In the evening, in the courtyard of the Maple Wood Sect, after eating dinner, the twenty-five teenagers either went back to their rooms to rest, or they found a peaceful place to start their spiritual meditation.

At this time, Tianxing sat in a bamboo forest, coiled up, and used the ice clear technique to attract the power of the stars and temper the body.

The five-colored divine stone in the body slowly rotates, absorbing the spiritual power of the natal fire and the power of the stars deposited in the bloodline, and keeps running with the way of the five elements to restore the spiritual power in the body.

He has to adjust his physical condition to the perfect extreme before tomorrow's competition, and this battle will be his last battle to enter the Maple Wood Sect.

Since Tianxing had never practiced the absorption exercise, he could only use the five elements in his body that he had not yet mastered to slowly operate to restore his spiritual power, and even then it was much stronger than when he did not have the Five Planet Stones in his body.

Around midnight, Tianxing's spiritual power finally recovered to the fullness of the first level of the spirit after the cycle of the five elements, but Tianxing did not plan to get up and leave, but continued to enter the spiritual realm and practice his own Jincun sword technique.

Why don't you practice it in your mind, instead of doing it?

This is not because Tianxing's knife skills have reached any field, or to the extent that he is so clever that he has no knife in his hand and a knife in his heart, but because before the start of the competition, anyone who is not fully sure of winning will not let others see their moves, and the spiritual power has been made clear to others, and if the moves are shown to others, Tianxing will have no hole cards.

"My strength is still too weak, or I can learn to be cool in black. Tianxing thought to himself.

"Help~life~ya~~, help~life~ah~! ”

Suddenly, there was a cry for help not far away, it sounded like a child's voice, and in the middle of the night, "This kind of thing actually happened in the Maple Sect Courtyard~?!" Tianxing was a little puzzled in his heart, "Go and see if it's not far away anyway."

Tianxing hurriedly got up and looked for the source of the sound, it was also very dark, there was no one around, and after walking more than a hundred meters, he found that the sound came from the location of the dead tree by the wall.

"Is it the spirit of wood? It is impossible to be overgrown with weeds around, more than ten square miles are dead grass, Xiaoyu said, 'The spirit of wood grows in the lush vegetation, the grass and trees are green, the water source is sweet, there are no weeds around, and the flowers are fragrant all year round. There can't be a wood elf here, but why does that dead tree make a childlike sound?"

The voice came again: "Help, is there anyone, help me, woo~woo~woo~woo~." ”

Celestial Star boldly leaned in to the withered tree again, peeled off the long, dense withered grass that grew around him, and poked his head out to look forward.

"Hey, there's a well. "Celestial Star saw a well under the dead tree, hidden by a dense patch of dead grass.

"It's an abandoned dry well, covered by such grass, that if it weren't for the sound coming from here, it would be hard to spot it even during the day," Tianxing thought to himself.

"Who would come here in the middle of the night?"

It was dark, and the surroundings were still very quiet, except for the occasional insect chirp, there was no one.

Tianxing was a little scared, but he couldn't control the curiosity in his heart, he slowly approached the well, picked up the messy grass, knelt on one leg, and held the black wooden knife on his waist with one hand, afraid that something would suddenly come out of it, and poked his head out to look into the well, but unfortunately the well was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, and he didn't know how deep the well was

Tianxing had the courage to shout: "Hey~!Are you human?'Dizzy, what am I talking about?'Uh...... I'm asking the people inside, who are you and how did you fall into it?"

"Woo ~ woo ~ woo, my name is Yan'er, my mother is the cook here, because my mother said that I should get up early today and make breakfast for the big brothers in today's game, so I won't go home to sleep with me, let the big flower cat accompany me, but after I woke up in the middle of the night, the big flower cat is gone, I also miss my mother, so I came out to find my mother, but I accidentally fell into this dry well, woo ~ woo ~ woo, you help me out, I'm so scared. ”

After listening to what the child said, Tianxing felt that everything was true, not like lying, and now that the child was still in the well, he didn't have time to think about it, so he asked, "Did you fall and hurt yourself?"

"I'm fine, but the wellhead is too high for me to go up, and I'm scared. ”

"Don't panic, I'll be back soon, I'll go find something to save you first, you wait, don't cry anymore, I heard it carefully in the middle of the night. ”

"Well, you have to come back."

"Don't worry".

Tianxing ran back to the bamboo forest just now, and chose a bamboo, close to three zhang high, not thick or thin, but very flexible, Tianxing used a black wooden knife to cut down the bamboo.

It's strange to say that the black wooden knife given by my father-in-law has no blade, but it is effortless to cut things, and I have chopped a lot of firewood from childhood to adulthood, but this wooden knife has never been broken, and it is very sharp and strong.

Tianxing cut the branches and leaves of the bamboo cleanly, then dug a hole at one end of the bamboo with a knife, untied the belt on his body, passed through the hole in the bamboo, and tied it firmly together, because without the belt, Tianxing's knife could not be inserted into his waist, so he gently bit the back of the knife with his mouth, picked up the bamboo with both hands, and ran back to the well, took the knife from his mouth and shouted inside.

"Hey~!You move to the side, I'll put the bamboo down, you tie the rope on it around your waist, and I'll pull you out. ”

Tianxing placed the black wooden knife on the ground and carefully stretched the bamboo into the well, which was fortunately not very deep, only more than two people high.

Tianxing waited for a while, and when he heard that the child in the well had already tied himself, he pulled the bamboo back, and tried it, feeling that the bamboo could withstand the weight of the child, so he slowly pulled the bamboo back, and the bamboo was very tough, although it was pressed very bent, there was no trace of breakage.

Tianxing pulled hard, although his figure looked thin, but often in the stars and the power of nature attracted by Bing Qingjue, after helping him wash his body and cut off the marrow, he was no longer as weak as it seemed on the surface. Eventually, Tianxing pulled the whole bamboo out of the well and rescued the child from the well.

He looked at the other end of the bamboo, the little girl standing, wearing a red Uesugi and black pants, her face was a little dirty because she fell to the bottom of the well, and there were a few dead grasses on her head, Tianxing, walked over and picked the weeds off the girl's head with her hands, and asked, "Are you okay? Don't be afraid now, it's all over." ”

"Well, thank you, little brother. ”

"You're welcome. Tianxing, bent down to untie the belt tied to the other end of the bamboo, and asked, "Hmm.... You seem to be called Yan'er, right? Where do you live, I'll send you back. ”

Yan'er smiled and replied, "Hmph~Hmph! I still don't need you to send it, my house is here." ”

When Tianxing heard this, his hair rose suddenly, and his hand immediately went to his waist to pull out the knife, but the knife was taken off and thrown on the ground when he saved the little girl just now, and the little girl who was standing on the edge of the well at this time was firmly trampled under his feet.

Tianxing, quickly took two steps back, and asked with some fear: "You~....~ you... What kind of spirit animal are you?"

Originally, when he was at home, Tianxing often listened to Xiaoyu talk about how various spirit beasts transformed into human forms, confused and deceived humans, and then hurt their lives, absorbed the essence of their blood, and then took the elemental spirit beads in their bodies, refined and sucked them, and enhanced their spiritual power.

At this time, Tianxing was frightened by his own conjecture, and his heart was pounding.

"Spirit beast? What is a spirit animal? Why are you so nervous?"

"You're not a spirit animal?"

"You're a spirit beast~!Hmph! I live here, in the annex of the Maple Sect, I grew up here, this is my home. I liked you a little just now, and you actually scolded me for being a beast, hmph, ignoring you. ”

Tianxing, after hearing this, let out a long breath, in less than an hour tonight, I was scared twice by this little girl, and I really couldn't afford to hurt it. "Forget it, forget it, since you've lived here since you were a child, then you can go back by yourself, I'm leaving. "Tianxing really doesn't want to stay with this girl anymore.

"Well, wait a minute, I don't know your name yet, how can I thank you?"

"My name is Tianxing, and I came here to participate in the competition, because your mother threw you at home because she was making breakfast for us, and you fell into the well in order to find your mother, and it is because of us, so I don't need to thank you. ”

"No, how can you say that you also saved me, well, this is for you, I brought it up when I was a child, and my mother said it was a family heirloom. Yan'er, took off a piece of jade pendant from her neck and stuffed it into Tianxing's hand, Tianxing hurriedly excused herself, but a warm air flow suddenly came from the jade pendant in her hand, and she turned around in Tianxing's dantian, and the luster of the star stone in the dantian was a little brighter.

"Ah~!, it's a good thing, and it actually has a boosting effect on the aura in my body. But, I'm sorry, I still can't ask for your family heirloom, give it to me so casually, it's not good. I didn't save you to covet anything, but if you want to give me something, you can give me back the knife under your feet. ”

Tianxing returned the jade pendant to Yan'er, and Yan'er hung the jade pendant around her neck again, picked up the knife on the ground and handed it to Tianxing.

"Since you don't want it, I won't force it on you, so let's take this lucky rope, you must accept this. "Yan'er.

From his wrist, he untied a bracelet made of red rope and put it on Tianxing's hand.

"I wish you to pass the exam tomorrow, Brother Tianxing, goodbye, I'm leaving" The little girl ran away happily.

"Hey~!You run slowly, don't fall, see the way. Looking at Yan'er's figure running away, Tianxing smiled, looked at the red bracelet in his hand, shook his head again, picked up the belt from the ground and tied it on his body, reinserted the knife, and turned back.

The next morning, after breakfast, the twenty-five children all came to the gate of the Maple Wood Sect Courtyard to gather, lined up, and waited for the invigilator, and after a while, the invigilator disciple of the Maple Wood Sect from yesterday came.

The disciple looked at the group of children in front of him and said lightly, "There is no red bracelet on the body."

The children were stunned, not knowing what was going on, "Do you want me to say it again?" Five children walked out of the line.

"There are two other people, don't think you can hide it from me. Two more children came out of the group.

The disciple said to the seven children: "Hand over the jade pendant on your body as well, what happened last night is the third game that tested your humanity, we have found twenty five people to test whether your heart is good or greedy for money, because you either ignored the cry for help or received the jade pendant, so, I'm sorry, you failed." ”

At this time, the group of children suddenly understood what had happened, and although they were a little remorseful, they were also helpless.

The invigilator ignored them and said to the remaining eighteen teenagers, "You all come with me, have the last selection exam, and go to the playground for a martial arts competition." Eighteen teenagers followed behind this disciple of the Maple Wood Sect and walked towards the playground, without saying anything, but secretly admiring the methods of the Maple Sect in their hearts.

There was a disciple of the Maple Wood Sect standing in each of the four corners of the playground, and a box was placed on the side, and the invigilator said to the group of children: "There are two kinds of notes in the box, blue and red, with numbers from one to nine written respectively, you go to draw lots one by one, from the selection to the beginning of the competition, go." ”

Eighteen teenagers lined up, and one by one, they reached into the box and took out the note.

"Okay, it's all drawn, the blue note stands on the east side of the playground, and the red note stands on the west side of the playground, and the one drawn to play. ”

After the team stood up, there were two teenagers standing on the playground, one was wearing a white tight-fitting suit and a wooden sword, and the other teenager was wearing a beast skin coat, revealing one arm and holding an eyebrow-level short stick, because both of them were spiritual warriors with wood spiritual power, so the weapons were also wood-attributed.

The two of them hugged their fists and began the competition, the young man in white was the first to make a move, holding a long sword and stabbing at the throat of the other party, the swordsmanship was fierce, the beast-clothed young man held the middle of the short stick with his right hand, and held the lower end of the short stick with his left hand, and dodged the attacking long sword with his side, and hit the short stick in his hand on the sword of the young man in white.

The white-clothed boy had an ineffective blow and the sword body was blocked, so he withdrew the wooden sword and stabbed it out diagonally, and then the sword flower flipped and wanted to pick up the short stick that the beast-clothed boy was lying in front of him, but the beast-clothed boy had great strength, and he held the short stick and refused to let go, also because his body was thick, but he was relatively insensitive in footwork, and he was entangled by the opponent's long sword.

The swordsmanship of the young man in white continued to accelerate, his wrist danced with sword flowers, and the tip of the sword continued to stab, obliquely, and picked, forcing the young man in beast clothes to be helplessly on the defensive, and was slowly forced to the edge of the playground.

The young man in white saw that victory was in sight, the long sword in his hand was sharper, and forced the young man in beast clothes to use a short stick to surround himself in front of him, and the young man in beast clothes saw that he had been forced to the edge of the playground, and he was about to lose if he took two steps back, so he turned his heart sideways, swept the short stick in his hand, and no longer resisted the opponent's long sword, and then jumped up and rotated the short stick in his hand, and smashed it towards the young man in white.

The young man in white calculated that the other party would fight back, so he made the long sword in his hand, followed by his body and stabbed at the feet of the young man in beast clothes, the young man in animal clothes could not dodge in the air, and was stabbed in the ankle by a sword, although it was a wooden sword, it was also very painful.

And the short stick in his hand, because the white-clothed young man turned around and dodged, smashed to the ground, the white-clothed young man, seeing the opportunity, a striding long sword stabbed at the throat of the beast-clothed young man again, and stopped when it was only less than an inch away from the young man's erect neck.

Although the beast-clothed boy was unwilling, he was also helpless, and the white-clothed boy withdrew his long sword, holding the sword in one hand and using both hands for "concession." "The beast-clothed boy, he has nothing to say, so he turned around and left.

The competition is like this, Tianxing doesn't know who his opponent is, he doesn't want to be the blue-clothed young man, although he still doesn't know much about the blue-clothed man, but for the sake of him helping himself, he doesn't want to hurt him, and the maple old man of the maple sect also said that the young man is the first place here.

"Player No. 6 on the field" Tianxing straightened up, and the black wood on his waist walked to the middle of the field, waiting for the opponent to play, and he drew the blue six.

"It's finally time for you to fight with you," the man in black came.

"My name is Tianxing, I haven't asked you what your name is?"

"Cold Night"

"Actually, I really don't want to fight you now, because I'm afraid that after this fight, I won't have a chance in the future."

"One another"

"You're really cold and have very few words"

“......”

"Let's get started".

As soon as the words fell, the swords of the two of them collided together, the swordsmanship of the cold night was very sharp, the speed of the sword was extremely fast, the sword moves were tricky, the tip of the sword pointed directly at the big points around Tianxing's body, and the Tianxing was tightly sealed in his sword moves, and the long sword in his hand was infused with the spiritual power of the wood element, and the sword body was also very hard.

Tianxing gritted his teeth and insisted on it because his spiritual power was too much lower than that of the other party, and he refused to admit defeat, he and Leng Ye dismantled a few moves, and the opponent's sharp swordsmanship sealed the position around him, and the wood elemental spiritual power also invaded his body against the opponent's sword body, making it impossible for him to send out the sharp force of the black wood sword technique.

"No, it's not a level at all, and if you go on like this, you're going to lose. "Tianxing, secretly carried the five-colored star stone in his body, and used the spiritual power of the gold element to restrain the wood element that forced the cold night into his body.

After the power of gold restrained the power of wood that invaded the body, Tianxing suddenly felt that his body was light, and the pressure was greatly reduced, so he took the opportunity to turn the blade and slash back into the cold night, slashing horizontally and vertically, the speed was getting faster and faster, and the black wood knife made a whirring sound in the air, which looked very domineering and sharp.

Suddenly, Tianxing finally saw a flaw, and slammed the black wooden knife upright, and slashed his arm violently, slashing the black wooden knife straight through!

Leng Ye turned his body sharply, dripping around several times, a pain in his waist, and he was still touched by the edge of the knife.

Leng Ye's face darkened, and he raised his sword to open the black wooden knife, and his wrist shook suddenly, as fast as a cold light!

Celestial Star, turning the blade face upside down, slashed at the wrist of the sword holding the sword with the back of the sword against the cold night.

How could Leng Ye wait to be attacked by the black wooden knife, so he twisted his wrist and lifted the sword in his hand, and pressed it in reverse, Tianxing returned with this blow in vain, so he had to take the black wooden knife back and hold it tightly in his hand.

In the cold night, he did not pursue, but also collected his sword and crossed in front of him.

The two looked at each other, and they admired each other very much.

"You, not bad~!"

"That's not as good as you, the spiritual power is much higher than me, and it invades my body through the sword body, so that I can't use all my strength, but unfortunately, this sword technique is not suitable for me, it is too domineering, and I haven't understood it yet, so I can do it."

"Yes. It's a pity~!"

"Alright, let's go ahead and see my own knife technique. ”

"Come~!"

This time, Tianxing changed the domineering and sharp trend of the 'Black Wood Knife Method', and changed it to continuously, overcoming the strength of the strength with softness, because he wanted to ensure that the secret of his power of the five elements would not be revealed, so he could not integrate the power of gold into it to restrain the cold night, in case people would be forced to eliminate the game after being discovered, so he could only attack with the self-created 'Jincun Knife Technique' that had not yet been fully integrated.

Although Leng Ye's swordsmanship is fierce, Tianxing's sword technique is very soft, half of his sword momentum is like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is also a strange force, faintly wanting to fight back, so Leng Ye doesn't dare to collide with Tianxing's sword technique again.

Leng Ye had no choice but to follow his sword momentum, but he couldn't touch Tianxing's body, but he was driven by it and was powerless to fight back.

Finally, Leng Ye couldn't stand the current stalemate, and used a strong horizontal slash and stabbed straight through, Tianxing had already taken advantage of the situation, and now Leng Ye finally came with all his strength, so he used his sword power to follow the sword momentum backwards, and turned around and slapped Leng Ye with the back of the knife with his strength.

Leng Ye didn't expect that Tianxing would suddenly change his move, and suddenly felt that a force was invaded in his back, like a wave, attacking layer by layer, and he was busy using the power of his sixth-layer spirit to resist comprehensively, Tianxing did not use all his strength to make this move, a point of victory or defeat, and immediately stood in place and waited for Leng Ye to stabilize the knife power in his body.

Slowly, Leng Ye's face improved, and everything was restored.

In the cold night, he arched his hand "You won." Celestial Star also bowed his hand in return.

At this point, the invigilator said, "Red wins." ”

Tianxing was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm Lan Fang." ”

The invigilator said, "Yes, you're blue, but you lose, look at your feet." ”

Tianxing lowered his head and glanced at his feet, dumbfounded, he had unknowingly jumped out of bounds when he jumped behind the cold night just now.

"It's over, it's me who lost~!"