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"Then I ask Lady Qingyi to give me some pointers." Li Hao laughed and went with the other party to the corridor outside the small pavilion.

When Qing Yi took out her sword, she didn't hesitate at all. With a flash of cold light, the Green Edge Sword in her hand let out a clear cry. The sound was pleasant to the ears and seemed to enter into one's mind.

Li Hao's expression became serious.

There was not the slightest trace of sword light on Fang Xingjian's sword, but there was also a faint trace of sword intent that was restrained within the sword blade, as if it was flowing inside it.

"Lady Qingyi, please." Li Hao unsheathed his sword.

The first sword light flashed. Streams of sword light were already moving fast like raindrops falling on Qing Yi's body.

Qingyi did not budge an inch, but when the sword beam was close to her body, she suddenly let out a soft whistle, and then all of Li Hao's sword beams disappeared, as Qingyi's sword tip pointed towards herself!

Streams of sword Qi were like the tongues of venomous snakes that could appear everywhere on his body at any time.

Li Hao knew that if his opponent had taken the opportunity to attack, he would probably be bleeding profusely by now.

Feeling the numbing sensation that came from his palm, traces of admiration and admiration flashed across Li Hao's eyes: "I've lost."

Qing Yi seemed to have no effort as she sheathed her sword. He turned around and returned to Zhao Wan's side.

Just now, the two of them had only exchanged one move, but Zhao Wan had already clearly seen Li Hao's cultivation level.

At the same time, his eyes revealed a trace of surprise.

"Your spirit energy ?"

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from the Senior Sister Zhao." Li Hao said as he returned to the center of the small pavilion, "I don't know why, but the spirit energy I absorb actually has a sliver of the Lightning Element."

"Oh?" Zhao Wan's expression changed, she could not help but be secretly surprised: "Could this really be heaven's will?"

"Have you mastered the Essence Technique?"

"Yes, I've just reached the level of perfection."

"Alright!" Zhao Wan collected her emotions, and upon hearing these words, she could not help but exclaim in admiration: "How many years has it been ?? It seems that the Sect Leader's decision was correct."

Could it be that the Sect Leader also knows about him? She just didn't know what decision the Sect Leader had made, so she was quite curious.

The most important thing is that your perception is astonishing, and actually managed to cultivate the Essence Technique to such a degree. However, your cultivation is still too low, there are countless expert in this continent, and our Spring Rain Sect is only a small sect in the corner of the continent. Zhao Wan sighed with emotion.

Thank you, Senior Sister Zhao, for your guidance. Li Hao nodded and bowed deeply.

"However, you can't belittle yourself. Qingyi has already reached the third level of Building Foundation Period, and the gap between her and you is huge. Your achievements today are already extremely shocking." Zhao Wan then said, "Do you know what it means when you have mastered the Essence Technique to perfection?"

Li Hao shook his head. Although he knew that every single disciple of the Spring Rain Sect s could cultivate the Essence Technique, and more importantly, none of them had reached the level of perfection in their cultivation recently.

Although the eldest senior sister had previously said that the Essence Technique was not simple, Li Hao somewhat felt that it was, after all, an entry-level cultivation technique and that he, himself, would only be able to raise his cultivation up to the fifth level of the Qi Training Stage.

Although the later stages could increase the speed of cultivation, Essence Technique cultivation would stop at this stage.

Even if one could bring the cultivation of the fifth level of the Qi Training Stage infinitely close to that of the fourth level, it would still only be the fifth level of the Qi Training Stage.

Just like today, when he used his full strength, it was only a single exchange under Qing Yi.

This was the fundamental difference between cultivation bases.

Although the novels he had read in his previous life about how people could easily kill those who were stronger than them, he now knew that it wasn't that simple. It could even be said that when the gap between the two couldn't be narrowed, killing those who were stronger than him was just a dream.

"I'm not too sure about that." Li Hao answered truthfully.

"Outsiders only know that the Essence Technique will help them cultivate and increase the purity of their spirit power in the future, but they don't know that the Essence Technique is the foundation of our Spring Rain Sect." Even though Li Hao was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the news.

"You don't have to be too surprised. The Essence Technique is the foundation of all the cultivation techniques in my Spring Rain Sect. And our Spring Rain Sect's true profound techniques are all based on the Essence Technique. "

Li Hao suddenly remembered what his Senior Sister had said just now. If his guess about the sect master's arrangements was not wrong, it should be because of the Essence Technique.

After Zhao Wan finished speaking, a thin book appeared in her hands, she looked serious and handed it over to Li Hao: "This is what the Sect Leader gave you, remember, everything that happened today is confidential, take this technique back for cultivation, if you do not understand it yet you will have to find it yourself, I am unable to help you with much, a lot of the sect's training experience has already been lost."

Li Hao's eyes flashed with a bright light. He looked at the bracelet on Zhao Wan's finger and his heart stopped for a moment. He instantly understood that the jade bracelet was probably a spatial treasure.

It was said that there were less than ten spatial treasures in the Spring Rain Sect but there was one in the possession of Senior Sister Zhao Wan. It seemed that the Senior Sister Zhao was not as simple as being an outer court steward.

He was probably one of the core disciples of the Spring Rain Sect after cultivating the Golden Core.

Li Hao calmed his mind and took the yellow booklet.

Three flamboyant words appeared in his mind: Wind and Thunder Art!

Like the speed of the wind, like the might of thunder.

This thought instantly flashed across Li Hao's mind.

After the Large Competition, a group of disciples will be selected to enter the Inner Academy. Moreover, you should go into closed door training today to prepare properly. It is likely that your senior brothers and sisters will enter the Inner Academy during this Large Competition. Although on the surface, they are the top disciples of the Spirit Grass Academy and the martial arts hall's second place, but the outer courtyard is still filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons, and is not as simple as they appear to be. Many outer court disciples would go out for their training when their cultivation has reached a certain level, and if not for the fact that your eldest senior sister and second senior sister do not like going out, they would probably be outside the mountain gate training and preparing well. "

Zhao Wan explained her plan one last time.

After returning back, the two senior sisters and Senior Brother Sun did not ask Li Hao about the matter of meeting Senior Sister Zhao Wan.

As the tournament drew near, the three of them began to go into closed-door training, reaching their peak condition.

Soon after, Li Hao also went into closed door cultivation, causing the entire Spirit Grass Hall to quieten down once again.

Of course, as the Large Competition approached, the entire outer courtyard of Spring Rain Sect descended into silence.

To many people, the two year one-to-one competition was an opportunity to turn their lives around.

No one would relax in this situation.

Of course, not every outer court disciple could participate in the Large Competition. There were still Small Competition below the Large Competition.

The Small Competition was a competition within the outer court.