"Whew...... It's time to go back and get ready. ”

Lu Ping'an took a deep breath, didn't think about it anymore, looked up at the list of top eight matchups posted on the high wall, and turned around and walked under the ring.

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's God's arrangement in the dark.

If nothing else, he will probably need to beat two Chen family participants in a row tomorrow to reach the final round.

In addition, Chen Hao, who has basically locked another place in the finals, is the reference of the three Chen families.

Although the three matches are all one-on-one elimination systems, considering that the Chen family can share the intelligence and experience of fighting against them, for Lu Ping'an, the schedule can be said to be very unfavorable.

"Tsk, that little girl's swordsmanship is really powerful, even the young master's puppet shield armor can be broken, if it is replaced by other players in our house, it is estimated that the first round will be defeated." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and pick it up, these fragments can be refined, and you and I can't eat one less piece and walk around." ”

......

At this time, the conversation between the two Chen subordinates attracted Lu Ping'an's attention.

He stopped slightly, and when he went back, it turned out that the two of them were picking up and recovering the scattered fragments of shield armor from Chen Hao's puppet.

Although the puppet technique of the Chen family is very strong, the cost of creating a puppet is also huge, like the ghost horn, which is specially built for the young master, every part on it is very expensive, so it will not be discarded at will.

"Hehe, I'm sorry for the two of you. ”

Lu Ping'an's eyes rolled, and the corners of his mouth rose to muttered to himself.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one left and right, he quickly opened the additional organ "Phantom Gauntlet", and after reaching the state of invisibility, he quietly turned back to the ring......

About half an hour later, Lu Ping'an returned to the temporary residence area of the imperial court guards in the back office of the city lord's mansion with a fragment of shield armor the size of rubble and a nail that fell off from the puppet.

Bang Dang!

Lu Ping'an impatiently closed the doors and windows, sat down at the table and studied.

In order to ensure the flexibility of the puppet, the shield armor on the back of the ghost horn has undergone a special process, which is very lightweight, but the strength has not been reduced in the slightest.

"Hmm...... If you use Tai Chi to be strong, it is not a problem to penetrate one or two pieces. But then I'll be in the golem's attack range myself......"

Lu Ping'an used his existing various attack methods to test the fragments of the shield armor one by one.

As the sun sets, the night falls, and all the debris is reduced to powder.

At this point, he has a deeper understanding of the defense level of the ghost horn.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that the mortise and tenon joint of the Iron King Eight was also iron. ”

After stretching his waist, Lu Ping'an shifted his attention to the nail he picked up.

In fact, after fighting Chen Hao for the first time outside the city, Lu Ping'an came up with a tactic to restrain the former's puppet.

However, for this tactic to actually work, two conditions must be met.

First, the mortise and tenon joints inside the ghost horn must be made of the same dark iron material as the shield armor on the back.

If it is the same spirit wood texture as the skeleton of the puppet, then everything is empty talk.

Now, the first prerequisite has been met, and he only needs to meet the second condition, that is, his own cultivation realm is promoted to the ninth level of the martial arts realm, and the golden light divine mantra is cultivated to the second stage, then in the final, Chen Hao will have a headache.

Although at first glance, this second condition is a bit difficult to meet, after all, there are only less than two days before the final.

But in fact, Lu Ping'an himself was still very confident, because his cultivation was now at the peak of the eightfold martial arts realm, and the time to break through the realm would soon come.

If nothing else, the spiritual energy seeds he buried in the sea of qi with the "Old Farmer Tree Planting Skill" will sprout tonight, enough to fill the sea of qi at this stage.

In addition, due to the frequent use of the Wind and Thunder Sword, Lu Ping'an felt that after he was promoted to the Ninth Martial Dao Realm, it should not be difficult to practice the second stage of the Golden Light Divine Mantra, after all, this move was a thunder attribute technique.

In this way, while waiting for midnight to come, Lu Ping'an had nothing to do, slowly moved his fingers, and rubbed the dark iron nail.

Squeak squeak......

There was a faint sound of metal rubbing, and under the action of the stiff or soft Tai Chi Jin, the originally hard nail joint gradually deformed, and finally turned into a regular spherical shape.

At this moment, Lu Ping'an's mind was extremely calm and indifferent, and there was no trace of distraction in his mind.

As the buoy in the timer drip kettle gradually rose, the city lord's mansion became dead silent.

Airplanes!

Finally, after more than three hours of long waiting, Lu Ping'an's ears suddenly sounded like an ancient bell.

He clearly felt that there was a change in the depths of his qi sea.

Lu Ping'an was not in a hurry, closed his eyes lightly, and at the same time his mental power was highly concentrated, and soon after, a picture appeared in his mind.

Deep orange sky, floating clouds, clear blue water, ebb and flow, rough waves......

This is his sea of qi, which is the foundation of every cultivator's cultivation and the foundation of his strength.

Although the low-level cultivator could not release his divine sense, he could peek into himself, and at this moment, Lu Ping'an's divine consciousness turned into a human form and appeared on the shore shallow.

When he looked into the distance, he saw small islands rising out of the sea, and on each small island, a huge seedling sprouted and branched, and grew wildly.

In just a few breaths, these seedlings grow into giant trees that soar into the sky, forming a strange landscape of a maritime forest.

"This ...... It's a bit of a bad thing......"

On the shore of the shallows, looking at the towering trees that sprouted from the germination of spiritual energy seeds, Lu Ping'an couldn't help but feel a big head for a while.

It turned out that he had planted a little too many seeds before.

Lu Ping'an estimated that to fill his current sea of qi, he only needed about a hundred trees, but at this time, there were more than a thousand trees on the sea, which was too much.

Whoa...... Whoa......

Not long after Lu Ping'an discovered this problem, the giant trees on the sea surface began to melt irrepressibly.

The sound of the water became louder and louder, and the giant trees quickly melted into a liquid state like a burning sheep fat candle, becoming part of the "sea water" of the sea of air.

The sea waves were rippling, the sea level was rising at an exaggerated rate, and by the time Lu Ping'an reacted, the sea water was already knee-high.

"Damn, I forgot about this stubble. ”

Lu Ping'an didn't have time to think about it, and ran towards the high place as if he was fleeing.

The old farmer's way of cultivating qi is very different from the common qi training method, and due to the limitations of the original stereotyped thinking, Lu Ping'an never considered that this situation would happen.

A few days ago, in the process of hunting spirit beasts and refining beast cores in Daxu Mountain, I unknowingly planted ten times more spiritual energy seeds.

As a result, the total amount of aura in Lu Ping'an's body had long exceeded the level of the eightfold peak of the martial arts realm.

This is troublesome, if there is too much aura, will you break the sea of qi and explode and die?

Thinking of this, Lu Ping'an had the heart to cry.

If he dies here tonight for such a stupid reason, not only will he not be able to avenge the deep revenge of the sea of blood, but the crime of treason will never be cleared up, and he will become the laughing stock of the Chen family.

"Why! Why isn't this mentioned in the exercises?"

In the unwilling shouting, Lu Ping'an was caught up by the tide and swept into the sea.

Although Lu Ping'an, who was embodied by his divine consciousness, did not need to breathe, the pain he suffered at this time was a hundred times more uncomfortable than suffocation.

He knew very well that it was his own ontological feelings that were transmitted to his consciousness.

At this time, Lu Ping'an was in the process of meditating and breaking through the realm, and his divine consciousness was submerged and imprisoned by the sea of qi in the abnormal state, and he could not wake up, and he could not take the initiative to consume the extra spiritual energy.

Once all the forests on the surface of the sea melt and the spiritual energy reserves in the Qi Sea exceed the current capacity limit, the consequences can be imagined.

"Calm down, don't panic ......"

Although the situation is extremely dangerous, Lu Ping'an will not give up until the last moment. He understood that he still had a glimmer of life, that is, before he exploded and died, he would first advance to the Martial Dao Realm Nine Folds and expand the capacity of the Qi Sea.

"It's coming!"

Finally, when Lu Ping'an was almost in despair, the scene in front of him changed.

In the distant void, two gilded, dazzling lung lobes hung high above Lu Ping'an's head.

Cultivators who enter the Martial Dao Realm Ninefold can master the changes of the five elements, and their skills in the use of aura will be improved to the extreme.

To attain this state, one must go through the five trials of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The current situation was critical, Lu Ping'an didn't have time to prepare, jumped and flew into the lungs above his head.

According to the theory of the five elements, the lungs of the human body belong to gold, and when the divine consciousness passes through this golden lung, the spirit will bear the pain of ten thousand blades, and thus awaken the understanding of metallic magic in the depths of the soul.

And so on, the liver belongs to wood, the kidneys belong to water, the heart belongs to fire, and the spleen belongs to earth.

Only by enduring the above five kinds of suffering, and enduring what ordinary people can't endure, can one become a cultivator of the Nine Folds of the Martial Dao Realm.

In addition, for Lu Ping'an, who is also suffering from the expansion of the sea of qi, this process will undoubtedly be even more difficult.

I don't know how long it took, Lu Ping'an almost forgot the pain, and he even felt that everything in front of him was not an illusion that he was undergoing a trial, but an illusion after death.

"This ...... Where is it?"

The world changed in his eyes, and Lu Ping'an, who had turned into a divine consciousness, took a fixed look at it, and was pleased to find that he had returned to the sea of qi.

At this time, the "forest" on the surface of the sea has completely melted, and the small islands used to sow seeds have sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the waves have subsided, and the water surface is like a mirror, as if nothing had happened.

However, at this time, Lu Ping'an, who was physically and mentally relaxed, could clearly perceive that the area of his Qi Sea had expanded by one-fifth, and he had officially become a Martial Dao Realm Ninefold cultivator!