After breaking through the "Yama Emperor Quenching Body Sutra" and advancing to the second level, Han Chen's physical strength has been greatly enhanced, and his strength has also increased to 38,000 catties. In this way, the pressure brought by the weight of the five thousand catties of the Mo Han Sword has also been reduced a lot.

However, Han Chen deeply understands the truth of one by one, otherwise it will inevitably backfire if it is too much.

Moreover, the "Yama Emperor Quenching Body Sutra" has just broken through, and the cultivation of the physical body has temporarily entered a bottleneck period, and there is not much room for improvement if you continue to cultivate.

Therefore, Han Chen decided to put aside the cultivation of the physical body for the time being, and instead began to practice the Xuan-level Five-Rank Body Technique "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada" that he had exchanged from Xiong Zhan!

The battle with Yan San made Han Chen deeply realize his shortcomings.

With his comprehensive strength at this time, it is indeed not difficult to fight beyond the level, but that is only for ordinary people. If he encounters a speed-type opponent like Yan San, then Han Chen will fall into passivity.

Moreover, what Yan San cultivated was only the combat skills of the Xuan Rank, what if it was the Ground Rank?

Once the speed is not as good as the opponent, then no matter how strong you are, you can't hit others, it is just in vain, and you can only fall into the situation of being beaten in the end.

Of course, this is not absolute, if Han Chen's strength is really strong to a certain level, reaching the realm of 'one force to ten guilds', then he can ignore these, and with just one punch, he can break through all ten thousand laws!

However, if he wants to reach that realm, Han Chen still has a long, long way to go.

Therefore, Han Chen was ready to take advantage of the next hurried journey to practice "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada". I can make up for my weaknesses.

However, the difficulty of the cultivation of this "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada" was greatly beyond Han Chen's expectations, and after five days of continuous travel, Han Chen traveled more than 9,000 miles, each of which consumed his true qi every time, before stopping to rest, and then continuing to hurry.

The level of madness has not diminished in the slightest from the previous few days.

But after five days, Han Chen only reached the realm of Xiaocheng. Such a result made Han Chen feel very helpless. He remembered that when he first cultivated the Spirit Void Step, it only took three days to completely master it, where was it so difficult as now.

"The martial arts on the Purple Gold Continent have been inherited for tens of thousands of years. It has long been derived to the point of extreme prosperity. Those exercises, combat skills. Each volume has been polished over the years. What is left behind is the essence!" At this time, Guiguzi's voice sounded in the sea of knowledge: "Eight steps to catch the cicada." Ranking at the fifth rank of the Xuan Rank is already a quite advanced combat skill, and the difficulty of cultivation has greatly increased, so it is naturally reasonable!"

Hearing Guiguzi's words, Han Chen nodded. He just complained about the difficulty of cultivating, he was still very satisfied with the speed of "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada", although it was only a small Cheng realm, but the speed shown was several points faster than the spiritual void step of the consummation realm!

While walking slowly, Han Chen used his heart for two purposes, separating a wisp of his mind and sinking into his body, controlling the "Cold Snow Sword Technique" to operate in the meridians, refining the cold ice spirit crystal, and absorbing the cold ice spirit qi liquid in it to restore the consumed true qi.

After all, it wasn't when he first left Qingshui City, his true qi was exhausted, and he still had physical strength, which didn't affect his hurry.

After a stick of incense, Han Chen withdrew that wisp of his mind, and the exercises in his body began to stop running, and the depleted true qi in the dantian became full again, and the volume increased slightly compared to a few days ago.

Feeling the true qi in the dantian, Han Chen's face showed a hint of a smile, the aura contained in the cold ice spirit crystal was indeed extremely pure, after a few days of frantic hurrying, his true qi realm had gradually approached the late stage of the two-star sword guard, according to the current cultivation speed, it would not take a few days to make another breakthrough and advance to the level of the three-star sword guard.

As soon as his mind moved, the true qi in the dantian surged rapidly, flowing along the meridians, quickly gathering on the soles of his feet, and surrounding endlessly.

Han Chen stepped out in one step!

Call!

It was as if a breeze was blowing, and in the next moment, Han Chen's figure was already dozens of meters away. The soles of his feet kept stepping out, and Han Chen's figure flickered again and again, and soon disappeared from the sight of the other mercenary merchants

A day later, at dusk.

On the spacious loess avenue, Han Chen's rapidly flickering figure stagnated slightly, and then his steps lifted up and continued to walk forward, but at this time, his speed slowed down, like an ordinary mercenary mercenary businessman.

Looking up, a huge dark city appeared in Han Chen's sight.

After so many days of traveling, Han Chen traveled more than 14,000 miles, and finally arrived at the border of the Qingyun Empire, which was the border fortress of the Qingyun Empire. And the border fortress of the Thousand Snow Empire and the border fortress of the Qingyun Empire are only two thousand miles apart.

This also means that as long as he leaves the border fortress of the Qingyun Empire and travels another two thousand miles, Han Chen will officially enter the Thousand Snow Empire.

As the other mercenaries and merchants walked slowly, it was not until more than an hour that Han Chen finally came to the front of the city.

At this time, there was already a long queue in front of the fortress gate, and after being inspected by the soldiers, they could be allowed to enter the fortress.

Han Chen joined the team and waited slowly.

The corner of his eyes looked around slightly, Han Chen's eyes were full of amazement, and he secretly said in his heart: "It is worthy of being the border fortress of the empire, and the garrison strength is really amazing!"

This fortress city is extremely large, every three meters there is a fully armed, armed soldier with a spear standing guard, and the strength of these soldiers is not bad, the stronger ones have the level of five or six star sword guards, and even the weak ones have reached one or two star sword guards.

Although it doesn't seem to be very good, you must know that on this fortress, there are tens of thousands of such soldiers, and tens of thousands of Sword Guard Realm soldiers show a strength that is far more terrifying than tens of thousands of Sword Guard Realm martial artists.

Moreover, under the perception of Guiguzi, there are still a large number of sword masters and soldiers in the sword realm in the fortress, and even a few have reached the sword spirit realm! As for the strong man of the sword king, he is already a strong man who dominates one side, even if he is in the army. That's also a marshal-level figure guarding the frontier, so naturally he won't be in this fortress and guard the border!

Soon, it was Han Chen's turn.

After passing a series of inspections, Han Chen was let in.

"Take it!" a soldier handed Han Chen a slip made of animal skins.

This is Han Chen's identity certificate for entering the fortress, and he can't lose it before leaving the fortress, otherwise Han Chen will be arrested by the soldiers as a spy.

Han Chen took it. Then pass through the thick city gates. Enter the fortress.

In the fortress, there are also some shops and restaurants, which are used for mercenary merchants to rest temporarily, but behind these merchants are the shadow of the military of the Qingyun Empire.

Of course. In order to prevent spies from other countries. The fort is still very well defended. There was a curfew every night, large numbers of soldiers patrolled, and merchants were only allowed to stay in the fortress for one day. They are then driven out of the fortress

"Sorry, guest, our store is full!"

"Sorry, guest, our store is full!"

"Guest officer, I'm really sorry, our store really can't vacate the room!"

After entering seven or eight restaurants in a row, the results were all full, and Han Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly. There are really a lot of mercenary businessmen between the two countries, and after driving more than 10,000 miles, a restaurant is the place they want to see the most.

Han Chen also rushed for several days, and finally saw the restaurant at this time, he didn't want to continue to sleep outside, so he immediately continued to walk to other restaurants.

"Huh, Ye Yun?"

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind.

Han Chen turned around, saw the appearance of the person who came, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiong Zhan, we meet again!"

It was the bear battle that stopped Han Chen when he was in Qingshui City, exchanging three fourth-order demon cores with Han Chen with "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada".

Xiong Zhan walked over quickly, and said with a smile: "Aren't you in Qingshui City, why did you come here!"

"I'm going to go to the Thousand Snow Empire for some training!" Han Chen smiled.

"Dad, who is this?" At this time, a young girl stepped on small steps from behind Xiong Zhan and followed, her eyes fell on Han Chen's body, and she wondered.

"Come, Ya'er, Dad will introduce you!" Xiong Zhan Ha Luha smiled and said to the girl: "This is the little friend that Dad mentioned to you, and he is willing to exchange three fourth-order demon cores with Daddy, Ye Yun!"

"Speaking of which, he's your benefactor. If he hadn't been willing to suffer a loss and exchange with his father, your life would have been gone!"

"Brother Xiong Zhan, it's serious!" Han Chen hurriedly shook his head and said, when he exchanged, he didn't think about it so much.

"Since Brother Ye Yun is also going to Green City, why don't you go on the road with us!

After Han Chen knew that after entering the fortress of the Thousand Snow Empire, it would not be very peaceful, and then robbers and horse thieves would appear.

They seem to have some kind of connection with the upper echelons of the fortress, they will not do it to their own people, only to the people of the other country, and the soldiers in the fortress have never been sent out to encircle and suppress.

A lone traveler like him is the favorite target of these people, and there will be a lot of trouble when the time comes.

After groaning slightly, Han Chen smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Recently, there has been a lot of traffic in the fortress, and the restaurants are full, Brother Ye Yun shouldn't have found a place to stay!" Seeing Han Chen nodding in agreement, Ya'er smiled and said, "We happen to have a vacant room there, although the grade is not good, but it is good to rest for one night!"

Hearing this, Han Chen's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded in agreement.

However, after glancing at the girl, Han Chen couldn't help but look at Xiong Zhan, and couldn't help muttering secretly, in addition to Xiong Zhan's burly figure, there was no trace of sparkle on his body, how did he give birth to such a watery daughter.

Ya'er looks about fourteen or fifteen years old, but her appearance is extremely beautiful, wearing a light green power suit, which perfectly outlines her developed delicate figure, and the most important thing is that Ya'er does not have the squeamishness of her peers, her temperament is very calm, and she has the style of everyone.

Feeling Han Chen's strange gaze, Xiong Zhan straightened his chest and said with a smug face: "My daughter is beautiful!"

The proudest thing in his life is that he gave birth to such a beautiful daughter.

Hearing Xiong Zhan's praise, Ya'er immediately rolled her eyes, this was not the first time he had praised her so much in front of people, but a faint flush still appeared on her pretty face.

"Miss Ya'er is indeed very beautiful!" Han Chen nodded and said honestly.

"Okay, let's hurry up, it's a little later, and the room may be rented out!" Hearing this, the flush on Ya'erqiao's face suddenly had a tendency to expand, and she immediately dropped a sentence, and then quickly turned around and left.

Seeing this, Xiong Zhan's father, who had no conscience, laughed.

Han Chen also smiled, and then followed with Xiong Zhan. (To be continued......)

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