Zuan looked wary: "You're not going to come and beat me up at this time, are you?"
The Phoenix Nirvana Sutra allows one to improve their power by being beaten, but now that he's at the eighth rank, he needs a massive amount of vital energy to improve, which can't be achieved by just taking a few beatings.
Mi Li rolled her eyes: "You're so tough now, I'm too lazy to hit you. I'm talking about another power. Back then, that old man Mi wanted to possess you and transfer all his power into your body, but I sealed it away in the end."
"I remember now!" Zu'an burst into tears. "Back then, you said you wanted to prevent me from affecting my foundation and not let me absorb that power, so I wouldn't miss the chance to soar to the top! But so much time has passed, I almost forgot it existed."
"Hmph, you ruined your path to enlightenment for a moment of pleasure, so of course I have to keep an eye on things for you," Mi Li said. "However, with your current cultivation level, you should be able to absorb it."
"Really?" Zu An's eyes lit up. "Then I can walk around the capital with my head held high right now!"
Back then, he was only around the fifth rank, and Old Man Mi's skill was enough to elevate him to the Grandmaster level. Now that he's at the eighth rank, wouldn't he be at least at the peak of the Grandmaster level? Or even a Great Grandmaster?
"You're dreaming," this was a catchphrase Mi Li had picked up from him these days, and it felt quite natural to say it. "You still have to cross the threshold from the peak of the ninth rank to the grandmaster yourself. Otherwise, you will be forcing your growth and ruining your future path. Moreover, after reaching the grandmaster level, the improvement of strength is not simply a matter of accumulating cultivation, and it is impossible to rush to the grandmaster level all at once."
"So this time I'm releasing one-third of the restrictions in your body, which should be enough for you to reach the ninth rank. At that time, you should be able to awaken a bird."
Zuan looked disappointed: "Only one-third?"
“Ninth rank! There are countless people outside who are stuck at the eighth rank their whole lives and can’t break through to the ninth rank. You’ve reached the ninth rank in the blink of an eye and you’re still complaining about this and that,” Mi Li said with dissatisfaction.
Zuan said, "That's the standard for ordinary people. I'm aiming for the overpowered protagonists in all sorts of novels."
"What nonsense! Do you want it or not?" Mi Li said impatiently.
"Of course I want to." Zuan immediately changed his mind.
"Calm your mind." Mi Li floated to his side.
Zuan instructed Daji to continue using the foxfire to refine elixirs, since she was essentially an independent individual and could complete certain tasks once given an order.
He calmed his mind and felt Mi Li's fingertip touch a major acupoint on his chest. Immediately, he felt an immense surge of energy appear out of thin air within his body.
He no longer had time to think about where the other party was hiding Old Man Mi's cultivation level, or why he couldn't sense it at all when he used his internal energy.
He hurriedly followed the method taught to him by Mi Li, using the Taotie Devouring Heaven Technique to transform the surging primordial energy into his own.
"It's all thanks to you learning the 'Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique,' otherwise it would have taken forever to completely refine someone else's cultivation. Unlike you, who is so relaxed now." Mi Li's voice rang in my ears.
Zu An nodded, not daring to be distracted in the slightest, and focused on refining Old Man Mi's vital energy.
He could clearly feel one magic array after another appearing within his internal organs. Then, those magic arrays lit up at a visible speed, from the first rank of the eighth grade to the second rank, the third rank, and so on...
After breaking through to the ninth rank, the magic array no longer appeared on specific parts of his body as before. Instead, his entire body became a self-contained space, like a vast universe.
One by one, magic arrays appeared in that void space, then lit up one by one—ninth-rank, first-level, second-level. When the fourth magic array lit up, Mi Li's voice came: "Ready!"
With a flick of her jade-like fingers, the immense primordial energy vanished without a trace.
"Give me some more." Zuan was still a little unsatisfied; the feeling just now was simply too wonderful.
Mi Li shook her head: "Too much of a good thing is bad. Although absorbing the power of others for one's own benefit can lead to rapid improvement, it can also easily cause instability in one's foundation. You just absorbed the power of Mosquito Taoist not long ago, so it is not advisable to absorb too much now. This should be the limit without damaging your foundation."
Although Zuan was somewhat reluctant, he trusted the other party's judgment.
"What is your current cultivation level?" Mi Li asked.
Zuan replied, "I'm already at the ninth rank, fourth level."
Mi Li nodded: "That's right. At the eighth rank, one can communicate with the power of heaven and earth. At the ninth rank, one can begin to train one's soul. At this level, you can fly briefly and control objects remotely. Han Fengqiu, who fought you before, had a ninth-rank ability in sword control. Of course, different cultivators may use different weapons. Some use swords, some use sabers, and some use other weapons. You need to explore and find the fighting style that suits you best."
"Sword control technique!" Zu An's eyes lit up. He thought of how cool those sword-wielding characters in TV dramas from his previous life were. So he subconsciously reached out and grabbed in the direction of Daji. A golden hairpin on her forehead appeared in his hand.
Daji glanced at him but didn't react.
Mi Li was speechless for a moment: "His first reaction to having this ability was to use it to flirt with women. What a lecherous and shameless guy."
Zuan chuckled sheepishly, "I was just testing it out casually. By the way, why did I feel like I had some difficulty controlling the force just now?"
"This is something you need to gradually figure out and get used to. As your cultivation level increases, the distance you can control objects remotely will become farther and the force will become greater. However, you will need to figure out the precision and accuracy of your control yourself. This is something you cannot acquire simply by accumulating cultivation level," Mi Li said.
Zuan couldn't help but say, "Wouldn't that mean that the accuracy of a ninth-rank, first-level operator is even higher than that of those at the peak of the ninth rank?"
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