Xu Bing returned to the cave mansion and didn't think about the young man's words anymore, but directly began to practice.

In the following days, Chen Shuyu still often came to bring Xu Bing some food, but Xu Bing didn't say a word about the previous things.

Xu Bing lost his family since he was a child, and since he was taken in by Xu Tianrong, he has been practicing martial arts with Xu Tianrong and has become a killer.

Emotions seem to be a bit extravagant for him, or rather, in terms of so-called emotions, he doesn't have much perception, but he just feels that he will be very relaxed when he is with Chen Shuyu, and he will often show a smile, which is difficult to see on his face before.

The time of January flies, especially in such a relaxed feeling, Xu Bing's cultivation is also improving very quickly.

In just one month, he had actually reached the ninefold peak from the Mortal Body Realm Ninefold that had just broken through, and there was only a thin barrier left from the Mortal Body Realm Tenfold.

It's just that this barrier seems to be more difficult to break through than before, even in this cave where the aura is extremely strong, Xu Bing tried for several days, but he still couldn't break through.

He simply stopped trying, put down his practice, and seriously studied those two sets of techniques.

In the past month, Xu Bing has only left this cave once, and the rest of the time he has been staying in it to practice.

Although the cultivation speed is much faster, and even in a month, he has reached the ninefold peak of the mortal body realm, but the rapid cultivation also has some drawbacks.

Reaching the ninefold peak of the mortal body realm so quickly made Xu Bing's current cultivation a little unstable, which was also the reason why it was difficult for him to break through the barrier this time.

When there were only two days left before the two big competitions, Xu Bing finally walked out of the cave mansion.

Chen Shuyu told Xu Bing that his master asked him to go back to Xie Dingfeng after he came out. Xu Bing chatted with Chen Shuyu for a few words, but he didn't stop any longer, and left the inner door directly and went to Xie Dingfeng's line.

In Xie Dingfeng's thatched hut, Ma Yujian was sitting here, holding a cup of tea in his hand, as if he was waiting for someone.

After a while, Xu Bing returned to the hut, and Ma Yujian put down the tea cup in his hand, looked at Xu Bing and said with a smile, "The good man is back."

Hearing this, Xu Bing nodded, and simply replied with the word "um".

"Yes, there has been such a big improvement in this month, it's not a shame for my old man's apprentice, haha......"

Ma Yujian looked at Xu Bing, the satisfaction in his eyes was overflowing, and he looked at it for a while, and then continued, "What good things did that little baby surnamed Ying give you?"

When Xu Bing heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted that the "little baby surnamed Ying" in Ma Yujian's mouth should refer to Sect Master Ying.

Hearing Ma Yujian's address to Sect Master Ying, Xu Bing was also extremely surprised. He had already seen that Sect Master Ying seemed to have a lot of respect for Ma Yujian, but now it seemed that Ma Yujian's identity seemed to be even stronger than he imagined.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Bing took out the storage bag given to him by Sect Master Ying and said it briefly to Ma Yujian.

When Ma Yujian heard this, he frowned, and said after a while, "Why is this little baby so stingy, such a magic breaking weapon, and he also gave it away, the spirit stone is only 5,000 yuan, and the spells of the body realm are also sent out!"

Listening to Ma Yujian's words that seemed to be quite angry, Xu Bing's heart was even more surprised.

You know, when he got this storage bag, he looked at the contents and was surprised for a long time.

Xuan-level exercises, all the techniques in the body realm that are more powerful than the thunder archery technique, and five thousand spirit stones, this is already a great fortune, but now in the mouth of the master, these have become the miserliness of the sect master.

However, Xu Bing didn't say anything about such a thing, just stood quietly on the side and listened to Ma Yujian.

Ma Yujian looked at the garbage in his eyes and muttered for a long time, which can be regarded as a stop.

Looking at Xu Bing again, and putting on a satisfied look, Ma Yujian said, "Forget it, he is stingy and makes him stingy, he doesn't know how good my good boy is."

After speaking, Ma Yujian was about to think of something suddenly, stood up, patted Xu Bing and said, "By the way, good apprentice, do you remember the hidden spirit root that you said for the teacher before?"

"I remember that the master once said that the spiritual root in the disciple's body is the Lei Yin Twin Spirit Root, and also said that the disciple will tell the disciple what the hidden spiritual root is after completing the apprenticeship", Xu Bing looked at Ma Yujian and replied.

After hearing this, Ma Yujian also touched his nose in embarrassment, and said lightly, "It's good if you remember, it's good to remember, as a teacher, I'll tell you about this hidden spirit root today."

"The little doll of the Cloud Holy Sect told you before that in addition to the Five Elements Spirit Root, there are also Wind Spirit Root, Thunder Spirit Root, and Dark Spirit Root. But in fact, this dark spirit root is what the teacher called the hidden spirit root."

"The so-called dark, that is, hidden, although the name is different, but it comes from the same source. The biggest function of the Hidden Spirit Root is that it can hide its own cultivation and aura, so that when fighting with others, if the cultivation is almost the same, it can be invincible."

"However, all body realm cultivation is only passive hiding, and only after the cultivation reaches the realm of dispelling the void, can you mobilize the spiritual energy in the dantian, so as to achieve the purpose of hiding your own cultivation and breath."

"In the dantian in your body, there is some transparent aura, which is the hidden aura, which will converge with the same aura, and it is difficult to detect. Unless you break through to the Void Realm, you won't be able to mobilize this hidden aura."

Listening to Ma Yujian's explanation, Xu Bing also tried to look inward at his dantian, but after observing a few breaths, he found that as Ma Yujian said, he didn't find anything about the hidden aura.

No longer making superfluous attempts, Xu Bing continued to listen to Ma Yujian's explanation.

"The strength of this hidden spirit root is not for this, but when cultivating to reach the soul melting realm, those who have the hidden spirit root can have a special talent ~ stepping into nothingness."

"This so-called nothingness is the place where the powerhouse above the Divine Revelation Realm appeared by tearing the spatial barrier lock. It was pitch black, and there was no trace of life, but the monks with the Hidden Spiritual Root could wander freely in it, and this was the most powerful place for the Hidden Spiritual Root Monk."

Ma Yujian said this, looked at Xu Bing very seriously, and admonished, "Good man, you must remember that no one can tell you about the hidden spirit root, even if it is your family, or the little girl surnamed Chen, do you understand"?

What Ma Yujian meant, Xu Bing naturally understood, this cultivation realm was already cruel, and there were all kinds of deceit. It's not that you don't trust your family and friends, but that some powerful monks can forcibly obtain your memories through powerful cultivation, so sometimes keeping it secret is also a kind of protection for others.

After that, Ma Yujian told Xu Bing about some things in the cultivation realm, including some things he experienced when he was young.

Xu Bing understood that what the master said was nothing more than to make him directly realize the cruelty of the cultivation realm, so that he could better survive in such a cruel world.

He listened carefully, without the slightest impatience, until two hours later, Ma Yujian sighed, stopped explaining, and turned around and walked towards the room.

With this sigh, Xu Bing heard a feeling of exhaustion, not exhausted by the sleepiness of lack of rest, but carrying too much in his heart, but it seemed that he had never said it.

Xu Bing had almost never seen his master have such a look, and in his eyes, Ma Yujian had always looked strange. Sometimes unreliable, sometimes a little tantrum, but exhaustion doesn't seem to show itself in him.

However, Xu Bing didn't ask much, after all, even if the master had something, he might not be able to help, and he didn't say it, so why bother asking.

Xu Bing returned to his room, sat down cross-legged, and entered the cultivation state again.

Two days later, Xu Bing withdrew from his practice and left the hut.

At this time, the entire Thunder Immortal Sect was a lively scene, and almost all the disciples of the sect were gathered on the platform at the bottom of the mountain.

Two big competitions are about to begin!