Lin Lan did not reply to Zhang Yan, but just thoughtfully watched him leaving and shook his head, "This kid's talent is great, but he's too arrogant! Too young and haven't suffered a loss!"
But he smiled then, "To be young is good! Young people are indeed full of energy!"
On Zhang Yan's way back, Fatty ran to him in big excitement and couldn't wait to speak up, "Boss, I didn't expect you to be so powerful! You have defeated Liu Feng, who was hailed as the first Xiantian-level inner disciple!"
Zhang Yan responded with a smile, "It completely owed to the power of the Tricks ffor Qingyuan Sword! But, I just didn't expect that the Big Elder would be against me."
"Obviously! Liu Feng is his disciple and you captured the quota that should have been Liu Feng's! How can the Big Elder not get angry? What's more, you have had some grudges with him."
"Look, these are the Increasing Figures I newly depicted and they are of great benefit to your cultivating." Zhang Yan handed the remaining two figures to him, "They can greatly increase the efficacy of the elixirs. Take them back and work hard! After all, your cultivation is too low."
Fatty was delighted to receive the figures, but still shocked by Zhang Yan's ability. He did not expect that Zhang Yan not only cultivated fast with powerful strength, but knows the extremely profound spiritual patterns. The Increasing Figure is indeed a rare treasure!
"I know the Increase Figure can only be learnt by the spirit tattooists. You have reached the spirit tattooist level already?! He asked in disbelief.
Zhang Yan shook his head, "I made them to help to improve my speed of cultivating or to exchange some practicing resources. I did not deliberately practice the tattooing skills and have not been rated. You can regard me as a tattoo apprentice. I promise you haven't seen the effect of the Increasing Figure."
Unwilling to lose such good chance to improve cultivation, Fatty didn't reply to Zhang Yan and quickly went back to practice with the figures.
Zhang Yang returned to his house and found that Qin Shiyan was pacing in front of the door. Seeing Zhang Yan backing, she immediately came over and looked at Zhang Yan up and down, "Amazing! You even know such advanced martial arts of the Tricks for Qingyuan Sword! I have despised you before!"
"Don't tease me, Sister Qin. How can I compare with you?" Zhang Yan smiled and responded.
Qin Shiyan replied with a smile as well, "Don't be modest. It's better that your strength is high, after all, this contest is very important and the stronger we five are, the more confident we will win."
Zhang Yan was curious why she valued the contest so much, "Really? Why?"
Qin Shiyan felt strange, "You know nothing about the contest?"
"No one told me about it!" Zhang Yan opened his hands.
"Well!" Qin Shiyan touched her forehead and explained, "The contest is between we and the Qingming school, both the holy lands of martial arts. And two schools' strengths are comparable," her tone was significantly weaker, paused and continued, "and the contest is for the right to use Mingxin Spring."
"Mingxin Spring? What is it?" Zhang Yan asked.
"Mingxin Spring was located at the border of our two schools. Its water can purify the physique and spiritual roots of the warriors. Although the effect is not obvious, a slight progress can greatly help the warriors to improve their cultivation. And the deeper of the Mingxin Spring, the better its effect. But what strange is that the water outside the spring's mouth becomes ordinary and has no effect, and the effect only works on the person who has been in it the first time."
Zhang Yan interrupted, "Since it is so good, why not we queue up and wash in it?"
"You think we did not think what you said?" Qin Shiyan rolled her eyes and added, "Only when the Moon is full and it is reflected on the spring, the water has effect! How can we queue in such a short time? So, the opportunity to enter it is difficult and we two schools didn't want to make a big dispute, so we just thought of a fair method to fight for its one-year use right. Now you know the importance of the contest?"