“……”

  Qin Tianyi was somewhat speechless upon hearing No. 2's hint.

  Even the time setting has problems? These are supposed to be the most basic things in the database.

  It's just like a computer. If it crashes while running a certain program, restarting it may damage or lose that program, but the time in the bottom right corner will never be wrong.

  It's not reinstallation of the system either.

  "Time correction! September 21, 4133 AD, 1:27 PM... Ah, now it's 34 seconds."

  "Drip! Correction complete!"

  "However, the All Saints' Morning Moon Secret Method? The database actually has a better spiritual cultivation method than the All Saints' Morning Moon Secret Method? Why didn't I know? Although the Ice Clearing and Spirit Refining Method is very mysterious, before reaching the Spiritual Master stage, the refined spirit is even higher than that of the All Saints' Morning Moon Secret Method. But there's no follow-up part, it should be inferior to the All Saints' Morning Moon Secret Method..."

  Qin Tianji pondered for a moment in his heart and immediately gave an order: "Display the data library's method."

  "Ding! Display unavailable, transmission only. The host's current mental index can accept the first stage of transmission. Confirm?"

  Transmission

  As soon as Qin Tianyi finished speaking, he felt a slight tremor in the non-existent blue fragments in his spiritual world, as if it was an illusion. Immediately after, his spiritual world suddenly boomed, and all his spiritual powers wildly converged to a single point at the center, converging, converging, and crazily converging, further compressing, compressing, and re-compressing!

  "What is this?!"

  Qin Tianyi's face suddenly changed. If he hadn't firmly believed that Number Two wouldn't harm the host, he would have immediately stopped the transmission!

  When the converged spiritual power was compressed to an extreme, even Qin Tianyi himself seemed to have a kind of suffocating illusion due to his soul being compressed. At that moment, the spiritual power that was originally compressed to a point suddenly exploded open.

  "Rumble!"

  The moment the spiritual power burst out, Qin Tianyi suddenly felt countless spirits, divided into billions of flowing lights, radiating in all directions towards the four sides of the spiritual world, like a vast starry sky, covering the sea of stars, majestic and endless.

  "Hmm!"

  Qin Tianyi let out a low hum!

  His face has turned pale!

  The spirit that was never fully recovered was suddenly traumatized in this explosive and tearing process of spiritual compression.

  Fortunately, at this time the spiritual power of the spiritual world had stopped its turbulence. The starlight that filled the sky gradually dissipated, and it seemed that the vast starry sea that was born from the explosion also disappeared without a trace. The spiritual world restored its calm as before.

  "Hiss!"

  Qin Tianyi closed his eyes and savored for a moment, as if he had suddenly realized something, and suddenly inhaled a cold breath.

  "The first layer of this spiritual refinement method is to imagine the universe as a sphere, and then suddenly explode into a starry sky! Continuously compressing spiritual power is a process of continuous purification. The greater the degree of compression, the more pure the spirit will become. At the moment of explosion, it is not destruction, but rather a transformation from death to rebirth, containing a will to be reborn after being placed in a desperate situation. There are also some other profound mysteries within, but for now, I can only see that with each explosion, the spirit undergoes a cycle of birth and death, and all things return to one, transforming into a new life."

  Having only received the second transmission and gone through a visualization, Qin Tianyi could feel that his spirit had undergone the most fundamental tempering from the inside out.

  The extremely slow spiritual growth has once again achieved a small increase, reaching 1.7.

  "Stellar Chart" spiritual refinement method? First layer, starry sky?

  Qin Tianyi closed his eyes and quietly received the information transmitted from No. 2.

  "This is absolutely not an ordinary spiritual refinement technique, this spiritual refinement technique I have never seen before, and it's impossible for the database of No. 2 to have a spiritual refinement technique of this level."

  He soon had an epiphany in his heart.

  The soul chip is closely related to the host. If there's a more advanced spiritual refinement method, Number Two should have spoken up and reminded us by now. The fact that this accident happened at this time, nine out of ten, has something to do with this reboot.

  "Number two, self-test!"

  "Drip! Self-test in progress! Soul Chip No. 2! Activated on October 10, 4112 AD at 8:21, currently evolved to level three..."

  "Evolution Level Three!"

  Qin Tianji was slightly taken aback.

  Soul chip, when the host itself breaks through to the seventh-order spiritual power, it will evolve for the first time. When it reaches the spiritual master, it will evolve for the second time.

  At present, he is only a 9th-level spiritual practitioner. According to reason, the evolution level of the soul chip should be only one level, why...

  "Check evolution date!"

  "Ding! Evolution date check in! May 14, 4128 AD, 7:11 AM, completed primary evolution! April 3, 4133 AD, 11:24 AM, completed secondary evolution! September 20, 4133 AD, 6:54 AM, completed tertiary evolution!"

  "First evolution, it's the day I promoted to 7th rank spiritual power holder... Second evolution..."

  Qin Tianji thought carefully for a moment, and then reacted immediately. His face changed suddenly: "This is the day when the warship was hit by a space storm and crashed! Since then, No. 2's evolution level has reached level two?"

  At this point, Qin Tianyi finally understood why he felt that No. 2 consumed more spiritual energy than usual when using it.

  "Third-level evolution... If it weren't for my mental gauge increasing from 1 to 1.7, I probably wouldn't have been able to activate energy-saving mode."

  Qin Tianyi murmured and continued watching No. 2's self-inspection diary.

  Soon, another item in the self-test program caught Qin Tianyi's attention again.

  "April 3, 4133 AD, 11:23... Awareness of unknown signal invasion... At this time? Was it the moment when the warship crashed? But why was there no follow-up? Only detected an unknown signal?"

  "Wait! Unknown signal!"

  It was as if he had finally understood something, and Qin Tianyi instantly pulled his diary to the events of the past few days.

  "Indeed! Unknown signal! Fusion? Fusion failure? Although the fusion failed, this and the "Star Chart" spiritual refinement method remained, stored in No. 2's database... If I'm not mistaken, that mysterious unknown signal still exists, only it's something that neither No. 2 nor I can investigate, unless a certain special data, skill, or the 'unknown signal' database resonate with each other, then the 'unknown signal' will appear..."

  At this time, Qin Tianyi thought of the cyan fragment that appeared in the spiritual world and the small tender bud that was wrapped around the cyan fragment.

  "Unknown signal... is it you?"

  Everything is finally clear.

  "Justice will be served!"

  This unknown signal may have a relationship with that starry sky storm, or maybe it doesn't.

  But he will figure it out somehow.

  At this point, Qin Tianyi closed his eyes again and began to meditate quietly.

  By the third morning, his mental state had finally recovered to its best, and then he once again contemplated the first level of cultivation in "Starry Sky Diagram", tempering his spirit.

  In the continuous process of gathering, compressing, exploding and differentiating, he distinctly felt his spirit becoming more pure, and in the midst of constant destruction and rebirth, gradually accumulated some special characteristics. It was as if when he transmitted the first level of the Stellar Chart Spirit Refining Technique, his spirit exploded and shot out in all directions, transforming into countless twinkling points of light that illuminated the originally calm spiritual world.

  This starry radiance lasted only for a second or two, but it was enough to make him realize the vastness and profundity of it all.

  At that moment, he was like the embodiment of the great master of the starry sky, standing in the vast universe, with his feet on the starry sea, opening up the sky and earth, breathing in and out, moving with every gesture, the entire starry sky, billions of stars, following his will to live and die.

  ……

  "The spiritual degree has already reached 1.8."

  Twelve days later, Qin Tianyi checked again through self-inspection and found his own attributes.

  "I once set the spiritual degree of a 9th-level spiritual practitioner at its peak as 1, and since I had already touched the threshold of a spiritual master at that time, I inferred that the spiritual degree of a spiritual master would be 2. However, after revising the first layer of the 'Star Chart', my spirit has undergone a complete purification, and the spiritual world has even given rise to a few twinkling starlights, which seem to have somewhat departed from the realm of spiritual practitioner cultivation. Following this trend, I estimate that even if the spiritual degree reaches 2, it may not necessarily be possible to advance to become a spiritual master."

  As for this result, Qin Tianyi didn't have any regrets.

  Whether he is a spiritual master or not is unimportant; what matters is that he has the powerful spiritual energy of a spiritual master. Does it matter whether he himself is a spiritual master?

  "After the spiritual power increased, the efficiency of refining the inner elixir of the Lord-level ferocious beast has improved significantly. In less than a month, the intensity of the true energy has already reached the peak of the 9th level of Swordsmen. Next..."

  Qin Tianji spoke as his hand produced a jade box.

  In the jade box was the Beast King Zhudao Dan that he had just refined yesterday.

  A Beast King Casting Dao Dan refined from the inner dan of a quasi-Duke level ferocious beast.

  His alchemy skills, although not as good as those of the midnight hours, were still successful in refining three Beast King Zhudao Dan with the help of No. 2's evolution to level 3, helping him advance to the Great Swordsman stage with ease.

  "The Great Swordsman..."

  Without hesitation, Qin Tianyi had already swallowed a Beast King Zhudao Dan.

  As soon as the Beast King's Refining Dao Dan entered his body, its medicinal properties immediately dispersed. Then, Qin Tianyi's incredibly powerful spirit, which was close to that of a Spiritual Master, suddenly burst forth from the spiritual realm and charged into the true energy, sweeping away the thick medicinal power of the Beast King's Refining Dao Dan and frantically refining the true energy.

  "Cloud Sea Tide Birth Secret! Transform! Refine Qi! Form a Vortex!"

  "Hum!"

  With the support of the thick life essence transformed into true energy, and with a divine soul strength comparable to that of a great sword master, Qin Tianyi's true energy inside his body changed at an almost visible speed.

  "Number two!"

  Seeing the true energy had reached a critical point of change, the second Beast King Casting Dao Dan was swallowed by him once again.

  "Crack!"

  Along with a flash of crystal clear color, a seemingly substantial aura finally emerged after being tempered.

  "The Great Swordsman! Has Been Born!"

  With his eyes closed, Qin Tianyi, who was quietly refining the beast king's alchemy, finally revealed a hint of a smile on his face.

  He had just arrived in this world, with only a fourth-level swordsman cultivation. After five and a half months, he had gone through many life-and-death struggles, cutting through thorns and thistles, and finally broke through continuously, advancing to the Great Swordsman realm, becoming the strongest in Wanxia County.