"No.. it's just.. forget it! It's nothing serious."

Jian Chen's answer made Su Mei feel strange, and couldn't help looking at it with some doubt in her eyes.

Jian Chen saw the doubt in Su Mei's eyes, and immediately spoke, "I heard that you are already at the late stage of body tempering stagetake this, and immediately break through to Qi training as soon as possible."

Su Mei was getting weirder when she saw Jian Chen like this. Handing over a hundred spiritual stones easily, that should be the ration that the Sect gave out in nearly a year's time.

“These are spiritual stones that I took from the corpses of the previous two bastards. These are spoils, and since you were also there a while ago, you deserve them too.”

“Brother Chen, isn't this too much? A hundred spiritual stones, that's a huge amount...”

Jian Chen didn't want to continue talking, and immediately said, “That is your lot. Besides, if you break through, you'll have the strength to face those people who have been looking down on and insulting you, right?”

"That's true. But..."

"No buts anymore..You better train soon and improve your strength soon. Won't there be a disciple selection ceremony in the Sect in a few days?"

"That's right. The minimum requirement to become an outer disciple is to be at the third level of Qi training stage, and must not be over 16 years oldif it fails, the experimental disciple will definitely be expelled immediately."

"Since you already know, what's the point in thinking about anything else? Hurry up and train while there's still time. Don't get kicked out by the Sect."

Only when he got here, Su Mei finally nodded, and looked at Jian Chen sincerely.

"Brother Chen, thank you! If there is a chance in the future, Su Mei will definitely repay it."

Jian Chen didn't take those words too seriously and just smiled.

No more talking. they immediately chose their respective spots within the tree trunk and got ready to start absorbing the energy within the spiritual stones.

Especially for Jian Chen, before he absorbed the energy within the spiritual stone, he took time to think about Su Mei's last words.

Su Mei said that there was some kind of force that made him unconscious. On his own side, ever since that incident, Jian Chen had experienced unexpected oddities and oddities.

Starting with his return from the dead, as well as his broken limbs, plus the scabbard called Kai Tian within his dantian, this seems too coincidental, doesn't it.

What's more, the people who died in that place were only two Shao.

If there really was a strong person who had come and helped them, why would he have lost his memories?

Such a powerful person, who could erase memories, since when did either of the two of them have such an acquaintance?

look at himself, who had lost both his parents, and could only rely on living at the mercy of the Sect.

Su Mei too. With her appearance, who would even try to help her?

It could just be the person behind Su Mei, who had been secretly protecting her from the darkness all along.

But that was also impossible, because if that was the case, why was he saving himself anyway?

if it was for good to have defended Su Mei two days ago, that would be too much, right? After all, this is a world without laws.

This was where Jian Chen started to guess, that the person who had done it wasn't someone else, but himself.

It could have happened due to the awakening of his spirit root.

Think again, everything that happened was referring to him. After that incident, all good and good things were inside him.

It's like the saying goes, LUCK ALWAYS COME WITH TROUBLE.

Even if Jian Chen was still unsure, he already had 70% confidence that that person was himself.

But because there was no evidence, Jian Chen did not share this guess with Su Mei.

Even though that girl was a good girl, Jian Chen had no idea what kind of person she was. saying that, Jian Chen wasn't sure if Su Mei would not say anything in the future.

The best secret to hide is to never tell it.

"Everything is still unclear, it's best not to worry too much about itright now, the most important thing was to increase one's strength, and become a disciple of the Yanjin Sect. After that, let's think about it again."

With a decision in his heart, Jian Chen started to close his eyes, and directly took out all the spiritual stones from the storage pouch.

The total number was over 350 spiritual stones, another 100 had already been given to Su Mei, and the remaining ones Jian Chen immediately gathered in front of him.

Just like before, after Jian Chen concentrated his mind, there was an abundance of pure energy with a warm feeling that flocked into his Dantian. Like a flood, it's fast, and strong. But with Jian Chen's Dantian also having changed, it did no harm at all, other than a nice warm feeling all over the body, nothing else happened. In Jian Chen's memory, there were four realms in the cultivation of immortals. namely Body Tempering, Qi Training, Ling Qi, and Yuan Qi.

The first stage is body tempering, in which humans cleanse every limb of dirt using the aura between heaven and earth, and finally make the potential of the human body to the maximum.

The body tempering stage is divided into three parts. Beginning, Middle and End. In the early stages, humans clean every dirt on the flesh and skin. The middle stage is the blood, and parts of the internal organs. While the last and most difficult is the bone marrow.

After finishing body tempering, that human could be considered a superhuman. His body has potential that ordinary humans cannot do. After completing the body tempering stage, next was Qi Training.

A human who was in this realm could be said to be someone who was no longer human, because at this stage, they could exert strength that even surpassed that of beasts.

In the Qi Training Realm, they could also kill an ordinary human in one hit.

As for Ling Qi and Yuan Qi, Jian Chen simply had no knowledge of it at all. It was likely that only the inner disciples, and the elders of the Sect knew about it.

For a novice like Jian Chen now, breaking through Qi Training was the ultimate goal.

Thinking back to when Jian Chen in the past needed 50 spiritual stones to be at body tempering entry level, the 250 spiritual stones he had now should be enough to complete body tempering.

In silence, and the silence in the dark night, Jian Chen and Su Mei ignored the things around them, and continued to practice.

When a ray of light was seen in the east end, Su Mei was the first to wake up with a faint smile appearing in her eyes. shortly followed by Jian Chen who also opened his eyes.