Qi An did not do this, he adopted a relatively conservative normal style of play, deliberately avoiding the torso and head other than the hands and feet being attacked, which is also his own training, with more strict requirements to break through.

Despite this, Qi An was still overwhelmed, moving all the way forward, and the numerous prefecture-level war puppets could only slow him down, and it was impossible to stop his advance.

Finally, when Qi An broke through all the obstructions of the war puppets and reached the finish line, the results on the bronze mirror were displayed as "Ninety-Nine" in red font.

The steward guarding at the exit happened to be the one Qi An met when he rushed to the list last time, of course he knew Qi An, and he was still very impressed, so when he saw the results displayed on the bronze mirror, his eyes widened, and he could hardly say a word.

The numbers on the bronze mirror represent time, and the font color represents the level of trial, black is human, red is earthly, and gold is heaven.

Qi An smiled brightly at the steward, clenched his fists and turned away, until his figure disappeared, the steward came to his senses, hurriedly reported the results, and rewrote the leaderboard.

Soon after, the ranking of Life and Death Lane was updated, and Qi An's name appeared impressively on the prefecture-level list, ranking third, with a time of ninety-nine breaths, second only to Gongsun Riyue and Bu Feng.

At this point, the five positions on the prefecture-level list were finally occupied, and the backer branch actually had five students on the prefecture-level list at the same time.

Not to mention the backer branches, it is difficult for hundreds of branches of the entire Qianqing Academy to have five students on the prefecture-level list at the same time, and usually there are as few as one or two students on the prefecture-level list as one or two as many as three or four in a branch.

This is because the students on the prefecture-level list are already very powerful peak martial sects, and the success rate of promoting monks is very high, at least more than eighty percent, many people will choose to break through at this time, if they stay in the innate martial arts sect for too long, it will affect the subsequent cultivation progress, so they will break through when it is time to break through, except for those who are arrogant and must enter the heaven-level list, they will choose not to break through, and continue to accumulate.

In fact, as long as you become a peak martial sect and can mobilize part of the true qi in your body, you can try to break through, but the success rate is not high, only one or two percent, if you fail, it will lead to a large loss of the original accumulated true qi in the body, and you need to meditate and breathe for a long time again to make up for it, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, the peak martial sects are very cautious about the choice of breakthrough timing, and most of them will not be in a hurry, and usually try it when the accumulation is deeper and the grasp is relatively large.

Most of the peak martial arts sects must be at least fifty percent sure before they are ready to break through, and if they are less than fifty percent, it is better to continue to accumulate and cultivate diligently, so that the true qi accumulated in the body will be more powerful. Because the more powerful the True Qi, the more True Qi is under one's control, the greater the possibility of constructing a stable True Qi Vortex, and the higher the success rate of breakthrough.

It's like building a house, the materials are too little to build, if the materials are barely enough, you can build it, but it is not stable, and it may collapse when the wind blows, if there are enough materials, and they are all solid and reliable good materials, then it is easy to build a house, and the built house is big and strong, and can live for many people, and can live for many years.

Constructing the True Qi Vortex in the dantian is equivalent to building a house, and the True Qi that has been cultivated over time is the material for building a house.

When the peak martial sect breaks through, the more powerful the true qi in the body, the higher the success rate, the more stable the true qi vortex constructed, and the faster the true qi runs, the stronger the strength after the breakthrough.

Those peak martial sects that can break through the ground-level life and death alley, their true qi is already strong enough, and their degree is not at all below the normal early stage of the condensation realm, and some are even stronger, but because they can only mobilize part of the true qi, the power of the move is not as strong as that of the early stage of the condensing realm. It's like I have a million copper coins, and you only have 800,000, but I can only use half of them to do business, but you can invest all of them, and I am not as good as you in terms of abundant funds.

Today's backer branch actually has five prefecture-level list students at the same time, which is probably the first time in history. After all, the founding of the Great Qian Dynasty was only more than 200 years ago, and the Qianqing Dynasty was established only after the founding of the country, and the history of 200 years at most is not too long, compared with those who claim to be the thousand-year-old inheritance of the great sect of cultivation, it is far behind.

After the ranking of Life and Death Lane was updated, more and more people saw Qi An's name, so Qi An became a topic of conversation after tea and dinner in less than two months.

There are probably two theories about Qi An's two consecutive rankings.

One is to say that Qi An was originally a genius, he became an innate martial sect at the age of thirteen, his talent was extremely high, his cultivation was extremely fast, and two years was enough time to make his strength improve rapidly, and it was natural to break through the earth-level life and death alley.

Another theory also admits that Qi An is a cultivation genius, but he thinks that he has long had the ability to break through the earth-level life and death alley, but he is very low-key and unwilling to show off, so he has not shown his extraordinary strength until now.

Both statements were supported, but absolutely no one thought that Qi An had the strength to be on the prefecture-level list because he was promoted to the Qi Condensation Realm, but even if he told the truth, no one would dare to believe it.

Cultivating from the newly promoted Martial Sect to the Qi Condensation Realm within two years, I am afraid that only those peerless geniuses with powerful cultivation forces can do it with the support of various resources, but it is absolutely impossible in the small backer branch.

The purpose of the branch is not to cultivate the pillars of the country, but to create a large number of grassroots officials, so those who enter the Qianqing Academy are not relatives of the emperor, nor are they celebrities, most of them are folk warriors who have no prominent background.

For example, Ji Zhengyue, Qu Han, Xiang Fang and other three people, their backgrounds are already very good, they are not the sons of wealthy businessmen, or the descendants of squires and wealthy families, or they are the young masters of the dart game.

Qi An is naturally not a mouthy person who likes to show off, he did not report to the academy the fact that he had broken through to the condensation realm, because the rules of the Qianqing Academy are that he must stay for three years, and he has only been two years, even if he announces that he has become a monk, he still has to stay in the backer branch for an extra year, in order to avoid trouble, he kept this secret, even if Ji Zhengyue asked them, they only said that he had a great understanding recently, which led to a big increase in strength.

Strength is not only determined by the realm of cultivation, but by many factors, which has caused the same peak martial arts, some even break into the human-level life and death alley is very difficult, while some can cross the realm to defeat the monks, although there is a difference in the degree of true qi, but martial arts skills occupy a more important factor, and there may even be some other reasons.

Ji Zhengyue and they all thought that Qi An's strength rose because of the breakthrough in martial arts skills, so they broke through the prefecture-level Life and Death Alley, and they also saw Qi An's talent in their eyes, and it was indeed far more than the three of them, so after learning that Qi An was on the prefecture-level list, although they were very surprised, they were also able to accept it, not like other students, they didn't believe it when they heard others, and they had to go to the entrance of Life and Death Lane to see the ranking in person to determine the authenticity of the rumors.

It's just that the heated discussion brought by Qi'an has just risen, and another incident has quickly diverted the public's attention, and the level of attention it has received is far greater than that of Qi'an, and even the high-level of the backer branch has been alarmed.

This is Gongsun Riyue, who is known as the first genius of the Backing Mountain Branch and has long occupied the top of the rankings, and finally successfully broke through the heaven-level life and death alley, with a score of two hundred and eighty-four breaths.

This news caused a sensation in the entire Backing Mountain Branch, it is said that since the completion of the Backing Mountain Branch, no student has ever been able to break through the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley, even if all the branches of the Qianqing Academy are counted, there are less than 100 people who can pass the trial of the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley in the past two hundred years, and on average, there is not even one person in a branch, and nearly half of these people appear in the Qianqing Academy General Courtyard in the Imperial City of Zhongzhou, where the feet of the Son of Heaven are gathered, and the cultivation environment is not known how many times better than the Branch, in order to achieve this kind of results.

Gongsun Riyue gave the dean of the backer branch face, and the dean and vice president, who are usually rare, stood in front of people without exception, gathered the students of the whole school, and greatly praised Gongsun Riyue in front of everyone, setting him up as an example of the backer branch.

This is also the first time Qi An has seen Gongsun Riyue, a legendary figure, since he was admitted to the hospital for two years, he is not very old, his eyebrows are clear, he looks like a weak scholar, he has very few words, and the expression on his face has always been very flat.

When the dean asked him to come to the stage to say a few words and express his feelings, Gongsun Riyue thought about it, only said "It's time to break through", and then stepped down and left.

On the second day, the news came that Gongsun Riyue had successfully broken through and been promoted to the Condensation Realm, and would soon leave the Backing Mountain Branch and go to the Imperial City of Zhongzhou.

According to the usual practice, ordinary martial arts sects break through and report to the state government, and the state government arranges corresponding posts and takes up their own posts; if a martial artist is promoted to a monk on the prefecture-level list, it is reported to the central government, and the central government arranges the corresponding posts; if there is a genius on the heaven-level list, he goes directly to the Qianqing Academy in the imperial city of Zhongzhou to report to the general academy of the Qianqing Academy, and enters a higher-level elite training camp to continue his studies.

It is said that the students targeted by the elite training camp of the Qianqing Academy are all Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, and the only condition for entry is to break through the Heaven Level Life and Death Alley when they are in the Quenching Body Realm.

From this point of view, in the eyes of the high-level leaders of the Qianqing Academy, only those who have been on the heaven-level list can be regarded as geniuses, and the rest, including the martial arts sects on the prefecture-level list, are all mediocre.