Northern Qi, in a big mountain behind Luoping County.
After half a month of trekking, Qin Hao and his party finally arrived at the place where Ku He practiced.
Before reaching the top of the mountain, Qin Hao felt that the energy in the air was at least twice as high as other places. Unfortunately, after so long, Qin Hao's meridians still have not recovered. He is now a relatively strong person.
of ordinary people.
"Follow me." Haitang Duoduo couldn't understand that Qin Hao still wanted to travel around and glared at him.
Qin Hao was still hanging slowly behind, pretending to appreciate the beautiful scenery in the mountains. In fact, he had memorized the path he took here. Although the possibility of escaping from the Grand Master was close to zero, Qin Hao was still used to taking precautions.
What's more, when he was passing by Shangjing City, he had already passed on the news while Haitang Duoduo was not paying attention. Maybe there would be a turnaround soon.
Ku He walked in front of the team, and rarely communicated with Haitang Duoduo. He gave Qin Hao the feeling that he was a bit like a Buddhist monk, but Ku He did not believe in the Buddha, but in the temple.
Finally, Ku He stopped in front of a lake.
Looking around, a clear pool of green waves turns into a colorful halo under the sunlight. The clear green water of the pool reflects the surrounding lush forests and blue sky.
At the end of the pool, there are nine silver chains pouring down from the cliff. They are majestic, making a deafening roar and stirring up water like white snow.
"Let's go." After Haitang Duoduo said this, she directly grabbed Qin Hao's arm, jumped up like a chicken, and dived into the Jiulong Waterfall.
Inevitably, Qin Hao, who had no true energy to protect his body, was turned into a drowned rat by the rushing water of the waterfall, and a smirk flashed in Haitang Duoduo's eyes.
When a tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by a dog, Qin Hao decides that if he has a chance in the future, he will let Begonia Duoduo taste the feeling of "getting wet".
"Master, you are back."
As soon as he entered the cave, he heard Lang Tao's rough voice.
But the moment Lang Tao saw Qin Hao, the joy on his face immediately turned into anger, and he subconsciously reached out to touch the chain ax at his waist.
"Stop, we can't kill him now." Ku He stopped Lang Tao's behavior.
Lang Tao looked at Ku He with total confusion.
Ku He did not explain, but went back to the stone platform to meditate with his eyes closed.
Haitang Duoduo patted Lang Tao on the shoulder and sighed softly: "If Master hadn't stopped me, I would have killed him long ago, and it wouldn't be your turn to do it."
"Why?"
"He knows some secrets and is of use to Master."
Lang Tao walked up to Qin Hao angrily and said through gritted teeth: "Sooner or later I will kill you."
"Master Ku He, your eldest disciple threatens me, which makes me feel very insecure." Qin Hao turned his head and shouted at Ku He who was meditating.
There were obvious signs of muscle twitching on Ku He's face, and he slowly opened his eyes: "As long as I am here, no one can kill you."
Upon hearing this, Qin Hao leaned into Lang Tao's ear and whispered: "I don't think this day will come."
"You..." Lang Tao was so angry that he wanted to chop Qin Hao into pieces with a pair of axes on the spot.
Seeing this, Haitang Duoduo quickly pulled Lang Tao away: "Elder brother, don't be fooled by him. His whole body is broken now. If you want to kill him, you can kill him at any time. Don't miss Master's important event."
"The meridians all over the body were cut off? Master took action?" Lang Tao grabbed Qin Hao's wrist. He thought Qin Hao was controlled by the master using some means.
"It's considered a move." Haitang Duoduo told the story of the five people besieging Qin Hao with a complicated expression.
Hearing this, Lang Tao looked at Qin Hao with an unbelievable look. That's all. The Whirlwind Blade Feng Xinglie and the Shadowless Sword Muchen were both ninth-level masters. He was sure to win one on one.
He could win, but he would have to pay a price. If it was one-on-one, he would have no choice but to run away.
As for fighting one against five, Lang Tao couldn't even think about it. However, Qin Hao did it. In the end, if the Grand Master hadn't intervened, even Haitang Duoduo would have died on the spot.
"You didn't try your best before!"
Qin Hao said lightly: "It's not necessary, it's not a life-or-death feud."
"Arrogant, it's a pity that you will never have a chance to defeat me again." Lang Tao gritted his teeth.
"So you can't take advantage of others' danger. Otherwise, it would be disgraceful if word spread. It might even become your inner demon."
Haitang Duoduo saw Qin Hao looking like a rogue, so she quickly pulled away from Lang Tao and tried to persuade her: "Brother, don't listen to his nonsense..."
"No, what he said makes sense. If I kill him now, I won't be able to win without force." Lang Tao stared at Qin Hao and said seriously: "Boy, you should recover quickly. I will defeat you in an upright manner!"
Haitang Duoduo slapped her forehead and thought, if he recovers, can you still beat him?
In the next few days, Ku He did not rush to ask Qin Hao how to enter the temple. Ku He also knew that Qin Hao would not tell him this secret easily, but he sent Lang Tao out without knowing where he was going.
What did he do? Qin Hao asked Haitang Duoduo in a subtle way. Judging from her expression, she didn't know.
"Hey, what are you waiting for? I can't see you eating. Please help with the dishes."
Haitang Duoduo shouted at Qin Hao angrily.
Qin Hao stretched out and sat up from the boulder. The warm winter sun was so comfortable on his body. However, what made Qin Hao depressed was that the injuries to his internal organs had improved after these days of nursing.
There are signs of severe injuries, and the broken meridians cannot be repaired no matter how he uses the "Tian Dao Dao Technique".
"How did Emperor Qing become the Grand Master?"
Emperor Qing also encountered the same situation back then, but how he managed to break through and become a great master is probably only known to him.
At the dinner table, Qin Hao was a little absent-minded. When he stretched out his chopsticks, he happened to bump into Haitang Duoduo's chopsticks. The latter couldn't help but glare at Qin Hao.
"You did it on purpose, right? You didn't see my chopsticks here, so you didn't know how to get out of the way."
Qin Hao subconsciously took back his chopsticks, stood there for a long time, and suddenly said to Haitang Duoduo.
"Say what you just said again."
Haitang Duoduo stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Qin Hao's eyes: "You are so stupid that I scolded you?"
"Say what you said again."
"I didn't see the chopsticks here, why don't you move out of the way?"
Qin Hao suddenly slapped his thigh, dropped the bowl and chopsticks, and sat cross-legged on the stone beside him again.
Haitang Duoduo was confused by Qin Hao's inexplicable behavior: "Master, isn't he crazy?"
Ku He did not answer, and kept his eyes on Qin Hao without moving away.
It wasn't until half an hour later that Ku He suddenly widened his eyes, and a look of shock appeared on his originally calm face.
Haitang Duoduo had just put away the dishes and chopsticks. Seeing Master's appearance, she subconsciously followed his gaze.
At this moment, Qin Hao, who was bathed in the sun, was slowly making some specific movements, with a look of pain on his face. His forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and his brows were furrowed, as if he was experiencing some great pain.
Haitang Duoduo was a little confused. Why did she look like this when she was just doing some basic exercises?
"Master, he..."
Before Haitang Duoduo could finish her words, Ku He raised her hand and interrupted: "Shh, once he is distracted, he will explode and die immediately."
"So serious?" Haitang Duoduo was also shocked.
Then he lowered his voice and asked: "Master, what is he doing? Is he obsessed?"
Ku He shook his head and sighed softly: "This kid can be called a genius. His whole body's muscles and veins were severed, so he found a new way to store the true energy directly in the body instead of using the Dantian."
"Storing the true energy directly in the body?" Haitang Duoduo's face was full of bewilderment, which broke her understanding of warriors.
As we all know, warriors absorb true energy by guiding external energy into the body through some specific movements, and then through the guidance of meridians, it is stored in the Dantian. This is the experience summarized by countless ancestors over thousands of years.
The reason why it enters the Dantian for storage through meridians is also very simple, because the free energy between heaven and earth is not stable and can easily cause damage to the human body. Guiding energy into the meridians for circulation is actually a process of surrender and assimilation.
Among the organs in the human body, only the meridians and Dantian are tough enough to withstand the impact of these energies.
But now Ku He told her that some people can directly use their bodies to store Qi without using meridians.
"How is this possible?" Haitang Duoduo felt that her world view had been subverted.
Ku He shook his head slowly: "Nothing is impossible in this world, let alone that he has entered the temple before."
As a loyal believer in the temple, in Ku He's view, there is nothing that the temple cannot do. As long as anything is attached to the temple, no matter how magical it is, it is understandable. This also further confirms that Qin Hao has entered the temple.
temple.
"Is the temple really that magical?" Haitang Duoduo asked suspiciously.
Ku He said with a pious look: "Of course, the magic of the temple is far beyond your imagination."
"Do you remember the guy wearing the eyepatch last time?"
"Of course, he is very powerful, and he can even tie with Master, but doesn't it mean that there are only four great masters in the world? Is he the newly promoted fifth great master?" Haitang Duoduo and Wu Zhu fought against each other, and the opponent continued.
He defeated her with one move without even using his true energy. Such a person can only be a great master.
Ku He's eyes were full of memories: "No, he was so powerful more than 20 years ago."
"Twenty years ago? He looked to be in his thirties at most, right?" Haitang Duoduo remembered that she had asked him what he used to maintain his hair.
"I don't know exactly how old he is, but I know that he will never age at all. Even in another twenty years, he will still look like this."
"What?"
Haitang Duoduo suddenly felt dizzy. In such a short period of time, her worldview was repeatedly washed away and overturned, making her even wonder if she was dreaming.
If someone else had said these words to her, she would definitely doubt whether this person was a lunatic, but she would never doubt her master's words.
"Now you know why I kept this kid alive, right? The secret of immortality lies in the temple!" A trace of fanaticism flashed in Ku He's eyes.
As a Grand Master and a member of the Northern Qi royal family, Ku He no longer has much pursuit in the secular world, but people will grow old and die, and a Grand Master cannot defy the laws of nature.
The temptation of immortality is so great that no one can resist it, no matter it is a prince, general or great master.
It was the first time for Haitang Duoduo to see Master's expression like this, and she was a little scared for a moment, until Ku He gradually calmed down and returned to the appearance of a worldly master.
"By the way, Master, didn't that blind man want to stop you from killing Sean? Why did he leave suddenly?" Haitang Duoduo carefully changed the subject.
Ku He said in a calm tone: "I promise not to take action against Sean and a boy from Qingguo, and he will leave."
"He has a good relationship with Sean?"
"No, what he wants to protect is that Qingguo boy."
"What's that man's name?"
"Fan Xian."
"oh."
While the master and apprentice were chatting, Qin Hao suddenly let out a painful roar, and then punched the lake in front of him.
"boom"
A column of water rose into the sky, creating a wave of about ten feet, and then turned into water droplets all over the sky, falling on the lake.
At this moment, Qin Hao's closed eyes slowly opened, breathing heavily, as if he had just been fished out of the lake, and his whole body was soaked with sweat.
However, these could not hide the excitement in Qin Hao's eyes. He finally found a way to regain his strength.
Since the meridians are cut off, he does not rely on the meridians. Since he cannot use his Dantian to store true energy, he uses his body as a container.
Of course, in this way, every time he practices, he has to endure pain that is unbearable for ordinary people, but the benefits are also obvious. First of all, he does not need to assimilate external energy through meridians, and his cultivation speed will be far faster than that of ordinary warriors. Secondly, if he does not pass
Dantian stores true energy, but uses the entire body as a container. The amount of true energy he can store is also far beyond that of ordinary warriors.
At this moment, Lang Tao suddenly broke into the courtyard, lay down and whispered in Ku He's ear.
Ku He said to Qin Hao: "Boy, get ready, we are going to the temple in half a month."
Only then did Qin Hao understand that Lang Tao had left to contact the Northern Qi royal family for Ku He.
Ku He has been to the temple, so he knows very well that it is impossible to reach the far north where the temple is located alone. Even a great master will starve to death if he cannot find food for a long time in the boundless snowfield.
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You must have a well-equipped army with sufficient supplies to be able to reach the temple.
"Half a month, isn't it a bit too hasty?" Although Qin Hao has found a way to restore his strength, the amount of zhenqi in his body now is at most that of a fourth-grade warrior. If he wants to return to the peak of ninth-grade, everything must be done.
If everything goes well, it will take half a year.
"Boy, I'm not discussing with you, either go or die!" After Ku He said this, Qin Hao was instantly enveloped in a heart-stopping killing intent.
"Ahem, Master Ku, don't blame me for not reminding you. Without sufficient supplies, even the great master cannot survive."
Facing Qin Hao's "well-intentioned" reminder, Ku He said calmly.
"You don't need to worry about this. I have been preparing for this day for twenty years."
