Chapter 119: Eating

  "This is the whirlwind of the second stage of Jian Shi."

  Feeling the self-rotating vortex of true yuan within his body, a faint smile appeared on Qin Tianyi's face.

  Although he never doubted that he could condense a cyclone, from entering the Star Universe Sword Emperor's courtyard to now, it only took three days to advance his cultivation from a first-stage sword master to a second-stage sword master and condensed out the cyclone representing a second-stage sword master. This speed still made him feel unexpected.

  Very soon.

  Very satisfied.

  "With the endless supply of yuanqi supporting me, after the failure of the vortex condensation, I don't have to worry about the replenishment of my true yuan. If it weren't for being in the Star Universe Sword Emperor's courtyard, with the Cloud Sky Sword that can devour the heavenly and earthly yuanqi like a Heavenly Sky Swordsman, even if I didn't have to worry about the damage to my meridians when the vortex disperses, just the replenishment of true qi after the vortex disperses would be enough to give me a headache. Every time the vortex disperses, my true yuan is exhausted, and it takes at least three to five days to recover. Eight failures are equivalent to a month..."

  Recently, this month, at least saved some money.

  "Next is the second stage of Jian Shi's cultivation, expanding the vortex, growing the vortex to fill the entire Dantian..."

  Qin Tianyi thought back to the description of this realm and immediately gave another order to No. 2: "Take the vortex of internal energy as the center, find new fulcrums, expand step by step, and range, Dan Tian!"

  "Drip, task established, estimated time required is 13 hours, 43 minutes and 11 seconds..."

  It has been only three days, and Qin Tianyi is not in a hurry.

  During the second analysis support point in time, Qin Tianyi did not cultivate but instead carefully grasped the method of using the vortex.

  True Origin Vortex, the main purpose is to help cultivators replenish their True Origin.

  At this stage, the sword master and the first-class sword master do not have any significant advantages in terms of methods. At most, they can avoid considering the consumption of true yuan like a first-class sword master.

  If a first-class swordsman who masters powerful swordsmanship condenses his energy into an empty space, but the second-class swordsman does not have a formidable killing move, it is not necessarily the case that the second-class swordsman will win in the end.

  It's just like Gu Wu Shuang, if he were to leave Shenxu Academy and challenge the second-tier swordsmen in Wanxia County, Qingzhou, with his exquisite sword skills and mysterious footwork, he would definitely be able to defeat that second-tier swordsman.

  The next ten days were spent in Qin Tianyi's exploration and probing process.

  The vortex was expanded to the entire Dantian, with a full 36 supporting points. The difficulty was several times higher than before. Even though Qin Tianyi had experience from last time and had a strong spirit as a backing, it still took him ten days to condense the new vortex.

  After condensing this cyclone, Qin Tianqi finally completed his cultivation as a second-grade sword master.

  At this stage, Qin Tianyi's yuanqi, which had been transmitted into his body through the Yun Xiao sword, would be immediately assimilated and transformed into true yuan by the True Yuan Vortex, without needing to deliberately refine it like a first-stage sword master.

  "The cyclone has formed, next is the true fire stage. By stimulating the rotation speed of the True Origin Vortex to its limit, one can use the True Origin as fuel, ignite the True Fire, and transform the True Origin into True Qi. The True Qi will then evolve into Internal Energy, which originates from the dense Essence and Blood throughout the body. The True Fire ignited by the True Origin contains the cultivator's heart and soul, and can burn everything or refine spiritual instruments..."

  At the thought of it, Qin Tianyi's true yuan vortex inside his body had already begun to rotate rapidly.

  Friction generates heat!

  True fire stage, it can even be said that it is triggered by this principle.

  However, to make the heat burst and form a true fire, what is needed is not only the thermal energy at the time of rotation, but also the practitioner's blood and spirit.

  As the True Origin Vortex rapidly rotated, Qin Tianyi's spirit suddenly stirred, his heart strongly beating, and in an instant, the blood and energy throughout his body were boiling.

  The vital energy and true yuan intertwined, for a moment, a scorching aura emanated from Qin Tianyi's body, while the true yuan inside him turned bright red like blood.

  "It's on fire! Ignite!"

  As Qin Tianyi let out a low shout, the scorching essence and true yuan within his body seemed to be fully activated. The entire vortex of true yuan turned blood red, and at its center, a tiny spark of true fire, seemingly born from his heart and essence, suddenly ignited...

  Awesome!

  Third-level sword master's true fire!

  This true fire is not only used for refining spiritual instruments and tempering spiritual instruments, but also the trump card of a third-grade sword master at many times.

  Under the true fire's burning, except for spiritual instruments, no other weapons can withstand it. When facing an enemy and being set on fire, even if a swordsman uses their protective aura, they will be instantly incinerated.

  "It's done!?"

  Seeing a small cluster of true fire connected with his spirit, essence and vitality, Qin Tianji's face couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise.

  However, the flame only burned for a moment, and an inexplicable weakness had been transmitted from every cell in his body, surging up to his heart, causing the newly ignited true fire to be extinguished.

  "This is..."

  Qin Tianyi quickly stopped the rapid rotation of the True Origin Vortex and opened his eyes.

  After snapping out of a state of frenzied cultivation, an even more intense feeling of weakness continued to assault his spirit. Even when he wanted to lift his hand, it felt like it required enormous effort. At the same time, compared to just a few days ago, he looked like he had lost a significant amount of weight, although not to the point of being skeletal. However, the signs of exhaustion and insufficient vital energy on his body were obvious enough that even any cultivator could see them.

  " Qi and blood exhaustion..."

  Soon, Qin Tianyi had understood his own state.

  "Generally speaking, only those strong swordsmen who spare no effort and sacrifice their spiritual energy when refining their swords will experience this phenomenon of exhaustion. Why me..."

  Qin Tianyi slightly furrowed his brow, this weakness that seeped out from every cell made him deeply understand the danger of his current situation. If he dared to try and ignite true fire again, he was afraid that his body would thoroughly collapse in a short amount of time, directly leading to death.

  "How could this be... where did I go wrong? The method I used to ignite the true fire was completely based on Yunlai Sword Sect and Xingyu Sword Emperor's cultivation experience... why would it result in a phenomenon that drains all my qi and blood?"

  Qin Tianji hesitated and reissued the command: "Number Two, check my physical condition."

  "Ding! Physical condition detection in progress! Host Qin Tianyi, age 20, physical strength 2.7 (+2), spiritual strength 2.7, true yuan strength 1.9! Cultivation optimized version Yunhai Chaosheng Jue, Xingtutu, learned sword techniques Fengyun Ershisan Jian, Baoyue Fenglei Jianjue, Tianji Liuguang Jianfa, learned body technique Linghou Bai Bian..."

  The true yuan intensity is new data, replacing the original true energy intensity. A 1.9 true yuan intensity may not look high, but in reality it is completely comparable to a previous true energy intensity of 8 or higher.

  "There shouldn't be any problem, Jing, Qi, Shen, all of them... and so on!"

  In his muttering, Qin Tianyi's mind suddenly focused on "Physical Strength".

  "Physical strength 4.7? But in reality, it's only 2.7, and compared to my 2.6 when I first came to Shenwu Academy, it's only increased by 0.1! This... is the physical strength of a Great Swordsman?"

  After a moment, Qin Tianyi finally understood where his problem lay.

  Physical strength.

  Whether it is a physical cultivator or a spiritual cultivator, even if one is a divine way cultivator, it does not mean completely giving up the cultivation of the other two ways.

  They just took the two other paths as auxiliary, with the path they cultivated as auxiliary.

  As a Qi cultivator of the eighth level, true energy will be refined into the five organs and six viscera, automatically enhancing the cultivator's physique. When it comes to sword masters, true yuan also has the effect of strengthening the physique, although this process is relatively slow, but only one or two years.

  In one or two years, physical strength will be enhanced under this silent transformation, reaching level 3, even level 4. At that time, the body will be strong and full of energy, and when igniting the true fire, it won't appear the phenomenon of almost draining the body's energy.

  But Qin Tianyi...

  It's not just a year or two, from the fourth level of swordsmen to now facing the ignition of true fire as a third-level sword master, the total time spent is less than a year.

  In such a short period of time, where did so much time come from to let the true yuan quietly temper and refine his body, and expand his qi and blood?

  Vital energy!

  With the "Star Chart" Refining Spirit Technique, his spirit was always far ahead, and his energy had barely caught up now, but his essence was far behind, left in the dust by the first two.

  "The three aspects of Jing, Qi and Shen have completely lost balance... I've had the physical enhancement provided by the X-01 Bio-Mechanical Suit all along, so I never really paid attention to tempering my body. However, there's a difference between the enhancements provided by the suit and those gained through personal training. Even though it allows me to become invincible for a short period of time, with boundless strength, when it comes to igniting True Fire which requires the simultaneous use of Essence, Qi and Spirit... it's completely useless."

  "This trend... must go to supplement the blood, refine the flesh. Refining the flesh can be replaced with the heaven and earth's original energy, but unfortunately, the effect is not obvious. The flesh becomes strong, and the internal energy and blood cannot become thick in a short period of time... Estimating, using this method to make the energy and blood reach the peak of an ordinary second-class sword master, it will take at least three months... And after three months, the Shengshan Mountain will be closed. Where can I still have such good conditions to borrow the hundredfold original energy to make my cultivation soar? This method is not feasible, so there's only one left... Nourishing blood with blood - eating!"

  Yes, it's just eating!

  Eat and drink wildly!

  Then control the physical body, strengthen the digestive system, and make the food quickly transform into Qi and blood.

  "Ferocious beasts, each of these ferocious beasts contains a rich blood force within their bodies. If I can eat over ten level 10 ferocious beasts or three to five leader-level ferocious beasts, even if I'm lacking in blood force, I'll be able to easily replenish it."

  Qin Tianji said, in his mind, he couldn't help but think of those thick and powerful auras, similar to the massive bodies of giant rhino war beasts and other lord-level fierce beasts...

  Eat three five heads...

  In an instant...

  The pressure is huge.