You think I have mixed spiritual roots? I became an immortal through a spirit gourd, so what are you

Chen Huai'an is no longer a novice in the cultivation world.

Today's opportunity is both a blessing and a curse.

It all depends on how Chen Huai'an handles it.

However, that's not something he needs to worry about right now; what he needs to do is seize the time to improve his strength.

Even if he were to go, he would only have time to go after the challenge is over.

"I'm so stupid. You can't put living things in the purple gourd's space, but I could have killed this five-colored pheasant and taken the corpse in," Chen Huai'an muttered to himself as he ate roast chicken.

"I will definitely not make such a silly mistake again next time."

"This thing truly lives up to its reputation as a spirit bird. Its effects are far superior to those of spirit spring water and body-refining pills. This is just an ordinary spirit bird; imagine how amazing it would be if it were a top-grade one." Before even finishing half a chicken, a warm, bloated sensation spread throughout his body.

In the past, even when he took pills during cultivation, he would feel hungry afterward. But this time was different. After eating the roast chicken, he felt a sense of fullness in his stomach.

No, this feeling isn't just a simple feeling of fullness. It's like a dry sponge that's now fully saturated with water, and his whole body is relaxed.

Spiritual food is helpful to his cultivation, as it accumulates qi and blood power. Sufficient qi and blood power can make his body stronger. Even if he breaks through to the Qi Refining Realm in the future, his body will not be as fragile as a punctured skin.

Furthermore, cultivating martial arts skills also requires the support of a vast amount of vital energy.

"I should raise the Five-Colored Golden Pheasant in the space properly, preferably by feeding it with spirit grains." Chen Huai'an made up his mind that he had to raise these spirit grains himself and feed those chicks the best food so that they would grow up to be plump and chubby.

At this stage, what Chen Huai'an needs most is spiritual food and spiritual medicine to replenish his qi and blood.

Back at his lodgings, Chen Huai'an saw that Li Fugui had already filled all the water containers, and he took out the jade slip containing martial arts techniques to study.

This martial art is the Flame Blade Technique, which can be practiced by cultivators with fire spiritual roots.

Actually, it's not that only disciples with fire spiritual roots can cultivate this technique, but rather that only disciples with fire spiritual roots can unleash its full power.

Even if disciples with ordinary spiritual roots cultivate this Flame Blade Technique, they will not be able to unleash its full power.

Chen Huai'an possesses a mixed spiritual root of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Although his fire spiritual root is not the most top-tier, he can still cultivate it and unleash the power of the Flame Blade Technique.

Now, Chen Huai'an understood why that person sold him the jade slip containing the Flame Blade Technique. It was because this thing might be a treasure in Chen Huai'an's hands, but in his hands, it was just trash.

"Fire spirit power? Why can't I sense any fire spirit power within my body?" Chen Huai'an realized that his aptitude was too poor. He couldn't sense any fire-type spiritual power within his body, let alone focus it on the blade.

"To cultivate this Flaming Blade Technique, you actually need to buy a blade." Chen Huai'an frowned as he looked at the wooden stick in his hand.

Although he could cultivate, things were not as simple as he thought.

If you can't sense the fire elemental power and want to cultivate the Flame Blade Technique, there's only one other way: to rely on external forces to comprehend the fire elemental power.

Chen Huai'an practiced the first move of the Flaming Blade Technique, the Blazing Wind Style, but he didn't gain much. He only remembered the simple moves, but it was far from the power recorded in the jade slip.

Although this first move is the starting stance, it is suitable for close combat.

Battles at the Body Refinement Realm are mostly close-quarters combat.

Only when one reaches the Qi Refining Realm will they primarily rely on ranged attacks.

This is why many cultivators at the Body Refinement Realm do not choose to cultivate martial arts techniques.

Even if you master this martial art to perfection, it's only for close combat.

A celestial master at the Qi Refining Realm can unleash a sword technique, a long-range attack capable of killing enemies thousands of miles away with just a thought.

Therefore, many people do not waste a lot of time practicing only excessive martial arts techniques.

Magic is their ultimate pursuit.

As for Chen Huai'an, if he wants to rise to prominence on Miscellaneous Peak, he must cultivate this Flaming Blade Technique.

There are too many enemies; without some means of survival, there's no way to survive.

There was another very important reason why Chen Huai'an chose to cultivate this Flaming Blade Technique: when this blade technique is cultivated to a high level, it can even be lethal to immortal masters at the Qi Refining Realm.

Chen Huai'an couldn't guarantee that the outer disciples of the Zhang and Zhao families at the Qi Refining Realm wouldn't attack him.

The Blazing Blade Technique is just a fragment, containing only three moves. The first move is for close combat, the second for ranged attacks, and the third for area-of-effect attacks, suitable for group battles. The three moves are relatively simple, and he believes that as long as he persists in practicing them every day, he will definitely be able to master them.

As for the materials to aid his cultivation, he will inquire about them during this time, determined to master the cultivation process.

And so, every day, Chen Huai'an would set aside an hour to practice the Flame Blade Technique.

During this time, Chen Huai'an also asked Li Fugui to help him get some fertilized, colorful brocade eggs.

Li Fugui, as expected of an elder on Miscellaneous Peak, possessed a diverse cultivation level, yet still maintained connections. He directly helped Chen Huai'an obtain one hundred fertilized eggs.

If all of these hatch, there will be a hundred colorful golden pheasants. I doubt one person could possibly eat them all.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed quietly.

Chen Huai'an's cultivation level also broke through from the seventh level of the late stage of the Body Refinement Realm to the eighth level of the Body Refinement Realm.

Although it only improved one level of cultivation, the cultivation resources consumed were truly terrifying.

He consumed spiritual food made from the five-colored golden pheasant every day, as well as some Qi-nourishing pills and body-refining pills, which helped him break through to the eighth level of the body-refining realm.

Chen Huai'an calculated that without these cultivation resources, he would not have been able to break through to the eighth level of the Body Refinement Realm in just half a month.

As for his Flaming Blade Technique, after half a month of practice, he had mastered the three moves perfectly, but there was no progress whatsoever.

The attack was quite smooth, but the only drawback was that the power it unleashed didn't meet expectations.

Chen Huai'an had asked Li Fugui about this.

Those who haven't cultivated fire-based techniques can't sense fire spiritual power at all, so the power of this Flame Blade Technique is naturally greatly reduced.

To cultivate fire-based techniques, one must enter the sect's library or technique hall. However, Chen Huai'an was not qualified to enter either the library or the technique hall.

Even the cultivation techniques available on the market are extremely rare. Outer disciples have one free opportunity to enter the Cultivation Technique Hall to select a technique. While the Library Pavilion doesn't have the same strict requirements as the Cultivation Technique Hall, it does require sect contribution points.

Chen Huai'an has been at the Miscellaneous Service Peak for two months and has already earned two contribution points.

The thought of spending these contribution points on the library made Chen Huai'an hesitate.

He couldn't break through to the ninth level of Body Refinement in the short term, and the challenge competition would begin in seven days. He had to find a way to improve his Flame Blade Technique, otherwise, the Spirit Ranking would have nothing to do with him.