'Okay,' Lin Yun nodded.
'Hum——'
A powerful spiritual attack quickly landed on Lin Yun.
Lin Yun's face changed slightly.
His spiritual power had reached the top level of tenth rank, while Xia Qingqing's spiritual power was only at the top level of ninth rank, and the difference in spiritual power between the two was a whole realm.
According to the Universal Trading System, the strength of spiritual practitioners is also very strong among practitioners of the same level. However, they have a weakness, which is that their strength will be weakened when dealing with people whose spiritual power is stronger than theirs, regardless of the level of the opponent's major system.
Spiritual power is a type of power that is difficult to improve. Generally speaking, if some people do not have the assistance of equipment such as the Cosmic Trading System, it is also difficult for them to surpass their major system in terms of spiritual power.
In addition, the spiritual energy enhanced by the Cosmic Trading System lacks one thing. Spiritual practitioners who use the Cosmic Trading System to practice will generally be weaker than practitioners of the same level.
Therefore, Lin Yun did not pay too much attention to Xia Qingqing's spiritual strength.
However, at this moment, he discovered that he was wrong.
Xia Qingqing's spiritual strength was revealed, and it was slightly beyond his expectations.
'Hum——'
At this moment, Xia Qingqing once again launched a spiritual attack, which was already a completely different method from the previous attack, but the two complemented each other, increasing the power of both attacks.
'Hum——Hum——'
The next attacks came in an endless stream, one after the other, landing on Lin Yun.
'This——'
Lin Yun's face rapidly changed, and in the end, he couldn't help but let out a sound of exclamation.
His feeling was that Xia Qingqing's attacks came one after the other, each one more powerful than the last. Perhaps it was a matter of coordination... In any case, it made him feel a lot of pressure, even though he was a powerful person.
At the moment, he had a feeling that if he were to fight someone else, and someone was influencing him like this, his strength would definitely be greatly reduced.
For example, if he were to fight Lin Mengmeng, and Xia Qingqing were attacking him, he might not even be a match for Lin Mengmeng.
This was significant.
Are all spiritual cultivators this powerful?
No, spiritual practitioners are generally very powerful. That's true, but with the cosmic trading system upgrading the spiritual power level, the spiritual practitioners who have trained up are not as powerful.
Moreover, he is not an ordinary practitioner, his spiritual power is very strong, surpassing Xia Qingqing by a large realm, which will greatly reduce Xia Qingqing's strength again.
In that case... Xia Qingqing's strength is not normal.
Lin Yun quickly compared some data on the cosmic trading system.
He quickly came to an answer: Xia Qingqing's demonstrated spiritual strength exceeded that of the average spiritual practitioner. In particular, the type of attack Xia Qingqing used was not something the average spiritual practitioner could perform.
Could it be that Xia Qingqing was really good at spiritual cultivation?
Lin Yun thought to himself.
'Hum——'
At that moment, Xia Qingqing was still performing a spiritual attack.
Lin Yun dared not underestimate it anymore and treated it with his full strength.
Spiritual cultivators are different from ordinary cultivators in that many of their methods of attack are very special. Lin Yun had a lot to gain from resisting them.
'A high spiritual power level is equivalent to a person's high physical fitness. When two ordinary people fight, naturally, the person with high physical fitness has the advantage. However, the most important thing is technique, or even...weapons. A person with powerful technique can easily defeat a person with poor physical fitness, even if there are a few people, there is no problem. If there is a powerful weapon, one person can even deal with more than ten people, dozens of people, or even hundreds of people...'
A flash of enlightenment flashed through Lin Yun's mind.
Spiritual power skills and exercises are like techniques and weapons. A good skill and exercise are very important.
Just like, when he practices martial arts, he also needs to practice martial arts techniques and exercises.
He is now at the late stage of Martial Arts Level 8, because he has learned a large number of martial arts techniques, good exercises, and has a high level of attainment in many martial arts, so he can deal with an average Martial Arts Level 9 peak practitioner.
He can even defeat many Martial Arts Level 9 peak practitioners.
This is the power of martial arts and cultivation methods.
If he only had realm and knew no martial arts, then he would most likely not be a match for a martial artist of the seventh level of realm.
The gap is that great.
The same applies to the spiritual realm and martial arts.
Only realm is not enough.
...
The battle continues.
There are many spiritual attack methods that are hard to defend against, so Lin Yun can only use his powerful spiritual power to resist them. If it weren't for the fact that his spiritual power has reached the late tenth stage, he wouldn't even be sure of the advantage he would have against Xia Qingqing. If Xia Qingqing attacks him by surprise, it's not impossible that he would lose if he's not careful.
'No wonder spiritual practitioners are generally stronger than practitioners of other systems at the same level. This feeling of being unable to defend oneself is really bad...' Lin Yun sighed.
'It seems that I need to learn one or two spiritual defence methods. Even if I cannot attack others in this way, I need to be able to defend against their attacks. I might even learn one or two methods of attack, which could be very effective in critical moments...' Lin Yun mused.
In short, everything is a matter of money.
Money is the crystallisation of spirit.
If there is enough crystallisation of spirit, he would not need to calculate how much to spend.
A year ago, the sum he earned was large, exceeding 3 trillion spirit crystals.
But it also went quickly when he spent it.
For example, it only took hundreds of billions of spirit crystals to raise one's spirit power from the tenth level of lower grade to the tenth level of peak grade.
But it would take trillions of spirit crystals to raise it to the eleventh level of lower grade.
It's similar to buying a robot with the strength of a Level 11 martial artist. It takes 50 billion spirit crystals to upgrade from Level 9 to Level 10, but the difference between Level 10 and Level 11 is not 10 times, but 100 times, which is 5 trillion.
To be precise, it is not the case that many spirit crystals are required to upgrade from the lower tenth level to the peak of the tenth level, but rather that many spirit crystals are required to upgrade from the peak of the tenth level to the lower eleventh level.
Similarly, although Lin Mengmeng's martial realm has been upgraded to the early ninth level, Lin Yun has not upgraded her spiritual power to the eleventh level.
It would be too costly.
Even if Lin Yun invested all the spiritual crystals he earned last time, it would still not be enough.
Cultivation consumes resources, just like stacking an inverted pyramid.
The further you go, the more resources you need, and it's not an addition-type increase, but a geometric increase.
It's like his 180,000 subordinates.
Two years ago, it only consumed 30 billion spiritual crystals a year.
Recently, it has consumed 300 billion spiritual crystals a year.
This is not even counting the consumption of Lin Mengmeng and the people around him.
If you add that up... Then there are only more than 1.7 trillion spiritual crystals left after earning more than 3 trillion.
In other words, this year, they have consumed a total of more than 1.3 trillion spiritual crystals.
At the current rate of consumption, the remaining spiritual crystals will not last them half a year, or even less.
'We really need to make money...' Lin Yun sighed in his heart.
If you don't take charge of the family, you won't know how expensive food and other necessities are. Sometimes, he envied the people around him, his subordinates.
They didn't have to worry about anything and could just focus on cultivation.
If they performed well, they could even receive great cultivation.
If he had received such treatment, he wouldn't have to worry about anything.