Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is another three months.

Zhang Yang has been training hard with several coaches throughout the winter, except for the Chinese New Year, Zhuge Hong gave Zhang Yang a week's vacation, even on weekends, except for occasionally going out to eat and shop with Zhang Dabao and He Xiaohe, Zhang Yang still insisted on sweating like rain in the training room.

This year's Chinese New Year, Zhang Yang's family is quite happy, Zhang Yang transferred more than 100,000 yuan in his card to his mother, Yang Li looked at the money transferred by her son and cried with joy, praising her son for growing up and being able to make money.

also said that he would save all the money and give it to Zhang Yang's daughter-in-law in the future. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home was extraordinarily rich, Zhuge Hong sent many New Year goods, and Zhang Yang's father also bought a few bottles of good wine and drank it at home.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yang was playing with his mobile phone at home, and suddenly felt the Yuan Force in his body move, and hurriedly crossed his legs to settle down, and the Yuan Force like a small stream of water impacted Zhang Yang's body and merged into his abdomen. Zhang Yang only felt trembling all over, and his Yuan Force increased dramatically, breaking through to the late stage of the first order!

The Yuan Force in the body 1-100 is the early stage of the first order 100-300 is the middle stage 300-900 is the late stage 900-1000 Yuan Force is the peak of the first order, although the peak Dao is only 100 Yuan Force in the second order, but it is not easy to break through when reaching 1000 Yuan Force, you need to go through a bottleneck period, and it is very common for some people to be stuck for a year or two!

There are even some soul masters who will stop at the peak in their lifetime and will not be able to break through!

Zhang Yang opened his eyes and was pleasantly surprised in his heart! It had only been half a year since he had cultivated, and he was already in the late stage of the first order! He was one step closer to the small goal of the second order!

Zhang Yang told his master Zhuge Hong about the breakthrough, and Zhuge Hong was very pleased! Let Zhang Yang rest and rest, and don't be too tight.

Zhuge Hong told Zhang Yang to get ready, he was going to leave for a certain place soon to participate in the selection of junior soul masters in the Seventh Acropolis, and only the top ten were eligible to represent the Acropolis to the city-state to participate in the preliminary round.

The Seventh Acropolis where Zhang Yang is located belongs to the jurisdiction of the Huizhou City-State, and Zhang Yang has never been there, but he heard Zhao Dabao say that the Huidu City-State is extremely large, with a population of sixty or seventy million, which is far from being comparable to the Seventh Acropolis.

Zhang Yang sat up straight in an instant, and his heart was burning. It's finally time to wait for this moment! I have been training hard for more than half a year just to participate in the competition! And wanting to participate in the Soul Master Contest and get the top ten qualifications of the Seventh Acropolis is the first step that Zhang Yang wants to take!

Those who can be recommended to participate in the preliminary selection of the Seventh Acropolis will definitely not be weak, and the vast majority of students who are only in the third year of junior high school will be recommended, and generally the strength of students in the third year of junior high school is at least in the middle and late stages of the first order.

Although Zhang Yang is already in the late stage of the first order, he has just passed his birthday on February 14th and is only 14 years old. If you want to snatch the qualification from a young soul master who is two years older, the difficulty can be imagined.

Zhang Yang was not afraid at all, hung up the teacher's phone, and felt the state after the breakthrough for a while. I obviously felt that my body was stronger, my body was full of yuanyuan, and when I raised my hand, it was covered with black flames, and it was faintly a little stronger than before.

The next day, the eighth day of the new year.

Zhang Yang got up early in the morning, first went to Grandpa Wang's yard to take care of the flowers and plants, and then set off for the Soul Master Association. During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Yang didn't let the driver pick him up, so Zhang Yang planned to use the old way at the moment to run over to warm his body.

It was only seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and the sporadic sound of artillery could be heard, and the faint smell of gunpowder was in the air. It is the taste of the New Year.

Zhang Yang was in the training room of the association, and after greeting Jiang Wu for the New Year, he began today's busy training.

Zhang Yang panted, looking at Jiang Wu who was like no one on the other side, just now he tried his best and failed to cause any damage to Jiang Wu, and the attack paths were all recognized by Jiang Wu and cracked them one by one.

"If you want to defeat me, it's not enough to rely on skills, but on brains!"

Jiang Wu pointed his fingers, "Everything you have learned is taught by me, and I know all the parts and angles you want to attack in the next second, because you are like another me, or a more immature me." Only by finding your own fighting system can you defeat me!"

Of course, Zhang Yang knows what Coach Jiang means, but it's useless to just know the meaning, and it is still very difficult for Zhang Yang, who has only studied for half a year, to find his own system style!

Personal style is something that can only be achieved through a lot of training and personal style habits.

"Zhang Yang, you are very smart, otherwise it would be impossible to master all the skills I taught you in only half a year. Jiang Wu said in a slightly hoarse voice.

"You will only succeed if you forget all the techniques I have taught you and turn the use of techniques into an instinctive reaction of your body. ”

Forget the technique, turn the use of the technique into an instinctive reaction, Zhang Yang suddenly closed his eyes and began to think about the meaning of this sentence.

Jiang Wu on the side watched with his arms crossed and did not disturb Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang recalled the battle with Scarface at this moment, that night was quite thrilling, Scarface's green mangs and cyan wheals were extremely fast, Zhang Yang could hardly dodge, he could only use his body to carry it, if it wasn't for the mysterious jade pendant, Zhang Yangkeng would definitely die!

The pace of the battle that day was fast, and Zhang Yang recalled at this moment that many of the actions that attacked Scarface that day were instinctively subconscious.

Spiritual light flashed in Zhang Yang's mind, and it took five or six minutes before he slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were staring at Jiang Wu, and he rushed over with an arrow step, and raised his hand to go straight to Jiang Wu's door with a punch. Jiang Wu quickly raised his hand to block the sound of 'snap', and Zhang Yang's left fist hit Jiang Wu's arm.

In an instant, Jiang Wu secretly said that it was not good! Because the punch that hit his arm seemed to be fierce, but it actually didn't have much power.

Just as Jiang Wu had an idea, before he could react, he felt a pain in his abdomen and bent down in an instant. I saw Zhang Yang fixed his knee on his abdomen! Zhang Yang was unforgiving, and his right elbow struck Jiang Wu at the back of the head.

Jiang Wu was hit in the abdomen close to the body, instinctively bent down, and subconsciously stood upright and then retreated, distancing himself from Zhang Yang. But I didn't expect to meet Zhang Yang's right elbow.

With a muffled sound, Jiang Wu felt pain in the back of his head, but his mind was still clear. A punch from the bottom up, wanting to attack Zhang Yang's abdomen. But the moment Zhang Yang hit the back of Jiang Wu's head, he retreated backwards and got out of Jiang Wu's attack range.

Jiang Wu stabilized his body and was about to step forward to attack, but he heard someone under the ring say, "Hehe, Jiang Wu, you lost." ”

Jiang Wu was stunned when he heard this, stood in place, looked at the audience, and saw the flamboyant sword coach Qin Li holding a long stick wrapped in cloth, standing under the Taixia, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned.

Jiang Wu was not entangled, raised his hand and rubbed the back of his head, laughed, and looked at Zhang Yang in surprise: "It seems that your kid has really mastered his own style!"

In fact, he never thought that Zhang Yang could really have his own offensive path so quickly, even if he was a genius, it would be difficult to master it in a year and a half.

At this moment, he was not embarrassed by Zhang Yang, but very happy, although he didn't say it, but Zhang Yang, who watched so hard training every day, still admired it slightly.

Zhang Yang looked at Jiang Wu, who was laughing, and he was also relieved, the reason why he quickly broke away from the battle after one blow was because he was afraid of being beaten! If he really put on a posture to fight, he didn't even have a one-in-10,000 chance of winning, Jiang Wu was a dignified fourth-order soul master!

Jiang Wu, who was hit in the back of the head by Zhang Yang, just rubbed his head, and didn't even have anything to do, this is the physical gap! You must know that Zhang Yang's strength even a second-order soul master has the power to fight.

"Old Qin, why are you here" Jiang Wu stepped out of the ring and asked Qin Li.

"I'm here to say goodbye to Zhang Yang, and it just so happens that you are also saying goodbye to you by the way. Zhang Yang and Jiang Wu were stunned when they heard this.

Zhang Yang hurriedly asked, "Coach Qin, are you leaving?" Is it because I'm too stupid to meet your requirements?"

Qin Li looked at Zhang Yang with a smile: "It has nothing to do with you, you train very hard, and you are the hardest working child I have ever seen." Because of work needs, I was seconded to the Huidu City-State Soul Master Association. ”

"Ah, that's the case, is there no way to see Coach Qin in the future?" Zhang Yang asked.

"It's just a secondment, and I'll be back when I finish my mission. Qin Li waved his hand at Zhang Yang and said, "You come here." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yang hurriedly walked out of the ring.

Qin Li put the stick wrapped in cloth in his hand on the table next to him, and reached out to open it. I saw that inside was a long knife with a black handle and a black body, only the blade was silver-white, this knife was straight, and the head of the knife had an oblique angle.

"Isn't this your 'black knife'?" Jiang Wu, who came over on the side, also saw the items on the table and said.

"Yes, I came today to give this black knife to Zhang Yang. Qin Li looked at the black knife and said with a smile.

"Give it to me?" Zhang Yang looked at Qin Li with wide eyes.

"This knife is a first-order Horcrux, a weapon I used when I was young, and now I don't use it anymore, instead of leaving it in the dust at home, it is better to give it to someone in need, so that he can continue to shine. Qin Li brushed his fingers over the knife and said.

Zhang Yang knows about Horcruxes, and Teacher Liu Ting has already handed over his knowledge in this area. Horcruxes use weapons or armor refined from the core of demon beasts, and there is a special union in the Federation, called the Horcrux Divisions Union, which specializes in refining Horcruxes.

After all Horcruxes leave a spiritual imprint, they can be stored in the beast soul space in the body.

Generally, low-level Horcruxes are made by incorporating a special alloy into the core, while high-level Horcruxes are directly refined using the bones or body of demon beasts with the core. The prices are extremely expensive, and ordinary low-level soul masters can't afford them.

Even if this first-order horcrux in front of him is at least a few hundred thousand!

"Coach Qin, this is too precious for me to accept" Zhang Yang looked at Qin Li and said.

"In the past six months, I have basically handed over all the knife skills I know to you, and the rest can only be explored and summarized by yourself. And only in battle, can you sum up experience faster, you don't have a weapon at hand, how can you take a step closer?" Qin Li said with a smile.

He really likes Zhang Yang, otherwise he wouldn't have given Zhang Yang the weapon he used when he was young.

"If this black knife can bring your sword skills one step closer, why don't I do it? surpassing me is the best reward for us coaches!" Qin Li picked up the black knife and placed it horizontally in front of Zhang Yang, looking at Zhang Yang with a soft gaze.

Zhang Yang pursed his lips and took the black knife in Qin Li's hand. The black knife is about three feet two inches long, the blade is one inch, it is slightly heavy in his hand, and the silver-white blade is shining with wisps of cold light, Zhang Yang likes it very much.