"What kind of technique is this?" the onlookers stared at the halo in Ma Feifei's palm, utterly baffled.
"Looks like he compressed spiritual energy?" one cultivator said uncertainly.
It wasn't impossible to compress spiritual energy into a point and use it to attack this way. Every cultivator present could produce a halo like Ma Feifei's.
This method was reasonably powerful, but compared with cultivation techniques and martial skills, it fell far short.
Put simply, Ma Feifei was using spiritual energy alone to attack. The amount of spiritual energy in his body and the level of his cultivation determined its power. His combat strength was equivalent to his cultivation level.
For those using cultivation techniques and martial skills, however, spiritual energy was merely a medium. They spent some of it to unleash their techniques and martial skills at full power. This let them avoid wasting too much spiritual energy while also launching attacks stronger than their own cultivation level.
Take the final attacks by Xiaoyaozi and Yang Chengzhi during the Dragon Ranking competition. If they had relied solely on their own cultivation, they could never have generated such immense power or shattered both layers of the protective barrier.
That was the power of cultivation techniques and martial skills.
What Ma Feifei was doing now was simply gathering the spiritual energy in his body into his palm, compressing it again and again until it formed a ball of light.
There was no cultivation technique or martial skill involved. Even if Ma Feifei poured all his spiritual energy into it, the ball's power would amount to no more than the strongest attack a peak ninth-stage Spirit Sect could unleash.
That strongest attack would be utterly ineffective against an opponent of the same level using a cultivation technique or martial skill.
Ma Feifei could