"You have a good memory, I'm relieved to hand over the elixir in the yard to you to take care of!"

Li Jiechen was very satisfied with Ye Kai's performance, and after leaving a stone talisman that could open the prohibition in the courtyard for Ye Kai, he went out to do the task.

There are three rooms in the courtyard, one is Li Juechen's bedroom, one is his alchemy room, and the remaining one is empty for storing sundries.

Before leaving, Li Jiechen explained that Ye Kai could clean up the utility room and stay here for the time being, so that it would be convenient to take care of the medicine field.

Since he said so, Ye Kai naturally wouldn't be polite to him, after all, the aura in the courtyard was so strong, it would be of great benefit to his cultivation, and he was not stupid, why not take advantage of such a good bargain!

After Li Jiechen left, Ye Kai poured all the elixirs in the courtyard, then cleaned up the utility room, and sat cross-legged on the wooden bed and began to cultivate.

I have to say that the difference between cultivating here and other places is still very obvious, after one day of cultivation, the effect is equivalent to four or five times that of the outside, and even the combat power value has directly increased by one point.

If he continued at this rate, Ye Kai was sure that he would be promoted to the peak of the third layer of the Qi cultivation period within a month, which would be a surprise within a surprise to him!

Because watering the elixir requires the use of spiritual spring water in the mountain, and the spiritual energy can only be preserved for one day after the spiritual spring water leaves the spring, so in the evening, Ye Kai ended his cultivation and went down the mountain with a wooden barrel to get water.

The location of the spring Li Jiechen had already told Ye Kai that it was in a cave halfway up the mountain, and it was named Tiger Cave because the mouth of the cave was shaped like a tiger's head.

The Tiger Cave is a shared resource of the Hundred Grass Hall, and it is guarded by a special person on weekdays, and because the amount of spiritual spring water seeping out every day is limited, each disciple can only receive half a bucket per day.

Ye Kai took the identity certificate given by Li Jiechen, and passed all the way in the Baicao Hall without hindrance, and soon found the Tiger Cave and came out with half a bucket of spiritual spring water.

Leaving from the Tiger Cave, Ye Kai had no intention of staying outside for a long time, so he rushed back directly, and when he passed by the Miscellaneous Service Hall, he happened to meet Zhou Chong on the road, so he stopped and said hello to him.

"Long time no see, Senior Brother Zhou, where are you going to go in such a hurry?" Seeing Zhou Chong walking so fast, Ye Kai said curiously.

At the same time, there was some surprise, the last time I saw Zhou Chong, he was still the first level of the Qi training period, but I didn't expect to see him again, he has been promoted to the second level of the Qi training stage, and the cultivation speed is so fast, it seems that he has also had an adventure!

However, thinking so, Ye Kai was not stupid enough to ask, after all, everyone has their own privacy and secrets, and it is good to know each other.

"It turned out to be you, Senior Brother Ye, I was planning to go to the black market to have a look, what about you, what have you been busy with lately?" Zhou Chong replied with a smile, speaking of which, he hadn't seen Ye Kai for a long time.

Although the two are in the same room, because of their different tasks, there are not many opportunities to meet each other.

"What else can you be busy with, naturally you're busy doing tasks!" Ye Kai smiled slightly, and then continued: "By the way, senior brother, what is the black market, why haven't I heard you say it before?"

Hearing the sound, Zhou Chong pulled Ye Kai to the side of the road, and when he saw that there was no one around, he whispered to him:

"The black market is a secret gathering of disciples in the sect, where many people will take out things they can't use in exchange for the cultivation resources they need, but because there are many things of unknown origin mixed in it, they can't be discovered by the elders in the door, so it's always been very secretive, and you can only enter if you are introduced by acquaintances, and it's normal for you not to know. ”

Ye Kai suddenly realized, he didn't expect that there was such an interesting place in the Qingshan Sect, so he smiled and said to Zhou Chong: "So that's the case, can Senior Brother take me to have a look?"

Zhou Chong looked a little hesitant, and after a moment of silence, he said: "It's not impossible to take you there, it's just that every time you go in, you need to pay a spirit stone to the organizer, junior brother, you have just started, there are not many spirit stones on your body, there is no need to waste here, if you need something, you might as well tell me, I can help you change it." ”

Originally, seeing that Zhou Chong seemed to be a little embarrassed, Ye Kai thought that he was unwilling to take him there, but it turned out that he was worried about the matter of the spirit stone.

Ye Kai knew that he had misunderstood Zhou Chong, so he couldn't help but shake his head with a smile, and said, "I just want to take a look, by the way, a spirit stone is still quite worthwhile, senior brother, take me there!"

Now Ye Kai's net worth is quite full, a spirit stone is not a loss for him, and he still has two magic weapons in his hand, if he can sell them in the black market for other more powerful things, then this spirit stone flower will not be in vain.

Therefore, no matter what, the black market still has to go, so it should be explored in advance, and it is possible to go to the black market in the future anyway, so it is better to go there as soon as possible.

"Well, since you are so interested, I will take you to see it, I will help you out of this spirit stone first, and you will borrow it from me, and return it to me when you have the excess spirit stone in the future." ”

Seeing that Ye Kai was so generous and didn't cherish the hard-won spirit stone at all, Zhou Chong was a little helpless, but he had already said good things, and it was Ye Kai's business whether he listened or not.

Therefore, he didn't say anything more, but agreed.

"Then thank you, brother!"

Ye Kai originally wanted to say to Zhou Chong that there are actually a lot of spirit stones on my body, and I don't need to borrow them from you, but when I thought that I had just arrived, I had only done one task, and if I took out the spirit stones so generously, it would be difficult to explain, so I thought about it and forgot it.

As for Zhou Chong's help to him during this time, he still has to repay him when he has the opportunity to do so in the future.

The two then left, and under the leadership of Zhou Chong, they turned left and right along the way, constantly walking to the inaccessible places in the sect, and finally came to the outside of a hidden cave.

Before entering the cave, Zhou Chong asked Ye Kai to change into civilian clothes, and took out a mask for Ye Kai to wear, Ye Kai felt a little strange at first, but soon woke up, since it was an illegal assembly, how could he see people with his true face?

The entrance of the cave was guarded by two disciples of the fourth layer of the Qi cultivation period, who were also wearing masks, Zhou Chong handed over the spirit stone, and introduced Ye Kai's situation, and then the two of them let them go and let them in.

When Ye Kai entered the cave, he found that it was extraordinarily spacious, enough to accommodate hundreds of people at the same time.

There are torches on the walls all around, and they are very bright and do not interfere with trading at all.

And at this moment, there are people coming and going, and it is very lively.

There were hundreds of people setting up stalls and wandering disciples.

"There are more people here than I thought!"

Ye Kai was amazed, there are so many people, just the fee charged for the entrance is nearly a hundred spirit stones, and the profit is really too high!

He even had some doubts that this could be a meeting held by a certain big man of the sect in the name of his disciples, in order to earn the spirit stones of the disciples.

Otherwise, so many people get together and there are many people, how can this black market be open until now without being eliminated, there is obviously a problem.

The more Ye Kai thought about it, the more he felt that the possibility of this matter was very high, but it didn't have much to do with him, after all, he was just a lowly existence like a small shrimp in the Qingshan Sect, and it was good to be able to protect himself, how could he have the leisure to take care of these miscellaneous things.

Therefore, Ye Kai was very witty and didn't say anything, just sighed with emotion.

Noticing Ye Kai's expression, Zhou Chong said with a smile: "This is not too little, when it comes to the big competition of the sect, you will know what it means to be overcrowded!"

"Zongmen Dabi?" Ye Kai was a little confused, he had been in Qingshan Sect for so long, this was the first time he had heard of this thing, it sounded like it was quite fun, and he didn't know what the activity was.

"No, you don't even know this? Didn't Consul Zhuge tell you when you started?"

Seeing that Ye Kai didn't look like he was joking, Zhou Chong felt very surprised, the sect competition was one of the few major events in the Qingshan Sect, if he didn't even know this, it was a little unreasonable.

Zhou Chong seriously suspected that Ye Kai must not have listened well when he started.

Although he also felt that listening to Zhuge speak vigorously was a very torturous thing.

"This ...... Like、I don't think so!"

Ye Kai was a little weak-hearted, and he didn't listen carefully when Zhuge spoke vigorously, so it was not clear whether he had talked about the matter of the sect competition.

But this really can't be blamed on him, whoever meets such a leader who loves to have meetings, no matter how honest he is, he will secretly desert.

Seeing that Ye Kai really didn't know, Zhou Chong sighed helplessly, and patiently explained to him: "It's okay if you don't talk about it, the sect competition is a martial arts competition held every two years, which is intended to motivate disciples to practice hard, and all disciples will have to participate at that time, and our miscellaneous service hall will also be held, and the top ten disciples can directly enter the outer gate in addition to receiving rich rewards, and they don't have to work so hard to do tasks." ”

"I didn't expect there to be such an interesting thing, does Senior Brother know when the Zongmen Dabi will be held?" Ye Kai was a little moved by Zhou Chong's words, and hurriedly asked.

"In the past, it was held on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, and this year should be no exception. Speaking of this, Zhou Chong couldn't help but think of the scene of the last time he participated in the martial arts competition.

At that time, he could only watch others shine in the crowd, and he was secretly sad, and this year, it is difficult to say who will lose and who will win!

"That's not just three months left. Ye Kai said subconsciously.

"yes, there's only three months left. Zhou Chong repeated it again, while secretly clenching the fist in his sleeve.

"This time, he's going to be in the top 10!"