Volume 5: The First Song 327: The Test of Grace (10)
After Bai Shen's girl jumped off the stage with joy, the next competition began to be exciting, and later Qian Chao and the five people found that among the people who took the stage on the third day, those children from the family were particularly eye-catching, although they may not be able to beat their opponents on stage, but the means shown on the stage are refreshing.
Among them, the most interesting for Qian Chao is a child of a family named Situ Xiong.
Just when Situ Xiong took the stage, Tang Ping inquired about this Situ Xiong when Qian Chao said that she was betting, and heard that the Situ family he was born in was a family with the art of Fu Gong as the main inheritance, and this immediately attracted Qian Chao's attention.
Situ Xiong, who is only slightly shorter than Li Jian, and looks more thin and weak, his expression is still a little restrained and cramped, and his figure is a little thin, at first glance he looks like a white-faced scholar, and his opponent is a Jiuxuan disciple who seems to be experienced in fighting and very calm, named Shi Yisheng.
After the competition began, the Jiuxuan disciple named Shi Yisheng unceremoniously took the lead and used all his means, and it could be seen that the number of ways of this person was also the most ordinary, a cold and shining spirit sword asked for directions, and then under the change of hands under the magic tricks, there were frequent fireballs, wind blades and other spells towards Situ Xiong, but the more ordinary the number of paths, the more effective the number of paths, and this Shi Yisheng controlled these means of purity, and after the hand, it was endless, not giving Situ Xiong any respite.
And Situ Xiong's means, from the beginning of the competition, people can't understand, because under the opponent's intensive attack, Situ Xiong didn't fight back at all, but first quickly arranged a layer of blue light around his body to protect the aura, that layer of faint blue light curtain just covered his whole person, Shi Yisheng's means came to him, as we all know, the body protection aura is very consuming of the user's own aura, for the monk is unwilling to open it unless necessary, just see Shi Yisheng's spirit sword stabbed first, Blocked by that layer of blue light, the tip of the sword swayed and swayed from Situ Xiong in it was only a foot away, and he could no longer advance a bit, and then the fireballs smashed up one after another, and exploded with a "boom" sound, and the dazzling firelight once covered Situ Xiong's entire body, followed by a cloud of wind blades that followed behind, whistling and slashing at Situ Xiong's constantly twisted and deformed body protection aura.
After this situation lasted for a while, many Five Spirit disciples who were watching the battle in the audience became strange, and the competition began, this child of the family neither attacked the opponent nor dodged the opponent's attack, but only hid in the body protection aura and was beaten, this appearance could not last long, so this response made many people very puzzled.
Qian Chao sat in front, so he could see more clearly, and in the frequent flashes of firelight, he saw that Situ Xiong's hands were constantly changing the technique, this is ...... Do you have to use some powerful means to defeat your opponent in one fell swoop?
Or is it the time when he uses his means is also when he loses?
It's all possible.
Shi Yisheng understood that attacking the opponent's body protection aura would cause the opponent's aura to lose quickly, he didn't know what the opponent was busy doing hiding inside, but he wanted to firmly seize this opportunity to weaken the opponent, so the spells became more and more frequent.
The "boom" crackling sound almost rang out, and the rising firelight even reflected the Tianshui Lake not far away, and suddenly, the crackling sound stopped, and many fireballs flew past through the remaining flames, and Situ Xiong's figure had already flown high above the flames.
In Shi Yisheng's opinion, perhaps the children of this family couldn't bear such a loss of aura and had to change their strategy.
But in Qian Chao's eyes, this is not the case, he can see that Situ Xiong seems to be ready to fight back against Shi Yisheng, Qian Chao is very curious, what kind of means Situ Xiong will show next.
Shi Yisheng reacted very quickly, his spirit sword almost followed the other party's figure and immediately chased after it, and a cold light came obliquely upward!
Situ Xiong also let go of the hand he had formed with his hands together at this time, and a sharp golden light shot out from in front of him, facing the sword that Shi Yisheng flew over!
Almost instantly, the golden light and the cold light collided together, making a sharp "ding" sound, and then Shi Yisheng's spirit sword was flipped and hit the ring, but the sharp golden light continued to fly towards Shi Yisheng who was standing in the ring as if it had not been hindered at all!
What kind of spiritual weapon is that, it's so powerful!
At this moment, almost everyone in the audience was thinking so.
Only Qian Chao saw that his pupils shrank.
"Ding" again, the sharp golden light hit the ring, and the natural master Yisheng had already dodged it with his body, but at the same time as this "ding" sounded...... Qian Chao didn't look at the ring, nor did he look at the teachers and students, but stared at Situ Xiong in the air...... I saw another change in Situ Xiong's hand......
Shi Yisheng, who dodged the blow, also wanted to see what he had forced to dodge just now before he was ready to fight back, the trick in his hand was still moving, and at the same time he looked sideways at the place where the ground made a sound just now, and his face turned white in an instant!
Well, it wasn't that he turned pale with fright, but by the cold white light that shone from there.
The thing that hit the ground of the ring just now actually flew up again, and it changed, the original sharp gold color turned into a dazzling cold white color, and it also exuded an extremely cold and cold aura, and it was shooting directly at Shi Yisheng, who was almost all within reach, at a very fast speed!
"Ahh Shi Yisheng was frightened and screamed, fortunately he had rich experience in fighting and quick reaction, and his whole body suddenly slid against the ring and flew out, a few feet away, and narrowly avoided this time, when he passed by that thing, he only felt that an extremely strong cold aura swept over his side very dangerously, and he couldn't help but feel a big shock in his heart!
The people in the audience were also stunned, it seemed that the situation had changed abruptly, and the kid from the family had been pressed and beaten from the beginning to now he had almost succeeded in counterattacking.
Although Tang Ping inquired about Situ Xiong's affairs, she couldn't understand Situ Xiong's methods, not only did she not understand, but the other three didn't understand either, of course, it was about Situ Xiong's spiritual weapon that would change color, she looked at Qian Chao, and saw that Qian Chao was staring intently at the stage, so she asked:
"Qian boy, what kind of spiritual weapon did Situ Xiong use?"
"Talismans."
"What?" Tang Ping was obviously surprised.
Situ Xiong's blow missed again, he was still not in a hurry, and the trick in his hand immediately changed again.
In the eyes of everyone in the audience, the cold white light that chased Shi Yisheng and was narrowly avoided by Shi Yisheng stopped and turned sharply in the air, and at the same time, the cold white light also changed into a touch of oily green in this very short time, and then chased Shi Yisheng's figure again and flew over like a green line.
This time, Shi Yisheng's dodge was a little slow, perhaps because the horror caused by the experience just now had not subsided, and he flew to dodge a little slower again, and in the eyes of everyone, the oily green light shot directly on his ankle with a slight turn......
"Ahh
Shi Yisheng let out a loud shout!
Many disciples watching the battle in the audience were stunned, and they saw the green light shining in the ring, and a large group of twisted and entangled thorn vines appeared in the green light in an instant, and the vines and thorns were warped and swayed and stretched, just like a large group of green snakes that had just been dumped into the ring from a huge basket, twisting and stretching one by one, and there were a few twisted vines above the thorns that wrapped Shi Yisheng's ankle deadly.
Shi Yisheng was in a hurry and desperately launched his body upward to pull those vines almost straight, but the vines seemed to be very tough, no matter how he launched his body, he couldn't get rid of it, and he never dared to turn around and tear those vines with his hands, because he was worried that his arms would be entangled again, and this one would be lost.
Just when everyone held their breath and watched with wide eyes, there was a roar in the ring, and a cold light flashed, it was the spirit sword that Shi Yisheng had been knocked down in the ring before, and the sword body rotated and slashed over, under the blade, those vines were finally cut off by Qi Qi, and Shi Yisheng's body also broke free.
But it's still not over.
Regarding Shi Yisheng's escape, Situ Xiong still didn't seem to care, and the trick was another change.
What we said was slower than Situ Xiong's technique, well, that is, at the same time that the vines had just been cut off by the spirit sword, the large pile of vines and thorns that were like countless green snakes entangled suddenly "boomed" and ignited a raging fire, from which a large fireball hit the back of Shi Yisheng, who had just been freed from the restraints and was flying forward!
The heat wave rolling behind him hit, and the speed was extremely fast, Shi Yisheng didn't even dare to turn back at this time, in order to avoid the flames that had reached his back, he had to plummet in stature......
Situ Xiong seemed to be changing his trick for the last time, and then he actually lost his hand in the air!
With a loud "boom", countless flames burst out less than two feet above the ground, and the flames fell like rain, and then fell on the ring and changed.
The flames disappeared when they fell on the ring, but the table paved with jade and lapis below completely turned into a soft yellow sand place, Shi Yisheng's body just stood firm in the ring, and suddenly felt that there was no strength under his feet, and the two calves in the soft soles of his shoes had fallen in, and he was shocked and immediately launched his body to prepare to escape again, but this time his body was launched and the momentum of the fall could not be stopped, and all of a sudden the soft yellow sand did not pass his waist, and it was about to reach his chest, Only then did he become truly frightened, and he understood that if he continued to struggle, he would completely sink under this yellow sand.
At this time, everyone watching the battle understood that the victory or defeat had been decided!
"Stop...... Next...... Defeated in the next! In desperation, Shi Yisheng, who couldn't get out, could only admit defeat.
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"That's a talisman?" Seeing this, Tang Ping remembered what Qian Chao said just now.
"That's right," Qian Chao breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes, today is also the first time he has seen this kind of talisman, he has only heard of it before, "It is a talisman, but this kind of talisman is not written on the talisman paper with dansha, and that kind of talisman can only be used once." The talisman used by Situ Xiong should have been obtained from the leather of some kind of demon beast through some special tanning methods, and then it was obtained with dansha...... Or the demon beast blood will imprint the runes on it, so that the resulting runes will not be consumed as long as they are used like my runes, but can be used repeatedly, look ......"
Qian Chao said and motioned to a few companions in the stands, and sure enough, after Situ Xiong released a few movements in his hand after releasing Shi Yisheng, he flew up from the ground and entered his hand, which was the kind of talisman that Qian Chao said.
"Oh, that's a talisman made of leather, eh, Brother Qian, this seems to be a good idea, will you?" Among the five people, Lu Pingchuan is good at tanning all kinds of leather, so he asked.
Qian Chao shook his head and said:
"His talisman must have been passed down from his family, and others will definitely not. However, compared with my talismans, the two talismans have their own strengths and weaknesses, and the strength of my talismans lies in the large number and the types of talismans, and there is a kind of talisman in my body which is equivalent to one more means for me; And Situ Xiong's talisman, I also saw it just now, a talisman can be converted into five elements, very powerful, at the beginning it was gold, like a sword colliding with Shi Yisheng's spirit sword, and then for water, extremely cold, we can feel the Tao in the audience, and then for wood, wood and vine winding almost trapped Shi Yisheng, and then there is fire, the big fireball makes Shi Yisheng dare not resist, and finally the earth, and finally Shi Yisheng is trapped in it and has to admit defeat, this talisman is converted in the order of the five elements, it is amazing......"
The four companions nodded when they saw that the different methods that Shi Yisheng had received came from a talisman.
"I don't know if this Situ Xiong has any other means, but only what I saw in the ring, he was engrossed in using this talisman and didn't dare to be distracted, it seems that even if he has other means, at least now, it is difficult for him to use it at the same time to deal with Shi Yisheng, that is to say, the role of that talisman in his hand is actually a high-level spiritual weapon, although this method is novel, but in my opinion, it is still undesirable or worthy of improvement, hehe, just talk, this means must be secret."
One more thing to say here, Situ Xiong's methods are indeed good, this kind of talisman is refreshing. Qian Chao has been working the art of runes, he is now studying under Mr. Zhuang in Ruixuan Town, this means must be known to Mr. Zhuang's knowledge, but when Mr. Zhuang taught Qian Chao, he mainly focused on the study of runes, and rarely taught Qian Chao any specific means, speaking of which Mr. Zhuang did this for two reasons, one is that Mr. Zhuang is actually a person with little time, which Qian Chao has already noticed, if his vast ability is to teach Qian Chao with countless means of learning, The time left for him is not enough, this is one of them: the second is that Mr. Zhuang regards Qian Chao as a person of the same kind as himself, teaching such a character, teaching him "art" is far worse than teaching him "Dao", in Mr. Zhuang's view, his "Dao" in this vein is the study of runes, and "art", that is more, all kinds of means to resist the enemy and retreat the enemy are within the scope of "art", but "art" is attached to the "Dao", without "Dao", there can be no advanced "art", That's why he taught Qian Chao more about his rune learning, and Qian Chao mastered the "Dao", so the "technique" is a matter of course.
Here we can make another analogy, perhaps inappropriate, like several people rushing together, to see who gets to the destination first, some of them on horseback, some driving, some walking, which naturally seems a little unfair, the only fair thing is that the beginning and the end are the same for everyone. In this competition, the "road" is the road from the starting point to the end of the road, and the "art" is the different way of walking, riding a horse is naturally the fastest, driving is naturally the most comfortable, as for walking, it should be the most tired. If the distance between the start and the end is close, then the rider and the driver will naturally reach the end first. But if the road is long, and the road is full of mud, deep pools, rapids, thorns, in short, the road is bumpy, if these people do not know where the "way" is, then these people are likely to be trapped in the middle of the road, whether they are riding horses or driving. But if the person on foot knows where the "way" is, and follows it all the way, even if he is not as fast as a horse rider in a short time, and it is much harder than a car in a long time, it must be the person who can reach the destination in the end.
Cultivation is a long and difficult path for all monks, so from the example above, the Tao is much more important to monks than the Shu.
Mr. Zhuang said to Qian Chao that "art" is equivalent to branches and leaves, and "Tao" is the root, so it is not possible to put the cart before the horse.
He also said to Qian Chao that "Tao" is skin, "art" is hair, and if there is no hair in the skin, it will be attached?
Among Qian Chao's many methods, there is almost only one "incarnation talisman" that Mr. Zhuang taught him, and this method has also helped Qian Chao a lot, but other means, Mr. Zhuang almost did not mention, he would rather let Qian Chao himself gradually comprehend and develop his whimsical ideas in the process of gradually mastering the so-called "Tao" of runes, so that what he got was Qian Chao's own "technique", but it could also reach the point of endlessly. People often say that "it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish", but in Mr. Zhuang's view, instead of teaching others to bend a hook to hang a bait or use a rope to tie a strong net, it is better to tell others the habits and eating habits of various fish in the water, as well as the depth of the water, including the direction and speed of the current.
Therefore, after seeing Situ Xiong's methods, many people were shocked and many people were envious, and in the eyes of Qian Chao, it was just a novelty, the "technique" he saw for the first time, which was worth his careful thinking in the future.
Of course, there are people who have a different opinion from Qian Chao, that is, an elder on the Chengguan Tower, who is the uncle and grandfather of Wen Yuan, the master of the Nine Xuan Fu Gong Wen Mian Wen.
Well, Senior Wen saw Situ Xiong's methods in his eyes, first of all, he said that this method was naturally known in terms of Wen Mian's knowledge, and he saw that Situ Xiong was skilled in the process of controlling the talisman, and he couldn't help but secretly remember this family disciple in appreciation, and he naturally cherished the talent in his heart, although it was a child of a family, but if it was accepted under his door, he would definitely have some achievements in the future.
"In this game, Situ Xiong won."