When Liu Ming heard this, he was naturally stunned, and pushed the door out of the house with a promise, and came to the small courtyard.

At a glance, he saw Ishikawa standing outside the gate of the courtyard and the red-haired boy "Yu Cheng" next to him.

As soon as Yu Cheng saw Liu Ming come out, his eyes were a little complicated.

"Senior Brother Shi, is Master Gui looking for me?" asked Liu Ming after walking over.

"Not only Master Gui, but also Uncle Zhu and Aunt Zhong are also waiting for you and Senior Brother Yu in the mountaintop hall. Hey...... , Senior Brother Bai, you have advanced to the middle stage of the spirit disciple!" Ishikawa said with a smile, but after looking at Liu Ming more carefully, his face suddenly changed and asked.

At this time, Liu Ming, because he had just advanced not long ago, was still unable to restrain his mana freely, and he was seen by this "Senior Brother Shi" at a glance.

"Senior brother is really as wise as a torch, the junior brother is indeed just a few days ago who has just advanced to the middle stage of the spirit disciple. Liu Ming didn't mean to hide it, and admitted it calmly.

When Ishikawa heard this, even though he had always been extremely calm, he couldn't help but show a look of disbelief.

As for Yu Cheng next to him, he was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.

"It turns out that Senior Brother is actually a cultivation wizard, and he can cultivate to the middle stage of Spirit Disciple in just one year, and this kind of cultivation speed is probably not inferior to Senior Brother Xiao Feng. It took a while for Ishikawa to retract the surprise on his face a little, and said with a wry smile.

"Junior brother is a cultivation wizard, it's just with the help of some external forces that he can get lucky enough to advance to the middle stage of the spirit disciple so quickly. Liu Ming replied calmly.

"Senior Brother Bai is too modest, even if Senior Brother really consumes any pills that can increase mana, but the middle stage of the spirit disciple is completely different from the early stage. In the early stage, as long as the mana is enough, anyone can easily enter, but at the beginning of the middle stage, there will be bottlenecks. As far as I know, many of the Three Spirit Vein disciples are stuck in the early stage realm of Spirit Disciples and have been unable to advance for many years. But Senior Brother Bai, it is not a wise thing to rely on the power of the elixir to increase mana now, mana still needs to be refined by a little bit of cultivation by himself, and there will be less resistance when he encounters a bottleneck in the future. After listening to Liu Ming's words, Ishikawa showed a little surprise, but shook his head and said with great meaning.

When Yu Cheng heard this, his face suddenly showed an expression of "I see".

Ishikawa obviously cultivated Liu Ming to increase so quickly, and suddenly thought of some pills that could increase mana.

In the Barbarian Ghost Sect, there are indeed several pills that can increase mana, but they only have a certain effect on spirit disciples, and the contribution points that need to be exchanged are really amazing. Ordinary inner disciples, few people are willing to exchange for it.

After all, for most disciples, as long as they don't encounter bottlenecks during the spiritual disciple period, as long as they spend a certain amount of time cultivating, their mana will always increase slowly. And if you encounter a bottleneck, taking this kind of mana pill to increase mana will naturally be a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no effect at all. In this way, the contribution points in the sect are so precious, so naturally most of them should be kept for other purposes.

Of course, the mana increased by relying on the pill is indeed as Ishikawa said, far less pure than the purity he has cultivated.

The mana transformed in the flesh and blood of those giant rats that Liu Ming had eaten at the beginning did not have this drawback.

After all, the mana in these flesh and blood is also cultivated by these demon beasts themselves, and the mana that can remain in the body after death is the essence of the demon beast's mana.

But if you want to increase mana by relying solely on the flesh and blood of demon beasts, it is even more unreliable than relying on pills to increase mana.

After all, only by eating the flesh and blood of a demon beast higher than one's own realm can it have the effect of increasing mana, but if you really have to face such a powerful demon beast, it is not easy to say who eats whom. Moreover, the blood and flesh of demon beasts are eaten too much, and there are also some other troubles.

Moreover, even if someone is really willing to give it a try, the Great Xuanguo Demon Beasts are also rare, and the spirit master-level high-level demon beasts are even rarer.

Liu Ming naturally knew all this after reading some classics, but when he saw that Ishikawa and the others had misunderstood him, he immediately smiled and didn't explain anything.

Although the flesh and blood of the green-haired giant rat have all been eaten, and it is helpless to be known by the rest of the sect, it is better to have more than one thing, and it is naturally better.

"Thank you for your advice, my little brother will definitely remember it. By the way, I don't know what happened to Master Gui summoning me and Senior Brother Yu, can Senior Brother tell me a thing or two?" Liu Ming asked with some curiosity after a vague response.

"I really don't know much about this, I just know that Lu Dao has something to do with Jiuqiao Mountain, and in addition to the two of you, Senior Brother Xiao Feng was also called over. Ishikawa replied with a slight hesitation.

"Jiuqiao Mountain?" Liu Ming was surprised when he heard this.

Jiuqiao Mountain is also one of the five major sects of the Great Xuan Kingdom, and he is still above the Barbarian Ghost Sect in terms of strength ranking, and he doesn't know anything else about the Dao except for the fact that the sect seems to be very good at puppet tricks.

Liu Ming was still a little surprised in his heart, and the three of them took off in the sky and went straight to the top of the mountain.

After a while, Liu Ming, Yu Cheng, and Xiao Feng all appeared in the main hall.

Not far in front of them, Gui Ruquan and the other three spirit masters sat upright on their chairs.

However, Confucius looked at Liu Ming, who had unexpectedly become a mid-stage spiritual disciple in front of him, his brows furrowed, and only after a while did he shake his head and say:

"I am a little disappointed that you actually relied on the power of the elixir to shorten the cultivation time. But this is a surprise for what I am about to tell you. So I won't say anything more about you. Senior Brother Zhu, tell the three of them all about this. ”

At this time, Aunt Zhong looked at Liu Ming's gaze, and she was also a little disappointed.

Among the three spirit masters in Jiuying Mountain, only this Senior Aunt Zhong attached a lot of importance to Liu Ming, and after mistakenly thinking that he was taking pills to advance to the middle stage of the spirit disciple so quickly, he naturally had a feeling of hating iron but not steel

"The reason why I called the three of you here this time is because we had an ......agreement with the two Daoists of the Nine Tricks Sect, Dashang Dazhi," Zhu Chi on the side heard Confucianism's words, and then slowly spoke.

It turned out that seven or eight years ago, Zhu Chizhong's surname Daogu was invited by the two spirit masters of the Nine Tricks Sect to go to a dangerous place to explore the secrets together, and found a fruit tree full of unknown spirit fruits inside. It's just that these spirit fruits have just borne fruit not long ago, and they are still early before they are ripe. So they agreed with each other that once it was ripe, they would come and divide the spiritual fruit on the tree equally. But a few days ago, they received a letter from a disciple of the Nine Tricks Sect, saying that these soon-to-mature spirit fruits should be decided by using the method of a new beginner disciple to fight the method.

After bargaining with the other party, it was finally decided to compete three times.

Liu Ming and the three of them were the disciples selected by Confucius and others to take to fight the Fa.

"Although this kind of competition is not a life-and-death competition, since it involves spiritual objects, it will naturally not be easy to stop fighting, so it is also a certain worry about life. If any of you don't want to participate, you can bring it up now, and the three of us won't be reluctant. In addition, since you are allowed to contribute, it will naturally benefit you. After we carefully checked the classics later, we found that they were the rumored Tianqiong fruits. Using this fruit as the main medicine to refine a kind of spiritual liquid, it is very useful for low-level cultivators, and it has the amazing effect of washing the marrow and removing the hair on the body. If you participate in the competition, as long as you can win the spirit fruit back, you will all be rewarded with this spiritual liquid. Of course, if you can win the disciple, the share of the reward will naturally be more. Zhu Chi said so later.

"The disciple is willing to participate in this fight!" As soon as Zhu Chi finished speaking, Xiao Feng said without hesitation.

He had only just advanced to the middle stage of the spirit disciple, and he was already full of confidence in his own strength, and his confidence would never be inferior to any disciple of the same period.

"The disciple is also willing to contribute to the lineage!" Yu Cheng also looked eager to try.

Liu Ming would not say words like "unwilling", and after a little thought, he also expressed his willingness to participate.

"Very well, you are the three best of the new disciples. But the disciples sent by Jiuqiao Mountain are definitely not simple. So for the next month, you will stay at the top of the mountain for the time being, and familiarize yourself with the methods of fighting the puppetry. The three of us will personally point out one or two, so that your chances of winning can increase by another point or two. Seeing this, Gui Ruquan said with great satisfaction.

When Liu Ming and the others heard this, they naturally nodded and agreed.

So for the next month, Liu Ming and the three of them stayed in a certain practice ground on the top of the mountain, and did some real battles with some low-level puppets every day.

Although the three of Gui Ruquan did not have too deep research in puppetry, they had no problem manipulating some low-level puppets and imitating some conventional attacks of puppetry.

And the different attack methods of various low-level puppets, as well as some of the various attacks of puppet cultivators, opened the eyes of Liu Ming and the three of them.

Of course, in this kind of practice, Liu Ming naturally won't use all his means, but he just behaved ordinarily among the three, which would not make Gui Ruquan and the three of them pay special attention, but it would not really disappoint them.

A month has passed in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Liu Ming and the others all came to the square.

After Zhu Chi said a few words of farewell to Confucius, he took out a pale yellow talisman from his body and threw it in front of him with one hand.

After a puff of white gas, a green wooden boat seven or eight feet long was immediately revealed in front of everyone.

The boat is long and narrow and turquoise, and the interior of the boat is inscribed with some strange pale silver patterns, giving people an unusually mysterious feeling.

"Hehe, with Senior Brother Zhu's Biling Flying Boat on the way, there won't be too much delay this time. When Gui Ruquan saw the green wooden boat, he immediately twisted his beard and said.

"Yes, if Senior Brother Zhu hadn't accidentally discovered a thousand-year-old blue spirit wood back then, and spent a lot of money to ask Master Yu to spend three years of painstaking efforts to refine it, how could he get this flying spirit weapon. If you have this spiritual weapon in your body, as long as you don't encounter a few strong enemies who are proficient in the art of retreat, even if you can't get out, it is more than enough. Aunt Dao, surnamed Zhong, also said with a smile.

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