Divine Firmament Sword Palace.
The thunderlight filling the sky suddenly scattered, while layer upon layer of dark clouds streamed away on the wind.
Between the clouds and sky, Gao Xian stood floating gracefully upon the wind. Behind his head shone two brilliant wheels of light—the essence wheel and the qi wheel.
When the Wuji Sword Scripture reached the consummate master realm, Gao Xian had already sensed the existence of the qi wheel.
But at the time, he had been in the Jade Firmament Blessed Land and lacked sufficient accumulated mana, making him unable to condense the qi wheel.
After Gao Xian returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Palace and consumed a Jade Firmament Jade Fruit, he spent a year digesting roughly a tenth of its spiritual power. His cultivation naturally broke through, and he condensed the qi wheel.
The so-called qi wheel was a cultivator's exquisitely minute control over mana and spiritual qi, condensed through pure-yang divine consciousness.
With the qi wheel, his efficiency in absorbing and converting spiritual qi increased more than threefold. His control over mana also improved enormously.
The same sword qi, bolstered by the qi wheel, was at least twice as powerful. Such was the might of the qi wheel.
Having condensed the qi wheel, Gao Xian relied on his consummate master swordsmanship and the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Law-Controlling Treasure Seal's command over lightning arts to easily pass his second lightning tribulation. This tempered the qi wheel and also tempered the Taiyuan Divine Image.
The Taiyuan Divine Image had originally consisted of one hundred and forty-four strands of pure-yang divine consciousness. Tempered by the lightning tribulation and nourished by the Innate Primordial Qi of Sun Wheel Heaven, its pure-yang divine consciousness doubled, reaching two hundred and eighty-eight strands.
At this point, the Taiyuan Divine Image's