I want to go back to my original world and live an ordinary life.

The crystal's energy was exhausted, and the formation stopped working. Qiu Yan slowly stood up. Unlike the previous two times, he looked obviously disappointed. Seeing this, Zi Yang curiously asked Qiu Yan, "What's wrong? Is the training not going well this time?"

Hearing Zi Yang's words, Qiu Yan looked up at Zi Yang, then nodded and said, "Yes! I originally wanted to directly upgrade to the fifth-level Great Spiritual Master through this training, but my cultivation stopped at the 499th level, and on the last day I didn't even break through one level!"

After Qiu Yan finished speaking, his face was full of confusion and disappointment, because he didn't know why this happened. But Zi Yang was an experienced person, she knew why Qiu Yan encountered this situation, so she said to Qiu Yan, "Wang Ling, you don't have to be disappointed, this is normal. The fifth-level great spiritual master is a cultivation barrier for all practitioners. Some people can't even break through this barrier in their entire lives. Even I took several months to take this step. So don't worry, just take your time."

After listening to Zi Yang's explanation, Qiu Yan's sense of loss seemed to be relieved, but at the same time he was a little curious, why is there a barrier when the Great Spiritual Master reaches the fifth level? Generally speaking, don't cultivation barriers appear when crossing levels? For example, it is normal for a barrier to appear when crossing from a Spiritual Master to a Great Spiritual Master, or from a Great Spiritual Master to a Holy Spirit Master, but it is not easy to understand why a cultivation barrier also appears for a fifth-level Great Spiritual Master. So thinking of this, Qiu Yan asked Zi Yang, "Instructor Zi Yang, why is there a barrier for the five great spiritual masters? Logically speaking, shouldn't cultivation barriers only appear when crossing levels?"

Hearing Qiu Yan's question, Zi Yang smiled, and then explained to Qiu Yan, "It is true, but the fifth-level Great Spiritual Master is special. To reach the fifth-level Great Spiritual Master, a cultivator must have spiritual consciousness. Only those with spiritual consciousness can break through to the fifth-level Great Spiritual Master. It is difficult to comprehend the cultivation of spiritual consciousness without someone to guide you. Even if ordinary people comprehend spiritual consciousness, it is difficult to reach the standard of breaking through the fifth level without good resources to provide cultivation. Precisely because the breakthrough of the fifth-level Great Spiritual Master has this limitation, the difficulty of breaking through the fifth level for cultivators is similar to that of breaking through across levels.

"Oh!" After listening to Zi Yang's explanation, Qiu Yan nodded in understanding, then thought for a moment and asked Zi Yang, "Instructor Zi Yang, what exactly is this spiritual consciousness you are talking about? If I want to break through to the fifth-level great spiritual master, don't I have to cultivate this kind of spiritual consciousness?"

Hearing Qiu Yan's question, Zi Yang nodded, and then said, "That's right! If you want to break through the fifth level, you must also cultivate spiritual consciousness. But don't worry, I will slowly guide you on this point. Although it may take some time, it should be no problem for you to master spiritual consciousness with your talent. As for spiritual consciousness, it is not a thing. It is just a kind of consciousness, a kind of consciousness that transcends the limitations of the body. You can understand it as an extension of your own consciousness. Maybe you can't understand what I mean, but I will give you an example and you will understand. For example, you are in the house now, and you can't see the situation outside the yard. That's because the wall blocks your sight and makes you unable to See the situation outside. For example, you can't see the flying insects in the grass a hundred meters away now, because your eyes can't see such subtle things. But these things that the eyes can't see can be seen clearly with spiritual consciousness, because spiritual consciousness can penetrate everything in the world, allowing you to ignore the obstruction of objects and see everything around you, and spiritual consciousness can also observe some details that you can't observe with your naked eyes. Not only that, if the spiritual consciousness is strong enough, you can use it to directly invade other people's consciousness, spy on other people's memories, and even control other people's consciousness and directly kill other people's consciousness. This is spiritual consciousness, a way of cultivation different from spiritual power. "

Zi Yang finished speaking and looked at Qiu Yan, as if to see if Qiu Yan understood what he meant. After listening to Zi Yang's description, Qiu Yan probably understood what spiritual consciousness was. To put it bluntly, this thing was the divine consciousness or mental power mentioned in the online novels he had read before. So after listening to Zi Yang's story, Qiu Yan nodded in understanding, and then suddenly he thought of something else, so he asked Zi Yang, "Instructor Zi Yang, if you say so, can you also spy on other people's memories? Then you...?" Qiu Yan thought about whether Zi Yang had spied on his memory, but he didn't say it halfway because he was afraid that if he asked, he would get an answer that he couldn't accept. After all, no one wants others to spy on their memories.

Although Qiu Yan didn't finish her words, Zi Yang understood them. She smiled and said to Qiu Yan, "Although great spiritual masters after the fifth level need a certain spiritual foundation, those foundations are still not enough to invade other people's consciousness, especially to invade the consciousness of cultivators. No one on this continent can do it, and I can't do it either."

"Hmm?" After hearing Zi Yang's answer, Qiu Yan was a little confused for a moment. After a hum, he continued to ask, "Instructor Zi Yang, spiritual consciousness is so powerful, why do people on this continent only have the basics of spiritual consciousness, and no one goes to deeply cultivate spiritual consciousness? Cultivating spiritual consciousness can not only be used to spy on memories, but also to control and kill the opponent, right?"

"You are right. Spiritual consciousness is indeed very powerful. However, there are few methods for cultivating spiritual consciousness on this continent, so it is very difficult to cultivate it. Moreover, if you want spiritual consciousness to be able to control or kill the opponent, you must increase the strength of spiritual consciousness. Although there are methods to increase the strength of spiritual consciousness, no one can do it because it requires a kind of elixir called Shenling Pill to assist in the improvement. And the spiritual medicines for refining this Shenling Pill are all very rare. Among them, there is a spiritual medicine called Tianhuacao, which is a spiritual medicine that only exists in ancient times. No one has found this herb on the Zhenling Continent for hundreds of thousands of years. Therefore, if you want to achieve this by cultivating spiritual consciousness, you must first cultivate spiritual consciousness. Controlling and killing enemies is basically impossible in the True Spirit Continent. Because of this, most practitioners stop practicing spiritual consciousness after breaking through the fifth level, including me. My spiritual consciousness now extends to about 600 meters. I can use it to check things within a 600-meter range, but I can't do anything else. "At this point, Zi Yang smiled and looked at Qiu Yan, then said, "However, although my spiritual consciousness training is not very good, it is still no problem to guide you to break through to the fifth-level great spiritual master. As for whether you will choose to practice spiritual consciousness after breaking through to the fifth-level great spiritual master, it is up to you to choose."

After listening to Zi Yang's explanation, Qiu Yan nodded and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this meant that his memory had not been spied on by Zi Yang. However, Qiu Yan was a little disappointed when he heard Zi Yang say that cultivating spiritual consciousness was so difficult. He had originally planned to cultivate it well after he had spiritual consciousness, but now it seemed that this idea was difficult to implement. After all, Qiu Yan only knew what spiritual consciousness was, but he had no idea how to cultivate it. If no one taught him, he could only choose to give up cultivating spiritual consciousness like most people.

Qiu Yan didn't say this thought, because it was too early for him to say it now. After all, he didn't even have spiritual consciousness yet, so what's the point of saying it? Just like that, Qiu Yan talked to Zi Yang for a while, and Zi Yang looked at the sky outside the window, which had already darkened, and said to Qiu Yan, "Okay, this training ends here, and your one-month confinement time has also expired, so you should go back today and have a good rest for three days. Come back to my place after three days, and then you can practice the spiritual power of light attribute."

Qiu Yan had no opinion on Zi Yang's words, he nodded and said goodbye to Zi Yang, then left Zi Yang's courtyard. On the way back, Qiu Yan was still thinking about future cultivation. He felt that he had to master the basics of spiritual awareness as soon as possible, otherwise not only the spirit of life, but also the light attribute spiritual power would definitely be stuck at level 499.

Just as Qiu Yan was thinking this, he looked up and saw a person standing on the side of the road. This person was none other than Mu Qingxue, the person he least wanted to meet! Mu Qingxue leaned against the wall on the side of the road, wearing a cat-faced mask on her face and holding a long sword in both hands. She looked like she was waiting for someone. Although Qiu Yan didn't want to meet her, it would be difficult for Qiu Yan to avoid her. Besides, Mu Qingxue helped him save Bai Xiaoer last time, so after thinking about it, Qiu Yan walked towards Mu Qingxue. When he walked to Mu Qingxue's side, Qiu Yan stopped, glanced at Mu Qingxue and said, "Miss Qingxue, what are you doing here?" Qiu Yan was praying in his heart when he asked this question, praying that Mu Qingxue would not say that she was waiting for him, but to Qiu Yan's disappointment, as soon as he finished asking, he heard Mu Qingxue say lightly, "Waiting for you!"

As soon as these two words came out, Qiu Yan's heart suddenly tightened, and a bad feeling emerged from the bottom of his heart. But although he was a little panicked, Qiu Yan's face did not show it. He still smiled and asked tentatively, "Miss Qingxue, what's the matter with you waiting for me here?"

After hearing Qiu Yan's words, Mu Qingxue replied calmly, "It's okay, I won't come to see you!" After that, Mu Qingxue stood up straight, then put down her hands that were folded in front of her chest, and then continued, "Come with me, I have something to ask you."

Mu Qingxue turned around and was about to leave, but Qiu Yan hesitated at this time. He didn't want to go with Mu Qingxue. At this time, Mu Qingxue seemed to have noticed Qiu Yan's thoughts, and then added secretly, "Don't worry, I won't waste too much of your time." After that, Mu Qingxue ignored Qiu Yan and got up and left. Qiu Yan was helpless when he saw this. Although he really didn't want to have anything to do with Mu Qingxue, after all, Mu Qingxue and he were old acquaintances, and although Mu Qingxue was a little annoying, she had never really hurt him, so after thinking about it, Qiu Yan followed Mu Qingxue and prepared to listen to what she had to say to him.