Chapter 62: The True Shield and the Returning Shield
In the third game, Fan Ming, the leader of the backer branch, took the stage to draw lots, and the result was that Ouyang Ting of the Zhengwu branch played against Wang Shanjun of the Fufeng branch.
Although Ouyang Ting is Ouyang Shi's younger sister, two years younger than the latter, her cultivation talent is much higher than her brother, and her strength is also stronger, and she is still the youngest contestant except for Qi An, only seventeen years old, only one year older than the sixteen-year-old Qi An, and is the most high-profile genius in the Zhengwu Branch in recent years.
It is said that the origin of the Ouyang brothers and sisters is not simple, they are the children of the patriarch of a Xiuzhen family in Zhengwu County, and they have been well cultivated since they were young.
Let's not mention the peak martial arts sects on the human level list for the time being, just look at the sixteen peak martial arts sects that are at least the prefecture level, including Li Changsheng, their age levels are mainly between twenty and thirty years old, even Li Changsheng, who is known as the first day talent of the Black Water Academy, has already reached the age of twenty-three, in fact, his potential is not as good as Gongsun Riyue, when Gongsun Riyue was twenty years old, he was already at the same level as Li Changsheng, and it took three years less.
Among the fifteen prefecture-level list masters, there is only one person who is over thirty years old, and that is Wang Sheng of the Backing Mountain Branch, which shows that Wang Sheng's qualifications are at the bottom of this group of people, and he will definitely not be obsessed with breaking through the heaven-level life and death alley, but will make a breakthrough in the realm after participating in this exchange competition.
And under the age of twenty, in addition to Qi An and Ouyang brother and sister, there is also Jiang Zhiyue from the Xiangfan Branch, she is the same age as Ouyang Shi, she is nineteen years old.
The remaining ten masters of the prefecture-level list are all in the age range of twenty to thirty, including Gong Qing, who is closest to the heaven-level list.
If you take into account the factor of age and current strength to judge everyone's qualifications, among the fifteen masters on the ground list, the highest qualifications are undoubtedly Qi An and Ouyang Ting, followed by Ouyang Shi and Jiang Zhiyue, and then Gong Qing and Liu Cheng and others, so for this girl Ouyang Ting, who is only one year older than himself, Qi An is also quite concerned, he always has a feeling that this woman seems to be more than just as simple as it seems, and it is likely that the potential threat is greater than Gong Qing.
Wang Shanjun is not as dazzling as Ouyang Ting, at the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, the results of the prefecture-level list are also about two hundred breaths, and he belongs to the middle and lower level among the fifteen prefecture-level peak martial arts sects, coupled with his ordinary appearance and introverted personality, even in the Fufeng Branch, his popularity is far inferior to that of Xu Ping, another master of the ground list.
Ouyang Ting's weapon is a long black whip, I don't know what material it is made of, it is quite tough, and she is not afraid of slashing and slashing at all.
The long whip is a soft weapon, very difficult to practice, but it is very strong when practiced, although the destructive power is average, but the attack distance is relatively far, and the moves are changeable, weird and difficult to prevent, good at entanglement and control, not very easy to deal with.
Wang Shanjun's weapons are a sword and a sword, and each hand holds one of them.
The difference between the two in appearance is probably that it is bent and straight, single-edged and double-edged, but in use, the knife is like a warrior, powerful and heavy, and it is more conducive to wielding and slashing, while the sword is like a gentleman, light and elegant, and more focused on stabbing.
At the beginning of the battle, Wang Shanjun took the initiative to rush forward to attack, his left hand sword and right hand knife, he actually practiced two sets of martial arts at the same time, and his left and right hands launched actions at the same time, as if they were divided into two and became two, and they worked together to besiege Ouyang Ting.
But Ouyang Ting's long whip was guarded, and the tip of the whip was often thrown over from an unpredictable angle to whip Wang Shanjun, although Wang Shanjun used both knife moves and swordsmanship, as if incarnated as two, but he still had no strength, and after a short time, he attacked and defended and changed shape, and gradually Ouyang Ting took the initiative.
About a quarter of an hour later, Ouyang Ting's long whip suddenly wrapped around Wang Shanjun's right hand long knife, and with a pull, the long knife flew out of his hand, Wang Shanjun's sword cooperation was suddenly broken, and his strength was greatly reduced, and he had no choice but to admit defeat.
The draw for the fourth game was carried out by Hu Guangsheng, the leader of the Yiwu Branch, who drew Liu Cheng, the only remaining player in his team, and Liu Cheng's opponent was Miao Zhengyang of Heishui Academy.
Hu Guangsheng touched his beard and walked off the stage with a smile, in his opinion, he drew a good hand, because Miao Zhengyang's strength is only at the midstream level, and he still likes to be a strength warrior who likes to hit hard, and Liu Cheng's results not only surpass Miao Zhengyang, but even the best thing is to face the hard shock, even Mao Wuyu is afraid to fight hard with Liu Cheng, this competition should be nine out of ten in Hu Guangsheng's opinion.
However, the result surprised Hu Guangsheng, Liu Cheng was actually defeated, and in the frontal hard fight, he lost to Miao Zhengyang's two-handed sword.
In fact, only Qi An and Bu Feng guessed the reason, that is, after Liu Cheng was injured by Qi An last night, the injury was even more serious than what appeared on the surface, which affected the performance of his strength, and finally led to his near defeat at the hands of Miao Zhengyang.
At this point, the first team to be completely out of the game appeared, that is, the Yiwu Branch, Hu Guangsheng who was so angry that Hu Guangsheng on the spectator seat blew his beard and stared at the beads, and his stinky face was very scary, but Fan Ming ran over to say hello to him with a smile, and deliberately said: "Old Hu, don't be discouraged, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and there will be a chance in six years!"
Hu Guangsheng snorted coldly, and sneered at each other: "Don't be complacent, you old boy, don't forget that there is only one lone seedling left in your team, maybe you will be kicked out in this round, and then your backer branch will be the same as our Yiwu branch, no one should laugh at anyone!"
Fan Ming's heart tightened, thinking that Hu Guangsheng was also reasonable, there was only one Qi An left in the Backer Branch, and he had not played in this round, in case he was also eliminated in the next round, wouldn't it be the same as the Yiwu Branch?
As soon as he thought of this, Fan Ming didn't have the heart to laugh at Hu Guangsheng, so he hurriedly returned to his position and waited for the next round of the game.
Who knew that when the team leader of the Xiangfan Branch drew lots next, there was a big oolong, and the two players he drew were actually players from his own family, so angry that he wanted to chop off his hands.
In the fifth game of the third round, Wei Wei from the Xiangfan Branch played against Jiang Zhiyue, who was also from the Xiangfan Branch.
is in the same family, and it happens to be their team leader who caused this scene, which makes everyone feel ridiculous and laugh.
Wei Wei and Jiang Zhiyue are both from the Xiangfan Branch, they should know each other well, and the battle scene is relatively harmonious, unlike the fierce competition with the contestants of other teams, and finally Wei Wei won the victory and advanced to the next round.
There is no need to draw lots for the last game of this round, and only two contestants are left who did not play, namely Xu Ping of the Fufeng Branch and Qi An of the Backing Mountain Branch.
Both of them are the last remaining players in their respective teams, and whether they win or lose, it will mean that one team will follow in the footsteps of the Yiwu Branch and exit with a disgraceful end.
What is more dramatic is that Xu Ping once eliminated Bu Feng, who was at the top of the ranking of the Backer Branch, and if he defeated Qi An again, he would become a key figure in the exit of the Backer Branch. And if Qi An defeats Xu Ping, then it is a cycle of heavenly principles, retribution is unpleasant, yesterday's cause, today's effect, so this battle is quite topical.
Xu Ping, like Qi An, did not use weapons and only responded with fists and feet, but his body was tall and burly, and he looked amazingly oppressive, a bit like Qiao Zheng with long hair and a few years younger, while Qi An opposite him was obviously much thinner and not in a weight class at all.
For Xu Ping, who had defeated Bu Feng, Qi An studied it a little, and the exercises he practiced were somewhat similar to the body refining exercises, all of which focused on body protection and defense capabilities, but in fact, they were still in the same vein of qi refining, which was essentially different from the body refining exercises.
The body refining system is to combine the vitality of heaven and earth with one's own body to directly improve the strength of the body, and the exercises practiced by Xu Ping did not change the strength of his body, but it can mobilize the true qi to condense on the surface of the body, and temporarily improve the body's defense ability in a certain place, which is not even inferior to King Kong.
From this point of view, the protective ability of the body refining method does not necessarily exceed the qi refining method, and some qi refining methods can also achieve the effect of the body refining method through the transformation and application of true yuan force, and it may even be stronger, and the exercises practiced by Xu Ping are of this type.
Of course, in the eyes of others, Qi An is also practicing this kind of exercises, and no one dares to think about the exercises practiced by Qi An in terms of body refining, on the one hand, because the body refining method is indeed very unpopular, and almost no one chooses to take this path, on the other hand, because of Qi An's age, people who know the body refining method know that its cultivation speed is much slower than that of the Qi refining method, and it is impossible for a young earth-level peak martial sect like Qi An to take the path of body refining.
Among the sixty-nine kinds of cultivation exercises included in the library of the Gushan Branch, there are two qigong refining methods that greatly strengthen the defense ability, one is called "Ning Zhen Shield", and the other is called "Guiyuan Cover", in everyone's opinion, Xu Ping's cultivation is "Ning Zhen Shield", and Qi An's cultivation is "Guiyuan Cover".
Compared with the Guiyuan Shield, which focuses on the defense of the whole body, the Condensing True Shield focuses more on local defense, and the entry standard is to be able to form a faint color True Yuan Qi Shield on the body surface. Of course, although Xu Ping's attainments in this exercise are not low, he still didn't even enter the door, otherwise he would not be the peak martial sect, but a real monk, because Ning Zhen Shield is not bad like Qi An's King Kong, once he gets started, he will naturally be able to break through and be promoted, or vice versa, once he breaks through and is promoted, Ning Zhen Shield will soon reach the entry level.