Chapter 157: Practicing the War Covenant
When the free challenge competition began, it was the third day of the master's gathering, and this was the time to truly show the strength, the Guangshan disciples and miscellaneous servants, plus the candidates who came from all over the country to worship the Guangshan sect, a total of more than 1,000 people gathered in the square, all wanting to see if there would be a few dark horses who could skip the challenge this year.
The rules set by Zhu Mingkong in the early years are very fair, the small challenge is big, and if you win, you can get the exquisite weapons, armor and other precious prizes provided by the division, and if you lose, you will not lose anything, and if you lose, you will only lose face, and there is no actual loss, so there are many challengers in each session, and encouraging the back wave to push the front wave is the original intention of this challenge competition, but there are also some colleagues who usually have festivals to take this opportunity to attach some bets, like Qi Xiaoyang and Meng Zhan, This is the case with Zhu Wuxin's fight, as long as it is not too excessive, the host will not interfere.
Mei Yashan stood on the competition platform, the rules of free challenge again, and the group competition is different, the challenger can choose between the two ways of civil and military competition, the rules of the civil fight are the same as the group competition, it is very safe, the martial arts is the use of actual combat moves, the risk is much greater, the possibility of injury is great, so it is recommended that everyone choose the cultural fight. After Mei Yashan finished explaining, he finally announced: "In this competition, those who succeed in the challenge can choose one of their favorite weapons in the prize; those who succeed in the third level or above can get a soul armor refined by the head of Minghua himself; and those who succeed in the challenge of the greater realm will receive a special reward for this year - a colorful horse." Now the challenge begins!"
There was a lot of discussion in the audience, because the prizes this time were much more precious than in the past, not only the weapons on display were of a higher grade, but the soul armor refined by Zhu Minghua himself only had one in a few years, although it was not as strong as the defense of the non-injury armor, but it was not very far away, it could block the attack of ordinary soul masters, and the colorful horse was even more of a heart-warming thing, and now among the young horses who did not recognize the master in Guangshanmen, Wucai was the only one.
Soon some people began to challenge on stage, and the first few were all disciples of the youth group who challenged the adult group, and they were generally two stars apart in strength, and they all chose the Wendou method. But after five or six comparisons, they all ended with the challenger defeating. The rules of the competition of this Guangshanmen pay too much attention to safety, the actual combat experience is not brought into play, and there are many killing skills that cannot be used in the competition, so the difficulty is not ordinary to succeed in the challenge of leapfrogging.
The disciples who were originally eager to try all hesitated, and there was a temporary coldness in the scene, Meng Zhan kept looking at Qi Xiaoyang through the crowd, looking a little impatient, he wanted to complete this appointment as soon as possible, and then challenge a junior soul master by leaping over the ranks. Qi Xiaoyang actually had the same idea, because he had not tested the strength of his soul power after the consummation of the Nine Stars, and he really wanted to compare with the soul master to see how big the gap was, so as to judge whether he could save his life under the hands of the intermediate soul master, so he took advantage of the cold scene and slowly walked to the stage.
"Disciple Qi Xiaoyang, challenge the first senior brother Meng Zhan in the youth group!" As soon as Qi Xiaoyang's voice fell, there was an uproar in the audience, it seemed that he was twice as old as Meng Zhan, and the realm he showed before was twice as bad, and even his size was nearly doubled, such a challenge was too visually impactful, and it may not have appeared in the history of Guangshanmen.
Mei Yashan was very surprised in his heart, how did he know that the two had already had a fight in private, and now Qi Xiaoyang shouldn't be so high-profile at all, but in front of many disciples, it was not easy to refuse Qi Xiaoyang to come to power, so he had to implicitly admonish: "Compete in the same class, focus on communication, don't take the victory or defeat too seriously!" means to remind Qi Xiaoyang not to be too showy to attract attention, after all, there are still some people here who do not belong to Guangshanmen.
Meng Zhan jumped up from the crowd and landed on the stage after a dashing turn in the air, winning a round of applause, he didn't take Qi Xiaoyang in his eyes at all, so he didn't think about saving soul power. "The second-generation disciple Meng Zhan, accept the challenge of Senior Brother Xiaoyang!" After stroking his chest and saluting, Meng Zhan continued: "My age and realm are much higher than my junior brother, if you fight Wendou, you may not even have the slightest chance, Senior Brother Xiaoyang has no armor protection, you don't have to worry about me hurting the main soul at all, so I suggest that the junior brother choose martial arts, I will fight with you with half of my soul power, it will be considered fair, what do you think?"
Meng Zhan's words are true, if the realm is too far apart, there is almost no suspense about the outcome of the fight, and the side with a low realm in the martial arts fight can use the actual combat experience, speed advantage, soul skill advantage, etc. to create opportunities. Although Meng Zhan has a little belly and chicken intestines, he actually has no bad intentions, and let Qi Xiaoyang choose martial arts, in fact, he suffers a loss, because Qi Xiaoyang has no armor to protect himself, and the regulations are not allowed to attack the brain, so he can't attack his vital parts, but Qi Xiaoyang can attack him without scruples.
Meng Zhan's words made Qi Xiaoyang's opinion of him change a lot in an instant, and he nodded and said, "Okay, then let's choose martial arts." But I want to remind Senior Brother Meng, my cultivation is the same as yours, I am a nine-star, you don't need to let me do anything, go all out!" "For the sake of Meng Zhan's words just now, Qi Xiaoyang didn't want him to make a fool of himself by underestimating the enemy too much.
"How is this possible?" Meng Zhan looked at Qi Xiaoyang with incredible eyes, and it was hard to believe that Qi Xiaoyang, who was a little bit small, could cultivate from three stars to nine stars in three months, there was no such miracle in the world!
"Let's follow the rules of Wendou, don't you know if you make a move in the air?" Qi Xiaoyang reminded.
"Okay!" Meng Zhan took two steps back and pulled out of the posture and said, "I'll count to three, let's shoot together!" He also wanted to use this safe way to see if Qi Xiaoyang was really a nine-star, otherwise pressing half of his soul power would be completely looking for abuse.
With a bang, Meng Zhan's soul power ball that was close to condensing at full strength was smashed into a mist and exploded, and Qi Xiaoyang's soul power ball was just a momentary pause, and he went straight to Meng Zhan, Meng Zhan didn't have time to condense his soul power again in a hurry to resist, and he was able to dodge an iron plate bridge on his back, and the soul power ball flew past his face with a snort, dissipating in the air a few meters away.
In the exclamation of the audience, Qi Xiaoyang himself was also taken aback, this is the first time he has fought against someone after arriving at the Nine Stars, he thought that everyone was at the nine-star level, and even if his soul power was stronger than the other party, it should be limited, so this time he shot with all his strength without reservation, who knew that the soul power ball condensed by Meng Zhan was so vulnerable, it seemed that he really pressed half of his soul power to him, if he injured someone like this, it would be too much!
Meng Zhan, who straightened up, had a face like earth, not frightened, but angry: "What a little junior brother, it turns out that you are pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!" This collision, he instantly knew that the opponent's soul power was more than twice as powerful as him, and he lost face with just one move! "Take it!" Meng Zhan shouted, he knew that it was now himself who needed to rely on actual combat soul skills to win, in order to save face, he made a move to the nine-star stunt "Soul Binding Umbrella" With all his strength, he shot at Qi Xiaoyang, and at the same time bullied his body, a hand-to-hand combat skill followed, and his fist smashed like Qi Xiaoyang, who was short in body.
Soul skills are completely different from the soul power balls that were condensed purely with soul power before, soul power balls are equivalent to brute force, and there will be no changes after shooting, while soul skills are through different soul power operation methods, so that the soul power emitted changes in direction, speed and intensity, mainly about skills. Like Meng Zhan's move to bundle the soul umbrella, when it is shot, it is countless radial silk suits, and when it is close to the target, it suddenly accelerates and shrinks into an umbrella shape, and the opponent can often only break a small part, and it is extremely easy to be taken advantage of by most of the remaining soul power silk, and lose the ability to act in a short time, and be hit by this hand-to-hand combat technique that is matched by the back hand.
The nine-star soul technique Qi Xiaoyang had only learned two moves, and the two-star and three-star soul skills he had learned earlier were useless in this situation, and he didn't dare to use that move to attack the nine-star soul splitting slash, because Meng Zhan didn't have soul armor on his body, and if he broke through the defense, it would directly hurt his soul. If he tried that trick just now and tried his best to fight Mengzhan, then even if he had time to resist with defensive soul skills, he would probably not be able to withstand the attack of the Soul Splitting Slash. Saying that it was too late, Qi Xiaoyang used the defensive skill "Soul Guard Bell" in a flash of thought, this soul guard bell is not like its name to condense soul power as a bell, but uses vibration to operate soul power, forming a "sound wave" like a bell, dispersing the soul power that attacks near the soul sea. Originally, the effective range of this move was very small, mainly used to defend against the soul sea, but under Qi Xiaoyang's full operation, the power increased greatly, and he actually shook all the soul umbrellas of Meng Zhan when he had just reached his body, and countless soul filaments turned into faint blue smoke in the faint bell and instantly drifted away.
After untying the attack of the soul umbrella, it was easy for Qi Xiaoyang to dodge the Taishan pressure behind Meng Zhan, and with a slight sideways flash, Meng Tai not only failed to attack, but also exposed the empty door under the ribs, and was gently pushed down the water by Qi Xiaoyang on his waist, and staggered out a few steps before he stood firm.
Meng Zhan turned around and made a truce gesture, he knew that Qi Xiaoyang was merciful just now, and he would also use the soul protection bell, but the power he used was not even one-third of Qi Xiaoyang's, such a big difference in strength, and if he continued to fight, he could only bring humiliation on himself. "Senior Brother Xiaoyang, I lost, I apologize to you for my rude words at the beginning!" Meng Zhan's face turned pale, and he immediately walked off the stage after stroking his chest and bowing down this sentence. When he was about to fight, Meng Zhan said that if Qi Xiaoyang could take his three moves, he would call his senior brother upside down and apologize, but he didn't expect that in today's battle, he was not the enemy of this little junior brother's move, where would he have the face to stay on the stage for a second?
This eye-catching competition ended too quickly, the audience had not yet woken up from the first shock, and when they were still struggling with how there could be such a small nine-star soul warrior, the two ended the battle with one move, until Meng Zhan admitted defeat and stepped down, and the entire square was so quiet that even the sound of heartbeat could be heard, not to mention those young disciples, even those old disciples of the first and second generations who had been promoted to soul masters were all stunned!
The most shocked in the audience was Zhu Wuxin, she was really galloping with thousands of grass and mud horses in her heart at the moment, she knew too well what strength Meng Zhan was, not only was it difficult to have an opponent in the Nine Stars, but also had rich experience in actual combat, it was difficult for even ordinary junior soul masters to defeat him, Zhu Wuxin himself If he didn't have a few tricks unique to the Zhu family, it would be difficult to match him; And he actually made a war contract with him, and what is even worse is that yesterday he joked that he would be a daughter-in-law for others if he lost, how can it end today?
A few minutes ago, Zhu Wuxin was afraid that Qi Xiaoyang would not dare to challenge himself if he broke his promise, and hoped that he would quickly open his mouth and name his name, so as to win the uninjured armor that had been hot for many years as soon as possible, but now she could only keep praying in her heart: God, let this kid forget me!