Liu Zheji now wanted to cover Jiang Nisheng's small mouth very much, but he was afraid that this would cause a bigger misunderstanding, so he still forcibly suppressed his impulse.

"Yes, I like her, very much, but, after all, she is my aunt, and I won't think about anyone else unless she really rejects me. ”

Liu Zhiji looked at Jiang Nisheng, who was crying silently, sighed, and then said: "You are very young, you probably don't know what liking is, the difference between liking and favorability, my aunt has watched me grow up since I was a child, and my feelings for her have long surpassed ordinary people's liking, do you understand?"

"Then what if your aunt rejects you?" Jiang Nishang choked.

"I ......" Liu Zhiji also fell silent, but he said firmly: "If you reject me, I will continue to chase until she likes someone else, this is my last loyalty to this relationship." Don't seek to be worthy of others, only to be worthy of yourself. ”

"Don't seek to be worthy of others, only to be worthy of yourself. Jiang Nishang muttered this, and her eyes gradually became firm.

"Then I'll chase you until you're with your aunt. After saying that, Jiang Nishang ran away.

Liu Zhiji watched Jiang Nishang go away, the fragrance on the beauty seemed to be still echoing around him, he was in the prime of his youth, Jiang Nisheng's appearance and temperament were the top kind, it was impossible to say that he was not moved to Jiang Nisheng, but he knew that his heart, his feelings, who should he choose.

After Jiang Nishang left, Liu Zhiji sat alone in the courtyard for a long time, and the blood dripping on the ground under his feet gathered into a large pool, and he didn't notice it until his body gradually became cold.

"I'm Cao!" Liu Zhiji hurriedly took out the bandage from the storage ring and bandaged the wound, and he was relieved when the blood flowed stopped.

"A woman would have killed me. Liu Zhiji recalled the scene just now, and was afraid, if he died of excessive blood loss, it would be a joke, Liu Zhiji suddenly thought, this should not be some kind of curse or something, right? If I promised Jiang Nishang, would I really die.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhisheng cut off his reverie for Jiang Nisheng, and his heart became firm again.

"Auntie!!Wait for me! Three months later! Look at me stepping on the young talents of Bazhou, anyone who plots against you will be strangled to death by me one by one!"

A month later.

In the evening, the disciples of Zhongxu Academy had almost gone to bed, except for some diligent disciples who were still cultivating, there were also mountain patrol disciples, there was silence on the mountain, at this moment, a thick red pillar of light suddenly rose above the sword peak, the pillar of light came and went quickly, so it did not alarm too many people.

In the courtyard of Liu Zheji, Liu Zheji stood in the courtyard and kept panting, just now, he successfully broke through the ninth collapse of Tai'a Forging Body Technique and reached the realm of consummation.

"My goodness. ”

After Liu Zhe Halberd broke through the ninth layer, the eight veins that were originally closed were red at this time, and the blood like a mercury spring was rushing in his thick meridians, calm down, Liu Zhe Halberd could almost hear the sound of blood flowing in the meridians.

"Now it's at least comparable to the average innate, right?" Liu Zhiji muttered to himself.

After calming down a little, Liu Zhiji tried to use the blood of the eight veins to flush the sealed sea of qi.

"Condensation!" Liu Zhiji snorted, and the blood in his body suddenly stopped.

"Gather!" Liu Fold the halberd fell, and the blood in the eight veins surged towards the sea of qi like a surging wave, and the waves of blood continued to lap the layer of gray keratin that sealed the sea of qi, and with each beat, the keratin would become thinner by a point.

The skin of Liu Zhiji's body turned a strange red, and all the pores were emitting blood-colored steam outward, and with Liu Zhiji's last shout, these blood-colored vapors burst out violently, reaching into the sky.

"Open!!" The strength that Liu Zhe halberd had accumulated for three months finally completely exploded at this moment, and the skin that closed the sea of qi gradually cracked, and slowly these cracks expanded bigger and bigger, and finally with the last desperate explosion of Liu Zheji, the sealed sea of qi was successfully opened.

"Whew. ”

Liu Zheji's blood and sweat continued to drip downward, revealing a face full of exhaustion, but his eyes were extremely bright.

The eyes that opened were gradually dyed blue, and the sealed true qi in the sea of willow halberd qi completely emerged at this time, and the azure true qi was mixed with the qi and blood in the eight veins, and then turned into a pale cyan true qi.

Feeling the changes in his body, Liu Zhiji was excited, he tried to swing out a true qi, and after the true qi left the body, it turned into a small cyan ball, the sphere rotated around him, and Liu Zhiji could clearly sense that it contained explosive energy.

For the sake of insurance, Liu Zhiji still didn't try to smash something with this small ball, anyway, there are still two months to go, Liu Zhiji is not in a hurry, today is really tired, Liu Zhiji simply lay on the ground and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Liu Zheji jumped up from the ground energetically, and the first thing he got up was to look inwardly at the situation in the eight veins.

At this time, the place that was originally occupied by red in the eight veins of the Willow Halberd had turned pale cyan, and after a night of recovery, the Willow Halberd felt full of true qi at this time, and it could explode at any time.

"It's time to practice the martial arts of the Loose Wind. ”

There are a lot of martial arts left by the free wind to Liu Zheji, including Liu Zheji's long-coveted ethereal step, which is a famous martial art of the ethereal door.

Recalling the mental method of ethereal steps, Liu Zheji began to take ethereal steps in the courtyard.

Liu Zhiji's ethereal step is an intermediate practice of the Xuan Rank, and Wu Tianxing's is the ground level, and Liu Zhiji also handed him the complete ethereal step, but with his understanding, it will take a long time to understand the Ethereal Step.

Liu Zheji, who has the vision of the state of mind and the book of enlightenment, cultivates various martial arts skills to capture, this ethereal step is the intermediate level of the Xuan Rank, according to Liu Zhiji's own estimate, the remaining two months are enough to cultivate to the second level of the Ethereal Step.

"Light as a swallow. ”

Liu Zhe Halberd stepped on the ground for a few steps, and a burst of blue light gradually appeared on his feet, which was the result of the condensation of Liu Zheji's true qi.

In a flash of blue light, the whole person of Liu Zhehald was like a gust of wind, and it hit the wall of the courtyard with a "bang", knocking the courtyard into a large hole.

"Ah!!" Liu Zhiji howled in horror, and his high-speed body made him look at the scenery next to him for a while.

In embarrassment, Liu Zhiji hurriedly dispersed the true qi attached to his legs, and then, his whole person seemed to be thrown into a forest as if he had not stepped on the emergency brake.

"Who?!" Two frightened screams rang out from the side, and the willow halberd hanging from the tree greeted the two disciples who were obviously lovers.

"Hello. ”

The two disciples were immediately frightened and fled, and Liu Zhiji's half-raised hand shook in the air in embarrassment.

On the way back to the courtyard, Liu Zhiji kept thinking, the method used by the ethereal step is very simple, and it can even be said that it is a little white, the usual body method and secret art have an entry stage, and they need to comprehend the mystery before they can be used, but this ethereal step is different from all martial arts, only need to run the true qi in the leg meridians according to the established trajectory, and the increase in the amount of true qi will also speed up the speed of the martial artist.

This exposes a problem, the willow halberd can be used to ethereal steps, but it can't control its legs well. In the courtyard where the willow halberd is not big, a cyan figure keeps flickering in the yard, and with the flashing of the shadow, exclamations continue to echo in the yard.

After a long period of exercise, Liu Zhiji finally mastered some of the tricks of the first layer of the ethereal step, that is, don't be afraid! Don't worry about floating boldly! If the ethereal step is like a carriage on the body of the Liu Zhiji, then the Liu Zhiji is the coachman, he only needs to control the speed and direction of the horse, this sounds simple, but it is very difficult to do, a novice has to try to drive the carriage for a long time, not to mention a book of Xuan-level martial arts? So the success of Liu Zhiji's cultivation in the past month has finally "worked".

When his afterimage face showed a knowing smile in midair, he didn't pay attention to the courtyard wall in front of him that was constantly approaching him.

"Bang. The halberd smashed a hole in the wall again, and the man flew out into nowhere.

A month later, the academy competition was officially held at the main peak of Zhongxu Mountain, Hongfeng.

This time, all the martial artists above the innate level will participate, and it is the first event in the void without doubt.

Dabi was officially held in Hongfeng's martial arts arena, and the competition system was a knockout round, and the top 16 were finally decided, and the top 16 were round-robin, and the top 10 disciples were finally competed.

The top ten disciples of Zhongxu Academy are legends, take Huang Yuanhua, the last of the top ten disciples, as an example, cultivating the Xuan-level Martial Arts, the Heavenly Thick Earth Technique, his own cultivation has reached the stage of soul annihilation, and the one-handed ground-level martial art "Earth Crust Change" has terrified countless opponents.

As for the top few disciples, they haven't moved for many years, and this tenth place is also vacant after the first disciple Zhang Heng broke through the transformation realm, so it is said that it is competing for the top ten disciples, but in fact, it is also competing for the top sixteen.

After Liu Zhiji knew this rule, he couldn't help but wonder about these ten disciples, why could they occupy the position for so long?

With doubts, Liu Zhiji stepped on the top of the flood peak the day before Dabi.

There were three places to participate in the sect competition in the previous small exam, not to mention Liu Zheji, in addition to him, there were two white-clothed disciples to participate together, one was the disciple who used the Heaven and Earth Vision Binglan before, and the other made Liu Zheji quite surprised, it turned out to be Liu Yunqi who made him kick, and the disciples who participated in the big competition in the Sword Hall would go up the mountain to arrange their accommodation, and Liu Zheji couldn't help but run into these people.

"Senior brother, you're here. Jiang Nishang saw Liu Zheji at a glance, and at this time, Liu Zheji's temperament became a little unrecognizable

Liu Zhe Halberd is wearing the white clothes of the Sword Hall, the weather is getting cold at this time, and it is still snowing when he goes up the mountain, Liu Zhi Halberd is wearing the white clothes of the Sword Hall, and the coat is a snow-white coat, the whole person is dressed very neatly, plus there seems to be a humid sea air around him, and there is always a fog around him between walking, which looks like a vision of heaven and earth accompanying him.

Jiang Nishang immediately knew that Liu Zheji might have returned to his innateness.

"Hmm. Liu Zhiji nodded, responded lightly, and walked forward with his own care.

"Who is this person?" A disciple in Tsing Yi who took the exam asked Liu Yunqi, who was also in white, curiously.

Liu Yunqi looked at the white mist surrounding Liu Zheji, and was envious in his heart, and when the disciple in Tsing Yi asked him, he said with some admiration: "This is the strongest one among our freshmen." ”

"How strong is it?" The disciple in Tsing Yi looked at Liu Zheji's exaggerated outfit and wondered a little, why was this person still dressed in white.

Another white-clothed young man next to him glanced at the Tsing Yi disciple and said, "Much stronger than you." ”

"Than me?" The disciple in Tsing Yi just wanted to reason with them, but after thinking about it, isn't theorizing with the disciple in white tantamount to surrendering his identity?

"Senior Brother Lan, you're here. Liu Yunqi couldn't help but get excited when he looked at the young man in front of him, he walked over and said hello a little shyly.

"You say, Senior Brother Liu, how many people can he rush into the big competition?" Lan Xin didn't respond to Liu Yunqi, but asked him with a frown.

"How many did you rush into the first place?" Liu Yunqi was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Senior brother, although he is very strong, there is still a gap between him and those senior brothers in Tsing Yi, right? ”

Lan Xin smiled disdainfully after listening to Liu Yunqi's answer, the horror of the Liu Halberd, he had personally experienced it, at that time, the Liu Halberd had not yet reached the congenital, and now the appearance of the Liu Halberd was obviously just breaking through the congenital, and the vision of heaven and earth could not be controlled in the body, Lan Xin was born in the Lan family in Lizhou, and he didn't know how many innate martial artists in the family, and he still had the strength of the person.

"Rush into the top hundred, senior brother, let them see how terrifying it is for those who have defeated me!"

The big competition was held a day later, and all the disciples of the Sword Hall lived alone in a courtyard under the arrangement of the disciples of Hong Feng, Liu Zhe was happy and quiet, and occupied a small second floor alone, while Lan Xin and Liu Yunqi lived next to him.

In the evening, Lan Xin and Liu Yunqi couldn't sleep excitedly when they thought that they would participate in the big competition tomorrow.

"You say, Senior Brother won't kick us out, right?" Liu Yunqi said uncertainly.

"Let's see. Lan Xin didn't know the bottom of his heart, he was quite curious about the Liu Zhi Halberd, so he could only walk into the small second floor of the Liu Zhi Halberd.

The door on the first floor was unlocked, and the two hesitated for a moment before knocking on the door.

"Senior Brother Liu?" Liu Yunqi shouted downstairs.

Liu Zheji was discussing the matter of the Imperial Eight Star Fist with Bai Wuchang at this time, when he suddenly heard someone calling, he hurriedly asked Bai Wuchang to return to his Divine Palace, and secretly wondered, who would come to him so late?

When he went downstairs and saw the two sneaky people looking east and west on the first floor, they couldn't help but roll their eyes.

"What are you two looking for me?" said Liu Zhiji impatiently.

A voice came from upstairs, which startled Liu Yunqi, and Lan Xin was also startled, but he was still calm, only to see him arch his hand and say: "Senior brother, tomorrow is going to be a big competition, the two of us really have no intention of sleeping, so I came to discuss the matter of the big competition with the senior brother." ”

Originally, Liu Zheji wanted to scold these two boys so that they could go to sleep with peace of mind, but he thought about it, these two people might know some of the content of Dabi, he hadn't been out these days, and he hadn't deliberately inquired about any powerful people in this Zhongxu Academy, and he was not happy to grind his gun, so he simply jumped down from the second floor.

"What do you want to discuss?" Liu Zheji sat on a chair in the hall, took out a handful of melon seeds from the storage ring and said as he kowtowed.

Lan Xin and Liu Yunqi glanced at each other, and both said secretly: "I didn't expect Senior Brother to be so approachable. ”

Lan Xin lowered his head and thought about it, and replied, "Senior brother, do you know who is participating in this academy?"

Liu Zhiji nodded, "As far as I know, the innate disciples of the academy will participate, right?"

Lan Xin and Liu Yunqi both shook their heads, and Liu Zhiji couldn't help but be stunned, "Isn't it everyone who participates?"

Lan Xin saw that Liu Yunqi had something to say, so he nodded and motioned for him to speak first.

"Not really, brother. Liu Yunqi coughed dryly, "There are a lot of innate martial artists in the academy, plus those who go out to perform tasks, I don't know how many people, it is impossible for them to participate." ”

"Who are the participants?" asked Liu Zhiji, who couldn't help but wonder.

Lan Xin said at this time: "Basically, the young disciples will participate, and those who have joined the academy for a long time will not put down their faces to compete with us juniors, of course, there are also some who have the attitude of playing and showing their hands, so senior brother does not have to worry about encountering strong opponents." ”

"Oh. Liu Zhiji nodded, it turned out that this was the case, but he was still shocked by the strength of the academy, he didn't know much about the Zhongxu Academy, and the concept only existed in the Zhongxu Academy is the largest force in Lizhou, but he didn't expect the strength of the academy to be so strong, according to Lan Xin's meaning, there were as many innate martial artists in the academy as dogs.

"Does Senior Brother know the Ten Disciples?" Lan Xin saw that Liu Zhiji was silent, and asked with the intention of throwing out a topic.

"Ten disciples?" Liu Zhiji had heard of the names of these ten disciples, and heard that the first disciple had become a realm.

"The top ten disciples, terrifying, the forces behind each disciple are very terrifying, they are cultivating the top exercises, with countless peerless martial arts, each of the top ten disciples is the chosen one, and the top ten disciples of the Zhongxu Academy are famous in the entire eight states. ”

"Then what does it have to do with me?" Liu Zhiji laughed, no matter how terrifying these ten disciples were, they wouldn't have any effect on him, right?

"No... If Senior Brother has been staying in the Academy, sooner or later he will come into contact with this level, how many places does Senior Brother think you will enter this time?"

"How many?" Liu Zhiji hadn't thought about this question, but he felt that he had to be in the top ten, right?

"Top ten?"

"Hiss......"

Liu Yunqi and Lan Kimchi glanced at Liu Zheji strangely, "Senior brother...... These top ten disciples have already occupied the top ten. Liu Yunqi reminded on the side.

How do you know that they will be able to make it to the top 10? Wouldn't it give up a lot of positions?" Liu Zhiji looked at the two of them like a fool, but Lan Xin's next words made him feel like a fool.

"Senior brother, that's not the case, I mean, the top ten disciples don't need to compete at all, they themselves are in the top ten, and we, the disciples, can only compete for these eleven to sixteen places. Lan smiled bitterly.

"Who set it?" Liu Zhiji was immediately furious, isn't this obviously playing the rules?

"This is an unwritten rule, all those who compete with the top ten disciples will consider themselves unlucky, they can only choose to admit defeat, this has been the case for the past few years, and even among the top ten disciples, no one will go to the competition venue, and they will be judged victorious. ”

Liu Zheji understood this time, this big comparison is a disguise, the people below are working hard, and the ten positions above have long been occupied.

"Isn't there anyone going to challenge them?" asked Willow.

"Yes, but it ended badly. Lan Xin shook his head and said. "The top ten disciples all have forces behind them, either the elders in the academy, or the big forces that are inextricably linked to the academy, and most of the rewards of the top ten disciples go into their pockets every year. ”

After a pause, Lan Xin decided to explain to Liu Zhiji in detail, "Each of these top ten disciples will have their own fiefdom, this fiefdom may be in Zhongxu Mountain, or it may be a certain city and a cave blessed land, that is to say, with the quota of the top ten disciples, the probability of impacting the transformation realm will be much larger than that of ordinary people, and the resources of the academy are already so little, if you don't concentrate on some people, change the top ten disciples every year, and frequent exchanges will cause some highly talented disciples to lose the opportunity to impact the transformation realm." ”

"It turns out that there is such a thing behind it. Liu Zheji fell into thought, this matter is quite simple to say on the surface, the big forces and the big family occupy the quota of the top ten disciples, in order to let their family out of the realm, in order to seek greater benefits, and then think about it at a deeper level, it is impossible for the academy not to know about this, but still let it go, it is very likely that the heart above is not aligned, if a disciple represents a force, then behind these ten disciples, there will definitely be one or several high-level scholars to support them, and when the disciples become the realm, they will become their help.

It seems to be a simple big competition, but it involves so many things, Liu Zhiji thought about it and was extremely frightened, and became more and more disgusted with the academy, but then, Liu Zhiji smiled, he was not sincere in this Zhongxu Academy, the academy is just a springboard, if Gu Meng'er is really accepted as an apprentice by Gongsun Li, then his current identity is too far from it, let alone chasing her, he may not even have the qualifications to see her, so next, Liu Zhiji has a certain number in his heart.

"Okay, that's all for today, I know it in my heart, and I'm very grateful to the two junior brothers. Liu Zhiji arched his hand at the two, I have to say that these two people have helped him a lot this time, if there is a chance, Liu Zhiji will find a way to compensate the two.

"Senior brother's words are serious, I still remember what my senior brother taught me in the small exam, Yun Qi must remember it in my heart, and it is my honor to be able to help my senior brother. ”

Liu Yunqi and Lan Xin both nodded, although they couldn't catch up with the height of Liu Zheji, but at least in an era, there was always a thought in people's hearts, if they couldn't compare with the "legend", then at least they had to stand by the side of the "legend" not too far, although Liu Zheji's current strength was not very strong, but Lan Xin knew that this person was definitely not as simple as he appeared, and he had a hunch that Liu Zheji would become the biggest dark horse in this sect competition.

After the two left, Liu Zheji sat on a chair in the hall and knocked melon seeds all night, and when Jiang Nishang came to look for him the next morning, the melon seed skins on the ground were piled up like a hill.

Jiang Nishang was stunned for a moment, but still walked over. "Senior brother, the sect Dabi has started today, let's set off with us. ”

Liu Zheji spit out the last piece of melon seed skin out of his mouth, and saw Jiang Nishang frowning deeply at the melon seed skin on the ground, and suddenly asked, "Senior sister, are you the top ten disciples?"

Jiang Nishang shook his head and said, "I don't have enough strength, and I can't be the top ten disciples." ”

"Does your father have any of them?" said Liu Zhiji.

"My father? It's not qualified enough, why did you suddenly ask about this?" Jiang Nishang looked at Liu Zhiji in surprise, in her impression, Liu Zhiji was not the one who would notice these details.

Liu Zheji smiled and did not answer, "Let's go, senior sister." Liu Zhiji thought about it all night, a complete set of plans in his mind was already quite rudimentary, if he guessed correctly, not only Jiang Hanyun did not support any of the top ten disciples, but even Zhou Changqing above him may also be looking for candidates, from Zhang Hongyuan, Liu Zhiji saw some clues, why Zhou Changqing was anxious to find his subordinates, and even his number one was included in the academy, and was also arranged to the Sword Hall, if you guessed correctly, Jiang Hanyun and Zhou Changqing of the Sword Hall are in the same line, and the next secret needs to be known step by step, Liu Zhiji is not in a hurry, the sect competition will be carried out for a long time, during this period, he will let Zhou Changqing notice his own。