Chapter 541 Top Four Contestants

Compared with Kou Yuchang and Qu Pingjing, who have reached the Perfect Qi Refining Stage, Brother Cai is much stronger. He made it to the eighth round with his true ability.

Brother Cai was also surprised when he met Qingyang. If it was just based on his strength, he felt that he should be able to win, but he knew very well that Qingyang still had a killer weapon that he hadn't used, that is, the spirit insect alcohol bee.

The two have worked together for many years, and Brother Cai knows Qingyang's group of alcohol bees very well. They look harmless, but their power is amazing. Once stung by an alcohol bee, it can make people feel like they are in heaven and die. Now that the alcohol bee group has grown, it is even more difficult to deal with. Brother Cai thought for a long time, but he didn't find a way to restrain the alcohol bee, so he had the idea of ​​​​giving up.

Of course, this is also related to Brother Cai's entry into the top eight and having a guaranteed foundation-building pill. Anyway, he has already got a foundation-building pill, and his hope of winning the first place in the courtyard competition with his own strength is not great. Since Qingyang still wants to go down, it is better to fulfill the other party and get a favor for free.

Qingyang also saw what Brother Cai was thinking, so there was a tacit understanding between the two. At first, there was a melee that was hard to tell. It looked very exciting, but in fact, neither side had tried their best. When the heat was almost right, Qingyang symbolically summoned a small group of alcoholic bees. Brother Cai tried to deal with it several times, but found it really difficult to deal with, so he simply admitted defeat.

After the eighth round of competition, the inner courtyard competition decided the top four players. The first one was of course Tong Yan. It didn't take Tong Yan long to break through the late stage of Qi Refining. However, he was assigned to the inner courtyard as soon as he entered Qingfeng Hall. Now it has been a full twenty years, and his starting point is much higher than other disciples. Later, he worshipped the Jindan elder as his teacher and gained a lot of benefits. Under the careful guidance of the Jindan elder, he became a leader among the inner courtyard disciples.

The second one was the senior brother Gao mentioned by Chen Biwang. He was over sixty years old and had been a Qi Refining Perfection cultivator more than ten years ago. This Senior Brother Gao was also an excellent disciple when he was young, but he was unlucky and wasted until now. Because he is old, he is worried that one foundation-building pill is not enough, so he is determined to win the first place in this inner courtyard competition.

The third one is the dark horse Senior Sister Jiao. After eliminating Senior Brother Ji, the favorite for the first place in this competition, in the fifth round, she passed three levels in a row and became the most popular. Now many people are optimistic about her, and even think that she is more likely to win the first place in the competition than Senior Brother Gao.

The last one is of course Qingyang. A Qi Refining Level 9 actually broke into the top four, which surprised many people, but they think Qingyang should stop here. None of the remaining three people are easy to deal with. Of course, there are also people who are optimistic about Qingyang. Lu Dingshan and Chen Biwang stand firmly on his side, but this is entirely because of their friendship. If the two are really allowed to make a rational choice, they probably have no idea about Qingyang.

The reason is very simple. Qingyang's luck is too good. He won the eight games too easily. I won’t talk about the first five rounds. The opponents I met were all disciples below the ninth level of Qi Refining. Anyone with a little strength could make it to this stage. The opponent in the sixth round, Kou Yuchang, had just entered the Qi Refining Perfection and his strength was also average; the opponent in the seventh round, Qu Pingjing, had not recovered from his injuries, which made Qingyang take advantage of him; as for the eighth round, many people could see that Senior Brother Cai was obviously letting him win.

In the chaos, the ninth round of the competition began. It was much easier for the four people to draw lots. Under everyone’s witness, the matches were quickly allocated. Tong Yan played against Senior Brother Gao, and Senior Sister Jiao played against Qingyang. They played on the same day. The winner entered the tenth round, and the first place was decided ten days later.

The competition started soon, and the battles started on the two stages at the same time. Let’s not talk about Tong Yan and Senior Brother Gao for now. Senior Sister Jiao and Qingyang started a fierce confrontation as soon as the game started.

Qingyang knew that Sister Jiao had made it all the way to this point and was praised by all the disciples as the biggest dark horse of this competition. Her strength should not be underestimated. Qingyang did not dare to hold back at all. He used the Three Yuan Sword Formation at the beginning and held two pills in his mouth as a backup to avoid running out of energy during the battle.

Although Qingyang had made sufficient preparations, he still felt great pressure when the fight really started. The Sister Jiao in front of him was obviously a perfect ninth-level Qi Refining disciple, but her strength was much higher than that of other perfect Qi Refining disciples, even compared to the foundation-building Master Lingxu he met in the Heart-Searching Tower of Chaos Demon Valley.

This battle was extremely difficult. In the blink of an eye, there was no winner for an hour. The continuous use of the Three Yuan Sword Formation consumed a lot of energy. Fortunately, Qingyang had prepared in advance and had pills in his mouth, so he could replenish his energy at any time. If the pills really couldn't make up for it, he was not afraid of consuming spirit stones.

However, after a battle dragged on for such a long time, Qingyang gradually felt powerless. After all, his cultivation was lower than that of the opponent. What Qingyang could do, the opponent could also do. In desperation, he could only summon the swarm of alcoholic bees, and with the help of the spirit insects, he gradually recovered from the decline.

The addition of alcoholic bees only made Qingyang breathe a sigh of relief, but did not form an overwhelming advantage, because Senior Sister Jiao had already prepared a way to deal with alcoholic bees. There were only four people in the ninth round of the competition. Everyone would study the others. The opponent knew that there was a possibility of encountering Qingyang and alcoholic bees, so how could he not prepare in advance?

Senior Sister Jiao prepared a purple light flowing cloud yarn, a huge purple scarf cloak, which was at the level of the best defensive magic weapon. The defensive ability was actually very average. The key was that after the true qi was stimulated, the cloak could release a layer of light purple mist, which could stun the alcoholic bees.

If Qingyang didn't care about the cost and let the whole group of alcoholic bees rush forward together, they should be able to break through the defense of the purple light flowing cloud yarn, but the loss of alcoholic bees would be huge. Qingyang was reluctant to do so, so he could only give up this plan temporarily. The alcoholic bees only played a distraction role on the periphery to relieve some pressure on Qingyang, so neither of them could do anything to the other for a while.

In the blink of an eye, another hour passed, and the winner was decided on the other stage. Although Senior Brother Gao was strong, he was not as good as Tong Yan in many means. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, he finally lost to Tong Yan by accident, thus losing the hope of winning the championship.

At this time, everyone turned their attention to this stage, which made Qingyang and Senior Sister Jiao feel great pressure. The two of them accelerated the rhythm of the battle at the same time, but the strength of both sides was not much different, and there were means to restrain each other, so it was unlikely to quickly decide the winner.

Another quarter of an hour passed, and Senior Sister Jiao became a little impatient. She was ready to use her killing move to completely defeat Qingyang, but Qingyang was already prepared. He narrowly avoided Senior Sister Jiao's killing move and seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack.