Chapter 26: Refining Void Spirit Energy (Vote Request)

  Everything went smoothly, and Zhang Heng returned to his own separate courtyard within the inner door of the Men's Gate.

  In the Wind Slashing Sect, not every inner sect disciple has their own courtyard. Generally, an inner sect disciple only has a single room of their own. Only the top-notch inner sect disciples have their own courtyards. With Tang Feng's previous strength, he was considered one of the weakest in the inner sect. If it weren't for the backing of Old Master Ouyang, he wouldn't have received such treatment.

  After entering the yard, Zhang Heng first closed the gate and hung up a closure sign. Then, he set up an alarm ban around the yard, and a slight fluctuation emerged in the air, forming a mysterious connection with Zhang Heng's divine consciousness that was as elusive as it was present.

  Within a radius of fifty meters, any other cultivator who rushed into the courtyard would trigger the outer ban and be discovered by Zhang Heng in his closed-door meditation.

  Then, Zhang Heng walked into his own practice room and set up several defensive seals around the room. Under the blessing of these layered seals, even a foundation-building cultivator would not be able to rush in within a short period of time.

  After doing all this, Zhang Heng's mana was depleted, so he went back to the meditation mat to recover his mana, still holding a low-grade crystal stone in his hand, which allowed him to quickly recover his mana.

  With the help of Jing Shi, Zhang Heng's magic power was fully restored within half an hour. He took another look at the crystal in his hand and slightly sensed it, discovering that the spiritual energy inside had been consumed by one tenth.

  Jing Shi is used as currency in the Xian Xia world, and it also has many uses of its own. It can be used to recover magical energy, and it can also be used to set up various arrays.

  Zhang Heng didn't have more than twenty crystal stones in his storage bag either. If it weren't for cultivating the Deviant Technique, he wouldn't be willing to take them out and use them.

  After recovering his magical powers, Zhang Heng put the crystal stone into his storage bag and then took out the one he got from Li Hong. He first found that there were more than thirty crystal stones inside, and without hesitation, he collected them into his own storage bag. Then, he began to clean up the other things inside.

  As a result, Zhang Heng was somewhat disappointed. Apart from some ordinary magic tools and some daily necessities of the cultivators, Li Hong's storage bag only had one low-grade spiritual artifact left.

  In other words, apart from Li Hong's previously used Huoyu fan, there is only one more low-grade spiritual artifact left.

  A deep red flame ignited on his fingers, burning Li Hong's storage bag to ashes, and the things inside also jumped out, but under the high temperature of the flame, they were all incinerated.

  Like Zhang Heng's lower-grade cultivators' storage bags, the material itself is also very ordinary and will be destroyed when encountering a strong impact.

  Some advanced storage bags are made of extremely rare materials that are impervious to water and fire, and will not be easily damaged even under the attack of spiritual artifacts or treasures.

  Of course, what exists inside the storage bag is not a real space either. It's just that the Mustafar spell has expanded the space of the storage bag several times. After the storage bag is destroyed, things will pop out.

  According to legend, the Xianxia world has a true spatial treasure that contains an independent space. Even if it is shattered by a destructive blow, the things inside will disappear into the chaotic spatial flux.

  Such a spatial treasure for storing objects is something that other cultivators cannot attain in their lifetime, and even the Nascent Soul stage's Ou Yang senior does not have such a spatial storage artifact.

  But for Zhang Heng, it was different. The abnormal skill he cultivated could condense a peculiar crystal nucleus, and then open up a storage space inside the crystal nucleus, which had a similar effect to the spatial storage technique.

  However, these are still a bit far away from him, and his current goal is just to enter the first layer of transformation.

  Zhang Heng neatly cleaned up everything in Li Hong's storage bag, including the storage bag itself. He then picked up the low-grade spiritual artifact and focused his mind to cultivate the Deviant Technique.

  Close your eyes, hold the inferior spiritual instrument in your hand and stick it to the lower dantian, connect with the mysterious jade cylinder in your brain sea, and your consciousness will quickly enter the ancient tower on the first floor of the jade cylinder.

  After a long time, Zhang Heng finally entered his best state.

  The nine spiritual energy circulation networks in the body almost started circulating at the same time, and from that mysterious jade cylinder in the brain sea, a thread of silver-white particles was emitted.

  These silver-white particles can only be found when the mind is extremely concentrated, and at this moment, Zhang Heng can barely capture the trajectory of the silver-white particles.

  Soon, these silvery white particles entered Zhang Heng's body and, with the circulation of his Heart Method, entered the meridians of the Nine Spirit Qi Circulation Web.

  Zhang Heng found that these silver-white particles were not very compatible with the spiritual energy in the nine cycles of the net at first, and even produced a repulsion between them.

  However, soon the spiritual energy in the body was defeated and merged with the silver-white particles.

  The fusion process was neither slow nor fast, and Zhang Heng didn't know how much time had passed when he felt that all the spiritual energy in his body had merged with these silver particles.

  He let out a slight sigh of relief, this first step was considered accomplished, the next step would be to start truly refining all things, which is also one of the essences of the Transformation Skill.

  Zhang Heng did not directly go to refine the low-grade spiritual artifact outside his body, but instead let the variant spiritual energy that had already merged with the silver-white particles continue to circulate in his body for several more times.

  Feeling that the timing was about right, Zhang Heng began to guide the variant spiritual energy towards the lower-grade spiritual instrument wrapped around his wrist.

  When manipulating this variant spiritual energy, Zhang Heng found that the usual cyan spiritual energy had a faint silver light at this moment, but it was not very obvious and not easy to detect if one did not observe carefully.

  The variant spiritual energy quickly wrapped up the low-grade spiritual instrument in his hand, and then flowed continuously on its surface.

  The variant spiritual energy is like a small river, flowing out from the dantian in the body, then rotating on the surface of the lingqi, after making a turn, it flows back into the dantian, thus forming a large cycle inside and outside the body.

  And the starting two points of this large cycle are Zhang Heng's dantian inside his body and the low-grade spiritual instrument outside his body.

  At first, Zhang Heng was still a bit puzzled. Could it be that just spinning around on the surface of the spiritual artifact for a few weeks would have an effect?

  However, in the following period of time, Zhang Heng found that his variant spiritual energy contained a slightly increased silver light, seemingly becoming much stronger, and he wasn't very clear about how much stronger it had become.

  Moreover, the spiritual artifact in Zhang Heng's hand had produced quite a few cracks, and its originally radiant surface had also become dull and lusterless.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel delighted. This abnormal treasure was indeed abnormal, and such a low-grade spiritual artifact would not be damaged in the slightest even if it were given to a Qi Refining stage cultivator to torture at will. Even for a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator who didn't use their innate True Fire, it would be very difficult to easily destroy the artifact.

  And now this inferior spiritual artifact has already appeared with many cracks in just a short period of one hour, and it's unknown how much longer it can last.

  Zhang Heng calmed down and accelerated the circulation of the variant spiritual energy in his body. Time passed bit by bit, and about a few more hours had passed.

  At this moment, the variant spiritual energy in Zhang Heng's body suddenly stopped circulating, and one link between the internal and external circulation networks had been broken.

  At this moment, the variant spiritual energy he controlled was flowing with a faint silver light, carrying an eerie and strange beauty, giving people a faint sense of pressure.

  Zhang Heng felt that the low-grade spiritual instrument in his hand had ceased to exist. He opened his eyes and saw a pile of black-gray impurities before him.

  He took a deep breath, gazing at the pile of dark gray impurities beside him. Zhang Heng understood that the essence contained in this inferior spiritual instrument had been "refined" by himself and had now become a pile of worthless dregs with no use value.

  After "refining" this low-grade spiritual artifact, Zhang Heng discovered that his spiritual energy had gradually transformed into the "Refined Void Spiritual Energy" described in the Deviant Cultivation Method. The intensity of this spiritual energy was beyond comparison to the spiritual energy he had cultivated with ordinary cultivation methods before.

  This strand of Luminous Qi is even higher than what ordinary cultivators of the same rank possess!

  Under Zhang Heng's mental manipulation, the refined spiritual energy with a faint silver glow kept flowing inside his body, circulating through his limbs and hundreds of bones, passing through the internal organs, and spreading all over the skin on the surface of his body...

  For a time, Zhang Heng once again entered a deeper state of cultivation, his mind and spirit gradually merging with this mysterious Ling Qi, his divine sense slowly growing stronger, and the various sensory abilities of his body also continuously improving.

  If there were outsiders nearby, they would discover that Zhang Heng's body was shrouded in a faint silver-white glow, which spread outwards with an invisible pressure, making it difficult for ordinary people to even stand upright.

  After a long time, feeling that his physical body could already withstand the existence of Lian Yu Ling Qi and the effect of Lian Ti was getting smaller and smaller, Zhang Heng stopped cultivating and opened his eyes.

  Took a deep breath again, the first spiritual instrument had already been "refined" by himself, and a slightly immature Refining Void Spiritual Energy had formed inside his body. His physical body and divine sense had also improved somewhat.

  However, it takes dozens of low-grade spiritual instruments to practice the first layer of the Variant Technique. Next, let's see the effect of the remaining mid-grade spiritual instruments and the Iron Ridge Mine Mother.

  Can he practice the transformation skill to the initial completion boundary, Zhang Heng's heart also has no idea.

  From the storage bag, took out Li Hong and Ning Xue's two mid-grade spiritual instruments damaged in the battle, as well as the most precious Tieling Mine Mother, Zhang Heng's eyes were filled with hope.

  Success and failure hang in the balance of this one move.

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