Chapter 27: The Unexpected

After the battle between Sun Sanniang and Li Hongluo, Qi An quickly put away his thoughts about looking down on others, and then watched the second game.

Murong Qing is almost as famous as Li Hongluo, plus Gongsun Riyue, who rarely shows his head outside, these three people are the three pinnacle masters recognized by the entire Backing Academy, and only the three of them can have the ability to break through the prefecture-level life and death alley.

In the Alley of Ground-level Life and Death, a total of seventy-two war puppets were activated, of which the thirty-six human-level war puppets with only the threshold strength of the Martial Sect were not mentioned for the time being, but the difficulty was in the other thirty-six ground-level war puppets, because the ground-level war puppets all had strength far beyond the threshold of the Martial Sect, which was almost considered to have reached the standard of a powerful Martial Sect.

What is a powerful martial sect? It is like most of the students of the Backing Mountain Branch, it is much stronger than the martial sect that has just been promoted, one can fight two or three, but it is much inferior to the peak martial sect, such as Qu Han, Xiang Fang, Ji Zhengyue, etc., all belong to the powerful martial sect.

The same is the Martial Sect, the difference in strength may also be very large, the worst is the threshold-level Martial Sect that is promoted by medicine or the technique of the left way, this kind of Martial Sect is not very common, after all, the Martial Sect that is promoted by this will be injured to the foundation, and the cultivation after that is extremely difficult, there is almost not much room for improvement.

Above the threshold martial sect are ordinary martial sects that have been promoted through normal cultivation, which are called new martial sects. This statement is mainly a definition of strength, not that it has to be a martial arts sect that has just broken through and been promoted, many martial artists are wild people, not from famous families or cultivation families, most of them lack follow-up cultivation methods, or because of lack of talent, after breaking through to become a martial sect, the strength has been stagnant, five years later, or ten years later, there is no obvious change in strength, and it is still maintained at the level of just breaking through, and all of them can be attributed to the new martial arts.

This kind of martial arts sect has the most, such as Long Wu, Fan Suo, and Li Wei'er, all of which are the strength of the new martial arts, and there is no big power behind these bandits, they are all the kind of grass kings who start to practice hard after getting a low-level exercise, and finally become self-taught.

And when the newly promoted Martial Sect has a follow-up exercise, and after a long period of cultivation and accumulation, its strength will increase, and it will gradually become a powerful Martial Sect, or an old Martial Sect. For example, most of the students of the Qianqing Academy are powerful martial arts sects, such as Xiang Fang, Qu Han, and Ji Zhengyue, whose strength has obviously exceeded the level of the new martial arts, and most of them can fight the new martial arts sects with one against two or one from three, or even more.

For example, Zhao Tiejian, the master of the Iron Sword Sect, obtained the follow-up cultivation method because he took refuge in the Humble Sword Gate, and after studying and practicing hard, he was able to resist the joint efforts of the four brothers of the Ma family;

Above the powerful martial sect is the peak martial sect, if the powerful martial sect can fight two or three against the new martial sect, then the peak martial sect can fight at least one against the new martial sect. The reason why this is so is because the accumulation of true qi in the body of the peak martial sect is already strong enough, and it has a certain degree of control over the true qi in the body, and when fighting, it can use a part of the dantian true qi for its own use, so as to strengthen itself and enhance its power.

In fact, it is not too difficult to become a peak martial sect, as long as there are follow-up exercises that can continue to cultivate, through long-term breathing and refining qi, almost all ordinary martial sects can eventually reach the level of peak martial arts, the difference is only in the time spent, which is related to qualifications, physical fitness, skill level, cultivation environment, and many other aspects, not to mention. The original owner of Liuxian Village, Li Liuxian, was because he got a relatively superior practice method by chance, coupled with his own qualifications, he also became the peak martial arts sect under self-study and hard training, and dominated for more than ten years.

According to the difficulty setting of the Alley of Life and Death, those who can pass through the Alley of Human-level Life and Death should already have the strength of the Peak Martial Sect, and at present, among the nearly two hundred students in the entire Backing Mountain Branch, there are about 30 people who can break through the Alley of Human-level Life and Death, and these people should be the cultivation of the Peak Martial Sect.

In fact, including Li Hongluo, Murong Qing, Gongsun Riyue and others, the real realm is the peak martial sect, and they have not broken through to become a monk, because once they become a monk, they are forbidden to enter the Lane of Life and Death, and the results they have obtained before will also be erased from the rankings.

However, if you can break through the earth-level Life and Death Alley with the cultivation of the peak martial sect, your name will appear on the ground-level rankings, because this means that you already have the same strength as a cultivator in the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.

Li Hongluo and Murong Qing are such people, although they are peak martial arts sects, they can compete with the newly promoted Qi Condensation Realm monks, and the No. 1 ranked Gongsun Riyue is even more terrifying, and even has a record of defeating the new Qi Condensing Realm monks, many people speculate that he is not far from breaking through the heaven-level life and death alley.

These three people are undoubtedly much stronger than the normal peak martial arts, so Li Hongluo can easily defeat Sun Sanniang.

This is completely reasonable, if the brain turns around, it can no longer be regarded as an ordinary peak martial sect, but to treat her as a new Qi Condensation Realm cultivator, and it is only natural for a monk to defeat a martial artist.

Murong Qing is also such a person, he is at the same level as Li Hongluo, and he is also extremely powerful.

But after watching Li Hongluo's shot, Murong Qing's opponent Wei Ying looked very calm, even if he went to the ring, he didn't have the slightest look of jealousy, it seemed that he was not going to face Murong Qing who was as famous as Li Hongluo, but just a master like Sun Sanniang.

The promiscuous young man stepped into the ring with a smile, looked at the guard on the opposite side, and asked in a loud voice, "What about your weapon?

A strange smile appeared on Wei Ying's sallow and wrinkled face, and then he pulled out a jet-black iron ruler-shaped weapon from his sleeve, exactly one foot long, as thick as a copper coin, and without a blade.

Murong Qing did not stand with his hands held like Li Hongluo, but pulled out the saber at his waist, unhooked the scabbard and threw it under the ring, and stood with the knife in one hand, but the lazy expression and movement did not seem to value his opponent too much.

Murong Qing squinted at Wei Ying and said with a smile: "I will also let you make three moves, you come first!"

Wei Ying didn't move, just looked at the knife in Murong Qing's hand, and her cold triangular eyes flashed with an incomprehensible light.

Qi An also noticed this knife, it looks like an ordinary style, it is a standard war knife used in the army, and Qi An also has a knife like this, which is one of the court rewards obtained by killing Li Liuxian, in addition to the good material, it seems that there are no other advantages.

Compared to Qi An's one, the knife in Murong Qing's hand looked much shabby, it seemed to have been used for many years, the blade was not sharp enough, it was covered with many small and irregular gaps, and there were rust marks on the body of the knife, and it was not carefully maintained.

For a martial artist's sidearm, this is obviously abnormal, especially for a master like Murong Qing, combat weapons are quite important, I think Qi An used two inferior lawn mowing sickles, but was split into four pieces by Fan Suo with an axe, and was almost disemboweled.

Therefore, the more powerful the warrior, the higher the requirements for weapons, because the opponent in their minds will be stronger, the knife is not sharp enough, or the material is not tough enough, which may affect the victory or defeat of the battle. And Murong Qing dared to use this kind of maintenance that was not in good condition, and it could even be said that it was an old blunt knife, obviously he didn't care about the quality of the weapon.

This is not to say that the quality of the weapon has no effect on Murong Qing, but it is likely that he has surpassed his dependence on ordinary weapons, even a wooden stick can exert a power in his hand that is not weaker than a sharp blade.

In other words, Murong Qing is likely to have reached the realm where a person is a knife and a knife is a person. Whether it is a treasure knife or a blunt knife in the hand, there is not much difference.

Wei Ying had obviously seen through this, her brows furrowed slightly, and her expression became even more gloomy. Although he felt that he had the strength to fight Murong Qing, the other party just stood there casually, and the battle knife naturally hung down, exuding a sky-high momentum, and it seemed that there were no flaws in the whole body.

In fact, Wei Ying was confident enough to win, Murong Qing's momentum did not frighten him, he just glanced at the war knife in the opponent's hand a few more times, and then walked towards Murong Qing step by step.

Wei Ying walked unhurriedly, as if he was strolling leisurely, while Murong Qing maintained his lazy posture and looked at Wei Ying walking towards him with a smile.

When Wei Ying walked to Murong Qing and took a step forward, his footsteps stopped, slowly raised the iron ruler in his hand, and waved it lightly.

Wei Ying was at least half a zhang away from Murong Qing, and the two-foot-long arm and the one-foot-long iron ruler had a total attack range of only three feet, and there was still a distance away from Murong Qing's body, and it was obvious that he couldn't hit Murong Qing, so Murong Qing could ignore it completely.

But Murong Qing knew that if he didn't move, the iron ruler would definitely hit him, because Wei Ying was not crippled, he had hands and feet, if I didn't move, his feet would definitely move. Therefore, Murong Qing put the knife on with his backhand and faced Wei Ying's iron ruler.

With a loud bang, the two figures were shaken apart at the same time, one of them only took one step back, while the other retreated seven or eight steps in a row, until the edge of the stage stopped.

There was an uproar on the viewing platform, because the result was different from what everyone imagined, only one step back was the infamous Wei Ying, and the one who withdrew seven or eight steps in embarrassment was Murong Qing, the top master of the land list with a very high call for winning the championship.

At this time, Murong Qing no longer had the slightest lazy and idle posture, his two eyes were shining, staring at Wei Ying as sharp as a blade, and his expression was extremely cautious and spit out three words: "Condensation Qi Realm!"