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On the other end of the line, Old Man Hong seemed to lose interest in explaining any further.

Or rather, he simply didn’t believe Fang Qingyu could meet those conditions at all.

His tone slid back into that lazy drawl again:

"Alright, alright, I know you’re a nosy brat, but this is the kind of thing you just listen to and forget. Don’t overthink it."

"The braised pork in my pot is about to burn, I’m hanging up. Don’t bother me if there’s nothing. If there’s something... best not bother me either."

"Beep... beep... beep..."

The busy tone came through as Old Man Hong decisively hung up.

Fang Qingyu slowly put down his phone.

He didn’t rush to press Old Man Hong for a detailed explanation about the Spirit Platform.

He hadn’t gotten the Invincible Technique yet.

Asking so much now was pointless.

But Jiang Wei, sitting beside him, saw the thoughtful look on Fang Qingyu’s face and suddenly asked:

"Qingzi, that Heart Sutra I gave you, have you entered the introductory level yet?"

Hearing that, Fang Qingyu was slightly taken aback.

The Wuxiang Heart Sutra.

When he broke through to Tier Three, the system popped up a notice that the Heart Sutra had been activated.

Right after that came the Celestial Punishment Association’s surprise attack and the battle preparations.

So he hadn’t had time to explain it to Jiang Wei properly.

"Yeah, I’m in."

Fang Qingyu nodded, started the car, and the vehicle merged back into the slightly desolate early-morning street.

"It happened right when I broke through to Tier Three."

At the words "entered the introductory level," joy instantly blossomed across Jiang Wei’s small face.

She immediately straightened and sat upright.

Her crimson long hair swayed with the movement of the car, lightly brushing her shoulders as she looked at Fang Qingyu seriously and explained:

"Then that’s it. The Spirit Platform Old Hong mentioned is actually... mm, let me calculate..."

She stretched out her slender, pale fingers and tapped a few times in the air. "It’s something that only truly condenses after your Will breaks its limit four times."

"Will... breaking the limit four times?"

Fang Qingyu’s fingers tightening on the steering wheel grew slightly tense.

"Right. On your fourth Will limit-break, you can construct the Spirit Platform in your sea of consciousness."

Jiang Wei nodded vigorously, ruby-like eyes shining with absolute certainty. "So that Cultivation Method from Chen Wudi... is really, really too hard. The key lies in that first physical-condition requirement. That’s the foundation; you have to push every major realm to its absolute extreme to meet it, and you basically can’t make up for it in the Late Stage."

She paused, then continued her analysis: "As for the Spirit Platform, you can still cultivate it in later realms, but by now you’ve personally experienced how difficult it is just to enter the Wuxiang Heart Sutra, right?"

"Trying to, at the Tier Three stage, temper your Will to four limit-breaks and condense a Spirit Platform... the time and energy you’d burn would be absolutely massive."

"With your Talent and cultivation Speed, the time needed to break through to Tier Four will definitely be shorter than the time it’d take to grind out a Spirit Platform while stuck at Tier Three."

Her meaning was very clear.

Rather than stubbornly bashing your head against an almost impossible task at Tier Three...

It would be better to push for Tier Four as fast as possible and then pursue it from a higher platform.

The preconditions of this Invincible Technique...

Were so harsh they were practically cutting off the cultivation path.

Listening to Jiang Wei’s clear, orderly analysis, Fang Qingyu nodded thoughtfully and didn’t refute her right away.

On the surface level, Jiang Wei’s logic was perfectly sound.

Condensing a Spirit Platform at Tier Three?

It really did sound like sheer fantasy.

But he had the panel...

Fang Qingyu quietly sank his mind into his sea of consciousness and looked at that attribute panel he hadn’t checked in quite some time:

[Panan: 43]

When the Heart Sutra was activated, Panan had gained ten Attributes, rising from 33 to 43.

Back then Fang Qingyu immediately understood that the Heart Sutra was meant to cultivate this Attribute.

But because Panan hadn’t played any obvious role for a long time...

Fang Qingyu had kind of forgotten about it.

Now it seemed every Attribute on the panel was there for a reason.

"Forty-three points in Panan... After one Will limit-break, it becomes Panan, so to reach four limit-breaks..."

Fang Qingyu did the math silently in his heart. "If I reference the numbers for physical limit-breaks, then I still need 254 Attribute Value!?"

This number.

From the time Fang Qingyu got the panel until now...

He had never received such a huge lump of Attribute Value in one go.

Thankfully, he now had the Wuxiang Heart Sutra. He could also pump Skill Points into the Heart Sutra and break through its levels to increase his Panan.

So he didn’t have to rely purely on Attribute Value to stack it up.

That being the case...

Condensing a Spirit Platform at Tier Three...

For Fang Qingyu, wasn’t necessarily an impossible task.

But for the moment, the most important thing...

Was still to get his hands on that Invincible Technique.

The car soon drove into a relatively quiet high-end villa district.

It stopped in front of an elegant-looking standalone villa.

This was where Yan Lin was temporarily sheltering the remnants of the Desolate Bone Corps.

Even after the car stopped, Jiang Wei in the passenger seat didn’t seem inclined to get out right away.

Her delicate brows remained slightly furrowed, those clear red eyes full of focused thought. She quickly pulled out paper and pen from her bag, bent over the center console in front of the passenger seat, and the tip of her pen flew across the paper with a soft rustling sound.

"The follow-up to the Heart Sutra?"

Fang Qingyu glanced at her absorbed profile and asked softly.

"Mm!" Jiang Wei replied without even lifting her head, her small nose quivering slightly as she clearly struggled to recall and organize the later Secret Techniques of that ancient Heart Method.

"This Heart Sutra is important. My memory of the later parts is a bit fuzzy, so I need to really think and make sure there are no mistakes or gaps."

Her tone carried a rare trace of solemnity.

Fang Qingyu nodded with understanding. "Alright, you write first. I’ll go in and take a look."

He pushed the car door open and stepped out, leaving the quiet space inside the car to Jiang Wei.

The engine stayed on, and the air conditioner blew out a steady, cool breeze.

Fang Qingyu shut the door and strode toward the villa’s front entrance.