Seeing that the little crow didn't plan to tell him about the eighteen scythes, Haoyan was also helpless, so he had to continue to practice the Qingyun Twelve Ways Sword Technique.

However, swordsmanship is always swordsmanship, and it is still very difficult for Haoyan to replace it with a sickle, so he summoned the little crow: "Little crow, is there a way to make this sickle replace the long sword?"

The little crow was really speechless, sighed and said: "How did I recognize you as a master, the sickle is a knife, how can it replace the sword?"

When Hao Yan heard this, he said: "Then how do I practice the Qingyun Twelve Ways Sword Technique?" It's okay to start the first and second moves, but the more you go to the back, the more difficult it is to practice, and if you don't have a sword, it's even more difficult to practice."

"Wouldn't it be nice for you to finish facing the wall and get the sword?

Haoyan was counted down by the little crow, and he was helpless, so he had to continue to practice the first two moves of Qingyun Twelve Roads during the time he was facing the wall.

The time to face the wall finally came, and Haoyan could finally return to his cave, but as soon as he returned to the cave, he was summoned by Tianyisan.

Haoyan came directly to the cloud pavilion of Tianyi Sanren, "Meet the master"

"How many crystal nuclei did you kid collect, and he actually slaughtered all the demon beasts of the entire fifth layer"

Haoyan scratched his head and said a little shyly: "Master, that's also a last resort."

"You kid, by the way, don't absorb your crystal nucleus casually, otherwise it is likely to demonize" Tianyisanren looked at Haoyan with a smile on his face, and his eyes also showed a look of love.

"Master, the disciple is now in the sixth-level realm of qi refining, but the aura required for cultivation is far from enough, so the speed of cultivation is a bit slow, and then there is the disciple's weapon, you know, it is difficult to control, so it is used as a sharp weapon, can you let the disciple pick another weapon" Haoyan put forward his own request in one breath, his face was not red, and he was not panting.

When Tianyi Sanren heard this, he said with a smile: "It's not difficult to have insufficient aura, there is a spiritual pool in Guiyimen, and it was originally necessary to achieve foundation building and cultivation in order to cultivate there, but as a teacher, he can give you a privilege to go in and practice for three days a month."

When Haoyan heard this, he immediately said: "Thank you, Master."

Tianyi Sanren waved his hand, and then said: "As for the weapon, you can go to the weapon shop to find one, your original weapon can be controlled when you cultivate it, after all, the magic weapon-level weapon is not something that can be controlled by qi refining cultivation."

Haoyan nodded: "Thank you, Master"

"Okay, you go and choose weapons, and this is a token to enter and exit the spirit pool, but you have to remember that you can only stay for three days a month"

Haoyan saluted respectfully and took the token: "Thank you, Master"

Tianyisanren looked at Hao Yan, and his face became serious: "Three years later is the day of the Xiuzhen Alliance disciple competition, which is very important for us to belong to one sect, and the disciples who participate in the competition must reach the foundation building period within ten years before they can participate, so I hope that you can build a foundation within three years, although it is a little unrealistic, but this is the hope that the teacher gives you."

"The disciple understands that he must do his best"

Tianyisanren nodded: "Okay, you go down!"

Then Haoyan left the cloud pavilion of Tianyi Sanren, and as soon as he left, Haoyan did not rush back to the cave, but went to the armory.

When he came to the weapon shop, Hao Yan directly chose a long sword, although it was only an ordinary magic weapon, but at least it could be used to practice the Qingyun Twelve Way Sword Technique.

After taking the weapon, Hao Yan returned to the cave mansion, and returned to the cave mansion, Hao Yan first cleaned up, and then began to practice the Qingyun Twelve Road swordsmanship.

After practicing for three days in a row, Hao Yan felt that the third move of Qingyun Twelve Roads had been learned, although the swordsmanship could improve his cultivation, but it was always minimal.

Haoyan felt that this kind of cultivation was always too slow, so he took the token and went straight to the spirit pool.

Coming to the outside of the spiritual pool, the gate outside the spiritual pond was built brilliantly, and there were disciples guarding it.

Hao Yan came to the gate and showed the token, the doorman looked at it and said to Hao Yan: "You can only enter the spirit pool for three days, if you don't come out for three days, you will be teleported out, and you will be punished"

When Haoyan heard it, he immediately said, "Don't worry!"

In fact, the spiritual pond is not a pond, just a cave full of spiritual energy, the cave is about more than 100 square meters, and it is not a hall, and there are small caves set up in the cave, which are exclusively for disciples to enter the cultivation.

After Haoyan entered, he chose an unmanned cave, and he must indicate his identity token before entering the cave, and set the time of entry.

After entering the cave, Haoyan didn't waste any time, and directly began to cultivate and absorb aura.

The aura of this spiritual pool is indeed abundant, as if this is a bathhouse full of spiritual energy.

"I really can't imagine that there is such a place in Guiyimen, why is the aura so strong here? And why don't all the disciples absorb these spiritual qi?

Haoyan was puzzled, and the little crow came to answer: "It's very simple, there is a spiritual vein below here, and there are spiritual minerals in it, and your annual spirit stones are estimated to be provided here."

Hearing what the little crow said, Haoyan hurriedly said: "Then can you go down and dig some spirit stones? If you can get medium-grade and high-grade spirit stones, wouldn't you be rich?"

At this time, the little crow had already flown out of the sickle, and looked at Hao Yan with a disdainful expression: "Your head is really stupid, which sect's spirit mine is not guarded by a master? At least there are no less than two Yuanying monks guarding the spirit mine below, are you impatient?"

Haoyan stuck out his tongue: "It seems that you can only make good use of these three days every month."

Three days passed quickly, and Hao Yan also left the spirit pool, although it was only three days, but Hao Yan felt that cultivating in the spirit pool for three days was equivalent to cultivating in the outside world for three months.

In this way, Hao Yan immediately felt that there were signs of breaking through to the seventh layer of qi refining.

When he returned to the cave mansion, Haoyan began to retreat, preparing to break through the seventh layer of qi refining in one fell swoop, so he did not practice the Qingyun Twelve Path Sword Technique again.

In three months, Hao Yan took advantage of the opportunity to enter the spirit pool, as well as his remaining spirit stones, and finally broke through the seventh layer of qi refining, and of course consumed all the crystal nuclei and spirit stones.

However, Haoyan hadn't gone to Guo Zhengnan for a long time, and he hadn't provided the pill to Guo Zhengnan for a long time, so he went to the martial arts arena while he was out of the customs, and at the same time transmitted the sound to Guo Zhengnan.

Coming to the martial arts arena, Hao Yan quickly saw Guo Zhengnan, and Hao Yan said: "I went to the wall a while ago, I don't know how the pill is selling during this time?"

When Guo Zhengnan heard this, he said with a smile: "Recently, a lot of them have been sold, but they are all out of stock, you came just in time, provide me with some pills, especially the Gathering Spirit Pill, but now there is no one."

When Haoyan heard this, he nodded: "I will prepare the elixir, but the spirit stones are gone recently, and I need to replenish some spirit stones."

Guo Zhengnan naturally knew Haoyan's purpose for looking for him, so he took out a storage bag and said, "There are almost a thousand spirit stones here, it's your share."

Haoyan took the storage bag and said with a smile: "Thank you! I will refine the Gathering Spirit Pill more after I go back, so I won't stay longer, so I'll leave first."

Then Haoyan left the martial arts arena, of course, first to prepare medicinal materials to refine the Gathering Spirit Pill.

After being familiar with the Gathering Spirit Pill, Haoyan is naturally familiar with the refining method, and the refining is very fast, but the corpse fairy grass is a little troublesome.

However, this time, Hao Yan did not encounter the trouble of the last time, and quickly obtained the corpse fairy grass, and refined five hundred Gathering Spirit Pills in a week.

After refining the pill, Haoyan handed it over to Guo Zhengnan, and then returned to the cave to continue cultivating, and in order to break through to the foundation building realm faster, after all, Tianyisan said that he hoped that Haoyan would build a foundation within three years, so now Haoyan is also seizing the time to cultivate, and every time the spirit stone is finished, the pill will be refined and handed over to Guo Zhengnan, and Guo Zhengnan can harvest thousands of spirit stones almost every month.

In this way, half a year later, Haoyan broke through to the eighth layer of qi refining, and Haoyan was not satisfied with this speed, but he had no choice but limited resources, so he could only do so.

"Hey~ It's been more than half a year, and I'm still refining the eighth layer of qi, it seems that I still need a lot of resources to build a foundation, and it's not enough to rely on the current spirit stone and a few days to enter the spirit pool."

It's just that what Haoyan didn't expect was that half of the aura he absorbed each time was absorbed by the little crow, and at this time, the sickle was almost close to the level of a high-grade magic weapon.

Haoyan's spirit stones were used up again, so he came to the martial arts arena again, "Senior Brother Haoyan, your cultivation speed is really fast, the last time I saw you, you were only at the seventh level of qi refining, but it has only been half a year and it is estimated that you have broken through again, and now you should have reached the eighth layer of qi refining!"

Hao Yan smiled: "It's a fluke, it's just that the resources consumed by this cultivation are really large."

"That's nature," Guo Zhengnan said with a smile, and then took out another storage bag: "This is the income from this time"

Hao Yan also handed the elixir to Guo Zhengnan, then said goodbye and left, returning to the cave, Hao Yan took out the spirit stone, looked at the spirit stone and smiled bitterly: "A thousand spirit stones are not enough to break through to the ninth layer of qi refining!"

The little crow flew out of the sickle at this moment, looked at Hao Yan and said directly: "Break through the ninth layer of qi refining, with your current resources, it is estimated that there will be half a year."

"I think it's about the same, strive to break through to the ninth layer within half a year, and build the foundation in another year"

The little crow flew around Hao Yan and said, "The ninth layer of qi refining is just a shortcut for cultivators now, because you don't have a heavenly tribulation to build a foundation now, in fact, in ancient times, qi refining cultivators had a tenth layer."

"Ten layers of qi refining, I've never heard of this"

"Haha! Don't say you haven't heard of it, even if you are a master now, only those old monsters who have cultivated for tens of thousands of years know," the little crow explained.

"I see, but after breaking through to the tenth layer, is there any difference between building a foundation and building a foundation on the ninth layer?"

The little crow listened, and said patiently: "Building a foundation after refining nine layers of qi can be said to be logical, but the power that can be mastered is limited, and building a foundation after refining ten layers of qi can be said to strengthen the Dao foundation, and it must be tribulated to build a foundation."

When Haoyan heard this, he immediately said, "I still don't understand."

"Hey~ You're really stupid, to put it simply, building a foundation is actually laying a foundation, building a nine-layer foundation for refining gas is like building a foundation the size of a bowl, and building a foundation for ten layers of gas refining is like building a foundation the size of a rice tank, which one do you say is stronger?"