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Chapter 1086 Transformation
Zhang Haoran knew that the final moment of his transformation was approaching, and he was prepared to face the challenges.

"Come on, let me see if this transformation is thorough enough, and whether my mental strength can double?"

He tempered the two great treasures, even at the cost of reducing his control over the sword spirit, all in an effort to achieve a perfect transformation.

Only by doubling the strength of one's mental power, and then using the Returning Origin Technique, can one transform mental power into qi and blood.

If this is successful, it will be the time when his basic Qi and blood have improved the most.

"boom!"

The energy that had been accumulating in his body quickly disappeared. Previously, this energy had been desperately surging into his sea of ​​consciousness, using it as an outlet. Now, however, the situation was reversed, and the energy was being frantically drawn out by the transforming spiritual power. He immediately felt a sense of relief, and the feeling of being bloated disappeared by more than half.

Without this energy support, who knows what kind of extraordinary phenomena would occur in the outside world? Perhaps even if all the energy within the barrier were drained, it would still not be enough to support this transformation.

hum!
A violent fluctuation came.

Zhang Haoran suddenly felt as if he had been hit on the back of the head, and a wave of dizziness washed over him. Then his consciousness left his mind, and the last thing he saw was a blue light.

"What the hell? How come I got kicked out too? I hope nothing else goes wrong."

At this moment, he could no longer observe the transformation of his spiritual power; he could only focus on stabilizing his sea of ​​consciousness and wait patiently.

The shock to his mind earlier made him dizzy, but he dared not explore it for fear of interfering with the final transformation.

The entire sea of ​​consciousness is now illuminated by blue light, and it is gradually expanding...

The mental energy surged within his sea of ​​consciousness, its power growing stronger and stronger, with blue ripples sweeping in all directions.

However, at this moment, the sword spirit and the magic weapon suddenly stopped tempering. The final transformation can only achieve the best effect if it proceeds naturally.

After a while, the light subsided, and the sea of ​​consciousness gradually quieted down. The spiritual power had finally completed its transformation.

Zhang Haoran immediately sensed this and probed his consciousness into his sea of ​​consciousness, discovering that it had expanded by a circle, which meant that he would have a higher upper limit and his potential would greatly increase.

Now, his spiritual energy has turned into a sky-blue color, with occasional glimmers of silver.

He could sense that this transformation was extremely thorough, and his mental strength had doubled, making it quite perfect.

"Hahaha! I finally succeeded!"

Zhang Haoran burst into excited laughter.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a martial artist's spiritual power to undergo such a thorough second transformation.

After all, this is no longer the time when I first reached the pinnacle and only had 10,000 Hertz of mental power.

A full 200,000 Hz—such a massive amount of mental energy requires an enormous amount of energy to undergo a qualitative change, and not everyone can consume hundreds of spirit essences in advance.

The higher the strength of one's mental power, the more difficult it is to improve. Therefore, when a martial artist experiences a second qualitative change in their mental power, it is only 1.6 to 1.8 times stronger.

Zhang Haoran was able to carry out the task so thoroughly only with the help of the sword spirit and magic weapon.

He had a thought.

Swish!
All his spiritual power transformed into a long, azure sword.

"Hmm! Not bad! My control hasn't decreased much. With a little tempering, it should recover. After all, I absorbed too much external energy during the transformation, so it's normal for my control to decrease."

Upon hearing about external energy, he immediately began to examine himself and exclaimed in surprise, "Damn, how come there's still so much left? I thought it was all digested during the final transformation!"

No, this is all precious spiritual energy; we absolutely cannot waste it.

Besides, we need to convert our spiritual energy into qi and blood later, so we should try our best to improve it now.

Even a chosen one like Fang Ping couldn't achieve a lossless transformation when he first used the Returning Origin Technique. I certainly don't have that kind of luck.

The more mental energy you have now, the better.

He sensed that some of the accumulated energy had begun to dissipate, so he had to hurry.

Zhang Haoran continued to channel his spiritual power to absorb energy from his body. The Immortal Sword Soul and the magic weapon also needed to be tempered. He couldn't allow his spiritual power to weaken in order to consume the energy in his body.

After undergoing a qualitative change, mental strength naturally experiences a period of rapid growth. At this moment, in order to digest the energy within the body, the rate of improvement is even faster, reaching 21 Hz in a short time, and it continues to increase.

Keep in mind that this is a qualitative leap in mental power, twice as strong as before. In the past, it would have been equivalent to an increase of 20,000 hertz of mental power.

If things proceed as originally planned, the Returning to Origin Technique should be activated now to convert a portion of spiritual energy into qi and blood. When that's insufficient, the spiritual energy of the clone can be mobilized, or spiritual marrow can be consumed to replenish it.

However, because he was too engrossed in refining the spiritual marrow, he lost control of the pace, resulting in too much energy accumulating in his body.

Before he could convert all that energy into mental power, he had no time to think about anything else. Who knew if the energy accumulating in his body would affect his golden body? It would be a pity even if it just dissipated.

The energy within his body was being frantically drained, and the spiritual power within his sea of ​​consciousness was rapidly growing stronger.

Through Zhang Haoran's unremitting efforts, he finally transformed all the energy accumulated in his body into mental power, which now reaches a staggering 24 Hz. Fortunately, he has the help of the sword soul and magic treasures to temper it; otherwise, the strength of his mental power would definitely have decreased after such a sudden increase.

However, he now felt considerable pressure. His mental strength had increased too much this time. Before consuming the spiritual essence, his mental strength was only 15 Hz, but now it had increased to 24 Hz. Moreover, he had undergone a transformation in between, doubling his strength.

If it weren't for the magic weapon and the sword spirit's relentless tempering, it would definitely have slipped out of control by now. What happens when mental power slips out of control? It would be like Zhang Tao before, with his mental power constantly overflowing.

Actually, this isn't the most troublesome part.

If an ordinary martial artist were to increase their mental strength by this much in a short period of time, they would surely reach the pinnacle of martial arts.

Fortunately, his indestructible body broke through this limitation, and his basic qi and blood underwent three qualitative changes, so the current pressure is still bearable.

The concept of balance is extremely important in the cultivation of martial artists. Even if one has advanced techniques as a foundation and will not go to the extreme path, one should not easily cross this line.

"Hehe, this is a good thing!"

Zhang Haoran wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and comforted himself, "Anyway, when I activate the Returning Origin Technique, the excess spiritual energy will be converted into qi and blood, and then there won't be so much pressure."

"If I could convert all 40,000 Hz of spiritual power into blood and qi, my basic blood and qi would probably reach the limit of breaking through the ninth level."

The only thing to worry about now is that the original path is not long enough to see the true gate!
Actually, he wasn't particularly worried about this. Since the Origin Dao and the Sword Dao were completely integrated and the cultivation system was perfected, there were more ways to improve the Origin Dao.

Refining one's swordsmanship, enhancing one's understanding, and increasing one's basic qi and blood can all accelerate the opening of one's original path.

This is what a complete cultivation system should look like. The cultivation system in this world is a flawed product. Opening up the Origin Path can increase blood and spiritual power, but conversely, increasing blood and spiritual power cannot increase the Origin Path, which is very unreasonable. The two should complement each other.

The turmoil within Zhang Haoran's sea of ​​consciousness had subsided. The spiritual power that had originally occupied the center of his sea of ​​consciousness gradually receded outwards, and the core position was once again occupied by soul power.

He said, somewhat speechlessly, "This really is a strict hierarchy!"

Zhang Haoran knew he couldn't stop this process. Even if he could forcibly leave his mental energy in the center of his sea of ​​consciousness, it would regress after a while if he didn't control it.

However, things didn't go quite as he expected. This time, his mental energy didn't retreat to the edge, but stayed in the middle, not far from the core. This meant that after this transformation, the status of his mental energy had been elevated.

A sudden realization dawned on him: when his spiritual power undergoes another transformation, its quality will be no less than that of his soul power, and only then can he officially enter the core position.

However, he only knew that when his mental strength reached 20 Hz, he would undergo a transformation. He didn't know when the next transformation would take place. Could it be a million Hz?

This time, it took 300 spirit essences, along with the help of the sword soul and magic treasure, to increase my mental power by 90,000 hertz. Reaching a million would be quite difficult. In short, it's impossible to achieve within the fifth rank, and it's estimated that even reaching the sixth rank would be a challenge.

Zhang Haoran scanned his sea of ​​consciousness again. No matter how strong his soul power was, it could only be used to nurture his sword soul and magic weapon, and could not be used directly for attack. At present, mental power was more important.

So he transferred both magical artifacts to the area where his spiritual power resided, so that, like sword intent, his spiritual power could be continuously tempered.

Through this breakthrough, he understood a principle: whether it is qi and blood or spiritual power, one cannot only look at the numerical value, but also at the intensity. Intensity is even more important than quantity.

Don't be fooled by his mental strength being only 24 Hz. After the qualitative change, its intensity doubles, becoming equivalent to his original mental strength of 48 Hz.

When practicing the Returning to Origin Technique, the conversion ratio between spiritual power and blood energy is one to one hundred. In other words, at least 800 million calories of basic blood energy can be converted. This does not even include the miraculous state that may occur when practicing the technique for the first time, which may result in even more conversions.

"call!"

Zhang Haoran opened his eyes and slowly exhaled.

He did not immediately activate the Returning Origin Technique; his mental energy had just undergone a qualitative change and needed to be stabilized first.

You can be a bit reckless most of the time, but you still need to be serious when it comes to improving your strength.

The Southern Emperor's projection, which had been observing, immediately asked, "You've swallowed so much spiritual essence at once, can you still hold on?"

"Has it reached a bottleneck?"

The Southern Emperor could guess that he was consuming large amounts of spiritual marrow to enhance his mental strength, but he did not expect that his mental strength could reach 24 Hz and that he had already completed the transformation. He thought that he was stuck in a bottleneck.

After all, the commotion when breaking through a realm is quite significant, and the two were only a dozen meters apart.

If one's spiritual power undergoes a transformation, and the energy of heaven and earth converges, it's impossible for the Southern Emperor not to sense it.

He kindly reminded you, "Actually, now is the perfect time for you to use the Returning Origin Technique. As long as you consume a small amount of blood and qi to convert it into spiritual power, you can break through the bottleneck and cause a qualitative change in your spiritual power. The spiritual marrow you swallowed before won't be wasted..."

Zhang Haoran interrupted him before he could finish speaking, saying, "Senior Nanhuang, I remember that only the spiritual power of an emperor can reach 20."

Let me double-check.

If one's mental strength undergoes a qualitative change, will the Returning Origin Technique still be effective?
Also, if I convert my Qi and blood into spiritual energy, won't I waste the first opportunity to practice the technique?
"Of course it works!"

The Southern Emperor said with an arrogant expression, "As I said before, as long as you have not yet attained enlightenment, the Returning Origin Technique will not be affected."

Moreover, now is the best time to cultivate the Returning to Origin Technique!
First, you lose a small amount of your vital energy to help you break through the bottleneck. When your mental strength begins to undergo a qualitative change, don't stop, just operate it a little slower.

When your spiritual power undergoes a qualitative change, the total energy will exceed that of your Qi and blood. At that point, by continuing to practice the Returning to Origin Technique, you can transform your spiritual power back into Qi and blood.

In other words, this time when you use the Returning to Origin Technique, you will not lose your Qi and blood, and you can even break through the bottleneck.

Honestly, you really hit the jackpot this time!
As I have said, something miraculous will happen during the first operation. The stronger side may not suffer any losses, while the other side's power will reach a balance.

If you're lucky enough, both your mental strength and blood circulation will improve.

The first time you circulate the technique, the conversion isn't proportional. You'll definitely profit this time; it's just a matter of how much.

Zhang Haoran asked with some doubt, "Can it be transformed back and forth like this?"

You mentioned before that the first time you circulate the technique, the transformation isn't proportional. If I keep switching back and forth, wouldn't the improvement be ridiculously excessive?

It's no wonder he had doubts. If it were true, as the other party said, that it could switch back and forth, then this technique would be too heaven-defying.

It's important to know that there's a bonus for the first time you activate the technique. In other words, consuming one million calories of Qi and blood will generate more than ten thousand Hertz of spiritual power.

Let's say it's 20,000, rounding it up makes it easier to calculate. But if we convert that spiritual energy into blood and qi, which isn't proportional either, it'll become 4 million. And if we keep converting it back and forth like this a few times...

Anyway, he felt that there couldn't possibly be such a heaven-defying technique; there must be some limitations.

Sure enough, the Southern Emperor chuckled and said, "Hehe, the Returning Origin Technique is indeed amazing, but it's not as exaggerated as you think. This is a special case."

Your current base Qi and Blood is 3100 million, which is far higher than your Spiritual Power, so you will definitely convert your Qi and Blood into Spiritual Power at the beginning.

However, once the mental energy undergoes a transformation, its strength will increase significantly.

At this point, the cultivation method will not affect the qualitative change. When the transformation is complete, the spiritual power must be higher than the blood and qi before the transformation will occur.

In fact, the function of the Returning to Origin Technique is to bring the energy in your body into balance. When the primal force is born, the first cycle will end.

There will be no back-and-forth conversion.

That's why I said you got a great deal this time.

Zhang Haoran nodded; that made sense.

"Thank you for your guidance, senior. I'll begin now!"

Now that his mental energy had almost recovered, he began to try to circulate the Returning Origin Technique. As soon as he started the technique, a portion of his mental energy was immediately converted into basic Qi and blood.

Unfortunately, a lossless conversion did not occur.

However, his luck wasn't too bad; his mental strength was declining very slowly, while his blood and qi were rapidly increasing.

In just a few minutes, his basic blood energy increased by 1 million, reaching 32 million, while his mental energy only decreased by 2,000 Hz.

(End of this chapter)