Master, you go first!

It was already night after refining the elixir. Satisfied, Gu Jiu returned to his residence with a few bottles of elixirs.

"What have you been doing all day?" Shen Nian saw Gu Jiu come back from the top floor and hadn't seen him all day.

"I discussed with Mr. Yuan and asked my master to refine some elixirs in preparation for going to the secret realm."

"Sparring? Just you."

"Shh," Gu Jiu raised his thumb and made a silent gesture, "Old Ancestor Yuan was completely blackened by my blow."

"Are you so powerful?" Shen Nian looked at him in disbelief, "Let's compete with me tomorrow."

"Okay, who is afraid of whom?" Gu Jiu was even more confident today.

"Come here." Shen Nian raised his fingers towards Gu Jiu.

Gu Jiu didn't know what she was going to do, so he walked over, touching the back of his head.

Shen Nian took out the jade crown Xiaobai bought for him and handed it over, "Give it back to you."

When Gu Jiu saw it, his whole face dropped, and he was obviously disgusted. It was very difficult to accept it.

Gu Jiu pulled up a chair and sat next to Shen Nian. He took out the elixir that he had made today, took an empty bottle, and divided the elixir into two parts.

"These elixirs made by our master are more powerful. I will give you half of them. You can use them in emergencies."

Shen Nian tilted her head to look at him, dividing the pills with a serious look on her face. I have to say that this profile looks more and more masculine the more I look at it. Shen looked a little crazy.

Gu Jiufen turned around to take the bottles of elixirs to her. Suddenly their eyes met, each other felt a little embarrassed, and their hearts were beating loudly as if something had hit them.

"Ahem," Gu Jiujia coughed twice, "Here, take it."

He explained the functions of each pill to Shen Nian one by one, and then ran back to his room in despair.

Falling on his bed, Gu Jiu tossed and turned without falling asleep. In her previous life, she had been single for thirty years and was basically a newbie in love. Faced with a sudden heartbeat, she seemed a little at a loss. He has been silently hypnotizing himself in his heart, saying that he is an uncle of several decades, and he has watched this girl grow up, no, no, no.

Shen Nian on the other side was almost in the same state. He felt that he had watched this apprentice grow up day by day, so how could he have any unreasonable thoughts.

On a clear summer night, there were not many bright stars in the sky. The breeze at this time shook the treetops, and a bright moon was half hidden behind the treetops.

Silent all night.

The next day.

Gu Jiu competed with Shen Nian as agreed last night. Danfeng did not have a special competition arena, so the two chose the square in front of the main hall.

The buildings in the main hall have been reinforced by Gu Jiu's formations. Normal attacks during the pill forming stage will not damage them, and even if they are damaged, they will not be too serious, so they chose this side.

"Do I need to suppress my cultivation to fight with you?" Shen Nian asked.

"No, don't worry, I'm very strong." Gu Jiu raised his chin.

Shen Nian didn't hesitate anymore and started fighting directly.

Shen Nian's fighting talent is very strong, one move after another, without any sloppiness. Gu Jiu's current level is not bad, but his battle method, which focuses on formations, is a bit passive. But the ability to protect yourself is also unique.

After a hundred moves back and forth, there was still no winner.

Shen Nian fought harder and harder. She never thought that her apprentice could be so durable. The guy who had been hiding behind her turned out to have such a method. She felt much better than beating Li Yuzhu before.

Gu Jiu focused on serious defense and launched fewer attacks because Shen Nian did not give him much space to launch attacks.

After nearly a hundred moves, Shen Nian discovered that although Gu Jiu's defensive formations were powerful, there were also some dangerous formation traps that needed to be avoided from time to time. However, there was also a problem. Some of his defensive formations were made with hand movements. many.

Gu Jiu's current spiritual power could not support him to use the Aurora Formation Steps all the time, so he switched to using his hands for the more complicated Spirit Space Formation. And Shen Nian just discovered his flaw.

Just when Gu Jiu was about to raise his hand to form a formation, Shen Nian gave up his original attack move and directly approached with a body technique, grabbing his forming finger.

Then, an over-the-shoulder throw ended.

Gu JiuSi fell to the ground with his arms and legs spread out, gasping for air.

"Oh, it's so tiring. This fight is really laborious and exhausting. It's really not what people should do."

Shen Nian sat on the ground beside him, panting a little, but his condition was much better than Gu Jiu's.

"Isn't this going to work? It seems you still need to practice. I have never seen a pill-forming monk whose physical strength is as weak as yours."

Gu Jiu was too embarrassed to tell her that he was just pretending. He just didn't want to continue fighting and couldn't get up.

"You are still good, so I will say that the secret realm must be safe with you. Hehe."

Shen Nian listened to him, looked down at him and smiled, feeling a little proud.

……

The days passed. On the Dan Peak, Shen Nian and Gu Jiu basically sparred every day. After all, there were not many opportunities for actual combat, and as the time to open the secret realm was getting closer, practice was still necessary.

On the Fire Peak of Guangming Sect, Li Yuzhu has now reached the fifth level of pill formation. Basically, he must go to the martial arts field to train every day.

The Guangming Sect attaches great importance to Senluo Palace this time, and there are hundreds of disciples or elders preparing to be sent to the secret realm.

The Lingxue Mountain Sect usually abandons these secret realms where the competition is too fierce. The sect's background is already poor, and if it loses people in the secret realm, the blow to the sect will be even greater. This time, only Gu Jiu and Shen Nian went, so they could be considered as sending someone to attend.

Originally, Qi Jingtai wanted to go with Lu Rui, but Mr. Yuan did not agree.

On the other side of the demon sect, the Nanhai branch summoned no less than a hundred Danjie demon cultivators to prepare to sneak into Senluo Palace, including Guan Yuliang of course.

The altar master's cultivation level was already Nascent Soul and could not enter, so he arranged for another dozen or so people in the Dan Formation realm to accompany him outside to meet him. When you are ready to achieve your goal, evacuate the secret realm and return to the branch forum quickly.

The entire Southern Territory, and even the entire Luo Kingdom, are gearing up for this Senluo Palace secret realm, not just the sect monks, but also some alchemy-forming casual cultivators. Anyone who thinks they have the ability is ready to take a chance.

This situation directly caused the prices of elixirs and magic weapons in various spiritual collections to rise a lot. When Gu Jiudu learned about this situation, he slapped his thigh and said that if he had known earlier, he would have taken advantage of his free time to refine more elixirs and sell them, thus missing out on a big trend.

There are still three days until the secret realm opens. Since the Tianyin Mountain Range is in the northwest, it is somewhat far away from the Lingxue Mountain Sect in the southwest. Even the cultivation of pill formation requires a day's flight to reach it.

Therefore, Gu Jiu and Shen Nian were preparing to leave early that day.

Ji Chuxue heard the news and came to Danfeng to see him off. Before leaving, Lao Xu repeatedly warned Gu Jiu not to be too ostentatious and to put away his flying sword.

Finally, Shen Nian took out the mysterious-grade Flowing Fire Flying Sword, and the two of them said goodbye to Lao Xu and Ji Chuxue, and set off with the sword.