Chapter 21: Sixth Level of Qi Refining, Sparring

  In the following days, Xia Jinxi began to practice day and night. Until she was about to finish another practice, she felt the spiritual power in her Dantian was agitated.

  "It's about to break through!"

  Xia Jinxi opened her eyes suddenly. She was very familiar with the feeling in her Dantian.

  So, she took out the spiritual stones she had without hesitation and filled them into the spirit gathering array in the room one by one.

  The spirit gathering array in the room was set up a few days after she came back.

  Since she had some attainments in the array, the spirit gathering array she set up in the room had twelve nodes, which could condense the spiritual energy in twelve spiritual stones at a time for her to absorb and refine. The spiritual stones were filled.

  Xia Jinxi did not stay any longer, sat cross-legged on the futon, and began to close her eyes to practice the Qi Refining Technique.

  As the Qi Refining Technique was running, she felt the agitation in her Dantian becoming more and more intense.

  A large amount of spiritual energy entered the Dantian along the meridians, and was hammered into pure spiritual energy by the violent hammer in the Dantian, and then absorbed and refined into spiritual power by the technique.

  In this way, the spiritual power in her Dantian increased little by little.

  At the fifth level of Qi Refining, the spiritual power was like a pool.

  In Xia Jinxi's Dantian, as the spiritual power continued to increase, the spiritual power that was originally only a medium pool of water also gradually increased.

  Crack.

  She heard a crisp sound, which was the sound of the spiritual stone being exhausted and shattered.

  Without thinking too much, she raised her hand and filled it with a spiritual stone.

  In this way, with the continuous replenishment of spiritual stones, the spiritual energy in the gathering array always remained at a very rich level.

  Xia Jinxi didn't know how many times she had filled the spiritual stone. When she heard the sound of the spiritual stone breaking again, she raised her hand to fill it, but found that she had no spiritual stone.

  This made her pause for a moment.

  But soon, the sudden sense of breakthrough in the Dantian made her come back to her senses and no longer care whether there were any spiritual stones.

  She closed her eyes and concentrated, immersing herself in the Dantian.

  With a sigh of window paper being pierced, Xia Jinxi only felt a sense of comfort all over her body.

  In the sound of the spiritual stone constantly breaking, her cultivation finally broke through the fifth level of Qi Refining and reached the sixth level of Qi Refining.

  With the breakthrough of cultivation, a spiritual pressure rose around Xia Jinxi, but was quickly suppressed by her.

  She slowly opened her eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in them, "Sixth level of Qi training!"

After breakthrough, Xia Jinxi continued to consolidate her realm while practicing Tai Chi Swordsmanship for the next ten days.

Until when Xia Jinxi practicing sword in the open space in front of her cave, she noticed the movement of removing the restrictions on the cave no.19. She turned around and put away her sword neatly.

  When she noticed Shen Qingluo's sixth level of Qi Refining, she couldn't hide her surprise. As expected protagonist, when she breakthrough one realm, she was breakthrough two realm in one ago.

  "Congratulations to Sister Shen for her great increase in cultivation. If you continue to practice at this speed, you will have to call me Sister next time we meet. Now that you and I are at the same level, are you interested in sparring?"

  Xia Jinxi tried her best not to make her words sounds provocative. She really wanted to find an opponent of equal strength to have a few good fights.

Besides meditation, fighting and sparring is also a great way for monks to improve their strength, so Shen Qingluo would have no problem doing so.

 The two came to a relatively open place. Xia Jinxi used the Qinggang sword issued by the sect. Shen Qingluo also took out the same sword when she saw this.

  The sparring began, and the two started at the same time.

  Xia Jinxi swung the long sword in her hand, used the footwork, and quickly moved forward.

  The next moment, there was a clanging sound in the air, and the two long swords collided, with the blades facing each other. As the sword holders moved, sparks burst out. After a while, both sides quickly retreated.

  Shen Qingluo suddenly felt a strong wind coming from behind her, and quickly turned around and blocked it with her sword.

  Then another sound of sword blades colliding came to her ears, and she felt a tingling and numbness in her right arm, and she was about to lose her grip on the Qinggang sword.

  Something was wrong! If it was a simple collision of power, this situation would not occur under the maintenance of spiritual power.

  Shen Qingluo quickly realized that Sister Xia was using ice magic to attach to the Qinggang sword. The two swords collided, and the ice spiritual power was transmitted directly.

  After reacting, she retreated immediately, and the tingling and numbness in her right arm quickly disappeared, and she was not injured.

  She knew very well that Senior Sister Xia had held back, otherwise, with the powerful attack power of a cultivator with a ice spirit root, her right arm would have been frozen.

  This fight also reminded Shen Qingluo that defensive robes were not omnipotent.

  The outer disciple uniform she was wearing was transformed from the top-grade defensive spiritual weapon, the Brocade Clothes, but when she was attacked just now, this defensive treasure did not react.

  The root cause was that the ice force did not act on the robes, but was directly transmitted through the Qinggang Sword.

  To put it bluntly, the head, hands and feet, which were not covered by the robes, could not be protected.

  "Senior Sister Xia, I lost the first match."

  Hearing this, Xia Jinxi temporarily retracted her sword and shook her head, "Junior Sister did not use her full strength."

  She could see that Shen Qingluo was a little rusty in actual combat, and she should have rarely fought with others in the past, but she was also sure that the other party had powerful means that she had not used.

  When she was at the third level of Qi Refining, she felt threatened when she was at the fifth level of Qi Refining. How could such a person be so simple? The reason why they didn't use it was probably because it was a killing move and was not suitable for use in a competition.

  On the other side, Shen Qingluo smiled back, "If you lose, you lose. Competition is about improving your perception. I don't care about winning or losing, and my senior sister didn't use her full strength either."

  "In that case, how about continuing?"

  "Okay!"

  As soon as the voice fell, the two of them attacked at the same time again.

  This time, Shen Qingluo attached a layer of gold spiritual power to the Qinggang Sword. In this way, if the ice spiritual power wants to attack through the Qinggang Sword again, it must first disperse the gold spiritual power.

  The two people's cultivation is the same as the sixth level of Qi Refining. It is not easy to do this.

  But after a while, several clanging sounds were heard.

  Shen Qingluo kept changing the sword's momentum, using chopping, splitting, stabbing, and slashing. At the beginning, she was at a disadvantage and could only passively defend. Later, she gradually became proficient and the two sides fought back and forth.

  Four hours later.

  The two people who had exhausted their spiritual power sat back to back on the ground, and fallen leaves and gravel could be seen everywhere around them.

  Shen Qingluo reached out and wiped the sweat off his cheeks. "Senior Sister Xia, I discovered it when we sparring before, do you reach sword spirit? That's awesome."   

  "Hehe I am just lucky before that I have a chance to comprehend it"

  Before returning to their respective caves, the two agreed to continue fighting and sparring at noon tomorrow.

  The feeling of running out of spiritual power was not pleasant, and it was even more uncomfortable with the sweat all over her body. Xia Jinxi returned to the cave, fetched a large bucket of water, condensed several fireballs talisman, and when the water temperature was right, she immediately jumped in and took a long bath.

  The night passed quickly. The next morning, she came to the outside of the cave at the agreed time. Shen Qinglan was waiting not far away.

  The two did not chat for long, and still focused on sparring. This kind of day lasted for more than a month.

  Shen Qingluo made rapid progress. She often reflected on herself and found out the shortcomings. In this way, there were fewer and fewer flaws in the battle.

  Of course, Xia Jinxi was not without gains. Her sword spirit become more solid and powerful. In short, the constant sparring made the strength of both sides grow.

  One day, the two finished fighting and received a mission invitation from three brothers and sisters on the same peak.

  Yunxian Peak is not only home to new disciples, but also some disciples who entered the sect in previous years, but have not yet been promoted to the foundation building stage and have not been accepted as disciples by the elders.

  These three brothers and sisters belong to the latter. The invitation they issued is a sect mission that requires five people to accept together.