Adding Zi Yan, Huo Xing Wangzi and Yao Qingtong, the number of outer palace disciples standing outside the Divine Power Hall reached twelve, each one a top-notch genius elite.

  Rumble

  The first ray of sunlight fell on the top of the Temple of Divine Power, and the heavy palace gates slowly opened.

  An old woman in silver robes and an old man in golden robes walked out of the main gate, standing on a nine-layered white stone platform, looking down at the twelve young warriors below.

  An old woman in a silver robe looked like she was eighty or ninety years old, with a hunched back and holding an iron cane, her eyebrows and hair were all snowy white, giving people an unusually ancient feeling.

  She is one of the two deputy heads of the Western Courtyard, Qing Hua Deputy Head.

  Qing Hua, the deputy master of the Western Temple, spoke in a loud and clear voice: "I am Qing Hua, the deputy master of the Western Temple. I believe that all the old students have already recognized me. As for the new students, you can also consider yourselves acquainted with me now. According to the rules, the Divine Power Temple is opened once a month, and only the first-year students are allowed to enter the temple to cultivate for one hour."

  "This year is slightly different, among the new students of the Western Academy, there are four exceptionally talented individuals, so all four of them can enter the Divine Power Temple to cultivate."

  "In addition, I would like to introduce a Golden Robe Elder from Nei Gong, Yue Jing Chan Elder."

  All the disciples looked up to the old man in golden robes with reverence, bowed their heads and saluted in unison: "Greetings, Master Yue Jing Chan."

  In the Western Temple, only the Master of the Western Temple can wear a golden robe. This monk from the Inner Palace, Yue Jing Chan, also wears a golden robe, indicating that his status is at the same level as the Master of the Western Temple.

  Yue Jing Chan's face wore a benevolent smile as he said, "The West Wing is quite impressive, with talented individuals emerging one after another. This year, in particular, four prodigies were born who have all cleared the first level of the third floor of the Martial Tower. Among the new students from the Four Major Outer Wings, this year, the West Wing can be ranked second."

  Qing Hua, the deputy head of the Western Academy, also had a relieved smile on her face. In previous years, the new students of the Western Academy were almost always at the bottom, but this year, several geniuses emerged one after another, making the ranking of the new students of the Western Academy second only to the Eastern Academy. As the deputy head of the Western Academy, her face naturally had a lot of glory.

  Huo Xing Wangzi puffed out his chest, slightly cupped his hands and smiled: "Being able to become an outer palace student of the Wu Shi Academy is our honor."

  Yue Jing Chan looked at Huo Xing Wangzi with a faint smile and said, "Everyone may not understand me very well. I'll make a simple self-introduction. I'm not a martial artist, but an array master."

  Qing Hua, the deputy dean, added, "Yue Jing Chan is the chief formation master of the inner palace, with spiritual power reaching 39 levels. In Wushi Academy, he is the person with the strongest spiritual power."

  The students below all showed a shocked expression, and they had actually cultivated their spiritual power to the 39th level, which was too powerful, making them look up in admiration.

  "The training in the Divine Temple is to enhance your spiritual power. For ordinary warriors, cultivating spiritual power is a waste of time and a foolish act. However, for true geniuses like yourselves, it is essential to cultivate spiritual power as well. Who can tell me why the Academy wants you to cultivate spiritual power?"

  The oldest disciple, Mu Tuozi, stepped forward and said: "Geniuses have a fast cultivation speed, they can spend time cultivating their spiritual power. As long as their spiritual power is strong, they can specialize in array techniques, alchemy, artifact refinement, and beast taming."

  Yue Jingchan gently shook her head, dissatisfied with this answer, and said: "You've spent too much time cultivating your spiritual power and learned too many things, so you still haven't broken through to the Earth Extreme Realm."

  Mu Tuozi felt extremely ashamed and retreated back.

  Huang Yanzhen took a step forward, her posture straight and coldly elegant. "Cultivating spiritual power is for the sake of breaking through to the Tianji boundary more easily in the future, or even impacting the Half-Saint realm."

  Yue Jing Chan nodded slightly and said with some approval, "That's right. Before reaching the Tianji boundary, cultivation has little to do with spiritual power. However, to reach the Tianji boundary, there is a threshold - that is, spiritual power must reach the 20th rank."

  "Many warriors only realize the importance of spiritual power when they reach the extreme realm of Daxuan, and then start to cultivate their spiritual power. However, by that time it's already too late, and they have to spend ten times more time than others to possibly cultivate their spiritual power to the 20th level, or even until the day they die, they still can't cultivate their spiritual power to the 20th level."

  "Moreover, the stronger one's spiritual power is, the faster their cultivation speed will be when they reach the Tianji boundary. Many years ago, the Wushang Academy conducted an experiment where two thirty-year-old top geniuses were given the same cultivation resources and environment. The only difference was that one genius had a spiritual power of twenty levels, while the other had a spiritual power of thirty levels."

  "The genius who had reached the 20th level of spiritual power spent five years to break through to the middle stage of Tianji Realm, and then spent another fifteen years to break through to the late stage of Tianji Realm."

  "I wonder how much time that genius with a spiritual power of 30 tiers spent"

  Wei Chi Tian Cong said, "The more you cultivate towards the back, the harder it is to break through the boundary. I estimate that a spiritual power of thirty levels of genius will take at least fifteen years to break through from the early stage of Tianji Realm to the later stage."

  Elder Yue Jing Chan gently shook his head.

  "At least ten years"

  Yue Jing Chan said, "That spiritual power thirty-tier genius spent two years breaking through to the middle stage of Tianji Realm and then spent three more years breaking through to the late stage of Tianji Realm. In total, he only spent five years."

  Boom

  All the students present were stunned.

  They are both top geniuses who reached the peak of Tianji at the age of thirty, but one spent twenty years to get there, while the other only took five years. The gap is too huge to imagine, and their future gap will definitely become even bigger.

  At this moment, everyone present realized the importance of cultivating spiritual power, because they were geniuses and had to consider their future path.

  Those ordinary disciples don't need to consider it, because they may not even be able to reach the Tianji boundary, let alone think about the cultivation path after the Tianji boundary.

  Huo Xing Wangzi became excited because he was not only a martial artist, but also a genius beast tamer who had been cultivating his spiritual power since childhood and had already reached the 17th rank.

  Huo Xing Wangzi cast a sidelong glance at Zhang Ruochen, revealing a hint of disdainful smile, as if saying, "What's the use of having high innate talent? Your spiritual power is far inferior to mine. On the path of future cultivation, I will only surpass you by an even greater margin."

  Yue Jing Chan said again: "Now that everyone understands the importance of spiritual power, how many people know what spiritual power can do for you now?"

  This time, everyone fell silent.

  Just now it was said that spiritual power must reach the extreme of heaven to exert its advantage

  Does spiritual power also help low-level warriors in refining equipment, alchemy and beast taming?

  Obviously, Master Yue Jing Chan was referring to martial arts.

  Zhang Ruochen looked at the other students, seeing that they all didn't know, he thought for a moment, took a step forward and said: "I think, the stronger one's spiritual power is, the earlier one can comprehend the higher level of swordsmanship compared to others in the same realm."

  Yue Jing Chan's eyes lit up and stared at Zhang Ruochen, saying: "What is your name?"

  "Zhang Ruochen" said Zhang Ruochen.

  Yue Jing Chan's elderly monk revealed an epiphanic expression, laughing loudly: "Before coming to the Western Temple, your temple master had always mentioned you in front of me, saying that you are a rare talent that the Western Temple has not encountered for a hundred years, and he praised you to the skies."

  "After arriving at the Western Courtyard, your courtyard master deliberately told me that you have already grasped the realm of 'Sword Following Heart' high-level, and boasted in front of me for half a day. Originally, I didn't believe his words, but now after seeing you, I do believe it somewhat. Zhang Ruochen, tell me, what level has your spiritual power reached?"

  The spiritual power of Elder Yue Jing Chan was so strong that he had previously infused his spiritual energy into his eyes, and with one glance, the eleven disciples below him did not dare to look him in the eye, immediately lowering their proud heads.

  Only Zhang Ruochen remained calm and composed under his gaze. At that time, he felt that this young man was not simple, and after learning Zhang Ruochen's name, he was no longer surprised.

  A youth who can cultivate Sword Following Heart at sixteen, how could his spiritual power be weak?

  In fact, Zhang Ruochen wasn't quite clear about his current spiritual power level, only knowing that in his previous life, he had already reached the 32nd stage.

  In this life, he activated the Space-Time Divine Martial Mark, and with the arrival of the Supreme Extreme Boundary that reached the Yellow Extreme Boundary, the resonance of the gods made him feel that his spiritual power had increased by a large margin. As for how many levels he had reached, he wasn't quite clear, and only testing would reveal the answer.

  Zhang Ruochen would not tell everyone that his spiritual power had reached above thirty levels, seeing that everyone was staring at him, so he hid and said: "Elder, I'm not too clear about my spiritual power reaching what level, I estimate it should be around twenty-five levels."

  When Zhang Ruochen finished speaking, except for Yue Jingchan, no one else believed him. He was still young, how could he possibly cultivate his spiritual power to the 25th level?

  "Can you die from not bragging?" Huang Yanchen's starry eyes glared fiercely at Zhang Ruochen.

  Huang Yanchen entered the Divine Power Temple to cultivate dozens of times, and now her spiritual power has only reached the 20th level. How could she believe that Zhang Ruochen's spiritual power had already reached the 25th level?

  Huo Xing Wangzi was even more disbelieving, and laughed: "Zhang Ruochen, anyone can talk big. I dare to say that my spiritual power has already reached the 30th tier, but who would believe me?"

  "You don't believe it then," Zhang Ruochen said with a nonchalant tone.

  Since everyone didn't believe him, he couldn't be bothered to explain. In his opinion, this wasn't a big deal anyway.

  Moreover, he didn't want others to know his true spiritual power intensity either. He was too outstanding and would only attract more assassins.

  Hearing Zhang Ruochen's words, Huo Xing Wangzi felt that Zhang Ruochen was just boasting. If so, why not take this opportunity to make him lose face in front of everyone?

  Huo Xing Wangzi clasped his hands together and bowed to Yue Jing Chan, saying with a smile: "Elder, I propose that before entering the Divine Power Temple, all students present undergo a spiritual power test. Who is a genius and who is mediocre will naturally be clear at a glance."