Chapter 529: Ninth Level of Qi Refining

Qingyang controlled the speed of releasing the spiritual power from the top-grade spirit stone while rapidly running the exercises, guiding the spiritual power into his meridians, transforming the spiritual power into true qi in the meridians, and then merging it into the dantian, slowly improving his cultivation.

Because there is no bottleneck restriction, transforming true qi into the dantian is relatively easier than before when breaking through the bottleneck. Otherwise, Qingyang doesn't know whether he can hold on.

Unlike usual cultivation, the speed of directly absorbing spiritual power from the top-grade spirit stone and transforming it into true qi is much faster, because there is too much spiritual power contained in the top-grade spirit stone, and it can be supplied continuously, with almost no gaps and pauses, so Qingyang can clearly feel that his cultivation is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Now the speed of Qingyang's cultivation is almost ten times faster than when he refined the Qi Gathering Pill into true qi before. If it is compared with the previous time when he absorbed spiritual power from the outside world and refined it into true qi, it is even more incomparable, and the difference may be dozens of times.

At this rate, Qingyang's cultivation level will be able to reach the ninth level of Qi Refining in a few months at most. By then, when he goes to participate in the inner courtyard competition, Qingyang will have full confidence.

Using high-level spirit stones to quickly improve cultivation level has another biggest disadvantage, which is that it is too wasteful and too extravagant. Although Qingyang has made the greatest efforts, there is still a lot of spiritual power that cannot be absorbed in time, so it escapes into the air and eventually disappears.

Qingyang absorbs a lot of spiritual power from the top-grade spirit stones, and wastes more, which is very regrettable. But there is no way around it. Compared with elixirs, using spirit stones to improve cultivation level is like this. The lower the cultivation level, the more wasteful it is. Otherwise, using spirit stones to improve cultivation level is fast and convenient. Why do you need to exchange spirit stones for elixirs to improve cultivation level?

As time went by, Qingyang gradually adapted to the pain caused by the rapid improvement of cultivation level, and his cultivation gradually became regular. The spiritual power from the top-grade spirit stones continued to flow into Qingyang's body, and his cultivation level was constantly increasing.

Qingyang has been in this state, sitting cross-legged on the ground and never getting up. When he is hungry, he takes a pill of fasting pills. When he is thirsty, he directly separates a trace of divine consciousness and takes out a jar of mountain spring water from the drunken fairy gourd to drink. He is tireless, forgets the years, and never stops.

Half a year has passed unknowingly. The top-grade spirit stone in Qingyang's hand has become dimmer and dimmer. The spiritual power in it is almost exhausted, and Qingyang's cultivation has also been improved to the ninth level of Qi Refining. However, Qingyang did not get up, but continued to practice. After another half a month, the spiritual power of the top-grade spirit stone in his hand was completely exhausted and turned into a handful of useless powder. Qingyang slowly opened his eyes and sprinkled the powder into the drunken fairy gourd.

After a long period of meditation and practice, Qingyang's muscles were a little stiff. He stood up and moved a little for a while, and his body soon regained vitality. Then Qingyang used the means of internal vision to sort out his Yuanshen realm and Dantian meridians.

Now Qingyang's cultivation has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and it is not the ninth level of Qi Refining that has just been broken through, but the ninth level of Qi Refining that has been stabilized to a certain extent. With his current cultivation, he is fully confident of getting a relatively good ranking in the Qingfeng Palace Inner Court Competition. If nothing unexpected happens, it is also possible to get a foundation-building pill.

More importantly, the ninth level of Qi Refining is only one step away from Qi Refining Perfection. According to the normal speed of cultivation, it takes an average cultivator at most ten or eight years to improve his cultivation to the realm of Qi Refining Perfection. If the pill can guarantee it, maybe two or three years will be enough.

Qingyang has never lacked pills. After two or three years, he is less than forty years old. He has the conditions to break through the foundation-building period before he is forty years old. Even among the seven major immortal gates, it is rare, almost comparable to many disciples with heavenly spiritual roots. Qingyang is proud of the qualifications of the five elements spiritual roots, but he has cultivated at a speed almost as fast as the heavenly spiritual roots.

Qingyang has calculated his own strength. When he was at the eighth level of Qi Refining, he was able to defeat Liang Yudong, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Now that he has advanced one level, it is not very difficult for him to defeat a cultivator who has perfected Qi Refining. As for the foundation-building cultivator, Qingyang is not sure yet, but he can ensure that he will not be defeated in a short period of time, instead of relying on the alcoholic queen bee as before.

Calculating the time, there are only more than two months left before the inner courtyard competition. Time is still very tight for Qingyang. He did not end this retreat, but came to the training ground in his own courtyard and took the time to practice the five elements sword formation in the five elements forging immortals.

Before going to Jingfeng Mountain, Qingyang had practiced the five elements sword formation, and it took shape. It was just that because the practice time was too short, the five magic swords did not cooperate well enough, and the power of the five elements sword formation could not be exerted. In addition, his spiritual thoughts were slightly insufficient, and it was a little difficult to manipulate five high-quality magic swords at the same time, so he had not used the five elements sword formation for some time.

Now that Qingyang's cultivation has been upgraded, his primordial spirit and divine consciousness have also grown accordingly. It should be much easier to manipulate five magic swords at the same time than before. If Qingyang can refine the Five Elements Sword Formation during this period, then he will have more protection in the inner court competition.

During Qingyang's hard work, two months passed quickly, and the Five Elements Sword Formation he cultivated also began to show results. Although he cannot exert the full power of the Five Elements Sword Formation now, he has already achieved 60% to 70% of the charm of the Five Elements Sword Formation.

The Five Elements Sword Formation is a matching sword formation for the Five Elements Immortal Forging Technique, and it is extremely compatible with cultivators with five elements spiritual roots. If other cultivators use this sword formation, they will be more or less restricted because of the mutual restraint of the five elements. It is relatively sluggish to use, and some aspects will be weakened to a certain extent.

Qingyang is different. He is a true cultivator with five elements spiritual roots. The true qi he cultivated has all five elements. When using the Five Elements Sword Formation, he will not be affected at all. Moreover, the five elements complement and restrain each other, and the attacks are continuous, which can maximize the power of the sword formation.

Although Qingyang can only exert 60% to 70% of the charm of the sword formation now, it is not comparable to ordinary skills. Not to mention anything else, it is at least more than twice as strong as the Four Elements Sword Formation that Qingyang is currently good at. If one day he can exert the full power of the Five Elements Sword Formation, it will be even more powerful.

With this Five Elements Sword Formation, Qingyang was more confident about this inner courtyard competition. Now, he could even fight against the foundation-building cultivators, not to mention the inner courtyard disciples in the late stage of Qi Refining. As long as he was careful, it would not be difficult to obtain a foundation-building pill.