Fufeng County, Tibetan Sword Sect, Jianwu Hall.

On the high steps sat an old man in Tsing Yi with a lot of grace, after listening to the information presented by Hua Chen, who was standing below, his brows furrowed slightly, and finally spoke: "You mean to think that this young man named Qi An knows the secret of the Black Wind Abyss?"

"That's good!" Hua Chen nodded and talked eloquently: " A few months ago, Qi An was seriously injured by a sword by Mao Buping's junior brother, and then fell into the abyss, he was a mortal person, but now he appeared at Jian Xiu's wedding banquet, on the same day he had a dispute with Feng Feijian of Qinghu Sword Gate, with his cultivation in the early stage of condensation, he was able to survive ten moves in the hands of Feng Feijian at the peak of condensation, which is obviously very abnormal, Feng Feijian is three realms higher than him, plus the change in the Black Wind Abyss was also a few months ago, and the time when Qi An fell into it coincided, so the disciple has reason to believe that Qi An must have mastered some secrets of the Black Wind Abyss, and it is likely that the reason why the Black Wind Abyss has changed is also related to it。 ”

Next to Hua Chen, there were two young people, a man and a woman, kneeling with their heads down, the man raised his head, and it was Mao Buping, a disciple of the inner door, who only heard him say: "Elder Chu, what Senior Brother Huachen said is true, and the disciple Mao Buping can testify against him, that Qi An was pierced through his chest by my own sword, and he should have died so much that he couldn't die anymore, but now he appeared in Fufeng City alive, and he must have obtained some kind of adventure in the Black Wind Abyss." ”

Elder Chu, an old man in Tsing Yi, pondered for a moment, and then asked another young woman kneeling on the ground: "Qin Xiang, you first came into contact with Qi An, do you know his specific origin?"

Qin Xiang raised his head and replied uneasily: "The disciple doesn't know, the disciple and him just met by chance, we strayed into the Black Wind Valley and met the Black Wind Wolf, he saved the disciple's life, and then was ...... by Senior Brother Mao."

Qin Xiang paused for a moment, glanced sideways at Mao Buping, and continued: "Even his name was inquired about from the second son of the Jian family afterwards, and the second son of Jian only said that he was from the Qianqing Academy, but he didn't know which branch it was. ”

"Check!" Elder Chu ordered majestically: "There are only six branches of the Qianqing Academy in Qingzhou, each of them will be investigated, and his origin will be found out as soon as possible, and this matter will be handed over to Huachen You will be responsible, and you will come to report to me when there is news, and at the same time, the old man on the side of the Black Wind Abyss will also personally investigate and see what the situation is." ”

Huachen hugged his fists and said: "Obey." ”

......

In another place, there is another sect called Huayun Sect.

Huayun Sect, like the Tibetan Sword Sect, is a second-rate cultivation force, and even its strength is not as good as that of the Tibetan Sword Sect.

Like most sects, the elders of the Huayun Sect are also divided into inner and outer sects, the inner sect elders are advanced in cultivation and hold great power, and only make decisions on major matters, while the outer sect elders are average in cultivation and can only manage ordinary disciples and deal with some less important daily mundane matters.

Mao Pusong is one of the outer sect elders of the Huayun Sect, ranking third, and the disciples are all called the three elders. His cultivation was at the pinnacle of the Qi Condensation Realm, but it was only because he was old and had little hope of breaking through that he was appointed by the sect director as an elder of the outer sect to take care of daily mundane affairs.

It's just that since last year, Mao Pusong's temper has become very bad, and he often scolds ordinary disciples, and the cause is just some trivial things, except for himself, no one knows why he became like this.

On this day, Mao Pusong was sitting in his living room drinking tea, when he heard a familiar voice outside the door: "Tell the third elder, you have always confessed to that matter, and you have finally found out a little eyebrows over there." ”

Mao Pusong raised his eyebrows, hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, and shouted outside the door: "Come in and talk." ”

A middle-aged man with an ordinary face pushed the door in, knelt down on one knee in front of Mao Pusong, lowered his voice knowingly, and said slowly: "According to the news from our undercover disciples lurking in the Tibetan Sword Sect, Qin Xiang has already returned to the Tibetan Sword Sect, but I haven't seen any iron cards on her, but Mao Buping, an inner disciple of the Tibetan Sword Sect, once said that Qin Xiang was robbed of things by another person when she was in the Black Wind Valley, including her father's relics, which is also an iron plate, I don't know if it is the same as what the third elder said." ”

"You mean...... The iron plate was snatched away?" Mao Pusong's face was a little gloomy.

"It should be so!" The middle-aged man replied cautiously: "The disciple also inquired in detail, when Qin Xiang disguised himself as a prostitute and hid in Huangni Town, there was indeed a young man who came to the door, and then the two disappeared together, and the next day Mao Buping met Qin Xiang in the Black Wind Valley, and the time was completely right, so the disciple suspected that it was probably this young man who took away the iron medal." ”

Mao Pusong immediately asked, "Who is this person?"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't found out for the time being, it will take a little time." ”

Mao Pusong's face sank, and he shouted, "Then why don't you hurry up and investigate?"

"Yes. The middle-aged man got up in panic and withdrew from the house.

Mao Pusong's face became more and more gloomy, and he muttered: "If I knew this, the old man should have personally taken you down and recaptured the iron card, just because I was afraid that this was the bait deliberately set by the Hidden Sword Sect and fell into the trap, so I looked ahead and missed the opportunity, and gave birth to these many variables in vain—— Qin Xiang, you really damn it!"

With a "click", the teacup on the table split in half for no reason, and the tea spilled all over the table.

......

Qi An didn't know at all that there were already two groups of people eyeing him at the same time, intensively inquiring about his news in secret, and he was still cultivating hard as usual.

There is less than a month, Qi An has stayed in the backer branch for three years, and the days go by so fast, thinking that when he first entered the backer branch, he chatted with Ji Zhengyue and others, and broke through the alley of life and death together, just like yesterday.

Dean Cui Yi said that he had reported the situation of Qi'an to the top management, and it was said that the appointment of the court should have arrived a long time ago, but he had not seen the news for a long time, and he did not know what the situation was.

There is a sound transmission formation between the general institute of the Qianqing Academy and the various branches, but whenever there is a news report, it is not to send someone to ride a horse to pass the letter, but to communicate directly with the sound transmission formation, which is very convenient, generally for the appointment arrangement of the graduates, there will be a reply every one or two days, which has passed three days, but there has been no response, even Dean Cui Yi does not understand what is happening in the general hospital, and it is not good to take the initiative to ask, so he can only tell Qi An and ask him to wait a few more days.

Qi An was not in a hurry, and even hoped that the appointment of the court would come later, because he felt the opportunity to make a breakthrough.

Qi An has not been bad since he cultivated Vajra, it took two years to practice into an iron body, and he thought that it would take two years to reach the bronze body level, but he knew that it was only one year, and he felt that a breakthrough was imminent, which made him a little surprised.

You must know that since he became an iron body, Qi An's cultivation focus has been on the improvement of the martial arts realm, although the practice of King Kong is not bad every day, but he has not worked as hard as in the previous two years, and it stands to reason that if he wants to be promoted to the bronze body, it should not be so fast.

In fact, there is one thing that Qi An didn't understand, that is, the breakthrough of the big realm is far more difficult than the breakthrough of the small realm, from the quenching realm to the condensation realm, it is the breakthrough of the big realm, and from the early stage of condensation to the middle stage of condensation, it is a breakthrough in the small realm, and the difficulty of the two is not the same. In the same way, the same is true for King Kong is not bad, from the beginning of cultivation to the cultivation of the iron body, the time and energy spent is far more than the promotion from the iron body to the bronze body, and even from the copper body to the silver body, from the silver body to the gold body, there is not as much time as it takes to achieve the innate perfection to the iron body.

This is probably what people often say, "everything is difficult at the beginning", the cultivation of the iron body is the most difficult step for King Kong to be not bad, many people practice the practice of refining the body without effect, because they can't even enter the door, even if they can refine the iron body, they also feel that this step is too difficult, too long, and the effect is too slow, far less fast and convenient than the practice of qigong.

The same is true for the qi refining system, the time it takes to advance from the early stage of qi condensation to the middle stage of qi condensation is often much less than the time it takes to break through from the quenching realm to the qi condensing realm, so don't look at many people who spend a lot of time in the realm of innate martial arts, but once they break through this big realm, they will be relatively faster in the subsequent three small realms, but once they reach the peak of qi condensation, they will slow down in an instant, and it will be difficult to be promoted to the realm of refining gods, and it is even possible to be trapped in the peak of qi condensation forever.

Feeling the opportunity to break through, Qi An immediately put down his study of martial arts, and devoted himself to cultivating Vajra, and finally succeeded in breaking through seven days later and cultivating into a bronze body, which was equivalent to being promoted to the middle stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, and his strength was once again greatly improved.

However, the amplitude of the improvement of the copper body is not as exaggerated as when it was first practiced into the iron body, and the breakthrough of the small realm is easier than the breakthrough of the large realm, but in the same way, the improvement effect brought by the breakthrough of the small realm is also much weaker than the improvement effect brought by the breakthrough of the large realm, so the gap between the early stage of condensation and the middle stage of condensation is far less amazing than the gap between the innate martial sect and the early stage of condensation.

Strictly speaking, the improvement of the three small realms is only comparable to the improvement brought by one big realm. In other words, the gap between the early stage of condensation and the peak of condensation is probably equivalent to the gap between the peak of condensation and the early stage of refining gods, and the increase in strength brought about by promoting one big realm is equivalent to promoting three small realms.

For example, the Innate Consummation is the last small realm of the Quenching Body Realm, so why can the Innate Martial Sect be subdivided into so many Threshold Martial Sects, New Martial Sects, Powerful Martial Sects, Peak Martial Sects, and Dibang Martial Sects?

Of course, the Dibang Martial Sect was created by the Qianqing Academy, and there is no such statement in other places, and the strength of the Dibang Martial Sect is almost equivalent to the newly promoted early stage cultivator of the Condensation Realm, and in terms of strength, the Dibang Martial Sect has already surpassed the level of the Martial Sect.