Chapter 425: Who's First?

Soon after Zhou Yang and the others set the bet, the final of the "Treasure Hunting Conference" began.

After two hours of recuperation, the twenty ninth-level Qi cultivators were still alive and vigorous, showing the strongest combat power in this realm.

Among them, Chen Yunsheng of the Chen family, Yan Shuanghua of the Yan family, and Li Hong, the scattered cultivator who Zhou Yang valued, were obviously better than others, and they easily solved the opponent and entered the top ten.

On the other hand, the other monks who also entered the top ten were all successful in the promotion after a hard battle, and some of them were still wearing colors and suffering some minor injuries.

After the top ten appeared, they did not give those monks who hung the lottery any more time to rest, and immediately entered a new draw.

Coincidentally, when ten into five, the loose cultivation Li Hong that Zhou Yang valued happened to draw Nie Hansha of the Nie family.

As a highly valued young genius of the Nie family of the Zifu family, Nie Hansha naturally has a fine magic weapon in his hand, and there is no shortage of various second-order spirit runes on his body, even now, he has not been injured at all.

However, Zhou Yang's method of dispersing Li Hong is even more powerful.

This person only has two second-order high-grade magic weapons, namely a silver scimitar and a pale golden small bell, the scimitar is the main attack, and the small bell is the main defense, since he appeared on the scene, no one has been able to force him to use the third magic weapon.

Of course, his two magic weapons are also high-quality, but they are not worthy of Zhou Yang's attention, what Zhou Yang really values is this person's grasp of the fighter plane, as well as his skillful gold and earth spells.

The competition has continued until now, and everyone else has more or less relied on the help of spirit runes to get to the present, but this Li Hong has not even used a spirit rune, and has come to this point by relying on magic weapons and the spells he knows.

Nie Hansha was born in the big family of the Purple Mansion, so his eyesight was naturally not bad, and Li Hong's relaxed posture when he defeated his opponent before made him feel great pressure.

Therefore, as soon as the two of them entered the field, he did not harass and tempt with a flying sword magic weapon as he had done with other opponents before, but directly sacrificed a gourd magic weapon that could release yellow sand to trap the enemy, releasing a sky full of yellow sand and enveloping half of the martial arts arena.

The yellow sand shrouded half of the martial arts arena, and Li Hong was naturally shrouded in it, although those yellow sand could not cause him any harm, but it blurred his vision, and it also greatly interfered with his divine sense, making him unable to see the situation of Nie Hansha outside at all.

And Nie Hansha, as the owner of the magic weapon, can see Li Hong in the Huangsha area clearly through the yellow sand.

So after seeing Huang Sha trapping Li Hong, he was overjoyed in his eyes, and hurriedly took out a few second-order high-grade spirit talismans and stimulated them towards Li Hong.

After he saw Li Hong's strength, he knew very well that it was impossible to defeat and deal with it with his own strength alone, and he could only rely on the current method of throwing money to fight quickly.

Although even if he wins in this way, it is easy to be criticized for not winning the martial arts, but compared with the first place reward of Tsukidan, this small criticism, how could Nie Hansha care.

After all, in the rules of the competition stipulated by the Zhou family, it was not said that it was not allowed to use spirit runes to fight.

But something horrified him happened.

When he activated the spirit rune and hit it, Li Hong, who was obviously in the yellow sand, could not see through the invisible objects and could not see his movements, but as if he had the ability of an unpredictable prophet, the moment after his spells were activated, he left the place with a fierce burst speed, and outside the "Golden Light Body Protection Technique" originally released on his body, he released a second-order high-grade earth defense spell "Rock Shield".

Suddenly, the five spirit runes activated by Nie Hansha, except for the two spirit runes with area damage effects that hit Li Hong and broke the rock shield outside, the rest of the attacks failed.

Then, before he could perform a second wave of attacks, a silver scimitar instantly slashed through the yellow sand and slashed towards his location.

With a clear sound of the "bell", the silver scimitar was blocked by a yellow shield used by Nie Hansha's bodyguard, and it retreated into the yellow sand area with a sound of gold and iron blowing, but Nie Hansha didn't dare to stay in place anymore, and hurriedly changed directions and stopped again.

"I still don't believe it, give me death!"

With a flash of color in his eyes, Nie Hansha reached out again and patted the storage bag, but took out another spirit rune.

"Second-order high-grade thunder talisman, Nie Daoyou is really willing to spend the capital!"

Zhou Yang's eyes froze, but he saw the origin of the spirit talisman in Nie Hansha's hand at a glance, and then looked at Nie Qiufeng with a slight displeasure and said.

"Ahem, cough, although the power of the thunder rune is greater than that of the same level spirit rune, it is indeed a second-order spirit rune, and it does not violate the rules of the game!"

Nie Qiufeng's face was unnaturally coughed, and he explained with a dry smile.

This kind of thing has always been the most sought-after treasure, and the second-order high-grade thunder talisman is not a treasure that can be obtained by casual cultivation during the Qi cultivation period, and only a Purple Mansion family like the Nie family can get this kind of treasure and hand it over to those outstanding juniors in the family for self-defense.

When Zhou Yang went out from Yuquan Lake Oasis to Baishahe Oasis for the first time, Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, gave him such a thunder talisman to defend himself, and successfully helped him destroy an escaped Qi Practicing Nine-Layer Sand Bandit in one blow.

Nie Qiufeng handed over such a treasure to Nie Hansha to use at the "Treasure Hunting Conference", but it was really a bit of a bully.

It's just that as he said, although this is a bit bullying, it is not a violation, so Zhou Yang didn't say anything more.

After all, although he was optimistic about that Li Hong, an irrelevant Qi cultivation period cultivator was not worth offending a Purple Mansion monk for him.

What happened next, however, was beyond everyone's expectations.

I saw a flash of thunder, and after the thunder talisman in Nie Hansha's hand was activated, with the rapid speed of the thunder and lightning spell, it really hit Li Hong in one fell swoop.

However, after this thunderbolt hit him through Li Hong's defensive golden bell and protective golden light, it did not make him lose his resistance at once as Nie Hansha thought.

Those Qi cultivation period monks who were obscured by the yellow sand couldn't see what was happening, but Nie Hansha and Zhou Yang and other Purple Mansion monks could clearly see that when the thunder and lightning hit Li Hong, a faint layer of earthy yellow aura suddenly appeared on his body.

It was this fleeting earthy yellow aura that wiped out most of the thunder and lightning power, and the remaining power did not even burn the clothes on his body except for making Li Hong's body tremble.

"It can't be!"

Nie Hansha could barely believe what he saw, and couldn't help but exclaim.

The power of the thunder method has always been the best of the same level of spells, and the power of the second-order high-grade thunder spell is by no means something that ordinary ninth-level cultivators can stop.

This thunder talisman in his hand, which was originally used to compete for the first place of the hole card, just now forced to use it helplessly has made him extremely regretful in his heart, but now he relied on the most important hole card after using it, he did not achieve the slightest result, which made him how to accept this fact for a while.

However, as soon as he shouted, a sharp stone thorn suddenly drilled out from under his feet in the arena, and instantly flew his whole body into the air.

Earth-based second-order high-grade spell "Earth Thorn Technique".

Nie Hansha was protected by a defensive shield, and the stone spikes failed to injure him.

But before he could land on the ground, a silver scimitar flew sideways in an instant, slashing through the shield on his body that consumed most of his power, and almost disemboweling him.

The reason why it is said to be a mistake is because at the last moment, Zhou Guangqing, a monk of the Zhou family who was in charge of rescuing the scene, promptly mobilized the power of the martial arts formation to form a shield to cover him.

But in this way, he also lost the game.

"It's wonderful!"

"This Li Hong dares to participate, his age is definitely not over sixty years old, at such an age, not only has he raised his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi training, but he has also cultivated a body refining technique to the limit of the Qi training period, and has a physical body stronger than that of ordinary foundation building period monks, it is really surprising!"

"What's even more surprising is that he is also so powerful in the use of spells, and the use of second-order high-grade spells does not exceed three breaths, if this is either more than ten years of hard work on this spell, or his own understanding of spell cultivation is amazing, no matter which one it is, it is shocking for his age!"

It was not Zhou Yang, who was optimistic about Li Hong before, who was amazed, but Yan Nantian of the Yan family.

In the eyes of these Purple Mansion Stage cultivators, there was no secret about Li Hong's methods.

Previously, when that layer of pale yellow aura emerged from Li Hong's body, several Purple Mansion Stage cultivators could see at a glance that it was a defensive spell attached to some kind of body refining practice after the cultivation reached a certain level.

And from the fact that after Li Hong was hit by a thunder-based spell, he only trembled slightly and returned to normal, it can be seen that his current physical strength is definitely much stronger than that of ordinary foundation building monks.

"Zhou Daoyou wouldn't have discovered this person's physical abnormality a long time ago, right?"

Chen Ping'an looked at Zhou Yang in surprise, but he helped Yan Nantian ask the unfinished words.

"There are indeed some discoveries, but I didn't expect this person to really be able to cultivate a low-level body refining technique to the greatest level at this age!"

Zhou Yang bowed his head slightly and admitted with a smile.

Hearing his words, Nie Qiufeng, who was depressed because of the failure of his juniors, couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "Mana cultivation has reached the ninth level of Qi training, and the body refining method has also been cultivated to the fullest, plus that skillful spell and the ability to judge the position of the fighter by listening to the voice, it seems that the first place in this treasure hunting conference is really going to be taken away by a nameless casual cultivator!"

When Chen Ping'an and Yan Nantian heard his words, their eyes flickered, but it was rare that they did not refute it.

Although they are confident in their juniors, the strength shown by Li Hong really makes them feel bottomless, and they don't dare to speak out again, otherwise they will be slapped in the face and their faces will not look good.