At this time, there was a sudden thunderclap in the sky, and suddenly, there was rain in the air, making the environment a little cooler.
At the same time, the surging Qi entered Ye Xuan's body.
Breakthrough!
The rank 3 of Yuanzhen stage!
It was no surprise to Ye Xuan because the material of the Golden Paper Sword was quite rare, and it even used the powder of the low-grade spirit mine, which if converted into Spirit Jade, was worth around thirty or forty pieces of Spirit Jade, and still had no place to buy.
Because, only Hong Zhen'er knew how to make it, at the same time, even Hong Zhen'er, as far as Ye Xuan knew, she only had three or four handles in her hand. After all, the materials were hard to find, and the sword was not easy to make.
In the case of the previous sacrifice, it was certainly not a problem for Ye Xuan to raise one rank of his cultivation base. Or maybe it was because Ye Xuan broken through to the Yuanzhen stage again, and each rank of the breakthrough required more Qi. That's why it was only raised one rank.
In addition to that, the moment the cultivation rank increased, Ye Xuan had an unspeakable feeling.
Usually, cultivation was a process of accumulation, when cultivators had enough accumulation, and then naturally a breakthrough would occur.
However, there was another feeling for Ye Xuan that was violence.
There was no sense of accumulation, but rather a hard dryness. Relying on a large amount of Qi rushing into the body in an instant, he forcibly broke through, as if the shackles of each rank did not exist at all and he could break through if he wanted to.
Ye Xuan couldn't say which way was better, but this violent breakthrough made Ye Xuan feel very comfortable. The Qi within his body exploding with growth and filling up incomparably, he felt very refreshing.
Ye Xuan slowly took a deep breath and mobilized the Qi within his body to run, allowing it to run along the meridians for several circulation before it finally calmed down completely.
Killing Luo Kai, Ye Xuan walked up the mountain path, taking one step at a time, looking at the loft that was already looming in the distance.
" Senior apprentice-sister!" Ye Xuan murmured, "It's time for us to meet."
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Inner Section, Red Pavilion.
Hong Zhen'er had a sixteen-stringed zither placed in front of her, her fingertips fiddling with it, and the sound was already chaotic at beginning.
Because, the string was broken.
Hong Zhen'er just fiddled with it, and the string was already broken.
Bam!
At the same time, the door to the pavilion was kicked open, and Ye Xuan stood in the doorway, his body dripping with wet. It had rained outside.
Hong Zhen'er froze, then laughed and said, " Junior apprentice-brother, why are you dripping wet like this, come here quickly, I'll wipe you."
Hong Zhen'er said and was about to get up. Ye Xuan said coldly, "No need, I just want to know the answer, tell me, why?"
Hong Zhen'er said, "What answer?"
"This is yours, isn't it? I smelled the exact same smell on you, when those four guys had sneak attack on me, senior apprentice-sister, you were on Mang Mountain too, right? Are you going to pretend you don't know now?" Ye Xuan took out the sachet from his pocket and said, " Originally I was just guessing, but seeing the Golden Paper Sword in Luo Kai's hands, I knew that you definitely couldn't get away with it, because, without your password, Luo Kai wouldn't be able to use the Golden Paper Sword."
Ye Xuan said as he fluttered his hand and dropped the sachet on the ground.
"What's more, only you and Master know that I am cultivating in the Feihu Gully and know when I will go there to cultivate. Senior apprentice-sister, that's all I want to say, do you still want to say you don't know anything?" Ye Xuan took a deep breath and said, ''Is it for the quota of general election of Secret Section? Kill me so that you can participate in the general election of the Secret Section!"
The smile on Hong Zhen'er's face faded as she reached out her hands and touched the zither strings, then said, "Yes, I want to enter the Secret Section. Master only has two disciples, not you, naturally it's me."
Ye Xuan said: "So, you want to scrap me?"
"Scrap you?" Hong Zhen'er angrily said, ''Ruining you is not enough! Master was not in the sect lately. Do you know where she's gone? She went to the Red Volcano to find the Fire-absorbing Lotus for you!"
Ye Xuan froze instantly.
Fire-absorbing Lotus was a spiritual plant of the best grade of the Heaven rank, and it grew in the land of the element of Extreme Fire, so it was troublesome and dangerous to obtain. But it was not popular because it had very little use, and its only effect was to recreate the meridians with the power of Extreme Fire.
Ye Xuan naturally knew immediately why his master had gone to the Red Volcano to look for the Fire-absorbing Lotus. His Master wanted to repair his damaged meridians, but the Red Volcano wasn't such a good place to go!
Bang!
Hong Zhen'er suddenly raised her hand and slapped it hard on the sixteen-stringed zither, slapping it directly into two pieces!
"Why can't you just die quietly? It will make our master lose her hope directly." Hong Zhen'er gritted her teeth and said, "You should have just eaten poisonous Fishy Herb juice and closed your eyes obediently!"
" Poisonous Fishy Herb!"
Ye Xuan stared at Hong Zhen'er, and suddenly remembered that the former owner of this body had really committed suicide by drinking the poisonous Fishy Herb juice. And now that he thought about it, there was indeed something wrong.
Because, the Poisonous Fishy Herb wasn't that easy to get. It was an earth-ranked middle-grade intensely poisonous herb, so why would Ye Xuan have it in his hand? It's obvious that Hong Zhen'er was still the one who found a way to send the poisonous fishy herb to Ye Xuan's hands, just to make him take it willingly.
What Hong Zhen'er wanted was not for Ye Xuan to be ruined, but for Ye Xuan to die.
It's only with death that it's all over.
Ye Xuan spread his hands and said, ''And after you go? You should know you can't win with your strength."
"Then I'll spare you the trouble." Hong Zhen'er grunted coldly, "The competition of Secret Section was not fight, and no matter the strength, only those who survive to the end will be able to enter the Secret Section."
Ye Xuan froze, and then quickly raised an eyebrow.
Hong Zhen'er was right. The competition of Secret Section was not a martial skills competition, although the content of the competition was different every year, but the theme remained the same, that was survival. Because, in addition to selecting disciples to enter the Secret Section, the competition of Secret Section was also a preview of the Ancient Battlefield.
Sooner or later, every disciple who entered the Secret Section would have to go to the Ancient Battlefield to practice.
Under such circumstances, there was indeed a possibility that Hong Zhen'er would be able to enter the Secret Section.
There were powerful Section disciples protecting her which was easy to make her live to the end!
"So that's what happened." Ye Xuan grinned, ''Senior apprentice-sister, those four guys who sneaked up on me are also disciples of the Inner Section, right? You made a pact with them that you would betray the place and time of my cultivation so that they could sneak up on me, and that they would protect you to survive to the end during the competition of the Secret Section. "
Hong Zhen'er felt shocked and the expression on her face suddenly changed.
Ye Xuan smiled and said, "Senior apprentice-sister, it seems I am right."
Clank!
Hong Zhen'er didn't say a word, but slapped the broken zither hard, and a sword chant came from underneath the broken zither. Then a sword light appeared, and a long sword appeared in the hand of Hong Zhen'er.