"Although you now possess the six Qi Seas, if you want to properly utilize the Great Five Elements Sword Formation to fight the enemy, a mid-grade or high-grade spiritual weapon sword is most suitable. This will allow you to have more sustained combat power."

Ling Tian nodded. He had a deep understanding that the higher the grade of a weapon, the better it was. The best weapon was the one that suited one's own realm.

As for the spiritual weapon sword, Ling Tian was not worried because he found a large amount of refining materials in Lu Chen's space ring, which was enough to improve his forging level to the level of refining spiritual weapons.

In addition to these, Ling Tian also discovered dozens of bottles of elixirs. With the master of alchemy, Qi Ling, here, no matter what kind of elixir it was, he could tell what it was just by looking and smelling it.

Although there are many pills, most of them are used by high-level cultivators. He can certainly use them, but their efficacy is indeed greatly reduced, and it is undoubtedly a waste to use them now.

There are not many pills that are suitable for Ling Tian to use, but one of them, the Yunyuan Pill, is the most precious among so many pills for him, simply because the Yunyuan Pill can increase the chance of forming a pill.

The spirit of the weapon said that he now had six great qi seas, and it would be extremely difficult for him to break through to the pill stage. Moreover, according to its analysis, if he wanted to make further progress in his Five Viscera Refining Heaven Technique, he would need to condense all six great qi seas into pills.

"It's not easy to condense six major pills at the same time."

Ling Tian was not discouraged. This was the path he had chosen, and he had to keep going no matter how difficult it was. He firmly believed that he could perfect the Five Viscera Refining Heaven Technique.

In addition, there are dozens of secret manuals of martial arts. With the help of the spirit of the weapon, Ling Tian selected two of them that are suitable for him, one is the Thunder Sword Technique, and the other is the secret magic technique, the Magic Armor Technique.

Now is not the time to practice, so after putting it aside, Ling Tian began to meditate to consolidate his realm. After spending three days to completely consolidate it, he began to assimilate the small world again.

Due to the improvement of his realm, the speed of assimilation was more than twice as fast. It only took Ling Tian two years to completely take over the small world.

After completing the assimilation task, Ling Tian took a day off and then continued to get busy. The mountains of refining materials could not be treated as decoration.

Although he had no master to guide him, he had a lot of materials, and Ling Tian relied on his own exploration to improve his weapon refining skills to the middle grade of spiritual weapon.

That day, Ling Tian brought five medium-grade spiritual swords that he had forged to a small hill outside the volcano.

"The formation is set."

Five long swords teleported with a swish and surrounded the target pointed at by Ling Tian, ​​rotating in the air according to the directions of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. At the same time, a sword curtain rose from the ground and enveloped the target.

"Eternal growth, annihilation!"

As the thought came to mind, the sword formation immediately transformed into hundreds of long swords that kept shuttling back and forth, some real and some unreal, it was very shocking.

After a few breaths, Ling Tian withdrew the sword formation, leaving the ground devastated. This was the result of his slight output of spiritual power. If he had used all his strength, it was likely that the ground would have been cut three feet.

"It's really amazing, no wonder it draws so much spiritual energy."

Ling Tian was very satisfied with the power of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation. As long as it could trap the enemy, they would be crippled if not killed. Of course, its flaw was also quite obvious, which was that it consumed too much spiritual power, making it very easy for Huang Que to target it, which was very dangerous.

"It seems that I have to learn the magic armor technique."

"Have you thought it through?"

"Well, as you said, teleporting over very long distances carries certain risks. If something unexpected happens, a little more defense means a little more hope of survival. Furthermore, we don't know where the teleportation array will take us. This magic armor technique provides a lot of insurance."

Seeing Ling Tian's determination, the weapon spirit offered no dissuasion and repeatedly urged, "Since you've made up your mind, I won't say anything. However, I must say this: once you practice this technique, you cannot stop until you reach perfection. However, your human physique is different from that of a true demon. To achieve perfection, you must cultivate yourselves into demonic bodies. Cultivating a demonic body is no less difficult than breaking through to the Quasi-Dao realm, as it requires the Demon Emperor's blood essence as a medicinal ingredient."

Ling Tian's expression was solemn upon hearing this. The Devil Emperor's blood essence? That was a being comparable to the Dao Realm. One could imagine how difficult it would be to obtain it, as difficult as ascending to heaven.

After thinking it over again and again, Ling Tian decided to practice this technique. After all, each level up doubles the defense power, and the attraction is really strong.

…

Three years later, outside the crater, a hideous monster covered in scales laughed towards the sky.

"Hahaha, I finally succeeded in my training!"

Ling Tian looked at the hard scales emitting a faint cold light, took out a mid-grade long sword he had forged, and slashed it across his arm. Only a sharp and piercing sound was heard, but there was not even a scratch on his arm, which showed how hard this layer of scales was.

In order to test its limits, Ling Tian took out a top-grade spiritual sword, concentrated his spiritual power and swung it towards his arm.

“clang~”

"Hiss... This is only the first level. If I can reach the second level, I won't be afraid of anyone in the middle stage of Jindan."

Ling Tian looked at the sword marks that were only as thin as a hair and was extremely shocked. He thought to himself that it was right to insist on practicing this technique.

After many tests, Ling Tian has a clear understanding of the defensive capabilities of this layer of magic armor, which can fight against low-grade magic weapons.

"Boy, don't get carried away. This first level is just external defense. You must take care of both the inside and the outside. If you haven't practiced to the third level of the tendons and bones, let alone the middle stage of the Jindan, you will suffer internal injuries from a single blow from the early stage."

"Not really. Even a top-grade spiritual weapon would only leave traces of a hair."

Ling Tian felt that the weapon spirit was exaggerating a bit and did not quite agree with it.

"Not really? Give me a low-grade longsword."

The spirit of the weapon was a little angry. Ling Tian was undoubtedly too arrogant now. If he continued like this, when he went to other star fields, he might be hit and never recover. It was very necessary to let him know not to be a frog in a well.

"Consolidate your strongest magic armor and I will use the power of the early stage of Dan Jin to let you feel it."

Seeing the weapon spirit so serious, Ling Tian put away his arrogance and immediately used the magic armor technique.

"Be careful."

As soon as he finished speaking, the weapon spirit grasped the long sword and slashed it horizontally at Ling Tian. A black light flashed and hit his black armor accurately. After a sharp sound, Ling Tian, ​​who was half-kneeling, wiped a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at the magic armor on his body, which was only cut with a mark as thick as half a chopstick. He was a little bit unbelievable.

If he can’t even break through the outer armor, why can’t his physical body resist it?

"Now you understand. The huge realm gap is not something you can contend with as you think. Fighting against opponents of higher levels is almost impossible. If someone can do it, they are undoubtedly a genius among geniuses, and they must possess the top-level body refining secret technique.

Yes, your magic armor's defense is formidable, but it still can't withstand the penetrating force of energy. Of course, when you reach the fourth level of your magic armor technique, things will be different. Your flesh, blood, tendons, bones, and internal organs will be greatly strengthened, making it easy for you to fight against opponents of higher levels.

But you are still far from that now."