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Chen Qi remembered that Ding Ning had told him that he had been cultivating in the Mang Shan Sect for the past three years, and up till now, he had never been able to transform a spiritual energy from the heaven and earth into his own spiritual energy like the others. And the red stream of energy between Ding Ning's eyebrows, originated from the unloading of a Sword Monument made from the blood essence of the Black Tortoise, so the time that Ding Ning had resonated with the unloading of the unlocking of the Sword Monument was yesterday.

Ding Ning's snowy mountain was much more majestic than ordinary cultivators. Therefore, felt that after Ding Ning absorbed all the profound beasts in the world into his body, he should be able to move much faster than the rest. However, the spiritual energy that Ding Ning inhaled into his body through his breath was nowhere to be seen, as it didn't flow out of the snowy mountain in the slightest back into his dantian.

At first, Chen Qi thought that it wasn't that there was a problem with Ding Ning's Snow Mountain, but when he saw the twelve black whirlpools on Ding Ning's body, Chen Qi couldn't help but suddenly come to a realization. Since these black whirlpools that were distributed around the important acupuncture points of Ding Ning's body were able to completely absorb the thousand year old cold energy, then it wouldn't be a problem to dissolve the weak spiritual energy like Ding Ning who hadn't even stepped into the Purification Realm.

After the twelve small black vortexes appeared one by one in Ding Ning's body, Chen Qi firmly believed that he had found the crux of the problem where Ding Ning was unable to transform into a spiritual energy.

However, was that really the case? It could only be said that Chen Qi's guess was half correct, the reason why Ding Ning was unable to transform the spiritual energy that was absorbed into his own body into his own spiritual energy was because it was related to the black whirlpools. The reason why the people who placed 13 seals on Ding Ning wanted to use these black whirlpools to stop Ding Ning from cultivating, and to prevent him from stepping on his own path of cultivation in the future!

Only, these seals were distributed all over Ding Ning's body. Although they were like tigers obstructing a road, preventing the spiritual energy from moving within Ding Ning's body, they were unable to remove the spiritual energy that belonged to Ding Ning himself. This was because after the spiritual energy entered Ding Ning's body and entered the snow mountain, it had already become a part of Ding Ning's body.

Furthermore, the black whirlpools on Ding Ning's body, were not the twelve small whirlpools that Chen Qi had seen, but should be thirteen of them. It was just that Ding Ning had already completely removed the seal on the Shaoyang Hand meridian, so the weakest small whirlpool among the thirteen seals on Ding Ning's body, had also disappeared.

Could Ding Ning really not absorb the spiritual energy and transform it into his own spiritual energy? If he only wanted to cleanse the marrow, Ding Ning would be able to do so at any time. However, once he mobilized the spiritual energy in his body and forcefully cleansed the marrow for himself, he would be able to activate the seals in his body.

The only thing Ding Ning could do was to rely on his own efforts to unseal the seals on his body. Like how he undid the seal on the Shaoyang Sutra on his right hand a few days ago, he could only wait for it to unseal itself. Therefore, stepping past the threshold of Purification was not because Ding Ning was unable to do so, but it was because he did not dare, and he did not dare to do so!

The spiritual energy in Ding Ning's body was also not like what he said to Chen Qi or perhaps Chen Su. He was unable to absorb the spiritual energy surrounding heaven and earth and turn them into his own spiritual energy. Only, Ding Ning's spiritual energy were different from the others.

As for the others, they used their own bodies as furnaces to absorb and convert the spiritual energy s around the entire world. They would go through the snow mountains, Qi Sea, and then to their dantian and circulate the energy to their dantian.

However, Ding Ning's was different. Because he had been cultivating the Nine Death Turtle Aura Technique (Jade Gate Breathing Technique) since he was young, he used his breathing to absorb all the spiritual energy in the world around him. When they reached the snow mountain in his body, they would transform into a part of him, as if they were strengthening his snow mountain and giving him the foundation of the snow mountain.

This was also why Chen Qi saw that Ding Ning's Snow Mountain Range was so much more majestic than a lot of cultivators. Of course, Ding Ning did not know about the difference between himself transforming into a spiritual energy and others, because he could not communicate with others about it.

However, it was possible for Ding Ning to control and use the spiritual energy in his body. The biggest problem was that even if Ding Ning controlled and used the spiritual energy in his body, he was still different from other people who used them, because Ding Ning's spiritual energy did not need to circulate his energy through his body, like other people's, it could only be released through snow mountains, ocean of qi, and dantian. Ding Ning's spiritual energy only relied on the snow mountains to spread throughout his body!

It was just that, if he really wanted to control the spiritual energy s that he used from the snow mountains, the price would be a little too much. It would be just like the sword used to slash at the trees a few days ago, where Tu Lu was able to witness the backlash from the seals in his body.