Chapter 438: Ninth Round
Zuo Wanqiu lay on the ground for almost half a cup of tea before she stood up with all her might. Her body swayed slightly and her face was extremely pale.
She looked at Ouyang Qing unwillingly, and said nothing more. She took back the Tianhe Sword under her feet, sacrificed the talisman and left the Jiuling Fort.
Zuo Wanqiu's defeat made the crowd of spectators feel confused.
"What happened to the Zuo family girl? Is there any hidden disease?"
"Hey, Liu thought that Zuo Wanqiu could enter the top ten, but she didn't expect to lose in the second round!"
"What a pity! If the Zuo family girl had used that move just now, she might have defeated Baimeng Sect Ouyang Qing!"
"Yes! How could a good person suddenly fall down!"
The crowd on the scene started to discuss, and there was no lack of regret for Zuo Wanqiu's failure in their words.
On the contrary, few people mentioned Ouyang Qing, the winner.
Zuo Wanqiu returned to Duan Qing with a frosty face, without saying a word, and her face was terribly gloomy.
"Is Daoist Zuo all right?" Yu Fan tried to ask with concern.
"Don't you have eyes?" Zuo Wanqiu replied with a dark face, not even looking at Yu Fan.
Choked by Zuo Wanqiu's words, Yu Fan touched his bald head in embarrassment and said nothing more.
Lin Ziyu wanted to comfort Zuo Wanqiu, but seeing that Yu Fan had touched bad luck, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
Duan Qing glanced at Zuo Wanqiu and sighed helplessly. "Next, let Duan take care of it!"
Hearing this, Zuo Wanqiu turned his head and stared at Duan Qing for a long time, and his face finally eased, and he nodded slowly.
Somehow, at this moment, although Zuo Wanqiu still felt very unwilling to lose to Ouyang Qing, he inexplicably felt a warm feeling.
There was no sun or moon in the Great Dream Realm, the Dream Wheel Conference continued, and the duel in the Nine Spirits Fort continued.
In just half a day, the second round of duels was completed. Including one person who was given a bye, a total of 394 people advanced to the third round.
In the second round, Duan Qing's opponent came from a medium-sized sect in Jizhou. Duan Qing defeated him with his sword-controlling skills without using any magic, and won very easily.
After the second round, only a cup of tea passed before the third round began.
A day passed quickly, and during this period, the Dream Round Conference had a total of eight rounds.
From the second round, Duan Qing almost never encountered a strong opponent, and he advanced to the ninth round.
Although he had not encountered an opponent as strong as Duanmu Min in the first round, the duels became more intense as the Dream Round Conference progressed.
This can be seen intuitively from the duel time.
The duels in the first two rounds of the Dream Round Conference took almost a day in total.
Although it only took one day from the third round to the eighth round, the number of people in the duel was completely different because the number of people decreased as the number of people decreased.
In the first two rounds, each group of eighteen people played almost a hundred games in total.
From the third to the eighth round, there were only about forty games in total.
The fewer the number of games, the more time it took, because the later games were extremely fierce, and it often took half an hour to play one game.
There was even one game during which two people fought for a full hour before the winner was decided, which shows how fierce it was.
After the eighth round, including one person who was given a bye in this round, there were only seven people who advanced to the ninth round.
They were Lin Tiansheng from the Great Dream Sect, Qi Yuanping from the Great Dream Sect, Ouyang Qing from the White Dream Sect, Li Junlan and Li Chenxiang from the Yunmeng Sect, Feng Sansheng from the Xiaomeng Sect, and Duan Qing.
Among the seven people who advanced to the ninth round, six were from the four sects of the Dream God, and only Duan Qing was an outsider.
"From this round on, there will be no more duels." At this time, Elder Qi from the Great Dream Sect suddenly shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the nine pale golden spheres above suddenly moved closer to each other and gathered into a huge sphere over a hundred feet long.
After the Nine Spirits were combined into one, Elder Qi looked at the jade book in his hand and said loudly: "The first duel of the ninth round is between Feng Sansheng and Duan Qing."
Duan Qing flew directly to the Nine Spirits without saying a word.
Lin Ziyu watched Duan Qing leave excitedly and shouted to Duan Qing: "Come on, Brother Duan!"
Zuo Wanqiu and Yu Fan did not shout out directly like Lin Ziyu, but they were also quite excited when they looked at Duan Qing.
Especially Yu Fan, his face was flushed, and even his bald head looked particularly shiny.
To be honest, Duan Qing's ability to enter the top ten was really beyond his expectations.
The strength displayed by Duan Qing during this period was not at all inferior to his prime, especially Duan Qing's battle against Duanmu Min in the first round.
That sword, like the might of heaven, was truly amazing.
Now, he had high hopes that Duan Qing could enter the top three.
Feng Sansheng almost entered the Nine Spirits Fort with Duan Qing. Looking at Duan Qing standing calmly with his hands behind his back, Feng Sansheng felt a lot of pressure in his heart.
This time, Master Tie Shiniu brought him and Junior Brother Xia Weizhi to the Dream Round Conference.
Such an arrangement showed that the master had great hopes for the two of them.
But unexpectedly, Junior Brother Xia Weizhi had bad luck and met Lin Tiansheng from the Dream Sect in the first round. He was eliminated due to carelessness.
Once Junior Brother Xia was eliminated, the hope of the entire Xiaomeng Sect fell on him.
This made him feel a little pressured.
Unfortunately, he met Duan Qing in the ninth round!
To be honest, his understanding of Duan Qingzhi was limited to knowing that he asked his master Tieshi Niu to help him fuse a flying sword.
Before that, he didn't even know who Duan Qing was.
It was not until Duan Qing defeated Yunmeng Sect's senior sister Duanmu Min in the first battle of the Lunmeng Conference and exposed the Suzaku Transformation technique that he began to really pay attention to Duan Qing.
Shinto Sect!
That is one of the seven super sects in the Central Plains!
And the strength of the Shinto Sect is still recognized as the first among the seven super sects.
There are no ordinary people in the Shinto Sect!
Especially the Shinto Sect members who can practice the secret technique Suzaku Transformation.
Such people, even in the Shinto Sect, are absolutely the pride of the emperor!
Therefore, the duel with Duan Qing gave him a lot of pressure!
Even if Duan Qingzhi's cultivation is only in the early stage of the Questioning Heart Realm, he is two small realms lower than him in the late stage of the Questioning Heart Realm.
But pressure is sometimes a kind of motivation.
It is definitely a rare opportunity to fight with the Shinto Sect members.
If he can defeat Duan Qing, he will surely become famous in Jizhou.
Come on! Let me, Feng Sansheng, see what the legendary Shinto disciples are capable of.
Duan Qing saw that Feng Sansheng's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he couldn't help but feel a desire to fight.
Although his opponents in the previous rounds were also masters in the Questioning Heart Realm, they couldn't hold out for a few moves under his powerful sword control, which made him very bored.
Feng Sansheng in front of him was a disciple of Xiaomeng Sect, so he should have some skills.