#185 - Synchronous Practice

After giving the instructions, Quan Yi confidently left the blacksmith shop with Huowu.

The remaining blacksmith Yuan could handle everything perfectly on his own.

Since blacksmith Yuan gave up managing the business and wholeheartedly immersed himself in the path of forging, his forging skills improved with each passing day.

According to the mainland's classification of blacksmiths, blacksmith Yuan's forging level had reached the level of a Grandmaster Blacksmith.

The level classification for blacksmiths is different from that of soul masters, with only seven levels.

From bottom to top, they are: Apprentice Blacksmith, Intermediate Blacksmith, Advanced Blacksmith, Blacksmith Master, Grandmaster Blacksmith, Blacksmith Grandmaster, and Divine Blacksmith.

Initially, when they first met Yuan, his blacksmith level was roughly that of an Advanced Blacksmith.

However, after several years, Yuan, through his own efforts, had raised his level to the realm of Grandmaster Blacksmith.

As a non-soul master blacksmith, being able to reach this point, apart from Quan Yi's investment and his own efforts, was inseparable from his talent and passion for forging.

Moreover, with a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of metals, his level was rapidly approaching the level of a Blacksmith Grandmaster.

On the way back.

"Xiao Yi, are we going to live by the sea in the future?"

Huowu asked thoughtfully, looking at the night sky.

Quan Yi gazed tenderly into Huowu's clear eyes and asked in return:

"Are you willing to follow me?"

Huowu did not hesitate for a moment and replied firmly: "I am willing."

Quan Yi's eyes flickered as he looked at Huowu with a smile.

Someone who could choose to follow him without hesitation was worthy of his lifelong protection.

No matter how long the vacation was, it always felt too short.

A week passed in the blink of an eye.

Quan Yi and Huowu's happy time quickly came to an end.

On the first day after the vacation ended.

Quan Yi put on the thickened and weighted ten-ton load and began his physical training.

Even with iron essence, which has a very high density, a weight of ten tons becomes incredibly bulky.

Even though Quan Yi's physique had also become taller, it was impractical to concentrate all the weight on the vest, leg guards, and arm guards.

Therefore, blacksmith Yuan put his heart into creating equipment for Quan Yi similar to full-body armor.

The leg guards, arm guards, and vest were thickened and lengthened with a design that minimized the impact on movement.

In addition, shoulder pads and a breastplate were added for Quan Yi, worn on the outside of the vest.

Wearing this entire set of equipment, Quan Yi looked like an ancient knight going on an expedition.

The heavy armor could easily create a large hole when stepping on the ground by the lake.

However, when running, apart from the sound of the armor on the upper body colliding as it swung, almost no other sound could be heard.

For a week, Quan Yi went to the bottom of the Flame Vein every night to conduct top-level simulated environment cultivation.

But even so, Quan Yi's cultivation speed had only barely reached the cultivation speed of an ordinary soul master.

According to his calculations, his cultivation speed had decreased from leveling up every five months to leveling up every ten months.

It was fully twice as slow.

This also meant that it would take Quan Yi four years to break through to level sixty.

If it weren't for Quan Yi absorbing the soul ring of a high-year soul beast, the time required would have doubled directly.

Four years later, Quan Yi would be fifteen years old.

A fifteen-year-old Soul Emperor, although also an unprecedented achievement.

But it did not quite match Quan Yi's expected plan.

Because the level-up speed of a soul master would become slower and slower in the later stages.

The current speed was already very slow, and after breaking through to Soul Emperor, his cultivation speed would be greatly reduced again.

At that time, it was very likely that Quan Yi would need a year of cultivation to laboriously break through one level.

This was still Soul Emperor, what about Soul Saint, Soul Douluo, and Titled Douluo?

Therefore, in order to speed up the cultivation time, Quan Yi racked his brains and thought of the moment when he fought Dugu Bo, when he simultaneously ran his soul power in battle in order to quickly replenish his soul power.

Thinking of this, Quan Yi thought of the possibility of simultaneously running his soul power while exercising his body.

Previously, Quan Yi did not try such an operation to prevent going astray.

However, the current Quan Yi was no longer the Quan Yi of that time.

His mental power level was comparable to that of a top soul saint, and his mental strength was sufficient to support him in completing these two things at the same time.

And today was the first day he tried it.

When Quan Yi was running while wearing heavy armor, half of his consciousness was focused on the operation of soul power in his body.

When doing physical exercises, the soul power in the body would unconsciously start to operate and participate in the physical exercises.

When soul power is running, a soul master can exert more powerful strength and endurance.

So, in general, soul masters who exercise their bodies are actually using soul power.

But Quan Yi was different from them. From the beginning, he consciously prevented the participation of soul power in order to focus more on exercising the body.

Therefore, Quan Yi's soul power was in a dormant state when he exercised.

But now, Quan Yi needed to use his consciousness to make the soul power run again in his body.

A vermilion soul power, starting from the dantian, completed a cycle through the trajectory of the cultivation method.

Quan Yi's mental power controlled the soul power in the process of operation, trying to maintain a state of cohesion as much as possible, without providing energy to the body.

But unlike what he expected, Quan Yi's soul power was incomparably condensed and perfectly matched his mental power.

Therefore, he could complete a complete soul power operation without losing a trace of soul power.

This feeling was like the transformation of hardness into softness that he usually practiced outside his body.

The usual control of soul power and the training of mental power control gave Quan Yi an extremely solid foundation.

When the first stream of soul power completed a cycle and returned to the dantian, Quan Yi could feel that it had grown a little.

Although the increase was far less than the top cultivation state during simulated environment cultivation, it did increase the time of soul power cultivation.

Accumulated over time, it could still increase a lot.

Two hours of exercise ended.

Quan Yi was sweating more than usual because he was wearing heavy and airtight full-body armor, but his eyes were bright and he looked very excited.

"Success!" Quan Yi murmured in a low voice.

In two hours, Quan Yi successfully completed the simultaneous cultivation of body and soul power.

Now, Quan Yi could shorten the time required to level up by at least three months.

Seven months per level, only three years to level up five levels.

Through simultaneous cultivation, Quan Yi could shorten the time by one year.