After devouring most of Moro's divine soul power, the Soul Devouring Demon Fire has become a lot stronger, originally just a small flame, and now it occupies most of the space of the dantian, but it is as quiet and dormant as ever, except for the occasional "temper tantrum" and the release of a blazing torrent to help Qi An dredge the meridians, there seems to be no other harm, but every time he strengthens the meridians, it makes Qi An feel painful.

And after falling asleep, Moro didn't move at all, and he didn't know when he would wake up, if it was okay for a year or two, Qi An could still find a way to control him, but if it was tens of hundreds of years, or even after Qi An died, he would probably be able to directly ignore the shackles of the blood oath and bring disaster to the world.

Because of this, Qi An began to regret making a deal with Moro, if it weren't for the influence of the Blood Oath, he would probably have directly found a way to destroy the wordless iron plate, even if it was a precious Cave Heaven Artifact.

Seeing that the three-year period in the Backing Mountain Branch was about to expire, Qi An was ready to report the news of his breakthrough to the top management of the Branch, ready to wait for the arrangement of the court, but who knew that the new chief steward came to find Qi An first, saying that the dean had invited him.

The current dean of the backer branch is the former vice president Cui Yi, the original dean is old, and he stepped down and returned to his hometown as early as a year ago, and the former chief steward Fan Ming was promoted to vice president after the breakthrough.

Qi An doesn't know much about Dean Cui Yi, and he has only met a few times, and he has very few conversations, but he is quite prestigious in the backer branch, and he is said to be an elder with a very kind personality.

When Qi An came to the residence of the dean, he found that there were many familiar figures in the house, such as Bu Feng, Wang Sheng, Chai Qiao, Qiao Zheng, all of whom he knew, and a new face, Qi An had never seen it, it was a young brocade robe, with very luxurious clothes, shaking a folding fan in his hand, and his expression looked very arrogant.

After Qi An arrived, Dean Cui Yi nodded at him and ordered him to sit on his left hand side beside him, while Bu Feng sat on his right hand, and Qi An and Bu Feng faced each other across the desk.

When he was young, another man and a woman were led in by two stewards and sat down at the end, and then all the stewards withdrew from the door, leaving only Dean Cui Yi and eight students.

Dean Cui Yi cleared his throat and said loudly: "You are busy with cultivation and may not be familiar with each other, so the old man will introduce you first, and everyone will understand each other." ”

Then, Dean Cui Yi began to introduce Bu Feng on the right hand side one by one, and Qi An knew that the other three young men and women he didn't know were all the peak martial arts sects on the human level list, that is to say, the eight people here were all masters on the list, three prefecture-level lists and five human-level lists.

The hand-cranked fan-clad boy is called Fan Teng, and he is actually the third son of the current county guard, no wonder he is so arrogant, ranking third on today's human ranks.

The dark-skinned sturdy young man is named Li Hualin, with a very ordinary birth background, ranking last on the human ranks.

The last woman was thin and fair-skinned, in contrast to the black and strong Li Hualin, who was Bai Jianhong, who was the fourth on the list.

After the introduction, Dean Cui Yi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then said, "I invite you to come over this time, but there is an extremely important matter that needs your help. ”

Wang Sheng first clenched his fists and said, "If the dean is sent, please give orders, Wang Sheng will obey his orders." ”

The rest of the people should claim yes, Qi An also nodded, and waited for Dean Cui Yi's next words.

Dean Cui Yi quickly continued: "Among you, only Bu Feng and Wang Sheng have been in this hospital for the longest time, and it is estimated that they can guess what the old man summoned everyone for, and the rest of them should not have any preparations. ”

Bu Feng's face turned pale and asked, "But is it for the Qingzhou Sixth Academy Exchange Competition?"

Dean Cui Yi replied, "That's exactly what happened!"

Most of the others listened inexplicably, and they didn't know what the so-called "Qingzhou Six Academies Exchange Competition" meant.

Before Dean Cui Yi could explain, Fan Teng first shook the folding fan and stood up, and said teasingly: "As we all know, the Qianqing Academy was founded by the imperial court, and each county has a branch, and Qingzhou has a total of six counties, that is, there are six branches. In order to promote the exchange between the major branches of Qingzhou, an exchange competition of the nature of competition will be held every six years, and each branch will send eight elite disciples to compete, which is the so-called Qingzhou Six Colleges Exchange Competition. ”

Dean Cui Yi stroked his beard and said, "Yes, Fan Xian's nephew is worthy of being the son of the county guard, and he even knows these things." ”

Fan Tengwei hugged his fists and sat down, and Dean Cui Yi said: "The exchange competition is held every six years, and the six branches take turns to be the east, and this time it will be held next month, and the venue is the Fufeng Branch.

For things like this, which can not only communicate with the masters of the same generation, but also win glory for the branch, everyone naturally obeys their fate, but Qi An asked carefully: "I don't know what are the requirements for the people participating in the competition? For example, they must be innate martial artists, or are there some other restrictions?"

The reason why Qi An deliberately asked this was because he was afraid that his cultivation would not meet the rules of participation.

Dean Cui Yi replied with a smile: "As long as you are a student of the Branch, it is not limited to the Innate Martial Sect, even if you break through to the Qi Condensation Realm, as long as you have entered the Branch for less than three years, you can participate." ”

When Dean Cui Yi said this, Qi An was also relieved, and immediately expressed his willingness to participate in this exchange competition.

Three days later, led by Vice Dean Fan Ming, accompanied by two stewards, plus eight participating students, a group of eleven people embarked on a journey to Fufeng County.

Fufeng County is in the southeast of Gushan County, and the Fufeng Branch, like the Gushan Branch, is built on the outskirts of the county town, and the distance between the two is at least seven or eight thousand miles.

This is the second time Qi An has entered Fufeng County, the last time he went to the bounty task was more than half a year ago, there were a lot of situations on the way, and in the end he was almost alive, but this time it was very smooth, and the group came to Fufeng County safely.

Fufeng County looks larger and more prosperous than Gushan County, with about 1.23 million inhabitants and an unknown number of garrisons.

Since it was getting late when he entered the city, Vice President Fan Ming decided to rest in the city for one night and go to the Fufeng Branch tomorrow.

Behind the Qianqing Academy is the court, which itself belongs to a semi-official force, so there is no need to look for the inn at all, you can directly stay in the post house in the county town, and the environment and meals are much better than the ordinary inns.

At the same time that Fan Ming led the team to the post house, there happened to be a team of people who were about to enter the post house from another direction, led by a middle-aged bearded man, as soon as he saw Fan Ming, he smiled and said: "Old Fan, I didn't expect you to be the team leader this time, I heard that you old boy has broken through, not bad!"

Fan Ming's face, which had always been unsmiling, actually frowned, and said coldly: "Bearded, is there no one in your Yiwu Branch?

The bearded man laughed and said, "Lao Tzu is also the vice president, okay? What? Not convinced? Why don't we practice first?"

Fan Ming ignored him, snorted coldly, and was about to enter the post house from his horse, who knew that the bearded man was faster than him, and jumped off the horse first to stop in front of Fan Ming, and said with a smile: "Our Yiwu branch came first, naturally let us go first, you hurry up to the back and line up." ”

Fan Ming raised his eyebrows, and he was about to get angry, but the bearded man smiled and said to himself: "Lao Tzu knows that you won't agree, it's better to do this, let's each send a student to learn first, and the winning side is first, what do you think?"

Fan Ming was furious, so he twisted his head and looked at Bu Feng, ready to call Bu Feng out to fight, but Wang Sheng, who was half a position behind, stood up first, and took the initiative to ask for battle: "Vice President Fan, let Wang be a pawn, and first come to understand the tricks of the colleagues of the Yiwu Branch." ”

Fan Ming thought that Wang Sheng was also the strength of the prefecture-level list, although it was not as good as Bu Feng and Qi An, but he was by no means a weakling, so he nodded and allowed him to fight.

On the other side of the Yiwu Branch, a tall and thin young man stood out, with a numb expression on his ordinary face, and his eyes staring straight ahead, as if he had a zombie face.

After all, they are all students of the Qianqing Academy, although the atmosphere is a little choked, Wang Sheng still clasped his fists and saluted, and said loudly: "Wang Sheng of the Backer Branch, please give advice!"

Who knew that the other party not only did not return the courtesy, but even exempted himself from introducing himself, just looked at the front expressionlessly, and replied lightly: "How to compare?"

Wang Sheng was angry in his heart, so he said: "You take Wang's punch first, and then talk about it!"

After that, Wang Sheng raised his hand and punched it, he himself can be regarded as an innate divine power, and the exercises he cultivates are the type that focuses on improving strength, and the power of this punch is estimated to be able to be received by no one in the entire backer branch except Qi An, even Qiao Zheng, who is known as the strongest defense.

But the zombie face raised his palm lightly, met it with one palm, and took Wang Sheng's punch with the palm of his hand, and only took half a step back at his feet.

"It's a bit of strength!" the zombie face praised it without being salty, sounding more like sarcasm.

Wang Sheng withdrew his fist, his face was swollen and red, he originally planned to punch his power, but he didn't keep his hand at all, who knew that he only knocked the opponent back half a step, it was really embarrassing.

The zombie face finally looked at Wang Sheng, and said lightly: "You also come to take my palm." ”

After finishing speaking, he stepped forward, palmed, and hit Wang Sheng's chest, and Wang Sheng also put on a posture and greeted him with his fists. When the fists and palms intersected, there was a crisp sound of "pop", followed by several sounds of "boom", and I saw Wang Shengyi retreating three or four steps in a row, and his face was a little gray.