Chapter 142: Pre-game betting
Red said when the sky, the golden drum sounded in unison, thousands of cranes, egrets, geese flew from the Wuxingmen Mountain, in the fairy mist, countless petal rain sprinkled from the mountain, like a flower rain, but also the five peaks of the Wuxingmen decorated with brilliance, the fairy breath was dense.
The representatives of the Five Elements Gate and the Seven Star Gate came to the square under the Golden Jade Peak in the melodious sound of immortals, and in the square, a huge ring with a length and width of ten zhang had already been built.
The ring is made of hundreds of sturdy bluestone slabs up to a foot thick, filled with clay powder, on which are written earth charms to prevent them from being destroyed, and the ring is surrounded by banners and countless luminous crystals that can emit bright light, reflecting the entire ring extremely brightly.
For the triennial sect competition, the Five Elements Gate and the Seven Star Gate have always attached great importance to it, the two factions are close to each other, and it stands to reason that they are also neighbors, but in the cultivation world, it is often not necessarily a good thing to live next to each other.
First of all, cultivators need a lot of resources to cultivate, and the location of the Xiuzhen sect is to choose a place with rich resources as much as possible, living next to each other means that the two sects have chosen a place at the same time, and in the eyes of cultivators, the more cultivation resources the better, in this way, the two sects will definitely have some competition for limited resources, and over time, a grudge will be formed.
This is the case with the Five Elements Gate and the Seven Star Gate, the locations of the two sects are five hundred miles apart, and this distance, if you take the flying sword, it will be a moment of effort.
Originally, thousands of years ago, the Five Elements Gate occupied the area of the Five Elements Mountain, relying on the resources here, cultivated a large number of outstanding disciples, the overall strength, the entire Xiuzhen world is first-class, but eight hundred years ago, the cultivation of the real world of a generation of Mount Tai competition, the Seven Star Gate opened the patriarch Beidou Zhenren, with its superb strength to come to the vicinity of the Five Elements Mountain, very domineering from the hands of the Five Elements Gate snatched a mineral in the mountain of the most abundant spiritual vein, so as a foundation, constantly expand the land, the creation of the Seven Star Gate.
Of course, these Five Elements Sect was unwilling to give up, and the struggle between the two factions began generation after generation.
In the first three hundred years, the Five Elements Gate relied on the old foundation left by the ancestor, and was always able to gain the upper hand in the battle with the Seven Star Gate, but perhaps it was the Heavenly Blessing Seven Star Gate, five hundred years ago, the Seven Star Gate produced a stunning disciple, named Chu Lingfeng, who reached the cultivation of the Yuan Infant Period at the age of thirty and became the head of the Seven Star Gate.
Later, the Five Elements Gate and the Seven Star Gate were several wars, although the Seven Star Gate had some advantages, but in the end, both factions suffered heavy losses, seeing this situation, the real people of the two factions realized that if they continued to fight like this, they would only give some sects that coveted in a row an opportunity.
The two heads of the two sects personally went out to sign a peace agreement with each other in the Ethereal Valley, and agreed to replace the battle between the two factions with the situation of the sect Dabi, and every year the sect that won the Dabi could obtain more territory and cultivation resources, thus ending the war between the two factions that lasted for hundreds of years.
The situation of this kind of sect competition has also been fixed, and it is held every three years in the Five Elements Gate and the Seven Star Gate, and the two sects take turns to be the east, which has continued until today.
And in the last few decades, I don't know why, the Seven Elements Gate has produced many talents, and has repeatedly won big victories in the big competition, and the territory of the Five Elements Gate is gradually shrinking, and this year, the Five Elements Gate has lost ten times in a row, and it has lost to the point where it is unbearable, because now the territory of the Five Elements Gate is only about a quarter of the Seven Star Gate, and if it loses again, the Five Elements Gate may hurt the fundamentals, and there will be a situation where even the most fundamental cultivation resources of the disciples in the door will be insufficient.
Qian Wuyang, the head of the Five Elements Gate, was also anxious when he saw this situation, for fear that the foundation left by his ancestors would be defeated in his own hands, so that he really had no face to meet the ancestors of the Five Elements Gate in the past dynasties, so this big competition, the head of Qian Wuyang is also determined to win, the reason why he risked the world's disapproval before and saved Zhang Xiaomai, who killed many inner disciples, took a fancy to his strength, and wanted him to win in this big competition is also a very important factor.
There was still half an hour before the start of the big competition, and the surrounding ring was already crowded with disciples from the Five Elements Gate who came to watch, and the representatives of the Seven Star Gate and the Five Elements Gate in this competition had already taken their seats in the VIP seats.
The top nine of the Five Elements Gate Inner Gate Billboard sat on the left side of the VIP seat, while the top nine of the Seven Star Gate Inner Gate Star List sat on the right.
Due to Zhang Xiaomai's killing in the door before, the top nine of the Inner Gate of the Five Elements Gate are now very different from before.
Sitting in the first place is naturally Zhang Xiaomai, with his record of killing Yan Qingzong and fighting with Elder Peng without falling behind, no one dares to say a word in this position.
And sitting in second place is Shangguan Yanran, she is the top three of the old inner door, and no one will have any objections.
The third is Xiao Jingzhi, the boss of the Water God Hall, he is also a disciple with a very high reputation in the inner gate, since the fall of the Jade God Hall of Yan Qing Sect, many of them were originally disciples of the Jade God Hall, and now they have joined the Water God Hall, so to speak, the current Water God Hall has become the largest force in the inner gate of the Five Elements Gate.
It's just that Xiao Jingzhi is very old, although he is now the number one force in the inner gate, but he maintains a very friendly relationship with Zhang Xiaomai and Shangguan Yanran, Zhang Xiaomai and Shangguan Yanran are the kind of masters who don't like to form gangs and factions, and when they see Xiao Jingzhi being kind to themselves, they naturally don't embarrass him.
The disciples ranked fourth to ninth are Qian Qianyi, Zhao Feng, Wang Zhanhu, Mo Yan, Lu Xiaoyun, Zhao Min, and He Lushan.
Among them, Zhao Feng, Wang Zhanhu, Mo Yan, Lu Xiaoyun, Zhao Min, and He Lushan are newly recruited disciples from behind the Inner Gate Billboard, many of whom are participating in the sect competition for the first time, and everyone's face can't help but show a trace of nervousness.
On the side of the Seven Star Gate, Zhang Xiaomai had only seen Zhou Wenhai, who had come to make trouble before, and he was sitting in the ninth position, looking at Zhang Xiaomai's eyes full of hatred.
It's just that he didn't expect that it was Zhang Xiaomai who was sitting first on the side of the Five Elements Gate, and he couldn't help but be stunned, Zhang Xiaomai didn't bother to pay attention to him, anyway, an opponent like Zhou Wenhai would still be able to deal with it even if he came up ten or eight.
What really attracted Zhang Xiaomai's attention was the disciple who ranked first in the Seven Star Sect, dressed in white and snowy, with a chic posture, unlike the rest of the disciples' powerful aura fluctuations, Zhang Xiaomai couldn't feel the slightest fluctuation of aura on his body.
This is probably the Bai Yujing mentioned by the senior sister, his strength is really extraordinary, just from the back-to-basics aura on his body, Zhang Xiaomai concluded that his strength will never be worse than Yan Qingzong.
If this person is met in the competition, he must really pay attention to it, and he must not be careless, and win the battle, Zhang Xiaomai said in his heart.
When Zhang Xiaomai was thinking, Bai Yujing also happened to turn his head, and the two looked at each other, and an illusory electric spark formed in the air in an instant.
"Elder Zhao, it seems that the disciple sitting first in the Five Elements Sect opposite is not Yan Qingzong, who is he?" Bai Yujing couldn't help but turn his head to Elder Zhao Zhantian and asked.
"I also just got the news from the Five Elements Gate, the Five Elements Gate Yan Qingzong is now seriously injured and cannot participate in this big competition, so the first person sitting in the Five Elements Gate is actually a newcomer named Zhang Xiaomai, it is said that he has only joined the Inner Gate for a few months. Elder Zhao Zhantian was also puzzled.
"But it stands to reason that a newcomer like this, even if a genius from the sky can enter the top nine of the inner door in such a short period of time, he should sit at the back of the seat ranking, not at the front, and this Zhang Xiaomai is ranked first in the seat of the Five Elements Gate, is it the Five Elements Gate that is suspicious, and there is any conspiracy that cannot be achieved, it is really strange!"
It would be a newcomer, Bai Yujing was also very surprised when he heard the news, a newcomer who had only been in the inner door for a few months could rank first in the Five Elements Gate, which was simply impossible in the past, since the establishment of the Seven Star Gate for thousands of years, except for the unborn genius Chu Lingfeng, no one has been able to have such a fast speed, but Bai Yujing also faintly had a feeling in his heart, that is, this Zhang Xiaomai is now in the Five Elements Gate, and he is definitely not a simple character.
At this time, Qian Wuyang, the head of the Five Elements Gate, had also appeared in the venue of Da Bi, and behind him, there were six people, five of whom were the nameless elders of the Five Elements Gate, Peng Yu, Dongfang Yan, Zhao Yuanshan, He Yi, and Shui Shenji, to Zhang Xiaomai's surprise, his master Li Jinjiu also came, and he also glanced at himself, probably to try his own way and play the meaning of the level.
Although Elder Peng looked at him with a very gloomy expression, Zhang Xiaomai was not afraid of him if he was alone with Elder Peng now, so he naturally returned to Elder Peng's eyes unceremoniously.
"Okay, now that everyone has arrived, let's start this big competition. The head of Qianwu Yang said very simply.
"Wait, I have something to say. Elder Zhao Zhantian of the Seven Star Gate suddenly spoke.
"Oh, what does Elder Zhao of the Seven Star Sect have to say?" asked Qian Wuyang.
But seeing Zhao Zhantian coughed twice, cleared his throat, and said, "Every year, we have a big competition between the two factions of the Seven Star Gate and the Five Elements Gate, fighting back and forth, comparing those things, it is really boring, it is not as good as this year, our two factions are greatly compared, how about changing the tricks?"
"Change your style, Elder Zhao, what do you mean by that?" Elder Peng of the Five Elements Sect frowned, "This is the rule set by the Patriarch of the Five Elements Sect and the Patriarch of the Seven Star Sect, is it possible that you still want to return to the situation of the previous war between the two factions?"
"No, Elder Peng misunderstood, I mean, today's big competition, our two factions, can we increase the stakes?" Elder Zhao Zhantian of the Seven Star Sect smiled.
(To be continued)