrough - the quality of his mana was not enough.

The mana cultivated through the Qi Consumption Technique was the most basic mana, without attributes or characteristics.

As Water Bo said, this kind of mana quality was very disadvantageous for both fighting and breakthroughs.

Encountering a barrier that couldn't be broken through, according to common sense, Zhong Cang had three choices.

One was to use elixirs as assistance, but breakthrough elixirs were extremely precious, and using them to break through would still leave him slightly weaker than cultivators of the same level.

The second option was to change cultivation techniques.

This was not a wonderful choice either. Good cultivation techniques were hard to obtain, and powerful techniques had high cultivation difficulty and resource requirements.

Just like Yan Lingdie, the Heavenly Flame Spirit Scripture she cultivated was indeed extremely powerful.

However, in order to cultivate this technique, one must first find a realm with extremely rich fire spiritual energy... In ordinary environments, the cultivation requirements of this technique could not be met.

Moreover, while cultivating, Yan Lingdie also needed a considerable amount of fire attribute elixirs as assistance.

At the same time, the flame power of the Heavenly Flame Spirit Scripture was extremely violent. To control it, one needed to possess a strong body.

Therefore, while cultivating the Heavenly Flame Spirit Scripture, Yan Lingdie also used body-refining elixirs.

It could be said that she grew up in a medicine jar.

This was still possible because she had a Flame Spirit Body, which allowed her to control the flames. People without this physique not only faced difficult cultivation, but also required more resources and had great danger.

A slight mistake, and those who cultivated this technique would be burned to ashes by the flames.

Of course, although it was difficult everywhere, once cultivated, high-level techniques could bring powerful combat strength to cultivators.

"I'm not afraid of difficult techniques as long as I have an attribute panel, but I can't find a good technique."

The techniques in the Flame Family's Sutra Pavilion were not bad, but they were just bait. Zhong Cang didn't want to choose them.

Skipping the second option, Zhong Cang pondered the third choice... raising the cultivation level of his technique.

By using a higher cultivation level to activate it, even inferior mana would have increased power.

Not to mention, many techniques had the function of purifying spiritual power after reaching a higher level of cultivation.

Therefore, this seemed like a good choice.

However, for ordinary cultivators, this was only an illusion. If they were not a Transcendent genius with exceptional comprehension, the difficulty of raising the cultivation level of a technique was no lower than finding a high-level technique.

In fact, it was even more difficult.

At least, when searching for high-level techniques, if one was willing to risk their life, there would still be some clues. For example, going to ruins, desperately completing sect missions to accumulate contribution points, or joining a cultivation family. These were all options.

But raising the cultivation level of a technique was like studying advanced mathematics (mastery above level 3). If you didn't understand it, you simply didn't understand it. No matter how much you thought about it, it wouldn't help if you didn't have enough wisdom (comprehension).

After Zhong Cang's breakthrough failed, he felt gloomy in his heart, but he didn't despair. He also didn't consider joining a cultivation family, which was another reason for the third choice.

It was difficult to judge whether his comprehension was strong or not, but he had an attribute panel.

With the Once Proven, Forever Proven and Heaven Rewards Diligence of the attribute panel, he had confidence in advancing the cultivation level of the Qi Consumption Technique to the Fourth Level, or even the Fifth Level.

"If I can't break through the barrier at the Third Level, I refuse to believe that I can't break through at the Fourth or Fifth Level!"

...

With determination in his heart, Zhong Cang was already prepared to practice the Qi Consumption Technique more in the future and quickly raise its cultivation level.

However, although he had a backup plan, he was still trapped by the first barrier, a small barrier of the Qi Refining realm. This made Zhong Cang somewhat unwilling.

Therefore, he did not stop immediately, but made two more attempts to break through.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

There is no doubt that Zhong Cang failed both times in breaking through.

The failed breakthrough not only caused the spiritual energy in his body to fluctuate endlessly, but also caused injuries to his body.

However, Zhong Cang didn't pay much attention to this.

The shadow of the Spirit Beast, Deer, can stimulate Zhong Cang's vitality and quickly heal his own injuries.

With this skill as a guarantee, as long as it's not a broken arm or leg, he can recover quickly.

Fearless and injured, Zhong Cang began his third attempt to break through.

This time, he didn't expect to succeed, but just wanted to vent his frustration.

However, just as he was accumulating strength to break through, a sword chant sounded in Zhong Cang's consciousness, and his Sword Heart stirred.

The faint illusion of the sword first calmed the immortal spiritual power fluctuating within Zhong Cang.

Then, guided by the illusion of the sword, the spiritual power within Zhong Cang also condensed into a long sword.

The long sword formed by the condensed spiritual power was incredibly sharp and solid.

With a thought from Zhong Cang, the long sword pierced through his body's barrier.

"Bang!"

The sound of shattering resounded within Zhong Cang's body once again.

But this time, it was not the spiritual power that shattered, but the barrier.

Zhong Cang broke through and entered the fourth stage of Qi Refining.

"Buzz..."

After breaking through, Zhong Cang could feel that his body suddenly became empty, and his capacity expanded several times.

With the expansion of his capacity, a large amount of spiritual energy swarmed towards Zhong Cang and converged within his body.

The overwhelming spiritual energy formed a vortex within him.

However, at this moment, Zhong Cang couldn't care about the surging spiritual energy. He focused all his attention on his Sword Heart, which had stopped moving.

"Why did it move? And it helped me break through?"

After a few moments, Zhong Cang understood everything.

"The Sword Heart sensed the crisis and suddenly activated."

"Yes, during the third... fourth attempt to break through, I would definitely be injured, and the injuries would be severe."

"Although these injuries can be healed, under the Sword Heart's sensing, they do pose a danger to my body. It's normal for the Sword Heart to activate."

In addition to the reason for the activation of the Sword Heart, Zhong Cang also understood the principle behind it helping him break through.

Under crisis, the Sword Heart can activate Zhong Cang's physical potential and allow his body to instinctively make the best choices.

There is no doubt that after activating his potential, the spiritual power Zhong Cang gathers becomes more refined and more suitable for breaking through.

In this situation, breaking through is indeed the best choice.

...And then, the Sword Heart helped Zhong Cang break through.

After understanding everything, even though he had said it several times before, Zhong Cang couldn't help but exclaim.

"Sword Heart, the eternal god!"

At the same time, through this breakthrough, Zhong Cang also discovered something.

"It seems that I don't need to worry about the quality of spiritual power. With the Sword Heart, I can completely control spiritual power and give it a sharp characteristic to forcefully break through."

"Although the barriers ahead will become thicker and breaking through will become more difficult, my Sword Heart will not remain the same. As I cultivate, the understanding of the Sword Heart will become stronger. As long as I cultivate the Ignorant Heart Sword Art fast enough, no barrier can stop me."

(End of this chapter)