Chapter 153 It turns out that the rumors are true
Li Xiuchang visited around on the Xianyun ship, and from time to time he was amazed at the exquisiteness and luxury of the details, looking like he had never seen the world.
Not only him, but also other inner disciples of the Xianchen Sect who boarded the ship were the same, and exclamations were heard from time to time in various places on the ship.
Only Zhang Wanzhi seemed to have no interest.
After the novelty wore off, Li Xiuchang found an empty room and called it "retreat to break through".
Zhang Wanzhi was called by Elder Liu to attend class.
Two or three days later, a wave of spiritual energy came from the room where Li Xiuchang was in retreat, and then Li Xiuchang, who was in the "middle stage of foundation building", walked out of the room.
He raised his surface cultivation to the middle stage of foundation building, which was closer to his actual cultivation of the peak of foundation building.
In this way, when fighting with others, it is more difficult for others to see his true cultivation.
The gap between the middle stage of foundation building and the peak of foundation building is not big. Li Xiuchang's mana purity has always been far higher than that of the same level. In addition, with the cover of "Dantian Imaging Technique", he can basically fool people.
The superficial cultivation of the middle stage of foundation building is already the limit of Li Xiuchang. He cannot show the cultivation of the late stage of foundation building before the age of forty, otherwise he will have to enter the inner gate.
After Li Xiuchang came out of retreat, he found Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi and found that Senior Brother Zhang looked a little haggard.
"Senior brother, you don't look very energetic?" Li Xiuchang asked doubtfully.
"I have too many classes and I am tired." Zhang Wanzhi.
How can Senior Brother Zhang be tired after just a few days of classes?
Li Xiuchang didn't believe it.
It is probably that Zhang Wanzhi deliberately pretended to be tired in order to avoid class.
"There are still two days to go, why don't we go play chess?" Li Xiuchang suggested.
"Good idea!"
The two found a place to play chess. Li Xiuchang already knew the rules and played Gobang directly.
After dozens of rounds, Li Xiuchang successfully played Gobang.
"I won!"
"What did you win?"
"Gobang."
"We are playing Go. Gobang is for people with poor chess skills like Motu."
Go?
Then why are you blocking my chess pieces from both ends?
Senior Brother Motu likes to use tricks outside the board, while Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi just cheats.
Li Xiuchang saw through it but didn't say anything. He changed his moves and continued to play against Zhang Wanzhi.
A quarter of an hour later...
"Master called me to go to class. Let's play another day."
Zhang Wanzhi got up and left in a hurry.
"Senior Brother Zhang's chess skills are not even as good as Senior Brother Motu's, but not much different."
Two bad chess players, no wonder they play chess together every day.
Li Xiuchang had nothing to do, so he observed the golden halberd rhinoceros beetle larvae in the beast bag.
Two days ago, the golden halberd rhinoceros beetle larvae just entered the third instar stage.
Maybe because it ate a lot of beast king bone powder, its golden skin now shines with a metallic luster.
After entering the third instar stage, the larvae have increased many times in size. If the body is straightened, it is already thicker and taller than an adult man.
The larvae will stay in the third instar stage for a longer time, and their size will continue to grow.
It is worth mentioning that the current larvae have a breath comparable to that of a second-level monster!
Generally speaking, ordinary insect monsters can only become first-level monsters after they become adults.
Even if the parents are powerful and the bloodline conditions are good, it is not easy to become a second-level monster after adulthood. Later, they still have to rely on themselves to improve their strength little by little.
But Li Xiuchang's golden halberd rhinoceros beetle has reached the second level in the third-instar larvae stage, and has shown the potential to surpass ordinary monsters.
Obviously, it is not the limit of the golden halberd rhinoceros beetle at present. In the third-instar stage, it still has room for improvement.
Li Xiuchang's food for the golden halberd rhinoceros beetle larvae has now been changed to fermented sawdust from the third-level spiritual wood mixed with the bone powder of the beast king.
His larvae develop faster than normal larvae, and the good food he provides is the main reason.
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Li Xiuchang practiced cooking skills in the room for two days, and the Xianyun ship finally arrived at the Sword-asking Sect.
The ship stopped at the gate of the Sword-Asking Sect. Li Xiuchang got off the ship and looked at the Sword-Asking Sect in the distance. He saw several peaks that were towering into the clouds and almost vertical to the ground, like sharp swords growing from the ground.
"Do the disciples of the Sword-Asking Sect live on the peaks?" Li Xiuchang asked curiously.
This was in line with his impression of the style of the immortal sects. A sect was divided into multiple peaks, and a group of people lived on each mountain.
Elder Xiang, who came to greet them, shook his head and laughed, "That's not the case. Only the straight-forward sword cultivators like to live on the peaks. Others in the Sword-Asking Sect still prefer to live on the ground.
"Well, by the way, when you arrive at the Sword-Asking Sect, don't say anything like 'straight-forward sword cultivators'. It's not polite. Their scientific name is 'clear-minded sword cultivators'. ”
There is also a scientific name? So you don't regard them as human beings.
The disciples of Xianchen Sect lined up to enter Wenjian Sect, and the people of Wenjian Sect were responsible for their placement. Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi were left alone by Elder Xiang.
"Let's go, I'll take you to meet the elders of Wenjian Sect and arrange a time for the game."
...
The arrival of a large number of disciples from Xianchen Sect also spread the news of the friendly match to all parts of Wenjian Sect.
In less than half a day, the entire Wenjian Sect, including the disciples of Yintian Sect and Dengxian Pavilion, knew about the friendly match and knew that Xianchen Sect sent two outer disciples to participate.
These two outer disciples are the 21-year-old foundation-building disciple and the disciple who formed a high-grade golden elixir in the rumors.
"See, I said the rumors are true. Xianchen Sect really has such strong outer disciples."
"I thought it was a rumor before, but I didn't expect it to be true."
"Hahaha, reality is always more exaggerated than rumors!"
"I'm very curious, can the inner disciples of Wenjian Sect beat the outer disciples of Xianchen Sect?"
"Is there any need to ask? My Xianchen Sect will win!"
"Let's wait and see! It is recognized that our Wenjian Sect's sword cultivators are strong in fighting!"
"I, Yue Chongshan of Yintian Sect, support Xianchen Sect's Li Xiuchang in real name. Brother Chang is not an ordinary person!"
"I, Chen Gao of Dengxian Pavilion, will make a rational analysis. It is reasonable that Wenjian Sect has a greater chance of winning... But the Xianchen Sect's outer sect can produce two such disciples, which itself is not reasonable!"
The disciples of the four major sects were secretly in a mess. After all, there was the heat brought by the previous rumors, especially when everyone suddenly discovered that the rumors were not rumors, and Xianchen Sect really had such a strong outer disciple!
This attracted many people who originally did not believe in rumors or spread rumors.
For a time, everyone's expectations for this friendly match were even greater than those for the exchange match of the four major sects.
Everyone was looking forward to when the match would start.
Soon, the news came out that the competition would be held at the foot of the "Shenjian Peak", the highest peak of the Sword-asking Sect, tomorrow!
This news was released by the disciples of the Sword-asking Sect. They were eager to clear their names and use a clean victory to prove that their achievements in the Jindan Period Exchange Competition were not exaggerated, so they worked very hard to promote it everywhere.
They hoped to attract more people to watch the game.
In fact, they didn't need to promote it so hard. As soon as the news was released, some people went to the front row of the competition venue overnight to reserve seats.
These disciples who came to participate in the competition were waiting for the exchange competition to start. They were a little bored, and now there was something exciting to watch, so of course they would not miss it.
Especially the disciples of the Sword-asking Sect and the Immortal Dust Sect, this was related to the face of their sects, and they were all looking forward to it.
As the parties involved, Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi were very calm. At their unanimous request, the competition time was set for tomorrow.
They both hoped to finish the game early.
That night, the two of them also ate spiritual food and drank immortal wine together in the yard where they lived.
Li Xiuchang was already tipsy after drinking a few cups of immortal wine.
Zhang Wanzhi asked, "Xiuchang, do you plan to win or lose this game?"
"Of course I will win if I can!" Li Xiuchang said as a matter of course.
Zhang Wanzhi thought of Chen Changsheng's instructions and felt a little unhappy.
Just then, someone knocked on the door. It turned out that Yue Chongshan and Chen Gao had found out where Li Xiuchang lived and came to find him.
These two people have made a lot of spiritual stones through the Four Immortals Merchant Alliance. Now that they know that Li Xiuchang has arrived, they must visit him.
"Brother Li, long time no see."
"Come on, come on, sit down and have something to eat together."
The two sat down, got to know each other, and started chatting after drinking.
"Brother Li, I bet a thousand spiritual stones on you to win tomorrow's game!" Yue Chongshan said, patting his chest.
"Then you should pay me five hundred spiritual stones quickly, otherwise I will lose to you tomorrow." Li Xiuchang joked.
Yue Chongshan slammed the storage bag on the table and said, "I can't afford 500 spirit stones. Brother Li, take whatever you want."
Chen Gao laughed and scolded, "You are so hypocritical. You only bet 1,000 spirit stones to support Brother Li, but I bet 3,000 spirit stones!"
Yue Chongshan was not convinced and said, "I will borrow spirit stones when I go back and bet another 4,000!"
"You are still conservative." Zhang Wanzhi smiled and said, "Help me bet 10,000, Xiu Chang wins."
As he said that, he really took out 100 medium-grade spirit stones and put them in front of Chen Gao.
Li Xiu Chang saw this and took out 10,000 spirit stones and put them in Yue Chongshan's hand: "Help me bet 10,000 too!"
"You two are so generous!"
Chen Gao and Yue Chongshan didn't expect that the two of them would each bet 10,000 spirit stones at once. It seems that the outer disciples of Xianchen Sect are not only strong in strength, but also very financially strong.
However, the two also saw from this that Li Xiu Chang was very confident in himself.
Chen Gao and Yue Chongshan looked at each other and raised the stakes overnight, raising the stakes to 10,000 spirit stones!
Not only the two of them, but even a group of traitors from the Sword-asking Sect, such as Ye Zhixing and others who knew Li Xiuchang, bet on Li Xiuchang to win.
Even Ye Zhixing and Liang Zaiping placed a heavy bet on Zhang Wanzhi.
Adding the 20,000 spirit stones that Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi entrusted to bet, the total amount of bets by these people exceeded 70,000!
Amidst the anticipation of everyone, the friendly match on the second day finally started.
Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi were in their seats early.
The first to go on stage was Li Xiuchang. He came to the preparation area of the competition arena. Eight elders from the four major sects sat in the referee area.
However, Li Xiuchang never saw his opponent today.
A Sword-asking Sect elder dressed in white came on stage. He looked at Li Xiuchang and said, "You are in the middle stage of foundation building. You can choose any one of our Sword-asking Sect inner sect disciples in the middle stage of foundation building as your opponent."
After that, five or six Sword-asking Sect disciples in the middle stage of foundation building, dressed in white, flew onto the stage and let Li Xiuchang choose.