The cultivation world hides dragons and crouching tigers, and there is naturally no shortage of cultivation masters with superior strength in the imperial court and temples, but the places with the most strong masters are still those cultivation sects in the deep mountains and old forests.

It's just that these cultivation sects are self-contained, and in order to cultivate in order to purify, they have very little contact with the royal family and nobles who rule a country, they have their own circles of activity, and most of them act in concealment, and they don't like to be public, so how many strong people are hidden, there are very few people in the outside world who know about them.

Five days ago, the so-called Seven Kingdoms Famous Teachers' Order at the Imperial Family's Night Banquet was actually just a pass token recognized by the Seven Kingdoms Imperial Family, and it was unknown how much weight it had in the Central Plains Cultivation Realm.

However, the top 10 of the Nine Big Ratio is another matter.

It is undeniable that there will always be some real masters and strong people who are unwilling to participate in this kind of public competition, but there will never be too many such people, after all, there is a huge temptation in front of them, which makes people have to be excited.

Fugui Villa, named Villa, is actually a first-class sect in the ancient country of the Spring and Autumn Period, and also enjoys a good reputation in the Seven Kingdoms of the Central Plains, the villa has strict rules, not only the assessment of the selection of disciples is strict, but the people who want to go out of the village must pass many tests before they are qualified to practice in the name of the villa, otherwise, they are not allowed to expose their origins.

Lu Yiming dared to sign up for the Jiujia Competition as a disciple of Fugui Villa, which is enough to prove his strength.

"I heard a lot of rumors about you a few days ago, and I always felt that the people of Quanyang City boasted about you too much, until today after watching your performance in the dueling arena, I realized that you are stronger than the rumors. ”

Lu Yiming looked at Zhang Qingfeng with a very solemn expression.

Zhang Qingfeng smiled faintly and said, "I'm sorry, I've never heard of your name. ”

Lu Yiming said: "It's not surprising, Lu only passed the last test of the villa three months ago and obtained the qualification of 'negative study tour'. Before that, he had been cultivating in the mountain villa. ”

Zhang Qingfeng raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Isn't Guishan Villa related to the 'academy'?"

Lu Yiming was slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect Zhang Qingfeng to mention the word 'academy', but the onlookers who heard these two words around were confused and didn't know why.

'Academies', there are academies in the seven countries of the Central Plains, which are used to teach people to read and write, and learn etiquette and rules, but the academies that Zhang Qingfeng said are obviously a little different.

Lu Yiming looked at Zhang Qingfeng again, with a look of surprise on his face: "The first owner of my villa was indeed from the 'academy', but how did Zhang Gongzi know?"

Zhang Qingfeng sighed with emotion, he couldn't imagine that those sects and sects that had a close relationship with him thousands of years ago would slowly become inextricably linked with him after a thousand years.

First, the Chaos God Remnant Sword.

Then came the blood skeleton of the 100,000 mountains, the Black Hell Ghost King.

and then to the little black dragon white snow.

There is also the Demon Leopard Tribe.

Not long ago, I met the Cowherd and Weaver Girl of Yuefu Sword Pavilion.

Now, I have actually seen the sect power established by the disciples of the 'Academy' again, looking at all the things that I have experienced since my rebirth, it seems that there is an invisible force in the dark that is controlling all this, which is indescribably absurd and weird.

Zhang Qingfeng said with a smile: "There are three major schools in the cultivation world, the disciples are all over the mainland, and they have different opinions on their experience outside, the disciples of the academy are used to calling it 'Negative Journey to Study', and Xuanmen is called 'Hanging Pot to Help the World', the slogan of Zen Buddhism is the most high-sounding, known as 'Pudu All Beings'. ”

Lu Yiming suddenly realized, with admiration on his face, and said: "Zhang Gongzi is very knowledgeable, and Lu admires him." ”

Zhang Qingfeng said: "Brother Lu is polite, since Fugui Villa is related to the academy, then the test standard of this study tour also comes from the academy?"

Lu Yiming said: "The seventy-two major exams and the thirty-six minor exams are all copied from the rules of the academy, and there is no deviation. ”

Zhang Qingfeng groaned slightly, and said, "Then Brother Lu should have gone through the seventy-second major examination before standing on this dueling platform, right?"

Lu Yiming smiled: "Almost." ”

Zhang Qingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Almost?"

Lu Yiming said: "In addition to the seventy-two major exams, the owner of the village has added another test to Lu. ”

"Which test?"

"Skipping the challenge. ”

Lu Yiming hesitated slightly, but still confessed.

After hearing this, Zhang Qingfeng realized that he still underestimated the young master in front of him who looked a few years older than him.

Leapfrogging challenges, this is the fastest way for martial arts cultivators to make a name for themselves.

In this nine-top competition, the ten black dragon guards of the Hou Mansion of Wu'an have all crossed the level to challenge, although they have their own victories and defeats, there is no doubt that the names of the ten of them have been remembered by many people.

But Black Longwei's cultivation is all up and down the five or six heavens of the Qi Refining Realm, and the ones who challenge are all masters of the same realm, and Lu Yiming is the peak powerhouse of the Qi Refining Realm, and his so-called leapfrog challenge, of course, is the master of the Qi Transformation Realm!

I am afraid that no one has experienced more deeply than Zhang Qingfeng how difficult cross-border challenges are.

Relying on the combat experience of thousands of years ago and the skill of the Star Emperor, Zhang Qingfeng has hardly stopped fighting for leapfrogging challenges since the day he was reborn.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is extremely talented, and his martial arts talent has not been encountered for thousands of years, but only he knows that if it were not for the five hundred years of experience in his previous life and the countless martial arts in his memory, he would never have survived to the present, so no matter how strong the opponent he defeated, Zhang Qingfeng has never been proud.

Because of this, in Zhang Qingfeng's eyes, those geniuses who can leapfrog and defeat their opponents are real geniuses, just like Lu Yiming in front of him.

Unfortunately, Lu Yiming, who was on a study tour, met himself as soon as he left the villa.

"Let's go with the knife. ”

Zhang Qingfeng groaned slightly, and suddenly had a sense of love in his heart, and his hand was held on the handle of the saber at his waist for the first time.

"Please!"

Lu Yiming stopped talking nonsense, and after making a gesture of please, he slowly pulled out the slender saber in his waist.

This knife is inconspicuous, but the shape is slightly strange, the slender and straight blade is no more than two fingers wide, if it is not for the slightly wide back of the knife, there is no blade, but it looks like a sword.

Of course, in appearance, this is more like the ruler used by Mr. Private School to discipline students.

"Be careful. ”

Lu Yiming didn't hold it up, he knew that Zhang Qingfeng, who had cultivated into the Qi Realm, was by no means so easy to deal with, he started with his saber, paused for a moment, and the next moment, he stepped out, and the knife in his hand came down from top to bottom, swallowing out a three-foot qi and slashing towards Zhang Qingfeng.

Zhang Qingfeng's face was like water, and the saber in his waist came out of its sheath for the first time, and slashed down at the top of his head in the same posture as Lu Yiming.

Wow!

There was a crunch, and sparks flew everywhere.

The two knives were separated by a touch in the air, Lu Yiming was drawn an arc by the bounced ring ruler knife, his arm swung backwards, and the shadow of the knife broke through the air into a full moon, and the second knife was cut from the bottom up.

Zhang Qingfeng seemed to have anticipated Lu Yiming's move, and swung a knife in the same posture, and the two knives collided again, and the two of them each took a step back.

"What kind of knife is this?"

Lu Yiming frowned slightly, but what he said made the onlookers in the audience confused, obviously the two were using the same move, he would actually ask Zhang Qingfeng the same question as an idiot.

Zhang Qingfeng, who was not in a hurry, said: "Mr. has a question, the student has an answer, since Brother Lu has made a move, he will use the "Disciple Rules", and I have no choice but to draw a scoop according to the gourd and try this set of "On the Way of the Master". ”

Lu Yiming blurted out incredulous: "Where did you learn the lost "On the Way of the Teacher" in my academy?"

Zhang Qingfeng said with a smile: "It's all said, it's just a gourd to draw a scoop, come, let's continue." ”

This time, Zhang Qingfeng took the initiative to go out of the knife, and the two of them went back and forth, fighting in one place.

In the eyes of outsiders, the moves used by Zhang Qingfeng and Lu Yiming are almost the same, if it weren't for the difference in the appearance and figure of the two and the weapons they used, it would feel like a person practicing a knife in front of a mirror.

But only Lu Yiming knew that there was a mystery behind this seemingly identical move, no matter how fast he made the knife and how tricky the angle was, he couldn't get close to Zhang Qingfeng within a foot in front of him, he didn't feel anything at first, but as the speed of the move became faster and faster, he gradually found that the afterimage left by Zhang Qingfeng's swing of the knife was intertwined with a dense net, firmly protecting him in the middle, impervious to wind and rain!

It's a knife move!

Since Lu Yiming is a cultivation genius who can defeat his opponent across the border, his knowledge is naturally extraordinary, and he quickly saw the mystery of Zhang Qingfeng's sword technique, this seemingly the same move, it is clearly the nemesis of his secret sword technique "Disciple Rules"!

"Look at this knife again!"

Lu Yiming finally realized that something was wrong, his wrist flipped, his move suddenly changed, the ring ruler knife in his hand made a buzzing sound, and there was a wind and clouds surging above his head, and a five-meter-long knife shadow shrouded Zhang Qingfeng like a mountain with wind and rain in all directions.

In the observation tower, the Aquarius King saw this scene with a look of approval in his eyes, and the Spring and Autumn Four Absolute looked at each other, surprised by the power of this knife.

"Finally losing patience?"

The corners of Zhang Qingfeng's mouth, which Xiu Wei had been suppressing in the Nine Heavens of Qi Refining, hooked an arc, and the knife in his hand was gently raised into the air, and there was a clearly recognizable umbrella-like phantom enveloping his body.

Click!

In the earth-shattering collision, Lu Yiming's ring ruler knife slashed on the umbrella surface, and the splashed aura light bloomed like fireworks, the wind and rain and the phantom of the big umbrella disappeared, and at the same time, there was also the ordinary mortal saber in Zhang Qingfeng's hand, only the handle was held in his hand, less than half an inch away from Lu Yiming's blade.

Time seems to freeze in this moment.

The two men on the dueling table were like two statues, staring at each other, motionless.

Obviously, as long as he used a little force, he could cut off Zhang Qingfeng's palm, and the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out, his breathing became more and more rapid, and beads of sweat slowly rolled down his forehead.

"Aren't you tired?"

Zhang Qingfeng suddenly spoke, "Still unwilling?"

The aura in Lu Yiming's body was frantically poured into the ring ruler knife, and his whole body was soaked with sweat but he couldn't get an inch, how could he not be tired?

Zhang Qingfeng continued: "The disciples of the academy cultivate Haoran Righteous Qi Recipe and teach the way of 'gentleman', I remember that there is a sentence in the 'Treatise on Gentlemen' called 'A gentleman should know how to advance and retreat', if Brother Lu doesn't stop, I'm afraid he will stop at the Nine Heavens of Qi refining forever." ”

Rumble!

With a muffled sound, Lu Yiming retreated five or six steps in a row before he could barely stand firm, the painful color on his face flashed, and he snorted, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

Almost at the same time as Lu Yiming drew the knife, a puff of smoke and dust burst out from Zhang Qingfeng's hand, and the shattered handle of the knife body turned into a cloud of powder and dissipated into the air.

"I lost. ”

Lu Yiming put the knife into the sheath, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked defeated.

Zhang Qingfeng patted the dust on his hands, smiled and glanced at Lu Yiming deeply, and what he said made the already confused onlookers even more confused.

"How do I think, you won?"

Lu Yiming's expression was slightly stiff, the loss on his face was swept away after reminiscing, he looked at Zhang Qingfeng's back as he walked off the stage, hesitated for a moment, suddenly bent down, bowed deeply and shouted to the arbitrator who didn't know who to judge and who to win not far away.

"I lost. ”