Cultivating the Flame Blade Technique!

Chen Huai'an was no longer a complete novice in the cultivation world.

Today's opportunity was an opportunity, but it was also a crisis.

It depended on how Chen Huai'an chose to grasp it.

However, that was not something he needed to worry about now. What he needed to do was seize every moment to raise his strength.

Even if he went, it should only be after the Challenge Tournament ended, when he had the time.

"I'm such an idiot. The Purple-Skinned Gourd space can't hold living creatures, but I could have slaughtered these Five-Colored Golden Pheasants and brought their corpses inside." As Chen Huai'an ate roasted chicken, he inwardly cursed his rotten luck.

"Next time, I absolutely won't make such a low-level mistake again."

"This really deserves to be called a spirit bird. The effects are far better than Spirit Spring Water and Body Tempering Pills. And this is only an ordinary spirit bird—if it were top-grade, wouldn't that be incredible?" Before even half the chicken had gone down his throat, a swollen, warm sensation spread throughout his body.

In the past, even when he took medicinal pills during cultivation, hunger would strike after training. But this time was different. After eating the roasted chicken, a feeling of fullness rose from his stomach.

No, it was not an ordinary feeling of fullness. It was like a sponge that had lacked water, now soaked completely through. His entire body relaxed.

Spirit meals were beneficial to his cultivation. This was the accumulation of Blood-Energy Force. Sufficient Blood-Energy Force could make his body stronger. Even after breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm, his body would not be like brittle skin that could be pierced with a single poke.

Moreover, cultivating martial techniques also required abundant Blood-Energy Force as support.

"I should raise the Five-Colored Golden Pheasant spirit birds in the space properly. It would be best to feed them Spirit Grain." Chen Huai'an made up his mind. He had to raise these spirit meals himself, feeding those little chicks the very best and fattening them up until they were plump and round.

At this stage, what Chen Huai'an needed most were spirit meals and spiritual medicines that replenished Blood-Energy Force.

When he returned to his residence, Chen Huai'an saw that Li Fugui had already filled all the water jars. Chen Huai'an then took out the jade slip that recorded the martial technique and began studying it.

This martial technique was the Flame Blade Technique. Cultivators with Fire Spiritual Roots could cultivate it.

In truth, it was not that only disciples with Fire Spiritual Roots could cultivate it. Rather, disciples with Fire Spiritual Roots could bring out this blade technique's power to the fullest.

Even if disciples with ordinary spiritual roots cultivated the Flame Blade Technique, they could not bring out its true power.

Chen Huai'an possessed a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Although his Fire Spiritual Root was not top-grade, he could cultivate this technique and bring out the Flame Blade Technique's power.

Now Chen Huai'an understood why that man had sold him the jade slip containing the Flame Blade Technique. In Chen Huai'an's hands, it might be a treasure, but in that man's hands, it was trash.

"Fire spiritual power... Why can't I sense any fire spiritual power inside my body?" Chen Huai'an discovered that his aptitude was simply too poor. He could not sense any fire-element spiritual power within himself, much less channel it into the blade.

"Cultivating this Flame Blade Technique actually requires buying a blade." Chen Huai'an frowned as he looked at the wooden stick in his hand.

Though he could cultivate it, things were not as simple as he had imagined.

If he could not sense fire spiritual power, there was only one other path for cultivating the Flame Blade Technique: borrow external power to comprehend the power of fire.

Chen Huai'an practiced the Flame Blade Technique's first form, the Scorching Wind Form, once, but gained nothing. He merely memorized the simple moves, still far from the power recorded in the jade slip.

Although this first form was an opening stance, it was suited for close-quarters combat.

Most battles in the Body Tempering Realm centered on close-quarters combat.

Only upon reaching the Qi Refining Realm did long-range attacks become the main approach.

This was why many Body Tempering Realm cultivators chose not to cultivate martial techniques.

Even if you cultivated such martial techniques to the point of divine mastery, they were only meant for close combat.

But Qi Refining Realm immortal masters could send out a sword art and attack from afar, killing enemies a thousand miles away with a single thought.

Thus, many people would not waste vast amounts of time cultivating martial techniques that were merely transitional.

Spells were their ultimate pursuit.

But if Chen Huai'an wanted to rise on Servant Peak, he had to cultivate this Flame Blade Technique.

He had too many enemies. Without some means of saving his life, he simply could not survive.

Another very important reason Chen Huai'an chose to cultivate the Flame Blade Technique was that, once cultivated to a profound level, this blade technique could inflict a certain degree of harm even upon Qi Refining Realm immortal masters.

Chen Huai'an could not guarantee that the Zhang Family's and Zhao Family's Qi Refining Realm outer disciples would not make a move against him.

The Flame Blade Technique was only a fragmented volume, containing just three forms. The first was for close combat, the second was a long-range attack, and the third was an area attack suited for group battles. The three forms were relatively simple. As long as he persisted in practicing every day, he believed he would certainly master them.

As for materials to aid his cultivation, he would ask around during this period. He had to master it.

And so, every day, Chen Huai'an set aside one shichen to cultivate the Flame Blade Technique.

During this time, Chen Huai'an also asked Li Fugui to help him obtain some fertilized Five-Colored Golden Pheasant eggs.

Li Fugui truly was an old hand on Servant Peak. Though his cultivation was unremarkable, he had connections. He directly got Chen Huai'an one hundred fertilized eggs.

If they all hatched, that would be one hundred Five-Colored Golden Pheasants. One person probably could not finish eating them all.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month quietly passed.

Chen Huai'an's cultivation also broke through from the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer to the Body Tempering Realm, Eighth Layer.

Though he had only advanced by one layer, the cultivation resources consumed were truly terrifying.

He consumed Spirit Grain and spirit meals made from Five-Colored Golden Pheasants every day. He also took some Foundation Nurturing Pills and Body Tempering Pills before finally breaking through to the Body Tempering Realm, Eighth Layer.

Chen Huai'an calculated that without these cultivation resources, it would have been impossible for him to break through to the Body Tempering Realm, Eighth Layer in half a month.

As for the Flame Blade Technique he had been cultivating, after half a month of practice, he had mastered all three moves until they rolled off his hands like water, yet there had not been the slightest progress in their effects.

It was quite smooth when used to chop people, but its only flaw was that the power it unleashed fell short of expectations.

Chen Huai'an had asked Li Fugui about this.

Those who had not cultivated fire-element cultivation arts simply could not sense fire spiritual power. Naturally, the Flame Blade Technique's power would be greatly reduced.

To cultivate fire-element cultivation arts, one could only enter the sect's Scripture Repository or Cultivation Arts Hall. Chen Huai'an had no qualifications to enter either the Scripture Repository or the Cultivation Arts Hall.

Even cultivation arts on the market were exceedingly rare. Outer disciples had one chance to enter the Cultivation Arts Hall for free and choose a cultivation art. Though the Scripture Repository was not as strict as the Cultivation Arts Hall, it required Sect Contribution Points.

Chen Huai'an had been on Servant Peak for two months and had only received two contribution points.

If he truly spent those contribution points on the Scripture Repository, Chen Huai'an felt somewhat hesitant.

The Body Tempering Realm, Ninth Layer could not be reached in the short term, and the Challenge Tournament would begin in seven days. He had to find a way to make a breakthrough in his Flame Blade Technique, or the Spirit Elegance Ranking would have nothing to do with him.