Chapter 72: The curtain has come down

However, Li Changsheng failed, and when the blade was about to cut through the back of Qi An's neck, Qi An suddenly rushed forward with a step, narrowly avoiding the cutting of the blade, and then turned around, and a palm quickly poked out, taking advantage of Li Changsheng's slight stunned opportunity, the latter grabbed Li Changsheng's long knife first.

This is the chaotic boxing style of the backing boxing method, and it is also the fastest punching style.

It turned out that the three figures in front and on both sides were all fake, and Li Changsheng's true body had already sneaked behind Qi An, and launched a deadly surprise attack while Qi An was dealing with the three phantom bodies.

Qi An did not see through Li Changsheng's tricks in advance, but Qi An, who was in harmony with his fist and body, would not stop in one position for a long time for Li Changsheng to be a target, he noticed that something was wrong when he faced the three phantom bodies, and he felt that none of them were real bodies, and at the same time gave birth to an alarm in his heart, although he didn't know where the crisis came from, but the cautious Qi An still took advantage of the opportunity to punch with his fist, and stepped out in just the right step, which was worthy of avoiding Li Changsheng's ghostly knife.

As for Qi An's turning around and punching, it was also a subconscious action, and he probably guessed that there was danger after he was born, so without thinking too much, he quickly turned around and used a chaotic fist at the same time, and grabbed the long knife that had not yet been evacuated.

Li Changsheng's killing move failed, resulting in a slight distraction, and he was grabbed by Qi An, but he reacted quickly and was about to draw his knife and fly back, but his strength was far inferior to Qi An, and the long knife was clamped by Qi An's five fingers and remained motionless, allowing Li Changsheng to use all his strength, and he couldn't pull the knife back.

At this moment, Qi An stepped forward, swung his fist and slashed, a fierce slashing fist smashed in the middle of the knife body, and saw that the sharp long knife forged from a hundred refined steel was smashed into two by Qi An with a punch, and the part of the tip of the knife fell into Qi An's hand, and Li Changsheng only had the handle and half of the blade left in his hand.

Although it is said that the loss of the weapon or the damage of the weapon will not be judged as a failure, Li Changsheng understands that he has already lost, and it is impossible to make any waves with the half-truncated knife. He can also be regarded as a free and easy person, he threw the broken knife in his hand on the ground with a long sigh, stared at Qi An with two squinted eyes without blinking, and said to him seriously: "You won!"

The entire spectator seat was silent, and everyone stared at the two people on the stage with wide eyes, and shouted in horror in their hearts: Heavenly Rank Monk Li Changsheng actually lost! How is this possible?

No one dared to believe that Li Changsheng, who had the highest call to win the championship and was known as the strongest since the previous exchange competitions, failed one after another in the finals, losing to Ouyang Ting and Qi An successively, and couldn't even get the second place.

To say that Ouyang Ting was able to defeat Li Changsheng because of luck, she took advantage of the loopholes in the rules, and won by tricks, which was barely acceptable, but Qi An relied on her own hard power to defeat Li Changsheng in a real way, which is incomprehensible.

You must know that Li Changsheng is not only a monk in the early stage of condensation, but also a martial arts genius who has broken through the heaven-level life and death alley, although Qi An is the same as Li Changsheng in the cultivation realm, but his achievements in the life and death alley are only at the prefecture-level level, and there is still a lot of distance from the heaven-level, and he has been suppressed by Li Changsheng in the early days of the fight, and then he somehow did it, he actually became more and more courageous, not only slowly regaining the advantage, but also interrupting Li Changsheng's weapon in the end, making him defeated, which is too unbelievable and unacceptable.

Whether everyone believes it or not, the facts are in front of you, the third game of the finals, the winner is Qi An, and at the same time, Qi An has also become the champion of this year's Qingzhou Sixth Academy Exchange Competition, and won the highest honor for the backer branch.

Among the three finalists, Qi An won two games and ranked first, Ouyang Ting won one win and one loss, ranking second, and Li Changsheng lost both games and ranked third.

This is completely different from the original expectation, before the finals began, everyone thought that Li Changsheng should win the championship, including Qi An himself, who knew that Li Changsheng didn't even get the second place, and actually ended up at the bottom.

In fact, if it weren't for Qi An's on-the-spot breakthrough and understanding the truth of punching and body method from Li Changsheng's ghost knife style, he would not be Li Changsheng's opponent, even if Li Changsheng couldn't break Qi An's defense for the time being, but it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no accidents, after all, Qi An didn't even have the strength to fight back, and the initiative was all in Li Changsheng's hands.

Even Qi An didn't expect him to win, let alone the spectators who seriously underestimated him, so this year's Qingzhou Six Branches Exchange Tournament ended with a dumbfounded ending.

After the end of the competition, the award ceremony began, and the leaders of the three branches of Guishan, Zhengwu and Heishui came to the stage together to accept the symbol of honor sent by the General Institute of Qianqing University, a beautifully carved jade statue.

There are three statues, different sizes and colors, but the shape is a thin old man in a long robe, which is said to be the founder of the Qianqing Academy.

The green jade statue that fell into the hands of the leader of the Heishui Academy was the smallest, no more than half a foot high, and the vice president of the Zhengwu branch got a topaz statue with a height of about eight inches, and the vice president of the backing branch Fan Ming got the largest white jade statue, with a height of more than one foot, which is the proof of the champion of the exchange competition, it is said that this is the second time that the backer branch has won the white jade statue since its establishment, which is not easy.

The statue is nothing special, it just symbolizes honor and has no practical function, but the branch that has obtained the most white jade statues will definitely have a higher status in the eyes of the general court, so each branch will try its best to take it into the bag.

The divisions receive honors, while the top three contestants receive actual prizes. In each exchange competition, the prizes are made up by the six branches, this time, because the Black Water Academy has a strong immortal, it is bound to win the championship, so it is extraordinarily generous and heroic, and directly donated a middle-level talisman as a prize, which can be said to be the most valuable reward item in the past hundred years, which was obtained by the champion player Qi An.

Since this talisman artifact is mid-level, it must be extremely extraordinary, and its value is far more than that of a low-level magic weapon, and ten low-level magic weapons combined are not as good as a middle-level magic weapon. You must know that there are many cultivators who have reached the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm nowadays who are still using low-level magic weapons, and only a very small number of Qi Condensing Realm monks with background and identity are likely to use medium-level magic weapons.

Yes, just this middle-level talisman is worth far more than the sum of all the prizes, which is cheap Qi An, only to make the Heishui Courtyard depressed, stealing chickens and rice, losing the wife and breaking the soldiers.

The runner-up Ouyang Ting won three prizes, a low-level talisman artifact, a Ning Zhen Dan, and a small space storage bag.

Ning Zhen Pill is an elixir that can increase the success rate when the peak martial sect breaks through the condensation realm, about one to two percent of the probability of increasing it, it is more precious, with Ouyang Ting's current cultivation to take it, the breakthrough rate can be said to be almost one hundred percent, which is very helpful to her, but it is very likely that Ouyang Ting will wait until she has passed through the heaven-level life and death alley before taking it, so that she can obtain the qualification to enter the Qianqing Academy to continue her studies.

Strictly speaking, the space storage bag is not a magic weapon, it is not as strong as a magic weapon, it is easy to be violently destroyed, it just has a storage function, and the space is extremely small, it is not as good as the real space magic weapon, and it is also much easier than the real space magic weapon in terms of refining difficulty, so it is not as precious as imagined, and the one Ouyang Ting got is just a small space storage bag, which can accommodate only one foot square, and it can't hold many things, but it is better than nothing, it is much better than the treasure bag used by the warrior.

Another point is that the real space magic weapon usually requires a certain amount of Yuan Shen power to be activated, but the space storage bag does not have such high requirements, and it can be opened and closed only by consuming a trace of true qi, which is quite convenient, because even the cultivators of the God Refining Realm mostly use the space storage bag, after all, the space magic weapon is difficult to refine, and it is much rarer and precious.

The third runner-up Li Changsheng received the largest number of prizes, but the value was usually not high, mainly pills, there was also a Ning Zhen Pill, as well as five bottles of Qi Nourishing Pill and Pei Yuan Dan, and there was also a small space storage bag.

Pei Yuan Dan is an elixir that assists the cultivation of the Martial Sect, which can speed up the accumulation of true qi, and the Qi Nourishing Pill is at a higher level, and the effect is similar to that of Pei Yuan Dan, which accelerates cultivation, but it is mainly aimed at Qi Condensing Realm cultivators.

For Li Changsheng, he couldn't use either the Ning Zhen Pill and the Pei Yuan Dan, only the Qi Nourishing Pill was still useful, which could save him some cultivation time, but this was too far away from the middle-level talisman magic weapon that should have belonged to him.

Magic weapons are not as good as ordinary iron blades, and if you want to use them, you need to refine them in advance. There are three most mainstream refining methods in the cultivation realm, namely blood refining, qi refining, and divine refining, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages, among which the blood refining method is the simplest and most common, and most low-level cultivators use the blood refining method.

The so-called blood refining method is to use one's own essence and blood to drip on the ownerless magic weapon, which can resonate with the magic weapon and make it recognize the master, which is very simple and convenient, and then you can also use your own essence and blood to raise the magic weapon, so that the quality of the magic weapon will slowly improve.

Essence blood, refers to the blood that contains a rich breath of life, purified, without any impurities, very pure, usually thousands of drops of ordinary blood concentrated and purified, will form a drop of essence blood, if the essence of blood is lost too much, people will be very weak, and even die.

The mid-level magic weapon that Qi An got was a pigeon's egg-sized, gelatinous, and black soft bead. When Qi An cut his finger and condensed a drop of essence blood and fell on this soft bead, he immediately had a mental connection with it in the dark, and the detailed information about this talisman was known to Qi An.