Zhang Dachuan glanced at Ye Feng, sighed helplessly, and explained: "Alas... It's not that I want to embarrass you on purpose, it's mainly so that you can be born among the outer disciples and accumulate some popularity, and it's also a foreshadowing for you to enter the inner door later!"

After listening to the fat man's explanation, Ye Feng couldn't help frowning, thought about it for a moment, squinted his eyes and asked tentatively, "Do you want to borrow public opinion?"

"Clever!"

Zhang Dachuan slapped the table heavily and shook the teacup on the table. After a pause, he twisted his eyebrows again and added:

"But don't be too happy, whether this thing can be done or not, neither he nor I am sure, and he can't give you some precious things such as Tianjing Stone in order to let you enter the inner door, mainly on your own!"

"Hmm... I understand!"

Ye Feng nodded, his expression quite distressed.

Indeed, Ye Feng was still just a chess piece in Zhao Chenrui's eyes after all, and the things he instructed Ye Feng and Zhang Dachuan to do had always started from his own interests, and this time was naturally no exception.

This competition and the task of entering the inner door seemed to be of great benefit to Ye Feng, but at a deeper level, it must also be extremely beneficial to him Zhao Chenrui.

However, even so, it was impossible for Zhao Chenrui to help Ye Feng, because his purpose was only to borrow Ye Feng's strength, not to take advantage of his own strength for Ye Feng.

Only by exchanging the minimum cost for the maximum benefit can it be called a "means".

Thinking of this, Ye Feng's heart suddenly wanted to scold his mother, "His grandmother's Zhao Chenrui, it's good to be in a high position, you can make things go according to his train of thought with a single move, it's a pity not to be a profiteer!"

With Zhang Dachuan's ability to observe words and colors, of course, he can see some clues from Ye Feng's eyes, but after all, a companion is like a tiger, even if he wants to help Ye Feng, he really can't do much.

In addition, although this task is extremely difficult, how can this not be a test for Zhao Chenrui to Ye Feng?

Thinking that everything that should be said was said, the fat man got up and patted his back cheek, intending to slip away.

"That, Ye Feng... If there's nothing to do, I'll withdraw first, I won't be here for the next two days, and I have to find a way to help you gain some popularity, and I'll come back when I enter the second half of the finals!"

After speaking, without waiting for Ye Feng to answer, Wu Zi trembled with a fat body, pushed open the door and walked out of the small courtyard, not knowing what he was going to do again.

After Zhang Dachuan left, Ye Feng finally relaxed his vigilance and showed a sad face.

These outer disciples are all in the first and second realms of Xuanzhao, and their cultivation is only in the middle of the first realm, which can barely be called a middle and lower level, and it is really unrealistic to enter the top three and defeat the enemy in the first five battles.

Ye Feng thought to himself.

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In the blink of an eye, three days had passed, and the outer disciple martial arts competition came as scheduled.

The location of this competition is the most extensive cloud viewing platform in Qingcheng Mountain, which is located on the top of the mountain, so it is named.

Because the aura of heaven and earth in this mountain range where Qingcheng Mountain is located is too strong, and the rocks in it are also extremely hard, and they cannot be mined by manpower, so most of the buildings are built on the mountain.

However, this viewing platform is an exception.

The inscription in the corner of Guanyuntai reads, saying that this is the old elders of the generation of the sect three thousand years ago, who drove the legendary fierce beast, "King Kong Ape", to reclaim and build, but whether it is true or not, after all, it is old and there is no way to investigate.

In addition, in the northeast corner of Guanyuntai, there is also a temple-like headquarters of the outer gate deacon, which is responsible for all the outer door deacons, Ye Feng has not been there, and he does not know about it.

Aside from the inscription legend, the four martial arts training venues in Qingcheng Mountain, Guanyuntai is indeed the largest, and the flat ground paved with large pieces of white marble can accommodate nearly 10,000 people at the same time.

Today's Guanyun Terrace has the competition venue in the middle, followed by the resting seats of the 3,000 disciples who have been shortlisted, and the outermost part is a temporary five-circle audience seat with increasing steps.

Facing east of the auditorium are for several deacons from the outer gate, as well as several elders from the inner gate who are responsible for judging the results of the competition, and there are not many, a total of twelve.

In the center of the venue, fifty temporary small rings were set up, and each ring was headed by a first-generation disciple who served as a junior judge.

The rules of the game are very simple, two people fight each other, point to stop, a stick of incense, regardless of the winner or loser, and then let the people who draw mix together at the end of the round, re-choose the opponent to fight again, and so on.

If there are disciples who have byes, they will draw lots from the disciples who have been promoted to find an opponent, whether they win or lose, half depends on strength, and half depends on luck.

In order to ensure the fairness of the conference, the weapons and armor of all the disciples are uniformly issued by the sect, and the armor is tied with several hemp ropes according to several important meridians in the human body, and if one of them is broken, it is a loss.

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Before dawn, Ye Feng took the initiative to go to the deacon hall where the Yanhua Daoist was located, received his name, weapons and armor, and then came to Guanyuntai alone.

At this time, the sky had just turned white, and the Guanyun Terrace, which had been empty in the past, had already been surrounded by the outer disciples.

Finally squeezed into the crowd and found his seat, Ye Feng heard the whispers of the two disciples sitting in the front row:

"Did you hear that? The three tigers among the five tigers Xiao Ran let go, as long as someone defeated any of the three masters, he was willing to take out two Tianjing stones as a reward!"

"Of course I heard about it, I also heard that it seems that the three brothers of the Zhang family made Xiao Ran ugly in front of his favorite female disciple, so they formed a feud!"

"Hey! That's right! That's it! But if you want me to say, he Xiao Ran is also useless, obviously the Xiao family's power in the inner gate is so big, he hasn't entered the inner door for so long, it's really the same as his cheap father, it's all tied to a woman's skirt!"

"Hey! hush... You can't talk nonsense!"

"Hey, it's okay! Who doesn't know that?"

After listening to the conversation between the two, Ye Feng couldn't help but shake his head secretly, and said in his heart: "These outer disciples are really idle and panicked, even this kind of private matter can be used as a talking point, it's boring enough!"

After sitting for an hour, the twelve special seats on the east side of the audience finally sat enough for ten people, eight deacons of Qingcheng Mountain, one deacon of Liangcheng Mountain, and one deacon of Wucheng Mountain, all of whom were Taoists in the Yudan Realm.

Only the two chairs in the middle of the special seat are still empty, and it is expected that they should be the elders of the Jindan Realm of Dongjing Mountain.

"Boss Ye, it seems that they plan to wait for the two biggest guys to come before they can start!"

The toad ingot, who had been happily shouting to see the fight, couldn't hold it back, and secretly complained to Ye Feng with his mind.

"Don't worry... Don't be impatient, I'll be here in a minute!"

The boy smiled comfortingly.

"Well..."

Yuan Bao replied thoughtfully, and the two frog eyes dozed off unconsciously.

Ye Feng turned his head around and glanced a few times, and found that many disciples around him were the same as Yuanbao, either lowering their heads and whispering, or boredly leaning on the back of the chair, taking a leisurely nap, making themselves a little tired.

After another stick of incense, as two rays of light fell from the sky, one pink and one gold, two figures quietly appeared in the sky above Guanyuntai.

"Whoop——!!

The nearly 10,000 white-clothed disciples in the audience all sighed for a while, and they all praised the cultivation and methods of the people who came.

Ye Feng in the crowd was naturally no exception, he felt something strange in the sky, and subconsciously looked up, and when he saw the appearance of the person who came, he was also surprised in his heart.

There was a man and a woman, both wearing light blue wide-sleeved robes, and the necklines were also embroidered with a golden flying sword, a proper Jindan realm.

The man looked young and handsome, but he had gray hair, a feminine temperament, his hands were upright, he did not carry any weapons, and there was no flying sword under his feet.

Just under his white boots, he was stepping on two pink lotus flowers that radiated a peaceful light.

It is the legendary step-by-step lotus of the cultivator.

As for the female Jin Dan, she stepped on a golden light flying sword, held a white-haired dust, and a cold face was even more repulsive thousands of miles away, but she was the spirit bird real person who went to Thousand Caves City to lead Ye Feng into the sect.

"I didn't expect the spirit bird to come to be the judge of this competition!

Ye Feng couldn't help but say secretly in his heart.

He subconsciously glanced at the cyan hemp rope on the wrist of his left hand, quietly stretched out his index finger, tapped a few times on the rope, and uncontrollably appeared in his mind, a pair of apricot eyes full of aura...

Now Ye Feng is more than fifteen years old, and with more than three hundred years of dream reincarnation, he can more or less understand the relationship between men and women.

Although he thought about it in his heart, he rarely went out of his way to look at the green rope, let alone deliberately touched it.

The reason why this is so is not because of how affectionate Ye Feng is, but because he is afraid that he will see things and think about people, mess up his mind, and lose his cultivation mind, so he always deliberately suppresses his feelings and restrains his behavior.

The toad ingots in the Phantom Star Bead felt the master's intentions, and couldn't help but laugh, "Hey~ Boss, what's the matter?

"Shut up!"

The young man was pierced by a word, and he was very unhappy.

"Cut~ I'm embarrassed to admit it, what's the temper with me? Bully an honest toad!?"

Yuan Bao is even more unconvinced.

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you..."

Ye Feng frowned.

Just as one person and one frog were fighting their mouths, the gray-haired man in the Jindan Realm floating in the air raised his finger with a smile and pointed to himself, and then pointed to the spirit bird real person, lowered his head and rushed to the white-shirted disciples on the cloud platform, and said slowly, softly:

"I am the chief judge of this conference, known as Tiangu Zhenren, and the one next to me is called Lingniao Zhenren, who is the general supervisor of this competition... Now I declare that the outer door competition can begin!"

After saying that, Mato Tiangu pursed his lips and smiled, his feet a little, and he instantly arrived at the empty chair of the judges' seat.