Maoshan, martial arts field.

At this moment, the viewing table was full, and the representatives and disciples from the various avenues were sitting with solemn expressions.

And on the martial arts platform in the center of the martial arts arena, after the Sanmao Patriarch announced the official start of the big competition, there was immediately a red-robed Taoist who was specially responsible for presiding over the big competition on the stage, and said loudly:

"This Maoshan competition, the content is divided into four rounds!"

"Let's start the first round - Enlightenment Maoshan Hundred Ghost Diagram!"

As soon as this statement came out.

Everyone's eyes looked at the left side of the martial arts arena.

There, at this moment, an ancient picture has unfolded.

Maoshan Hundred Ghost Diagram!

According to legend, this picture is a picture drawn by the ancestor of the Maoshan Kai School in the past after hunting a hundred ghosts.

On the surface, this picture is just the terrifying and hideous face of a hundred ghosts.

But there is a mystery hidden in it, in the past, the ancestor of the Maoshan Kai School used great mana, using the painting as a tool, and set up various illusions and divine attacks in the painting.

This painting doesn't look special on a normal day, but once it is in operation, it can have a great impact on the viewer.

Even if it is a cultivator, if he is not strong-willed, it will be difficult for him to withstand the illusion of a hundred ghosts.

Not to mention ordinary people, at a glance, they may be depressed and collapsed.

Once, the Maoshan Hundred Ghost Diagram was an excellent magic weapon to test the minds of the disciples.

And as the words of the presiding Dao leader fell, the expressions of more than 100 inner and outer disciples instantly froze, and all of them came to the Hundred Ghost Diagram and sat down cross-legged.

Each session of the Maoshan Competition, whether it is an inner or outer disciple, can participate, and Maoshan treats everyone equally, giving all disciples a chance.

And as all the disciples sat down cross-legged, the originally ordinary Hundred Ghost Diagram suddenly appeared with a faint light.

Even in the daytime, this faint golden glow can still be seen by everyone.

"Here we go!"

Observing the ceremony, a disciple of the Taoist sect subconsciously muttered a word.

This habitual way of speaking provoked the Dao Sect elders sitting on the side to glare at him lightly.

Then he cautiously looked at the figure at the front of the seat, and after finding that the other party did not have anything unusual, the Dao Sect elder breathed a sigh of relief.

The Dragon and Tiger Heavenly Master was present, and even these Dao Sect elders did not dare to be presumptuous, and the pressure was great.

"Be honest with me!"

The Daomen elders reprimanded, and the disciples who spoke could only rattle their heads, like quails, and did not dare to make a mistake.

Looking at the Maoshan Hundred Ghost Map, it sounds like an easy thing to do.

However, it is by no means easy to insist on the time of a stick of incense under the influence of the Hundred Ghost Diagram.

And the criterion for instinct assessment is that the disciple must survive a stick of incense to be qualified.

Then the qualified disciples will decide the winner according to the length of perseverance.

Airplanes!

As the light on the Hundred Ghost Diagram burst out, for a while, the world in the eyes of all the disciples directly underwent earth-shaking changes.

In the eyes of the disciples, the environmental space around them was crumbling and shattering, and soon it was reduced to ruins.

Dead silence, vain, gloomy, withering......

All kinds of dark side emotions instantly surged into my heart, and the depressing atmosphere made people a little breathless.

And that's just the beginning.

Brush!

In the originally dead and silent world, hideous and terrifying figures suddenly appeared.

They roared in the sky, strange shapes, and carried a terrifying aura on their bodies.

If an outsider sees this scene, they will find that these figures are the hundred ghosts on the Hundred Ghosts Diagram!

"Boom, another human who doesn't know whether to live or die has broken in, give me death!"

These hideous figures let out an eerie laugh, their bodies were illusory, and their eyes were full of scarlet light.

As soon as they appeared, they rushed directly towards the Maoshan disciples.

The momentum is menacing, as if he wants to devour everyone alive.

But if you are an ordinary person, when you see this scene, you may instinctively react and be frightened and retreat.

Even cultivators, some people who are not strong-minded, may be startled by this sudden appearance of a hundred ghosts.

At the scene, there were several Maoshan disciples who had just started this instinctive reaction.

Seeing the hundred ghosts rushing towards him, several disciples who had just entered the outer gate subconsciously wanted to retreat.

This retreat.

The environment around them changed in an instant, and the original dead world had disappeared, and even the phantom of the hundred ghosts was gone.

In their sight, there are only the senior brothers sitting cross-legged with solemn expressions.

And, on the table, the incense that is slowly burning!

Seeing the Dao incense that was inserted in the incense burner and had not even burned a tenth of it, these disciples couldn't help but turn pale, and their eyes were full of loss.

By this time, several disciples had already known that they had failed this first round of assessment!

Several disciples shook their heads and sighed with bitter faces, and then silently got up and retreated to the side, quietly waiting for the other juniors and brothers to continue to participate in the assessment.

"Someone failed so quickly, this Hundred Ghost Diagram doesn't look simple!"

And seeing that there were disciples who failed so quickly, those young Dao disciples who were originally sitting obediently at the viewing table couldn't help but muttered quietly for a while.

Many of these young disciples went down the mountain to watch the ceremony for the first time after worshipping the gates of the various avenues, so they were naturally very unfamiliar with the Maoshan Hundred Ghost Diagram.

Now seeing that some people in the same sect failed so quickly in the first round of assessment, it is inevitable that they will feel extremely novel about the Maoshan Hundred Ghost Diagram.

Hearing the muttering of the younger disciples, the older generation of Taoist elders also sighed faintly and said bluntly:

"Cultivating the Tao first cultivates the heart, and the heart is completed, and the Tao is at your feet!"

"If you are not strong-minded, you have a long way to go!"

These words seemed to be an exhortation from the older generation of Dao elders to their own disciples, and they seemed to be reminding themselves.

It's a long way to go!

Monks, if their minds are not strong, it is difficult to climb the road!

Under the picture of a hundred ghosts, in the incense burner on the case, the incense incense is full of smoke, and incense ashes are constantly falling.

Time flies.

In just a few minutes, nearly half of the Maoshan disciples couldn't hold on and had no choice but to quit the state of observation.

These disciples are all outer disciples, and they are lacking in both cultivation and state of mind, so they failed to pass the assessment time of a stick of incense.

In the end, when the incense stick was burned, there were only sixteen disciples left who were still observing the Hundred Ghost Diagram.

Among these sixteen people, all the inner disciples passed the assessment standards, and the remaining eleven were all outer disciples.

Eleven outer disciples have passed the assessment standards, and these people are all considered the dark horses of this selection, and they all have the opportunity to become the successors of this generation of Maoshan Sect Masters.

So far, 16 people have successfully passed the first round of assessment.

But the competition doesn't end there!

The Taoist chief in charge of guarding the side brought new Dao incense and lit it again.

The first round of the real competition has just begun! (End of chapter)