Absolute Trust

"Brothers, please give me more recommendation votes~~" "Some of the Kindling inheritors I've taught in the past were beaten to death by goddesses. If they had learned your method, they wouldn't have to worry about being beaten to death after mating," the little flame in Zhong Yue's Sea of Consciousness exclaimed excitedly.

"Flirting with young heifers? Does Xin Huo mean that Senior Sister Tao and Senior Sister Yu are here to find me?"

Zhong Yue was stunned and walked towards the two young girls.

Seeing him approach, both girls became flustered. Tao Daier quickly said, "Zhongshan Clan, we didn't come here to find you, nor to sing for you. This place isn't your territory, anyone can come here! We arrived first, so you're the one who came to find us!"

Zhong Yue smiled, "That's only natural. Please, Senior Sisters."

Yu Feiyan couldn't help but say, "Junior Brother Zhong, we are indeed here to find you. I'd like to ask you about the space between life and death. Can you teach me?"

"You want to cultivate this way too?"

Zhong Yue pondered for a moment and shook his head, "This cultivation method is already extremely dangerous for me, and it would be even more dangerous for you. If you were to jump off a cliff like I did, the chance of death would be ninety-nine percent, and each time it would be ninety-nine percent!"

His words were by no means an exaggeration. Using the space between life and death to enter a state of extreme reaction wasn't as simple as just leaping off. This was because entering a state of extreme reaction required visualization for cultivation, using this opportunity to improve one's cultivation. And once one entered visualization, it was difficult to wake up, completely unaware of the outside world!

During the fall, if one couldn't wake up in time, the inevitable outcome would be being smashed into a pulp!

The reason Zhong Yue had a high success rate wasn't that he could wake up in time every time, but because Xin Huo was in his Sea of Consciousness. It was Xin Huo who calculated the timing and awakened his soul, thus greatly reducing the mortality rate!

Although every jump was dangerous, because Xin Huo awakened him in time, Zhong Yue was able to succeed repeatedly.

However, Yu Feiyan wouldn't have this treatment. If she cultivated alone, she would definitely die from not waking up in time. Even if Tao Daier floated in mid-air and calculated the timing to awaken her soul, it wouldn't be feasible. The moment would pass in an instant, and if it were even a moment late, death would likely await Yu Feiyan.

It was already extremely difficult for another person to awaken a soul that was still visualizing in the Sea of Consciousness. It required calling out with the soul. If Tao Daier made even the slightest mistake in this process, Yu Feiyan would be the one to die!

"If you let Senior Sister Tao help, you could reduce the mortality rate to eighty to ninety percent, but it would still be extremely high. Senior Sister Yu, I will pass on the secret to entering the space between life and death to you. Whether you cultivate it or not is your decision."

Zhong Yue imparted the secret of entering the space between life and death and suppressing great terror and fear, saying, "Senior Sister, I still need to cultivate. I'll take my leave first."

He picked up a boulder and leaped off the cliff.

Tao Daier hesitated, "Senior Sister, are you really going to do this?"

Yu Feiyan's heart was also struggling. Zhong Yue had passed on the secret of entering the space between life and death to her and had also pointed out the dangers, making her realize that this cultivation method was indeed incredibly perilous!

"Even with Tao Tao's help, it's still a near-death experience! And if Tao Tao makes a mistake..."

Yu Feiyan hesitated for a long time, then suddenly sighed, "I won't try it. This cultivation method is risking one's life to achieve the realm of a Qi Refiner, and it's not difficult for me to become a Qi Refiner. Why should I risk my life like this?"

Tao Daier also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Senior Sister is right."

Yu Feiyan revealed a confident smile and said proudly, "Junior Brother Zhong is cultivating so desperately, yet he hasn't achieved the realm of a Qi Refiner. As for me, cultivating step by step, I'm still the senior disciple of the Women's Court."

Zhong Yue waited at the bottom of the cliff for a while. He saw that Yu Feiyan had not jumped off the cliff. If Yu Feiyan had jumped and failed in her visualization, he would have still intervened to save her.

After all, Yu Feiyan's intentions were not bad, and she had even risked her life to save him yesterday.

"Little brat Yue, not everyone has your courage, nor does everyone have your luck to meet me!"

The Kindling Child said proudly, "That woman seems to have a strong will, but her state of mind is not as good as yours. She has a good relationship with another woman, but not good enough to entrust her life to. If she were to jump off the cliff, worrying about whether the other woman could wake her up in time, she would inevitably be unable to stabilize her mental visualization and would only escape like a bird again and again. She wouldn't even be able to get past this hurdle! But you completely trusted me, entrusting your life to me. When I told you to jump, you just jumped, allowing you to easily enter visualization and rapidly improve your cultivation!"

Zhong Yue thought carefully and realized it was indeed the case. When Xin Huo told him to jump, he didn't think much and just jumped, never considering what would happen if Xin Huo woke him up a moment too late.

This was absolute trust, absolute reliance!

He had only been with Xin Huo for a little over a month. For ordinary people, in such a short time, they would at most become drinking buddies. Yet, in his heart, he already felt that he could entrust his entire life to Xin Huo!

He had unreserved trust in Xin Huo, which was why he immediately entered the space between life and death when he jumped off the cliff, visualizing Suihuang to improve his cultivation and strength!

The space between life and death tested not one person, but two – the trust between two people!

"Senior Sister Yu and Senior Sister Tao's trust in each other is not as strong as mine and Xin Huo's. It's understandable that she chose to give up. Even if they could achieve the same level of trust as Xin Huo and I, the mortality rate would still be extremely high. After all, Senior Sister Tao's eyesight is not as sharp as Xin Huo's?"

Zhong Yue climbed back up the cliff. Yu Feiyan stood at the edge of the cliff, her black clothes fluttering, looking heroic and spirited. She suddenly said crisply, "Junior Brother Zhong, you cultivate so desperately. I want to compete with you and see who is stronger, you who cultivates desperately, or me who cultivates step by step! There are still two months until the end of the year, and there will be an unrestricted battle among the disciples of the various Qi Refiners under the Upper Court. This battle will determine the qualification to enter the Spirit Void Hall! I hope to meet Junior Brother Zhong in the final match!"

"Year-end battle, Spirit Void Hall?" Zhong Yue was a little bewildered.

"You don't know about the Spirit Void Hall?"

Tao Daier was a little surprised and added, "Well, you've only been in the Upper Court for a month, so it's understandable you don't know about the Spirit Void Hall. The Spirit Void Hall is the place most sensitive to spirits, the best place to cultivate spirits. For example, if you want to sense the Sun Spirit, you need your soul to fly to the sun to induce the Sun Spirit. Can your soul fly to the sun? But in the Spirit Void Hall, you can sense the spirit in the sun and cultivate the Sun Spirit. The Spirit Void Hall is the supreme sacred land of our Sword Gate. Being able to cultivate in the Spirit Void Hall means that the Sword Gate already considers your foundation to be solid and that you can cultivate into a Qi Refiner."

"Junior Brother Zhong, there is only one opportunity to become a Qi Refiner each year, and whether you are qualified to enter the Spirit Void Hall depends on your performance in the year-end battle."

Yu Feiyan turned and walked away, "However, you only cultivate the Thunderclap Sword Art as an offensive technique. With only this one technique, you won't be able to go far, and you might not even make it into the top ten! Moreover, you'll need good Soul Weapons and good Totem God Pillars, because it's an unrestricted battle! Tao Tao, let's go!"

As the two girls left, Zhong Yue wondered, "Xin Huo, is cultivating spirits really that troublesome?"

"Cultivating spirits is indeed very troublesome, but cultivating spirits in the Spirit Void Hall always gives me an unreliable feeling."

Xin Huo said, "During Suihuang's era, Suihuang's descendants were the Yanzi Divine Emperor's clan. I remember that when they sensed spirits, they would directly use a true dragon to pull a boat, with the royal descendants standing on the boat, majestically sailing towards the sun. The Sun Spirit obtained at the edge of the sun would be the highest-grade Sun Golden Crow Spirit! Cultivating spirits in this Spirit Void Hall, I estimate you'd only get ordinary fire spirits. Other divine races also directly took their disciples to the location of the spirits to cultivate and sense them from the closest point."

Hearing this, Zhong Yue's eyes seemed to conjure images of giant dragons pulling golden ships across the starry sky towards the sun, and he couldn't help but yearn for it.

"Who can personally come to the edge of the sun to sense spirits now?" He shook his head.

"I can!"

The Kindling Child said proudly, "Whether you want to refine the Sun Spirit or the Moon Spirit, I can do it! However, what that little girl just said is correct, your accumulation is indeed not enough, far from enough! It's not that your offensive techniques are few, but your foundation is not solid enough. If you can reach a level that satisfies me, I will send you to the edge of the sun and the moon to cultivate the Sun and Moon Spirits!"

Zhong Yue's heart pounded, and he quickly asked, "How will you send me up?"

"I was stranded here with the previous Kindling inheritor. That old fellow was already extremely frail, so I had him make arrangements for the next Kindling inheritor, setting up two great formations. Activating the formations would allow us to teleport to the edge of the sun and the moon."

Xin Huo smiled, "As long as you can reach a satisfactory level, I'll let you benefit from it and enjoy the treatment of a pure-blooded Kindling inheritor. It's just that I don't know if our arrangements from back then have been destroyed after so many years... Come, let's continue cultivating!"

More than ten days later, Zhong Yue continued to cultivate, rain or shine. The consumption rate of Feather Spirit Pills was also frighteningly fast. In these days of frantic cultivation, more than half of the more than nine hundred Feather Spirit Pills were consumed, leaving only over three hundred.

Zhong Yue's Sea of Consciousness had actually grown to a vast expanse of three thousand mu, like a great lake. With a mere thought, furious waves would surge across it, unleashing his Spiritual Power with terrifying might!

Furthermore, the weighted climbing had granted him absolute control over the Flood Dragon Totem and his body, as if they were extensions of his own limbs. His combination of the Thunderclap Sword Art and the Flood Dragon Totem became even more exquisite. Zhong Yue could now ride lightning through the air for a distance of a li, moving at incredible speed, though it consumed a tremendous amount of Spiritual Power, making it less efficient than wing-based techniques.

Having cultivated to this stage, Zhong Yue felt his progress slowing down, and the chances of entering the realm between life and death had significantly decreased.

This method of cultivation no longer posed much of a threat to him at this point, so the probability of entering the realm between life and death naturally became lower.

"Tomorrow is another day for the Upper Court Qi Refiners' lectures. Elder Pu promised to forge two Soul Weapons for me; they should be ready by now. I wonder what those two Soul Weapons he's been forging for me all this time will look like?"

Zhong Yue couldn't help but feel excited. This was the first time he had ever encountered such a high-level treasure as a Soul Weapon!