Chapter 221 The beginning of the sword fight
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 free 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 Infant Dharma Ceremony 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 saved 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 Duanshui Shui, 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 Baiguo Xian. , 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 wine bottle, Granny Li said happily: "Nanyue State is a bit small after all. Among the five states in the world, the overall strength of Nanyue monks ranks at the bottom. Such small What kind of opponent can we have here? With my young lady’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 Poison Curses" day and night.
Now that he has completed the stage of smelting exquisite gold wires, Xiao Mian naturally doesn't mind adding more fire and simply completes the fourth cycle of "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse". In this way, not only his physical body will be stronger. Going up a level, after the Five Elements Poison Mist has melted into his blood and body, it is equivalent to a part of Xiao Mian's body, and is no longer an external Five Elements Poison Mist, so it is naturally easier to control.
But even if Xiao Mian uses all his seven divine thoughts to divide his body into seven major areas and start to coagulate poison and blood at the same time, it will not be accomplished in three days.
On July 15th, the sword fighting meeting of Nanyue Prefecture's emerging monks was held as scheduled.
In fact, according to secular folk customs, July 15th is not a good day.
July 15th is the Ghost Festival.
Of course, for monks, it’s a different matter. There are even many evil cultivators and ghost cultivators who specialize in dealing with corpses and ghosts. Naturally, they won’t have any scruples. Besides, July 15th is not only the Ghost Festival, but also a Taoist festival. On the Yuan Festival, the Bon Festival of Buddhism, after seeking the opinions of Qingqiuzi, Fuhu Venerable and scholars, Danqiusheng decided to hold a sword fighting meeting as scheduled to avoid being dishonest by the bad guys.
According to the statistics of the monks from the Five Elements Sect, there are tens of thousands of foundation-building monks who signed up to participate in the sword fighting meeting this time. This is because many of the foundation-building monks who came to participate in the Dharma meeting are over sixty years old. Otherwise, I'm afraid there will be even more people attending.
After this number was reported, even Dan Qiusheng was secretly shocked.
You must know that although the Five Elements Sect has gone through a year of recuperation, there are only a few dozen monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage within a dozen years of the Five Elements Sect.
I think there will be more young foundation-building disciples coming to Luohua Valley and Demonic Shadow Sect, but they will only number in the hundreds.
Now it seems that the sect power in Nanyue State is still weak after all. Compared with the scattered cultivators who can easily reach tens of thousands, the sect is only better because of its deep foundation.
Nanyue Prefecture is still the world of casual cultivators!
But after thinking about it, Dan Qiusheng was full of new expectations for this sword fight. The more monks who participate in the Sword Fighting Club, the higher the quality of the final Top 100 will naturally be, leaving the Five Elements Sect with more room for selection. Perhaps in the end, there will be many monks outside the Top 100. There will be some material that can be made!
With this thought in mind, Dan Qiusheng gave an order and the sword fight officially began.
Because there were so many monks participating in the sword fighting meeting, the Five Elements Sect had to hold competitions at the same time in the Five Elements Spiritual Vein Land. Jinxiao Peak, Yanzhu Peak, Changchun Peak, Bibo Pond, each spiritual place has opened up to ten competition arenas, which are held at the same time, in order to speed up the progress of the sword fighting meeting and save everyone's time.
With this purpose in mind, the competition adopts the cruelest knockout round.
One missed move and no opportunity to fight!
In this way, nearly 6,000 monks can be eliminated in the first round of the competition alone.
Although the first day had the largest number of competitions, due to the uneven strength of the participating monks, most of the competitions could be decided in an instant, and the progress was extremely fast.
For example, Xiao Mian's opponent was a casual cultivator in the early stages of the Foundation Establishment stage. Although the opponent tried his best to be vigilant, he was knocked out of the ring by Xiao Mian's Xuanfeng Sword after only three breaths, and he lost the qualification to continue the competition. .
Naturally, Xiao Mian would not pay much attention to such an opponent who could not even be considered as a practitioner. After walking off the ring, he saw that the monk who had been defeated by him had fled into the crowd in despair. Xiao Mian shook his head and smiled bitterly, planning to Go watch other people play.
The so-called knowing yourself and the enemy means you can fight a hundred battles without danger.