"The spiritual tool resonates with the spirit, it is through the resonance of the spirituality contained in the spiritual tool that one can indirectly control this spiritual tool and bring out its various mysterious and true yuan. The true yuan does not exist spiritually, so it needs to go through the blood refinement stage, the fundamental reason is probably to use one's own essence and blood to replace the spirituality of the spiritual tool, so as to achieve the state where the true yuan moves with one's heart."

  Qin Tianyi's powerful spirit permeated into the true yuan, he understood the shortcomings of his own true yuan, and did not follow the usual procedure to rely on his strong spirit to communicate with the true yuan, but instead...

  When the body's true yuan is in place, it becomes a life-saving spiritual device!

  Tempering with spirit and painstaking effort.

  As Qin Tianyi's experiment progressed, the connection between Zhenyuan and his spirit indeed became closer, and when he operated it, although it couldn't reach the level of a second-grade great sword master where the energy followed his heart's desire, compared to before, it had become less stiff and more agile.

  "I should have thought of it earlier, the cultivation of a great sword master is actually the tempering of a spiritual instrument. However, the goal of tempering is not the material of the instrument, but its own true yuan. When one's essence, energy and spirit are completely refined into one, they become a golden elixir. That golden elixir is the strongest treasure for a cultivator of the airway, their true innate spiritual instrument, the root of all power..."

  It seems that in order to thoroughly confirm the thoughts in his heart, Qin Tianyi recorded the methods, experiences and insights of cultivating Qi and Shen together, and his gaze has already gone to the sixth layer platform.

  "It's still an hour before it gets truly dark! Although the fifth floor took three hours, the sixth floor..."

  As soon as he moved, Qin Tianyi had already continued to climb up.

  "What?!"

  Qin Tianyi waited in front of the stone wall for less than ten minutes, and then set off again. Yan Tianqi's eyes widened in surprise, knowing that it was almost dark now!

  The sky turned dark...

  Climbing Huangzhu Peak in poor light is a nightmare.

  "Damn thing!"

  While he silently cursed in his heart, his expression showed a hint of unyielding spirit: "Do you think this can surpass me? The sixth floor? You can climb to the sixth floor, I can too!"

  For a moment, he couldn't continue to comprehend the various cultivation insights on the stone wall and quickly followed Qin Tianji's figure to climb to the sixth layer platform.

  Qin Tianyi looked at Yan Tianqi with a somewhat strange expression...

  Admirable fighting spirit...

  But this kind of determination is too blind.

  Shaking his head, Qin Tianyi also ignored Yan Tianqi. This number one strongman on the Divine Rank may have had an extremely strong desire to win, and once suppressed by his opponent, he would immediately burst out with a terrifying fighting spirit, turning the tide of battle and turning defeat into victory, or even breaking through at the last moment, but...

  He is too easily swayed by the actions and behaviors of others, that kind of pride in not being a follower often becomes a constraint in his heart, making him unable to make choices.

  The oppressive momentum from the fifth to the sixth layer is no longer limited to the physical body and blood, but also includes the circulation of true energy.

  The oppressive force that descended from the summit of the mountain directly affected the cultivator's true yuan, making it almost impossible for the cultivator's true yuan to circulate. Unless they concentrated all their spirit and stimulated their true yuan at every moment, their true yuan would be unable to circulate. The pressure on their body and the stagnation in their qi and blood would erupt completely, causing them to collapse against the mountain wall, unable to move.

  Indeed, only after grasping the trick of unifying one's vital energy and spirit can one ascend to the sixth level. As long as the true yuan can communicate with the divine and move on its own, the climber can focus their mind and continue upwards; otherwise, being distracted at such a perilous height is tantamount to courting death.

  The abnormality from the fifth floor to the sixth floor made Qin Tianyi feel relieved.

  The pressure on him was in line with his speculation.

  While climbing Mount Huangzhuang, one's mind must be focused on two things. For other swordsmen in training, this would be equivalent to seeking death, but Qin Tianyu...

  As early as when he was a seven-stage spiritual cultivator, he had already grasped the secret of using one mind for two purposes.

  These are the skills that a sixth-level spiritual practitioner must master in order to advance to seventh level.

  A powerful spirit was separated by Qin Tianyi, one part constantly stimulating its own true yuan that was suppressed by the atmosphere and unable to move smoothly, while the other part condensed and continuously searched for a foothold on the mountain peak, and then slowly but very steadily climbed up using these footholds.

  Yan Tianqi, who was struggling to maintain his true yuan and stabilize his physical form, saw Qin Tiangui climbing up towards him. His eyes suddenly opened wide, filled with an unwilling inquiry: "You... have you grasped the secret of combining qi and spirit?"

  Qin Tianyi took a glance at Yan Tianqi behind him and didn't respond, controlling his spirit as he steadily climbed up the mountain.

  "How detestable! I don't believe that as the first prince of the great Yan dynasty, I would be inferior to you. Whatever Qin Tianyi can do, I, Yan Tianqi, can absolutely do it too."

  Yan Tianqi let out a low growl from his mouth and took a step forward with one foot.

  However, under the enormous pressure of the mountain top, his whole body's qi and blood, as well as his true yuan, were all slowed down, and his body was slightly stiff. This step out, and he found himself far from his estimated distance, and with one tread, he fell into empty space.

  "Not good!"

  One foot kicked empty space, Yan Tianqi's face changed greatly, and his body directly plummeted downwards.

  A fall from a height of over 500 meters, let alone Yan Tianqi being only a second-rate sword master, even if he were a truly powerful great sword master, would still end in him becoming a meat pie.

  Fortunately, Yan Tianqi only climbed up less than ten meters before his life was threatened and his body's energy surged, causing him to explosively release his true yuan. As he fell, his body suddenly shifted one meter horizontally, and his right hand grasped the fifth platform in front of him, using it as a fulcrum to stop his falling form.

  After swiftly climbing up to the fifth platform, Yan Tianqi's face turned pale.

  Just now falling from high altitude, the kind of face-to-face death terror, made his heart shrink, with lingering fear, but he didn't dare to try climbing again.

  Although he was unwilling to lag behind others, he would not sacrifice his life for the sake of a momentary rivalry over who could climb up to the sixth platform first.

  After a fierce gasp, Yan Tianqi suddenly raised his head and looked at Qin Tianyi, who had slowly crawled out more than 20 meters away. He shouted loudly: "Qin Tianyi, whoever can climb to a higher platform is not considered a skill. Wait until you come down from the Emperor's Peak, I will fight with you then. Only then can we decide the true winner between us!"

  Yan Tianqi's provocative low growl was not only heard by Qin Tiandi, but also by Jiangbei, who was on the third floor comprehending the true fire condensation method, as well as the two swordsmen apprentices who had appeared beside him.

  Upon hearing this declaration, one of the two disciples was slightly stunned: "That's... Yan Tianqi's voice? The first on the Divine Communication List, Yan Tianqi, who has never been willing to yield to others?"

  "Yan Tianqi, what did he mean by that? Who can climb to a higher platform, isn't that a skill? Qin Tianyi? Could it be... that this Qin Tianyi has climbed to an even greater height than Yan Tianqi?"

  Jiang Bei listened carefully for a moment, made some calculations based on the sound, and his expression changed slightly: "Yan Tianqi's voice came from the fifth floor. The first three floors in front of Huang Zhe Peak are not difficult for us swordsmen students. The fourth floor, with Yan Tianqi's ability as the number one person on the Divine List, it is possible to climb up, and even if we are careful, there is still hope to climb to the fourth floor. However...the fifth floor...to climb to that floor requires a certain level of understanding of the unity of essence, energy, and spirit. Could it be that Yan Tianqi and Qin Tianji gained something from observing on the fourth floor?"

  "It's probably not as simple as just having some gains on the fourth floor, Yan Tianqi's unwilling tone clearly proves that he stopped at the fifth floor. From this point, it can be indirectly explained that Qin Tiandi is climbing to the sixth floor, otherwise why would Yan Tianqi say those words? So Qin Tiandi... did he have any harvests on the fifth floor, or was he just a newborn calf not afraid of tigers?"

  A swordsman who had seen Qin Tianyi climb up earlier looked at Jiangbei and said, "Jiangbei, you previously called that Qin Tianyi your junior? I've also heard of this Qin Tianyi. A month and a half ago, Gu Wu Shuang mobilized his troops to deal with him, and it's said that before he even became a swordsman, he had already killed a swordsman. He has a fist technique that can rival the great swordsmen's forbidden techniques. What kind of cultivation does he have?"

  "Yuan Danggui, didn't you just see that earlier? A Sword Master who relied on elixirs to advance."

  As he said this, Jiangbei's face revealed a hint of bitter smile: "Earlier when he grasped the subtlety of True Fire, we could still say it was a coincidence, but to ascend from the fourth layer to the fifth layer, one must grasp the method of refining Essence and True Qi. As for ascending from the fifth layer to the sixth layer, that requires grasping the method of merging Qi and Spirit..."

  A swordsman who has cultivated with elixirs, would he have such insight?

  It's not just Yuan who has this thought in his mind, but also another swordsman who boarded the third floor not long ago.

  "Once, it might be a coincidence, twice, thrice? Can there be so many coincidences in the world? If he really can climb to the sixth layer... I'm afraid even my mentor, Deputy Dean Dao Yuan, has underestimated him... This Qin Tianyi's breakthrough to Sword Master realm, and his reliance on the power of elixirs, is not because he feels that further cultivation is hopeless, nor is it because he is content with being a Sword Master. Rather, it's because... he fundamentally doesn't want to waste time in the Sword Master stage..."

  As soon as this remark came out, Yuan Daogui and the other two people on the platform changed their expressions at the same time.

  Don't want to waste time on the Sword Master boundary anymore!？

  To what extent should this student's self-confidence be strengthened?

  "I don't know if Qin Tianyi has the hope of climbing to the seventh floor, the sixth floor is already rare, with a few exceptions, there will always be a genius who can climb up smoothly, but...the seventh floor...this is a barrier, our Shenzhong Academy has not had anyone able to reach the seventh floor for over thirty years, if Qin Tianyi really succeeds..."

  Jiangbei mouth muttered to himself, looking at the top of the hidden peak shrouded in a layer of cloud and mist: "I'm afraid even the principal who never asks about college affairs, with his whole heart closed off to impact higher realms, will be shocked by this!"