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Chapter 1 Results

When Jiang Ying returned to the ground again, the dizziness from her head and face slowed her down for a while before she stabilized.

This time, she remembered that the sword spirits "will have a later meeting", and she just wanted to say that if there was a next time, when she left, she would definitely ask her seniors to change to a less "exciting" way.

After she came to her senses, she found that the nun was still lying on her stomach not far from her side, and her expression was still dizzy.

That's right, there are still toxins in the nun at work, and her body is already weak, and it is normal for her to recover later than her after such a toss.

Jiang Ying walked up to her and shook the paper to remind her not to be careful, and then unraveled the last of her toxins.

But she only removed the power of the toxin, but did not extract the toxin, so as long as the nun came to attack her next time, the nun would end up like today.

After that, Jiang Ying was ready to get up and leave—she didn't want to be in the same league as the female cultivator.

Without thinking about it, she took two steps, and suddenly heard someone faintly shouting in the distance: "Jiang-girl-mother-"

"Jiang-Teacher-Sister——!!!"

When Jiang Ying heard this, she didn't expect that this person was still looking for her, so she used the accelerator charm to rush over.

"Senior brother?"

After seeing the figure, Jiang Ying shouted.

The male cultivator turned his head in a trance, and when he saw that it was Jiang Ying, he was excited and instantly came to her: "Are you back? Are you back? Are you still alive? What did the female cultivator do to you? Oh, thank God, thank God!"

Jiang Ying saw that he was a little too excited, and hurriedly said, "I'm fine." Senior brother, don't you know, the depths of the earth can eliminate the influence of mental power on the swordsman, so the swordsman returned to normal consciousness there, and it took her and me a lot of strength to crawl out of the ground. ”

When the male cultivator heard this, he still didn't believe it, and went around in circles to see if there were any scars on her body: "Is it really okay?......? You are affected by me, if you didn't insist on healing my wounds and were willing to go with me, I'm afraid you wouldn't have encountered this incident. If you have three strengths and two weaknesses because of this, I will be troubled for the rest of my life!"

"Ha, you're serious, I'm really fine. ”

"It's okay if it's okay...... it's okay if it's okay," the male cultivator turned around and muttered, "I'm still going to see you before nightfall, so I'll go outside the valley and ask the referee to dig you out...... Thankfully, you're all right, so are we going to keep going?"

"I kept going. I had a look at it underground with Aoki and guessed that the points were not far from here, so let's take a look. ”

At this time, the male cultivator was already listening to what she said, and nodded again and again when he heard the words: "Okay, good, I didn't expect you to be buried in the ground and still care about the competition...... Then we'll go there!"

The two of them walked together again, hurrying in the direction Jiang Ying pointed.

And before approaching the first point, they met a few companion monks from other directions, they had been harmed by the nun once, but they no longer dared to join the company casually with outsiders, so they intentionally or unintentionally opened a long distance, striving for no one to affect anyone.

The trial that needs to be passed by the first integral point is the test of the Fire Lotus Great Array.

In this array, the swordsman will not be affected by the fire lotus in the array, but the sword can double the scorching power of the fire lotus in it. If the sword is fragile, it may be directly refined, even if it is not completely refined, once the sword becomes soft, it will be deformed because it cannot withstand the blow of external force.

Jiang Ying and the male cultivator waited for a few people in front of them to enter the fire array for a while, and then they entered together.

There were thousands of fire lotuses in the array, constantly attacking the sword of the swordsman, and the two of them had a good deal inside, so they could pass.

Fan Chen's performance in the Fire Lotus Array was quite good, at least there was no refining phenomenon, and there was also no gap.

The blade of the man's saber showed a slight curl, and the man's sword was hurriedly repaired, barely reluctantly restoring the blade to its original state.

It was probably a blow to him, and after that, the male cultivator's mental state was obviously not good.

Jiang Ying still remembered the reminders and warnings of the sword spirits in the cave, for fear that the male cultivator would be affected by his mental power, so he consciously enlightened him all the way.

It was late afternoon when I got the first point flag.

The two continued to rush non-stop, and under the leadership of Jiang Ying, intentionally or unintentionally, they soon came to the second point point.

This test before the points is a big thunderstorm.

Although the sword stone is called "stone", it is metallic.

Swords are forged from sword stone, so they must attract thunder and lightning.

And a good sword, with the hardness and sharpness of metal, should also have the attribute of lightning protection, otherwise in front of the thunder monk, the sword cultivator will become the object of slaughter.

Then this will need to test the casting skills of the swordsmith. It tests the ability of the perfect combination of sword stone and lightning protection material.

If there is too little lightning protection material, the sword's ability to withstand lightning strikes will be small.

If there are too many lightning protection substances, there will be too many "impurities" in the sword itself.

The quality of the treatment of lightning protection materials will also affect the limit of "how much" lightning protection materials.

For the same sword, the swordsmith treats the lightning protection material soft and subtle, and has a high degree of integration with the sword stone, so the lightning protection material in the sword is not much, and it is not a "impurity".

If the lightning protection material is not handled properly, resulting in a low degree of integration with the sword stone, then the lightning protection material will drag down the overall sword quality, thus becoming an impurity.

At this stage, considering that all the swords present are new, the power of the thunder array will not be too great, and the thunder array will protect the swordsman.

And the last thunder in the formation is the most critical one.

As long as the sword passes the lightning strike process in front of it, then the last thunder will rain according to the bearing capacity of the sword body obtained from the evaluation, the bigger the thunder, the better the sword.

At this stage, Fanchen's performance was much more mediocre.

It was able to resist the lightning strikes in front of it, but the intensity of the last lightning landing was far less than that of the male cultivator.

Jiang Ying silently repeated the name of the male cultivator's swordsmith and the sect to which he belonged, and planned to go back and report to Xiao Li, so that he could ask for advice when he had the opportunity.

The third and fourth points test the sharpness of the sword and its ability to resist blows.

These two circles are similar to the previous forms of the divisional competition, but they are much more powerful, and the scale and evaluation methods are much more tricky.

Fanchen's ability to resist attacks is extremely strong, but in Jiang Ying's opinion, the sharpness is slightly insufficient, although it can win the points flag, Jiang Ying feels that it can get better.

The last point point, Jiang Ying didn't expect, turned out to be related to the resentment in the valley.

And this time, the telekinesis was not aimed at her or other swordsmen, they were aimed at the sword.

Every time a swordsmith forges a sword, regardless of its quality, value, or ability and status of the swordsmith, it means a new life of the sword, like a human baby.

As the baby grows up, the baby will form its own unique three views and form its own personality preferences.

The sword will also form the mind and soul of the sword, and under the long-term nurturing of the sword owner, it will form a "sword spirit" that is extremely similar to a person, forming a true life.

However, unlike babies, the growth of the sword and the formation of the mind are mostly related to the sword master.

What the sword master led it to do, what kind of thoughts and emotions the sword master always had when he mentioned it, invisibly affected it itself, and affected the generation and formation of its soul.

In other words, a sword that has changed hands repeatedly since it was "born" will inevitably have a changeable and fickle character, and it will inevitably have chaotic or even indistinguishable concepts of good and bad.

And a sword that follows a master until the end of life after birth must be similar in character and mind to the sword master. Everything it sees and hears revolves around the sword master, so all the "credentials" of its thoughts are the common sights and experiences of the sword master and it.

At this time, as Yin Sanzhen pointed to Jiang Ying and said: The sword is a person, and a person is a sword. The human heart is the heart of the sword, and the heart of the sword represents the heart of the people.

The sword is the same.

In this array, the sword is affected by telekinesis, and then the sword affects the sword owner.

Mental power causes the sword to follow its "original heart" and react to all kinds of illusions within the battle. These reactions can see what kind of environment the sword is living in, and it can also see what the sword owner thinks when he holds the sword.

And if the sword master wakes up in time in the formation and makes adjustments, then whether the sword master can let the sword "calm down" is also a great test of the sword master's sword qualifications.

In this formation, most of the swords behaved in a decent manner, even if in the end, the mind was the strongest, the sword was the most affected, and few people made too out-of-the-ordinary moves.

This level is a very simple level for ordinary single-minded cultivators.

However, Jiang Ying didn't expect that this array was so simple that for Fan Chen, it was as simple as no array.

I don't know if he was instructed too thoroughly by Yin Sanzhen, Jiang Ying has been comparing himself to Fan Chen and Fan Chen to himself since that month.

It is her, and she is it.

Every time she practiced the sword, she poured her divine sense and power into the dust together.

After a long time, she was even able to forget the existence of Fanchen, forgetting that she had it in her hand, as if she was a sword and a sword move, and she was able to correct many mistakes and deficiencies in sword moves.

She thinks that she has some tacit understanding with Fanchen.

But unexpectedly, since she stepped into this formation, Fan Chen experienced the initial tremor due to fear of telekinesis, and it suddenly calmed down.

No matter in the face of the noise in the array or the "temptation" and stimulation of the puppeteers, it does not move.

No matter what "treasures" or "godsends" lie ahead, it is equally indifferent.

By the time Jiang Ying had walked through the entire magic circle illusion, it hadn't made a single move, and even Jiang Ying couldn't even feel its existence.

Jiang Ying was very surprised after coming out, for fear that something would happen to it.

But after careful inspection, she didn't find anything wrong with Fan Chen, and after leaving the circle for a while, Fan Chen began to tremble again, as if the calm in the previous array was all an illusion.

Jiang Ying didn't know why, and after thinking about it for a long time after getting the point flag, he still couldn't get an answer.

She said in her heart that Fanchen was full of concentration and knew the rules of the formation, so she insisted on not being affected?

Could it be because after she left the cave, she has been thinking about the explanation of the silver and white sword spirit to telekinesis, and has always emphasized the importance of peace of mind in her heart, so Fan Chen has also been influenced by her?

She couldn't figure it out, and she still couldn't think of an explanation until she was picked up by the referee and left Kenzuka Valley.

Since Xiao Li learned that she had won the last flag, he had been waiting at the results statistics office for a long time, and when he saw her, he didn't notice her loss of consciousness, and ran over happily: "Senior sister, junior sister, win, win, we will definitely win this competition!"

Jiang Ying came back to his senses from his distraction, and when he saw that Xiao Li was excited, he didn't interrupt him.

As for what happened in the cave, now that everyone is watching, she doesn't want to say more.

She handed Fan Chen to the referee's table, and the referee temporarily sealed the sword with a spell, pasted a five-area flag, and sent it to the position of the mid-air exhibition to wait for the final evaluation.

Jiang Ying and Xiao Li stepped aside, discussing with the male cultivators who had also come out of the valley and the others about the various things in the valley and the exchange between the swordsmiths.

It took Jiang Ying and others two and a half days to get out of the valley, and there were still people out of the valley one after another.

By the time the last person left, five days had passed, and there were only twenty swordsmen who could capture five flags and be eligible to participate in the final competition.

Except for these twenty people, the rest of the basic ones broke their swords halfway and were forced to leave.

There are also a small number of people who have won all the flags, but the swords have also been damaged to varying degrees, so they are not eligible to continue the competition.

As one of the twenty swords with full points and no gaps, Fan Chen was announced on the spot to enter the next stage.

Before the start of this stage, the swordsmith, the swordsmith and the sword have five days to adjust, the blunt sword needs to be sharpened, the sword found to be deficient also needs to be strengthened urgently, and the swordsman needs to adjust his condition until he is the best.

All the adjustments need to be made on the large platform above Sword Shrine Valley, which is to prevent some swordsmiths from cheating and temporarily strengthening their swords with some crooked ways.

At this stage, Jiang Ying continued to give Xiao Li suggestions for improvement, and Xiao Li also kept improving Fanchen day and night, and the two cooperated very well.

However, Jiang Ying always found that the female cultivator who had also entered the next stage had been staring at him in their camp.

The female cultivator's eyes were full of resentment and expectation, and Jiang Ying knew without saying that she was going to concentrate on attacking herself in the next stage.

However, Jiang Ying was not panicked: after she heard Xiao Li's description of what the female swordsmith had done, she knew that both the female cultivator and her swordsmith were people who were obsessed to a certain degree of pathology.

For such people, she knows that either they will be completely defeated at once, or let them completely defeat themselves, and any other way will become a weapon to further motivate the other party.

That is, it is useless to dodge.

Jiang Ying asked Xiao Li to spend three days to improve Fanchen, and for the remaining two days, she used one day to practice with Xiao Li in actual combat, and then make minor adjustments.

On the last day, she left all thoughts about "improvement" behind, found a secluded place, and concentrated on practicing her Jiang family swordsmanship.