Chapter 505: Grit your teeth
The Red Domain Martial Arts Conference, which is also the competition of the martial arts alliance leader, officially began on April 17. Among the three major parts of the competition, the body style competition has already ended before it has begun, the casting skill competition has not yet begun, and the skill competition is still in the relatively peaceful first item - the attack competition.
According to the rules of the competition, the contestants only need to hit the yellow horn rock with all their might, which is simple and clear. After the first strong man on stage barely smashed two rocks with a wave of swords, the tall, thin man who came to the stage showed even better strength, piercing four rocks with a single sword.
Just as he was smug, Elder Lingbomen announced, "Count by one point!"
The tall and thin man was stunned for a moment, and then started a fire: "Are you blind? I clearly penetrated four rocks, why do you count them by one point?"
The elder looked at him coldly: "Please pay attention to the wording! The rule is to score by the number of broken rocks, but you are opportunistic and use penetration to make up the number. As we all know, 'smashing' consumes far more power than 'penetrating', so what is your objection to breaking it down to one?"
"Oh-" The people in the audience who were still unknown began to coax, so angry that the thin and tall man's face was blue and white for a while, but he still did not give up, and said to the elder: "That, that can't be folded by four, right?
"You only pierced more than half of the fourth rock, not all of it, counting you as a point is already cheap! Get off the stage quickly, don't waste everyone's time!" the elder reprimanded sternly.
The tall man walked off the stage dejectedly, and even forgot to report his name to the scoring disciple, and the scoring disciple hurriedly chased him off the stage.
"Hey, that's kind of interesting. Zhu Yuanlai looked up in the audience.
The third person jumped on the stage, and the audience was in an uproar, how could this person be so strong? His figure was several laps larger than the strong man who was the first to come on stage, and he could see through his clothes that he was full of muscle bumps, and his arms were thicker than the thighs of the second thin and tall man on the stage.
"Come on!" several people in the crowd clapped desperately.
The man stretched out his hand to signal the crowd to be quiet, and the sharp-eyed man could see the thick calloused in his palm at a glance. As if he wanted to show off, he slowly unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his bulging muscles, and tied his clothes around his waist to tighten the waist of his trousers. Then, he put his hands diagonally to the right side of his body, and showed his weapon—a large knife that was more than nine feet long! The knife was very heavy at first glance, and the back of the knife was decorated with clouds and winds, carved dragons and phoenixes, and inlaid with several precious stones, and the end was extremely gorgeous.
"I have long heard that the dragon and phoenix treasure sword of the Xu Gang Master is majestic, and when I look at it today, it is really not a mortal thing!" someone complimented. There were also many people around him who echoed him. The "Xu Gang Master" who was standing on the side of the stage naturally heard it clearly, and deliberately slashed the big knife half a circle, and it touched the ground violently.
Zhu Yuanlai shook his head slightly and smiled lightly. From the sound of touching the ground just now, he could probably estimate the weight of the big knife, that is, thirty or forty catties, which was not heavy, and it was far worse than Tian Xiaoying's five-feather sickle. The big knife has a bells and whistles on the outside, and the quality can only be regarded as medium. "If it is a high-quality weapon, it will naturally be more majestic if it is gorgeous, but if it is of average quality, it will be suspected of grandstanding. What is the use of setting a few gems like that? It makes the blade have a few more holes and reduces the quality. It's no wonder that when it touched the ground just now, there was a difference in the sound and vibration of the blade. Zhu Yuanlai said in his heart. Judging from the weapons and the characteristics of this person's penchant for showmanship, Zhu Yuanlai can already conclude that he will not score much.
Gang Master Xu prepared for a moment, dragged the dragon and phoenix treasure knife on the platform, rushed to the front of the Yellow Horn Rock, he kicked the ground, turned a heel in the air, roared like a thunderclap, and slashed at the edge of the rock. With this knife, nine of the ten rocks were split into a large gap, and the stone chips flew everywhere, and the gap cracked all the way to the center of the stone.
"What's the matter?" Gang Leader Xu let go of the hilt of his knife and proudly raised his chin at Elder Lingbomen. However, his hands behind his waist rubbed each other under the cover of his clothes. The first few of the gang members who applauded him shouted loudly, and it was very noisy.
Elder Lingbomen sneered, "Count with zero points!"
Everyone was stunned, and even the scoring disciple suspected that he had misheard, and confirmed: "Zero, zero points?"
"Zero!" the elder was categorical.
"Why?" asked Gang Master Xu loudly, pointing to the dragon and phoenix knife still embedded in the stone.
"We compare our attack power, not our strength! You don't even know what an attack is! Concentrate your power in one place and explode in an instant, this is the essence of attack! Have you ever wondered why you want to stack the Yellow Horn Rocks on top of each other? Because if you attack from the front, the difficulty of breaking them will increase exponentially for each additional rock! To tell you the truth, these ten Yellow Horn Rocks are piled together, and even a master of the Nine Palaces may not be able to destroy them all with one blow! You are smart, and instead of attacking from the front, you will slash down from above with the length of your sword. Why, if you take out a knife that is a few zhang long and can cut twenty pieces of yellow horn rock at once, I will have to give you twenty points? Could it be that you are more powerful than two nine-palace level masters? Are you an 'eighteen' palace level master?" the elder counted a large list of lessons with sarcasm, and everyone in the audience covered their mouths and snickered.
Gang Master Xu's embarrassed expression was overflowing, and he said with the last glimmer of hope: "Yes, I don't think about it, but I can't count it as zero, right?"
"Do you think you're bargaining for something? You didn't understand the meaning of the attack competition, and you destroyed nine boulders for nothing, so it's good that I didn't let you lose money!"
Gang Master Xu was so angry that he was about to fry, but it was not good in front of so many people
Attacking, pointing at the elder, he drummed one after another: "Okay, okay, you remember for me!" After speaking, he jumped off the stage and walked out through the crowd. Several subordinates greeted him and wanted to comfort and curry favor with him, but before he could speak, he was treated as an angry bag to vent his anger. "Get out!" Gang Leader Xu pushed the people away and left without looking back.
The elder was naturally not afraid of Gang Master Xu's senseless threat: "Hmph, I'm afraid that you won't be able to do just one Shamen Hall?"
Zhu Yuanlai was already laughing so much that he couldn't hold his stomach and straighten his waist.
"Two points, one point, zero points...... The first three players are not doing well, I hope you don't want to be opportunistic, of course, please rest assured that you can show your real skills, Lingbo Gate can still afford this little stone. The elder's humorous words drew praise from everyone.
"I'll come next. Liu Qianling jumped on the stage.
"Okay! The girl doesn't let her eyebrows, and the old man admires it. The elder praised.
Liu Qianling smiled indifferently, took out the magic knife, and closed his eyes. In fact, if you figure out the rules of the competition, you can get a longer break before the second competition in the morning. Zhu Yuanlai nodded secretly, appreciating Liu Qianling's shrewdness.
Through the battle of body law the day before yesterday, many people knew about the White Ghost Gang and also knew about this female gang leader. Seeing her on stage to challenge, everyone was watching.
Liu Qianling didn't like to drink when she made a move, she was a woman, and drinking seemed rude; She rushed towards the Yellow Horn Rock like an arrow from the string, raising her knife to the mountains and seas, falling the knife thunderously, with a loud bang, the gravel burst out, and the pieces of Yellow Horn Rock shattered and collapsed in front of her, until the fifth rock came to an abrupt end, and the sixth rock only cracked a few cracks, but not completely broken. Liu Qianling shook the stone dust on his body, touched the crack with a little unwillingness, and the sixth rock was still steady.
"Good!" the elder praised again, "The sixth crack is counted in five and a half minutes! The girl should be a ** grade, right? Good ability!" The yellow horn rock is cut into a foot thick, and the realm of the attacker can be easily and accurately deduced from the number of destroyed. The standard is roughly as follows: the one-yuan level does not break a single rock, but can only strike out cracks, which can be counted as half a piece; the two-instrument level can break one; the three-talent level can break one and a half; the four-elephant level is two and a half; the five-element level is three and a half, the ** level is four and a half; the seven-star level is six pieces; the gossip level is seven and a half pieces; and the nine-palace level is nine to ten. According to this standard, Liu Qianling's results are quite good.
Liu Qianling nodded in thanks and jumped off the stage. Seeing that she had finished the first item in the competition, Zhu Yuanlai easily put his arms behind his head and went to the casting platform.
The casting skills competition started later because of the need to prepare materials. According to the regulations of the conference, the first item of the casting skills competition is proficiency, that is, the speed of successful casting.
Due to the many restrictions on the casting skill competition, it is basically impossible to be opportunistic. For example, "skillful" requires that the size of the weapon must be more than five feet, which eliminates the "lazy" behavior of casting daggers and short knives, and the quality is required to be above the good product, which also makes the caster not only seek speed but also make the difference with defective products. Moreover, the casting platform is limited, and the casting time is relatively long, so it is destined to be a long battle. The forgers sent by the various gangs came to power in batches, and for the sake of fairness, all the materials were supplied by the Limbo Gate. In this way, the people who had bothered to search for materials and transport them to the mountains the day before were now laughing stocks.
Fei Tukong's batch is at the back, and he can first observe other people's casters. The first of the three major steps of casting is the casting of the embryo. An important means of casting embryos is forging and purification. The process can be described as varied, and the variety of forging methods is dazzling. There are square hammers, angle hammers, round hammers, flat hammers, and single hammers, two-headed hammers, two-headed hammers, and so on. Since the beginning of the competition, the "jingle sound" on the north side of the blue road has been endless, and the scene is in full swing.
Generally, when casting, the forging lasts for a long time, lasting for days, months or even years. But this time, the competition requires speed, so when it is almost estimated that the finished product can reach the good product, the casters have stopped and entered the second major step - quenching. The quenching of the forgers of the Yu Yu Realm is not as complicated as that of the Great Red Realm, and it is divided into one quenching, two quenching or something. The quenching here is done at once, and the embryo body is directly cooled and formed. The key to quenching is the quality of the water, and the difficulty lies in the cooling time. The quenching water for this competition was also provided by Lingbomen, and the water quality was considered to be excellent, so it was up to the caster's grasp of the cooling time of the embryo to distinguish between high and low.
Due to the short quenching time, Zhu Yuan did not understand the casting technique, so it was boring to see.
The third step should be the most difficult enlightenment. No matter how perfect the previous two steps were, the weapon still did not leave the category of ordinary products. The "body" is ready, and it depends on the level of the "soul" infusion. This is a process that requires patience, and the more anxious you are to finish it quickly, the more likely you are to fail. Each casting platform has a Lingbo disciple lighting incense time, and when the casting of the casting platform is completed, the incense is immediately extinguished, and then the quality is checked by the elders. If you pass the test, measure the length of the aftertaste. After all batches have been cast, the person with the longest aftertaste is the final winner of the proficiency event.
When most of the people in this batch had entered the enlightenment stage for several hours, the finished product was finally cast. After being tested by the elders, it was determined that the magic knife had reached the level of good quality. Now that the first place in this batch has been decided, no matter how far the others have progressed, they have stopped and stepped down. After the materials are sorted out, the second batch of tests will be conducted.
It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent the change of wind and clouds from affecting the casting conditions, and to prevent the audience from interfering with the casters' casters, Lingbo Gate deliberately set up a magic circle on the periphery of the casting platform, so that the audience could not get close to the casting platform to take a closer look. When Zhu Yuan was bored, there were cheers and shouts on the other side of the platform, so he returned to the south side of the Blue Road.
It turned out that the first item of the skill competition, the attack item, ended up in a draw. There were three seven-star people who had smashed seven Yellow Horn Rocks, and the audience was waiting for the Limbo Gatekeeper
The old announced the way to deal with this draw. Unexpectedly, the elder cleared his throat and said, "The three of them are tied for first place!
Tie for first place? Everyone in the audience, including the three seven-star people, looked at each other, and the competition could still end in a tie?
Aware of the doubts in the minds of the people, the elder explained: "This is not the final result of the competition. Don't forget, my Limbo Gate contestant hasn't played yet!"
"Then call him out!" shouted the crowd.
"No," the elder shook his head, "Since the sect only sends one person to play, he will not appear until all three competitions have obtained preliminary results!
"Is that mysterious master going to wait until the end to make an appearance?" is really appetizing...... Zhu Yuanlai said in his heart. To participate in the competition of all the projects by one person, of course, it is more advantageous to disperse all the projects, and to participate in them together, which means that this person must first compare the skills of the winner of the skill competition, and then compare the casting skills with the winner of the casting skills competition, and finally compare the two of the body methods with Zhu Yuan. "To participate in the competition in this way of 'wheel warfare', is her skill endless? Who is this person sacred?" Zhu Yuanlai really admired this mysterious master.
The way of the defense test is simpler than the attack test, the participants stand still in Taichung, according to their own realm, withstand the knife waves emitted by the same level of sword demons in Lingbo Gate, until they can no longer stand, and the one who can withstand the most knife waves wins. For example, if Liu Qianling is **-level, then Lingbomen will send a **-level sword demon to send a knife wave to her.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the purpose of the skill competition is to "compare skills", and naturally people with high skills have more advantages. This is reflected in all three sub-sections. In the first attack test, the higher the skill, the more yellow horn rocks will be destroyed, and the second defense test, the higher the skill, the higher the physical strength. A cultivator of the one-yuan level is likely to be seriously injured at once when he bears the sword wave of the same level of sword demon, but when it comes to the seven-star and gossip level, it is not a big problem for the sword wave sent out by the sword demon of the same level to be hard to take a few hits;
Many people below the ** level knew that they would not make a big difference, so they took the initiative to give up after receiving one or two knife waves. The real defences are in the final stages.
Two seven-star, three **-level, and one five-element-level people still remained on the three battle platforms. The current results of these six people are all five, that is to say, they have already endured the five sword waves of the same level of sword demons. Among the three people at the ** level, one of them is Liu Qianling.
Liu Qianling was in a very bad state at this time, one of the five knife waves hit her abdomen, as if she had been punched hard, the pain was unbearable, and it also made her feet weak. According to the rules, as long as you move one step, the competition is over. Liu Qianling didn't want to give up, because this was the only competition where she could get a point.
The situation of the other people is not much better than Liu Qianling, everyone is thinking in their hearts, everyone has reached the limit, and even if there is one more knife wave at this time, it is very likely to win.
The most striking of the six was the person at the Five Elements level. This man was the first strong man to take the stage in the first attack competition. He doesn't perform well in the offensive competition, and he is determined to get his face back in the defensive competition. I have to say that his physical strength is indeed very solid, and he was not slightly injured until the third sword wave, which is very remarkable for a person of the Five Elements level. On the same stage as him was a seven-star master, and among the six people, he was the only one in "passable" condition, his clothes were a little torn, he hung a little color, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but they were all minor injuries. "I think you'd better get off the stage early, it's important to save your life. He persuaded the strong man of the Five Elements level. The words were good, but his tone was marked with contempt.
The strong man didn't say a word, pretending not to hear.
"Hmph, don't do it yourself!" the seven-star master turned his head.
The sixth wave of swords is coming. The first-level contestants who were alone on a battle platform directly vomited blood and fell off the stage, and although the first-level contestants who were on the same platform as Liu Qianling were not so embarrassed, they still staggered back two steps under the attack of the knife wave. The move was over, and his score also stopped at five.
There is also a seven-star woman on the same stage. She couldn't stand up after receiving the sixth wave of swords, crouched down, but didn't move. After stabilizing her body, she turned her head to look at Liu Qianling. Liu Qianling was still walking on her horse, her head was lowered, her hair was unkempt, her chest was already blood-red, and blood was dripping down her jaw.
"I've reached my limit. The seven-star woman raised her hand and ended her competition, six points, which is not easy. Before stepping down, she said to Liu Qianling: "Girl, life is still important, and it's not worth it to hold on." ”
Liu Qianling didn't say a word, and her face was hidden under the messy hair. "Aren't you faint?" The man in charge of sending out the knife wave was a little unbearable, and stepped forward to check.
Liu Qianling suddenly shook his head. I don't know if it's to signal that I'm still awake, or to tell the seven-star woman that she doesn't plan to give up.
Zhu Yuan looked at it and smacked his lips: "Miss Liu, Miss Liu, you want to make Brother Fei feel distressed to death! Fortunately, he can't see the situation here on the casting platform......
There were only three people left on the stage.
The seventh knife wave "came as promised", and the strong man at the Five Elements level couldn't hold on any longer, flew out upside down for several feet, fell down heavily, dragged out a striking blood stain on the stage, and fell to the stage.
Seven-star masters fly higher than him. Before this knife wave was issued, the seven-star master was still the one in the best condition, but now, he was the most miserable one, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he didn't know how many bones were broken, and he was spitting blood.
Liu Qianling also fell under this knife wave, his body shook a few times, and he collapsed on the battle platform with his back to the sky.
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