In the Guanyin Hall, a soft spiritual light appeared.
Zhu Tianqi reached out and caught the Pangu Spirit sent by Qin Yexuan.
Golden flames appeared in her eyes, her pupils flickering like two small lanterns.
"This power!" Zhu Tianqi roared as if electrocuted. "How do you control this power? So beautiful, so exquisite, so immense!"
She was like a small boat in the vast ocean under a storm, the surrounding waves and winds all energy brought by the Pangu Spirit.
Endless, they attacked again and again, desperately trying to penetrate her Dantian, desperately trying to burst her body.
Zhu Tianqi's entire body began to glow, her body temperature rapidly rising, her metabolism proceeding at a speed more than a hundred times faster, instantly transforming her from a young girl into an old woman with white hair.
Looking at her wrinkled hand, Zhu Tianqi let out an even louder scream.
Then, a hand pressed on her head.
Qin Yexuan shouted in her ear, "Don't resist. You are like a small boat in the sea. You must move with the wind and waves, making them your helpers, not your enemies!"
This was just a fleeting moment.
But Zhu Tianqi seemed to have experienced countless lives.
She transformed from a white-haired old woman to a bald old man, then back to a spirited Great Ming prince. The handsome prince transformed again, becoming a effeminate woman, then more and more beautiful, finally slowly transforming back into Zhu Tianqi's appearance.
The storm in the sea had stopped. In Zhu Tianqi's consciousness, it was a calm sea under a high moon, and she could use power as vast as the sea at will.
Even an amount equivalent to a handful of seawater surpassed her so-called cultivation of hundreds of years.
Breaking through the void was just a thought away.
But she forcefully restrained herself from taking that step.
All her previous dreams, ambitions, and cultivation seemed so laughable in the face of the boundless sea of billions of years.
Zhu Tianqi touched the tears on her face and looked at the tired Qin Yexuan opposite her. "This, this is just a wisp of Pangu Spirit? What about the complete Pangu Spirit?"
Qin Yexuan gave a wry smile. "A wisp is equivalent to the energy of a planet. The Pangu energy that Haotian received means he is facing not a planet-level sea, but a cosmic starry sea."
"In his consciousness, there are always illusions of supernovae exploding, new stars being born, planets being destroyed, and galaxies colliding. He is borrowing energy from the starry sea."
Zhu Tianqi suddenly thought of a key point. "Borrowing! That's right. No matter how powerful Haotian is, he cannot wield all the Pangu Spirits. He can only borrow a little at a time."
Her mind raced, and the idea became clearer and clearer.
"It's like drinking water. You have a great river, and I have only a small pond. You might have billions of times more water in your river than in my pond, but we can only drink the amount of a bottle of mineral water at a time."
Qin Yexuan smiled. "You might be the third person in this universe to understand this. Only those who have come into contact with Pangu Spirit can understand this."
Zhu Tianqi had touched the most fundamental secret of this world.
"So cultivation is not about who has more energy. Over long periods, anyone's stored energy will become infinite."
Qin Yexuan nodded. "What truly needs to be cultivated is the numerical value of energy one can borrow at a time."
"It's still like two people competing to drink water. It's not about who has more water. A great river, a pond, even a tap water pipe – the supply is ample. What matters is who can drink the most in one gulp."
Zhu Tianqi glared at Qin Yexuan. "You and Haotian are both ancient monsters of tens of thousands of years. How much energy can you borrow and unleash at once?"
Qin Yexuan was silent for a moment, then said solemnly, "This is hard to describe without a reference. You are close to breaking through the void, the peak of human cultivators. One more step and you won't be considered human. So, taking your full power as a reference, assuming you borrow one energy level at a time..."
"Then what is yours?" Zhu Tianqi pressed.
"I am... sixty-seven million energy levels!" Qin Yexuan admitted.
Zhu Tianqi's mouth opened and closed, her eyes bulging. "With my full power, I can destroy half a city!"
Qin Yexuan gave a wry smile. "If Haotian forced me to unleash my full power in the same area, my attack could penetrate half a planet, directly affecting the core!"
That would be a planetary-level catastrophe. The planet might not be destroyed, but all life on it would perish.
Zhu Tianqi was stunned. "What is Haotian's level?"
"Sixty-eight million energy levels, slightly stronger than me, but the result is the same."
Zhu Tianqi finally understood. "No wonder, even though you only have a wisp of Pangu energy, your destructive power in a single attack is not much different from Haotian's. No wonder, no wonder Haotian is unwilling to fight you head-on until now!"
Qin Yexuan looked at the sky. "It's not just for that reason. Neither Haotian nor I are willing to make a move, because if we truly fight, this world will be destroyed. So far, neither of us wants that to happen."
Zhu Tianqi closed her eyes, feeling the energy within her, and asked again, "What are the energy levels of those extraterrestrial powerhouses?"
Qin Yexuan scoffed. "Someone like Lucifer outside is only around ten energy levels."
Zhu Tianqi took a deep breath and re-understood the most fundamental secret of cultivation. The energy level she could unleash instantly increased, doubled, tripled... until it reached more than thirty times.
Then fifty times... When it reached eight hundred energy levels, her body's endurance reached its limit.
She raised her hand, looking at the skin on the back of her hand cracking, her veins filled with golden energy transformed from Pangu Spirit.
Zhu Tianqi withdrew her hand in horror.
"Damn it, after this is over, quickly take back the Pangu Spirit. It's too terrifying."
Qin Yexuan smiled. "Haven't you always wanted to improve your cultivation and become stronger?"
"Grass, it's precisely because my desires are uncontrollable, uncontrollably wanting to improve my cultivation, that it's terrifying. If I increase by even a little from eight hundred energy levels, I'll explode into pieces."
Qin Yexuan nodded. "It's rare that you are still so calm."
Zhu Tianqi reached out and touched his seemingly fragile body. "How can you withstand tens of millions of energy levels?"
"I can't withstand it, so I appear to have no cultivation. The so-called 'all beings are equal' ability actually uses the suppressive force of Pangu Spirit to drain all spiritual power within a certain range."
Qin Yexuan smiled. "'All beings are equal' was actually invented by me, specifically to deal with situations below one energy level."
So that's how it was.
Using Pangu Spirit, many ingenious abilities that seemed like miracles to outsiders could be researched.
Qin Yexuan was extremely serious at this moment. "A normal human body, even at the peak of physical refinement and reaching the realm called god, can only withstand ten thousand energy levels. Beyond that, even the strongest neutron stars in the universe would disintegrate."
"But..." Zhu Tianqi's eyes flickered. "There's always a but."
Qin Yexuan nodded. "The Pangu physique can withstand it. If one can obtain the Pangu physique, they can unleash forbidden power exceeding ten thousand energy levels and reach the supreme peak. It is said that a complete Pangu physique can unleash the complete Pangu Spirit at once. I cannot calculate what energy level that would be, estimated to be enough to easily destroy multiple universes."
Zhu Tianqi's eyes grew brighter. "The intelligence we received is that Haotian is still missing a hand."
"Yes, the Hand of Pangu. Just that one hand, which is now in Longchuan Base."
Zhu Tianqi's mind raced, shaking her head. "No, if the Hand of Pangu is still in the base, then you are currently the most vulnerable human body, and you can't unleash Pangu Spirit. Then why wouldn't Haotian appear directly and eliminate you? While you haven't obtained that hand and can't unleash super energy levels?"
Qin Yexuan smiled, a smile of unfathomable depth.
"That's because..."
He mysteriously pointed to his head. "The complete Pangu physique has no brain. Where do you think the Brain of Pangu is?"
Zhu Tianqi's breath hitched, and after a long time, she uttered a single word: "Grass!"