The Strongest Knight

Chapter 196 Black Water Cave

Because the task of delivering the letter to Liu Wuying was given to Zhao Qinghe.

After several people discussed it, Zhao Qinghe obtained three spirit stones from Liu Wuying's inheritance.

Zhao Qinghe did not refuse and accepted the spirit stone.

Due to Liu Wuying's sudden death, the task force was disbanded.

Originally, with Zhao Qinghe's current strength of the fourth level of Yuan Jing, he could have maintained the team.

However, Zhao Qinghe's demand for spiritual energy has begun to decrease, unless he wants to accumulate spirit stones in exchange for precious elixirs to improve his cultivation.

Otherwise, with Zhao Qinghe's current strength, directly mobilizing the power of heaven and earth would not be much slower than absorbing spiritual inspiration.

After one's cultivation level reaches a high level, spiritual power is mostly used to restore magic power or to set up various formations.

I have heard that there is a spirit gathering formation that can increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area several times, but Zhao Qinghe cannot afford the corresponding consumption.

The task force was disbanded, and the four people left with mixed feelings.

Zhao Qinghe went to the outer gate mission hall alone.

He planned to accept the sect's missions for half a year in a row, and then use half a year to break through to the fifth level of Yuan Jing.

"Brother Qinghe?" A rough voice reached Zhao Qinghe's ears.

Zhao Qinghe looked back and found that it was Yan Xingyun, whom he met in Luoyun Town.

At this time, Yan Xingyun had shaved off his beard and looked much younger. With his tall stature, he actually looked quite handsome.

He was also wearing a green Taoist robe, but the difference was that he was holding a whisk in his hand.

Yan Xingyun was injured by the Soul-Seeking Rat at that time, lost an arm, and fainted from excessive blood loss.

Then, as a blessing in disguise, he was taken in by Liu Xinghuai, a Taoist master of the Liu generation, and became a Taoist boy.

He really didn't know that Zhao Qinghe had also entered the outer sect. When he saw Zhao Qinghe this time, he was overjoyed and pulled Zhao Qinghe to the tavern in the back.

Zhao Qinghe also had a good impression of the man he met at the beginning, so the two of them started chatting while drinking in the pub.

"My Taoist name is Hua Wuque. The Taoist master said that with my aptitude for cultivation, I would not have had the chance to enter the mountain gate. Therefore, although I lost an arm, I gained the path to Taoism for nothing. One gain and one loss, that is, Wuque."

"Haha, real people are so funny!" Zhao Qinghe laughed.

"The real person is really not very interesting. However, I heard that someone likes this Taoist name." Yan Xingyun shook his head and began to talk about his life as a Taoist child over the past year.

Becoming the Taoist child of the alchemist Xing Huai Zhenren, apart from guarding the alchemy furnace on weekdays, occasionally testing the effects of the elixirs, and processing some medicinal materials, the rest of the work is quite cost-effective.

For example, when Yan Xingyun was promoted to the first level of Yuan Jing, Xing Huai Zhenren directly gave him a pill. After Yan Xingyun swallowed the pill, he was promoted to the first level of Yuan Jing within three hours.

For example, Yan Xingyun was directly exempted from the monthly sect mission of the outer sect. He stayed every day on the mountain where the unknown spirit gathering array was located where Xinghuai Zhenren was located. The spiritual energy there was much richer than that on the mountain where the outer sect deacon hall was located.

Zhao Qinghe also briefly recounted his experiences over the past year.

When Yan Xingyun heard that Liu Wuying died while performing a mission, he couldn't help but shake his head and called it tragic.

Upon learning that Zhao Qinghe had advanced to the fourth level of Yuan Jing, Yan Xingyun was so shocked that he almost dropped his jaw.

"Junior Brother Qinghe, no, Senior Brother Qinghe, with your talent, why didn't the inner sect elders directly accept you as a disciple?"

“Brother Xingyun, we are acquainted outside of the Dao Sect, so you should just call me Junior Brother Qinghe. Inside the sect, we must address each other by our Daoist names. From now on, I will call you by your Daoist name, Senior Brother Wuque.”

Yan Xingyun was a straightforward person, so he agreed without much hesitation.

Zhao Qinghe continued to speak, saying that it also took him fifteen days to complete the process of guiding the spirit into his body.

"That's no wonder. I heard from my master that fifteen days is indeed a sign of poor aptitude."

"But there is no doubt that you have talent, and something must have gone wrong at that time. Junior brother, my master is currently trying to recruit a disciple to inherit his legacy. Would you like me to introduce one to you?"

Zhao Qinghe hesitated for a moment, "Is it feasible?"

"Let's give it a try. If it works, we will be legitimate brothers in the same sect." Yan Xingyun said.

"Then give it a try?"

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Yan Xingyun came here to issue a series of tasks on behalf of Liu Xinghuai, and he had to go back to report. After chatting with Zhao Qinghe, he found out Zhao Qinghe's residential address and immediately set off to go back.

Zhao Qinghe saw Yan Xingyun off, thought about it, and decided to accept a sect mission.

This is a mission that Zhao Qinghe is usually unwilling to take and requires fighting, and it requires the gallbladders of ten ice thorn snakes.

This is also the result of the increased difficulty of the monthly random tasks after Zhao Qinghe reached the fourth level of Yuan Jing.

Originally, Zhao Qinghe could have dodged it once more, but today, influenced by Liu Wuying, Zhao Qinghe felt that he had something to vent.

Appropriate violence is one of the means of venting.

If Zhao Qinghe hadn't happened to meet his old acquaintance Yan Xingyun today and hadn't chatted with him to relieve his anger, he would definitely have exploded at some point in time.

After a year of boring training, there was no trace of the Yin and Yang at all. Zhao Qinghe almost forgot the fact that he came from another world.

However, while venting his anger, Zhao Qinghe also knew that this was a level five world and the upper limit of strength was very high, which would result in a very slow improvement process.

The problem of his own body's promotion can even affect the Barrow world, which is also a level five world. It is definitely not easy.

The inner sect disciple at the window gave Zhao Qinghe a thin silver needle and a carrying basket.

The weight of the thin silver needle was just enough to be controlled by the object-controlling technique of a fourth-level Yuan Jing cultivator, making it perfect for piercing the ice snake's head.

Zhao Qinghe's practice of the art of driving objects has reached 100%, and he can drive the silver needles as easily as moving his arms and palms.

Zhao Qinghe has tried it before and found that the object-driving skills of a fourth-level Yuan Jing cultivator can generally only range about three meters, and the weight is about the same as that of a thin silver needle.

The range of his object-driving technique, which had been practiced to the maximum, had expanded to nearly ten meters, and the weight had reached the level of five silver needles, which was something that only a sixth-level Yuan Jing cultivator could do.

Although the art of exorcising objects is a minor Taoist technique, it contains considerable mysteries and its power will increase as the practitioner's strength increases.

For example, a True Person in the Foundation Establishment Stage can easily drive hundreds of kilograms of stones to attack the enemy, not to mention the Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul Stages. In the hands of the True Lord Yuanshen, the art of driving objects can truly turn the world upside down.

Ice thorn snakes grow in places where cold and yin air gathers in blessed lands.

The nearest cold and gloomy place, Black Water Cave, was some distance away from the mountain gate. It took Zhao Qinghe half a day to rush all the way there and reach Black Water Cave.

In front of the Black Water Cave, a group of people were waiting. When they saw Zhao Qinghe coming, the young woman in the lead immediately came up to him and asked, "Daoyou, are you going down to the cave?"