Chapter 56: The Final Arrives
On the same day, after He Lingfeng successfully entered the final finals of the Yellow Rank Competition, he only had a brief conversation with the two senior brothers, and then returned to the water pavilion garden room where he rested to meditate and recover his mana. Although being able to enter the top three has exceeded He Lingfeng's expectations, originally his more ideas were just to come to see and learn from each other, and winning the reward was just a slight idea, but since he had broken into the top three, with his character, he would naturally not give up easily without trying to win the championship, and he had to give it a go, even if the final result was the same, he would have no regrets in his heart.
And after he was successfully shortlisted, he also learned the specific matters of the finals from Qingyan's predecessors, because only three people were shortlisted after the last round of elimination, so it was no longer possible to adopt a single-game elimination system, but changed to a round-robin system, that is, the three of them will each play against the remaining two, and then determine the ranking according to the final winner-loss relationship.
In order to avoid the bizarre situation of A defeating B, winning C, but C defeating A, there is also a rule specifically for this situation, that is, depending on the length of each competition, that is, in this case, the winner of the shortest of the three competitions is the champion, the second shortest winner is the runner-up, and the last person left is the third runner-up.
According to the rules of the finals, He Lingfeng will face the other two finalists tomorrow. He also paid attention to the intelligence information of the other two. One was a peak monk in the middle stage of foundation building of the Tianyi Sect, and it was said that he was just around the corner to enter the next stage. The other finalist is also a mid-stage foundation building cultivator, but it seems that he is a person who has only recently entered the foundation building period, and he is a disciple of the Shenhuo Gate.
This time, none of the monks in the late stage of foundation building entered the final finals, He Lingfeng was quite curious when he was first shortlisted, but a passage from the senior brother poured out the original reason.
According to Chen Jiaolong, the disciples in the later stage of foundation building can enter the Dan period if they can further cultivate, so most of them are not willing to waste time on things other than cultivation on weekdays, and basically practice hard all day in order to break through the realm as soon as possible, after all, the longevity of the monks in the foundation building period is only about thirty years longer than that of ordinary mortals, and they can live nearly a hundred years old. If a monk with average qualifications wants to enter the later stage of foundation building, it will take at least thirty or forty years of hard work.
And even if the monk Shou Yuan is proficient in the art of recuperation, it will not exceed two hundred years at most, and if the monk still has the ambition to cultivate the Yuan Infant after the Dan, the shorter the stay in the foundation building period, the more likely it is. Only monks who enter the knot can be considered to have reached the threshold of becoming the backbone of the sect. And because of this, when many sects send disciples to perform tasks, for the sake of the development of the sect, they will generally only choose between the disciples in the middle stage of foundation building or the early stage of the foundation, after all, if the disciples in the late stage of foundation building advance to become a monk of the foundation, the help they can provide to the sect is not the same, and the time has also doubled.
Moreover, the elixir that can help the monks in the late stage of foundation building condense the golden pill like the Juyuan Pill is not too rare, the eight major factions all have this kind of elixir, not as rare and abnormal as the Earth Spirit Pill that can be obtained by the first level of the Heavenly Rank that helps the monks of the Jiedan to advance to the Yuan Infant, and like the ratio of the Yellow Order, only the first can obtain a Juyuan Pill, which leads to the fact that the vast majority of disciples in the later stage of foundation building have no interest in this, it is better to do more penance themselves, and after touching the threshold of advancement, it is better to ask for this kind of pill from the sect. The disciples who are willing to come to compete are generally lower in qualifications and older in the age, due to the Qinglan Society's regulations that are limited to young disciples to participate, many of them cannot sign up as they wish, and the very few disciples in the late stage of foundation building who can participate, when facing the disciples who have been given many powerful magic weapons by various factions, the small advantage brought by that small realm is almost gone.
Under these circumstances that He Lingfeng didn't know before, there was actually only one late-stage foundation building monk who participated in this Qinglan Society, and he unfortunately lost to the mid-foundation building peak monk of Tianyi Sect in the six-in-three round of elimination. The two of them were fighting fiercely at that time, and He Lingfeng also stopped several times to pay attention to his opponent when he was fighting in the other ring. And the Tianyi Peak monk who won was also regarded as the biggest obstacle to the championship after He Lingfeng was successfully shortlisted, but he was not very sure that he could defeat this person. But He Lingfeng is not discouraged, everything is possible before the real battle, let's talk about it then.
After half a day and a whole night of meditation, in the early morning of the second day, He Lingfeng walked out of the house again and energetically. At this time, there is still some time left before the start of the finals, and he plans to walk around to relax and adjust his body and mind.
When he walked around the garden and turned to a lotus pond in the garden, he saw that in the pavilion on the bank of the pond, the two senior brothers were talking about something, and he was curious about what the senior brothers were talking about, so he walked quickly without thinking. The two senior brothers seemed to be talking about Xingtou, which was not an important matter, so they didn't notice that He Lingfeng had approached.
“...... I bet that my junior brother would get second, so I bet on the purple cloud fruit I got last time I went out. The second senior brother narrowed his two small eyes, shook his head, the fat on his face trembled, and he said with foaming at the mouth.
Senior Brother Chen Jiaolong smiled and said disapprerovingly: "Second, you also think too highly of the little junior brother, in my opinion, it is very likely that he is at the bottom, so I will take out the cloud stepping instrument as a bet." ”
It turned out that these two were actually gambling with their own test results, and He Lingfeng, who had come to a distance of about ten steps from the pavilion, couldn't help but touch the back of his head helplessly, and the two senior brothers also found him at this time, and they all looked at him in unison, but the senior brother had a slightly embarrassed look on his face.
He Lingfeng said jokingly at this time, "Then if the junior brother is not talented and wins the first place by luck, won't the two senior brothers lose this gamble?"
"This is easy to do, junior brother, if you can really win the first place, it can be regarded as a long face for the two of us as senior brothers, and the bets of the two of us will be given to you together, and it should be a congratulatory gift to us, the first person in the yellow rank." The second senior brother Zhang Zimu seemed to be deliberately making fun of his little junior brother, and shook his head again and said so according to He Lingfeng's joke. And the senior brother on the side felt that there were many inappropriate words before, so he also agreed at this time.
This made He Lingfeng a little speechless, and in the end he could only smile helplessly.
Seeing this, the two senior brothers immediately looked at each other and laughed, and then the three of them sat together and talked casually. The second senior brother Zhang Zimu gambled that He Lingfeng could get the second, and at this time, he actually helped He Lingfeng analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the other two finalists, and said it well, so that He Lingfeng couldn't help but write it down carefully, while the senior brother Chen Jiaolong could only stare dryly on the side, quite depressed.
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When it was close to the middle of the day, the three brothers came to the competition venue unhurriedly. His master, Wang Fugui, had been waiting here a little anxiously for a long time, and when he saw He Lingfeng and the other disciples coming from afar, he hurriedly waved his hand and beckoned them over. The three of them were puzzled for a moment, but they still walked over with a quicker pace.
Later, from the mouth of Master Wang Fugui, He Lingfeng actually heard a news that surprised him, which made his mouth open and stand for a while before he came back to his senses, but he didn't know what to say. And the two senior brothers standing on the side had different expressions, one happy and one worried.
Then, the master was called by another elder, and the three of them sat down separately, but each had their own thoughts, He Lingfeng's eyes were stunned, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
Moments later, everyone was in the group, and the final began.