Chapter 221: The Beginning of the Sword Fight
After five full days of preaching, Dan Qiusheng's Yuan Infant Puja came to an end for the time being. However, the number of monks in the Five Elements Sect has not decreased but increased, because immediately afterwards, it is known as the Young Generation Martial Arts Conference of Nanyue Prefecture - the New Monk Sword Fighting Club!
There are two conditions for the so-called cutting-edge monks.
One is new, and the participating monks must be under sixty years of age.
The other is Rui, and the participating monks must have the foundation building period of cultivation.
According to the news released by the Five Elements Gate in advance, if the monks who have obtained the top 100 qualifications in the Sword Fighting Club are interested in joining the Five Elements Gate, the Five Elements Gate will be properly accommodated, and the top ten monks in the Sword Fighting Club can also get all kinds of magic weapons and spiritual materials provided by the organizer of the Five Elements Gate, 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 made up their minds and signed up for the sword fighting meeting.
"Flying Boat!?The Five Elements Gate actually took out a flying boat as a reward for the leader of the Sword Fighting Society? This is too extravagant! It's crazy! It's too generous! It's too ......."
"Don't get excited! 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 left and right, and seeing that the monks in the four places had gathered one after another, he lowered his voice a little proudly, and said softly: "It is said that this flying boat is from the Demon Shadow Sect!"
"What are you kidding! The relationship between the Demon 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 Society?"
"You don't understand this, do you?" the monk glanced at the monk who interrupted his speech with some disdain, and snorted twice, until he had whetted everyone's appetite, and then chuckled: "Do you know why this Yuan Infant Festival is held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month? This starts from the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the seventh month last year......
At that moment, this monk agitated his three-inch incorruptible tongue, and told many monks around him how the Demon Shadow Sect colluded with Lu Chengzhi to annex the Five Elements Gate that day, how the Five Elements Gate fought hard and would rather die than give in, and even in the end, Danqiu Sheng took charge of the sect and successfully condensed the baby, and defeated the four golden pills with the strength of one person, and kept the Five Elements Gate.
Of course, this flying boat that was taken out as a prize this time was naturally the money left by the unlucky formation master of the Demon Shadow Sect, Wan Tianyun.
When the monk had finished speaking, everyone around him had a look of "I see", but the monk withdrew and went somewhere else.
In this way, just three days before the Sword Fighting Meeting was held, the grievances between the Demon Shadow Sect and the Five Elements Sect had already spread and everyone knew about it.
In the small courtyard of a fine house in Houtuping, Yuan Yantie had a blue face and didn't say a word, and the three people in front of her, Wan Dongyao, Hu Ying, and Duan Shui Liu, didn't dare to speak. At the same time, in the Biluo Cave by the Bibo Pond, the corners of Condensing Jade's mouth were lightly hooked, and he smiled sweetly.
In another retreat, Chi Lianxia and Granny Li were leisurely drinking spiritual tea.
"Hmph! The Demon Shadow Sect really moved a stone to hit itself in the foot this time, and I can't tell if I have any suffering!"
After taking a sip of spiritual tea, Chi Lianxia frowned, and then took out a bottle of Baiguo Immortal from her storage jade pendant, and took a big sip, as if this was the end of the fun.
"I don't know who came up with this clever plan, with Wan Tianyun's flying boat as the prize of the leader of the sword fighting club, such a heavy treasure, those who don't know will naturally be curious, and when they asked, they were told that this flying boat turned out to be Wan Tianyun, the formation master of the Demon Shadow Sect, so the next thing is naturally to pour beans from the bamboo tube, and it can be seen at a glance!"
"Wan Tianyun and the Demon Shadow Sect are asking for their own hardships! Who let Wan Tianyun's kid get a flying boat and show it all day long? Although the Five Elements Sect is just a small sect, but in the end, it is supported by the foundation of ten thousand years, how can a newly rising sect like theirs speculate? Not to mention that before I accompanied the young lady to Nanyue, the old master had solemnly instructed me: Don't provoke the Five Elements Sect!" Speaking of this, seeing that Chi Lianxia poured another mouthful of Baiguo Immortal, Granny Li frowned slightly, and persuaded her: " Miss, you're about to get married, why are you still so drunk, if the old master knows......"
"Isn't this that you haven't started to marry yet? Mother-in-law, you're really verbose!"
Having said that, after the drunken Chi Lian Xia, she still obediently put it into the storage jade bracelet, obviously for this Granny Li, who has watched her grow up since she was a child, the always spicy Chi Lianxia still has a little respect and awe, not to mention that Granny Li really cherishes her before she says so.
After combing her slightly messy hair, Chi Lianxia whispered to herself: "Then Lu Chengzhi would rather deliberately fail to form a Dan, but also suppress his cultivation in the foundation building period, just to participate in this sword fighting meeting, I coincide with it, how can I miss this great opportunity?"
"Miss is really making a big fuss!" Seeing that Chi Lianxia obediently put away the wine jug, Granny Li said with a good life: "Nanyue Prefecture is a little smaller after all, among the five states in the world, the overall strength of Nanyue monks ranks last, what opponent can there be in such a small place? With Miss's combat power, I'm afraid that Lu Chengzhi can compete with you!"
"Lu Chengzhi, I don't look at that kind of villain yet!"
Saying this, Chi Lianxia remembered Xiao Mian of the Five Elements Gate for no reason, and smiled faintly, but she didn't say anything at all.
Besides, Xiao Mian at this time was in the last stage of cultivating the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" day and night.
Now that he has completed the stage of smelting exquisite golden wires, Xiao Mian naturally doesn't mind adding another fire, and simply completes the cultivation of the fourth big cycle of "Ten Thousand Poison Entanglement Mantra", so that not only will his physical strength be raised to a higher level, but after the Five Elements Poisonous Mist is transformed into his blood body, it is equivalent to a part of Xiao Mian's body, and it is no longer an external Five Elements Poisonous Mist, which is naturally more convenient to control.
It's just that even if Xiao Mian made full use of his seven divine thoughts, divided his body into seven major areas and began to coagulate blood at the same time, it would definitely not be something that could be achieved in three days.
On July 15, the sword fighting meeting of the new monks of Nanyue Prefecture 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 Halloween.
Of course, for monks, it is naturally a different matter, and even many evil cultivators and ghost cultivators are specialized in dealing with corpses and ghosts, so naturally they will not have any scruples, and then July 15 is not only the Ghost Festival, but also the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival, the Buddhist Obon Festival, after soliciting the opinions of Qingqiuzi, Fuhu Venerable and scholars, Danqiusheng decided to hold a sword fighting meeting on schedule, so as not to be untrustworthy by the good deeds.
According to the statistics of the monks of the Five Elements Sect, there are tens of thousands of monks in the foundation building period who have signed up to participate in the sword fighting meeting this time, and this is because many of the foundation building monks who came to participate in the festival are over sixty years old, otherwise I am afraid that the number of participants will be even more.
After this number was reported, even Dan Qiusheng was secretly frightened.
You must know that although the current Five Elements Gate has undergone a year of recuperation, there are only a few dozen monks in the foundation building period within one Jiazi of the Five Elements Gate.
I think there will be more young foundation building stage disciples in Falling Flower Valley and Demon Shadow Sect, but it is only a few hundred.
Now it seems that the sect power in Nanyue Prefecture is still weak. Compared with the scattered cultivation forces that often start tens of thousands, the sect is just better than the profound foundation.
Nanyue Prefecture, in the end, is still the world of scattered cultivation!
However, after thinking about it, Dan Qiusheng was full of new expectations for this sword fight. The greater the number of monks participating in the sword fighting meeting, the higher the quality of the top 100 that will be decided in the end, and the greater the room left for the Five Elements Gate to choose.
Thinking about it like this, Dan Qiusheng gave an order, and the sword fighting meeting officially began.
Because the number of monks participating in the sword fighting meeting was too large, the Five Elements Gate had to hold competitions at the same time in the land of the Five Elements Spirit Vein. Jinxiao Peak, Yanzhu Peak, Changchun Peak, Bibo Pond, each spiritual vein place has opened up as many as ten competition rings, which are carried out at the same time, in order to speed up the progress of the sword fighting meeting and save everyone's time.
It is also with this purpose in mind that the competition adopts the most brutal knockout round.
If you miss a move, you won't have a chance to fight the sword!
In this way, the first round alone was able to eliminate nearly 6,000 monks.
Although the first day had the largest number of competitions, due to the uneven strength of the participating monks, most of the competitions were decided in an instant, and the progress was extremely fast.
For example, Xiao Mian's opponent was a beginner-level casual cultivator in the foundation building period, although the opponent tried to be vigilant as much as possible, but it was still only three breaths, and he was directly knocked out of the ring by Xiao Mian's Xuanfeng Sword and lost the qualification to continue the game.
After stepping out of the ring, seeing that the monk who was defeated by his own hands had fled into the crowd, Xiao Mian shook his head and smiled bitterly, planning to see other people's games.
The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible.