Chapter 53: Competition
After Qi An woke up, he found himself lying next to a huge sinkhole, which must be the "Black Wind Abyss" mentioned in Mao Buping's mouth, and it was also Moro's hiding place.
It's just that at this moment, the black wind abyss is calm, the terrifying suction power has completely disappeared, and even the sunlight is projected into the valley through the clouds, and there is no longer any darkness.
One of the most serious fatal injuries on Qi An's body has begun to grow flesh, and the heart that should have been shattered has not only recovered as before, but is even surrounded by the surrounding muscles, leaving only a gap in the front chest and back that is covered by blood glue, and it is estimated that it will take a few days to fully recover, as for most of the other parts that were stabbed by the thin sword, most of them have begun to heal, and even a few have recovered, and there are no traces at all, as for those bitten and scratched by the Black Wind Wolf, they have long been unable to see.
Qi An was worried that Mao Buping was still on the periphery of the Black Wind Valley, so he was not in a hurry to go out, but took out the wordless iron plate and looked at it again.
Qi An's encounter in the past two days is like a dream, he has encountered fatal danger several times, not only being besieged and killed by the Black Wind Wolves, but also being destroyed by Mao Buping's sword through the chest, and finally encountering an old demon from another world who has lived for 10,000 years, and even almost being taken away by him, the thrilling of it is so thrilling that I even feel scared when I think about it.
However, Qi An finally got a few big gains, one was to figure out that the thing in the dantian was the Spirit Devouring Demon Fire, and was saved by it; the second was to know that his special physique was derived from the blood of the fire demon in the body, and he knew some unknown secrets; the third was to get this seemingly ordinary wordless iron card, but he didn't expect it to be a Cave Heaven magic weapon, no wonder Hua Yunzong and Qin Xiang wanted to get it.
But the Moro Divine Soul stored in the iron plate is a big trouble, it can be seen from the endless bones in the Black Wind Abyss that this person is definitely a demon who kills people without blinking, although the two made a blood oath, but Qi An does not dare to guarantee the binding force of this oath, in case one day Moro suddenly kills and is not good for him or others, Qi An really has no way to stop it.
"The most important thing is strength!" Qi An sighed, his fate was in his own hands, whether it was the Spirit Devouring Demon Fire or Moro, it was a big trouble that could be uncontrollable, and it could cause a disaster at any time, so Qi An was eager to improve his strength.
The three bounty tasks were actually completed, but Qi An could only get Zhao Hu's reward, because Kan Hong's head was blown up by him, and it was impossible for him to return the wordless iron card to Hua Yunzong.
Qi An rested near the Black Wind Abyss for a day and night, and only left the Black Wind Abyss from the opposite direction of coming in until the injury in his chest had healed a few points and had no effect on his movements.
There was an exit on the east and west sides of the Black Wind Valley, and Qi An entered from the west that day, but he couldn't tell the direction at all, but he found another exit to the east by mistake. On the way, Qi An encountered the Black Wind Wolves again, but his speed was slightly faster than the Black Wind Wolves, and with a little effort, he shook off the wolves behind him and finally walked out of the Black Wind Valley.
It's just that I'm afraid that the Black Wind Valley will have to change its name in the future, maybe the terrifying suction in the Black Wind Abyss is made by Moro, and with his sleep, there is no wind in the Black Wind Valley, and the deep position is no longer as dark as before.
By the time Qi An returned to the Backing Mountain Branch, a month and a half had passed since he left, and two major events had happened during this period, one was that Wang Sheng had broken through the prefecture-level Life and Death Alley and successfully entered the prefecture-level list, and the other was that Murong Qing and Li Hongluo had both broken through, promoted to the Condensation Qi Realm, and were about to leave the Backing Mountain Branch, and according to reliable sources, Murong Qing did have some connections with the Sword King Mansion, his father was one of the divine sword guards of the Sword King Mansion, and Li Hongluo was also a descendant of a small Xiuzhen family in the Gushan County City, and the backgrounds of both of them were higher than ordinary peopleγ
It's just that Qi An's strength now surpasses that of the past, and his vision has also improved, except for the departed Gongsun Riyue, the rest of the people almost didn't take the news to heart, and they didn't care about it, but when he came back, there were two visitors immediately, and they were Murong Qing and Li Hongluo, who had never crossed paths.
Qi An looked at the two of them, clasped his fists and said, "Senior Brother Murong, Senior Sister Li, the two of you are here, I don't know what to see?"
In the Qianqing Academy, students in the same class either call him by his first name or are called brothers.
Murong Qing said: "When I came here, I wanted to have a competition with Senior Brother Qi, and the intention of the carrot is the same as that below." β
"Competition?" Qi An was a little confused, unable to understand why the two of them suddenly thought of competing with him.
Li Hongluo then said: "Senior Brother Qi, among all the students in the Gushan Branch in the last few decades, they can really be called geniuses, only you and Gongsun Riyue, Murong Qing and I originally planned to break through the heaven-level life and death alley again, and then enter the elite training camp of the general academy, but their own qualifications are limited, and they want to break through the heaven-level life and death alley in the realm of martial arts, which can be said to be far away, so they also died of this heart, but before leaving the backer branch, I also hope to have a discussion with a real genius, so as not to leave regrets." β
Qi An nodded and said, "I see!"
Li Hongluo said again: "For the sake of fairness, when we are fighting, we will cultivate the realm to the level of suppressing the peak martial sect. β
The two of them thought that Qi An's cultivation realm was only the peak of the Martial Sect, and Qi An didn't break it, so he happily agreed: "That's very good, then let's go to the martial arts hall now?"
Murong Qing proposed: "There are too many people in the martial arts hall, so it is better to go to the back mountain to be quiet." β
There is a low mountain in the north of the backing mountain branch, the students call it the back mountain, although there is no scenery to see on the mountain, it is an excellent place to pass the move, so the three of them went straight to the back mountain.
After finding a secluded place on the mountain, Murong Qing said, "I'll come first!"
Li Hongluo didn't fight with him, and stepped back a distance to watch from the wall.
Since it was a competition, Murong Qing and the others would suppress the realm at the peak martial arts level, and of course Qi An would not bully people with the cultivation of the Qi Condensation Realm, so he also planned to contribute only three points of strength.
In fact, the so-called suppression realm is usually the use of control power, if the force is weak, the speed will naturally be slower, but the defense ability cannot be suppressed, especially for a body refining cultivator like Qi An, the true yuan and the physical body are combined into one, and they can't lower their defenses if they want to.
As for how much strength should be suppressed, Qi An also had a number in his heart, and according to his judgment, when he only used three points of force, his attack power happened to be the average level of the peak martial sect.
The two of them didn't talk much nonsense, and Murong Qing took the lead in attacking.
Most of Murong Qing's martial arts moves originated from the Sword King's Mansion, and he also studied the two volumes of "Heavenly Sword" and "Overlord Sword", and his body method is the same as Qi An'an, which is the top body technique of the Qianqing Academy, and both of them are at the entry level, that is, the level of one step and two.
And Qi An's martial arts moves are more complicated and a bit chaotic, and Murong Qing who is fighting and Li Hongluo who is watching the battle can't recognize it, but to the great surprise of the two, Qi An's hands and arms are like iron casting, and he is not afraid of swords, so they guessed that Qi An may have practiced a technique that is extremely good at defense.
Even if the realm is suppressed, Murong Qing's moves are very powerful, exceeding the threshold of the initial stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, if it is replaced by Qi An when he just breaks through, he will definitely not be an opponent when he only makes three points of force, but Qi An has grown a lot of experience when he goes out this time, not only his body is small, but his martial arts have also improved greatly, and he is inseparable from Murong Qing, and he will not fall behind.
But the final winner was Murong Qing, because Murong Qing had a trick, but Qi An didn't. Murong Qing's sword technique originated from the "Heavenly Knife" and "Overlord Sword" of the Sword King's Mansion, these two peerless martial arts have their own many killing moves and tricks, when Murong Qing broke out, the power and speed of the knife technique increased suddenly, Qi An couldn't resist it for a while, so he lost.
Of course, if the two of them let go to fight, similar to a real life-and-death fight, even if Murong Qing can hurt Qi An, he will not be able to kill Qi An, and it is estimated that the final winner will be Qi An, but in the case of competition, Qi An is indeed defeated.
After Murong Qing stepped back, she changed to Li Hongluo to play, and Li Hongluo may even be more powerful than Murong Qing, because Murong Qing was defeated at her hands, and Li Hongluo's results in the Lane of Life and Death have always been slightly ahead of Murong Qing.
Sure enough, although Li Hongluo's dual swords are not as powerful and domineering as Murong Qing's knife skills, they are actually more difficult to deal with, if Murong Qing is more focused on attacking, then Li Hongluo is both offensive and defensive, and Li Hongluo also has a trick, and Qi An was also defeated by Li Hongluo's trick.
After losing two games in a row, Qi An was not discouraged, but felt very happy, because he found the reason for his failure, that is, he did not have a special move, so he did not have the ability to explode, when others broke out, if he couldn't resist, he would fail, so he could use this as the main direction of attack to improve.
For this result, Murong Qing and Li Hongluo felt quite surprised, because judging from the ranking of the prefecture-level list, Qi An's results were far better than them, and they should be more powerful, so they were ready to fight hard or even defeat, who knew that the final victory was themselves, although it was not easy, but it was not as difficult as imagined, obviously Qi An's martial arts cultivation was not too strong.
Li Hongluo said directly to Qi An: "Senior Brother Qi, I am an anxious person, I don't know if I should say something or not?"
Qi An said modestly: "Senior Sister Li, please speak up, Qi An listens!"