Chapter Twenty-Eight: If you want to train a hero, you must win or lose
Three days later, the registration status will be announced in the mission hall.
The total number of applicants was about four times the number of people who could enter the secret realm, and they were divided into exactly fifty groups of eight people each. Eight people from each group will compete in a round-robin competition, and the two best performers will qualify from the group and enter the secret realm roster.
At the same time, according to the strength ratio of each person, the sect arranged a seeded player in each group, and the other disciples were arranged according to the principle of relatively equal strength in each group. The teams have been lined up.
The qualifier will officially start in three days.
Zhou Kai took a look at his situation, in the thirty-eighth group, the seeded player in the group was the Ying Tianqi who had a conflict with him, the ninth layer of the Tianji.
The other six disciples in the group were one person from the ninth layer of the Tianji, three people from the eighth layer of the Tianji, and two people from the seventh layer of the Tianji. His fourth-layer realm of the Heavenly Foundation, whether in this group or in the entire registered disciples, belongs to the bottom.
It is worth mentioning that this registration covers all inner disciples, although He Yanran is suspended as an elder of the outer door and teaches in the outer door, he is also an inner disciple, and he also signed up to participate in the selection competition this time.
Zhou Xingxing planned that if he wanted to qualify from the group, he basically had to spell out Ying Tianji or another Tianji Ninth Layer in order to succeed. At the moment, there seems to be little hope.
His biggest reliance on cross-level combat is the second-order seven-star body, but at present, the physical strength represented by the second-order seven-star body is less than nine thousand catties. Originally, he also had a quenching material, and he was ready to reach the second-order Great Perfection of the seven-star body, that is, when it was nearly 10,000 catties, he would impact the third-order and then use it, but this time the situation was special, so he had to rush for quick success.
The detailed information he got in the morning, after returning to the house, he entered the dragon blood jade pendant space to quench his body, and by the time Zhou Kai came out of the dragon blood jade pendant space at noon, he had already reached the second-order Great Perfection of the Seven Star Body. Because at each stage, the limit of the number of times the quenched material can be used is three times, and the utility decreases each time. And rushing to the level is a very difficult link, this time the quenching body is to instantly improve the seven-star body, but when he rushes to the third level in the future, the difficulty will increase greatly.
Zhou Kai, who was happy and regretful, went to find He Yanran. Today is the time for Li Jiansheng to go to his residence for dinner and gathering, because Yu Xianghong is coming.
went to He Yanran's residence to find her, He Yanran heard that she was going to Li Jiansheng's place to party, and the power of the idol made the fairy burst out with unprecedented vitality, not only quickly agreed, dressed up carefully, but also took the initiative to go to the Zongnei vegetable market with Zhou Kai to purchase ingredients.
When Zhou Kai and He Yanran came to the peak where Li Jiansheng was located, it was already close to evening. In the storage bag, there are not only the ingredients that Yu Xianghong likes to eat, but also the ones He Yanran likes, as for Li Jiansheng, barbecue and Meng Qianhui, it is enough to deal with. The time of cooking, with the Zhou Kai of the third-order Dao Dan fire, you won't have to worry about it.
Seeing Yu Xianghong, who was unusual, calm and elegant, seemed to be ready to be a wife, and had a smile on his face, Zhou Kai naturally had to salute respectfully.
Although in Li Jiansheng's theory, he can be called a sister-in-law, but from Zhou Jiaxin's point of view, it must be a master. But Yu Xianghong's eyes lit up, her eyes crossed Zhou Kai, looked at He Yanran who came in behind him, and said, "Which little beauty is this, Zhou Kai, is this your Taoist companion?" Come and show my sister. ”
Zhou Kai's "yes" almost came out in response, but fortunately he stopped, just smiling and not saying anything.
learned from Li Jiansheng that Yuxianghong was in the early stage of the Heavenly Void Realm. The Refining Body Realm, the Heavenly Base Realm, the Tianyuan Realm, the Heavenly Crystal Realm, and then the Heavenly Void Realm, the realm is still above Li Jiansheng's Heavenly Crystal Great Perfection Realm.
As the only three Heavenly Void Realm Supreme Elders among the three major sects of Wu Anguo, they represent the highest level of cultivation in Wu Anguo. He is also the youngest one in the realm of the only three days of the void realm at present.
Yu Xianghong's temperament is more jumpy, and Li Jiansheng, who claims to be his sister to He Yanran, and looks like a submissive in front of her, faces the righteous daughter of the five elders in the sect, but has no choice but to pose as an elder, and said: "Xiao Yanran, it seems that I haven't seen rapid growth in a few years, I heard Zhou Kai say, it was under the inspiration of your sparring partner that he comprehended the prototype of sword intent?" After speaking, he glanced at Zhou Kai with his eyes. He Yanran blushed, and Zhou Kai was slightly embarrassed.
However, He Yanran was not stage frightened, and replied: "I've seen Elder Yu Taishang, and I've seen Uncle Li." Zhou Kai mainly made significant progress because of Uncle Li's suggestion, and I didn't play a big role. Yan Ran also wanted to find an opportunity to ask Uncle Li for swordsmanship. ”
Seeing that things were about to develop towards discussing sword skills, Yu Xianghong quit.
Directly put aside Li Jiansheng and stepped forward to grab He Yanran. It seems that the innocent girl has found a good playmate, and it seems that the funny personality has met a fairy person, just teasing, and He Yanran kept asking there, so she almost started to pinch the smooth little face that Zhou Kai had been pinching.
Zhou Xingxing sighed, this is in the previous life, it is estimated that Lily is hopeful. And Zhou Jiaxin is by her side, dangerous! One day when you wake up, you find that your rival is the opposite sex, how do you feel? Forget it, out of sight is clean, cook and go.
When the fragrant Zhou's feast was perfectly served, the two beauties had become extremely familiar.
With the dream of a thousand times after the pickup, the atmosphere of the wine table became warm. A crescent moon quietly hangs in the sky, and tonight it looks particularly gentle.
When the wine was half-drunk, Yu Xianghong suddenly said: "Zhou Kai, listen to your Brother Li, you not only have an excellent cultivation speed, but you are also quite literate, why don't you show us in this situation?" ”
Zhou Kai subconsciously wanted to read a lyric, "The Moon Caused Trouble" by a famous singer in his previous life, among which "The moonlight is too beautiful tonight, you are too gentle", which is very appropriate. It's just that it seems to be too hot, and the scene may not be very good at the moment. So I chose Li Bai's moon from my own poetry library to drink one or two alone, and read it out loud:
"Drink alone under the moon
A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date. Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and the shadow becomes a trio.
The moon does not drink, and the shadow disciples follow me. Temporarily accompanied by the moon will be shadowed, and the joy must be spring.
I sing and wander, and I dance in a mess. When they wake up, they mingle together, and when they get drunk, they disperse.
Eternal knot ruthless travel, phase Miao Yunhan. ”
This one is dedicated to the time under the moon.
"Drink alone under the moon
If the sky does not love wine, the wine star is not in the sky. If the earth does not love wine, there shall be no fountain of wine on the earth.
Heaven and earth love wine, and love wine is worthy of heaven. I have heard that it is more than a saint, and it is as virtuous as a sage.
Since the sages have already drunk, why bother to ask the gods. Three cups lead to the avenue, and one bucket is natural.
But if you have fun in wine, don't pass it on to the awake. ”
This one is for Brother Li who loves wine and the people around Brother Li.
After listening to the classic poems recited by Zhou Kai, as a monk of Wu Anguo who had a declining literary style, the eyes of the three of them lit up.
Especially He Yanran. The loneliness and self-reliance expressed in the first song, and the majestic atmosphere expressed in the second song, both deeply attracted her. Who said that girls who fall in love don't need romance, they just don't get to the situation.
According to the standards of her previous life, He Yanran is a girl who pursues progress. The biggest trait of this kind of girl is that she will ask everyone around her to pursue hard, at least in her words and deeds, and express the appearance of striving for it. And the most annoying thing in Zhou Kai's previous life was formalism. Do you have to write a righteous face on your face to be considered a good person? So he has always been in front of this kind of girl, what he shows is the bohemian side, basically this kind of girl's evaluation of him is: "He is a talent, but he is not a good match." ”
Therefore, Zhou Kai has always been more restrained with He Yanran, which was also influenced by some ideas in his previous life. However, since I heard He Yan talk about her cultivation dream, I have a better understanding of He Yanran.
The short-term pleasure at the wine table did not make Zhou Kai less worried about the tryouts. The importance of the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm to him is self-evident, but the current combat power is worrying, how to find a way to get a quota?
Originally, the Divine Consciousness attack would increase his combat power, but this kind of attack, at least he had never heard of it so far, so he didn't dare to use it, not to mention that he was in the same group as Ying Tianji, for fear that after being found out to be a Divine Consciousness attack, he would be sliced and sliced and studied. The Dao Dan Fire is the third order, and it has a certain function of releasing damage to the enemy, I don't know if it will be helpful at that time? I don't know if I can break through from the prototype to the real sword intent?
Because it was a multi-person bureau, Zhou Kai didn't drink too much this time.
When he walked out of the peak where Li Jiansheng lived with He Yanran, Zhou Kai asked her to continue to practice together during the three-day preparation period. What if there is a breakthrough? Seeing Zhou Kaixin's excellence again, He Yanran readily agreed. This time, Zhou Kai really showed a motivated side in front of He Yanran.
During the three-day joint practice, Zhou Kai also tried to use the Dao Dan Fire to release an external attack, but it didn't seem to pose much threat to He Yanran's realm. It seems that the Dao Dan Fire will be of rather limited help to this tryout.
In the Body Refining Realm and the Celestial Base Realm, every time the Heavenly Power ascends, it also has a great increase in physical strength, so there is still a lot of difference between the Seven-Star Body Second Order Great Perfection of the Physical Cultivation Realm and the Heavenly Foundation Realm Great Perfection of the Heavenly Power Cultivation. The real power of the Seven Star Body is after the third order, and when the cultivation of Heavenly Power slows down the growth of physical strength, and only then can it show its advantage.
Therefore, Zhou Kai objectively evaluated his current combat power, and after upgrading to the fourth layer of the sky-based combat power, without using the divine sense attack, his combat power was about between the eighth and ninth layers of the sky-based at the general level. If you are faced with a talent as thin and talented as Ying Tianji, it is estimated that you will not be able to hold up a few moves.
After three days of joint training, the Phantom Step and the Seven Dragon Fist, which have been in the realm of comprehension, have not had any breakthrough miracles. I just hope that the application of the rudimentary form of sword intent can beat the opponent who has not comprehended the rudimentary form of sword intent in swordsmanship.
Forty-eight rings were lined up neatly, and the Tianhuo Secret Realm Selection Ring Competition officially began.
Each team is fixed in a certain ring to compete. Because there are more arrangements in the ring, the space is more narrow, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury for Zhou Kai, who has a good cultivation of body martial arts.
There are eight players in each group and there are four matches in one round. The allotted time for each competition is half an hour, and two rounds are played in one day. If you don't abstain, everyone goes through seven rounds. The three-and-a-half-day competition ended.
On the morning of the first day of the competition, in the first round, Zhou Kai's opponent was a Tianji eighth-layer disciple. This is also a severe test for Zhou Kai, and Zhou Kai has become more nervous invisibly. After exchanging names, the battle began.
Zhou Kai has scruples, and he is the first to defend steadily. The other party used the Xuan-level high-grade sword skills in the sect, and it was obvious that he had been practicing for a long time, reaching the level of integration. With the help of a realm far higher than his, the other party made a set of swordsmanship as imposing. Zhou Kai didn't use the rudimentary form of sword intent, but relied on the phantom step, Fengyun sword technique and the seven star body to resist, so he couldn't use all the hole cards at the beginning.
The situation on the field seems to be one-sided, and it feels like people are bombarding indiscriminately around the penalty area of Zhou Kai, but their own side has not yet crossed the opponent's half. Only Zhou Kai was clear in the battle, although the opponent looked fierce, but in fact, his solid basic skills in swordsmanship, as well as a good understanding, had already discovered some flaws in his sword movement process, and he was about to transition from strategic defense to strategic stalemate.
The key is that such a real sword competition is better than that of training with He Yanran, and his body and swordsmanship are actually slowly improving, so he is willing to choose to fight this protracted battle, and a good practice opportunity should not be missed.
At the beginning, it was the opponent's attack, Zhou Kai dodged the defense, and often the sword was in front of Zhou Kai to avoid it, and several times he was injured by the sharp sword qi, and he was in danger.
After more than 30 moves, Zhou Kai repeatedly counterattacked, often choosing to attack from a strange angle when the opponent's old power was exhausted and the new power was about to be born, using the basic movements of sword moves, Fengyun swordsmanship, and the fast wind sword that he had learned. Sometimes the speed of the sword is very fast, and sometimes the sword is like a sword, and the power of the fourth layer of the sky-based seems to be greater than the eight-layer of the sky-based, and it will not suffer a loss if you fight hard.
After fifty moves, after feeling that the pressure given to him by his opponent had made him lose the effect of practice, Zhou Kai began to fight back more fiercely.
A set of Xuan-level superb sword skills Fengyun swordsmanship shines in Zhou Kai's hands.
Grabbing the middle flaw of the rotating sword flower that the opponent was directly facing, Yun Heng's sword stabbed straight over. The opponent seemed to know that something was wrong, so he returned to his sword, turned sideways and retreated. That Zhou Kai was naturally the first to take advantage of the trend and expand the results. But he didn't want to, when Zhou Kai was chasing in high spirits, the opponent suddenly turned around and blocked Zhou Kai's sword with a strange turn, and stabbed Zhou Kai back. Zhou Kai was frightened into a cold sweat, and now there is no way to avoid it, and there is only a way to play with the same end. The sword in his hand still did not stop moving forward, and his body subconsciously twisted to avoid the key parts.
The sound of two swords entering the body at the same time appeared in the ring, Zhou Kai was in the sword in his left shoulder, and his opponent was in the right chest. Then they both withdrew their hands in time and returned their swords. At the critical moment, Zhou Kai had a small improvement in the phantom footwork to save him, and this time he looked a little better at mutual injury. When you have to fight again with an injury, the opponent takes the initiative to admit defeat because of the serious injury.
Zhou Kai secretly said that he was lucky, he was still too inexperienced in combat, and he didn't see through the opponent's tricks, so that it took a greater price to win.
This injury, it seems that it will take him a third-order mid-grade injury elixir, and then use the seven-star body refining technique to heal the injury, and the second round in the afternoon can be carried out smoothly.
In the second round of the competition in the afternoon, Zhou Kai had already resurrected with full blood, and the third-order pill with the seven-star refining formula was really fast. Even because of the recovery from the injury, the Seven Stars still made progress.
This time, the opponent is a fellow disciple of the seventh layer of the sky-based foundation.
It is estimated that he saw the process of Zhou Kai's injury, bullied him into being injured, and attacked him when he came up. Zhou Kai was very angry, fortunately his injuries had healed, otherwise this guy's tactics would probably work. As soon as the front was up, the second-order seven-star body was greatly consummated, with the extreme performance of the Fengyun swordsmanship, plus the left hand came from time to time with a move of the Seven Dragons Fist, less than twenty moves, the horizontal sword opponent was on the throat, forcing the opponent to admit defeat.
In this way, the first day of two rounds of games was played, and Zhou Kai won two games in a row. Of course, these are not the most important games this time, and there were his own mistakes in the first round before, and after returning to the house, Zhou Kai summed up the game process and waited for the next day's game.