Shi Xuan quickly sheathed his sword; it seemed that he couldn't use any auxiliary magical artifacts here.
So if you want to touch those stars, you'll have to jump up yourself.
It's just the ceiling. Normally, let alone Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators at their peak, even a Qi Refining disciple could easily reach it with a simple leap.
However, due to the strong suction force here, it is extremely difficult for them to jump.
Especially before they entered and had undergone special training, they felt they could only crawl, let alone have the strength to jump.
Now the six of them can move around much more freely here, but they are still not at the point where they can jump up and reach the ceiling.
Shi Xuan pondered and said, "It seems that they think our cultivation is not enough and that we still have room for improvement."
"Then let's continue!" Lu Wenxing was always so optimistic. He was already very satisfied with what he had gained in the nine-story pagoda. Even if he couldn't make it to this floor, so what? He could brag about entering the nine-story pagoda for years to come.
“We have two options,” Shi Xuan said: “either we can continue to hone our spiritual power on this second level, or we can go directly to the third level.”
If they choose to hone their spiritual power, they might be able to reach these little stars, and these golden little stars might be of great benefit to them.
But they have already spent three days and three nights honing their skills on the first floor. At this point, some people may be impatient and want to see what is on the higher floors, or they may want to have more time to see which floor they can climb. After all, only by reaching the highest floor can they be recorded in the annals of this outer arena.
Shi Xuan wants to continue honing her skills here, but she doesn't want to force everyone to be like her.
So she adopted a voluntary approach, not requiring her team members to act with her.
But to everyone's surprise, after the suggestion was made, no one wanted to go upstairs. They all wanted to stay on this floor with Shi Xuan and wonder what the little star was.
The opinions were completely unanimous, and there was nothing else to say.
So the group of six stayed on the second floor for the rest of the time.
This time, everyone sat on the ground, just like they usually meditate, controlling the spiritual energy in their meridians, repeating the cycle of three steps followed by two breaks over and over again.
The process was extremely tedious and tiring, but the results were also remarkable.
Three more days passed, and they could feel their own lightness.
It can already jump off the ground, though not very high.
It seems that there simply isn't enough time.
The six people sat down again and repeated this tedious action for two more days.
Five days in total, Shi Xuan mustered all his strength and finally jumped to about the same height.
After resting and refocusing the spiritual energy in his body, he channeled all his spiritual energy into his feet. After several attempts, he finally encountered a golden star.
The moment the star touched Shi Xuan's finger, it transformed into a golden light and merged into Shi Xuan's body.
Shi Xuan felt a warm sensation all over his body. The refined spiritual energy he possessed became even more powerful under the nourishment of the golden light.
Her cultivation level didn't increase, but Shi Xuan could clearly feel an improvement in her combat power. It seemed that the spiritual energy bathed in this golden light was like being armed, making it extremely powerful.
Shi Xuan realized the difference in this nine-story pagoda.
In the past, any rewards given to cultivators were mostly for improving their cultivation level.
However, here, one's cultivation level remains the same, but if one calms down and carefully refines it, the benefits gained will be far greater than a simple improvement in cultivation level.
The pursuit of quality versus the pursuit of quantity: cultivators have a very fixed view on quality. They believe that the "quality" is already fixed in the process of cultivation, and the only thing they can improve later is quantity.
That's what the vast majority of cultivators think.
It is also because in this cultivation world, there are countless ways to improve "quantity", but methods to improve "quality" are extremely rare, and many people may never encounter them in their entire lives.
But in this nine-story pagoda, it was so easily placed before them.
Because it was taken out so easily and ranked in the first and second tiers, cultivators were even less likely to think in that direction, thus missing such an excellent opportunity to improve themselves.
After the first star, Shi Xuan honed his skills for a while longer before leaping up again and hitting the second star.
However, this second star did not provide as much nourishment to spiritual energy as the first one.
She tried a third one, but it had absolutely no effect.
There were many stars, and Shi Xuan tried several more times, but nothing worked.
It seems that having more stars isn't necessarily better; getting just one is considered passing.
At this moment, Lu Shenzhi followed Shi Xuan's movements and jumped up, touching one of the stars. A look of understanding appeared on his face, indicating that he had grasped the meaning of the star.
Lu Shenzhi touched three stars before stopping, probably because he understood the meaning of the stars.
There are enough stars for all the monks who come here, as long as you don't ignore them.
Seeing that his junior sister and senior brother had already obtained the stars, Lu Wenxing became a little anxious and wanted to jump up and touch them, but he didn't jump high enough and failed several times.
Zhang Yingxin also jumped twice, but failed.
She frowned and said, "I feel like I've polished it up almost completely, and I haven't made any progress in a long time, but I still can't reach the stars. Does that mean that the stars also have requirements for aptitude?"
Zhang Yingxin was always serious. When she said she hadn't made any progress, it probably meant she had almost reached a point where she still felt it wasn't enough.
Shi Xuan glanced at the height of Zhang Ying's heartbeat; it was only a hand's width away from the golden star, as if she could reach it with just a little more effort.
But the distance of just one hand's width is insurmountable.
Zhang Yingxin couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. She said, "Perhaps, as the captain often says, everything is fate, and my destiny with these stars is probably not yet ripe."
“That’s not entirely true,” Shi Xuan said, looking at the distance of the palm strike and then at Lu Shenzhi. “Since we outnumber her, could we lend her a hand?”
Lu Shenzhi took a few steps forward and stood in front of Shi Xuan, extending a hand to her: "Try to use your strength."
Shi Xuan nodded, channeled his spiritual energy into his feet, and leaped up, pressing down on Lu Shenzhi's hand to borrow some strength.
The moment Lu Shenzhi reached out to lend her strength, he concentrated his spiritual power in his palm and used all his strength to support Shi Xuan's hand upwards. In this instant, it was almost as if the strength of two people was pushing Shi Xuan upwards. With this jump, she actually exceeded the height before, suddenly becoming nearly a foot taller.
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