Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

After the second spiritual tribulation, Yang Dingtian's mystic skill had improved once again as expected, and the scale of improvement was still rather significant.

As the acc.u.mulation time, it was faster by three seconds as compared to the previous improvement. The strength of thunder had increased by 30% to 40%. The consumption of mystic qi had decreased from two thirds to only 55%

This spiritual tribulation truly had some incredible effects. No wonder many people had been engrossed in meditation and had even forgotten to cultivate their martial skills. Because, after meditation, the improvements in the mystic skills were simply too obvious.

Suddenly, Yang Dingtian couldn't help but ask, “Master, how is my spiritual innate talent?”

Dongfang Niemie didn't directly reply and said, “Yang Dingtian, spiritual innate talent is only 20% related to the mystic meridian innate talent. Only during the execution of spiritual mystic skill would it be related to the mystic meridian innate talent. A weak person might have an exceptionally high spiritual talent, which is why this world's Beast Speakers all have very high spiritual talent. In fact, all of this world's Spiritual Masters have ordinary mystic meridian talents.”

Even though Dongfang Niemie didn't say it, Yang Dingtian already understood his master's meaning. He shouldn't expect his spiritual talent to be exceptional because of his Nine Yang Mystic Meridians.

Spiritual innate talent was simply about the brain. Of course, when talking about the brain, it wasn't entirely related to being clever and intelligent. Many of the patients with mental disorders might also have very high spiritual innate talent.

“Your mystic meridian talent is not even 1 in a trillion. Your spiritual talent is also at the top of the elites and should be ranked in the top 3% of the world,” Dongfang Niemie said.

The top 3% might sound incredible, but in fact, it meant that there were at least 100 million individuals who had the spiritual talent that surpa.s.sed Yang Dingtian.

But Yang Dingtian wasn't upset, as being in the top 3% was already good enough. You couldn't possibly ask for the heavens to give you the 1 in a trillion Nine Yang Mystic Meridians and also give you the 1 in a trillion spiritual innate talent, right?

“Don't worry, as long as you aren't seeking to become a Spiritual Master, your spiritual talent is more than competent. The amount of power that spiritual energy could increase the mystic skill in the early stage is very important. But when at the later stage, it is almost impossible to make even an inch of progress. Even if the spiritual energy doubles in strength, there might not even be a 1% increase in the mystic skill's power. Apart from Spiritual Masters, there is almost no one else who would be engrossed in spiritual tribulation. It will be good enough as long as it is sufficient. One must grasp a balance,” Dongfang Niemie explained.

“I understand. I don't have to strive for #1 in everything and win everything,” Yang Dingtian responded.

“It is very good that you understand these things as they are very important,” Dongfang Niemie replied.

This time, Yang Dingtian didn't immediately submerge into the bottom of the pool to conduct the spiritual tribulation. Even though the tribulation was like a game and it was very fun.

He started to act like before as he cultivated his martial skill and the Pig Slaying Sword Art. After cultivating for six hours, it was time to greet the sunset again.

Today, there still wasn't any s.h.i.+p that came from the surface of the sea.

After the sky turned dark, Yang Dingtian submerged into the bottom of the water to conduct the spiritual tribulation again.

Two hours of real-time was equivalent to four hours of spiritual dream realm time.

This time, in two hours, Yang Dingtian had completed a third of the maze as he had realized the second calculation pattern. But after he went through a third of the correct route, the pattern lost its effectiveness again. Yang Dingtian had to search for the third pattern in the vast amount of data.

After the scorching flames awakened him from the giant demon, Yang Dingtian didn't emerge from the water to test the Mountain Split. He rested for a moment before he entered the spiritual tribulation again.

This time, in two hours, Yang Dingtian finally found the maze's third pattern, which allowed him to make it through half the maze. It was a pity when Yang Dingtian surpa.s.sed the halfway mark, and he realized that the third pattern had lost effectiveness again.

This time, after he woke up, he rested for a moment before he entered spiritual tribulation yet again. This was the third time he had entered the spiritual tribulation today.

This time, Yang Dingtian found the fourth pattern of the maze, but he realized the route was still wrong. Hence, he was unable to make it past the halfway mark of the route. It at the moment, when he was going to leave the dream realm did he realize the fifth pattern, which must be applied together with the fourth pattern for it to work.

But, there wasn't enough time, and he was quickly evicted from the dream realm.

This time, without any rest, Yang Dingtian immediately entered the spiritual tribulation for the fourth time.

On the fourth time, Yang Dingtian's luck had exploded, and when he completed 60% of the route, he actually found the sixth pattern, which was then combined with the fifth and fourth patterns, allowing him to complete 80% of the route directly. It meant to say that there was just another 20% before Yang Dingtian successfully completed the first level of tribulation for this spiritual scroll.

By the time he awakened from the fourth tribulation, it just happened to be daybreak.

It was just in time for Yang Dingtian to conduct the mystic qi breathing cycle. After a few hours of breathing cycles, Yang Dingtian mystic meridians and qi sea were filled with battle mystic qi again.

Afterward, Yang Dingtian began a new test of the Mountain Split mystic skill.

“This time, I have completed 80% of the spiritual tribulation. I hope that the Mountain Split can have a similarly significant improvement.” Yang Dingtian thought in his heart.

Subsequently, he closed his eyes gradually and acc.u.mulated the mystic qi and organized the mystical thunder mystic skill.

“Bang…” A bolt of thunder struck out from his palm abruptly.

Only three seconds were needed to execute the attack. Previously, Yang Dingtian required nine seconds, but he only required three seconds this time.

Yang Dingtian was instantly overjoyed at the current results.

Furthermore, the thunder was actually a foot in thickness, which was almost twice as thick as before.

There was a foot deep and five feet long creak that was left on the giant boulder, which meant to say that the power of the Mountain Split had been increased by over two folds.

Finally, when taking a look at the mystic qi consumed, Yang Dingtian was pleasantly surprised to find out that he had more than 80% of his mystic qi left.

It also meant that when Yang Dingtian was filled with mystic qi, it would be enough for him to execute the Mountain Split for five times. In the beginning, he was only able to execute one time, and the power wasn't even comparable to a portion of the current Mountain Split's power.

The effects of the spiritual tribulation had greatly increased the power of the mystic skill.

Immediately after, Yang Dingtian cultivated his mystic skill again, and after cultivating for eight hours, he had exhausted all of the mystic qi that was left within his body.

When the sky turned dark, Yang Dingtian entered the bottom of the pool to conduct the spiritual tribulation again.

Yang Dingtian had confidence that he could successfully escape the maze tonight, completing the first level of the scroll's spiritual tribulation. But Yang Dingtian found out that it was obviously much harder than he had imagined.

At the start, Yang Dingtian had smoothly completed 95% of the route and had only used half an hour. But for the remaining 5%, he simply couldn't complete it.

On his second and third attempts, he was still stuck at the 95% mark of the route.

Yang Dingtian and tried every method and possible answers for the last 5% of the route. After eliminating all the wrong routes, he was actually unable to find a correct route.

Hence, Yang Dingtian had an insane idea for an instant. Could it be that his direction had been wrong from the beginning, and 95% of the correct route was actually a trap, and all those patterns that he found earlier were also traps?

Therefore, on his fourth attempt, Yang Dingtian decided to abandon the 95% route that he previously completed. He had chosen to start from the beginning. He had totally discarded all the patterns that he had found from the countless data and restarted everything from the beginning.

This required courage and faith, but those were things that Yang Dingtian didn't lack.

This tribulation had a total time limit of four hours. Three hours had already pa.s.sed, and Yang Dingtian was still like a headless fly that was scuttling everywhere. He couldn't even find 1% of the correct route and didn't discover any pattern.

Just as he was about to give up completely, he suddenly found a brand new pattern. Afterward, he swiftly found the first 10% of the route and didn't return back to the starting point. This route was completely different from the previous 95% completed route.

Immediately after, he made it through 20%, 30%, and 40%.

In the last hour, Yang Dingtian was exploring with shocking speed and was unprecedently fast.

When there were only five minutes left, Yang Dingtian had gotten through 95% of this route, and there was still that last 5% before he could escape this maze and complete the first level of this scroll's spiritual tribulation, and he would also be able to see what the second level's dream realm looked like.

In this instant, Yang Dingtian's heart was feeling apprehensive and fearful, just like before. What if he couldn't find the last 5% of the route? What if this was another trap?

In the end, Yang Dingtian was simply overly anxious.

The last 5% went very smoothly, and he was slightly stuck for a moment before it got clear.

Right at the last second, Yang Dingtian could see the exit.

It was a glisten golden door, and outside was snow-white radiance.

“I finally completed it…” Yang Dingtian cheered out in his heart and rushed out quickly.

“Swish…” There was a white flash, and the scenery changed instantly.

He had walked out of the first floor's underground maze and had completed the first level of the maze scroll's tribulation.

Just as the second floor's dream realm was about to appear in his vision, the time limit of the tribulation was up, and Yang Dingtian was immediately pulled back to the real world.

When Yang Dingtian opened his eyes, it was already daytime.

“Just in time for me to do the mystic qi breathing cycle. I will then test the Mountain Split again to see how much improvement I have achieved.” Yang Dingtian was extremely expectant as the previous results of the spiritual tribulation were significant and had helped his thunder mystic skill make a rapid progression. This time, he had completed the first level of the spiritual tribulation and was truly looking forward to seeing the breakthrough for his mystic skill.

But immediately after, he noticed the serene pool actually had abnormal sounds, and he couldn't help but lift his head up.

There was an extremely captivating scene that came into his vision, and it had caught him off guard.

Right above him, there was actually a woman swimming in the water.

He might not be able to see the face of the woman clearly, but her figure was remarkably great. She was just like a mermaid, and her legs were astonis.h.i.+ngly long.