Chapter 16: The Shadow of Manjin

Not only Xiao Liying, but also the rest of the audience also sank in their hearts and sweated for Tianxiao. With his body leaning back and losing his balance, it is probably impossible to resist the opponent's sudden change of direction.

Could it be that Tianxiao is going to lose to Luo Haibo?

Just when everyone was worried, they only heard two consecutive "bang" and "ding" sounds on the stage, and a fairy sword flew up leisurely and landed in the distance.

On the stage, Luo Haibo was standing stupidly, while Tianxiao was lying on the table, the pine sword pointed at Luo Haibo, and the tip of the sword was only an inch from his abdomen.

Tianxiao, who had lost his balance just now, simply raised his left foot and kicked upward, so that his upper body naturally sank rapidly, and the Reverse Sea Sword almost touched his nose, but after all, he narrowly avoided it. The moment he got close to the table, he raised his left foot and kicked Luo Haibo's wrist hard. Luo Haibo's whole hand was numb, he couldn't hold the sword, the anti-sea sword flew up in the air, and was swept horizontally by Tianxiao with a pine-patterned sword, falling into the distance, and at the same time, the pine-grained sword blade was also aimed at Luo Haibo's dantian.

"In this competition, He Tian wins!" the Great Elder's loud voice sounded.

It wasn't until this moment that everyone reacted to what had just happened between the lightning and flint, and suddenly, the crowd exploded with an "uproar". Everyone thought that it would be difficult for Tianxiao to dodge or block with a sword when he lost his balance, but they didn't expect that Tianxiao didn't want to block that sword at all, but raised one leg to make himself fall to the ground faster, so that he could not only avoid Luo Haibo's swift sword, but also attack the source of all his sword moves-wrist!

After all, the two sides of the competition are low hands in the harmony period, and they can't reach the level of exciting battles just by sword moves, and often a few simple moves can distinguish the winner from the loser. Tricks like these can be used to win smoothly and make simple battles fun.

Tianxiao withdrew the loose sword and climbed up. Luo Haibo looked at Tianxiao and said, "You are really powerful, as if you have calculated that I will make that sword." This is indeed the best way to deal with my sword. "He thought he had won for a moment.

Tianxiao smiled slightly: "You are also very powerful." The sword moves of the soft sword are really sharp, one blow can't be achieved, and a flick of the wrist can immediately make the sword blade change direction, if I don't react faster, I will definitely lose to you. ”

Luo Haibo also smiled, picked up the Reverse Sea Sword, and walked off the battle platform with Tianxiao. Several people in the audience immediately surrounded the battle.

"Brother, I was really worried just now. "Tianyao has palpitations.

"That's right. Brother Tianxiao, don't make it so thrilling, I can see that I am nervous to death. Zhu Xiaomin exaggeratedly covered his chest and complained. That resentful look made many male disciples next to him stunned, is this still the cold Zhu Xiaomin?

"Haibo, you can, I almost thought you were going to win, it looks like I'm going to work harder, I'm the worst of the four of us right now. Jiang Qigao looked envious.

"Tianxiao, I originally thought that even if I couldn't beat you, I would be able to fight with you for a long time. I didn't expect to lose so quickly. But I still say the same thing, you and Tianyao should be careful, I will surpass you one day. Well, I look forward to having the opportunity to fight you again at the next martial arts meeting. I'll go back to practice first. Luo Haibo's personality is still the same as five years ago.

"Why is he so desperate? He didn't take a break after the competition, what was he doing in such a hurry to cultivate?" Zhu Xiaomin looked at Luo Haibo's distant back, and said with wide eyes.

Tianxiao scratched Zhu Xiaomin's nose: "You just look at other people's power, but you don't know why they are so good." He only entered the sect a year earlier than you, and your roots are first-class, and he is your own. His anti-sea sword is a top-grade fairy sword, and your Painted Shadow Sword is a good product. The sword book you cultivated is also stronger than his. But let me ask you, are you sure you can win against him?"

Zhu Xiaomin stuck out his tongue and stopped talking. Many male disciples in the back saw Tianxiao's affectionate movements and Zhu Xiaomin's cute expression, and their jaws were about to fall to the ground.

Tianxiao secretly said that it was not good, it was too casual just now to forget that there were others here. Usually in Zhuyuan, the relationship between several people is so good that they are like brothers and sisters, no matter how other disciples describe Zhu Xiaomin as cold and ruthless, in front of Tianxiao and Tianyao, she is always the naughty and clever little junior sister.

As expected, a series of hot eyes immediately projected at him, as if they were going to eat him alive. Tianxiao noticed that something was wrong, and immediately beckoned a few people to leave together.

The three of them successfully passed the first round, and on this night, Tang Junhe specially prepared a lot of fruits and held a melon and fruit banquet in the open space of the bamboo garden to celebrate the three of them. Even the old-fashioned Yu Ruijiang couldn't resist Zhu Xiaomin, so he was brought in to participate together. The bright moon is shining, the bonfire is blazing, and the six masters and apprentices sit on the ground around the bonfire, tasting sweet fruits.

Talking about the battle during the day, Tianxiao asked Yu Ruijiang: "Master, do you know the Reverse Sea Sword? Today, Luo Haibo used the Reverse Sea Sword to combine a set of soft sword sword moves, and the attack moves were very strange and not easy to defend. ”

Yu Ruijiang nodded: "The Reverse Sea Sword is a top-grade immortal sword, which was refined by Cai Yingxin, a legendary female elder of our sect. After she forged the soft sword, combined its characteristics to create the "Night Dance Sword Book" that overcomes rigidity with softness. Due to the great toughness of the Reverse Sea Sword and the long sword body, it is difficult for the opponent to adapt to the soft sword moves of "Night Dance Sword Book", and if you are not careful, you will be injured because the blade of the soft sword suddenly changes the direction of attack. Before Elder Cai crossed the catastrophe that year, he left the Reverse Sea Soft Sword in the sect, which turned out to be the weapon of the Twelve Elders. Later, at a meeting of elders, it was decided to pass on this soft sword to Luo Haibo. Luo Haibo, with his own qualifications, is actually on par with the progress of your and Tianyao's cultivation, which is really impressive. ”

"Master, when we entered the sect and climbed the six thousand steps, we could see that Luo Haibo's heart was extremely tenacious, and he must be a person with extraordinary perseverance. Now that I look at it, it turns out to be so. "Tianyao on the side.

"The way of cultivating immortals is a pay, a return. If a person is powerful, he naturally has his own powerful reason. The swordsmanship is extremely mysterious, and even my current cultivation realm is just a glimpse of the corner of the mountain, and some sword moves are unimaginable. This martial arts meeting is also to open your eyes. Now that all three of you have successfully passed the first round, the opponents behind you will become more and more powerful, so don't take it lightly. I am afraid that there are many disciples like Luo Haibo who are not highly qualified but extremely hardworking. Yu Ruijiang told again.

The Taiqing Sect only accepts disciples with excellent root bones, and the disciples have to evaluate the root bone level again after entering the mountain. This can not only select people with excellent qualifications for key training, but also stimulate ordinary disciples and give them the motivation to practice hard. If the cultivation of immortals is successful, even if it is a disciple with ordinary qualifications like Luo Haibo, the sect will treat everyone equally, and give them superb sword books and high-quality immortal swords. It is precisely because of this equal emphasis on stimulation and encouragement that the Taiqing Sect has cultivated a lot of amazing and brilliant immortal cultivation masters over the years, and has created a large number of ingenious and superb swordsmanship moves.

From April 13 to 16, it was the first round of the Yuan Infant War. On the afternoon of the 14th, everyone went to see a battle of Xiao Liying. With her cultivation in the late Yuan Infant period, she easily defeated the opponent in the early Yuan Infant period. After the sixteen yen infant battle was over, the elders re-drew the disciples who had won the first round into groups. Since there are only eight matches in the second round of the Hehe War, it only takes one day to compete. Zhu Xiaomin will play in the Beishu Battlefield on April 17, Tianxiao will play in the Houtu Battlefield at Shenshi, and Tianyao will face his opponent in the second round at the Zhurong Battlefield at the same time.

After learning who the opponent of the second round was, everyone's mood did not change much. There are so many disciples of the Taiqing Sect who participate in the competition, and most of the time they follow their masters to practice hard, and they don't have much contact with each other, so they don't know much about what kind of person their opponent is. Respond to all changes with the same, this is what Yu Ruijiang often admonishes a few apprentices, if he messes up first when facing the enemy, it means that his heart is not strong, and it will be difficult to become a big weapon after all.

After a few days of rest, the second round of the war finally began. Han Mingfei happened to reach the bottleneck stage of breaking through the void and entering the realm of cave void, and Yu Ruijiang had to supervise the martial arts meeting again, so Tang Junhe stayed in the bamboo garden to protect Han Mingfei. Xiao Liying had to prepare for the second round of the Yuan Ying Battle on the eighth day, so only Tianxiao, Tianyao and Zhu Xiaomin came to the martial arts meeting together on this day.

The time is coming, and the five battle platforms are crowded with people. There is no doubt that it must be Zhu Xiaomin's platform with the largest audience. Zhu Xiaomin's opponent in this round was a female disciple under the seat of the Eighth Elder Zeng Kexia, and her appearance was very ordinary. Therefore, most of the male disciples watching in the audience came to see Zhu Xiaomin.

"Senior Sister Xiaomin, your opponent in this round is Senior Sister Jin Zhanying under the seat of the Eighth Elder, and now it is in the late stage of harmony, and the weapon used is the medium-grade fairy sword Wanjin, although it is not as good as your high-grade fairy sword painting, but her realm is two periods higher than yours, you must be careful, don't get hurt. I still have some friendship with her, why don't I go and talk to her for you, and let her show mercy a little?" a handsome and dashing young man said to Zhu Xiaomin with a flattering look.

"Really, Senior Brother Yan has finished all the good things at once, what else can we say......" Many people quietly muttered in their hearts.

This person is a disciple of the second elder Xie Ningdong, Yan Luoting, he has been in the Taiqing Sect for twenty-six years, and now he is only in the late Yuan Infant stage, with the qualifications of the disciples of the Taiqing Sect, this speed of cultivating immortals is really unreasonable. Yan Luoting was born in the family of the rich, although he looks like a talent, but his cultivation is not too hard, and his thoughts are spent on those love things on weekdays. The temperament of an immortal cultivator is elegant, and he usually looks polite to beautiful women, but he can please some female disciples. But he has a very high vision, and he has never officially formed a Taoist couple with others, and only proposed to Xiao Liying in the early years the intention of double cultivation, but was politely refused. In the past two years, Zhu Xiaomin has become more and more smart, and Yan Luoting often used the excuse to go to Zhuyuan to try to curry favor with her, which caused Zhu Xiaomin to be very disgusted with this person.

Zhu Xiaomin's eyes narrowed, and he said coldly: "This senior brother, I have three points to say to you: First, I don't bother you if I can't stand the injury. The once every ten years Taiqing Martial Arts Meeting is a severe challenge to test our cultivation achievements, not a place for you to pull favors, I hope to compete with Senior Sister Jin with all my might; second, I haven't competed yet, listening to Senior Brother's words, it seems that I will definitely lose, you can't help but look down on me too much; Third, I look at Senior Brother's appearance as if I've seen it somewhere, but I don't remember who you are at all, and I ask Senior Brother not to worry so much about it in the future, Xiaomin can't afford it. ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone laughed "uproar". was ridiculed in front of so many people, and his face was embarrassed.

Yan Luoting didn't expect Zhu Xiaomin to speak so chokingly, he was stunned, and he opened his mouth a few times and didn't think about what to say, so he had to be stunned.

Zhu Xiaomin simply ignored him, turned his head and showed a sunny smile, and said to Tianxiao and Tianyao: "Brother Tianxiao, Brother Tianyao, you will see how Xiaomin's ability is after a while." "On weekdays, the three of them have been cultivating together for the longest time, and Zhu Xiaomin's relationship with them is also the closest, much closer than the relationship with Han Mingfei and Tang Junhe.

"Okay, we're here to cheer you up. But don't be reckless, we can't bear to see you hurt. Tianyao smiled.

Giving the two of them a sweet smile back, Zhu Xiaomin walked lightly onto the battle platform.

Another large number of hot eyes came to his face, Tianxiao lowered his head and smiled bitterly, and said softly to Tianyao: "Xiaomin, this girl...... It seems that the trouble between the two of us will be indispensable in the future. If you look at the other people's eyes, they all seem to swallow us in a mouthful of water. ”

"yes. Xiaomin's too, it's okay if you're not enthusiastic about other people, and you don't need to be so cold, right? It's like a completely different person in front of us, no wonder we are jealous. Tianyao shook his head slightly.

"Ah, the competition has begun!" a voice came from the crowd, and the eyes of the disciples in the audience also turned to the stands. Zhu Xiaomin raised his sword and stood in the wind, blowing his waist-length hair gently, dancing with the wind, his beautiful face and sassy heroic posture fascinated the male disciples in the audience so much that they couldn't find the north.

Jin Zhanying said to Zhu Xiaomin: "Senior Sister Zhu, I am already in the late stage of harmony, you are still in the early stage of harmony, after a while, the sword weapon will be eyeless, and my realm has not reached the point where I can recruit and release the sword freely, you have to be careful." It seems that she has a good heart, and she is afraid that she will hurt Zhu Xiaomin for a while, so the story reminds her first.

Zhu Xiaomin replied: "Thank you, Senior Sister Jin." However, I also ask my senior sister to do her best to hone my actual combat ability. ”

Jin Zhanying admired in her heart, she was worthy of being a disciple of the Seventh Elder, even if she knew that her cultivation realm was not as good as her opponent's, she was still so calm. nodded immediately and responded, "Okay." My fairy sword, named Wanjin. ”

"The name of the sword is drawn. As soon as the words fell, Zhu Xiaomin swung his sword and rushed towards Jin Zhanying.

Zhu Xiaomin knew in his heart that his cultivation was not as high as his opponent's, so instead of waiting for his opponent to attack, it was better to strike first and take the initiative to have a chance to win.

Jin Zhanying also swung the Wanjin sword, slashing vertically and horizontally in the direction that Zhu Xiaomin was rushing from, bursting out with a dense sound of gold and iron. After Zhu Xiaomin's first attack was blocked, he did not press down step by step, but circled around Jin Zhanying. Zhu Xiaomin's steps are light, like a fluttering butterfly, and his sword moves are light and flowing, as elegant as a splash of ink.

"I didn't expect that the sword song of "Qingling Chapter" would have another charm for Xiaomin to dance, so soft and beautiful movements. Tianyao watched intently, and his mouth was full of admiration. Many other male disciples were even more stupid, Zhu Xiaomin appeared in the world like a nine-day fairy, her body was pavilion, her shadow was curling, her voice was sassy, and her appearance was beautiful. Bright as the sun, soft as the moon.

The action is soft, but the power is not diminished in the slightest. Jin Zhanying was also fighting against someone who cultivated the "Source Shadow Sword Book" for the first time, although the opponent's realm was two periods lower than her own, it was not an easy task to deal with. Jin Zhanying was tired of parrying, and her face turned red.

Zhu Xiaomin's advantage was already obvious, and a smile rose at the corner of her mouth. This is what she expected, different from the usual sword practice, this time she deliberately performed sword moves in a circle, evolving the original move on the opponent's side into an attack around the opponent's body, so that the opponent had to quickly turn his body on the spot in order to deal with the attack from the side of the body or even from behind. Now it seems that Zhu Xiaomin's purpose has been achieved.

Jin Zhanying's heart felt weak for a while, and she said in her heart: "Is the Source Shadow Sword Book really so powerful? No, this kind of circle-turning attack method should have been figured out by herself." It was so hard to deal with it, and I had to spin my body in place to avoid attacks...... Why do you have to rotate passively in place?" she had an idea, her footsteps moved sideways, and she began to spin in the same direction as Zhu Xiaomin. "If you can go around, so can I. Why should I be on the spot to deal with your attack, as long as I circle with you at the same speed and in the same direction, it means that the two of you are fighting face to face all the time. This is the method that Jin Zhanying thought of in a hurry.

Zhu Xiaomin was the only one who was walking in circles on the stage, and now it has become two people. This is a little dazzling, and the faces and backs of the two people flashed alternately in front of everyone, like a phoenix flying.

There were cheers from the audience, and the two on the stage really played well.

Jin Zhanying's method really greatly relieved the pressure just now, and now it feels easier to deal with it, so Jin Zhanying gradually accelerated the speed of her moves, turning defense into offense, and the gap between Zhu Xiaomin and her in the realm gradually appeared.

"No, she's already found a way to crack it, and I can't continue to whirl around like this in vain. Let's fight her head-on. Zhu Xiaomin stopped spinning, and Jin Zhanying also stopped.

Jin Zhanying's practice of "True as a Sword" can also be regarded as a relatively strong one in the Taiqing Sect. True, false, false, real, as one. The sword moves of this set of sword books are characterized by fast, so fast that people are dizzying, and the sword shadow is Huohuo, although the power of each move is not large, but many swords are stabbed out in a moment, increasing the probability of hitting.

Zhu Xiaomin was overwhelmed, and in a panic, the cuffs and hems of his clothes were cut by the Wanjin sword. Jin Zhanying's sword came out faster and faster, and the sound of "ding ding" slashing swords was endless, and every once in a while, you could hear the sound of "bang" tearing clothes. Every time Zhu Xiaomin dodged a sword in a thrilling way, everyone in the audience breathed a sigh of relief.

Tianxiao looked at Zhu Xiaomin, who was panting on the stage, and said to Tianyao: "Xiaomin is at the limit, I'm afraid I'm going to lose this time." ”

"Hmm. But Xiaomin won't admit defeat until the last moment, so let's look down. "Tianyao said.

If there are elders supervising the battle, they are not afraid of being seriously injured, and those who deliberately hurt people by taking the opportunity of the competition will be severely punished. Besides, they are all swordsmanship between fellow disciples, how can there be such a big hatred that has to put the opponent to death?

Zhu Xiaomin was breathing heavily, and his forehead was full of sweat droplets. Jin Zhanying's sword was too fast, and some of the sword moves didn't have time to react at all. Zhu Xiaomin began to block and retreat, while Jin Zhanying pressed forward step by step, not giving Zhu Xiaomin the slightest room to turn around. Zhu Xiaomin retreated to the side of the stage step by step and had to stop. If you go back further, you will fall out of the battlefield, and you will be judged. She had to grit her teeth and parry with all her might.

The consumption was even greater under this extreme defensive state, and it didn't take long for Zhu Xiaomin to feel exhausted and his spiritual power was exhausted. Once the spirit is tired and inattentive, there is a greater danger of being hit.

Sure enough, with two swords, the Wanjin sword cut through Zhu Xiaomin's clothes on his right upper arm, leaving a wound, followed by another sword piercing his right shoulder, and the blade of the sword stopped next to Zhu Xiaomin's neck.