Chapter 70: The Endless Road
When everyone's eyes were restored, they were amazed by what they could see. Even Liu Chen was stunned, as if he had come to the fairy world.
On the towering cloud peak, the mountain waves are full of peaks and waves, layer upon layer, clouds and mist, and the shadows are abundant, which is even more beautiful than the fairy world.
The mountain is full of verdant, it seems more and more mysterious under the surrounding of clouds and mist, and the antique buildings that can be seen faintly in the middle of the mountainside are exquisitely clear, and the pink walls are tiled, which seems to be magnificent and atmospheric.
Everyone followed the leader of Yuntianzong along the mountain road all the way up, the majestic mountain walls, the verdant pine forests, the thin light mist, and the blue sky were intertwined, and the splendid streams flowing in the mountain streams outlined a wonderful ink painting.
In this way, more than 300 people marched mightily, and after walking for about two hours, many people were already showing fatigue. Although they are all cultivators, and they are the Tianjiao of major families and sects, almost all of them have been pampered since childhood, where can they endure such suffering.
"Why don't we just fly up?"
Complaints began to be made in the crowd, and like a plague, it soon spread throughout the marching procession.
"I didn't say you had to walk up. ”
Hearing this, the leader of the Cloud Heaven Sect showed an imperceptible sneer on the corner of his mouth, and at this time he stood up and said to everyone.
"I said, why didn't you say it earlier, ouch, I'm tired of Lao Tzu. ”
A man in a green shirt looked unkind and complained.
"It's ......"
Many people also stopped and agreed.
But there are also many people who ignore them, and still take heavy steps, step by step towards the top of the mountain. It includes Liu Chen, Ling Yun, Chu Ziyu, the two sisters of the Murong family and a group of people from the Tang family.
At this moment, a young man activated the spiritual power in his body, and his figure disappeared from the spot in a flash, and galloped towards the top of the mountain.
Seeing this, many people used their spiritual power in their bodies and followed towards the top of the mountain. In an instant, streamers broke through the sky, leaving behind a trace of afterimage, which was not beautiful.
About one-third of Tianjiao chose to fly, and the vast majority of them still walked towards the top of the mountain, they are all relatively smart people, if they can use spiritual power to fly, it is estimated that the leader would have let them go directly to the peak, where will they go on foot with them.
The rest of the people walked for about two hours, and as far as the eye could see, the mountain road was winding and still had no end in sight. The team has gone from a few tens of meters just now to a few hundred meters intermittently, and many of them can't hold on and sit on the ground and simply rest, and some of them are like the first batch of people, using their spiritual power to fly towards the top of the mountain.
What made them curious was that they had just flown for a while, and they caught up with the first group of people, and they couldn't help but look puzzled. It stands to reason that these people should have reached the top of the mountain a long time ago, so why are they still flying towards the top of the mountain?
"Hehe, Brother Han, this year's martial arts tournament is a bit interesting for you at the first level. ”
At this time, there was a light curtain on the top of the mountain that was conjured up by using supernatural powers, reflecting all the situations of everyone under the mountain, and several old people present could see it clearly, and a familiar voice spoke.
"Old Duan's words are serious, I just had a whim, after all, there are too many Tianjiao participating in this year's meeting, we must eliminate some of them first, right?"
Han Qingyang hugged his fist towards Duan Wuluo and spoke.
"Well, yes! we'll see!"
Duan Wuluo didn't speak, his eyes fell on the light curtain, and he saw that Liu Chen, Chu Ziyu and Ling Yun were walking up the mountain step by step. Behind him were the two sisters, Murong Jing and Murong Xue, with a flash of approval in their eyes, and they nodded slightly in approval.
"Sister Jing, I can't do it anymore, I also want to fly directly to the top of the mountain. ”
Murong Xue's expression was painful, and her whole body was already soaked with sweat.
"Cher, you must persevere, hold on, we are almost there. ”
Murong Jing took Murong Xue's hand and dragged Murong Xue up step by step.
"Ah......h
At this moment, a Tianjiao in the foundation building period fell directly from the sky, and then several Tianjiao in the foundation building period fell. As more and more people fell from the sky, the cultivators walking below were secretly rejoicing.
"This fellow Daoist, what happened?"
A woman passing by asked softly.
"Hey, don't mention it, I feel like I can't fly to the top of the mountain, and the spiritual power consumption is several times that of usual, even if I use the spirit stone, the speed of replenishment is still not as fast as the speed of consumption, this Yuntian Sect is really weird." ”
The man got up with a disgraced face and said hatefully.
At this time, a voice came from the top of the mountain, spreading throughout the entire mountain road, and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Han Qingyang, the sect leader of the Yuntian Sect, and from the time you stepped out of the teleportation array, the martial arts competition had already begun. This first level is what I have prepared for you, and it's called Endless Road. Within eight hours, as long as you can dare to challenge yourself and climb to the top of the mountain, you will pass this first level. If someone wants to give up automatically, that's okay too. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar. Once again, everyone stepped up the stone steps that seemed to have no end, but there was a group of people who stood out the most, for they had not stopped all the time, and had been heading towards the top of the mountain.
About an hour later, Liu Chen and the others saw a bright light on the stone steps in the distance, and several people glanced at each other, all of them showed joy, and accelerated their speed and walked towards the bright light.
"Damn, I'll give up!"
A young man knelt directly on the stone steps and said breathlessly.
Suddenly, a pillar of light fell, shining on the young man, and the light flickered, and the man disappeared.
"Lao Tzu also gave up ......"
"I also give up ......"
Immediately afterwards, many people said that they would give up, not because they didn't want to pass the first level, but because the spiritual power consumption just now had almost drained their qi sea, so that they were not even as good as ordinary people, let alone climbing the stone steps that could not see the end at a glance.
When Liu Chen and the others came to the peak first, they were shocked by the scene that appeared in front of them. I saw that the peak of Yuntianzong was a huge circular square paved with white jade, and there was a towering tower in the center of the square, which was impressively printed with three golden characters, Xuanhuang Tower.
The whole square edge pavilion towers, simple and luxurious, with the Xuanhuang Pagoda as the center, there are six pillars of light of different colors in the six corners of the square, and the two echo to form a six-pointed star array pattern.
There were several old men sitting on the pavilion on the side, and Chu Ziyu recognized one of them at a glance, that was his master, Duan Wuluo, the tiger god one of the guardians of Huaxia.
However, in addition to Han Qingyang, the sect leader of the Cloud Heaven Sect, there were also three elders in the Cloud Heaven Sect, they were Wang Hexuan, the elder of the Law Enforcement Pavilion of the Cloud Heaven Sect, Zhang Zhiming, the elder of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion of the Cloud Heaven Sect, and Zhao Feiyan, the elder of the Qi Refining Pavilion. In addition to this, there are also representatives from various sects.
Eight hours had passed, and when the last Tianjiao climbed to the top of the peak with his hands and flesh blurred, the endless path disappeared, and the cultivators who were still on the stone steps were all wrapped in a light curtain and teleported out of the Cloud Heaven Sect.
"Well, that's good. The result is much better than I expected, first of all, congratulations to all of you for passing the first test of this martial arts competition. ”
Wang Hexuan's eyes showed approval, glanced at the more than one hundred and fifty young Tianjiao who were embarrassed on the field, and said with a faint smile.
"Old Duan, do you think there's anything else you want to say?"
Wang Hexuan bowed down to Duan Wuluo and asked respectfully.
"It worked!"
Duan Wuluo took a sip of tea, did not raise his eyes to look at him, but spit out two words lightly.
"Okay, juniors understand. ”
Wang Hexuan turned to look at Tianjiao who was present, and said loudly: "Now I announce that in the first level of this year's martial arts competition, the results of the 156 contestants present are valid. In addition, the top ten in this level will stay, and the rest of the people can go down to rest with my Yuntian Sect disciples. ”
Wang Hexuan finished speaking, with a wave of the long sleeve of his right hand, he saw a stream of pure spiritual power emitting green light wrapping everyone in the audience, Liu Chen and the others only felt a burst of comfort from their bodies, and in a few breaths, all the discomfort caused by the endless road just now was swept away, and all of them recovered as before.
When all the Tianjiao were full of joy and followed the disciples of the Yuntian Sect to leave to rest, only ten Tianjiao were still standing there on the top of the peak.
Liu Chen, Chu Ziyu, Ling Yun, Murong Jing, Murong Xue, Tang Yin, Tang Yan'er, Tang Tianyang, and the Lin family's Lin Mu and Lin Hai brothers.
"Several, you are the most talented people who have passed the first test, and they are also unanimously recognized by the judges here, and I hope that you will still be able to perform well in the next competitions, because only one team can win the first place. ”
Han Qingyang stood up at this time, stared at everyone with his eyes like torches, and said lightly.
"Sect Master Han, you left us here just to tell us this?"
Lin Hai took a step forward and asked with his fists clenched.
"Hehe, of course not. As the top ten, I, Yuntian Sect, will reward each of you with ten medium-grade spirit stones. ”
After Han Qingyang finished speaking, everyone's eyes lit up, they already knew that ten medium-grade spirit stones were not a small number for them, and in the next few levels, with these spirit stones, they would not worry about falling into passivity due to excessive spiritual power consumption in the second level.
At this time, I saw ten delicate wooden boxes appear in front of Zhao Feiyan, and with a wave of his right hand, they flew into Liu Chen's hands.
"Okay, it's getting late today, go back early to rest, tomorrow will be a bad day!"
Lingbao Pavilion Elder Zhang Zhiming said with a smile.
At the same time as the words fell, several judges disappeared in unison. Liu Chen and the others also followed the disciples of the Cloud Heaven Sect to their residences to prepare for tomorrow's test.
Everyone is talking about it, this year's competition system is very different from the past, in previous years, it was basically two and two battles, and the person who won the last place was the first place, but this year, from the moment they just stepped into the Cloud Heaven Sect, the test had already begun.
Besides, the people who were eliminated by the first level, when the light dissipated, they had already been teleported to the teleportation array under the mountain of Yuntian Sect, and the same burst of green light enveloped them, clearing the discomfort on their bodies, and then they were teleported out of Yuntian Sect, when they opened their eyes again, they were already in the suburbs of Jiangning City, and they had no impression of what happened before.
The Cultivator Contest has officially begun, and what awaits Liu Chen will be an opportunity or a danger......