Ye Ruochen seemed to be about to fall into a bottomless abyss, from being panicked and overwhelmed at the beginning, to being calm now.

"Doll, do you think we can land here?" If you have nothing to do, just chatter.

"This, the doll doesn't know either, it's dark here, and the doll doesn't want to stay here."

"I don't want to be here either, there's no way around it, my body has almost recovered during this time, we can't sit still like this, think of a way."

"The doll doesn't know, they all listen to the master."

Hey, it would be nice if Yu Jiu was here, she still knows a lot. Then, Ye Ruochen began to make various attempts, trying to mobilize spiritual power to rise, fall, left and right, but there was no effect, and he still fell at a uniform speed in one place. The silver needle, the ice spiritual power are useless, and the silver needle is almost impossible to get back. Ye Ruochen snapped his fingers, and a small flame that was almost transparent appeared on his index finger.

"Hey, I don't know if this will work, this is the last method."

"It must be possible, come on, master."

Ye Ruochen urged the spiritual power to wake it up, but it still didn't seem to wake up, Ye Ruochen thought to himself, is it going to be trapped here all the time? By the way, this is Void Yan, which is related to space, try it with the power of space. A wisp of spatial power slowly penetrated into the small flame, the small flame flapped twice, suddenly expanded instantly, and then flew around in the dark, very excited, as if a few drops of liquid were ticking on Ye Ruochen's face, and then filled the entire darkness, Ye Ruochen and the doll were circled in the middle. After a while, a dazzling light flashed, Ye Ruochen covered his eyes with his hand, and then opened his eyes, "Wow~ Where is this." Ye Ruochen was stunned by the scene in front of him, this is simply a paradise, green mountains and green waters, flowers and plants, the air is filled with a faint fragrance, not far away a palace stands there, although it is not very compatible with the green mountains and green waters, but it is not contrary to the harmony at all, the palace is surrounded by roses, all kinds of colors. There was a stone tablet in front of him, Ye Ruoji looked down, "Ethereal Realm" and then the three big characters of Ethereal Realm disappeared, and a few lines of small characters appeared. "Ethereal realm, one, with the owner's mind to transform any appearance, can be moved. Second, with the growth of the master's strength, the ethereal effect and function increase. Note: The function of the first stage, first, the spiritual power in the territory is ten times that of the outside world; 2. You can bring another five people into the space without consuming any strength; 3. The growth of spiritual objects in the territory is 100 times that of the outside world; Fourth, the gift of fire pills, can only be taken by the owner, can change the owner's physique, so that the owner has fire attribute spiritual power, and there are no side effects. These lines of words slowly disappeared, and the three big characters of the Ethereal Realm were firmly engraved on the stone tablet, and a delicate box floated in front of Ye Ruochen, Ye Ruochen took it, opened it, and a strong fire attribute spiritual power came to his nose.

"Master, master, take this elixir quickly."

"Well, I'll try, is it really that magical?" After speaking, he took the pill and sat cross-legged. After a while, he felt as if there was a fire burning in his body, and Ye Ruochen immediately wanted to use ice spiritual power to cool down, but he couldn't use it. Then this fire swam along the meridians to all parts of the body, and finally entered the dantian steadily. Ye Ruochen was used to all kinds of physical torture, and this little burning was not too painful. Ye Ruochen sensed that the fire seemed to be quiet, thinking about whether it had been absorbed, and tried to mobilize the fire spiritual power from the dantian, pointing to a tree next to him, and the spiritual power struck it, and the tree burned out in an instant.

"Yes, doll, let's go to that palace." As soon as he got up, there was a sudden severe cramping in the dantian, what was going on.

"Master, what's wrong with you."

"I, I don't know. Ah~" A huge painful sound resounded through the space, and Ye Ruochen fainted. The divine consciousness appeared in the dantian, and saw a red and a white colliding violently, and no one was convinced. Oh my God, they're going to smash my dantian! What can I do about this, doesn't that ethereal realm say that there are no side effects? That liar has been wrong with me since the beginning. If the Ethereal Realm knew that Ye Ruochen thought so in his heart, but if he wanted to cry out for injustice, he wouldn't know that her ice spirit power was so stubborn, this fire was not an ordinary fire, this was the source of ten thousand fires, and it was the first ray of fire after the existence of this continent, although it was not as good as the divine fire that fell from the sky, but it would not be too weak!

"Ah, don't fight, get out of here if you fight again." Ye Ruochen shouted at the two points of light, regardless of whether they could understand it or not, but it seemed to work well, and they stopped fighting. The ice spiritual power circled around Ye Ruojian like a coquette, as if to say, this is obviously my territory, why should this unknown thing fight with me. The fire spirit power looked at it for a while, as if he had made a very big decision, and flew to Ye Ruochen's eyes and turned around, trying to gain favor. Ye Ruochen was one head and two big at this time, "In this way, you will all be my right-hand men in the future, just one and a half, I am impartial, how about it?" The two points of light, red and white, stopped in front of Ye Ruochen's eyes for a moment, and flew in opposite directions respectively, it seemed that they were coexisting peacefully, Ye Ruochen finally put his mind at ease and fell asleep.

Ye Ruochen woke up and found himself lying on a soft and comfortable bed, and the doll stared at him without blinking.

"Wow, master, you're awake, don't worry about the doll."

"Well, don't cry."

"Hmm." After saying that, he was still sobbing.

Ye Ruochen raised his eyes and looked, the ground paved with fine white jade shone with a warm light, and there seemed to be a curling mist shrouded in an unreal scene in the distance, the phoenix on the eaves carved from sandalwood spread its wings, and the floating windows carved from green tiles,...... Every place is luxurious, but it looks so plain. Ye Ruochen walked around the entire palace and found that there were all kinds of household goods and patterns. In short, it is low-key luxury, giving people a very tranquil division, and somehow blending perfectly with the natural scene outside.

"Doll, you brought me in?"

"Well, the doll saw that you didn't wake up for a long time, so she brought you in!"

"Doll, do you know how long we've been in?"

"Well, it's been almost a month here, but it should be about three days compared to the time outside."

"Then let's get out quickly, or they should be in a hurry."

"Master, where have you been? It's been three days, why did it disappear? It can't be that someone has taken it. Yo Yo said worriedly

"Wouldn't it be that you know that the clues of the Divine Fire are in the master?" Yu Jiu guessed and worried. "Yo-yo, you look around."

"There is no master's breath at all, I am the master's contract beast, as long as the master is there, I will definitely be able to sense it."

"So, where can the master go?"

"Wait, I feel the master's breath, in the house." After saying that, the two immediately ran into the house.

As soon as Ye Ruochen's feet touched the ground in the house, two figures, one large and one small, rushed to him, and he almost didn't stand firm.

"Master, where have you been, Yoyo is so worried!"

"Hehe, I'm sorry to worry you, I'll take you somewhere." After speaking, he took the two of them into the ethereal realm.

"Wow~ Where is this, it's so beautiful." Yo Yo sighed and went to the grass to have fun.

"Master, this is the power of space, has it reached the fifth layer?" Yu Jiu instantly understood.

"The master's spatial power has reached the fifth layer, but this space doesn't seem to be the same space as before, and the doll feels different from before."

Ye Ruochen listened to the doll's words, and also felt different from when he first came into contact, feeling that this space itself was his own. Yu Jiu did know something, as if there was a trace of immortal energy in this space.

"Trace, are you in there?"

"Someone is coming, I'll go out first, you guys can play here."

Ye Ruochen opened the door and saw Guan Xiaoqing and Shui Zhihan standing at the door.

"Come on in."

"Zhihan, you've been in retreat for the past few days, so you didn't bother. Today, I saw that your monster was not guarding the door, so I wondered if you were out of the customs. ”

"That's right, Xiaoji, has your strength increased again?"

"Probably not, it's only been a few days, I just have other things to do, and I don't want to be disturbed."

"Oh, that's right, by the way, the academy issued an announcement yesterday, saying that the five-year Three Kingdoms competition is about to begin, a month later, we will compete among the colleges across the country, and the winner will represent the country to compete, this time the competition will be held in the Northern Qi Kingdom, and a total of ten people will be selected in the country. Ten days later, we will compete in the academy and select ten people to participate in the national competition. The competition is divided into martial arts and spiritual power competition and alchemy, and the requirement is that the age is not more than 25 years old. By the way, because our college is the first college, we don't need to participate in the group stage, we can directly participate in the finals, compete with the other two winning colleges, and select ten out of these thirty people. ”

"Doesn't that not only require high strength, but also be able to alchemy?"

"No, it's mainly a competition for strength, and there are two alchemy places left in the strength. By the way, I'll tell you quietly. I heard that the prize for the winner of the Three Kingdoms Competition is very rich, the first prize in the competition is a heaven-level weapon and a heaven-level skill, and the first place in alchemy is a divine fire clue. I don't know if it's true. Ye Ruochen and Shui Zhihan were both stunned when they heard it, and they both thought in their hearts that they must get this place.

"Alchemy, are you still in a hurry to learn now?"

Guan Xiaoqing and Shui Zhihan both laughed.

Shui Zhihan hated that iron could not become steel and said, "I have long asked you and me to learn alchemy, but if you don't learn, now you ......."

"Zhihan, why don't you teach me later." Ye Ruochen looked at Shui Zhihan pitifully.

Shui Zhihan really couldn't stand her eyes, "Okay, then teach you this day, the rest depends on your talent, Xiaoqing, do you want to learn together." ”

"Me? I won't be able to, I'm going to sign up for the competition, that is, exercise, or you learn first, Tanglin Lang said that there is something to find me. ”

"Hey, hey, then you should hurry up and go to the lover." Ye Ruochen said with a smile.

"Who will be a lover, Xiaoji, you look for a beating, see if I don't tear your mouth." As he spoke, he pounced on Ye Ruochen, and Ye Ruochen hurriedly hid behind Shui Zhihan.

At this time, "Xiaoqing, are you here?" Tanglin Lang shouted outside the door.

"Xiaoqing, don't you hurry up, your brother Lang is here."

"You...... Hmph, don't pay attention to you anymore, Zhihan, you have to teach her strictly, you don't have to give me face, and if you don't obey, you will be beaten to death. ”

"Hahaha, okay, okay, you hurry up and go to the lover."

"Zhihan, even you...... Won't play with the two of you anymore. After saying that, he ran out, and then he heard Guan Xiaoqing losing his temper at Dongling Lang there, Dongling Lang was just having fun there, and then walked away.

Ye Ruochen and Shui Zhihan looked at each other and smiled, "Zhihan, are you looking for something with me?" ”

"Ruoji, I'll be straightforward, about Shenhuo, what is the clue you took that day, can you tell me?"

"Zhihan, didn't we say yes, about Shenhuo, each depends on his ability."

"Yes, but the premise should be to find the divine fire, you are the clue, I also have a clue here, I got it when I passed through a forest before entering the school, it was a piece of parchment." After saying that, he took it out.

Ye Ruochen looked at Shui Zhihan's sincere eyes, "Do you want to get the divine fire so much?" ”

"Yes, I have to find my parents. And raise your spiritual power to rescue them, and you must be qualified to stand by his side. Shui Zhihan's eyes were very determined.

"Okay, then let's look for it together, and see who can get the divine fire when the time comes." I also need to protect my family, Zhihan forgive me, I have to fight with you. "Mine is also a piece of parchment." After saying that, he took it out. The two pieces of parchment fit together, but they still lack half of the feeling.

"Ruochen, you say, will the prize of this Three Kingdoms Contest be the remaining half?"

"Well, it's quite possible."

"Then we must win, come, I will teach you alchemy skills now, I have summarized them, you can learn as much as you can, and you will have more opportunities." Joshy, I believe in your talent. ”

"Don't expect too much."

This whole day, I heard a bang in an alchemy room, and the whole academy was worried about whether it would blow up the academy, and even the dean went to see it, and then came out with a sad face but a relieved smile on his face.

"If you don't learn it, you don't learn it, it's too difficult."

"Don't be too ambitious, make a first-level pill first, you have to refine a fourth-level pill."

"It's not that there is not enough time!"

"There is still a month, as long as there are existing places, you can compete to get the places, and you can also participate in alchemy at that time."

"A month is too short to take your time. Zhihan, I've always used the beast fire you gave me to make alchemy, can I use my own fire. ”

"Do you have fire powers? I've heard, don't you only have ice spiritual power? That's why I gave you the beast fire. ”

"I only discovered some time ago that I had fire spiritual power in my body." I can't tell her that it's the elixir in the ethereal realm that has changed the physique, it's too troublesome to explain like that.

"Then you play it out and I'll see."

"Okay." The fire spiritual power instantly covered the alchemy furnace, and the temperature of the space instantly increased.

"Your fire spiritual power is not much worse than that of divine fire." Shui Zhihan looked at Ye Ruochen with her eyes, "Ruojian, you tell me the truth, I told you the divine fire I have that day, do you have any divine fire?" ”

Ye Ruochen looked at her, since I decided to make this friend, there is no need to hide it. "I have a divine fire." After speaking, he snapped his fingers, and a small almost transparent flame jumped on his fingertips, and the space was constantly fluctuating.

"Void Yan!" Shui Zhihan's contract beast jumped out at once, and transmitted a message to Shui Zhihan, "Master, devour it quickly." Seeing that Shui Zhihan had not moved, he flew over and wanted to take it away, but before he reached Ye Ruojian's side, Yo You came out and stopped it, and then the two demonic beasts fought. Ye Ruochen didn't put away the Void Yan, she wanted to see what Shui Zhihan would decide, to be honest, she was also using her spiritual power to forcibly control the Void Yan now, the Heavenly Fire on Shui Zhihan's body was too attractive to Void Yan, which also proved that Shui Zhihan had mobilized the Heavenly Fire in her body.

"If there is a trace, using the divine fire to refine the pill will get twice the result with half the effort, but in this way, it is easy to be exposed, unless it is necessary to use the divine fire, some alchemy masters have been chasing the divine fire all their lives, and the pill can be found to be different when you smell it, and I feel that the temperature of your divine fire does not seem to be high." Now, let's try it with your fire spiritual power, I feel that your fire spiritual power seems to be extraordinary. After finishing speaking, he stopped paying attention to Void Yan, and Void Yan was instantly quiet.

Ye Ruochen thought to himself, the bet was right. The sun was about to set, and a happy voice came from the hut where explosions were often heard, "I've refined it, Ruoji, look." ”

"Fourth-level high-grade fire spirit pill! Ruochen, you are a genius, it only took one day to become a fourth-grade alchemist! Shui Zhihan said excitedly.

"That's not Zhihan, you taught me well, you told me all your experience, and I was able to refine it so quickly. Teacher Zhihan, hard work. As he spoke, he bowed to Shui Zhihan.

"Hahaha, I'm just talking about some experience, or your talent is good! Ahem! I don't have much to teach you, the rest is up to you! Ye Ruochen and Shui Zhihan looked at each other and smiled, and they got together.

"Say you're fat, you're still panting."

"Oh, oops, you're trying to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors!" When the laughter ended, the two sat down on the ground.

"Zhihan, I really want to thank you for teaching me alchemy so hard."

"Who made us friends?"

Soon after Ye Ruochen returned to his residence, Yo You also returned.

"Yo yo, you're back, did you win or lose?"

"How can the master lose, hit it with a lot of farts and urine."

"Master, how can you show your divine fire? That Shui Zhihan itself has a heavenly fire, what if she takes it away. Yu Jiu said worriedly, besides, now that the master's divine power has been sealed, and Shui Zhihan's spiritual power is so high, how dangerous it is.

"I'm fine, I believe Zhihan."

"Master, this defense is indispensable."

"That's right, what Yu Jiu said is, look at it, that demonic beast just wanted to rob it, but fortunately it was stopped by the master."

"Got it, got it, not next time."

"And next time?" The two spoke in unison.

"No, I've been practicing for a day today, I'm so tired, I'm resting, you guys should rest quickly."

"Master, it will be very beneficial to rest in the ethereal realm." Doll testimonials said.

"Well, that's a good idea."

In the next few days, the entire academy was in an atmosphere of serious cultivation, and Ye Ruochen simply rested and cultivated in the ethereal realm.

In the academy, Ye Ruochen came out of the ethereal realm in the early morning of the same day, and felt that his spiritual power was a little stronger. Then set off to the central square, and found Guan Xiaoqing and Shui Zhihan after arriving.

"Xiaoqing, Zhihan, how are you preparing?"

"I'm here to practice, hehehe." Guan Xiaoqing said very easily.

"No problem, what about you?"

"I'm fine, let's work together."

The central square gradually gathered people, some participated in the competition, some watched the excitement, except for those who were in retreat or went out to practice, almost all the teachers and students of the college came. After some time, the dean appeared on the high platform with the elders.

"The five-year Three Kingdoms Contest is about to begin, today we will select ten students to fight for places on behalf of our college, and those who are selected today are the best in the college, and the ten students selected this time will be given three days of vacation, and they can return to their home city through the teleportation point in the academy, and return to the academy through the city teleportation point three days later, and will undergo rigorous training. When the competition begins, please go to the waiting area of the competition to wait, and the students who are watching the game will be seated in the audience. ”

After speaking, the Great Elder flew to the center of the central square on the platform, "There are a total of 817 students who have signed up for this competition, due to the large number of students, the elders will decide to divide the competition into three rounds, the first round of team competition, at least one person and up to ten people, draw lots to determine the grouping, now give a quarter of an hour to group and then elect representatives to come and draw lots, one of which has a white sign for exemption, provided that the number of teams is odd, such as the even number will compete with the last draw, you can have questions. ”

"It's so unfair to form a team, what if you draw a pair of tens." Guan Xiaoqing laughed and Ye Ruochen and Shui Zhihan said.

"If the person who is one against ten can't win, it proves that he doesn't have that ability, and the people who come out of the national competition or the Three Kingdoms competition can not only be one against ten, but even one against hundred." Shui Zhihan said calmly, and Ye Ruochen also nodded in approval.

"That's it, then let's go as a group and take me as a rookie."

"How could we leave you?" Ye Ruochen smiled.

"How about bringing me one?" Nanping suddenly appeared.

"Nanping, it's been a long time, where have you been lately."

"I've been in retreat."

Guan Xiaoqing looked at Nanping and glanced at Ye Ruoji, and pushed Ye Ruoji ambiguously, Guan Xiaoqing was just about to say something, "Xiaoqing, you are here, but let me find it." "Tanglin Lang immediately appeared next to Guan Xiaoqing." I'm joining you, too. ”

"Xiaoqing doesn't seem to need our protection." Ye Ruochen said sourly.

"Of course, I'm here, don't worry." Tanglin Lang reassured, but Guan Xiaoqing lowered her head shyly. Ye Ruochen thought to himself, it seems that Tanglin Lang took Xiaoqing down, seeing that Dongling Lang cares about Xiaoqing so much, Xiaoqing should be very happy, I am really happy for him.

"Let's join in, okay?" I saw two men and women who looked very similar coming.

"Kaiyu, Jiajia, you two are back, I thought you two wouldn't be able to catch up." Tanglin Lang patted the shoulders of the two.

"It's a five-year race, so how could we miss it."

"By the way, Ruojian, you may not know each other, this is Tang Kaiyu, this is Tang Jiajia, and they are also the teacher's students, but they have been practicing outside when you entered the school."

"Hello senior."

"Haha, there is no need to say that, just call your name, you are Ye Ruochen, I heard about it as soon as I came back, you are a little genius." Tang Jiajia grabbed Ye Ruochen affectionately and said.

"You are welcome to join, by the way, this is Shui Zhihan, and this time it is also our team."

"You're the only apprentice of the dean, I'm glad you will."

"Hello, please take care of me."

"Okay, okay, everyone, don't be polite, hurry up and choose someone to draw lots." Guan Xiaoqing said happily.

"Just let Wakaji go." Shui Zhihan proposed.

"We agree."

"This ...... Okay, I won't shirk it, why don't you just draw a lot, draw a strong enemy, don't blame me. ”

"No, no, you can go." Guan Xiaoqing urged.

"Okay."

There were already a lot of people gathered in the center of the square, Ye Ruochen went to the registration office to register the names of his team members, and then arrived at the lottery office, and saw that they were all arranged according to the team, it seemed that who came first and who drew first, and roughly it seemed that there were more than a hundred people.

"A quarter of an hour has arrived, but no one or team has come." The Great Elder asked. "Okay, after statistics, there are a total of 125 teams, therefore, there will be a white lot, and this team will directly enter the next competition. The following will be drawn on a first-come, first-served basis. ”

It was Ye Ruochen's turn to draw lots, Ye Ruochen thought to himself, he didn't know if he could draw a white lot, anyway, it was good to retain his strength. The students in front of me didn't draw a white lot, so let's see how their luck is. Ye Ruochen touched it indiscriminately, took out a sheet and handed it to the person who registered.

"White sign, congratulations to this student and his team, you can directly enter the next round."

Everyone looked at Ye Ruochen, what a good fate. After the draw was completed, Ye Ruochen returned to the team.

"How is it, has Ruoji drawn a white lot?" Guan Xiaoqing hurriedly pulled Ye Ruochen and asked.

Ye Ruochen's face was expressionless, showing a very depressed expression.

"It's okay, it's okay, we're all masters." Shui Zhihan said comfortingly.

"It's, it's like, we haven't moved our muscles and bones for a long time."

"Hahaha." Ye Ruochen couldn't hold back his laughter, "I'm lucky to have drawn a white lot!" ”

"Really? That's great. The four women were very happy, and the three men stood next to them and smiled helplessly.

"We'll have to watch them well and prepare for the next round." Ye Ruochen instructed them.