Hua Shi and Huan Yi were not aware of what happened later at the Lingdao Headquarters in Ningshan. After obtaining the token, Hua Shi quickly left this place of trouble with his servants.
After returning to the Hua family, Hua Shi felt that he had escaped from the brink of life and death. He was very grateful, so he asked someone to cook a lot of delicious food to reward himself.
Although he didn't even see the appearance of his opponent at the Ningshan headquarters at that time.
Fang Wei was too lazy to expose Hua Shi's thoughts, so she just let him do what he wanted. Only after he had eaten and drunk and rested comfortably in the backyard all day did she throw a new task at him.
"Mission: Practice the Qiguang Jue to the fifth level of the Spiritual Sea."
"Mission reward: Spiritual Sand Sword Technique."
When Hua Shi opened his eyes early in the morning, he saw the golden scroll flashing in front of him. There was still some confusion in his eyes. He stared at the words in front of him for a long time before slowly coming back to his senses. He sat up quickly and said to the system in his mind: "What do you mean! Can I start practicing swordsmanship? This sword technique is matched with the Lingsha Sword? So Liu Qishuang used this set of swordsmanship back then, right?"
Fang Wei didn't expect Hua Shi's reaction to be so big, but he couldn't help but feel puzzled. He didn't see Hua Shi so happy when he got the Qi Guang Jue. What was going on now?
Fang Wei thought so and asked indirectly. Hua Shi's answer was simple: "Because masters all use swords!"
In Hua Shi's opinion, practicing something like the Qi Guang Jue for a long time would not produce any effect, but after learning the sword technique, one can see the effect immediately. In Hua Shi's words, this is what the people of the world should learn.
Of course, no matter how Hua Shi swore and spoke sweet words, Fang Wei would not believe it at all based on her previous experience.
What happened next also proved that Fang Wei's idea was indeed correct. Although Hua Shi was very excited when he heard that he could get the sword technique as long as he reached the fifth level of the Spirit Sea, he wished he could practice every day to reach the fifth level immediately in exchange for the sword technique. However, he just persisted for less than five days before he became discouraged again. Finally, he started to be lazy and said, "Swordsmanship is not meant for me. I'll think of a way when I have another chance in the future."
Fang Wei was not surprised by this situation, but he was obviously much more experienced this time. Since the last time this young master dragged on and was invincible, Fang Wei had become more cautious than before, so when he left the task, he deliberately left a time limit.
The deadline for this mission is three months. If Hua Shi fails to complete the mission within three months, Fang Wei can impose a mission penalty.
The form of punishment was to take back the treasure he had just obtained not long ago.
Judging from how much importance Hua Shi attached to these three treasures, Fang Wei chose to confiscate his Huiguang Pearl first.
When Hua Shi heard about this punishment method, he was stunned. After he was convinced that he had no way to change the system rules, he finally accepted his fate and began to calm down and practice seriously. Although the process seemed extremely painful for a young master like Hua Shi who couldn't sit still, he actually completed the practice task in the end. Not only that, he even completed it half a month ahead of schedule.
When Fang Wei set this task, he took Hua Shi's talent and strength as well as the difficulty of cultivation into consideration. In his opinion, three months was just right to reach the fifth level of Spirit Sea, but Hua Shi's performance was beyond his expectations and was much faster than he thought.
This made Fang Wei unable to help but ponder. Did he underestimate Hua Shi's strength and determination, or was this punishment too intimidating to Hua Shi?
In any case, Hua Shi finally completed his training, and Fang Wei gave him the sword technique as a reward as promised.
And announced the next task.
"Mission: Practice the Spiritual Sand Sword Technique to the third level."
"Mission reward: phantom light spell."
"The mission has a limited completion time of two months."
Hua Shi: “…”
Fang Wei, who had finally finished practicing and thought he had finally made it, stared at the task text for a long time before finally unable to hold back and uttered, "Can I ask, is my next task to start practicing that Illusion Light Spell?"
Fang Wei, whose purpose had been predicted, chose to remain silent.
However, no matter how reluctant he was, since he would be punished if the task was not completed, Hua Shi still complained that he was on a pirate ship and continued to practice hard.
Time flies as the days and months pass. The servants of the Hua family feel that their young master seems to have suddenly changed his personality. He has become diligent from being an idle young master. He practices hard every day from dawn to dusk. In a short period of time, his strength has improved a lot.
Even the other four young masters of the Hua family and the old master of the Hua family came to show concern for Hua Shi. Some thought that he might have been stimulated by something, and some thought that his brain was burned out. However, after a long time, they found that Hua Shi was really practicing hard to become stronger. Everyone couldn't help but feel relieved, and they all felt that their own children had grown up.
Hua Shi had a hard time saying this, if his orb would have been taken away if he didn't work hard on his cultivation, he wouldn't have to leave so many delicious foods uneaten and come here to cultivate in the wind and sun.
In more than half a year, Hua Shi successfully raised his spiritual sea to the fifth level and approached the sixth level with his extraordinary talent. He also practiced the Lingsha sword technique to more than the third level, and the Huanguang spell to the third level.
Although he knew nothing when he started practicing, Hua Shi has gained considerable strength after practicing for so long. He practiced the Qi Guang Jue in the spiritual sea so that he could sign contracts with high-level spiritual creatures in the future. The sword technique is an external combat skill, and the Huan Guang Mantra he practiced later is equivalent to the internal combat technique, so that the external combat moves can be more powerful.
During this period of time, Fang Wei personally guided Hua Shi's cultivation.
Although Hua Shi has only been practicing for more than half a year, Fang Wei knows that Hua Shi's strength is no longer that of a layman. Even if he faces ordinary disciples from various sects who have practiced for ten years, he is still capable of fighting.
It’s just that Hua Shi has always practiced on his own and has never fought with others, so he has no idea how far he has reached.
The Hua family was originally a family of merchants rather than martial artists, so the master of the Hua family had never made any strict requirements on Hua Shi in terms of cultivation. He didn't care too much when he knew Hua Shi was practicing, and just thought he was bored and looking for fun. He didn't know what kind of martial arts he was practicing, and just thought it was a secret book found by the servants in the library.
Therefore, even the Hua family members were not clear about how powerful Hua Shi was.
It was under such circumstances that the time for the Xuanqing Continent's triennial Spirit Transformation Conference had arrived, and it was at this time that Hua Shi received an invitation from the Spirit Dao.
When Hua Shi received the message, he had just completed all his training tasks. Fang Wei understood that he had been working hard during this period, and also knew that the Spiritual Transformation Conference was approaching, so he did not issue him the next stage of tasks. So when Hua Shi learned that it was time for his rest, he almost immediately asked the servants to prepare a table full of delicious food for him, and then he sat on the recliner and prepared to lie down for half a day while listening to music and eating delicious food.
However, before he had laid down for half a day, a servant came to tell him that the master had something to discuss with the young master in the hall.
Hua Shi has been in this world for such a long time, and he has always stayed in his own yard to do things. The master of the Hua family usually dotes on his son. Even if he occasionally wants to see Hua Shi, he has never used such a way to pass the message. Now suddenly hearing such news, Hua Shi couldn't help but frown and feel puzzled.
"What on earth needs to be so formal?" With the help of his servants, Hua Shi changed into an elegant and restrained long gown, tied his hair up again and put on the jade crown. Then he left the room and walked towards the lobby. However, on the way there, he couldn't help muttering to the system in his heart.
Fang Wei knew that the matter should be related to the Spirit Transformation Conference, but he did not say much, because he felt that the short time from Hua Shi Courtyard to the lobby was not enough for him to explain the matters of the Spirit Transformation Conference.
Moreover, the master of the Hua family will definitely tell Hua Shi about this matter soon, so there is no need for him to waste his words.
So Hua Shi went to the hall with a lot of questions in his mind, but when he saw the current situation in the hall clearly, he found that it was not only the master of the Hua family waiting here, but also another strange young man in white.
The young man was about the same age as Hua Shi's body, about sixteen or seventeen years old, but a little shorter than Hua Shi by half a head. He was standing next to the master of the Hua family, and seemed to be talking to him with his head tilted. The two of them seemed to be talking and laughing. When he noticed Hua Shi's arrival, he turned around and smiled at Hua Shi with narrowed eyes, raised his hand to greet him, raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother Hua Shi, long time no see. I remember the last time we met was three years ago at a banquet in Zhuo City."
Hua Shi was slightly stunned and guessed that this young man was probably someone the owner of this body knew.
Judging from the other person's dress and the tone of voice when he spoke to him, Hua Shi roughly judged that the other person should also be a disciple from a noble family.
As he had guessed, when the master of the Hua family saw Hua Shi's hesitation, he immediately took the initiative to introduce him, "Shi'er, this is Zhou Li, the second son of the Zhou family. You met him at the Bai family's banquet in Zhucheng three years ago. Do you remember him?" He laughed at Zhou Li twice and waved his hand, saying, "Shi'er, this kid only knows how to eat, drink and have fun all day long. Li'er, please don't be offended."
Zhou Li blinked and smiled: "How could that be? Brother Hua Shi had a lot of fun playing with us at the beginning. This time, Brother Hua Shi and I are also going to participate in the Spiritual Transformation Conference. My father specially ordered me to come to the Hua family to accompany Brother Hua Shi, so that the two of us can take care of each other."
"That couldn't be better." The Hua family's master shook his head and sighed, "My son is not good at cultivation, and I don't expect him to be able to subdue any powerful spiritual creatures or join any big sect. If not for all eligible family and sect disciples having to participate in the Spiritual Transformation Conference, I wouldn't want him to go through so much trouble to go to Tianqing City to participate in this conference."
He patted Zhou Li on the shoulder and said, "I hope you can take good care of my son on this journey."
Zhou Li smiled obediently and said, "Don't worry, uncle."
The two of them talked back and forth for a while, but Hua Shi, the person involved in the conversation, was still stunned and confused: "What are you talking about? What conference?"
"It's the Spiritual Transformation Conference." Zhou Li saw Hua Shi's reaction without any surprise. He just patiently explained to him with a smile: "Brother Hua Shi really doesn't care much about these things. This year is the time for us to participate in the Spiritual Transformation Conference. Brother Hua Shi should not have made any preparations, right?"
Hua Shi: “…”
Zhou Li probably guessed that he didn't even know what the Spirit Transformation Conference was, so he patiently continued to explain.
The Soul Transformation Conference is a conference held every three years in the entire Xuanqing Continent. It is also a rare conference where the spiritual and evil ways will calm down and temporarily suspend their struggle to participate in the conference. No one can tell exactly when this conference started, but as a tradition of the Xuanqing Continent, every time the Soul Transformation Conference comes, all the disciples between the ages of fifteen and eighteen from all major sects and families in the entire Xuanqing Continent, regardless of whether they are spiritual or evil, will go to Tianqing City to participate in the Soul Transformation Conference, enter the spiritual realm to find suitable spiritual objects and sign contracts with them.
The strength of spiritual objects determines the future strength of the disciples, so no matter which sect they are from, they all attach great importance to this conference. At each Spirit Transformation Conference, countless talented disciples have become ordinary people because they cannot form a contract with powerful spiritual objects. There are also countless disciples who, by chance, form a contract with high-level spiritual objects and thus soar to the sky.
After the Spirit Transformation Conference, each major sect will select disciples from those who have successfully formed a contract and accept them into their sect.
In the Xuanqing Continent, before making a contract and becoming a spirit, the disciples of the major sects are called entry-level disciples. Only after making a contract can they be selected as formal disciples. And this selection is not limited to the sect he originally belonged to. Any sect that offers enough conditions and can convince the disciple will be qualified to accept him as a disciple.
Therefore, the young masters and young ladies from wealthy families with good backgrounds would mostly practice at home before participating in the Spirit Transformation Conference. Only after they have achieved Spirit Transformation would they take the strong men from other sects as their teachers and enter their sect to practice.
After hearing these explanations, Hua Shi felt overwhelmed. He originally just wanted to stay at home and wait for death, but who knew that there was such a big pit waiting for him to jump into.
Participating in the Spirit Transformation Conference means that he must leave the Hua family. After signing the contract with the spiritual creature, it means that he will be selected to become a disciple of other sects. Entering other sects to become a disciple means that he will have to say goodbye to the comfortable life of the Hua family in the future, and follow others to practice martial arts and work hard from dawn to dusk, doing what disciples of the sects should do.
To sum up, it means that his comfortable life is about to end.
Hua Shi immediately had an idea in his mind. He wanted to cover his head and pretend to be sick to give up the opportunity to go to the Spiritual Transformation Conference and continue to stay at home and wait for death. However, before he raised his hand, he heard the voice of the system in his mind: "Task: Participate in the Spiritual Transformation Conference and choose a master to join."
Hua Shi: “…”
For some reason he had the illusion that the system had been waiting here for a long time.
And the fact was just as he thought, Fang Wei had planned everything since the beginning when he tricked Hua Shi into going to Ningshan to get the token. He had already calculated the time for the Spirit Transformation Conference, and then specially increased the intensity of Hua Shi's training for half a year, hoping that he would grow enough to sign a contract with spiritual creatures at the subsequent Spirit Transformation Conference. And when Hua Shi successfully entered the Spirit Transformation Conference and formed a contract with the spiritual creatures, he would be able to let Hua Shi enter the Lingdao Sect as he wished.
It would be best if this spiritual sect was a large one like Tianwen Mountain, so that he could find out more information about the spiritual and evil ways through Hua Shi, and eventually let Hua Shi find his old subordinates in the evil way.
Hua Shi didn't know Fang Wei's plan. He only regretted why he came here to meet this guy named Zhou Li. He asked the system with a headache: "Can I not accept this task?"
Fang Wei naturally wouldn't let him ruin his plan: "Host, please accept the mission."
Hua Shi: "If I don't accept the mission..."
Fang Wei did not hesitate at all: "Hui Guang Zhu."
Hua Shi: “…”
During the past six months, every time Hua Shi wanted to give up, Fang Wei would threaten to take back the Huiguang Pearl to force Hua Shi to continue with his training mission. At first, Fang Wei had never thought that this method would be so useful, but he never expected that after half a year, he would still be thinking about the ability of the Huiguang Pearl. In his words, without the Huiguang Pearl, he would have no way to investigate more about Liu Qishuang.
During this half year, Hua Shi often took out the Huiguang Pearl to play with it, hoping to see the scene related to Liu Qishuang again one day. Unfortunately, Liu Qishuang had never been to the Hua family before, so Hua Shi could not see anything when he used the Huiguang Pearl here.
In any case, because he wanted to keep the Huiguangzhu, Hua Shi finally agreed to the mission.
He sighed helplessly, and finally managed to force a smile on his face, and said to Zhou Li who was still staring at him, "I don't know the way, so I'll trouble you to lead the way from now on."
Zhou Li knew that he had agreed to go with him, so he immediately said with a smile: "It's only natural that we should take care of each other."
Hua Shi finally agreed to go with Zhou Li to Tianqing City to attend the Spirit Transformation Conference, but before setting off, he spent quite a while packing and preparing. The master of the Hua family did not take the results of his youngest son's recent training seriously, thinking that he was just playing around, so he did not think about how powerful spiritual creatures he would be able to form a contract with at the Spirit Transformation Conference, nor did he think that any master would accept him as a disciple. He only thought that Hua Shi would be able to come back after taking a walk around, so even though he was reluctant, he could only pack up and send him away.
On the day Hua Shi was leaving, the Hua family once again staged the scene where his brothers and father were reluctant to let him go and held him in their arms and wiped his tears. Finally, under everyone's reluctant gaze, Hua Shi finally let the Hua family's large convoy take him to Tianqing City.
It takes half a month to travel from the Hua family to Tianqing City, which is not a short distance, but fortunately Hua Shi always brought a large number of servants with him when he went out, so he did not feel hardship or tiredness along the way. He sat in the carriage with Zhou Li all the way.
Of course, although Zhou Li said that he was traveling alone and therefore did not bring any servants with him, seeing that he and Hua Shi were squeezed in the carriage every day, Hua Shi could not help but suspect that this man actually thought it was troublesome to bring people with him, so he deliberately came to use his carriage.
Hua Shi said a lot along the way, but he spoke all to the system in his head. After more than half a year of living with the system, Hua Shi had long been accustomed to the existence of Fang Wei, the "system". When he was bored during practice, when he was alone in the room, or when something happened occasionally, he would actively talk to Fang Wei in his mind. Fang Wei would sometimes respond, and sometimes just listen in silence, always maintaining the appearance of a "system" and never revealing too many emotions.
Compared to talking to the system, Hua Shi spoke much less to Zhou Li who was sitting in the carriage with him.
Zhou Li is a child of an orthodox aristocratic family. His words and deeds are always proper and polite. He is completely different from spoiled young masters like Hua Shi. For example, he has great patience in dealing with everything and strives to achieve perfection.
For example, Hua Shi could sense that Zhou Li didn't really want to "take care of each other" with Hua Shi, but perhaps because he had agreed to the requests of the two elders long ago, he took care of Hua Shi all the way to Tianqing City, and was always very polite to him and treated him with a smile. Even though Hua Shi lacked common sense in many aspects and occasionally asked questions that even a three-year-old child in Xuanqing Continent should know, Zhou Li never lost his patience.
Just like now, there are only two days left to Tianqing City. Hua Shi is worried about what will happen next. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask: "I heard that each person can form a contract with up to three spirit creatures. At the Spiritual Transformation Conference, everyone must find three spirit creatures to form a contract with before they can leave the Spirit Realm?"
Hearing this, Zhou Li withdrew his gaze from the carriage window and smiled at Hua Shi, "Brother Hua Shi, don't worry. The Master of the Spirit Path will send us to the Spirit Realm at the Spirit Transformation Conference. According to the rules, as long as we find a spiritual creature to form a bond with, we can return from the Spirit Realm."
Hua Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't plan to spend too much time looking for spiritual objects. That would be too troublesome and too dangerous. He just wanted to finish the conference quickly and leave.
In his opinion, such large gatherings with many people are the most dangerous. No matter what kind of work it is, such places and occasions are the most likely to cause danger.
Zhou Li saw him breathe a sigh of relief, his eyes moved, and he slowed down his speech to remind him: "But the disciples of the noble families and famous schools who pursue strength usually spend a month or more to search and form a contract with three spirit creatures before leaving the spirit realm."
Hua Shi shook his head: "No, no, it's too dangerous to stay that long."
Zhou Li was silent for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but seeing his lazy look, he finally swallowed his words back and frowned for a rare time.
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