You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

Chapter 114 The Conditions for Refining the Sword Seed

"Then may I ask, senior, what are the conditions for refining the Sword Seed?"

Has the younger generation fulfilled the conditions?

Feeling that his guess was pretty accurate, Lu Heng asked.

"No." Surprisingly—

The elder from the Sword Sect, a Void Refinement expert, immediately shook his head, indicating that Lu Heng had not met the refining conditions for the Sword Seed.

"Could it be that my cultivation level is insufficient?" Lu Heng subconsciously offered his further speculation.

But then he thought of another possibility—

In the Body Refining Secret Realm, he had indeed reached the limit that most people could perceive.

Whether in terms of combat tactics or cultivation techniques within the Body Refining Secret Realm, it has already surpassed the scope of the Body Refining Secret Realm's perfection and reached the level of breaking limits.

However, in reality, the cultivation system of this era does not involve basic methods of refining the spirit at the Body Refining Secret Realm stage.

The focus seems to be on the final Qi Refining Secret Realm. All the shortcomings and regrets in the Body Refining Secret Realm can be made up for in one secret realm, leaving no problems behind.

Lu Heng had once asked the remnant soul about this.

The reason given was unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable.

The reason is nothing special, there's nothing particularly complicated about it, it's exceptionally simple!

This almost made Lu Heng, who had been thinking a lot and even had conspiracy theories, lose his composure.

That's the reason, as everyone knows!

When the innate sacred dies, the way of Heaven goes awry.

In the era when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was just beginning to become violent, the original first secret realm, the Qi Refining Secret Realm, became a desperate situation where anyone who dared to cultivate without a sufficiently strong physique that had undergone the sublimation of Qi and blood would die.

Of course, it's not that cultivation can't continue. In an era when the laws of heaven had gone awry for countless years, the turbulent spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the city had been regulated.

However, the problem is that the spiritual energy outside the city is still violent, and most cultivators cannot stay in the city forever.

To advance further, or to acquire resources for cultivation, such a choice is impossible.

Another point is that in this day and age, the cultivation system has long been perfected and matured.

Unless one considers oneself to be unparalleled and able to forge a path based on one's own talents, most people can only follow the established paths laid out by predecessors.

The reason why Lu Heng found the Qi Refining Secret Realm able to make up for all previous shortcomings amusing, yet also very simple, was—

The Qi Refining Realm, as the first secret realm before the Heavenly Dao went awry, was actually the beginning of everything.

Regarding body refinement, it is something one might dabble in before embarking on cultivation. One only needs a healthy body, not sick or weak, capable of withstanding the cleansing of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, to enter the Qi Refining Secret Realm.

The second secret realm of that era was called Dao Foundation. The current Qi Refining Secret Realm, as the second secret realm, still retains Dao Foundation, but in reality, it is a fusion of the two after the evolution of the times.

In the era before the Heavenly Dao became abnormal, true top geniuses, the chosen ones of Heaven, naturally needed to reach the upper limit of their talents in the first secret realm, the Body Refining Secret Realm, in order to advance to the Foundation Establishment Secret Realm in a perfect manner.

This has even led to the saying "the foundation of the Way is without regret".

But the present era is completely different. Due to the fusion of the Qi Refining Secret Realm and the Dao Foundation, for top geniuses and those chosen ones who may pursue breaking through limits and further advancing their talents, this is a new era.

On the contrary, because of the golden cultivation period, the earlier one enters the Qi Refining Secret Realm, the better; the earlier one breaks through, the more likely one is to advance further.

Breaking through the limits of the Qi Refining Secret Realm is not only easier than the Body Refining Secret Realm, but it also allows one's Dao foundation to transform, and one can even obtain a magical technique that is infinitely beneficial to one's Dao path and even combat.

Of course, these are choices that normal people would make. Lu Heng, who broke through two limits in less than a year of cultivation, is obviously not normal at all.

After recalling the Qi Refining Secret Realm, he suddenly remembered the rewards for the first ten trials. As long as he could pass the first ten trials, he would receive a complete basic method for refining spirit.

It is extremely precious; in today's era, it might be even rarer and more valuable than a genuine third-order Divine Refinement Method.

After all, any fundamental method requires countless predecessors and predecessors to verify and develop it.

For those who truly need and find it useful, a basic method of cultivating the spirit is an invaluable treasure.

Of course, the trials in the secret realm also have limitations in this regard. The basic methods of refining the spirit are taught in a way that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words.

Even if someone wanted to leak it, it would be impossible.

There might be other reasons why the Sword Sect would use the basic method of refining the spirit as the basic reward for the trial.

Perhaps, no, the refining of the sword seed almost certainly involves the basic methods of refining the spirit!

Just as Lu Heng was pondering this, the old man spoke.

He didn't answer immediately, wanting to see if Lu Heng would have his own thoughts.

Even the most exceptional individuals, the chosen ones, can still stumble and fall if they don't know how to think for themselves.

Having made such a large investment and risked everything, the old man didn't want to have misjudged the person.

"No, young friend, why do you think the trial restricts the Body Refinement Secret Realm?"

If you have already advanced, then you will probably miss out on the sword type.

I won't appear in front of you now either.

"You probably already have a guess by now, don't you?" the old man said with a light laugh.

Who wasn't a peerless genius in their youth? In an era that wasn't particularly prosperous, achieving the Void Refinement Realm might have been a misfortune, but it also fully demonstrated the old man's extraordinary talent.

What ordinary people wouldn't dare to think, Jueshi not only dares to think, but can even do with ease!

The fact that the basic method of refining the spirit has been forgotten by the times is not without reason; the difficulty of perfecting it alone is comparable to breaking the limits of the other two methods.

Aside from truly exceptional individuals, even top-tier geniuses would only waste their time trying to improve in this area.

"The method of refining the spirit," Lu Heng said confidently.

"To be precise, it's not just about the method of refining the spirit, but also requires breaking through limits."

When I was young, I only managed to break through the limits of swordsmanship. I only cultivated body-refining techniques and basic spirit-refining methods to perfection before I ran out of time and had to break through. It was only in the Qi Refining Secret Realm that I achieved unparalleled mastery, which is a great regret in my life.

I wonder if you, young friend, are capable of doing what I failed to do back then.

The old man from the Sword Sect shook his head, his words of lamentation causing even the remnant souls listening in the shadows to roll their eyes.

The requirements are already outrageous enough; to be able to meet them is already incredibly lucky.

The old man from the Sword Sect was not satisfied and actually wanted to go even further.

They are truly insatiable.

But indeed, none of the truly exceptional individuals are without insatiable greed.

If one were content, most people wouldn't even attempt to break limits so early.