Chapter 221: The Swordfight Begins
After five full days of preaching, Dan Qiusheng’s Nascent Soul Dharma Conference came to an end for the time being. However, the number of monks in the Five Elements Sect has not decreased but increased, because right after that, there is the Sword Fighting Association of Emerging Monks, which is known as the competition meeting for the younger generation of Nanyue Prefecture!
The so-called new monks have two conditions.
One is new, and the monks who participate must be under sixty years old.
The other is Rui, and the monks who participate must have the foundation-building level.
According to the news released by the Five Elements Sect in advance: If the monks who are among the top 100 qualified to participate in the Sword Fighting Club intend to join the Five Elements Sect, the Five Elements Sect will be properly arranged; the top ten monks in the Sword Fighting Club can even receive various benefits provided by the organizer, the Five Elements Sect. Magical weapons, spiritual materials, and it is said that the leader of the sword fighting club can even get a flying boat.
When some monks who didn't know the details learned the news, they all made an impromptu decision and signed up to participate in the sword fighting meeting.
"Flying boat!? The Five Elements Sect actually came up with a flying boat as a reward for the leader of the sword fighting club? This is too extravagant! It's crazy! It's too generous! It's too..."
"Don't get excited yet! As far as I know, this flying boat is not from the Five Elements Sect!" After interrupting the other party's words, the well-informed monk looked around. When he saw the monks around him gathering around him, he became very excited. He lowered his voice with some pride and said softly: "It is said that this flying boat comes from the Demonic Shadow Sect!"
"Are you kidding! The relationship between the Demonic Shadow Sect and the Five Elements Sect has never been good. How could it be possible to give the Five Elements Sect a flying boat for nothing as a reward for the sword fighting meeting?"
"Don't you understand this?" The monk looked at the monk who interrupted him with some disdain, and snorted twice, until everyone's appetite was whetted, and then chuckled: "You know why this dimension Will the baby puja be held on the seventh day of July? This will start from the seventh day of July last year - no! The first day of July..."
At that moment, the monk spoke with a sharp tongue and told many monks around him how the Demon Shadow Sect colluded with Lu Chengzhi to annex the Five Elements Sect; how the Five Elements Sect fought hard to resist and would rather die than surrender; and how Dan Qiu was born in the end. The headmaster came out of seclusion, successfully condensed the infant, defeated the four golden elixirs with one person's power, and protected the Five Elements Sect.
Of course, the flying boat that was taken out as a prize this time was naturally the life money left by Wan Tianyun, the unlucky formation master of the Demon Shadow Sect.
After the monk finished speaking, everyone around him looked like "that's it", but the monk withdrew and went to another place.
In this way, in the three days before the sword fighting meeting, the grievances between the Demonic Shadow Sect and the Five Elements Sect had been widely spread, and everyone knew about it.
In the small courtyard of a jingshe in Houtuping, Yuanyan had a livid face and said nothing. The three people in front of her, Wan Dongyao, Hu Ying and Duan Shuishui, did not dare to speak. At the same time, in the Biluo Cave beside the Blue Wave Pool, Leng Ningyu's lips curled up slightly, smiling sweetly.
In another monastery, Chi Lianxia and Granny Li were drinking spiritual tea leisurely.
"Hmph! The Demonic Shadow Sect really shot itself in the foot this time, and I can't tell you the pain!"
After taking a sip of the spirit tea, Chi Lianxia frowned, then took out a bottle of Baiguoxian from her storage jade pendant and took a big sip, seemingly enjoying herself.
"I don't know who came up with this clever plan, using Wan Tianyun's flying boat as the prize for the leader of the sword fighting club. With such a valuable treasure, people who don't know about it will naturally be curious. After asking, they were told that this flying boat It turns out to be Wan Tianyun, the formation master of the Demonic Shadow Sect, so what happens next is obvious!"
"Wan Tianyun and the Demonic Shadow Sect are asking for trouble! Who allowed Wan Tianyun to get a flying boat and show off all day long? Although the Five Elements Sect is just a small sect, it is supported by Wan Tianyun. How can it be Is it something that a newly rising sect like theirs can predict? Besides, before I accompanied the young lady to South Vietnam, the old master once solemnly told me: Don’t provoke the Five Elements Sect!" At this point, Chi Lianxia took another sip of Baiguoxian! , Granny Li frowned slightly, and tried to persuade her: "Miss, you are almost ready to form pills, why are you still drinking so much? If the old master knew..."
"Isn't it true that pill formation hasn't started yet? Mother-in-law, you are so verbose!"
Having said that, Chi Lianxia, who was over the alcohol addiction, still obediently put it into her storage jade bracelet. Obviously, Chi Lianxia, who has always been fierce and fierce, still has some respect and respect for Granny Li, who has watched her grow up. She was in awe, not to mention that Granny Li said this because she really cared for her.
After straightening her slightly messy hair, Chi Lianxia whispered to herself: "Then Lu Chengzhi would rather fail to form the elixir on purpose, or suppress his cultivation to the foundation building stage, just to participate in this sword fighting meeting, and I happened to be there. , how could we miss this great opportunity?”
"Miss, you are really making a fuss out of a molehill!" Seeing Chi Lianxia obediently put away the flask, Grandma Li said angrily: "Nanyue State is a bit small after all. Among the five states in the world, the overall strength of the Nanyue monks ranks at the bottom. Such small What kind of rivals can there be in this place? With Miss’s fighting ability, I’m afraid only Lu Chengzhi can compete with you!”
"Lu Chengzhi? I don't even look at such a villain!"
Saying this, Chi Lianxia thought of Xiao Mian from the Five Elements Sect for no reason, and smiled lightly, but didn't say anything.
Besides, at this time, Xiao Mian was in the final stage of practicing the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" day and night.
Since he had already completed the stage of melting the exquisite golden thread, Xiao Mian naturally didn't mind adding more fuel to the fire. He simply practiced the fourth cycle of the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" to completion. In this way, not only would his physical strength be taken to a higher level, but after the five elements of poison mist merged into his blood and body, it would be equivalent to a part of Xiao Mian's body, rather than an external five elements of poison mist, and it would naturally be easier to control.
However, even if Xiao Mian used all of his seven divine thoughts and divided his body into seven areas to start condensing poison into blood at the same time, it would not be achieved in three days.
On July 15, the sword fighting meeting of the new monks in Nanyue Province was held as scheduled.
In fact, according to the folk customs of the secular world, July 15 is not a good day.
July 15 is the Ghost Festival.
Of course, for the cultivators, it is a different story. There are even many evil cultivators and ghost cultivators who deal with corpses and ghosts, so they naturally have no scruples. Besides, July 15th is not only the Ghost Festival, but also the Zhongyuan Festival of Taoism and the Yulan Festival of Buddhism. After consulting Qingqiuzi, Fuhu Zun and the scholar, Danqiu Sheng decided to hold the sword fighting meeting on schedule to avoid being accused of breaking his promise by those who are interested.
According to the statistics of the Five Elements Sect cultivators, there are more than 10,000 foundation-building cultivators who have signed up for the sword fighting meeting. This is because many of the foundation-building cultivators who came to participate in the meeting are over 60 years old, otherwise there would be more people participating.
After this number was reported, even Danqiu Sheng was secretly shocked.
You must know that although the Five Elements Sect has been recuperating for a year, there are only dozens of foundation-building cultivators within a decade in the Five Elements Sect.
I think there will be more young foundation-building disciples in Luohua Valley and Demon Shadow Sect, but they are only a few hundred.
Now it seems that the sects in Nanyue Province are still weak. Compared with the tens of thousands of independent cultivators, the sects are only better in their deep foundation.
Nanyue Province is still the world of independent cultivators!
But after thinking about it, Dan Qiusheng was full of new expectations for this sword fight. The more cultivators participate in the sword fight, the higher the quality of the top 100 will be, and the more room for selection for the Five Elements Sect. Maybe in the end, there will be some promising talents among the cultivators outside the top 100!
Thinking about this, Dan Qiusheng gave an order and the sword fight officially began.
Because there were too many cultivators participating in the sword fight, the Five Elements Sect had to hold competitions in the five elements of spiritual veins at the same time. Jinxiao Peak, Yanzhu Peak, Changchun Peak, Bibotan, each spiritual vein has opened up as many as ten competition arenas, which are held at the same time, in order to speed up the progress of the sword fight and save everyone's time.
With this purpose, the competition adopts the most brutal elimination tournament.
One mistake, no chance to fight!
In this way, nearly 6,000 cultivators can be eliminated in the first round of the competition alone.
Although the first day had the most matches, the strength of the participating cultivators was uneven, and most of the matches were decided in an instant, and the progress was very fast.
For example, Xiao Mian's opponent was a casual cultivator in the initial stage of the foundation building period. Although the opponent tried his best to be vigilant, he was still knocked out of the ring by Xiao Mian's Xuanfeng sword in less than three breaths, and lost the qualification to continue the competition.
For such an opponent who was not even a practice, Xiao Mian naturally would not pay much attention. After walking off the ring, seeing that the cultivator who was defeated by him had fled into the crowd in disgrace, Xiao Mian shook his head and smiled bitterly, intending to go and watch other people's games.
As the saying goes, knowing yourself and knowing the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.