Chapter 202: Breaking the Formation (Part 3)
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
Winning the top position in the second level was a goal that Zhou Sheng, a young monk from the imperial family, had set for himself from the beginning.
Because Zhou Sheng knew very well that if he wanted to dominate in this selection battle and eventually become the strongest among all the rookie monks participating in the selection battle, he must become a well-deserved first in this second level where he can best play his advantages!
But anyone who is interested in joining Shueisha basically knows: newcomers who enter Shueisha through the selection battle can not be treated equally in Shueisha!
Although Shueisha has never publicly stated this, in fact, rookie monks who enter Shueisha through the selection battle are also divided into different grades according to their performance.
Basically, the monks who can make it to the top 10 in the selection battle every year are considered "seeds" in Shueisha. These "seed" monks will be able to enjoy all kinds of privileges in Shueisha, from exercises to resources, they will receive and come into contact with more than others!
And even further, there are new monks who can enter the top three in the selection battle. The treatment that these three newcomers can get in Shueisha is almost equivalent to the top three in the officialdom scientific examination!
These three newcomer monks will be able to get a lot of resources and exercises from Shueisha, and even Shueisha will provide them with the opportunity to experience under the care of the senior monks depending on the situation—such an opportunity may not be a big deal for the disciples of the sect, but for ordinary casual cultivators, it is something more precious than any exercise resources!
Of course, the treatment you can get by entering the top three in the selection battle is outstanding, but the one who can really beat many newcomers in the selection battle and become the strongest is the real big winner!
As a loose cultivation organization, although Shueisha is powerful and has many masters, the power it can use is far inferior to that of a real big sect.
Therefore, in Shueisha, there is only one newcomer who can really enjoy the equivalent of the inheritance of the big faction in each selection battle!
This rookie monk who broke through in the selection battle and became the strongest of all will get the best of everything in Shueisha! His status is even more than half higher than that of a newcomer who joins Shueisha through a special recommendation quota! The reason why Nangong Yong gave up the special recommendation quota so simply was precisely to compete for the title of "the strongest."
And Zhou Sheng also has exactly the same ambition as Nangong Yong.
As a member of the royal family, Zhou Sheng didn't really care about what kind of treatment he could enjoy in Shueisha. Because he is a royal family, he is enjoying the great Zhou lineage that is enshrined in the world! Resources, exercises, and even the guidance of masters, these things are extremely rare for ordinary casual cultivation, but they are nothing to Zhou Sheng.
However, while enjoying a privileged life that no one else can imagine, he also has pressures that almost no one else can imagine!
Zhou Sheng desperately wanted to prove himself. He wants to prove that he has not made a mistake in taking the path of a monk! He wants to let his brothers, who have been laughing at him and saying that he chose to become a monk, that he is not wrong to take this path!
For the title of Shueisha's "strongest newcomer", Zhou Sheng's desire simply surpassed everything!
It is precisely because of this that he chose a safer approach after breaking into the fourth layer before. Didn't Zhou Sheng know that he broke into the fourth layer and then withdrew, which was likely to make people think that he was too cautious and timid?
Of course Zhou Sheng knew! However, in order to ensure that he could win the first place in the second level, Zhou Sheng didn't care about these at all!
Therefore, before He Zhi rushed into the fourth layer of the formation, Zhou Sheng always waited steadily at the edge of the third layer of the formation. Zhou Sheng knew that he was always in the lead in the test of this level!
Even Nangong Yong of the Cultivation Sect, who was regarded by him as the strongest opponent in this selection, still couldn't withstand even a blow in the fourth-layer formation. In any case, he had finally withstood the blow of the formation in the fourth layer, which had already allowed him to surpass all his opponents!
In fact, when Nangong Yong was eliminated, this young man from the royal family almost thought that he had won! After all, although He Zhi performed well in the first level, his performance in this level was not very remarkable.
Even if He Zhi insisted on not being eliminated, but when Nangong Yong was eliminated, He Zhi was still "struggling" in the middle of the third-layer formation, and he didn't even touch the edge of the fourth-layer formation.
According to Shueisha's usual judging criteria, if He Zhi doesn't have an unexpected performance behind him, then even if he persists on the third layer for a long time, I'm afraid he won't get too high an evaluation at this level.
However, He Zhi's final performance still made Zhou Sheng miscalculate after all! He never thought that He Zhi would be able to burst out with such strength at the last moment!
The most important thing is that Zhou Sheng didn't expect He Zhi to be able to dodge the heavenly thunder in the fourth layer formation!
That heavenly thunder was dodged, and He Zhi had already forced Zhou Sheng into a corner!
Because now the records of He Zhi and Zhou Sheng are already one-to-one! Both of them have suffered a blow from the formation in the fourth layer of the formation. Moreover, He Zhi's follow-up performance was obviously better than Zhou Sheng, after he dodged the first blow of the formation, he did not choose to quit, but continued to go deep into the formation!
Regardless of whether He Zhi can withstand the second wave of bombardment of the formation next, his brave performance of moving forward will obviously get "plus points".
If there is a gap between the "big scores" of the two sides, then the advantages and disadvantages of these "small scores" will not affect the final result. Just like Nangong Yong. Although Nangong Yong is also very brave, he always moves forward in the fourth layer of the formation and never retreats, but he can't even withstand a blow from the formation, that is, he is behind in the "big score", and it doesn't matter if the small score is small.
However, He Zhi also withstood the blow of the formation just now. In the case of the same score between the two sides, the "extra points" obtained by He Zhi may become the key to the final victory!
Moreover, He Zhi has already won the first place in the first round of the selection battle. If in this second level, He Zhi once again becomes the best performer among all the newcomers, then He Zhi is equivalent to winning the championship in two consecutive levels.
If this really happens, then as long as He Zhi does not have a major accident in the next third level, he will almost be the first in this selection competition.
I worked hard to plan for a long time, and even the true dragon qi that I had accumulated for more than ten years did not hesitate to take it out and consume it, and finally got such a ridiculous result?
Of course Zhou Sheng was not reconciled! Therefore, after He Zhi dodged the blow of the fourth-layer formation, Zhou Sheng quickly gritted his teeth and rushed into the fourth-layer formation again!
The moment Zhou Sheng entered the formation, there was a thunderous gathering of power in the sky again.
Zhou Sheng, who had already tasted the power of a single time just now, almost subconsciously trembled—this was the natural coercion of the power of the Jindan realm against the inferior monks.
In fact, He Zhi had the same feeling when he faced the blow of the fourth layer formation before. It's just that He Zhi's mentality at that time was different from Zhou Sheng's, and he was not ready to go to the formation. Later, when He Zhi used the "Guiyi Sutra", the peculiarities of the "Guiyi Sutra" itself concealed the coercion of the Jindan realm, so He Zhi was never affected.
At this time, Zhou Sheng was affected by the coercion of the Dan Realm, and his breath became unstable.
However, the real dragon exquisite umbrella above his head is indeed extremely useful. At the moment when Zhou Sheng was suppressed by the power of the formation, a golden light shot out from the golden light umbrella cover.
After the golden light left the umbrella cover, it turned into a concrete and subtle golden dragon and poured into Zhou Sheng's eyebrows. Then, everyone saw that Zhou Sheng, who seemed to be suppressed by the formation just now, lifted his spirits, as if he had suddenly sobered up.
The next moment, Zhou Sheng bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, and a mouthful of essence blood spurted out. His essence blood landed on the umbrella cover above his head, and the two suddenly fused into one, turning into a golden dragon that had already begun to take shape.
The golden dragon was entrenched above Zhou Sheng's head, staring at the lightning strike that was forming at infinity height, and let out a roar.
The next moment, lightning fell.
A thunderous blow collided with the golden dragon above Zhou Sheng's head, Zhou Sheng's body trembled violently, and most of the golden dragon's body collapsed, turning into a cloud of Xuanhuang mist.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the blow of Zhou Sheng's collision with the formation was really badly damaged. The golden dragon that was only half of it was left struggled, but it was never able to coalesce, and the trend of collapse became more and more obvious.
In the end, before the second blow of the formation fell, the True Dragon Linglong Umbrella above Zhou Sheng's head completely dissipated.
Zhou Sheng, who had lost the protection of the True Dragon Exquisite Umbrella, did not have the slightest power to fight back under the bombardment of the Heavenly Thunder of the Fourth Layer Formation, and the moment the Heavenly Thunder fell, the formation had already been rumored out.
At the moment of leaving the formation, Zhou Sheng was still quite relieved in his heart. Although he paid the price of the collapse of the True Dragon Exquisite Umbrella, he finally blocked a blow equivalent to the Jindan Zhenren's shot! Coupled with the one that Zhou Sheng blocked in front of him, he was equivalent to blocking the two blows of the Jindan Zhenren in a row! As an initiation monk, this was simply an incredible achievement! No matter how you looked at it, Zhou Sheng was enough to be proud of his performance in this level.
Of course, Zhou Sheng himself thought the same way. Moreover, after blocking the second thunder bombardment, Zhou Sheng felt that he should have won this battle with He Zhi. He Zhi was able to dodge the heavenly thunder blow of the fourth layer formation, which had already surprised Zhou Sheng. He didn't believe that He Zhi could dodge a second blow at all!
No, it's not just He Zhi! In Zhou Sheng's opinion, it is simply impossible for any monk in this world who has entered the Dao realm to withstand more than two bombardments in the fourth layer of this formation! Not even a disciple of a famous sect!
What Zhou Sheng had just completed in the formation should be the limit of a Dao Realm cultivator!
Perhaps, from a certain point of view, Zhou Sheng's idea is indeed correct. Even He Zhi couldn't do it, and in the middle of the formation, he could collide with the bombardment of the Dao Realm twice in a row. Not to mention two hard encounters, even if it is one, it is impossible to hold on to it with He Zhi's current cultivation strength.
However, what Zhou Sheng never imagined was that there would be such a god-damn exercise as the "Guiyi Sutra" in this world!
It is true that He Zhi can't resist any blow in the fourth layer of the formation, but when the "Guiyi Sutra" is in operation, the attack in this formation can't even touch He Zhi's oily skin!
Although in this formation, the speed of each blow was simply lightning fast, and it was impossible for a normal monk to react at all. But the "Unified Sutra" is so weird! When He Zhi was running this exercise, he found that he did not react after the attack fell, but from the very beginning when the attack was about to fall, he was already able to make a prediction in advance!
This technique was able to predict the location of the formation attack in advance...... To be honest, the more He Zhi learned about the Guiyi Sutra, the more he felt that he couldn't see through this exercise.
Of course, He Zhi enjoyed the benefits of "The Unity Sutra", but He Zhi also suffered the bad taste of this exercise - after He Zhi ran this exercise, what made him feel most depressed was that his own movements could not be completely controlled by himself!
Of course, this is not to say that He Zhi cannot control his body, but that the "Gui Yi Sutra" has its own route of operation. If He Zhi wanted to maintain the normal operation of this exercise, then he had to let his movements match the strange route of this exercise.
Moreover, the conditions for the normal operation of this "Guiyi Sutra" are still very strict, once He Zhi's movements are slightly wrong and inconsistent with the direction of mana operation, the exercises will immediately become invalid.
Obviously, in this formation, which is equivalent to a Jindan monk constantly attacking, if there is a problem with the operation of the "Guiyi Sutra", He Zhi's fate can be imagined.
Therefore, He Zhi can only do his best to ensure the normal operation of the "Gui Yi Jing" regardless of the rest.
One after another, thunderbolts equivalent to the blows of Monk Jindan kept falling from the formation, but they passed by He Zhi every time.
To be honest, when He Zhi was fighting for fate in the formation to turn "Gui Yi Jing", he didn't feel dangerous. But the monks outside the formation watched He Zhi play hide and seek with Tianlei in the formation, and their eyelids jumped wildly.
In this way, He Zhi insisted on the formation for more than a quarter of an hour unconsciously.
At this point, everyone could also see that He Zhi's performance in the fourth layer formation was very different from when he was in the third layer.
At the time of the third layer formation, He Zhi was really not afraid. Those attacks that contain the power of the divine soul are unbearable for others to take one shot, but He Zhi eats a few shots and still seems to be nothing.
However, after entering this fourth-layer formation, He Zhi no longer has the ability to resist the thunder! He relies entirely on hiding in the fourth-layer formation! But as the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?
Many monks of the Cultivation Sect gritted their teeth and said that this time they didn't believe that this guy could play any tricks! Therefore, the eyes of the group widened, just waiting to see when He Zhi would not be able to hold on.