Three days later, Pei Yun came to the City Lord's Mansion alone. City Lord Cao was surprised to see her coming with a sword badge, but after thinking about what happened on the night of the Lantern Banquet and Luo Rufeng's protection, he felt that it was reasonable for him to give Pei Yun the opportunity to enter the Sword Pool. He just sighed at the generosity of Luo Rufeng and the Luo family.

Pei Yun was the first to arrive, followed by the cultivators who entered the sword pool one after another. As expected, these ten cultivators were not the ones participating in the competition, but the young disciples of various families.

Of course, they were also very surprised to see Pei Yun here, because the other nine cultivators were all young people with great talents who were sought after and paid attention to in the family. The Luo family actually gave the quota to enter the sword pool to an outsider, which was unprecedented, but since the city lord did not say no, they would not offend the Luo family.

After everyone arrived, City Lord Cao took out a flying puppet beast, and everyone rode the flying puppet towards the direction of the sword pool.

When Pei Yun saw the puppet, her heart stopped for a moment. She half-squinted her eyes and looked at it secretly. She then remembered that she had also obtained a Vermillion Bird puppet in the secret realm before, and it was made by the legendary Qin Patriarch himself. It seems that her travel will be much more convenient in the future.

However, after she saw that City Lord Cao had exchanged two high-grade spirit stones for the puppet beast after only flying for half a day, she completely gave up the idea. Forget it, she might as well fly on her own sword, because she was poor! Up to now, she didn't have any high-grade spirit stones, and the few hundred medium-grade spirit stones were collected from the corners of the space.

The sword pond is not in Yongning City, but on a mountain half a day's distance from Yongning City. This sword pond is not naturally formed, but the precious experience left by generations of sword cultivators in Yongning City to the younger generations of Yongning City. In fact, according to Luo Rufeng's sword realm and cultivation, he can also leave his own sword skills in the sword pond.

Pei Yun looked up at the mountain gate in front of him. There were two thick stone pillars supporting the stone plaque above. On the stone plaque were the words "Jian Chi" carved by a great sword cultivator holding a sword when it was first built.

The ten young monks, including Pei Yun, felt a sharp sword intent coming straight towards their eyebrows, and they felt a suffocating feeling of being on the verge of death.

Pei Yun subconsciously closed her eyes and practiced the Xu Pavilion in her heart. A building outlined by golden patterns stood in her sea of ​​consciousness, guarding the origin of her soul.

When she opened her eyes again, the sword intent had already dissipated. She relaxed slightly, looked around, and met City Lord Cao's surprised gaze.

"Not bad, not bad, he is a promising talent." City Lord Cao stroked his beard and praised with a smile.

The other nine young family members were not as relaxed as Pei Yun. The better ones just broke out in cold sweats, while those with less talent were already kneeling on the ground and retching.

City Lord Cao shook his head and said, "You can't bear the sword intent that the words on the plaque unintentionally emit. The sword intent left by the sword in the sword pool is even stronger. You better take care of yourself."

"Take out the sword card."

Following City Lord Cao's instructions, everyone took out their sword cards. The sword cards automatically left their hands and floated in front of the mountain gate. After a few moments, an entrance emitting white light appeared in front of the mountain gate...

"If you can't bear the sword's will, come out immediately. Don't try to be brave. Otherwise, if the sword's will hurt the essence of your soul, I think you all know the consequences."

"Yes, thank you City Lord Cao for the reminder." Everyone bowed.

"You can leave on your own after you come out of the Sword Pond. Go in."

"Yes,"

Pei Yun and the other ten walked in expectantly...

As soon as they entered the sword pool, they found themselves in another space. There were ten stone doors surrounding them. These stone doors were all the same and there was no difference between them. Several people randomly chose a door and went in.

After Pei Yun walked into the stone gate, he came to a stone cave. In the center of the cave was a small sword pool with ten swords of various types inserted in it, each of which exuded a different sword aura.

She had previously asked Luo Qi, who had been into the sword pool, and knew that the sword in the sword pool was not for you to take out, but to input spiritual power into it and feel the sword's intent.

Of course, he especially reminded Pei Yun not to be greedy and to feel every sword, because the sword intent would inadvertently emit murderous aura. If the sword intent he felt exceeded his limit, the origin of his soul would be damaged, and it would be very difficult to repair his soul.

Pei Yun first used his spiritual sense to probe into the attributes of each sword, and soon found the sword intent of gold.

She grasped the hilt of the sword with one hand and input spiritual power. In an instant, an image of a sword cultivator holding a sword and performing a set of gold sword techniques appeared in her mind. After completing the last move, the golden sword intent suddenly surged into her sea of ​​consciousness. She closed her eyes and Xu Ge appeared in her sea of ​​consciousness again.

"Huh..." Pei Yun let out a long breath, her expression still a little dazed. She immediately sat down cross-legged, recalling the monk's swordsmanship and the mysterious golden sword intent.

After an unknown amount of time, Pei Yun opened her eyes and looked at another stone door not far away. She lowered her head and glanced at a black sword in the sword pool, and hesitated for a moment. She felt an aura similar to that of the Sky Realm from this black sword, which was a space realm.

Finally, she grasped the hilt of the black sword. Her talent in swordsmanship was indeed not that good, but her soul was strong and she should be able to withstand the second sword with different attributes.

The moment the spiritual power was input, a cultivator appeared again, holding the black sword. With the previous experience, Pei Yun was much calmer this time. She activated the virtual pavilion protection in advance, and then watched the swordsmanship of the cultivator in front of her intently. It was indeed space swordsmanship. This mysterious sword intent was extremely similar to the space artistic conception contained in the realm of emptiness. The two have something in common.

After coming out of the black sword's consciousness, Pei Yun immediately sat cross-legged to recall. This time, she not only recalled the swordsmanship with spatial sword intent, but also verified it with the realm of space. She sat cross-legged for most of the day before she woke up.

This time she did not hesitate and opened another stone door. Inside the stone door was a stone cave, and in the center of the stone cave was still a sword pool, but this time there were sixteen swords in the sword pool. Pei Yun still found the swords with gold and space attributes, and began to repeatedly input spiritual power, watch swordsmanship, and comprehend...

She relied on her powerful soul to break through several stone caves in a row. The number of swords in each stone cave varied, and sometimes there was no gold and space swordsmanship that Pei Yun wanted to comprehend. When encountering such a situation, Pei Yun would leave directly to the next stone cave. After all, she was only in the foundation-building stage, and she could not chew too much.

After passing through several more stone caves, Pei Yun finally felt a little tired, and his mental energy was almost reaching its limit.

She no longer continued to venture into the stone cave, but sat cross-legged and began to practice the third level of the Threefold Soul Refining Technique. For some reason, although her understanding of sword intent had improved a lot during the days in the sword pool, it was still not enough to comprehend the complete sword intent. However, she had a premonition that she was about to master the third level of the Threefold Soul Refining Technique.

This sword pool not only helped her improve her swordsmanship and comprehend the sword intent, but also honed her mental strength.

Having once experienced refining a soul sword in the pagoda, this time it was a natural process. She didn't have to put in much effort. She absorbed the golden light in her sea of ​​consciousness and condensed it into a small golden soul sword bit by bit. The sword flew around the Void Pavilion and then hovered above her sea of ​​consciousness...

Finally, she has mastered the last level of the Three-fold Refining Technique! Pei Yun's joy was indescribable. With this secret method of attacking with spiritual consciousness, she had one more means to defeat the enemy.

She knew that her strength was almost at this point, so she didn't force herself to break into the next cave. This trip to the sword pond was very rewarding. Although she didn't comprehend the complete sword meaning, her Nine Profound Gold Swordsmanship had improved a lot because of her continuous comprehension of the gold sword meaning. In addition, the space sword meaning in the swordsmanship and the space artistic conception contained in the realm of emptiness confirmed each other. She felt that as long as she broke into the secret space in the space spirit palace a few more times, she would be able to enter the space artistic conception. Of course, the biggest gain was that she had mastered the last level of the three-level art of refining the soul.

Thinking of this, she thanked Luo Rufeng again in her heart. If he hadn't given her the quota, she wouldn't have gained so much. She secretly made a decision in her heart that if she had the chance in the future, she must repay Luo Rufeng.

After Pei Yun came out of the sword pool, she didn't see anyone else, and she was not in the mood to pay attention to others because she suddenly remembered that the trade fair and auction of Baolin Pavilion might have already started?

Fortunately, this place is not far from Yongning City. She flew back on her sword and saw the huge ship at the dock outside the city. From a distance, she could feel its huge body, like a moving pagoda. It was obvious that the trade fair had already begun. There was a long queue at the dock, ready to enter the ship.

Pei Yun did not go in immediately, but returned to the Luo family and greeted everyone in the Luo family.

"Junior Sister Pei, you are back. It has been half a month. I also stayed in the sword pool for half a month. Great! Your strength has caught up with mine!" Luo Qi praised her without forgetting to brag about himself.

Pei Yun laughed and then asked anxiously, "Has the Baolin Pavilion's trade fair and auction started? I just saw someone entering the dock outside the city."

"The trade fair has already started for five days, but don't worry, the entire trade fair will last for half a month, so there's still plenty of time. As for the auction, it will start after the trade fair ends. You should come with us then, otherwise you won't be able to buy a ticket to the auction."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Luo." Pei Yun breathed a sigh of relief and saluted to him with a happy face.

"You're welcome. By the way, Su Yue and I have an appointment to go to the trade fair tomorrow. Will you come with us?"

"Okay! It's settled. I'll come to see Senior Brother Luo tomorrow morning."

"no problem."

After Pei Yun and Luo Qi said goodbye, they returned to Luo Rufeng's yard. She thought about it and did not go back to her room, but came to Luo Rufeng's door. When she was about to knock on the door, Luo Rufeng opened it from the inside.

"You're back." Luo Rufeng secretly observed her and saw that she looked in good condition and had a hint of the sharp aura of a swordsman. He nodded with satisfaction.

"Your Excellency, didn't you say that you would test my swordsmanship after I came back? I'm here on my own initiative!" Pei Yun stared at him with sparkling eyes, and his well-behaved face couldn't hide the desire to show off.

Luo Rufeng raised the corners of his lips slightly, and a smile and pampering flashed across his eyes.

"Let's go." He brought Pei Yun to the training ground.

Pei Yun held the wooden sword, nodded at him, and then began to perform the Nine Profound Golden Sword Technique. This time, she could clearly feel the meaning of each move of this sword technique.

After she finished her performance, she trotted over to Luo Rufeng, waiting for his comments with anticipation.

"……good."

Hearing this, Pei Yun immediately smiled like a flower and bowed: "I have to thank you for your guidance, Your Excellency, and for securing a place for me."

Luo Rufeng put his hands behind his back, nodded slightly, turned and left. The moment he turned his back to her, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

The next morning, Pei Yun, Luo Qi and Su Yue went to the huge ship of Baolin Pavilion. As soon as they entered, the three of them felt the bustling atmosphere. The ship was crowded with people, and there were constant shouting and talking.

The trading area on the first floor was mostly occupied by monks renting stalls to sell their own items. Although the value of the items was not high, there were all kinds of rare and strange things, such as strange stones, brightly colored feathers, legendary treasure maps, etc. Pei Yun strolled around with great interest and bought whatever he was interested in, as the prices were not expensive anyway.

"Look at all the people over there!" Su Yue pointed to a stall not far away that was already crowded with people, and curiously pulled the two of them in.

This stall is the official stall of Baoling Pavilion. It is three or four times larger than other stalls. The stall is filled with jade slips, which are divided into four piles.

"These jade slips are various low-level skills collected by my Baolin Pavilion. They are yellow-grade lower grade, yellow-grade middle grade, yellow-grade upper grade, and black-grade lower grade..." The manager pointed to the four piles of jade slips placed in front of everyone, "Now my Baolin Pavilion is selling them at a low price. Yellow-grade lower grade only costs 100 spirit stones, yellow-grade middle grade 500 spirit stones, yellow-grade upper grade 1,500 spirit stones, and black-grade lower grade requires 5,000 spirit stones..."

Hearing this, the faces of the low-level cultivators around were all delighted, and they began to get eager to buy it. This was indeed much lower than the normal market price.

But the manager spoke again: "But there is one thing, you cannot choose the skills at will. After the cultivator who purchases the skills chooses a jade slip, he cannot change it even if the skills are not to his liking. Moreover, each person can buy a maximum of three jade slips."

"Hey! This is quite interesting. It's a completely blind selection! Whether the technique suits your taste or not depends entirely on luck!" Luo Qi raised his eyebrows and looked quite interested.

"Let me buy one and try." Su Yue excitedly stepped forward and bought a lower-grade Xuan-level jade slip. In fact, as a child of a large family, he had no shortage of lower-grade Xuan-level skills. He just wanted to have fun.

Pei Yun saw that both of them bought a jade slip, so she also bought one to play with.

"What I have is a set of swordsmanship, alas! It's not the illusion I want..." Su Yue sighed in disappointment and threw the jade slip to Luo Qi.

"Mine is a secret manual of body movement, who wants it?" Luo Qi asked.

"What I got is a magic technique. I'll give it to you, Senior Sister Su." Pei Yun stuffed the jade slip into her hands. Su Yue happily took the jade slip from Luo Qi's hands and gave it to her. "This is perfect. We three can each have one."

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