Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen looked at Li Yan'er and immediately bowed, saying, "So it's you, Senior Sister. I don't know your name?"

"My name is Li Yan'er, what's your name?" Li Yan'er walked over and looked at Zhang Chen.

"My name is Zhang Chen, and I'm a new disciple," Zhang Chen said quickly.

"By the way, how did you do that move and why was it so fast?" Li Yan'er asked curiously.

Zhang Chen said with an embarrassed look: "It's nothing, practice makes perfect."

Li Yaner looked at Zhang Chen and said thoughtfully:

"But your move is indeed very powerful, but the casting time is too long and it is easy to be interrupted..."

Zhang Chen nodded and said, "Yeah, that's because he's too arrogant, otherwise I might not be able to beat him."

"Also, he doesn't know how to use the golden light spell, otherwise you won't be able to break it. Don't think that your attack has reached the ninth level of Qi Condensation." Li Yan'er said.

"So that's how it is? I also thought I wasn't that strong." Zhang Chen said with sudden enlightenment.

"The Golden Light Talisman is used to gather the defensive power at one point, so that it can block the full force attack of the ninth level of Qi Condensation." Li Yan'er explained to Zhang Chen.

"Thank you for telling me, senior sister. It seems that I won by luck this time." Zhang Chen bowed to Li Yan'er and thanked her.

"When you become more powerful, I will challenge you to a competition again. You must not hold back then." Li Yan'er looked at Zhang Chen and said in a condescending manner.

"Okay," Zhang Chen replied.

Li Yaner smiled and took out a delicate boat from her storage bag, inputting spiritual energy into it. The boat immediately grew larger, and Li Yaner stood on it. After the boat slowly rose, it flew towards the peak at high speed.

Zhang Chen stared at Li Yan'er's departing back in a daze, feeling a little lost.

"Let's go, don't look anymore. The person has already flown far away." Sima Feng called Zhang Chen with a smile on his face.

Zhang Chen turned around and pretended to be calm and replied: "I didn't look at her. I was just curious about the flying ship. I don't know how it flew?"

When Sima Feng heard Zhang Chen's words, he did not expose him, but smiled and shook his head.

Zhang Chen followed Sima Feng back to his residence and started exercising with him. Since learning magic, Zhang Chen had not exercised for a long time. He had been wearing weights all the time, and now he was carrying two hundred kilograms of weight.

"Senior Brother Sima, has your strength increased a lot now?" Zhang Chen asked, panting.

"Very little, maybe I've reached a bottleneck. It's already difficult just relying on training and passive absorption of spiritual energy, so I'll try other methods." Sima Feng said with a complicated look.

"Brother Sima, how are you going to try it?" Zhang Chen asked.

"It seems like I need to go out and travel." Sima Feng suddenly said.

"Senior Brother Sima, you want to leave the sect and fight a life-and-death battle to unleash the great potential of your body, right?" Zhang Chen looked at Sima Feng and asked.

"Yes, life-and-death battles are not allowed in the sect, and those spirit beasts dare not kill the disciples. Training is fine, but if you want to stimulate your potential, you still have to find another way." Sima Feng said while exercising.

On the other side, on the Chiyun Peak, in a cave, Lu Jun and the other two were standing in front of a young cultivator, bowing their bodies with a very respectful attitude.

Generally, only those who have reached the foundation-building stage are allowed to open a cave on the peak, unless they have excellent aptitude, or the elders of the sect have extra caves, which they can grant to their descendants to live in.

"Senior Brother Chen, the golden talisman you asked us to buy was snatched away by someone else." Lu Jun looked at the cultivator in front of him and said cautiously.

"What? Who dares to steal my things? Is it Zhou Yun? Or Xie Xuan?" When the cultivator in front heard that his things were stolen, he immediately became furious and questioned loudly.

His name is Chen Yu, he is the great-grandson of the brothers of Elder Chen of Chiyun Peak. Elder Chen has no offspring, and Chen Yu was entrusted by his nephew before his death. He is the only one in the Chen family who has the qualifications to cultivate immortality, so he is taken good care of and treated as his own son. This cave was where Elder Chen cultivated in his early years, and now it is given to Chen Yu for cultivation.

"No...it's not them, it's a new disciple." Lu Jun stuttered.

Chen Yu turned his head and stared at the three people. The three people did not dare to look directly at him and lowered their heads to avoid him.

"A newcomer dares to steal my things. Do you think I'm stupid?" Chen Yu shouted loudly.

"This is true, but he doesn't know it's yours, otherwise he wouldn't dare to steal it even if he had a hundred guts," Zhou Yang said nervously. His back was covered in cold sweat, his heart was beating violently, and his face was flushed.

This was the unanimous opinion of the three of them after discussing it. They had to blame Zhang Chen for everything, after all, Zhang Chen did steal his things. The key point was that the Golden Light Talisman was too expensive, and they had just lost their Spirit Stones, so they really didn't have any more Spirit Stones to buy, so they could only take the risk of cheating and hope to get away with it.

"How could he, a newcomer, snatch the three of you?" Chen Yu still didn't quite believe what Zhou Yang said.

"He sneaked up on me when I was not paying attention, and then took away everything in my storage bag." Zhou Yang told about the previous sneak attack by Zhang Chen.

"If that's the case, then why don't you three go and get it back?" Chen Yu looked at them with some confusion.

"I originally wanted to ask him to return it, but I saw that he was very familiar with Senior Sister Li Yan'er. I know the relationship between Senior Sister Li and Senior Brother Chen, so we dare not make the decision..." Lu Jun looked at Chen Yu's expression and said cautiously.

When Chen Yu heard that he was very familiar with Li Yan'er, his face suddenly darkened. His face was uncertain, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Lu Jun continued to talk to himself: "That new guy is fair-skinned and speaks sweetly. I saw Senior Sister Li talking and laughing with him. I don't know how he... knows Senior Sister Li."

Chen Yu suddenly turned his head and stared at Lu Jun. Seeing this, Lu Jun immediately shut up and waited quietly.

"Go find out what that kid's cultivation level is and what his background is?" Chen Yu said slowly. Then he threw a medium-grade spirit stone to Lu Jun.

Lu Jun quickly took it and said to Chen Yu: "Okay, Brother Chen, we will check it now. I will tell you as soon as we have found it."

Zhang Chen returned to his residence. Sima Feng was preparing to leave the sect to travel. He did not have to deliberately carry out the sect's tasks, but Zhang Chen could not.

Zhang Chen thought about what Li Yan'er said today about the problem of his spellcasting taking too long. He was also thinking about how to adjust it. After thinking for a long time, he could only keep improving his proficiency. There was no other way.

As Zhang Chen continued to practice spells, he also discovered that some spells could be used in conjunction with each other. For example, combining the Fireball Spell and the Waterball Spell would produce a large amount of fog, which could be used to confuse the opponent or hide one's own attacks and whereabouts.

Two days passed, and Zhang Chen practiced magic during the day and cultivated at night.

The sixth level of Qi Condensation requires ten more acupoints to be opened than the fifth level, reaching sixty, and also involves some extra meridian acupoints. And the difficulty of opening is getting higher and higher. Zhang Chen only opened two acupoints in two nights.

Zhang Chen was casting spells in the yard today, trying to see if he could combine some spells and how to use them together, when there was a hurried knock on the door.

Zhang Chen was a little surprised. No one had knocked on the door for a long time. He stopped and walked towards the door.

When Zhang Chen opened the door, he saw a strange face and was feeling confused.

The person at the door spoke. "Are you Zhang Chen?"

Zhang Chen replied: "Yes."

The visitor immediately handed a jade slip to Zhang Chen and said to him: "This is a mission assigned by the sect, and it is up to you to carry it out."

Zhang Chen was a little surprised. He took the jade slip and asked, "Can't we take on the missions freely? Why is it that the sect directly issued it this time?"

"I'm not very clear about this, I'm only responsible for conveying it." After the visitor said this, he left.

Zhang Chen picked up the jade slip, input spiritual energy into it, and several lines of words immediately appeared in front of Zhang Chen.

"Horse bandits have appeared in Hedong County. There are some independent cultivators among them. They are practicing evil techniques, killing civilians and harming lives. Those who accept the mission should go and kill the horse bandits immediately."

Zhang Chen looked at the lines of words in front of him and fell into deep thought. He had indeed killed horse bandits in Hedong County before. But this mission came so coincidentally that Zhang Chen was a little confused.

Zhang Chen didn't know that this was actually arranged by Chen Yu. The day before yesterday, Lu Jun told him Zhang Chen's information. He knew that Zhang Chen was only at the fifth level of Qi Condensation, and had just entered the sect not long ago, and had no background.

At that time, he was a little suspicious of what Lu Jun said, and after careful investigation, he realized that Lu Jun and his friends had deceived him. But it was true that Zhang Chen and Li Yan'er knew each other. This still made Chen Yu very unhappy.

He happened to find this mission in the Affairs Pavilion. The sect was originally preparing to publicly announce the call for disciples to go. He used his identity to assign this mission directly to Zhang Chen, hoping to send Zhang Chen out of the sect to suffer.

Zhang Chen looked at the task jade slip and said that he had to leave immediately, so he packed up and prepared to leave. Before leaving, Zhang Chen went to Sima Feng's residence and found that Sima Feng had not left the sect yet, so he asked him to leave together.

After walking out of the sect, Sima Feng asked.

"Junior Brother Zhang, how do you plan to complete this mission? Hedong County is so big, where should we start?"

"I encountered horse bandits last time I left the sect, so the location of the horse bandits must be not far from that place. It just so happens that I have made friends in the county town. I can ask them to find out about it when the time comes. It should be smoother."

Zhang Chen talked as he walked. Zhang Chen had walked this road before, so he was familiar with it. He had always been leading the way.

Sima Feng nodded and said:

"So, Junior Brother Zhang, you already had a plan. Those horse bandits really deserve to die. You didn't kill them all last time. I'll help out this time."

Three days later, Zhang Chen and Sima Feng arrived at the town. After a short rest, they continued to head towards the county town. When passing Erhu Mountain, Zhang Chen and Sima Feng looked around the surrounding area, but found nothing, so they headed straight towards the county town.

Two nights later, Zhang Chen and Sima Feng arrived at the house that Zhang Chen had arranged for his parents in Sunset City, went in to visit his parents, and had a meal. Sima Feng was very sad to see Zhang Chen's parents and their three children having fun together, so he went out to find an inn to stay in without staying for long. Zhang Chen understood his feelings and did not stop him.

The next day, Zhang Chen went to Li Yingnan's home alone and waited for a long time before he saw her father, Li Qian. Compared with before, Li Qian's condition and expression were much worse, and he seemed to have aged a lot.

"Master Zhang, you're here. I was busy just now and didn't know it was you. I'm so sorry!"

Li Qian was very happy to see Zhang Chen, and was overjoyed. He was very enthusiastic towards Zhang Chen, which made Zhang Chen a little flattered.

Zhang Chen looked at Li Qian and asked, "It's been a while since we last met, Uncle Li, why do you look so much older?"

Li Qian showed a trace of sadness in his eyes and immediately recovered and said: "Maybe I have been worrying about too many things recently."

Zhang Chen looked around the living room and asked, "Where's Li Yingnan? Why can't I see her? I was planning to check if she has the aptitude to cultivate immortality. I promised her last time."

Li Qian's eyes immediately showed worry and sadness, but he concealed it very well.

"She went out to another town to buy goods. She may not be back for a while. I may let down the Immortal Master's kindness."

Zhang Chen looked at him strangely, feeling something was wrong. He asked about the bandits, but he didn't know anything. He spoke anxiously, as if he wanted Zhang Chen to leave quickly.

Zhang Chen had no choice but to say goodbye. When Zhang Chen returned, Li Qian gave him a brocade box, saying that there was a ginseng that was over a hundred years old inside, to thank Zhang Chen for saving her daughter's life last time.

Zhang Chen didn't want it at first, but Li Qian insisted, and Zhang Chen couldn't resist him, so he accepted it.

Zhang Chen returned to the inn and told Sima Feng what he had seen and heard today.

"I think there is a problem. Did something happen in their family?" Sima Feng said.

"I find it strange too. I always feel like something is wrong." Zhang Chen also started thinking about it.

"By the way, when he gave me the brocade box, his attitude was obviously wrong."

Zhang Chen seemed to have thought of something. He took out a brocade box from the storage bag and opened it. It turned out to be a ginseng. It didn't seem to be anything special. Zhang Chen took out the ginseng and found a piece of paper underneath it.

"Help, Wang Hao."

Zhang Chen was shocked when he saw the note. "So he was the one behind it."

Sima Feng looked at Zhang Chen and asked, "Who is this Wang Hao?"

"He is the priest invited by the Li family. The last time I met him, I felt that he was very hostile to me." Zhang Chen replied.

"Then their family may be in danger. Let's go and take a look." Sima Feng said anxiously.