Ye Nanshan's cultivation has only been upgraded to the ninth rank of the high rank, and the next upgrade will be the eighth grade, and it will take 20,000 gold coins to upgrade to the eighth grade.

In three months, only one small rank was upgraded, and these days, Ye Nanshan has also been ridiculed countless times by Murong Jianyu, shouting that Ye Nanshan has lost her face.

"The batch of students who enrolled with you have been upgraded to the eighth grade of the high level, the cute girl named Xiaomeng who came to you the day before yesterday, everyone has been promoted to the eighth grade, why are you so unproductive, for so long, and you are still mixing in the ninth grade?"

It is still relatively easy for Yuanshi Jiupin to be promoted to the eighth grade, especially for seed camp players like Xiaomeng, who are already extremely talented, plus the cultivation of Tianshu Academy is indeed excellent, so the students of Tianshu Academy in the early stage are upgraded relatively quickly, usually half a year is enough to upgrade to the eighth grade, and if the talent is good, they can be upgraded from the ninth grade to the eighth grade in three or two months.

In fact, in the world of Yuanshi, the nine grades are just a foundation, it is the initial awakening stage, the real sense of the cultivation of the source is to start from the eighth grade, and to the eighth grade, the speed of upgrading is much slower, some students, in the entire first grade, can only be upgraded from the eighth grade low, to the eighth grade intermediate level, and even some for a whole year, can not be promoted to a small level.

So, of course, why Du Fei looked down on Ye Nanshan a little, it was because Du Fei was indeed very talented, and before he officially entered the school, he was accepted as a mentor and cultivated to the middle level of the eighth grade, this kind of talent is not available to everyone.

Ye Nanshan: "I'm not busy practicing swords every day, how can I have the kung fu to upgrade." ”

"You practice a ghost's sword. Murong Jianyu looked disgusted, "I thought you were really talented before, but now it seems that you are just a showman! After practicing the sword for three months, you can't pierce the broken tree with a single sword." ”

"Isn't this mainly about practicing sword intent and sword qi? Ye Nanshan quibbled.

Murong Jianyu snorted: "You still have the face to mention! Sword Qi, it's been three months, let you shoot a sword qi, or will you only spit, is your hand useless? Or does it not match the sword qi? Three months, you can only get the sword qi out of your body just now, and you can't even attach the sword qi to the blade, and you are embarrassed to say that you are mainly practicing sword qi?"

Ye Nanshan's old face flushed, in the past three months, he has indeed practiced the sword the hardest, but it seems that the progress is indeed relatively slow.

After thinking about it, Ye Nanshan said again: "Isn't my cloud-stepping practice not bad?" ”

"Yes, you have practiced this escape kung fu quite well!" Murong Jianyu glanced at him, "I knew that you were so wasteful, it was better to teach you directly and sell it for a good price!"

"......" Ye Nanshan was speechless.

Ye Nanshan doesn't want to upgrade now, if he really wants to upgrade, he can use money to smash himself to the seventh-grade high-level on the spot, what the eighth-grade high-level, brother will beat him in minutes, it's just that the brother is low-key, and the brother doesn't say it.

However, regarding sword qi, Ye Nanshan himself is quite incomprehensible and helpless.

Ye Nanshan remembered that when the first sword qi shot out, he accidentally threw it out with his hand, but since then, no matter how he tries, the sword qi just can't shoot out of his hand, and besides, let alone shoot out the sword qi and let the sword qi leave the body, just can freely let the sword qi out of the body and gather in his hand, Ye Nanshan has only done it in the past two days.

It may really be the same as what Murong Jianyu said, the sword qi and his hands are incompatible.

The sword intent in his body has grown several times through the heart sword duel taught by Murong Jianyu, although Murong Jianyu has never praised Ye Nanshan for this, but Ye Nanshan can also see that Murong Jianyu is still very satisfied with the progress of his sword intent.

However, no matter how well the sword intent is cultivated, it can't be turned into sword qi for effective use, and that's for nothing, well... It can't be said that it can't be used effectively, at least, Ye Nanshan can still spit out sword qi with his mouth, but the way is more shameful.

"It's not going to go on like this. Murong Jianyu said, "I have to find a way for you to stimulate it." ”

Ye Nanshan: "What's the method?"

Murong Jianyu thought for a while and said, "You continue to practice swords, and I'll go down the mountain." ”

As he spoke, Murong Jianyu flew down from the Jianfeng cliff in the direction of the main peak.

It didn't take long for Murong Jianyu to come back, and when he saw Ye Nanshan, he smiled.

Ye Nanshan suddenly had a bad premonition.

Murong Jianyu: "Coincidentally, the day after tomorrow is the day when the first-year old students enter the No. 9 Source Mine for mining, I will sign you up, and you will go with you when the time comes." ”

Ye Nanshan was slightly stunned, Ye Nanshan has been going to the seed camp every morning to listen to lectures in the past three months, and the basic cultivation knowledge has been almost mastered, and he has met Dai Qing, a teacher he had seen before in the seed camp, because of the relationship between Murong Jianyu, Dai Qing and Ye Nanshan had a very good relationship, and he told him a lot about Tianshu Academy in private.

No. 9 Source Mine, Ye Nanshan heard Dai Qing say, this place, known as the trial place of the first grade, is opened every six months, and every time it is opened, the old students of the first grade will concentrate on mining in the mine.

What is mined is not an ore, but a thing called the source stone, the source stone, in fact, is a pure source power crystal, the main role is to provide additional source power to the source of the stone, in this world, is as a currency and cultivation resources circulation, known as the gift of heaven and earth.

The source stone is a very magical thing, any two source stones, their appearance, weight, size, shape, are almost identical.

There is an old saying in this world that you can't find two leaves that are exactly the same, but you can find countless identical source stones.

The production method of the source stone is also very magical, the formation of each source stone will be accompanied by a source spirit, many monks also call the source spirit a stone man, because each source spirit is an irregular human form composed of soil and stones.

These Source Spirits, or Stone People, have the ability to act, and have the ability to attack, they are able to carry out physical and energy attacks, and the attack strength of ordinary Source Spirits is no less than that of the Eighth Rank Monk.

After the source warrior hunts the stone man, he will be able to find the quail egg-sized emerald green source stone from the stone man's body.

Ye Nanshan remembered that Dai Qing told him that the source stone was accompanied by a stone man, which was a sign of maturity, and the source stone without maturity was buried deep underground, and the source energy in it was very irritable, and the monk could not absorb and use it, when the source stone matured and formed, it would surface by itself, and form a source spirit composed of soil and stone, and only this kind of source stone accompanied by a stone man could the energy become stable and the monk could use it.

The cultivation of the source spirits is not all the same, and after a certain period of maturity, they can merge with each other.

For example, two stone people can be fused into a larger stone man, and this big stone man has two source stones in his body, and his cultivation will also change from the most ordinary eight-rank beginner to eighth-rank middle-level.

In the same way, there are also people who have three, four, or even more source stones in their bodies and cultivate to a higher level of stone.

For a stone, turning into a stone man who is interesting and can act, this kind of magical thing, Ye Nanshan also asked Dai Qing why he was like this at that time.

Dai Qing couldn't understand the specific reason, only that it had been like this since ancient times, and if there had to be an explanation, it could be said that there were spirits in heaven and earth.