"First art of Seven Anguish, sit under the waterfall and meditate. It will strengthen your mind and your body."
Tian Xuan read the simplified version of the Seven Anguish manual to the girl that wore a thin layer of clothes.
Yi Ling wears only a layer of clothes covered with a single black robe as the outer robe and walked slowly toward under the waterfall. She gritted her teeth and gripped the low tier spiritual stone in her hand as she felt tremendous pressure hit on her back.
It feels like huge stones were thrown without stopping on top of her back. Her mouth could already taste the blood as she gritted her teeth. She was worried that her life would be threatened when suddenly she heard a gentle voice rang in her mind.
"Close your eyes. Nature has its own flows. Be one with nature and let it flows with you."
Tian Xuan voice rang as if it was beside her ears. The voice as if filled with miraculous energy helped her to calm her mind.
She gradually calmed her mind and closed her eyes as she let the waterfall fell on her back. Her back slowly straightened and the waterfall fell on top of her head but the pain could not be felt because she is slowly losing her sense of times and the sense of her surroundings.
The energy that she absorbed by cultivating the hollow redemption technique suddenly flushed out back from the black hole and entered her dantian. She let the energy into her dantian without cultivating it and continue to meditate.
Pinnacle 2-dan fighter!
Five minutes later. Breakthrough! Lower stage 3-dan Fighter!
After about an hour, the low tier spiritual stone crumbled in her hand as she reached the pinnacle of 5-dan fighter. She is just a step away from breaking through to martial king realm.
"Alright, that's enough." Tian Xuan smiled widely as he saw her achievement.
It is a surprising fit for her to be able to reach pinnacle 5-dan fighter in just an hour without using a middle-tier spiritual stone. The mountain is also lack in comparison with the place where Tian Xuan was born at.
She is qualified enough to be considered as a genius.
Although there's more spiritual energy inside her, Tian Xuan has to stop the girl from cultivating after an hour using the first art. The Seven Anguish must change from an art to another art after an hour cultivating or the cultivator's meridian will be blocked with impurities hence blocking further cultivation.
The other side effect of constantly using the same art all over again is the cultivator's mind will weaken. The cultivator will easily fall to the devil as an easy prey.
Yi Ling opened her eyes and walked out from the waterfall. She changed her clothes behind the tree as she asked Tian Xuan about her cultivation.
"Lord Tian, even though I didn't cultivate the qi, why was I able to break through the cultivation stages?"
Tian Xuan stayed still without turning his head as he answered.
"The hollow redemption technique allowed you to absorb boundless energy without limit. The Seven Anguish technique cultivates the energy you absorbed so there's no need for you to cultivate them."
"Oh… I understood now."
"Hollow redemption is similar to how the middle tier spiritual stone works. However, this place lacked spiritual energy so it is better for you to absorb the spiritual stone for now until we return to the sect."
"Yes, this student understands."
After Yi Ling changed her clothes, she walked over to Tian Xuan and told him that her soul cauldron has expanded more than ten meters.
When Tian Xuan heard that he was considerably happy, Yi Ling is even more fortunate than Wu Xian and Li Yiyuan whose soul cauldron only expanded five meters. Yi Ling might be far from reaching his range of power but she is not too weak either.
It is due to the Seven Anguish and Hollow Redemption technique that she is able to be so strong but other could not do what she did because her resilient to pain is way stronger than even a saint.
After he explained that she is powerful than Wu Xian in term of the soul, she was pleasantly surprised. Then, she prepared her mind to learn the second art of Seven Anguish.
Tian Xuan smiled as he summoned seven demon beasts out of the small world. Yi Ling eyes widened but she waited for Tian Xuan to explain.
Tian Xuan gave her seven bottles of 6 tier mortal recovery pills and explained. "Second art of Seven Anguish, inflict injury on one body and heal the injury which you have done unconsciously before. Spar with them barehanded and heal yourself."
Almost immediately after Tian Xuan said that, the demon beasts pounced at Yi Ling.
Other would have cursed but Yi Ling calmly judged the situation before she dodged the beasts. After she gathered enough courage, she purposely let one of them scratched her until her skin bled. Then, she punched the beast that hurt her and let the other one attack her.
She gritted her teeth as she withstands the sharp pains all over her body. Only after her body full of injuries did she eat one of the mortal recovery pills and similarly to before, even without cultivate the qi, she could break through to 1-Dan soul refining Martial King realm.
After an hour, Tian Xuan called the demon beasts back into the small world and let Yi Ling cultivate to refine her soul.
If her soul is properly refined at this stage, it will definitely help in the future when she reaches the immortal ancestor stage to create her nascent soul.
For example, Tian Xuan has already refined his soul to its epitome of soul perfectness while Wu Xian and Li Yiyuan have refined their soul to be at the pinnacle of harmonization. Common people could only refine their soul through normal mean to be having a mediocre achievement or at most have a major achievement.
Geniuses or talented people that have good luck with cultivation technique will have Wise Soul Harmonization and the genius of the geniuses will be like Wu Xian and Li Yiyuan, they will reach the pinnacle of harmonization. Tian Xuan would be among one in a trillion people throughout the history to reach the epitome of perfectness for his soul refining.
If he creates his nascent soul in the future, he will have a perfect protection over spiritual mind attack. His soul will never be injured much less will it be harmed.
Yi Ling has fully recovered after eating the mortal recovery pill and is ready to refine her soul.
"Lord Tian, I will be starting now." The girl chose a huge round rock with a smooth surface and sat on top of it in lotus pose.
Tian Xuan nodded his head lightly as he spoke gently. "Alright, go on ahead. I'll be watching over you."
With that assurance coming from the lord, the girl closed her eyes and entered a pit of darkness to reach the soul cauldron.