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"Bang!"

The swords clashed, producing a metallic clang.

Chen Huai'an used his agile movements to deflect some of the spiritual energy.

In the instant of the exchange, Chen Huai'an felt the suppression of the opponent's water elemental power.

However, he doesn't only have one type of fire elemental power within him.

It's just that recently, while practicing the Flame Blade Technique, the fire elemental energy within my body has become more active.

Spirit weapons are the weapons used by low-level cultivators in combat, but to maximize their power, one must reach the Qi Refining Realm.

The Qi Refining Realm involves absorbing the power of the five elements from spiritual energy. Different spiritual roots are more compatible with different types of spiritual energy.

In the later stages of the Body Refinement Realm, one becomes aware of spiritual energy and uses it to temper and cleanse the meridians. One can then compress and condense spiritual energy into the dantian to purify the body and reach the Qi Refinement Realm.

Before reaching the Qi Refining Realm, one's perception of spiritual power is not very strong. While using spiritual power in battle does increase its power, there is a certain price to pay for prematurely mastering power that does not belong to oneself.

The cost of this is a very high level of consumption.

When Chen Huai'an realized that his attribute was countered, he changed his fighting style. To maximize the power of a spirit weapon, it should be infused with spiritual power of the corresponding attribute. If it is not infused, or if spiritual power of other attributes is infused, the spirit weapon will not be able to exert its due power, and it may even be damaged.

Without infusing it with spiritual power, it's just an ordinary weapon, only slightly stronger than worldly swords.

The level of a spiritual weapon is not determined by its hardness, but by how much spiritual power of the corresponding attribute it can contain and exert.

For example, if your spiritual power is at its maximum, and you use a spiritual weapon to amplify your spiritual power by one time to injure your enemy, then that spiritual weapon is a low-grade spiritual weapon.

If this spiritual weapon can amplify your spiritual power four times, it is a mid-grade spiritual weapon; if it can amplify it seven times, it is a high-grade spiritual weapon.

Without using the spiritual power within the body, there is no such thing as restraint; the contest is still about the power of qi and blood, and some basic strengths.

In the Body Refinement Realm, attribute counters are not very significant unless the opponent's strength is far superior to yours.

Refining elemental energy early can help you quickly break through to the Qi Refining realm, but this has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that it can quickly reach the Qi Refining stage, but the disadvantage is that it doesn't fully develop the body's limits and the Qi and blood are insufficient. Even if you reach the Qi Refining stage, your body will be weak.

However, there is another type of person who, when they are in the Body Refinement stage, strives to temper their physical body, making their body extremely powerful. In ancient times, this was called Body Cultivation.

However, there is a type of person who, in order to quickly break through to a higher realm, takes the path of the soul and is called a Dharma cultivator.

Chen Huai'an's path is neither purely physical cultivation nor purely magical cultivation; he doesn't need to take the magical cultivation path to save cultivation resources.

Therefore, Chen Huai'an's physical body is extremely strong; otherwise, his body would have given out long ago by now.

After the battles, the other disciples who participated in the challenge would meditate frantically and take pills to recover their strength.

As for Chen Huai'an, he hardly took any action in this regard. It wasn't because Chen Huai'an was poor; he had a large number of pills in his space that could restore his strength, but he didn't use them.

This challenge was a test for him.

Only by reaching your body's limits can you unlock its full potential.

"What's going on? Aren't the attributes supposed to be mutually exclusive? Shouldn't Qi Xiu be crushing Chen Huai'an? Why is he struggling so much in this battle?" The disciples below the stage quickly noticed the anomaly in the battle.

Qi Xiu possessed a mid-grade spiritual weapon and had a water-attribute spiritual root, while Chen Huai'an had a fire-attribute spiritual root. Although Chen Huai'an's cultivation level was lower than Qi Xiu's, he should have been able to crush his opponent based on their cultivation level alone. However, the scene they imagined did not appear. Instead, Chen Huai'an was like an unkillable cockroach.

"It's no accident that this guy has reached this level. His strength is incredibly powerful. The explosive force he suddenly unleashed is something even a late-stage Body Refinement Realm cultivator couldn't achieve." Qi Xiu is the most qualified to comment on this battle.

What was supposed to be a crushing victory turned into a nightmare as he realized how formidable Chen Huai'an was after their encounter.

He unleashed several powerful moves, but failed to defeat Chen Huai'an, instead showing signs of exhaustion.

Chen Huai'an's fighting style was very clear. Since their attributes were mutually exclusive, there was no need for him to confront his opponent head-on. He would stick to his previous guerrilla tactics and mobilize the earth elemental energy within his body.

Aren't the elements supposed to be mutually destructive? Water destroys fire, and similarly, earth destroys water.

If he could release earth elemental power instead of fire elemental power when using the Flame Blade Technique, wouldn't he be able to counter his opponent?

He might not be able to completely subdue his opponent with the earth elemental power within him, but he could definitely turn the tables and take the initiative.

Even more importantly, Chen Huai'an must take this opportunity to further enhance his abilities.

It wasn't that Chen Huai'an's talent was so extraordinary that he could actually break through his realm in battle, but rather that he had to let the referees and the audience know that he was able to stand on this stage not because of luck, but because he had truly risked his life for it.

He participated in this challenge, and his cultivation level was not improved through hard work in ordinary times, but through battle. He is actually a combat-type genius.

A combat-type genius can break through cultivation realms in battle. This makes it reasonable that he could break through from a novice disciple to the seventh level of the late stage of Body Refinement in just over two months, and also prevents him from being targeted by villains.

In front of so many people, his cultivation aura suddenly erupted, a breakthrough in a desperate situation, defeating his opponent.

Even if someone investigates afterward, it will be made reasonable, thus making Chen Huai'an even safer.

To survive in the cultivation world, one must be shrewd and resourceful, planning and strategizing for the future.

"Do you think Brother Chen can win? Look at him, he's being completely suppressed and has no chance to fight back." Liu Qiaogui, sitting in the audience, looked worried.

"It's hard to say, because his opponent is too strong, and their attributes are also incompatible. If he wants to win this competition, he can only break through to the seventh level of the late stage of Body Refinement!" Manager Wu couldn't help but shake his head. He wanted to invest in Chen Huai'an, but he didn't expect Chen Huai'an to be so unlucky as to encounter such a difficult opponent. In that case, his ranking can only stop at the top 1000.

At this moment, Chen Huai'an was already injured and looked very disheveled, but all of this was within his plan and control.

The stronger his opponent, the greater the pressure he faces, and the higher the probability of breaking through in such a desperate situation.

"Die!" Chen Huai'an was sent flying by Bei Qixiu's attack. Just as he was about to be knocked off the stage, suddenly veins bulged on Chen Huai'an's face, and a powerful aura burst forth from his body.

As long as Chen Huai'an releases the aura of the late stage seven of the Body Refinement Realm during the battle, he will break through to the late stage seven of the Body Refinement Realm.

Chen Huai'an possesses the Nameless Concealing Breath Technique, so he is not afraid of being discovered unless someone is two major realms higher than him and deliberately examines his body. Otherwise, no one would know what realm he is currently in.

Now all he needs to do is release his cultivation level to the seventh level of the late-stage Body Refinement Realm, and then he will have broken through.

"My God, he broke through! He actually broke through during the battle!" Someone in the audience noticed the powerful aura that Chen Huai'an suddenly unleashed and couldn't help but exclaim.