Chapter 185

Therefore, even when seeking so-called opportunities, Wang Teng would only head towards safe areas first, trying to stay within the range of those below the Qi Refining Stage.

Yaoguang Peak is narrow in the east-west direction and wide in the north and south. The south side faces the direction of the Spirit Beast Sect, while the north side connects to the outer edge of the Starfall Mountain Range. Monsters from the mountain range often invade and migrate to this area.

Therefore, to the north of Yaoguang Peak, the Spirit Beast Sect and the Chu State royal family jointly built a pass, which also served as one of the Chu State defenses against the monsters of the Starfall Mountain Range.

The Starfall Mountain Range is vast, one of the few gathering places for demonic beasts in the entire Southwest Continent, covering an area of 1.2 billion square kilometers.

Of the Thirty-Two Nations Alliance, seventeen bordered the Starfall Mountain Range, with the Chu State being one of them.

The Starfall Mountain Range are also one of the barriers surrounding the Thirty-Two Nations Alliance, which is one of the reasons why the thirty-two kingdoms formed an offensive and defensive alliance. Although the thirty-two kingdoms attack each other, they will still unite against the monster tide of the Starfall Mountain Range.

One of the major gathering places of demonic beasts, its strength is much greater than that of the Thirty-Two Nations Alliance. There are only a few Divine Soul Stage cultivators in the Thirty-Two Nations Alliance, while the core area of the Starfall Mountain Range is said to have Saint Realm experts, and countless Divine Soul Stage experts. There, Golden Core cultivators are as common as dogs, God Realm Earth Flow, and only Soul Realm can be considered people.

If it weren't for the restraints from the elders of other human regions and the agreement between the elders of Central Plains and the demonic beasts of the Saint Realm, the Thirty-Two Nations Alliance would have been wiped out long ago, without even the right to struggle.

Outside the Starfall Mountain Range, there are very few demonic beasts above the Golden Core Stage. Most of them are demonic beasts below the Core Realm. However, in order to deal with emergencies, the Spirit Beast Sect has long stationed elders at the Golden Core Stage or even the Spirit Transformation Stage at the pass north of Yaoguang Peak.

For demonic beasts at or above the Core Realm, the elders will deal with them, while for demonic beasts below the Core Realm, the Spirit Beast Sect will control the number and release a batch into Yaoguang Peak.

Used for training disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect, the demonic beasts of Yaoguang Peak have been replaced countless times over thousands of years. If there were no fresh blood to replenish them, the demonic beasts of Yaoguang Peak would have been plucked bald long ago.

Of course, the fourth, fifth, and sixth peaks would regularly drive out a portion of the spirit beasts to the seventh peak each year.

High-level spirit beasts are fine; they only lay one litter every few decades, and each litter only has a few cubs. But low-level spirit beasts are different; they lay several litters a year, with dozens or even hundreds of cubs per litter. Even a large and wealthy Spirit Beast Sect can't afford to raise so many spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts and demon beasts are essentially the same species; the difference lies in that one is willing to be fed and housed by humans, while the other is raised from childhood to follow the law of the jungle, adhering to the principle of the survival of the fittest.

There is no absolute boundary between the two, and they can transform into each other at any time.

Of course, there's no need to worry about anything on the seventh peak. Even if the demonic beasts you're fighting are spirit beasts from the fourth, fifth, or sixth peaks, so what?

So what if we killed them? Since we're here, we should have been prepared. Humans kill beasts, and beasts kill humans. Don't worry about anyone's parents coming to cause trouble for you. This was something the higher-ups of the Spirit Beast Sect and those high-level spirit beasts had already discussed.

Life and death are determined by fate; there's nothing more to say.

Once midnight has passed, the time resets.

"Phew~"

After waking up, Wang Teng sprang up like a bouncy ball, sat on the bed, and gasped for breath.

It was so terrifying before that Wang Teng really didn't want to face death again; the feeling before death was just too unbearable.

Suppression, suffocation, despair, helplessness...

After a while, looking at his familiar room, Wang Teng's heart gradually calmed down.

Whew~

Although death is unpleasant, the rewards are also immense.

First, even if you die, the time reset still applies.

However, for safety's sake, Wang Teng Wang Teng decided to wait another day. On the one hand, he wanted to confirm again that the time reset was still ongoing, and on the other hand, he wanted to rest and take a break.

Secondly, Wang Teng discovered that his unwavering cultivation level had improved somewhat, although the increase was not significant, it was still quite noticeable.

Indeed, there is great terror between life and death, but there is also Great Breakthrough.

Opportunity.

What is opportunity?

Rare and precious materials, insights gained through cultivation—this is opportunity.

Why is it so difficult to break through from Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage?

Because it involves a process of creating something from nothing.

The essential difference between the Qi Refining Stage and the Qi Gathering Stage lies in spiritual energy.

After the Qi Refining Stage, the internal energy within a cultivator's body will be transformed into spiritual energy.

The combat power of a cultivator at the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage is comparable to that of a cultivator at the early stage of the Qi Refining Stage, and spiritual energy is an indispensable factor in this.

Only spiritual energy can counteract spiritual energy; this is the truth of the Tianxuan Continent.

There is little difference in the quantity of true qi between cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Gathering and those at the initial stage of Qi Refining, but the quality is absolutely worlds apart.

One used internal energy, the other used Spiritual Power.

The two are like martial arts practitioners and immortal cultivators—how the hell is this supposed to work?

Once a fight breaks out, there's only one outcome: Spiritual Power will crush internal force.

As long as the Spiritual Power within Qi Refining Stage cultivator's body is not depleted, then the internal energy of Qi Gathering Stage cultivator cannot harm the Qi Refining Stage cultivator.

Those in the Body Tempering Stage can be injured by the internal energy of the Qi Gathering Stage alone. If it were a Qi Refining Stage cultivator, the damage would be excruciating.

This is similar to magic damage and true damage in a game. Inner force is magic damage, while Spiritual Power is true damage with the added effect of finishing off the target.

Magic damage can be reduced by stacking magic resistance, but true damage is irrelevant no matter what you stack; you simply can't withstand it.

Therefore, those in the Body Tempering Stage who want to conquer cultivators with their physical strength must possess Spiritual Power.

Otherwise, they simply wouldn't be able to withstand the opponent's damage.

This is why the Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage has stopped countless geniuses.

Because mastering spiritual energy is required to reach the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage, which is extremely difficult.

Spiritual energy is different from internal energy. All things in the world have a spirit, and everyone has one from birth. However, the spiritual energy dissipates quickly after birth. But no matter how much it dissipates, a little spiritual energy will always remain in a person. A person who has no spiritual energy left is a dead person.

To break through from the Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage Body Tempering Stage the 13th level, one must first sense the residual spiritual energy contained within one's own body. Then, through this scattered spiritual energy, one must sense the spiritual energy in the outside world to establish communication and connection, thereby drawing spiritual energy into the body and using it to nourish the body, thus stepping into the 13th Body Tempering Stage.

It sounds simple, but to actually do it is not just difficult, it's downright unrealistic.

First of all, the amount of spiritual energy remaining in the human body is extremely small, and the possibility of sensing that spiritual energy through normal means is almost zero.

If they fail at the first hurdle, then communicating with external spiritual energy is out of the question.

Otherwise, the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage wouldn't have trapped countless geniuses.

Of course, there are ways to overcome this hurdle.

There are two methods.

One approach focuses on quantity, while the other focuses on feeling.

Normal people have little spiritual energy, right? Then let's increase it.

Many rare and precious materials can achieve this, but the problem is that these rare and precious materials are still quite useful even to cultivators at the Golden Core or even the God Realm and above.

If that were all, it might be manageable, but the problem is the success rate.

The success rate of this method is not 100%; it does allow one to sense the person's own spiritual energy, and the probability is extremely low.

To give an example, if you have 100 million, but your child's college education costs 1 million, then naturally your child's future is more important than the 1 million.

A million is a lot, but if you grit your teeth, it's just the amount you can manage.

However, if after spending this million dollars your child's chances of going to college are still less than one percent, would you still spend this million dollars? After all, you might not only have one child, and the daily expenses of the rest of your family are not a small amount either.

Moreover, with a success rate of less than one percent, it's a bottomless pit.

Therefore, once a core disciple of a major sect reaches the Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage, the sect will no longer provide resources for their subsequent Body Tempering Stage to the thirteenth level.

It's not that the elders of the sect don't want them to break through to the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage, but they simply can't afford to support them.

Those who can afford to raise children don't necessarily have a mine at home; they have a home within a mine.

Therefore, using resource accumulation is only suitable for wealthy individuals who own homes in the mines.

Most of the geniuses across the continent who want to break through to the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage take a different path.

Reflections.

Try to enhance your own perception in order to sense the spiritual energy within your body.

Of course, the methods involved are varied and numerous.

Ultimately, all these methods boil down to one word: stimulation.

By stimulating themselves in different ways, they aim to enhance their perception and try to grasp that sliver of inspiration.

The one with the highest success rate is: facing death head-on.

Of course, this method also has the highest mortality rate; a slight mistake can lead to death.

Life and death can bring immense terror, but also immense rewards.

Under the pressure of death, people can do many things they wouldn't normally do, such as when someone is extremely angry...

This naturally includes sensing the trace of spiritual energy within one's own body.

Of course, the method is good, but it Fei Tian.

Now that Wang Teng can reset time, even death cannot stop him.

Therefore, breaking through to the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage will not be a particularly difficult thing. If you don't have enough talent, you can make up for it with quantity.

If you experience it a few more times, and die enough times, you will eventually come to understand it; it's just that the taste of death is truly unpleasant.

The next day, time was reset again.

If that's the case, then my death won't affect the time reset.

With that in mind, Wang Teng was no longer anything to be afraid of.

As usual, Wang Teng prepared everything and entered Yaoguang Peak.

However, unlike before, Wang Teng was no longer timid and hesitant.

So what if it's Qi Refining Stage demon beast?

I'm going to fight demonic beasts that are only at the Qi Refining Stage.

Wang Teng's target today is the Azure Light Wolf, a demonic beast that has just broken through to the early stage of Qi Refining.

There's no need to consider demonic beasts below the Qi Refining Stage. The claim that someone below the Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage Qi Refining Stage is invincible isn't just talk; they're genuinely strong.

Even if they lack combat experience, their physical attributes alone are enough to overwhelm everything; only an extremely talented individual could possibly be defeated.

Does such a monster exist on Yaoguang Peak?

Of course, that doesn't exist. And even if it did, so what? At most, it would be slightly stronger than me, but how much experience could it give me?

But it's different for Qi Refining Stage demonic beasts; although they die quickly, they also gain a lot.

But death is not true death; the next day, time resets, and you're back to being a lively and energetic hero.

Of course, the difference in strength can't be too great. Just like the Four-Stripe Marked Deer that killed me a couple of days ago, I died before I even had a chance to fight back, so there was nothing to gain.

However, we've now formed a grudge. Dare you kill me?

Just because I can't beat you now doesn't mean I won't be able to beat you in the future. Besides, I can beat your kids whenever I want now, since I won't die anyway.

Wang Teng:￣へ￣

Xiao Luer:(⋟⋞)

Although Wang Teng was not as strong as the Azure Light Wolf, who was at the early stage of Qi Refining, he was not without a chance to fight back. With his physical strength and top-quality equipment, Wang Teng fought for more than a quarter of an hour before being killed by the Azure Light Wolf.

the next day...

continue.

Day three...

Finally, half a month later.

The Azure Light Wolf collapsed with a mournful howl, and Wang Teng fared no better, also covered in wounds.

However, this is just the beginning.

Half a year has passed in this way. Wang Teng has been challenging various Qi Refining Stage demonic beasts, first the early Qi Refining stage, then the middle Qi Refining stage, and now he is even starting to challenge the Late Qi Refining Stage demonic beasts.

Although Wang Teng did not break through to the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage during this period, he could feel the scattered spiritual energy within himself on several occasions.

His cultivation level had already moved from one limit of the Twelfth Layer of the Body Tempering Stage to another.

In terms of combat power, Wang Teng is now off the charts.

Before the Wang Teng, it was like a father beating his son, invincible, or rather, it wasn't a fight at all, it was beating someone up.

Wang Teng had a feeling that as long as he could defeat this Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger in the Late Qi Refining Stage, he would definitely be able to break through to the thirteenth Body Tempering Stage.

Wang Teng looked at the Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger in front of him. This was the sixth time. He would finally win.

War!

Without saying a word, Wang Teng charged at the other party.

After the battle, the Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger Black Tiger lay lazily on the ground, needing to digest the human it had just eaten. Although the human's cultivation was low, its blood and qi were strong, and even the Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger's stomach was a little full.

The twenty-third time...

Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger: Separated

This is the sixty-seventh time...

Wang Teng is now not only holding his own against the Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger, but he can also fight back, putting up a good fight. Although he is still being suppressed, he is much stronger than when he first faced his opponent.

He believed he would be able to kill his opponent soon, and the feeling that he was about to break through to the thirteenth level of the Body Tempering Stage was becoming stronger and stronger.

The Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger leaped, exposing its belly. Wang Teng saw this as a good opportunity; there was an opening.

Wang Teng immediately executed a sliding tackle...

Fifteen minutes later.

Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger: I'm full.