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Without the Spiritual Stone, she would not be able to buy anything else. She could only leave the competition early and return to the Huaqing Palace.

What surprised her was that the Mask Man man had also came out. She remembered that the man had only taken one item and lost to her in the end. Could it be that he was here for this spell, so why did he give up midway? Could it be that the Spiritual Stone is really gone?

Since she was unable to see through this man's cultivation level, it meant that she was at least Qi Disciple level 7 or higher. Furthermore, the aura he was faintly emitting, Gu Qing believed that this man was at least a cultivator of Foundation Period. A Foundation Period cultivator could not even take out a few thousand Low Grade Spiritual Stone?

Doubt arose in his heart. Unknowingly, he walked out of the city. Initially, he wanted to follow the other party, but the other party had already disappeared without a trace.

Forget it! Since this person had appeared here and had visited the Huaqing Palace before, then she should be a disciple of the Huaqing Palace. As long as she was in the Huaqing Palace, she believed that she would one day be able to see through his identity.

Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard a familiar hoarse voice from behind her, "What are you thinking about? "Why did I suddenly disappear?"

Gu Qing was shocked, she immediately turned her head and stared at the other party, "Why are you behind me?" The other person was clearly walking in the front.

"Then how did you know I was behind you?" Mask Man's words were sharp, aimed straight at the crux of the matter.

She choked slightly. Indeed, if she didn't pay attention to him, how would she know that he was walking in front?

"Cough …" That's because when I came out, I saw you walking in front of me, and then you just walked away and disappeared. " Gu Qing said with a half-truth cover.

The Mask Man suddenly approached without a word. Gu Qing subconsciously tightened her grip on the spell in her sleeves. Could it be that the other party did not buy it and planned to snatch it?

Thinking of this, she immediately turned around and ran towards the nearby town.

However, in the next moment, she discovered that no matter how fast she was accelerating, the surrounding scenery did not change in the slightest. It was as if she was only walking in place.

When she understood this point, she had already seen the Mask Man leisurely walking over. "You seem to be afraid of me?"

Since shshecould not escape, Gu Qing had to calm down. She had changed her attitude to allow the other party to not know him, and since the other party was also a person with Huaqing Palace, even if her cultivation was higher than his, he would not take her life for no reason …

He quickly thought of a countermeasure and said, "I don't even know you, why should I be afraid of you? "You're quite a mystery."

A low and hoarse laughter came out from under the mask, "Gu Qing, should I say that your memory is poor or that you are as cunning as a fox?"

Gu Qing completely did not think that the other party had already seen through her identity, and instantly widened her eyes. "How do you know?"

"It's just a mere Disguise Pill." There was a trace of mockery in the man's hoarse voice.

Since she could not hide it, Gu Qing decided not to hide it anymore. She immediately used her Spirit Qi to catalyze the medicinal strength of the Disguise Pill, revealing her true appearance, "Who exactly are you? How do you know so much about me? "

"You want to know?" The masked man suddenly leaned forward. He paused only briefly before continuing, "But I don't want to tell you!" As if teasing her was an interesting thing, there was a faint, husky laugh in her voice.

Gu Qing only felt a special scent coming from her nose, she had to admit that it smelled really good. But her expression trembled slightly, she quickly took a few steps back, stared at him, and said: "Since you know it's me, then I'll ask you, was it you who was previously at Qingjian Peak?"

"You mean the time when you were bathing in Qingjian Peak?" The other party was unperturbed and replied with a smile, "That's right, it's me."

A few sentences later, the anger in her heart was aroused. She ground her teeth and said, "Since it's you, shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

"An explanation?" What kind of explanation do you want me to give you? " Although the expression under his mask could not be seen, his voice sounded very cheerful.

Gu Qing resisted the urge to go on a rampage. Since young, she had always been good at patience, and was also smart and eloquent in front of most people. However, when facing this person in front of her, she always felt like she was punching cotton, unable to exert any force at all.

His voice changed, "I didn't force you to bathe in Qingjian Peak, but if you want me to give you an explanation, then I'll force myself to marry you, what do you say?"

Gu Qing smacked her lips. What was this? She had been disgraced by this person a few times, so what was she doing now?

She took a deep breath and felt that she could not continue talking to this person. Otherwise, she would not be able to resist the urge to beat him up.

Without a word, she turned and left. Mask Man watched as she walked further and further away from him. Her dark eyes became even darker underneath the mask, but he didn't move again.

Gu Qing realized that the other party did not stop him and immediately used her fastest speed to charge towards the Huaqing Palace.

It was only after she had walked through the mountain entrance of Huaqing Palace that her heart could be considered at ease. There were only a few people at the seventh level of Qi Cultivating Stage and above who were close to her, and upon thinking about it this way, he probably did not interact with her at all.

For the time being, she could not figure out the identity of Mask Man, so she could only stare, but she knew, raising her cultivation was the most important thing, as long as she could raise her cultivation, all the obstacles in front of her would become useless.

Thinking of this, she immediately returned to her own residence to undergo closed door cultivation. This time, she wanted to practice the magic she had obtained from the auction.

As soon as she returned to her room, she immediately took out the magic book and carefully read it.

Although this spell was a low-grade yellow-rank spell, it was extremely difficult to understand, even more difficult than her Misty Rain Sword. No wonder the owner of the Assembling Pavilion had determined it to be an upgradeable rank spell.

Hopefully, she had really picked up a treasure this time!

After scanning through it more than ten times, he finally figured out how to operate the spiritual energy. Then, he immediately started to circulate the spiritual energy in his body according to the method described above.

This technique was called Withered Handprint, but it did not have a specific description of its power, so she had to figure it out herself.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Gu Qing's brows were filled with an unswerving determination. Unexpectedly, she wasn't able to imitate the Withered Handprint even after three whole days.

Even the simplest imitation of the Misty Rain Sword only took two days. But now that she had used three whole days, she still did not have a single clue. Every time she gathered spirit energy into her palm, she would feel a little overwhelmed, causing the Withered Handprint to be unable to form.

Was his cultivation not enough?

But thinking about it, there was something wrong with it. Although there were no other descriptions, there was a simple introduction: Anyone with abundant spiritual energy can cultivate to the middle Qi Cultivating Stage.

Mid Qi Disciple stage meant that one could cultivate at the fourth level of Qi Disciple. Right now, she was at the peak of Qi Disciple level 7, just one step away from reaching level 8. How could she not be able to level up?

Could it be that he had no fate with this spell?

After wasting her entire seven thousand Low Grade Spiritual Stone and finding it impossible to cultivate it, when she thought about it, not only did her heart ache, it hurt everywhere!

She stopped her cultivation and her gaze swept across the book again and again. Finally, her eyes stopped at the line "Anyone who has a lot of Spiritual Qi can cultivate to the Qi Cultivating Stage Middle Phase."

Mid Qi Cultivating Stage... A person with abundant spiritual energy! Could it be that he didn't have enough spiritual energy?

She did not know how other people progressed, but with her fast cultivation and the help of the Spirit Spring, her spirit energy should not be too weak. But what she did not know was that as a cripple, she was originally unable to cultivate. The majority of the Spirit Spring's spirit energy was used to modify her body, so at the current stage, not only was the spirit energy in her body not abundant, it was weaker than normal cultivators.

Feeling vexed, Gu Qing decided to stop training in this technique and try to replenish the spirit energy in her body. For the next few days, she did not cultivate. The Spirit Spring s allowed her to live a carefree life, but instead allowed her to blindly run into a dead mouse.

A month later, she also felt the changes in her body, and immediately began cultivating the Withered Handprint.

She calmed her mind and closed her eyes, guiding the spiritual energy in her body to steadily flow to her right hand.

Crack …

A light sound rang out from within her body, as if she had broken through something. At this moment, all of the spiritual energy in her body quickly gathered and rushed into the palm of her right hand.

Boom …

She almost couldn't control the spiritual energy in her palm.

Gu Qing slanted her body and stared blankly at the table that had been smashed into pieces.

This was the power of the Withered Handprint?

Forget about Misty Rain Sword, even Fire Luan Technique could easily turn a table into ashes.

As for the Withered Handprint? Even after drawing out all the spiritual energy in her body, she had still managed to destroy a table, not to mention all of it.

This was the levelable Yellow Rank spell that she had spent seven thousand yuan on?

For a moment she thought she had been fooled. But after reacting and carefully thinking about it, something didn't seem right. If the Withered Handprint was only a low level spell, it would not be able to drain the spiritual energy in his body.

Right now, she really wanted to find someone to ask about it. But she faintly felt that the Withered Handprint was not as simple as it seemed, and she could only silently feel for herself.

In the blink of an eye, another two months passed. Although she had yet to level up to Qi Disciple level 8, it was not as difficult to execute Withered Handprint.

In the past two months, she had been using Spirit Spring s to increase the abundance of spiritual energy in her body, but no matter how dense the spiritual energy was, as long as she used the Withered Handprint once, it would be completely depleted.

At the same time, the list of disciples that went through various stages of the previous Small Competition was out. There were also many disciples with outstanding performances, and among the newest disciples were Liu Ying, Yi Xu and Pei An.

Thinking that she had not seen Senior Brother Wang Chong and Yun Tian for so long, she organized a bit, brought along a few pots of spiritual wine and sat on them as she headed towards the Qingjian Peak.

It had been almost a year since she last saw Yun Tian. She was a little anxious, but she endured her impulse and walked towards the Senior Brother Wang Chong's residence.

Just as he reached the door, he heard voices coming from inside. It was obvious that he was not the only one in the courtyard of Senior Brother Wang Chong.

Just as she was hesitating on whether she should enter now, she heard the voice of the Senior Brother Wang Chong disciple come in, "Little girl, you're here, hurry up and come in."

Gu Qing was startled, then carried a few jars of spiritual wine and walked in, saying as she walked: "I haven't even stood there for a while, but Senior Brother already smelled the smell of alcohol!"

Her casual tone when she saw the figure of a person in the courtyard suddenly became a bit more tense, "Is Taoist Changhua also here?"

Yun Tian slowly turned his head. His gaze indifferently swept across her face, then he gently nodded.

Before he could speak, Wang Chong's voice sounded from the side, "Girl, your aptitude is comparable to Daoist Chang Hua's. In just a year and a half, you have actually reached the peak of Qi Disciple level 7.