When he flashed again, rolling and scrambling, he dodged away.
"Let's see how you dodge," Leng Xiao chanted another incantation, and another surge of spiritual energy erupted. Mo Qi, once again rolling and scrambling, dodged in an extremely clumsy manner.
Leng Xiao chanted again and attacked again. Watching Mo Qi's pathetic state, Leng Xiao suddenly enjoyed the feeling. "I can't kill you, but I can play with you until you die." Unconsciously, his attack speed slowed down.
Mo Qi kept dodging, weaving in irregular patterns, sometimes close, sometimes far. After Leng Xiao unleashed a surge of spiritual energy, before he could launch his next attack, Mo Qi suddenly surged forward, pushing his palm out. Leng Xiao knew he couldn't dodge, but he wasn't panicked. He laughed, "A physical attack? With your level of attack..." However, before he could finish speaking, he saw Mo Qi form a hand seal, and a ripple of energy erupted, striking towards Leng Xiao. Leng Xiao was greatly alarmed, and the white mist around him instinctively rose.
With a muffled thud, Leng Xiao's body was sent flying backward, leaving a trail of blood splattering along the way. With a scream, Leng Xiao's body crashed heavily onto the ground.
A hole had been opened in his abdomen, but it hadn't penetrated, nor had it injured his internal organs. However, it was a bloody mess.
Mo Qi was still not satisfied. He walked forward and punched Leng Xiao's head into the dirt, "I'll teach you arrogance!"
Another punch drove his body into the dirt, "I'll teach you to bully my friends!"
Another punch drove his legs into the dirt, "I'll teach you to push my head into the water."
Leng Xiao's head had turned into a pig's head, but his consciousness was clear. He said with a wronged expression, "When did I ever push your head into the water?"
At this moment, a large crowd of people began to gather around. Some clapped and cheered, as several people had been bullied by Leng Xiao. Their cave dwellings were quite clean and cozy, and Leng Xiao, upon seeing them, wanted to claim them for himself, driving out the original occupants.
As for Jin Dan's cave dwelling, it wasn't that Leng Xiao didn't want to snatch it, but rather that he didn't fancy it.
After beating him up, Mo Qi felt his anger subside. He pulled Leng Xiao out of the dirt and sent him to Wang Duanwu for treatment, rather than to Han Yang. He thought that someone like this would take months to recover.
Returning to Jin Dan's cave dwelling, Jin Dan and Yu Ming both congratulated him, "Congratulations, you've successfully condensed your spirit."
Mo Qi waved his hand dismissively, "You'll be there soon too." He then shared his experiences with them, only to find them both looking confused, "I didn't see a vast ocean."
At this point, two people came forward to express their gratitude, thanking Mo Qi for avenging them. These two were Huang Jing Tian and Peng Shao Feng, both of whom had just passed the introductory assessment.
Jin Dan enthusiastically invited them to sit, and then the group began to chat about everything under the sun.
Huang Jing Tian, with tears streaming down his face, recounted how Leng Xiao had driven them out of their own cave dwellings. He then said that now that Leng Xiao was injured, he had moved back into his original cave dwelling, but they were worried that Leng Xiao would bully them again once he recovered.
Mo Qi immediately understood. After going through all this, it was all about this matter. He immediately patted his chest, "Don't worry, brothers. If anything happens, just come to me. I will definitely uphold justice for you." Only then did the two leave satisfied.
Jin Dan and Yu Ming resumed their cultivation. Mo Qi, having spoken so boldly, also worried that Leng Xiao might seek trouble with him once he recovered, so he also wanted to quickly improve his cultivation.
He always felt a powerful divine force hidden within him, surging like a great river, making him feel as if he could roam the heavens and earth at times.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't unleash even a fraction of that power.
He thought of elixirs, and how he had relied on the power of elixirs when he successfully condensed his spirit.
But when he inquired at the alchemy room, he was told that he needed to pass the trial of the Medicine Testing Hall and obtain at least a junior alchemist qualification before he could enter.
Mo Qi sighed, knowing that with his current understanding of medicinal herbs, he wouldn't be able to pass the assessment.
He had to start from scratch. So, he went to the Sutra Repository to borrow books on alchemy. These books contained detailed descriptions of medicinal herbs, as well as detailed operational procedures and techniques for alchemy. After studying them, he gained considerable insight and decided to choose an opportune moment to challenge the Medicine Testing Hall again.
Two months passed quickly. Jin Dan, Yu Ming, and Bai Li Bing still hadn't successfully condensed their spirits, but all three said they seemed to have vaguely glimpsed that ocean and were close to breaking through.
The three of them cultivated day and night, showing signs of successful grain abstinence. Mo Qi would occasionally go hunting for some game to taste. He often shared food with those in other caves who were skilled in cooking, and through this, he became friendly with many people in the surrounding caves.
Sometimes, he would go to a shady spot under a tree, where several people were always gathered. These were cultivators who had been practicing for several years, and when they were bored, they would sit together and chat.
Through their accounts, Mo Qi learned that in the Nine Gods Cultivation Realm, the Four Great Sects were at the forefront. The Four Great Sects were the Divine Sword Sect, the Divine Mist Sect, the Divine Escape Sect, and the Divine Elixir Sect. Each sect had been established for thousands of years and possessed a unique divine ability that was renowned throughout the world. The Divine Sword Sect's divine ability was a thousand-mile flying sword, capable of beheading targets from afar. The Divine Mist Sect's divine ability was "Mist or Not Mist," said to possess world-destroying power. The Divine Escape Sect's divine ability was, naturally, their escape skills, including void escape, water escape, earth escape, fire escape, and even verbal escape – they could escape from anything. They weren't limited to escape skills; their other divine abilities were also outstanding. When used in conjunction with these escape techniques during combat, it meant: if they kill you, even divine soldiers from the heavens would be unable to prevent it; if you search for them, they would be untraceable in the vast sea of people. The Divine Elixir Sect, of course, excelled in elixirs.
The Ling Xiao Sect was a descendant of the Divine Sword Sect. To achieve mastery in one's divine abilities and techniques, one should focus on flying swords.
Beyond the Nine Gods, there seemed to be even more powerful cultivation sects. Descriptions of these sects varied wildly, with most people only possessing fragmented information that was difficult to piece together into a complete picture. Furthermore, many people's descriptions differed, making it impossible to even piece them together.
During this period, Mo Qi shuttled back and forth between Bai Li Bing's and Jin Dan's cave dwellings, spending most of his time in Bai Li Bing's cave dwelling, guarding her while she meditated to prevent external interference from affecting her cultivation. Throughout this process, Bai Li Bing treated Mo Qi as if he were invisible, focusing solely on her cultivation and speaking very little. Jin Dan and Yu Ming were almost the same, as time was truly pressing for them.
After studying the path of alchemy each day, he still had spare time. To pass the time, Mo Qi frequented the Sutra Repository the most. After gaining spiritual energy, the enhancement of techniques and divine abilities was needed to better adapt to combat. Good divine abilities and techniques could, to some extent, compensate for a cultivator's lack of cultivation. Thus, he conducted extensive comparisons and selections in the Sutra Repository. After much deliberation, he chose a book titled "Ten Thousand Blades of the Frontier Sword." The title itself was the divine ability and technique. He was immediately captivated and began to study it without hesitation, following the diagrams. Additionally, he felt his energy was abundant, so while practicing the "Ten Thousand Blades of the Frontier Sword," he also studied two other books: "Heavenly Master Formations" and "Divine Sense Vajra Art."
When the divine ability "Ten Thousand Blades of the Frontier Sword" was unleashed, it was as if one were in a frontier sword formation, with thousands of blades attacking from all directions, dense and inescapable. There were also blade shadows that drifted, rotated, and performed circular slashes, making it impossible to defend against. However, this divine ability and technique could only unleash its maximum killing power when one's cultivation reached the Nascent Soul stage or above. The blade shadows Mo Qi could currently manifest were small, lacking coverage, and could only deal with cultivators of similar cultivation.
"Heavenly Master Formations" was for cultivating formations, including the Eight Trigrams Formation, the Yin-Yang Formation, the Immortal Trapping Formation, and the Teleportation Formation. From the moment he saw the title page of this book, he was deeply attracted. If he could learn the Teleportation Formation, he could reach any corner of the world with a single thought. If he could learn other offensive formations, one person could fight against a thousand soldiers.
However, setting up formations required formation artifacts. Currently, let alone formation artifacts, he didn't have any artifacts at all. So, he could only read about them for now, understand their composition, and learn the basic methods. When he had the opportunity to obtain formation artifacts in the future, he would try to set them up.
"Divine Sense Vajra Art" was not a divine ability or technique, but was specifically for cultivating divine sense. If increasing spiritual energy was a vertical improvement of one's cultivation, then strengthening divine sense was a horizontal improvement of physical fitness and reinforcement of spiritual energy.
The goal of the "Divine Sense Vajra Art" was to allow the unleashed spiritual energy to penetrate everything, and to prevent all incoming spiritual energy from penetrating one's own defenses.
Although this goal was an ideal one, it made Mo Qi unable to stop. The "Divine Sense Vajra Art" was divided into ten levels. When cultivated to the tenth level, the killing power of spiritual energy would be unparalleled, and one would not fear opponents whose cultivation was far superior. The protective shield formed by spiritual energy could block most attacks. Mo Qi had already broken through the first level. During cultivation, he clearly felt the impact force of the vast ocean within him surging forward, moving left and right restlessly, like an untamed wild horse.
In addition, he occasionally took out the two beads he found in the Blackwood Forest. As they originated from a frightful beast, he named them "Fright Beads." Occasionally, he could sense spiritual energy flowing within them, but he didn't know how to unleash that spiritual energy.
During this period, besides acting as a "protector" for Bai Li Bing, Mo Qi basically stayed in that damp cave dwelling to cultivate.
Occasionally, inner disciples would come to inquire about "I'm Here to Play." They would ask at each cave dwelling.
Mo Qi vaguely felt something was wrong. If they were making such a fuss just because he was on a list of shame, wasn't that making a mountain out of a molehill?
He also vaguely felt that the higher leadership might be more concerned about the achievement of drawing a thousand threads, but drawing a thousand threads wasn't a particularly difficult task, so there was no need for such a large mobilization.
When he asked the inner disciples why they were looking for "I'm Here to Play," they looked blank and clueless.
Mo Qi felt a pang of guilt and decided it was best to lie low for now.
"The minor hides in the wilderness, the great hides in the market." Moreover, he felt that his knowledge of medicinal herbs was almost complete, and it was time to obtain an alchemist qualification.
So, he secretly sneaked into the Medicine Testing Hall, preparing to undergo the test again under his real name.
He still chose the testing monument located at the innermost part of the hall.
To his dismay, as soon as his finger touched the surface of the monument, a line of text immediately appeared on it: "I'm Here to Play, Welcome Back!"
This monument could automatically recognize testers!
He couldn't even change his name!
What was even more devastating was that he couldn't retake the drug test, nor could the list of shame be removed!
The only thing he could do now was to complete the unfinished furnace fire test.
Since he was here, he had to accept it. Mo Qi, in his grief, could only turn his sorrow into strength and test his furnace fire ability.
The test for the Fire Butterfly Larva was completed in one go, with the testing time varying from person to person.
Upon completion of the test, the results would instantly appear on the monument. If the results were relatively good compared to historical records, one might immediately appear on the external furnace fire leaderboard.
Unlike the thread-drawing test, where threads were drawn one by one and the score climbed bit by bit.
After the test began, a Fire Butterfly Larva appeared on the testing platform. Mo Qi then channeled his spiritual energy to roast it.
His current spiritual energy cultivation was relatively low, so it took relatively more time. However, the mastery of heat was unrelated to cultivation; it depended entirely on the tester's control ability and the initial source of spiritual energy.
This was also related to a person's innate attributes. Each person's physique and attributes were different, and the spiritual energy cultivated would also be different.
Some were as gentle and pure as water, some were as fierce as fire, some were as wild as wind, and some were as explosive as thunder. These attributes each had their advantages in alchemy. The most important factor was the tester's innate alchemy talent and its compatibility with the spiritual energy attribute.
Mo Qi's spiritual energy attribute was sometimes gentle and pure as water, and sometimes fierce as fire. He himself didn't know what his attribute was.
However, in the alchemy heat test, he found it very suitable. Under his intentional control, the spiritual energy output was like a continuous stream of nourishment, constantly nurturing the Fire Butterfly Larva. As it rotated and flipped, it became crystal clear, its quality as good as new.
Upon completion of the test, the test result appeared on the monument: Perfect Quality!
At the same time, the bell on the roof of the hall rang again.
This bell sound was no stranger to all the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect. It had appeared once two months ago, the last time being for "I'm Here to Play" drawing a thousand threads.
So, what was the reason this time? Was there another tester who drew a thousand threads?
Many people rushed to the leaderboard monument immediately, including Wu Fan.