Chapter 27: The six-month appointment

In normal times, Xu Mu would naturally know that he had no chance of winning and would not agree to the other party's request for a sparring match, but right now, he was already somewhat delirious.

When Zhao Yuming heard that Xu Mu was willing to fight himself, he immediately laughed happily, "Xu Mu, I really didn't misjudge you, how to compete, you draw the line!"

Xu Mu sniffed coldly and said, "Since you have a grudge against this year's small competition, of course we will follow the rules of the day of the small competition, but you have to wait for me for half a year!"

"Wait for you for half a year?" Zhao Yuming was stunned by these words and said in confusion.

It was Liu Yan who was relieved to hear this, secretly sighing that Xu Mu had not been overwhelmed by anger after all.

Xu Mu, on the other hand, sneered, "What? You don't dare?"

Zhao Yuming was stunned by his question, then grunted, "How dare I not, since it is inconvenient for you, I will wait for you for half a year! I hope that after half a year, you will not shirk again!

"After half a year, if you break this pact, it will be like this tree!"As Xu Mu said this, a ball of fiery red spiritual energy flew out and instantly hit the pine tree, which still had quite a bit of snow on its side.

As soon as the trunk of the pine tree came into contact with the spiritual energy, it instantly burst into flames with a 'boom' and turned into flying ashes in an instant.Seeing this, Zhao Yuming laughed and said, "All right, Xu Mu, see you in half a year! Uncle Liu, disciple farewell!"

After saying this, Zhao Yuming stepped on his flying sword and flew straight back to Heavenly Sword Peak.

Liu Yan, on the other hand, stared at Xu Mu as if he had discovered something, as if he was looking at a rare treasure, smacking his lips from time to time.

"Tsk, tsk, not bad, not bad!" Liu Yan could be heard chanting in a divine manner.

Xu Mu froze at the sight and asked confusedly, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Hehehe, you've been on the mountain for more than four years now, and this is the first time I've seen you angry, it's really rare, rare!" Liu Yan smiled fiercely and said as if he was flirting.

Since he went up to the mountain, Xu Mu usually followed Liu Yan's cultivation techniques, but he also had to be taught all kinds of monastic knowledge.

According to what Liu Yan said, a cultivator should do nothing, keep an ordinary heart, no anger, no joy, no sorrow, no anger, Xu Mu always acted according to this requirement.At this moment, when he heard Liu Yan's words, he couldn't help but blush, thinking that his master was blaming himself, and subconsciously declared, "Master, the disciple knows that I am wrong, and should not have spoiled the cultivation state of mind."

"No, Xu Mu, you are not wrong," Liu Yan shook his head in a serious manner, "Although a cultivator should maintain a heart of inaction, but as a youngster, you should be bloodthirsty, which is in accordance with the Heavenly Dao."

"What I taught you before was too much, causing you to be youthful and tense all day long, with a look of being too deep in the city, which might not be good for you now!"

Liu Yan was actually right, one of the main reasons Shi Yu left Xu Mu was because Xu Mu's usual behaviour was too bland.

What teenage girl isn't pregnant? What young girl doesn't want passionate love?

Of course, Xu Mu's blandness was no reason for Shi Yu to betray him.

When he heard his master's teaching, which was very different from his usual, Xu Mu couldn't help but be stunned, and then he respectfully said, "I'll follow your master's teaching!"Forget it, your character seems to be hard to change, but since you have a six-month appointment with others, the next few hours will not be easy for you!"Liu Yan smiled and said.

"Master, don't worry, I will definitely do my best to cultivate, even if my cultivation is insufficient after half a year, I will still go to the appointment and not fail Master's name," Xu Mu said sincerely.

Liu Yan smiled but laughed and scolded, "Screw you, if you get killed, I won't have the Spirit Stones to cultivate a second student with five Spirit Roots, no matter what, just cultivate with your whole heart!"

"Yes!" Xu Mu replied respectfully, and when he saw that Liu Yan said nothing more, he returned to his cave.

Half a year was not a rich period of time, although he would not have to go looking for Shi Yu in the future and could save a lot of time, but for Xu Mu, the only chance of winning was for the Soft Water Technique to break through to the fourth level of qi cultivation.

In that case, with the divine power of the Five Elements Spiritual Hold Ring, Xu Mu would be able to defeat Zhao Yuming easily.If before Xu Mu's cultivation was only for the sake of his master and his ancestor, with only a small part for himself, now the part for himself had taken over.

Don't think of it as just a change of attitude, but it made Xu Mu's heart for the Dao much firmer.

That night, Xu Mu began to switch to the Soft Water Technique.

This time, the pain that Xu Mu endured was even greater than before, but his complexion was much calmer than before, and if it weren't for the fact that his body spasmed and undulated uncontrollably from time to time, the onlookers would be afraid to think that Xu Mu was just doing an ordinary meditation session.

This session, Xu Mu sat until dawn, and when the bells of the Terrace Spirit Mountain rang again, his body vaguely heard a 'pop' sound.

Immediately, Xu Mu's body slowly rose from the ground, floating in the air without any force.

In the sea of qi above his dantian, five clusters of spiritual energy of different colours slowly formed, the smallest of which was blue and only the size of a grain of rice.

The largest was cyan, the size of a fist.Five clusters of spiritual light slowly emerged from Xu Mu's body, around the top of his head, Xu Mu but still do not know, maintain the state of meditation.

Immediately, these five groups of spiritual light actually began to slowly rotate around the top of Xu Mu's head, each group of spiritual light only see, vaguely also more than a trace of inexplicable connection.

A few moments later, there was a "pop" sound, Xu Mu's body fell straight to the ground in pain, he hastily opened his eyes and saw the cave, which had not changed at all.

Touching his cheek, Xu Mu froze, just now he remembered that he had already succeeded in using the Soft Water Skill to draw qi into his body, but he lost consciousness instantly.

When he woke up, he had actually stopped cultivating, and he didn't know whether or not he had succeeded in drawing qi into his body.

Slowly sinking his consciousness into his Sea of Qi, Xu Mu made this inquiry, saw that there was already an extra ball of light blue spiritual energy in his Sea of Qi, and immediately became excited.

"I've succeeded!" Xu Mu pressed the excitement in his heart and hurriedly stood up, and after washing away the impurities from the Felling Hair and Marrow Cleansing, he immediately left the cave and went straight to the Red Flame Hall.

Time is long, for cultivators, half a year is nothing, and soon the date of the appointment arrived.

Inside the cave, Xu Mu woke up slowly, slowly gathering his energy as he exhaled a mouthful of cloudy air, unable to see any sadness or happiness in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that I still wouldn't be able to break through the fourth level of qi cultivation, it seems that I can only take the Spirit Exploding Pill," Xu Mu thought helplessly in his heart.In half a year, his soft water skill had broken through to the third level of qi cultivation, and he had vaguely touched the threshold of the fourth level of qi cultivation, but he had not been able to break through.

If the foundation stage was the heavenly gap between mortals and immortals, then the fourth level of qi cultivation was the first bottleneck for cultivators of the qi cultivation stage, and it was not easy to break through.

A few moments later, Xu Mu left the cave and headed straight for the mountain gate, and from his expression, it seemed like he already had a plan for this competition.