After calming down, Qi Zhiheng felt delighted.
He had just thought of turning the water into ice when the temperature dropped. Could it be that his ability was limited to doing whatever he wanted within such a narrow range?
Just thinking about it gets me excited. If water can freeze, can it also become hot?
Thinking this, he looked at the basin of water again. Under his will, the slight chill of the water disappeared, and then it began to steam again. Qi Zhiheng was certain that the water had indeed become hot! And it was getting hotter and hotter until it boiled.
Qi Zhiheng moved a little further away to avoid the hot water splashing on him. He then stopped heating the water. Immediately, his head began to feel dizzy. He sat down in a chair, realizing that he had exhausted his strength and needed to rest before continuing.
After resting for a while, Qi Zhiheng went to see his father, Qi Zhenhe, again. He still wanted to test his spirit body. He might have awakened a strange spirit body that no one else had ever had, which was why the instrument couldn't detect it. If he were to test his spirit body again, it probably still wouldn't be able to detect it. It would be better to test the grade of his spirit body directly.
After thinking about what he needed to do next, he went to find Qi Zhenhe and explained his purpose.
Seeing that his son was still not giving up, Qi Zhenhe took him to test his spiritual rank.
Qi Zhiheng came full of confidence, only to leave disappointed once again!
When his spirit body was tested, he still didn't show any rank. All these signs indicated that he was not a spiritual cultivator at all!
But if he's not a spiritual practitioner, what would his situation be?
Qi Zhiheng returned home dejectedly and never mentioned the matter again.
Back in his room, Qi Zhiheng was deeply perplexed! What was going on? He wasn't a spiritual cultivator, yet he possessed such abilities. Could it be that his spiritual body was too special, and the instruments here, whether testing spiritual bodies or their rank, couldn't detect it?
Qi Zhiheng rested for a night with doubts, and went to practice his area again the next day.
The area he spread out was about three meters in radius, which wasn't very large, and he could only do whatever he wanted within that area.
He was holding a rose in his hand; the rosebud was closed and it was not yet time for it to bloom.
Qi Zhiheng expanded his area, intending to make the flower bud in his hand bloom. Immediately, the flower bud opened layer by layer in front of him, reaching its peak.
Qi Zhiheng simply picked up the rose, and it showed no signs of changing. After observing it for a moment, he placed the rose in a vase on the table and left. With this care, the flower should last for a while.
But after he finished eating and messed around, the flowers he saw were already withered.
Qi Zhiheng was somewhat shocked. He activated his area of effect again, thinking that he could turn the withered and yellowed petals back to normal. The withered and yellowed petals actually turned pink again at a speed visible to the naked eye, returning to their original blooming state.
Qi Zhiheng was overjoyed. He never expected that he could turn a withered flower back to life. No other spiritual cultivator had such an ability. This made Qi Zhiheng feel a little smug. To be honest, he really wanted to go out and run around and tell others that he had a powerful spiritual body. However, when he thought about how the testing instruments could not detect his spiritual body, he gave up on the idea.
Making that flower revert to its original state would require more energy, so Qi Zhiheng only needed to lie down and rest.
He drifted off to sleep, and in his dream, he pondered carefully what his ability truly meant.
In his dream, he remembered some miscellaneous things, such as spiritual power.
This knowledge was directly injected into his mind. After learning that spiritual power and spiritual bodies were basically of the same origin, Qi Zhiheng rejected the possibility that this power was spiritual power.
Unbeknownst to him, he had created a spherical area around himself, and he lay within this area, demonstrating his abilities over and over again. He seemed to have many abilities, and for a while, it was difficult to complete the demonstration.
With a wave of his hand, he could create a small mountain. Of course, due to his limited abilities, the small mountain was only two meters high, and there was no room for a larger mountain.
He raised his hand again, trying to create a lake, which appeared beneath his feet once more, but unfortunately, the area was still too small for him to work with.
He wished his range could be larger, but he knew perfectly well that his idea was difficult to realize. His strength was too weak; to support a larger range, he would likely need even more power. No matter how much he practiced recently, he could only increase the quantity, not the range itself.
I had a vague feeling that to expand this area, I would need to rely on some kind of power, perhaps spiritual energy!
What is spiritual power?
Qi Zhiheng wanted to know the answer, so the questions he had been thinking about gradually emerged from his mind and were unearthed, as if he had known them all along, but they had been taken away and hidden elsewhere.
Qi Zhiheng yearned for more truth. His brows furrowed deeply, and his consciousness wandered in the darkness for a moment. A light appeared in one direction, a cloud of gray mist. His consciousness moved toward the gray mist, trembled for a moment, and finally touched the gray mist.
In an instant, those so-called truths flooded his mind.
Qi Zhiheng suddenly opened his eyes!
He finally remembered—he was under the Enlightenment Tree!
As Qi Zhiheng's memories returned, he remembered everything that had happened before. He jumped off the flying spirit boat, and the moment he entered the lake, he forgot everything and became completely devoid of spiritual power.
At that time, Qi Zhiheng was still an ordinary person and had completely forgotten his previous cultivation techniques and methods of using spiritual power, which, to be honest, were not bad.
That should be the path he should take. In order to forge his own path, the Enlightenment Tree sealed away all the previous incorrect cultivation methods. Only by completely forgetting everything and starting from scratch could he find his own path through his own enlightenment.
He has only vaguely grasped the basics, but there are still difficulties in perfecting his path.
Qi Zhiheng wanted to continue trying to master his own Great Dao. As long as he could succeed in mastering the Great Dao, he would be able to break through the Core Formation and become a Nascent Soul!
But reality doesn't allow it.
He was still in the secret realm at this moment. The secret realm could help people comprehend the Dao, but it could not attract lightning tribulations. If he wanted to break through the core and become an infant, he had to go outside.
Just as Qi Zhiheng realized what was happening, a ray of spiritual light entered his body.
Qi Zhiheng had a guess; it must be the Enlightenment Fruit!
Only by gaining enlightenment under the Enlightenment Tree can one obtain one's own Enlightenment Fruit. Qi Zhiheng knew that he had obtained an Enlightenment Fruit.
The Enlightenment Fruit appeared ethereal and indistinct. When Qi Zhiheng looked inward, he only saw a ball of white light, which was the Enlightenment Fruit.
"So the Enlightenment Fruit isn't a physical entity after all," Qi Zhiheng murmured softly.
Looking around, he was now floating in mid-air. Looking up, he felt as if he were floating underwater, with the sky visible through a curtain of water. Looking around again, he saw other people floating in the distance, presumably cultivators who had entered the Enlightenment Tree together.
In this "water," he could vaguely see some things that resembled tree roots, appearing and disappearing in the water.
He guessed that this might be the true form of the Enlightenment Tree, but the Enlightenment Tree was too ethereal and elusive; even if it had a physical form, it seemed to have no physical form at all.
He couldn't touch the Enlightenment Tree at all, or perhaps he was already inside it. Thinking about it this way, he didn't know whether he could touch it or not.
Qi Zhiheng was initially considering whether to go up first, but then he remembered his wife and son. He didn't know if they had gone up yet, so he decided to search around down there first.
Qi Zhiheng's soul power was unusable here, so he looked around, trying to discern human figures with his naked eye. His gaze finally settled on a small figure.
No matter which direction Qi Zhiheng swam in, the figure seemed extremely well-behaved. As soon as Qi Zhiheng approached, he saw the small black shadow swimming up and down, left and right, having a great time.
Qi Zhiheng walked in and found that this was indeed his son, but he didn't know if it was his eldest son or his second son.
His son seemed to have sensed something and turned to look at Qi Zhiheng.
"Father!" he exclaimed excitedly, "We can fly here without using spirit stones! I'm going to have a blast here!"
Qi Zhiheng was now certain; this guy was definitely Erbao. He reached out to grab him, but his hand passed right through Erbao's body!
Qi Zhiheng was puzzled. Could it be that what he was seeing was just an illusion, and that he could still wake up from the Enlightenment Tree?
Although Erbao was puzzled as to why Qi Zhiheng hadn't managed to get him, he was also a little unhappy that Qi Zhiheng was ignoring him: "Father, why are you ignoring me?"
Qi Zhiheng looked at Erbao again: "Come here and let your father take a look."
Erbao swam over, excitedly shouting, "I'm coming!"
Qi Zhiheng reached out and tried again, but still couldn't catch anything.
Erbao was curious about why Qi Zhiheng couldn't reach him, so he tried to reach out and hook Qi Zhiheng, but he also missed.
Qi Zhiheng understood. Presumably, within this space, cultivators cannot touch each other, thus preventing them from disturbing others.
No wonder Elder Wu said it was very safe under the Enlightenment Tree; you wouldn't bump into anyone. How could it not be safe?
After realizing he wouldn't be able to find anyone, Qi Zhiheng gave up on retrieving Erbao and instead said, "Erbao, how about you come with me to find your older brother, younger brother, grandfather, and father?"
"Okay." Erbao continued swimming around, and after seeing Qi Zhiheng go in another direction, he followed behind Qi Zhiheng.
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