Zhang Quan glanced at Han'er helplessly, and said: "This is the Eight Flame Mountains, full of earth fire, and those two people can stay here without changing their faces, and their cultivation must not be low!"

Zhang Han pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "What kind of cultivation is not low! The spiritual power in that boy's body is so weak!" After speaking, she also said proudly: "It's a little worse than him, so there's nothing to be afraid of at all." ”

Seeing his daughter so smug, Zhang Quan sighed slowly and said, "I'm not worried about that boy, but that old man, you look at him, there is no discomfort on his face at all, and he can fly at a low altitude here, this cultivation must be above me." Seeing Zhang Han nodding, Zhang Quan said again: "I tell you, when you see the two of them in the future, especially the old man, you must not be presumptuous." ”

"Dad, my daughter knows. Seeing that Zhang Quan was about to reprimand herself again, Zhang Han hurriedly stopped him, and then she grabbed Zhang Han's arm again, and said with a smile: "Let's hurry up and find that thing!

Hearing this, Zhang Quan also nodded quickly and said, "Okay." ”

Looking at Zhou Bo again, at this time they had already moved in parallel for nearly a few miles, and they came to an open place, seeing this, Guo Lao slowly stopped, then turned around, and waited for Zhou Bo.

After a while, Zhou Bo appeared out of breath, and as soon as he came to Guo Lao's side, he gasped and asked, "Guo ...... Guo Lao, you ...... Why are you running so fast??" As soon as he finished speaking, he sat on the ground, gasping for air with his mouth open.

Guo Lao didn't answer, but turned his head and looked around, as if he was observing the Earth Fire Fruit near here, and as if he was inquiring if there were people around, seeing this, Zhou Bo slowly stood up and asked suspiciously: "Is there someone here too?"

Guo Lao smiled and said, "There is no one here. Then he pointed to the front and said, "There is an earth fire fruit in front, let's do it quickly." ”

After Guo Lao finished speaking, he walked forward leisurely, leaving Zhou Bo behind him with a helpless face.

"Old Guo, who are those two people??"

Zhou Bo didn't move, but stood in place and asked puzzled, he didn't understand why there were two people in a good place, and he also claimed that the place had been occupied by them, and the most intolerable thing was that those people turned out to be the Jin family hunters, you know, Zhou Bo hated the Jin family the most in his life.

Seeing that Zhou Bo opened his mouth to ask, Guo Lao sighed lightly: "They are not the hunters of the Jin family, they are here to dig up the Earth Fire Fruit, because the Earth Fire Fruit is very cherished and the price is very high, so there are many people who come here not for cultivation, but specifically to dig up the Earth Fire Fruit." ”

"Then what are they cultivating??"

Because Zhou Bo felt that he was only a first-level cultivator, he felt slightly struggling here, and the two of them seemed to be fine except for blushing, and the girl could still use the spiritual power, which made him feel incredible.

"In fact, their cultivation is not very high, and the reason why they can launch an attack is completely relying on the Thousand Cold Water to resist the fiery energy of the earth, so in this way, the spiritual power in their bodies will be empty. ”

After Guo Lao finished speaking, he suddenly smiled: "But you are different, all your spiritual power now is used to fight against the fiery energy of that land, so for them, the spiritual power in your body is just equivalent to just building a foundation." ”

"Ah, so bad!" Zhou Bo didn't expect that his cultivation at the first level of embryonic introduction had just been built here, and he cursed in his heart for this evil earth fiery qi, which was really a waste of his spiritual power.

At this time, Guo Lao interrupted Zhou Bo's thoughts and said with a smile: "Hurry up and do it." Enough time has been wasted today. Hearing this, Zhou Bo hurriedly nodded yes, hurriedly took out the shovel, and began to dig according to what Guo Lao said.

In the end, after a day of struggle, Zhou Bo dug up seven Earth Fire Fruits, so that he had a total of twenty-three Earth Fire Fruits, looking at the small pile of red and black Earth Fire Fruits in the Najing ring, Zhou Bo couldn't be happier in his heart.

After returning to the cave, Guo Lao made an exception to relieve the fire poison in his body, while Zhou Bo obediently returned to the cave, tired for a day, Zhou Bo only felt his head heavy, a little drowsy, but even so, he still beat his spirits, because he still had important things to do at night.

Taking out a bottle of Qianhan Water and drinking it quickly, Zhou Bo quickly entered the state of cultivation, he had already learned from Guo Lao that Qianhan Water could temporarily suppress the heat of the earth's fire, and this time was also the best time to dispel the heat. Seeing that the bright red heat was gradually turning dark red, Zhou Bo quickly urged the spiritual power on the meridians out, and attacked the dark red meridians under the drive of his mind.

This time, Zhou Bo successfully dispelled more of the earth's fiery energy, and all of them were refined with spiritual power, just when they did all this, those dark red meridians changed back to their original color, seeing this, where did Zhou Bo dare to provoke them, and quickly let the spiritual power wrap those spare meridians, looking at the green meridians in his body a little more, Zhou Bo was very happy.

It was already an hour before he did all this, Zhou Bo also dispersed all his spiritual sense at this time, and suddenly, he inadvertently seemed to feel some very subtle fluctuations around his body, this feeling was like his body being soaked in water, and then there were fish swimming back and forth, although it was very slight, but the feeling was real.

Zhou Bo hurriedly put all his attention on this, he knew that this might be the air, and his heart had already mentioned his throat, because perceiving the air was the most basic step in the Qi Binding Technique, if this step was successful, it would be possible to practice, and now that he suddenly sensed the air around him, the excitement in his heart could be imagined.

But when Zhou Bo really sensed the fluctuation with his heart, it was strangely gone, which made him disappointed, and he wondered what the hell was going on? Could it be that what was just now was an illusion? ?

Suddenly, at this time, the fluctuation appeared again, although it seemed to be nothing, but it was indeed a real existence.

"What the hell?" Zhou Bo muttered quietly, after saying this, he withdrew all his attention, intending to stop paying attention to the strange fluctuations, he always felt that as long as he perceived it wholeheartedly, it would never appear, and if he relaxed, don't be so nervous, he would definitely be able to perceive the air.

Things turned out to be as Zhou Bo expected, when Zhou Bo shifted his attention, the fluctuations became more and more powerful, first like a breeze ripples, then like a sudden storm, and finally, it was like waves surging towards him, which made him difficult to parry for a while, although it felt a little strange and a little terrifying, after all, these are not physical objects, but invisible and untouched air, just relying on spiritual sense to perceive, but he is unwilling to give up such a good opportunity, just like this, Zhou Bo wandered in the air world created by his spiritual sense。

I don't know how long it took, a voice in Zhou Bo's heart was shouting at him, guiding him to pull out a trace of spiritual power, to guide those wave-like air, Zhou Bo finally woke up a little, pulled out a trace of spiritual power from his body, and then quickly flowed to his hands, suddenly, a strange scene appeared.

As soon as that spiritual power appeared, Zhou Bo felt that the air that was still around his body just now was all surging towards the palm of his hand at this time, just like the magnetic force between the magnets, and he also felt that the air was rapidly converging around the spiritual power, and then rotating rapidly.

Seeing this, Zhou Bo was very happy in his heart, he thought that he had mastered the method of gathering qi, thinking that it was quite easy, and when he felt that the gathering of qi was almost complete, he quickly pulled out the spiritual power inside, and then threw it towards the opposite wall.

However, unlike what he thought would be a loud bang, the air disappeared without making any sound at all, which made him quite depressed, and he thought to himself, didn't he do everything according to the exercises?

In this way, Zhou Bo spent a whole night sitting there gathering qi, but the result was the same as the first time, there was no reaction at all, although the gathering qi gathered into a large mass, but when it was finally thrown out, it still disappeared out of thin air.

Zhou Bo didn't know how many times he had done it, and just as he was about to gather his breath again, he suddenly saw Guo Lao with a tired face walking back from outside, only to find that the sky was already bright, and seeing Guo Lao slowly walking to his side, Zhou Bo hurriedly got up.

"Old Guo, why do I always fail to gather energy??" Zhou Bo asked puzzled.

As soon as he heard this, Guo Lao opened his slightly tired eyes, smiled and said, "You gather your strength now and let me take a look." Zhou Bo nodded as he spoke, and hurriedly pulled out a trace of spiritual power, and then gathered it in the palm of his hand, he tried his best to relax his body, and when he felt the air surging towards his hand, he waited for it to gather into a spherical shape with peace of mind.

As if he also felt the air gathered in Zhou Bo's hands, Guo Lao's eyes flashed with surprise, but then Zhou Bo's actions surprised him, because Zhou Bo just waited until the balloon had just formed, and then quickly raised his hand, ready to throw it out.

"Wait a minute. Guo Lao hurriedly shouted loudly, and stepped forward to block in front of Zhou Bo, asking, "Do you think this is the success of gathering qi?"

"Otherwise??" Zhou Bo asked Guo Lao suspiciously, he felt the huge air balloon in his hand, isn't this a success in gathering qi? ?

Guo Lao smiled and said, "Zhou Bo, you really surprised me, you can gather so much air in just two days. But then he changed his words and said with a smile: "But you must know that the air gathered is not as big as possible, but as small as possible." ”

"The smaller, the better??" Zhou Bo muttered to himself, but still didn't know what it meant.

Guo Lao said again: "The essence of qi gathering is to perceive the air with spiritual consciousness and use spiritual power to pull the air, but the air that is pulled can only be semi-finished products, and the real qi gathering also needs to compress these airs." ”

"Compression?"

"That's right!" Guo Lao nodded, and then said with a smile: "And the most important thing for compressed air is spiritual sense!"

"Look at it carefully!" After speaking, Guo Lao suddenly stretched out his right hand, and in just an instant, Zhou Bo felt the wind surging in Guo Lao's hands, and a huge air gathered in his hands.

"It's the same thing you do. Guo Lao looked up and said to Zhou Bo with a smile, and then he shook it lightly with one hand, and Zhou Bo suddenly felt the air around him shrink rapidly, and then there was a feeling of difficulty breathing, and the balloon in Guo Lao's hand was also a little smaller.

Guo Lao did not hesitate, and waved the balloon towards the ground not far away with one hand, seeing this scene, Zhou Bo suddenly had a danger signal, but just thought of this, he heard a loud bang, at this time, the smoke and dust were everywhere, and then after the smoke and dust fell, Zhou Bo was surprised to find that the ground where Guo Lao was concentrated was actually blasted out of a deep pit.

"That's what I mean by compressed air. After putting down his right hand, Guo Lao said slowly.

"That's pretty good, isn't it? Zhou Bo looked at the pit in front of him with a surprised face, he would never have thought that his gathering of qi was just to attract air, but what was really rare was to compress the air in his hand.

"When the air is compressed, it is centered on the spiritual power in it, and at this time, when you withdraw the spiritual power, the compressed air will release power in an instant, and the strength of this power depends on the size of your compression. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Bo suddenly looked at the large ball of air in his hand, shook his fingers, and found that he didn't feel anything, he seemed to have understood Guo Lao's words, and all that was left for him was time and practice.

Seeing Zhou Bo bow his head and meditate, Guo Lao slowly withdrew from the cave in understanding, because he knew that now was the time for Zhou Bo to comprehend this exercise, and if he interrupted, he would wait until the next time he comprehended it

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Bo had been in the Eight Flame Mountains for a month, and in this month, he first began to be uncomfortable with the new environment, and then slowly became accustomed to everything Guo Lao asked him to do, including seizing the meridians with the hot earth, digging the earth fire fruit on the hot ground, or sensing air and compressing air, etc.

He had never done these things before, or crazy things that he couldn't even think of, but now that he had been cultivating for a month, he felt more and more normal.

In this month, Zhou Bo spent most of his time digging up Earth Fire Fruit every day, and if he dug more, he could have about fifteen pieces a day, and if he dug less, there would probably only be four or five pieces, so on average, there would be ten pieces in the account every day.

Now calculated, after a month of hard work, Zhou Bo has almost picked more than 300 Earth Fire Fruits, and his Najing Ring has been stuffed with more than half of the space by the Earth Fire Fruit, looking at the small space of the Najing Ring full of black Earth Fire Fruits, Zhou Bo only feels very satisfied, although he doesn't know what the use of this Earth Fire Fruit is, but at least this is a month's success!

As for the reason why he has been picking the Earth Fire Fruit, if you ask him, he will also shake his head and say that he doesn't know, he only knows that this is just a request from Guo Lao, this Earth Fire Fruit can neither be eaten nor alchemized, but Guo Lao just values this thing very much.

And there is one thing that has to be mentioned, that is, Zhou Bo has been working hard for a month, and found that his body has become a lot stronger, because the fire fruit is sometimes only buried on the surface of the very shallow ground, and it can be dug with a shovel, but some are buried dozens of meters, and Zhou Bo needs to keep digging to dig it, so that he is tired and half dead every day, and he wants to sleep when he returns to the cave.

But Zhou Bo would hold back every time, because he still had a lot of important things to do at night, the most important of which was to seize the meridians, which was a big task, and it was also strongly requested by Guo Lao.

In the end, with a month's hard work and the help of thirty bottles of Qianhan Water, Zhou Bo successfully seized fifty percent of the meridians, that is to say, he has now finally met Guo Lao's requirements for him and can learn to leapfrog alchemy.