"The Fifth Layer area? Who is he?"
"The Fifth Layer, that's already the requirement for a Prime Warrior!"
"I sensed his blood and breath, seems very weak, is his spiritual power that monstrous?" Some returning students wondered.
They didn't have Li Yuan's Mind Spirit Divine Palace, which made it hard for them to accurately judge someone's Life Level.
But as martial artists enhance their body and spirit, their perception sharpens, allowing them to make out quite a bit despite the vagueness.
"Him? I saw him yesterday in the V chat group, seems like a freshman, named Li Yuan."
"I remember now, he broke Senior Brother Jin's admission record."
"Must be him, Dean Li Yang accompanied him here." Many students started whispering among themselves.
Even, quite a few students took out their smartwatches to start recording.
These students were secretly astounded.
Great skills could be explained by good comprehension, but without physical enhancement, it's usually hard for spiritual power to rise rapidly.
"The Fifth Layer." Li Yuan was beginning to struggle, his face betraying a trace of pain.
If it were purely the intensity of spiritual power, Li Yuan would have had difficulty even in the Fourth Layer area.
However, like the same body, the stronger the skills, the more terrifying the strength displayed.
Spiritual power is similar; at the same level of spiritual power, if the willpower differs in strength, the performance will be utterly different.
It's like one person consuming various Heavenly Materials Treasures, both body and spiritual power being of the 19th Level.
The other is one who reached the 19th Level through arduous and painstaking cultivation.
The data looks the same for both, but if faced with horrible torture, can the duration of their endurance be the same?
Willpower is akin to the 'skill' of the spiritual power.
Li Yuan, relentlessly practicing the "Observing the Great Sun Starry Sky Scripture" day and night, enduring repeated hellish torments, had long since tempered his will to an extremely high level.
Naturally, he could concentrate his spiritual power to a terrifying degree.
Finally, Li Yuan stood steadily at the end of the Fifth Layer area, his face and demeanor faintly twisted.
The tremendous pain caused by the strong spiritual pressure made Li Yuan's entire head buzz.
"He has rushed to the Fifth Layer area and is still standing firmly, which means he still has some strength left."
"This monstrous? Strong skills and such terrifying spiritual power?"
"The Fifth Layer area, doesn't it mean his spirit can compare with a Prime Warrior?" And this scene shocked the other students.
"Prime Warrior level?" Li Yang's eyes also shone: "Is it the will?"
"No wonder he could endure the thrice monthly Spirit Marrow Cleansing."
"This willpower is truly unique." Li Yang felt slightly emotional in his heart: "Many high-level Prime Warriors probably don't have such willpower."
Among the Prime Warriors, those between levels 20-22 are often called junior Prime Warriors.
Levels 23-25 are called mid-level Prime Warriors.
Levels 26-28 are known as high-level Prime Warriors.
A 29th Level Prime Warrior is a Top Grade Origin Martial Artist.
...Five minutes later.
Li Yuan, step by step, retreated from the Fifth Layer area back to the First Layer area.
His breathing and expression returned to calm, as he came back to Li Yang's side.
"Teacher, your student is incompetent, only managed to reach the Fifth Layer area." Li Yuan said seemingly earnestly: "I couldn't make it to the Ninth Layer area."
The Ninth Layer area?
Li Yang's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help saying: "Alright, stop flattering yourself, I only reached the Ninth Layer area after becoming a 29th Level Prime Warrior... You are quite young, already very outstanding."
"Teacher only reached the Ninth Layer area?" Li Yuan was surprised.
"This Pillar of Spirit, usually only warriors of the 13th Level and above dare attempt it, otherwise it's easy to sustain severe mental damage, hurting the psyche." Li Yang said: "But it's mainly for high-level Prime Warriors to temper their spirit."
"For a Top Grade Prime Warrior like me, it has very little effect."
"As for Flying Heaven Warriors, it's completely useless." Li Yang said.
Li Yuan couldn't help nodding, so that's how it was.
Martial Arts University, in essence, is a training base for martial artists; the Pillar of Spirit is indeed quite suitable.
If it were greatly beneficial even to Flying Heaven Warriors, it might easily lead to trouble.
"Let's go out first." Li Yang said, turning around to walk outside.
The two walked out of the Vermilion Bird Building all the way to the empty plaza outside.
"Did you feel the flaw in the Pillar of Spirit?" Li Yang asked as they walked.
"Exhausting the spirit too heavily?" Li Yuan pondered.
During the session he just had, he had felt slightly tired mentally.
"Right," Li Yang nodded, "Just like exercising the body, if you train too hard at once, your whole body will be sore for several days."
"A First Rank martial artist, if they stay for two hours at a time, needs at least three to five days to recover; during this period, their mental exhaustion will even affect their normal cultivation," Li Yang said, "That's why it needs to be paired with Spirit Nourishing Potions."
"To speed up the recovery of spiritual power."
"Even so, most students, the majority, only go to the Pillar of Spirit to cultivate once a week," Li Yang said.
Li Yuan suddenly understood why there were so few students at the Pillar of Spirit earlier.
"As an S-tier special training contract member, every month, the school will provide you with a Divine-Nurturing Spring," Li Yang said, "Each one, if sold outside, is worth at least a million Blue Star Coins."
"Its efficacy is much stronger than that of a First Rank Spirit Nourishing Potion, with even fewer side effects."
"Divine-Nurturing Spring?" Li Yuan was secretly astonished; he had only heard about it online.
Adding it up, just this one cultivation resource alone was worth tens of millions of Blue Star Coins a year.
Without hesitating more than three seconds, Li Yuan directly said, "Teacher, can this be exchanged for other cultivation resources? I don't really need it."
"Such as those that assist in cultivating the body."
"Not needed?" It was Li Yang's turn to be stunned.
"Teacher, my spiritual talent is high enough, and the Pillar of Spirit helps me very little," Li Yuan said, "Right now, what's most important for me is to enhance my physical quality."
Divine-Nurturing Spring?
In terms of effect, it definitely can't compete with the Visualization Method in restoring the mental and physical state.
"The school has already prepared for you a High Origin Spirit Spring each month for your physical cultivation,"
"Its effects are equivalent to five or six Essence Pills of Origin Power, and its value is comparable to Divine-Nurturing Spring, but it puts less strain on the body," Li Yang frowned, "However, if you exchange it for two High Origin Spirit Springs, will you take one every half a month? I'm afraid your body won't be able to take it."
He knew Li Yuan was making sense.
With Li Yuan's demonstrated talent for spiritual power and willpower, he basically doesn't need to rely on many external substances, unless they are Heavenly Materials Treasures.
"High Origin Spirit Spring?" thought Li Yuan; he had seen it before in the 'mall' of Starfire Martial Hall.
But he couldn't afford to buy it.
Thinking carefully, Kunlun Martial University had indeed prepared many cultivation resources for him.
Seeing that Li Yuan had fallen into thought.
"There is one way you could try," Li Yang suddenly said.
"Please tell me, teacher," Li Yuan responded without even lifting his head.
"Use the Washing Marrow Essence more often, four times, even five times," Li Yang stared at Li Yuan, speaking slowly, "However, you've used the Washing Marrow Essence before and should be clear about it."
"It is essentially scraping bone to heal poison and a thorough cleaning of various impurities from the body in various places."
"Using it consecutively in a short period of time, the pain becomes increasingly exaggerated," Li Yang sighed, "Using it three times a month, for you to be able to persist at your age would be incredible."
Li Yuan had listened in astonishment; Washing Marrow Essence, four times a month?
After a long silence, just when Li Yang thought Li Yuan was going to give up.
Suddenly, Li Yuan said, "Teacher, I want to try!"
After saying those words, Li Yuan felt a burning sensation in his lower body...
After discussing with Li Yang for half the day, Li Yuan finally knew the truth about the 'Extreme Cultivation Method' that Teacher Fan Jin had given him.
But in the end, Li Yuan had persuaded Li Yang.
Two portions of High Origin Spirit Spring each month.
To be trialed for a month.
If after one month, Li Yuan couldn't keep up, they would switch to a cultivation plan of one Divine-Nurturing Spring and one High Origin Spirit Spring each month.
At night, Li Yuan returned to his villa.
Entered the virtual network, Kunlun Space.
"Following Teacher Li's advice."
"Apart from the regular cultivation of the body and refinement of spiritual power, if I want to improve my skill quickly, I need to study more Second Rank Spear Techniques," Li Yuan clicked on the light screen, "And consider more opinions from my predecessors."
Martial Path Knowledge Net.
This is a global network shared by all Martial Arts Universities, where every university student can log in to learn, free of charge, a certain number of Martial Arts Secret Tomes.
Soon, Li Yuan saw the privileges he had as an S-tier student.
"Free access to study fifty Second Rank Secret Manuals, including Skill Secret Manuals, Origin Power Manuals, Spirit Usage Secret Manuals..."
"Free access to study three Third Rank Secret Manuals."