Chapter 118: Cyclone

  Qin Tianyi's strike shook the light screen, although it didn't cause too much turbulence, but a part of the joyful and alert heart still sensed his movement in the first time.

  The moment he saw Qin Tianyi step into the light screen, his face had lost all its calmness. He stood up abruptly and took a few incredulous steps towards Xingyu Sword Emperor's courtyard, shouting: "This is impossible!"

  As he shouted, his body involuntarily moved to the front of the light screen in his own courtyard. Looking at Qin Tianyi on the light screen, his face was full of incredulity: "How is it possible!? He went in?! Actually went in?! That's the Star Universe Sword Emperor's courtyard, for three hundred years, our Shenvu Academy has only had three people who have stepped into it to cultivate, and those three people, each one was an extraordinary genius who cultivated from a sword master to a great sword master realm within one or two years. Qin Tianyi... how is it possible?!

  Yan Tianqi's sudden and loud shout made it impossible for him to calm down and meditate, even if he wanted to. Looking at the light screen that had been blasted open and quickly closed, he widened his eyes, opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but ultimately couldn't utter a single word.

  After a long time, at least half a minute, Yan Tianqi finally came back to his senses, looking at the light screen outside the Star Sword Emperor's courtyard that had already returned to its original state, and then he slightly twitched the corner of his mouth: "He went in..."

  Went in.

  At this moment, even if Yan Tianqi was still arrogant, self-conceited and thought he was the real number one in the world, he remained speechless for a long time. At this moment, his previous determination to fight Qin Tiangong with all his might also wavered.

  "No! Impossible! I won't lose, I won't lose. I'm Yan Tianqi, the most outstanding and exceptional disciple of this generation in Shenxu Academy. I won't possibly lose to a nobody with no background or identity! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Even if he entered the Star Universe Sword Emperor's courtyard, even if he practiced hundredfold Yuan Qi, how could that be? My Yuan Qi here isn't necessarily much weaker than his. Moreover, I'm currently a second-stage sword master, condensing air swirls and approaching the peak of second-stage sword mastery. He can practice for two and a half months in there, at most ignite true fire and cultivate to third-stage sword mastery. He can do it, but so can I! I, Yan Tianqi, can also do it!"

  At this point, Yan Tianqi's body was once again filled with an astonishing fighting spirit, the kind of confidence that belonged to the number one master of the Divine Communication List, and it returned to his body.

  No failure!

  Failure is not an option!

  In this mindset, Yan Tianqi couldn't help but thoroughly solidify the second stage of Sword Master's realm and immediately charge towards the third stage - Condensing True Fire!

  ……

  "Ah!"

  The moment he stepped into the light screen, Qin Tianyi's footwork stumbled and almost fell down, while quickly issuing orders in his mind.

  "Shut down X-01 Power Armor!"

  "Drip! X-01 Bio-Mech has shut down!"

  As the prompting sound approached, that kind of weakness which seemed to drain all the strength from his spiritual world gradually disappeared from him, and Qin Tianyi finally had a chance to catch his breath.

  However, after gasping for a moment, he suddenly paused slightly.

  "Wait, no fainting!?"

  Carefully sensed his spiritual world, although in an instant was emptied of a small half, but... did not faint!

  Even...

  There is weakness!

  But that weakness had not yet grown strong enough to deprive him of all power of resistance.

  Even to...

  He can also restart X-01 power armor under such a weak premise and maintain it for tens of seconds in energy-saving mode!

  "The weakness just now was so intense, not because the spirit was exhausted, but because too much spirit was consumed in an instant, causing a severe burden on the spiritual world. This is why it feels difficult to adapt, just like a person who can drink 20 liters of water over ten days if done gradually, but will be directly killed by drinking 20 liters of water in one breath."

  "The consumption of spiritual power... is roughly one-third..."

  Qin Tianyi silently counted in his mind.

  One-third!

  In fact, the one-third is not that starting X-01 Power Armor will consume one-third of spiritual power at once, but rather that carrying No. 2 in overdrive mode requires so much spiritual power to be consumed.

  If he wasn't in overdrive mode when carrying No. 2, his spirit wouldn't be enough to activate the X-01 biological mech suit.

  After all, his spirit has not undergone a qualitative change, and even if the intensity of his spirit is about to exceed that of a spiritual master by half, he can only be considered a spiritual practitioner.

  "Everyone thinks that after I activate the X-01 bio-mech, I only have one hit of power and will fall into a coma afterwards. But in reality, I can now exert three hits of power. Even if I only use two hits, although I will be severely weakened due to mental exhaustion, I still have a chance to escape calmly... Just like the groups of Gu Wu Shuang and Sima Wu Hen, as long as I unleash two extremely powerful hits and take out these two biggest threats, the remaining great swordsmen won't be able to do anything to me."

  Qin Tianji clenched his fists tightly as he spoke.

  He had grown up to this extent without realizing it.

  "Xuán Guī's Rock and Star Chart Refining Spirit Method..."

  Qin Tianyi secretly made up his mind that after the training in Shenxu Sacred Mountain was over, he would definitely find a time to thoroughly acquire the Xuantu Rock.

  The earthy energy provided by the Xuanwu Rock can be absorbed by the tender green shoots of the spiritual world, producing a nourishing green light that quenches the soul. With this green light nourishing his soul, he can freely and unscrupulously visualize the Star Map Refining Spirit Technique, impacting the Spiritual Master Realm.

  "Next, let's take a look at how the yuanqi effect works here... Number Two!"

  "Drip! Environmental collection complete, analyzing... Analysis result, the yuanqi density in this area is 112.7 times that of the outside world!"

  "112. 7 times!"

  This data far exceeds Qin Tianyi's estimated budget for the density of yuanqi.

  "Alright, Yun Xiao Sword requires mental energy to draw in the heavenly and earthly primal energies!"

  Qin Tianyi suppressed the excitement in his heart and sat down outside the courtyard, quietly meditating to restore his spirit.

  Half a day later, Qin Tianyi opened his eyes again, and with a flip of his hand, the Yun Xiao sword that he had refined through special methods appeared in his hand.

  The next moment, his spirit stirred, and the profoundness of Yun Xiao Sword was fully unleashed. In an instant, his spirit seemed to have been greatly extended, directly penetrating into a vast expanse of primordial energy.

  This primordial energy surged like a vast ocean, thick and viscous as ink. With Qin Tianyi's slight pull, it immediately poured into the Cloudy Sky Sword, then transformed through the sword and transmitted into his body.

  This transformed yuanqi entered Qin Tianji's body, and its effect was surprisingly not inferior to taking a fierce beast's inner dan. His originally 70% liquefied true yuan had already reached 80% in just a few breaths.

  After eighty percent of the liquidation, that strand of yuanqi still flowed endlessly into Qin Tianyi's body, making him almost feel like he was going to be burst by the yuanqi.

  "You're too much!"

  Qin Tianji's mind stirred, and he split off a part of his spirit to continue stimulating the Yun Xiao sword. After absorbing a small amount of yuanqi, most of his spirit was poured into his body, instantly condensing into a vortex inside him, which threw those yuanqi into the vortex, refining them into true yuan.

  Three hours later, eighty percent of the true yuan had liquefied, reaching ninety percent!

  Twelve hours later, accompanied by a gentle sound like flowing water from the true yuan in his body, all the true energy throughout his body had completely liquefied!

  "In just half a day, you've already reached the peak of a first-class sword master. Next, all you need to do is thoroughly control and master these true essences, making them as easy to use as your own arm, and then you can try condensing a vortex!"

  Qin Tianyi had a spiritual degree of 2.7, controlling the true yuan, using the true yuan, for him it was not considered difficult, he only spent three hours, and he already fully grasped this new liquidized one-third true yuan.

  "Fully grasped, can now begin to condense the vortex and challenge a second-grade sword master."

  Qin Tianyi muttered to himself.

  However, he didn't rush to condense his spiritual energy immediately, but instead closed his eyes slightly, meditating and recovering his spirit, adjusting his mental state.

  Six hours later, Qin Tianyi ended his meditation and stood up, heading towards the center of the courtyard.

  This courtyard is the courtyard of Xingyu Jian Huang, and there are also servants from Shenyuan Academy who take care of it. In addition, with the opening of Shenyuan Sacred Mountain for three months, many students will come to these courtyards to retreat and prepare a lot of food.

  After replenishing his physical strength, Qin Tianyi took a slight breath.

  "Number two! Show me my vortex condensation plan..."

  As early as the time of Huang Zhefeng, Qin Tianji had already let No. 2 scan his body to see which places were suitable for establishing vortex circulation points. At this moment, with his command issued, a three-dimensional diagram of his entire body immediately appeared in his mind, among which twelve light points were marked out.

  "These are the fulcrums, through which the twelve fulcrums make the vortex in the body form a perfect cycle, so that only a little force is needed to move it and it can last forever."

  Qin Tianyi looked at it for a moment and memorized these twelve points.

  This time, he didn't re-ignite the power of Yun Xiao Sword, connecting his spirit to heaven and earth, but instead mobilized all his spirit, permeating into his body, pulling out the true energy inside, rapidly condensing, and suddenly spinning around.

  Under his powerful spiritual control, the rotating true yuan vortex passed through twelve points one by one, and soon formed a cyclone.

  However, as Qin Tianyi unintentionally controlled it, the cyclone gradually showed a tendency to disperse.

  Qin Tianyi was not flustered about this.

  No. 2 can only analyze and provide a plan, but that doesn't mean his plan is one hundred percent correct.

  If an ordinary first-class swordsman tries to fail, although the possibility of life danger is not great, but at the moment when the cyclone condenses and fails to disperse, it will more or less cause damage to the meridians, requiring time to adjust. If the number of failures is high, it may even be hopeless for a second-class swordsman in his lifetime.

  But Qin Tianyi was different...

  With 2.7 spiritual degrees of control over his inner yuan, he didn't have to worry about failure at all.

  As he centered on these twelve points, failure after failure, correction after correction, and summarizing experience time and again, when it continued to the eighth time, the vortex that condensed out finally started stable self-rotation for the first time under his withdrawal of spiritual traction.

  Sword Master Second Stage, Condensing Air Vortex...

  Success!