Chapter 18 The Road to Rivalry is Narrow
Night gradually fell, Fang Rui was still sitting cross-legged under the high platform, without the slightest movement, he didn't need to recover his energy, the space in his body provided him with a steady stream of vitality replenishment at any time, what he had to do was just to relax his spirit and use the best state to meet the next day's competition.
Progressing from the group stage to a one-on-one knockout round is just the beginning, and he will have to beat at least four opponents to reach the final if he wants to win the title.
So what he needs is relaxation.
He is not lacking in combat experience, but he does not have a lot of experience in fighting with innate top monks, which is why he has been entangled with the seven brothers of the Lu family for so long in the ring today, and he is also adapting, adapting to fighting with these higher-level monks
At the same time, he didn't know what method Hongling and Qiao Liu would use to deal with him, they had sent someone to assassinate Fang Rui before, but Fang Rui came back alive, they naturally knew that the middle-aged man had died in Fang Rui's hands, coupled with Fang Rui's excellent performance today, with the kind of meanness that Hongling had shown before, it was unlikely that Fang Rui, an enemy with infinite potential, would grow up safely......
Fang Rui could almost predict that in the future, apart from being in the academy, there would be almost no safe place for him.
There are hundreds of families in the Eastern Qi Kingdom, but there are only eight of the largest families, which are the Eastern Qi Kingdom guarding the Quartet, and the Hong family and the Qiao family are just the two major families that guard the East for the Eastern Qi Kingdom, and the eight great families occupy forty percent of the top monks in the entire Eastern Qi Kingdom.
The only consolation is that so far, it has only been the personal actions of Hongling and Qiao Liu.
The road ahead is bumpy, but Fang Rui is not afraid at all.
I want to live forever, I want to be able to fly immortals, on such a road, difficulties and obstacles are indispensable, and the existence of the Hong family and the Qiao family, which now seem to be like behemoths in front of them, is nothing more than a small obstacle on the path of cultivation!
Fang Rui, who was thinking like this, gradually entered a state of concentration, his dantian qi sea, the waves were turbulent, the waves were endless, his limbs were hundreds, there was infinite heaven and earth vitality surging back and forth, within the bones, between the flesh and blood, there was a hidden thunder explosion, and the skin of his body flashed with orange-yellow light, but his mind was extremely calm, as if the abnormal sound in his body could not affect his nerves at all.
Listening to the rain on the high platform, the Venerable Listening to the Rain opened his eyes slightly, glanced at Fang Rui under the high platform, and nodded slightly.
The body and mind are completely different, but there is a faint sense of resonance, such a general atmosphere appears in a congenital stage monk, it is indeed incomparably supernatural, you must know that even many monks who have reached the Great Dao stage or even the innate stage may not be able to separate their minds and minds so easily!
"The potential is limitless...... I hope you can grow up smoothly. ”
Listening to the rain master's slight muttering, to listen to the rain master's insight, he naturally knows that in the past 10,000 years, there have been no less than ten strange people born with nine veins on the Flying Immortal Continent, but all of them have fallen without exception, some have fallen into reincarnation after the life span has reached because they cannot be promoted for life, some have died tragically in various trials, and some people have been killed by the opponent who attacked first when they were about to fly immortals...... These people are often stunning and majestic, but they are always unable to reach a higher level.
Therefore, at this time, the Venerable Listening to the Rain could only pray to the heavens in the dark, hoping that Fang Rui would have better luck than these predecessors before......
Nothing was said all night.
When the sky began to light up, Fang Rui woke up from his meditation, and the moment he opened his eyes, it was the place where his eyes could see, and the golden pill bounced out!
When I open my eyes, it is the time of sunrise.
With a long breath of turbidity, Fang Rui stood up, and then turned to listen to the rain master on the high platform, who smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind.
Among the four favorites, the guard power around Princess Qingfeng naturally does not need to be mentioned, Tian Rufeng also has a family guard by her side, it is said that there is a monk who is already a ninth grade - you must know that in the entire continent, the nine-grade monk is already the peak of the existence zài, such a monk, even if it is the strength of the eight major families, there will not be more than a ten, and being able to put such a monk next to Tian Rufeng to protect it is enough to prove the importance and status of Tian Rufeng in the Tian family.
Of course, in less than the year of the weak crown, he will be able to have the strength of the Tongtian Realm and the body of pure attributes, and it is normal for the Tian family to value it so much.
As for Huang Ping, although the Huang family has declined, as the Huang family's greatest hope now, whether it is his brother or the remaining elders of the Huang family, they will try their best to protect him.
There is only Fang Rui, there is no background, there is no backstage, even if the Jixia Academy is very safe, but in other places, who can guarantee that no one will attack him?
Hearing that the people of the rain did not return to their own residence and chose to settle down here, it was for this reason.
In fact, this night was protected by the Master of the Rain, except for Fang Rui, most of the civilian students who participated in the competition chose to spend this night in the trial ground.
As the sky brightened, the students who did not participate in the competition also rushed to the proving ground, yesterday's group stage, watch a lively, today's one-on-one knockout round, can really see the wonderful!
The forty-eight students who fought out of the group stage can be called the most elite group of students in the innate stage of the entire Jixia Academy!
For most of the students who participated in the competition, being able to qualify from the group stage can be regarded as having completed the task on a certain course, and being able to qualify in the group stage itself proves their ability to fight head-on, and even if they can't enter the middle court, they can get a pretty good position in the border army of the Eastern Qi State to continue to improve their strength.
If you can't study in the academy, then entering the army is also a good choice, after all, although it is more dangerous in the army, there is always a military salary - at least the spirit stones for the next cultivation will not be worried, if you really go back to your hometown to become a law enforcement team or a teacher, it will be worse than in the army.
Now, including Fang Rui, the forty-eight students stood under the high platform full of energy after a night's rest, waiting for the start of the knockout round.
Listening to the rain master, there was no nonsense, but with a wave of his big sleeves, the Void Mirror that had been hanging in the air, there was a wave of water on the mirror, and the names of the forty-eight students appeared on the mirror one by one, separated from left and right, two by two-corresponding, the objects of each other's hands.
The Outer Courtyard Big Match is an annual highlight, and of course there will not be the kind of object that can directly bye by luck alone, and such a result is not fair to anyone.
Forty-eight students stared at the Void Mirror, and the other onlookers were no exception.
Soon, the bracket appeared, and when all the brackets came out, the students couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations and laughter!
Fang Rui's opponent is-
Huang Ping!
In the first round, two of the four favorites met!
Especially when Fang Rui and Huang Ping signed up, the two had a fierce conflict, and at this time, the two met in the first round, there is no doubt that someone must be stopped on the way to continue to move forward!
You must know that according to the schedule, when you reach the final three-person finals, there will be three people fighting together, in this case, strength can be said to be not the most decisive factor in the victory, and now at this time, if you meet, you will also lose a qiē.
It just so happened that Fang Rui and Huang Ping were also the most unaffordable among the forty-eight students - even if Princess Qingfeng and Tian Rufeng did not participate in this competition, with their speed of progress, they would soon be able to rely on their personal strength to enter the Intermediate Academy, and the other students who had the strongest strength and had not reached the Tongtian Realm could enter the knockout round and get the opportunity to go to the army for training, even if they were eliminated next, they would have no regrets.
There are only Fang Rui and Huang Ping, they can't afford to lose.
When Fang Rui noticed Huang Ping's gaze, he turned his head and looked at Huang Ping calmly.
A hint of fierceness flashed in Huang Ping's eyes, and then he raised his right hand and made a throat-slitting motion.
Fang Rui smiled slightly, and did not react to Huang Ping's provocation, he thought very simply, no matter how much he did at this time, it would be in vain, the key was to look at the table on the field!
The number of high platforms raised by the elders today has decreased a lot, and only eight high platforms have been raised, but the way of the competition is the same, going up in batches and competing in order.
Fang Rui and Huang Ping's game was ranked eighteenth out of the twenty-four games, and it was also a relatively low place, and the matches between Princess Qingfeng and Tian Rufeng were all ahead of them.
The previous game was not shocking, and those who could enter the knockout round were all extraordinary, but the most extraordinary ones were still only a few people.
Tian Rufeng and Princess Qingfeng, who took the lead in the battle, easily defeated their opponents, Tian Rufeng only entangled with his opponent for two moments and knocked the opponent out of the ring, and Princess Qingfeng even knocked her opponent out of the ring with only one move, and went one step further.
The eighteenth inning, soon came.
When the ring closest to the high platform was vacant, it was Fang Rui and Huang Ping's turn.
Huang Ping jumped into the ring one by one, while Fang Rui stood still, two whirlwinds wrapped around his legs and sent him to the ring - although he was dressed in coarse linen clothes, and he looked dirty and tattered all over his body because he was bombarded by the spells of the Lu family seven people in the game yesterday, but this appearance still looked dusty and imposing!
The civilian students in the audience shouted loudly for Fang Rui, and Huang Ping's face was a little unpleasant......
"I really didn't expect a waste like you to be able to break through in the last few days close to Dabi...... That slap made me so hard!" Huang Ping stared at Fang Rui deadly.
"Breaking through this kind of thing, sometimes you have to talk about fate, didn't you also break through the night before the big competition started?" Fang Rui smiled slightly: "I haven't congratulated you yet." ”
Huang Ping's eyes became more poisonous when he looked at Fang Rui, basically everyone could see that Huang Ping's breakthrough was obviously a little strange, and it was very likely that he had paid some kind of heavy price, if he didn't win the championship, paying such a price might affect whether he could enter the middle court at a normal time!
Now Fang Rui's words are undoubtedly the worries that Huang Ping originally hidden in his heart have been stimulated again!
"No matter what, I'm going to defeat you this time! Otherwise, I can't get rid of this breath in my heart, and maybe it will affect my future cultivation!" Huang Ping gritted his teeth.
"Oh, isn't it affected now?" Fang Rui said casually.
Huang Ping couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, and as soon as he raised his arms, he immediately pounced on him!