Lei Ming and others are so-so in their cultivation, but they are very interested in eating, drinking, having fun, and nonsense, especially some gossipy news in Fenglei Town. The well-informed ones always get it first, and they break out and tease them from time to time.
Xu You also advised them several times to focus on cultivation, but the effect was not great, so he stopped talking about it. After all, everyone has his own way of life.
"You know, Ma Rulong is going to get punished." Lei Ming gloated, "And that Liu Jingjing is probably too fast to be able to control herself."
"Oh?" Xu You pretended to be surprised, "Why?"
"Last night, the core children were doing the ward check. This couple was not here. They might have gone somewhere to get together and had a little fun and forgot to come back." Lei Zhen had always looked down on the children with foreign surnames and said in a vicious tone.
"It's not necessarily an affair. Maybe the two of them have been talking by candlelight all night, talking about society, life, and ideals, and found a way to share the same goals, so much so that they forgot about the ward rounds." Another Lei family kid said seriously.
His words immediately caused all the disciples to burst into laughter.
The children with foreign surnames looked at them one after another, their expressions ugly.
Before Fang Hui came back, Ma Rulong was their leader. Now because of the ward rounds, he was laughed at by the Lei family, and everyone felt unhappy.
"Xu You, have you seen Ma Rulong? In the past few days, he has been saying that he wants to compete with you again." A boy with a foreign surname came over and asked stiffly.
"No." Xu You shook his head, "I have been practicing my skills last night, but I really hope to compete with Ma Rulong again. He is a powerful opponent. I don't necessarily respect his character, but I respect his cultivation.
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This kid with a foreign surname came to ask him, not to ask about Ma Rulong, but to express his dissatisfaction in a subtle way about being mixed with the Lei family.
Xu You was so smart that he could tell, so he calmly said something nice, so that the children with a foreign surname would not be suspicious of him.
Sure enough, after hearing what he said, the face of the disciple with a foreign surname softened a lot and he did not speak. He just nodded slightly to Xu You and then retreated back to the group of disciples with a foreign surname.
"Pretending, what are you talking about? Ma Rulong is gone, and he actually asked you about it. If he wasn't afraid that it would be difficult for you, I would smack him in the face." Lei Ming squinted his eyes and whispered disdainfully.
Xu You smiled and patted him on the shoulder, chatting with everyone for a while. After a while, the core disciple in charge of guidance arrived, he said hello and left the training ground.
Ma Rulong and Lu Jingjing just didn't show up for one night, so it didn't arouse anyone's suspicion. However, everyone was paying close attention to these two people, and they would probably notice something unusual in a few days.
How will the Lei family react when the time comes, will others doubt him, and how should he behave in the most normal way... These are all things Xu You has to consider.
Although there is no evidence, it must be absolutely foolproof.
After leaving Lei's house, Xu first released his spiritual consciousness, and after confirming that no one was following him, he used his divine walking technique and walked towards the river where he had practiced a few days ago.
These are extraordinary times. Even if he goes out to practice, Xu You must not be careless.
When he arrived at the river bank, Xu You stopped. He first took out the forbidden crystal ball, and after inputting his spiritual power, the forbidden crystal ball instantly turned into a beam of light and dispersed, and Xu You suddenly disappeared.
Staying in the confinement, Xu You sat down cross-legged and took out the mysterious black ball he got last night.
He had never figured out the function of this black ball, and he didn't dare to try it in the practice room, so he could only take it out for testing.
He slowly input spiritual power into the black ball, but after a while, the black ball showed no response.
Xu You was startled. Could it be that it was stimulated by spiritual power? He thought for a while and probed in with his spiritual consciousness.
This time the black ball reacted quickly. First it glowed brightly, and then Xu You felt a strong suction force, which continuously pulled his spiritual consciousness into the ball.
Xu You was shocked and hurriedly contracted his spiritual consciousness.
The black ball did not compete with him, but immediately stopped, and its luster gradually dimmed.
Xu You was shocked. What on earth is this? It can actually absorb people's spiritual consciousness, but it doesn't look like an evil weapon that can harm people.
He studied the black ball for a long time, then hesitantly put his spiritual consciousness in again, and the suction force came again. However, if he wanted to withdraw his spiritual consciousness, the suction force would stop automatically and would not be forced.
Xu You tried several times in a row and found the same result, so he felt a little relieved.
He probed his spiritual consciousness in again, and after feeling the suction, he did not shrink his spiritual consciousness any more.
The suction force continuously pulled his spiritual consciousness into the sphere. Just when Xu You thought that all his spiritual consciousness was going to be sucked in, the suction force gradually stopped, leaving a bit of spiritual consciousness for him outside.
Then, Xu You was surprised to find that his spiritual consciousness entering the black ball was gradually changing.
In the blink of an eye, his spiritual consciousness turned into a villain.
This little man is exactly himself, a self composed purely of spiritual consciousness.
This is a wonderful feeling, just like having an extra clone. Xu You can feel not only his real self outside, but also his spiritual clone, as if he has entered a vast and boundless space.
This space should be inside the black sphere. What is it used for... Xu You looked at it curiously.
At this time, he suddenly felt that something seemed to be scanning him, as if he was being illuminated from beginning to end by a condensed beam of light. He had a very strange feeling.
Soon, the feeling of scanning disappeared. Then, in the space in front, a figure slowly emerged out of thin air.
Xu You was stunned. This figure looked exactly like him, or in other words, it was him.
It's just that this figure is all gray and has no expression on his face. He doesn't look like a real person, but more like a sculpture.
After seeing the spiritual clone, Gray Xu You rushed over without saying a word. With the dazzling thunder in his hands flashing, he had already used the elementary spiritual technique Thunder Fist and struck hard at the spiritual clone.
Xu You's face changed. After his spiritual consciousness was condensed and formed, it was no different from the real him except that he had no physical body. Naturally, he could also perform various spiritual arts.
Then his fists missed each other, and dazzling thunder shot out, rushing towards the gray Xu You.
Boom! The four fists collided together fiercely, and the thunder turned into countless electric snakes, escaping in all directions like spiders.
The spiritual consciousness clone and the gray Xu You were shocked and took a step back at the same time.
Not only do the two of them have exactly the same cultivation and spiritual skills, but their combat prowess is also exactly the same. In a confrontation, they will naturally be on equal footing.
Gray Xu You said nothing, jumped up high, and made a perfect half-circle with his fists. As the thunder exploded again, it seemed that God was angry and struck down with infinite power.
Xu You was shocked. He probably already understood what this black ball was about. He never expected that it could simulate another version of himself. It was truly amazing.
Huge pressure rushed towards him crazily, and Xu You's spiritual clone could even clearly feel numbness on the top of his head. Everywhere he looked, there was dazzling lightning, and Xu You's figure in gray color could no longer be seen.
This is an almost perfect Thunder Fist, with boundless power, extremely fast speed, and perfect technique. The three are combined into one, making it almost invulnerable.
"Is this the pressure I put on people? It turns out that my combat power is so powerful..."
Xu You thought excitedly, roared, jumped up, and the same almost perfect Thunder Fist turned into unparalleled thunder and rushed towards the center of the shocking and boundless light.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two Xu You were fighting back and forth in the air, and the thunder was deafening.
With the same cultivation, the same spiritual skills, the same heat, and the same fighting consciousness, there is no clear winner in a fight. It is easy to defeat others, but it is difficult to defeat yourself.
Xu You tried every possible means to find the flaws and weaknesses of the other party. He understood that if he could find them, it would be equivalent to finding his own shortcomings and he could improve them.
This is the real function of the black ball. If you create an identical opponent to practice with you, you will know where your shortcomings are.
As he fought, Xu You discovered that even though his Thunder Fist spiritual technique had become perfect, it actually still had weaknesses. As long as it was not perfect, there would be areas where power, speed and skill could not be coordinated.
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These areas of incoordination are weaknesses, but if you don't fight with yourself and don't fight for long enough, you won't be able to discover them at all.
After discovery, fine-tuning is done to make the spiritual technique more perfect and have fewer flaws.
But Xu You also discovered that after he fine-tuned, the gray Xu You would also fine-tune at the same time to improve the power of spiritual arts, so that he would not fall behind him.
Because the gray Xu You is also equivalent to himself, the changes in the two are synchronized.
This is a tough battle. Even if he tries his best, Xu You is only on par with him and cannot beat him. But he knows that he has actually won, because as long as he finds his shortcomings and improves himself, he will win.
I don't know how long it took, but the battle finally came to an end. Xu You withdrew his spiritual consciousness from the black ball, gasping for air and feeling extremely tired.
Although it was just a battle between the spiritual clones, he devoted all his energy to it, and it was no different from fighting the original body. The details of the improvement seemed to have grown in his mind and had become his experience and insights.
Originally, Xu You had practiced several elementary spiritual arts to a near-perfect level. Now, through Black Ball's self-competition, he has improved them again.
If it was said that the degree of closeness to perfection was equivalent to nine-sixths of the heat, now it is equivalent to nine-sevenths of the heat. It seems that it has only increased by 0.1 points, but the overall power of the spiritual technique has increased a lot.
And if you continue to fight with yourself, the degree of perfection in spiritual arts will increase, and you will move towards true perfection.
"No wonder Yang Tie's spiritual skills are so good. It turns out that with this black ball as his sparring partner, it's hard not to improve." Xu You thought to himself.
However, it is obvious that Yang Tie has not gone through extreme pressure or dangerous training like him, otherwise the level of spiritual skill would not have been improved to only nine points, although nine points is still considered a great achievement.