Tyler was in his room, training. He wasn't even aware of the troubles he had caused.
His goal was to reach the peak of the Energy Refinement Realm within a few days, then he could proceed to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm.
He only had three months of lifespan.
If he couldn't reach the Foundation Establishment Realm within just three months, he would die.
Even if his body hadn't changed much from losing so much lifespan, he was still aware of his situation.
Sitting cross-legged, he had his eyes closed while using the 'Golden Sword Essence Technique'. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel⦿fire.net
It was his ideal cultivation technique. Because this technique was mainly related to the sword, he had to cultivate the sword essence.
When he started, he had cultivated the Iron Essence. Using the Iron Essence to open the meridians was the best way to improve his realm.
Instead of using normal spiritual energy, iron essence could strengthen his meridian much more.
As he started cultivating, the spiritual energy kept pouring into his body. It was quite fast after all, his spiritual root was quite good.
It was rapidly absorbing the spiritual energy into it while he was using the cultivation technique to refine the spiritual energy into iron essence.
The more iron essence he produced, the easier it would become to open the next meridian.
The process of opening the next meridian wasn't that difficult.
With his eyes closed, he used spiritual sense to find the position of he sixth meridian.
When he located the meridian, he released the iron essence into the meridian and started unblocking it.
The unlocking of the meridian wasn't easy for one reason.
When he used iron essence to unblock the meridian, he felt a stinging pain, and that pain only intensified.
Fortunately, he was able to bear this pain.
After all, he had gone through much more painful experiences. He was a ruthless man who even cut his hand without much problem.
How could such a small pain hinder his cultivation?
In less than an hour, he managed to unlock the sixth meridian.
Sixth Stage, achieved!
Of course, that wasn't the end. He had a lot of spiritual energy inside the seal. He had gained a lot of spiritual energy from the previous simulation.
He didn't even have a way to quantify this amount.
With just a single thought, a large amount of spiritual energy flowed into his dantian, and he started refining it into iron essence.
In just three hours, he filled his dantian with the grey gas instead of blue.
Normally, when spiritual energy was condensed into one place, it would turn into a blue orb.
But when iron essence gathered in a large amount, it would turn into a massive grey cloud.
He started pulling the iron essence into the path of his seventh meridian and started unblocking it.
The process was almost the same.
Except for the seventh meridian, he would need at least five times more iron essence just to block it.
And, when he did succeed in unblocking it, massive particles of blood and black essence remained inside the meridian.
He had to clean it with iron essence, and the blood and black essence flew out of his pores, turning his body red and black.
Seventh Stage, achieved!
Of course, this didn't stop his cultivation.
With the seventh meridian unlocked, he continued to unlock the eighth meridian.
If the previous meridian needed five times more spiritual energy than the sixth meridian, then the eighth meridian only took three times more spiritual energy.
The only problem one time equivalent to this level was the same amount required to unlock the seventh meridian.
In other words, if he had to use the previous level as a mark, it would be fifteen times more spiritual energy.
This was quite normal. After all, every cultivation step was harder than climbing the ladder to heaven.
Cultivation itself was an act against heaven. So, how could it be easy?
Did it matter, though?
The total amount of spiritual energy he spent on the eighth meridian consumed less than one percent of the spiritual energy he had in the seal.
If he had tried consuming spiritual energy from the surroundings like when he did with the sixth meridian, it would've taken almost the entire night.
But after cultivating for the entire night, he knew he couldn't use that old-fashioned method to cultivate at this stage.
He had to rely on the tools that he had.
Spiritual Seal was the tool he got at the first simulation, but it was also the best reward he could've received.
Every single time he finished the simulation, he would receive a massive amount of spiritual energy.
If he couldn't consume that spiritual energy or store it inside the seal, it would just vanish in the air.
In other words, this tool was the best tool for his cultivation journey.
Eighth stage, achieved!
With his eighth meridian unlocked, he could now focus on his last main meridian.
Unlike the future meridians, the Energy Refinement Realm focused on the main meridians.
After unlocking all nine main meridians, he could easily withdraw energy from all sides of his body at an even rate.
This was important, especially when fighting with someone powerful than him.
While fighting Alex, he deeply realized this. Whenever he wanted to cover his body with spiritual energy, it would always become even.
Simply because four of his main meridians weren't opened.
Completely unaware of the time passing by, Tyler released another burst of spiritual energy into his dantian.
Using the cultivation technique, he started refining the spiritual energy into iron essence.
When it was finally complete, he started opening the ninth meridian. The process was almost identical, and the amount had increased tremendously.
It was now thirty times more spiritual energy than when he unlocked the sixth meridian.
But with the ninth meridian unlocked, he had finally reached the peak of the Energy Refinement Realm.
Ninth stage, achieved!