Chapter Eighty-four: Astonishing Refining Speed

  "Rumble!"

  Spiritually connected, Qin Tianyi seemed to have witnessed the explosion of a vast starry sky, shattering into nothingness. The Cloud Sword's spiritual consciousness, which was originally in resonance with his own spirit, was instantly crushed by this simulated stellar explosion.

  "Spiritual seed!"

  The moment Yun Xiao Jian was shattered, Qin Tianyi's spiritual seed immediately entered Yun Xiao Jian, connecting their spirits. In an instant, the internal world of Yun Xiao Jian surged into his spiritual realm, bringing with it a massive amount of information that reverberated through their spiritual connection, causing a violent shockwave in his spiritual world.

  "The Storm Formed by the Dispersion of Spiritual Awareness!"

  Qin Tianji's face changed slightly.

  This storm, he can't avoid it and must face it head-on.

  In an instant, his spirit had fully immersed into the spiritual world, perched on top of the stars in the spiritual world, gathering all his energy, letting the spiritual storm formed by the dispersal of Cloud Sword Spirit's consciousness surge into his spiritual world.

  "Rumble!"

  Two spiritual forces collided, causing a violent shockwave in Qin Tianyi's spiritual world. With just one wave of impact, the stars he had imagined with his own spiritual power were shattered by Yun Xiao's scattered consciousness, and the remaining stormy energy continued to wreak havoc on his spiritual world.

  "This... Yun Xiao Jian's spiritual consciousness has absolutely surpassed that of a divine path cultivator in the Sensory Awakening stage!"

  His own completely inferior spiritual power compared to the strong spiritual power after the sensation, in the Lingfeng storm of Yunxiao Sword's counterattack, was instantly defeated, and in an instant, Qin Tianyi understood the great difference between himself and this spirit sword.

  His previous guess can finally be confirmed.

  Yun Xiao Jian was indeed not owned by Qin Donglai. As a late-stage sword master, Qin Donglai would never be able to refine such a powerful spiritual sword. The spiritual awareness of this sword had already reached the point where it was almost about to take shape...

  "Alright then, next it's up to you whether you can hold on!"

  Qin Tianji's expression was cold and stern, his sensory powers fully focused on the floating cyan fragment in the spiritual world as well as those tender cyan buds... To be precise, it was placed on the root system extending from that small cyan bud.

  "Boom!"

  The counter-attacking spiritual storm, with the momentum of withering and decaying, invaded Qin Tianji's spiritual world, and then suddenly collided with the root system of the green tender buds. In an instant, a large number of root systems throughout the spiritual world shook simultaneously, strongly resisting the counter-attack of the spiritual storm.

  "As expected, my guess was correct. These roots, although intangible and imperceptible, even to my spirit, are spread all over my spiritual world, making it incredibly stable. This backlash of spiritual power would likely cause even a powerful Spiritual Master-level being to suffer a mental collapse and brain explosion, but it cannot shatter my spiritual world."

  Seeing the mutual restraint, barely holding back the counterattack of spiritual consciousness, Qin Tianyi let out a sigh of relief.

  "Hum!"

  Just as the cyan roots and that spiritual storm were constantly fighting, the cyan fragments surrounded by the cyan roots suddenly trembled slightly.

  Immediately, a powerful suction burst forth from the cyan shards, instantly engulfing the tempest formed by Yun Xiao's scattered spiritual consciousness. In one swift motion, it devoured the entire storm that had shattered Qin Tianyi's mental defenses.

  "This..."

  Looking at the spiritual storm ending with this result, Qin Tianyi was slightly astonished in his heart.

  "BEEP! WARNING! WARNING! Unknown information interference detected..."

  For a moment of stunned silence, the second urgent prompt sounded immediately.

  "Unknown information interference? No way, again!?"

  Thinking of several months ago when optimizing the Wan Sheng Chao Yue Secret Art, Qin Tianyi's face suddenly changed greatly.

  Fortunately, however, subsequent developments did not proceed in the way he had anticipated.

  "Bleep! Interference ended! Unknown information found in database, receive?"

  "Huh?"

  Qin Tianyi slightly furrowed his brow, with a hint of hesitation.

  At this time, he had more or less guessed some of it. This green fragment, or rather the green bud, should be a peculiar existence that contains rich information and may have a perfect database that is beyond his imagination.

  He doesn't have the ability to read all the information in this database, only when he comes into contact with some special information, triggering a chain reaction of that database, will it make the database abnormally emit interference signals, causing the information to merge and be received by No. 2.

  "What is this blue fragment, anyway? My spiritual sense can't detect its existence, and Number Two can't scan it either... It's as if it only exists as an illusion in another dimension..."

  Qin Tianyi muttered to himself.

  Anyone who buys a computer and finds that one of the disks is already full of certain data, but he can neither open nor delete it, and only some programs in the disk will run under specific circumstances, will also feel worried and frustrated.

  If it were just on the computer, he could simply sell it and buy a new one, but those things existed in his spiritual world...

  He can't possibly get a new brain, can he?

  "Whether it's good fortune or bad luck, bad luck can't be avoided."

  After a moment of contemplation, Qin Tianyi had already made up his mind: "Number Two, receive."

  "Drip! Information transmission in progress!"

  "Hiss!"

  As the second piece of information was transmitted, Qin Tianyi suddenly felt a large amount of information being stuffed into his brain. After a slight organization, a method for refining the divine artifact appeared in his mind.

  "Destined Divine Artifact?"

  Qin Tianyi slightly closed his eyes and quietly digested the sudden influx of information in his mind.

  Six hours later, he opened his eyes again, and in his pupils, there was a hint of incredulity.

  "Is it the 'Self-Parasitic Technique' that uses one's own essence, energy and spirit to temper a divine artifact? Transforming decay into the extraordinary? Cultivating it to a profound level, can even stimulate the divine artifact's consciousness, refining this divine artifact into an external incarnation, used to entrust one's life form?"

  This alchemy technique is only a brief introduction to the various divine abilities of the later stages, but the method of tempering the innate divine instrument with essence, energy and spirit is recorded very clearly.

  "If I were to refine the Cloud Sky Sword using this entirely new method... I can refine the Cloud Sky Sword into a truly divine artifact, with tremendous room for growth in the future... However, doing so would be equivalent to re-refining the Cloud Sky Sword from scratch. Only when my essence, energy, and spirit have thoroughly refined the Cloud Sky Sword will it be able to unleash its power at 100%. Time-wise, perhaps one or two years would suffice, but this is a complete reversal of my previous thoughts."

  He used the Divine Refining Technique from the Star Chart to crush Yun Xiao Sword's spiritual sense, just to quickly fully grasp this Yun Xiao Sword.

  Although it was at the cost of destroying Yun Xiao Jian's growth space, he subtly sensed a connection between himself and Yun Xiao Jian, apparently succeeding.

  "The 'Host Parasitic Technique' refined innate divine instrument, its final power has a great relationship with the refining materials. If one can possess precious refining materials, in the initial stage of refinement, the effect will be absolutely rapid. The Cloud Sword, although I don't know what it was refined from... but apart from the divine ability it contains, judging solely from these materials, it is no different from an ordinary spiritual instrument."

  Thinking of this, Qin Tianyi gradually suppressed the idea of refining the Yunxiao Sword into a congenital divine artifact.

  "This life's divine artifact, once suitable materials are found later and refined, it won't be too late...now..."

  Qin Tianyi said, his eyes already fell on the Yun Xiao sword in his hand.

  "Hum!"

  The spiritual shock caused Yun Xiao's sword to vibrate slightly throughout its entire length.

  As the profoundness of Yun Xiao Sword was fully unleashed, a powerful devouring force suddenly spread out in all directions with Yun Xiao Sword as its center.

  In an instant, on the outskirts of Qin Tianyi's courtyard, the air was turbulent and the wind was howling. A large amount of heavenly energy was frantically pouring in this direction, being absorbed by Yun Xiao Sword and transformed into pure energy, constantly flowing into Qin Tianyi's residence.

  "Hmm!?"

  In the Shenxu Academy, a middle-aged man who was revising a certain technique, an old man sweeping in the library, and an elderly woman talking to a young girl, almost simultaneously looked up and gazed in the direction where Qin Tianyi was.

  "Which deputy dean is cultivating, and yet made such a big fuss? Although the yuanqi of the mountain range where Shenvu Academy is located is more abundant than other places, it is far less than that of the spiritual veins. Cultivating with all one's might here is completely a waste of effort."

  A middle-aged man who had modified his kung fu was muttering to himself.

  A moment later, he shook his head again: "Tiankong Sword Master, fully absorbing the heaven and earth's primordial energy is extremely damaging to one's spiritual energy... Unfortunately, my essence, spirit, and body have already been refined into a single entity, forming a Golden Elixir. If I were to separate my 'spirit' from the Golden Elixir again, it would harm my foundation. Otherwise, I could cultivate both my Qi and Spirit together. If my spirit is strong enough, the time I can fully absorb the heaven and earth's primordial energy will naturally be extended. Accumulating day by day, month by month, I will be able to surpass fellow cultivators of the same rank and quickly enter a higher realm..."

  Thinking of this, he didn't waste his brain anymore and continued to focus on this kung fu.

  ……

  "This..."

  Qin Tianyi in the room felt the overwhelming heavenly and earthly aura coming from all directions, and suddenly opened his eyes wide.

  The Yun Xiao sword in his hand was shining brightly at this moment, a large amount of heavenly energy was being gathered by the Yun Xiao sword, with a visible trend, pouring into Qin Tianyi's body, and the energy provided by just a few breaths was not inferior to taking a condensed energy pill!

  "The function of the Cloud Sword is to sense and refine, sensing means it can help the cultivator sense the external yuanqi, allowing the cultivator to absorb these yuanqi and infuse them into the Cloud Sword. Refining means taking these infused yuanqi and refining and purifying them, turning them into true qi that the cultivator can use... Currently my spirit is still in a weak state, but in just three minutes, the amount of heavenly yuanqi I refined is not inferior to refining a single Lianqi Dan..."

  "Hiss!"

  This conclusion made Qin Tianyi take a cold breath suddenly.

  Hurry!

  Too fast!

  The speed of this yuanqi inhalation and exhalation is simply so fast that it would drive any sword cultivator mad!

  With Cloud Sky Sword, his cultivation speed was completely unmatched by a Heavenly Sky Sword Master's guidance and transmission of power at any moment!