Chapter 86: Foundation Building Struggle

Li Yan sat cross-legged in the training room. At this moment, the foundation building competition has ended after four days. Five days later, it will be the day of the Qi Condensation Stage competition. These five days are for the Qi Condensation Stage disciples who are watching the foundation building competition to summarize their studies, and for the foundation building cultivators who were injured in the competition to recover.

Li Yan thought of the competitions he had watched over the past few days with the foundation building masters, and couldn't help but sigh. No wonder each battle stage is fifty miles long. Even though there is a protective light shield outside each battle stage, the fighting inside is earth-shattering. The protective light shield is hit and the blue light flashes wildly. The battle stage has to be repaired many times every day before the competition can continue.

In this competition, he witnessed the violent and restrained nature of the sixth senior sister. This cold and beautiful senior sister prefers to use the means of physical cultivation to fight face to face in close combat, and often only a few encounters can knock the opponent unconscious. When the more cunning cultivators first entered the battlefield, they would often deliberately distance themselves from each other by more than ten miles to carry out long-range magic attacks. Gong Chenying would either stop or move to set up formations, which allowed Li Yan to see another side of this senior sister. The formations she set up were ever-changing, often making the opponent enter the formations while moving without knowing it. In the later period, she was drawn into a group with Chu Weili from the Four Elephants Peak. The two of them fought against each other with formations and broke formations with formations. It was really a wonderful fight. In the end, Chu Weili won the game with a slightly higher formation. This was also when Gong Chenying did not use other magic. Otherwise, it would be hard to say. Gong Chenying clearly wanted to decide the outcome of that battle with formations.

However, Gong Chenying did not get to play against Wang Tian, ​​which made her look at Wang Tian even more unkindly. After all, this competition only had five matches per round, and the 49th place was decided, and the top 49 did not continue to compete for the ranking, which also made many disciples dissatisfied. However, the sect obviously did not want to harm the personnel before the secret realm picking in a few months. After all, the ranking competition will only be more intense.

What surprised Li Yan at the same time was Zhao Min. She actually used the same fighting style as Gong Chenying, and the same fierce close combat. I didn't expect that the girl who looked graceful and elegant could be so violent. The same was true when she came on stage and approached quickly, and then there was a storm of attacks. People who were not familiar with her were easily confused by her beautiful and weak appearance. If someone is far away from her, Zhao Min will release two strange poisonous insects. One kind is good at hiding its breath, quietly approaching the opponent without making any sound, and then delivering a fatal blow. There don't seem to be many of these poisonous insects. Li Yan only saw her release three or four. Each of them has the breath of the eighth or ninth level of the Condensation Stage. The attack is also extremely fast. It often attacks people's faces, necks and exposed arms. A bite can cause death, but fortunately Zhao Min can control it freely. As long as this kind of poisonous insect touches the opponent's skin, she will stop attacking and just look at the opponent coldly. The opponent looks at the poisonous insect sucked on his face, neck or arm and sweats profusely, and directly admits defeat.

There is another kind of poisonous insect that is good at combining formations and attacking in groups. It likes to eat flesh and blood, drill into the body, and eat from the inside out. The breath of this kind of poisonous insect is only about the fifth level of the Condensation Stage, but there are so many of them that it can be said to be overwhelming and dense, which makes people feel cold in their hearts when they look at it. Li Yan only saw Zhao Min release it once, and she was still far away from the opponent, just circling the opponent from a distance. Obviously, she couldn't control so many poisonous insects at will.

Both of them entered the top 49. The second brother Wei Chituo defeated all the enemies all the way, and only met Gan Shi from the Four Elephants Peak in the last round. The battle was very fierce. Both of them were in the late stage of foundation building and fought evenly. In the end, Gan Shi used his body as a formation and launched a small formation to trap Wei Chituo. After half an hour, Wei Chituo couldn't get out and had to admit defeat.

But he also entered the top 49.

Yun Chunqu met Li Changting at the beginning and lost to him in the first round, which made him look even gloomier. After all, Li Changting was the senior sister of Buli Peak, and she was only one step away from reaching the realm of false pills. In addition, with her amazing Gu-controlling skills, Yun Chunqu's loss was not unfair. In the later process, he met disciples from other peaks. With his cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building, he lost another game and tied three games. In the end, he also entered the top 49, but his results should be behind.

Li Changting passed the level easily all the way. Even when she met Gan Shi from Sixiang Peak, who was good at formation, she was still troubled by her overwhelming insect cloud. With his current mana, he could not set up a large formation of dozens of miles. Even if he trapped Li Changting in the formation, he would still have to face the boundless insect cloud, because Li Changting spread large insect clouds in the four corners when she entered the battle stage. Li Yan saw the powerful consciousness and wide range of Gu insects of this senior sister of Buli Peak.

Miao Wangqing was eliminated after losing three games in a row after entering the second round.

Wen Xinliang fought to the fifth round with his cultivation level of the early stage of foundation building, but was still eliminated. The impression he gave Li Yan was that of a vicious person, and his use of poison had reached a certain level. He could use all kinds of opportunities to silently inflict a fatal blow on his opponents, but due to his realm, he encountered several people in the late stage of foundation building one after another. The difference in realm was too great, and despite all his tricks, he was ultimately defeated.

He was quite good. When he faced the first late-stage foundation-building cultivator, he used the wind blade technique to conceal the poison of "Hidden Scutellaria". The opponent easily dodged his wind blade technique, but the space where the wind blade technique passed was filled with the smell of "Hidden Scutellaria". The person accidentally inhaled a breath and fell to the ground after a while. It was like a boat capsized in the gutter. Seeing this, the remaining late-stage foundation-building masters noticed him. When they drew him later, they did not give him any chance to turn the tables. After losing a few games, he was eliminated.

But Wen Xinliang had a battle before, which made everyone in Xiaozhu Peak feel happy. In the fourth round, he drew Zuo Shengyan from Lingchong Peak, who was Wang Tian's Taoist partner. Li Yan had been hit by Wang Tian's spiritual consciousness because he looked at this person before, and he almost lay down for a few days. , and she was defeated by Wen Xinliang, a mid-stage foundation-building opponent. It was a crushing situation, but she was still careless. Wen Xinliang knew the gap between them, and also knew the power of the black scorpion's venom. As soon as he entered the battle arena, he pulled away and kept fighting, making Zuo Shengyan's several attempts to surround him fruitless. She was so angry that her face turned pale, and the two scorpions exposed on her white belly were trembling, as if they were about to break out of her body. She didn't expect Wen Xinliang to be so slippery and difficult to fight. Time passed little by little. Zuo Shengyan was originally a little arrogant. After not defeating a foundation-building early stage for such a long time, she couldn't help but get impatient. Wen Xinliang seized the opportunity. When the opponent's black scorpion sprayed venom again at close range, he strangely released the "two-headed fly" powder all over the ground. It was a thin layer, but it matched the stone pattern on the table without careful observation. The black scorpion seemed to have noticed it as a monster. Before it could hiss to remind her, Zuo Shengyan stepped into the range. When she felt something was wrong, she had no time to take out the antidote, and she was dizzy and fell to the ground. Without the support of its master, the black wood scorpion was only in the Qi Condensation Stage. If it was also in the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would have been difficult for Wen Xinliang to resist it. After several rounds, it was subdued by Wen Xinliang.

When Zuo Shengyan woke up, she knew the situation and was angry with Wen Xinliang. It turned out that she was wearing little. When she fell to the ground, due to the strong medicinal properties of the "Two-Headed Fly", her limbs twitched and she couldn't help but open them. Many places that shouldn't have been exposed were exposed. Fortunately, the elder who supervised the battle found it early, waved his hand to send her out and took the antidote. After Wang Tian knew this, he was even more furious. He looked at Xiaozhu Peak and others fiercely from time to time, but he didn't draw anyone from Xiaozhu Peak, so he took his anger out on the other opponents, making them complain.

Zuo Shengyan was also eliminated in this battle. This also made the rest of the people in Xiaozhu Peak look at Wen Xinliang with evil and unkind eyes, and the unkind eyes were of course the three female cultivators. Wen Xinliang was frightened and hurriedly explained that he was forced into a corner, and at that time he only thought of using a poison that would be difficult for the opponent to find and had a strong medicinal effect, but he did not consider the result. However, no matter how he explained, Miao Wangqing and Gong Chenying just looked at him coldly and did not believe him. Although the female niece behind him did not dare to show it, her eyes also revealed fear, as if this fifth uncle was a twisted person.

Compared with these three female cultivators, the other male cultivators looked weird.

Lin Daqiao was eliminated in the first round of the competition. He only fought four games. In the second game, he won a cultivator from Sixiang Peak who had also established his foundation not long ago. He lost the other three games. This also made him sigh. Sure enough, his strength was too weak.

In this way, only Wei Chituo, Yun Chunqu, and Gong Chenying from Xiaozhu Peak entered the top 49, and the rest were eliminated. Wen Xinliang and Lin Daqiao were also injured. Wen Xinliang angered a late-stage foundation-building cultivator in the fifth round, so he hit him hard, causing Wen Xinliang's internal organs to be injured. Fortunately, these were only painful for cultivators at the time, and the treatment was still fast. Lin Daqiao was poisoned, and the thin man became a "fat" man. It took four days after taking the antidote to return to normal. During these four days, he spent every day humming and could not sleep all night.

In the past few days, Li Yan has not only paid attention to the competition of Xiaozhufeng's senior brothers and sisters, but also memorized everyone's attack characteristics and the skills of using immortal arts. He has benefited a lot in the past four days and has a new understanding of battle formations, poisons, monster types and their innate skills. According to Lin Daqiao, this kind of foundation-building competition can only be seen once in decades in subordinate immortal sects. The foundation-building cultivators in subordinate immortal sects are all elders in the sect and will not attack easily. If they do, it may be a matter of life and death. This is why the big sects have a deep foundation. Low-level disciples have the opportunity to watch the competitions of masters to accumulate experience and increase their knowledge, while masters hone their skills through competitions to make them more practical.

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br>  Li Yan closed his eyes, thinking carefully about what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and refining the methods and techniques he could use now.

He had to hurry up. He had almost no practical experience, and there were too many things he needed to know. At this time, the token on his waist flashed white light, and Li Yan frowned. He didn't want to do anything at this time. The competition would be in five days, and time was tight, but he still sank his consciousness into the token, and his expression froze the next moment.

It turned out to be a message from Li Wuyi. He said that he had arranged these five days of intensive training for Li Yan, that is, all the senior brothers and sisters would take turns to feed him moves. Li Yan couldn't help but be stunned. He knew how precious this treatment was. Generally, only when the master was happy or the closest direct lineage would someone feed him moves and give him some pointers, and it was only an occasional thing. It was extremely rare for seven people to take turns to feed him moves like him. If his peak disciples knew about this, they would be extremely jealous.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye, but Li Yan knew what it meant to spend a day like a year. For every person who fought with him, he would attack at will in the early stage, and then give comments. Then he would suppress his cultivation and start to attack Li Yan. This was the beginning of Li Yan's hellish life. No matter how much others suppressed their cultivation, they were still foundation-building cultivators. Whether it was their vision or their understanding of immortal arts, they were not comparable to him.

He could never have imagined that the humble and polite senior brother would be so vicious, so Li Yan felt that Li Wuyi was a hypocrite when he saw him now. The fourth senior sister changed her slender image and let Li Yan know that even a foundation-building cultivator who was not good at fighting was still a foundation-building cultivator after all, and abused him to a crisp. The ghostly attack of the third senior brother made Li Yan's mind seriously damaged, and he felt like he was going crazy. The violent attack of the second senior brother made Li Yan unable to tell north from south, and his nose and face were swollen. The Seventh Senior Sister's formation made Li Yan full of illusions and lost his mind. When he saw Gong Chenying again, it was as if his thoughts were seen through. Even Lin Daqiao made Li Yan know the difference between the foundation building stage and the Qi Condensation stage. The immortal arts and poison arts were mixed to attack Li Yan without distinction, and Li Yan was beaten to death.

Li Yan was in a daze for five days, but he persisted. When a senior brother went down and a senior sister came up, he stood there, but his movements were stiff. When a senior sister went down and another senior brother came up, he still stood there, but his face was bruised and swollen...

However, Li Yan's performance surprised several people. When they confirmed it privately, they found that Li Yan did not only show some strange performance when they fed him. That is, no matter what kind of poison Li Yan was in, before they released the antidote, Li Yan's symptoms began to ease by themselves, and he could slowly return to normal after a period of time. Although this process was very slow, he was recovering by himself, and the poison that had been released would be at least one level worse when it was used on him next time, which means that his antibodies were strengthening.

In order to deal with them, Li Yan had to give his all every time, so they all discovered that Li Yan was actually in the seventh level of the Qi Condensation Stage. This kind of hidden strength is very common in the world of immortal cultivation. This just surprised them. They were surprised that they couldn't see it, but no one asked how Li Yan hid it. Maybe it was related to the fragmented poison body. But what surprised them was Li Yan's profound magic power, at least the magic power of the early ninth level of the Qi Condensation Stage. Of course, they could see that this was not due to the hidden realm increase, but pure magic power condensation.

They really felt that they couldn't see through this junior brother.