The news of Ghost Hill's annexation to the Barbarian Mountain came so suddenly, that even after receiving the news halfway, the two sect elders of Zhuang Huashan almost thought that they had heard it wrong, and Nan Die, who went to greet Mrs. Yao, also pounced. [Full text reading]

It wasn't until later that Zhuang Huashan and Covering Tianshan knew that Qi Qi had released a rumor on the surface and wanted to come to cover the Tianshan theory, but in fact he went to Ghost Hill in person! With the current strength of Ghost Hill, Qi Qi went in person to kill chickens with a knife, but Qi Qi still went, just like his usual unexpected style of acting, so he got Ghost Hill.

But it is said that the reason why the Lord of the Ghost Hill surrendered was not only because of the presence of murderers like Qi Qi, but also because of one thing, that is, his wife, Mrs. Yao, was assassinated on the way to Zhuanghua Mountain, and everyone disappeared without a trace. This made the lord of the ghost hill hate the Heavenly Mountain and Zhuanghua Mountain, and devoted himself to the Barbarian Mountain for revenge, becoming one of the elders of the Six Sects.

It is obvious that a series of events such as the disappearance of Yonghe and the murder of Lady Yao are a conspiracy, not only against Ghost Hill, but also very likely a struggle between the three major forces.

Although the Barbarian Mountain lost Yonghe, it became the final victor of the battle of the Ghost Hill, and the Tianshan and Zhuanghua Mountains were suspicious of this, and similarly, the Barbarian Mountain also hated the other two major forces for the matter of Yonghe.

Among the three major forces, many of them are people of wisdom and have analyzed this matter many times.

It stands to reason that the most beneficiary of the infighting between the three major forces should be Yangfu, but Yangfu was the first to be excluded. Because the rising Yang Mansion in the past twenty years has formed its own fighting style, that is, to directly launch a powerful attack with the terrifying tactics of the sea of people. There may have been some changes in attack tactics, but there has never been such a conspiracy. Moreover, the guards of the Yang Mansion could not appear here silently, and it was impossible to eliminate Xuan Immortals like Yonghe without alarming others.

The remaining disciples who followed Yonghe to Guiqiu were tortured to extract confessions, and the fact that Yonghe fought with Zhang Zixing in Guiqiu three times, and after leaving, shouted "Kunpeng" and fled. If it is really the Kundao people who make a move, it is expected that Yonghe will be destroyed, and I am afraid that the Tianshan Mountain will not be able to get rid of it.

This conspiracy may have been instigated by one of the three major forces, or the three major forces may have plotted, but in the end, it was the Barbarian Mountain that seized the opportunity and obtained the benefits, so Qi Qi was the most suspicious.

In the eyes of many people, that Ghost Hill's assertion of Zixing also has many doubts, and some people even boldly suggested that this conspiracy may be the work of Zhang Zixing of unknown origin. But this view was quickly rejected by more people. Due to the special law of death in the ruins, many people who have lost their memories do not know their origins, so "unknown origin" cannot be a basis for suspicion. Even if it is assumed that these conspiracies are all related to him, then what is the ultimate motive for him to kill Yonghe, deliberately kill his wife, and give up the Guiqiu forces he runs? Many wise men believe that these incidents are all related to Zhang Zixing on the surface, but in fact, it is the conspiracy launched by him and Guiqiu that Zhang Zixing is "the most unlikely person to plan this."

In the process of returning to the ruins for so many years, such discussions and suspicions have become commonplace, and often the truth of the facts has become a mystery and is unknown. Even if the mystery is solved, it will be a long time later.

As a "newcomer", Zhang Zixing will inevitably be doubted a lot in the Wild Mountain, but his ability has also been well reflected in various tests. In addition to being inferior to the evaporated sect elder Yonghe in terms of cultivation, the new sect elder's calculations, planning and other aspects are above Yonghe, no wonder he can make the ghost hill so strong in a short period of time.

What makes Qi Qi even more satisfied is that in many plans to fight against Tianshan and Zhuang Huashan, Zhang Zixing showed extraordinary ruthlessness and viciousness, not only using clever means to annex a large number of Zhuang Huashan's subordinate forces, but also directly participating in the plot against the old Jin Qi of the Tianshan Sect, and finally Jin Yi died, which can be regarded as avenging Yonghe's revenge.

However, Zhang Zixing's outstanding performance also aroused the jealousy of the rest of the sect elders in the Barbarian Mountain, especially the big sect elders. The matter of the ghost hill is not small, and Zhang Zixing also voluntarily "handed over" the ghost hill forces, and the chaos originally wanted to be in charge of the ghost hill, but Qi Qi thought about it again and again, and still handed over the ghost hill to Zhang Zixing to take care of.

This is not enough, the main contradiction is that after Zhang Zixing joined the Wild Mountain, it gradually made the sect leader Qi Qi's trust in Chaos gradually transferred to Zhang Zixing. Although he was annoyed, he didn't dare to question Qi Qi, but he was not good at stubble, and he quietly united with several sect elders who were good friends with him to suppress and exclude Zhang Zixing. Zhang Zixing also did not show weakness, and with his outstanding personal merits, he united with the sect elders and Taoist people who had never liked chaos, and gradually formed his own small group.

Qi Qi didn't care about this situation of internal struggle, and even connived at it, because this was exactly the way he was used to being a subordinate. And Zhang Zixing's current situation also makes Qi Qi more at ease, a person who has hatred and is isolated by most people is more easy to control, especially Zhang Zixing's cultivation is not very high, and the danger factor is much smaller. In contrast, the chaos with the upper-level cultivation of Xuan Immortal made Qi Qi feel even more threatened, which was also the real reason why Qi Qi didn't give the ghost mound to Chaos.

In this way, Qiqi's trust in Zhang Zixing continued to increase, and Zhang Zixing did not "live up" to his trust, and reciprocated with actual "achievements".

The matter of Ghost Hill was like a fuse, causing the original secret struggle of the three major forces to intensify. They fought and annexed each other, the casualties became heavier and heavier, and the hatred became even greater, and the joint proposal originally put forward by the Kundao people was tacitly avoided by the three parties. In a short period of time, the number of people lost by the three forces is several times that of the past few decades, and there is a great tendency for the three parties to turn the darkness into the dark and put the struggle directly on the table.

In the struggle, the Barbarian Mountain gradually came to the fore, and it had the potential to overshadow the Tianshan Mountain and the Zhuanghua Mountain.

In this case, the Kundao people once again proposed the alliance in the name of Yangfu's recent destruction of Linqu Mountain and the threat becoming more and more imminent, and this proposal was immediately responded to by Zhuang Huashan, and after thinking for a long time, Barbarian Mountain finally agreed.

It is definitely not easy to get three enemies who have hated each other for many years to negotiate at the same table, but if all three enemies are politicians, it is obviously not difficult.

Politics is a transaction. There are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only the central point of "interests" is eternal.

The reason why the Barbarian Mountain agreed, firstly, is because at the same time as the tripartite struggle, Yangfu has not stopped the pace of expansion, and is still steadily continuing to expand, and Linqu Mountain is a larger force that has been eliminated recently; second, the current power of the Barbarian Mountain has seriously threatened the remaining two parties, if you insist on fighting, I am afraid that it will attract the joint efforts of the two parties to suppress, although the power of the Barbarian Mountain has been hidden in either side of the Covered Sky Mountain and Zhuanghua Mountain, but it cannot resist the two parties joining forces; the third and most important point is that for this alliance, the Barbarian Mountain has another plan, for Qi Qi, this alliance will be a rare opportunity to realize his ambitions, in this regard, Zhang Zixing, the sect elder who has won the trust of Qiqi, has a lot of plans and contributions.

In order to repay the resentment of returning to the Xiongzhu and robbery, he broke into Zhuanghua Mountain, fought the Xiongzhu and the seven major sect elders, and killed a sect elder and severely injured the rest of the people. Savage Mountain, which learned first-hand information, also took the opportunity to launch an offensive under Zhang Zixing's planning and occupied several important territories under the jurisdiction of Zhuanghua Mountain.

The Covering Heaven Mountain was even more vigilant against this person, and it specially strengthened the power of the Covering Heaven Array near the mountain city, and opened various formations and defenses in the city, lest the incident of Zhuanghua Mountain be repeated.

But since then, the mighty man has vanished. However, everyone believes that this person will never be willing to lie dormant, and after the battle of Zhuang Huashan, he will definitely hide somewhere to recuperate, or wait for a more suitable time to launch a fatal blow to Zhuang Huashan. This incident has weakened the strength and prestige of Zhuang Huashan a lot, and the forces under its jurisdiction are even more panicked, and to a certain extent, it has also accelerated the growth of Barbarian Mountain in disguise.

After reaching a consensus on an alliance, the three major forces began formal negotiations.

Zhang Zixing did not participate in this kind of negotiation, but was ordered by Qi Qi to plan other major events.

The negotiation table is equivalent to another battlefield, although the soldiers are not bloody, but the intensity is no less than the real battle, after discussion, the three parties agreed, elected an alliance leader, lead the three major forces and the forces of all parties in the ruins, and jointly fight against Yangfu. After the elimination of Yangfu, the alliance was dissolved and the situation of "three-legged" was restored.

The leader of the alliance uses the Zhenwu soap carving flag as a token, and has the power to convene and dispatch the alliance's troops, and coordinate the internal and external affairs of the alliance, which is actually equivalent to the supreme leader of the combined forces in the ruins except for Yangfu. The choice of the leader of the alliance has naturally become the biggest topic of negotiation. The three major forces refused to give in to each other, and they reached a stalemate for a while.

According to the overall strength and the scope of the territory, the Barbarian Mountain is slightly better than the other two; and in terms of the high-level strength of the Xuan Immortal level, Zhuang Huashan is the most neat at this stage; Judging from the strength of the three top-level powerhouses of the Qi Zhi and Qi Qi, the Kundao people may be slightly stronger than the other two, because in the last five hundred years of the war, the strong ones fought against each other in batches, and the Qi Qi was defeated by the hands of Qi Qi, and Qi Qi was defeated by the Kun Dao people by a very small margin in the final decisive battle, of course, the strength of the three belongs to the first level, and they really want to fight again, and the victory or defeat is still five or five.

Since the last time they fought with the mysterious powerhouse, the Kundao people seemed to have a comprehension, and after a period of retreat, they felt that their strength had improved a little, and they believed that the chances of winning the personal battle should be greater, and they immediately proposed that the three of them fight each other, and the final winner was the leader of the alliance. Hearing this, the pig was silent, and Qi Qi, who had always been brave and ruthless, agreed to decide the leader of the alliance through a battle, but it was not a two-game battle, but a series of comprehensive surnames.

This series allows the three forces to be fully demonstrated at all levels, and to make the most fair comparisons and assessments, and finally the winner can become the recognized leader.

Instead of the simple way of playing, this series uses a rule that has never been seen before in the ruins. The competition is divided into three parts according to cultivation, namely the True Immortal Competition, the Golden Immortal Competition and the Xuan Immortal Competition. The True Immortal Race and the Golden Immortal Race are divided into two types: team fighting formation and individual fighting method, and each party can produce several teams. Due to the number of people, only individual battles are set up. The three parties will send the corresponding cultivation manpower to conduct a round-robin competition through group drawing lots.

For each win, the corresponding side will gain a certain number of points, the loser will have no points, and if it is a draw, both sides will lose. As for the three sect masters, they belong to the top level powerhouses, and they do not participate in the Xuan Immortal Competition, but at the end of the three major parts of the competition, they will conduct one-on-one individual battles at the highest level, and they will also use a single cycle to fight three battles in total.

After the completion of the entire competition, the suzerain of the party with the highest score should be the leader of the alliance with the real martial arts soap carving flag, and the rest of the forces must not disobey.

Of course, there are differences in the number of matches and points in different levels of events, such as the True Immortal Tournament has the most events, with two points for winning one game, the Golden Immortal Tournament has slightly fewer events, with four points for winning one, the Xuanxian Tournament has fewer games, and the winner of the Sect Tournament has eight points.

In the competition, in addition to one party automatically admits defeat, otherwise when the winner or loser is judged by life and death, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to make a decision and need to "arbitrate", and the three strong people of Chi Xuan, Bi Bei, Dan Feng and some well-known lone cultivators can be invited to come and form an arbitration committee, which is mainly responsible for the registration, grouping, and evaluation of the competition, and accepts the supervision of all participants and spectators, so as to be fair and just.

The strength of the three of Chi Xuan, Bi Bei, and Dan Feng is similar to that of the three major sect masters, and they belong to the top level powerhouses of Guixu, but Su Xi is alone and concentrates on cultivation, and does not establish his own power like the three major sect masters.

Qiqi's proposal surprised the Kundao people and the piggis, but they didn't expect him to have such a novel idea. But when the two think about it, this is really a good way to decide the winner, and all three parties can decide the winner in a fair environment. If the final winner can be obtained, then becoming the strongest force in the true sense of the word recognized by the entire Guiru is also quite beneficial for further realization of greater ambitions in the future.

Next, the three parties carried out corresponding discussions and negotiations on the specific rules of the series, and compared with the previous mutual exclusion and suppression, the process seemed to be very smooth.

In the meantime, the pig asked Qi Qi: "This game is cleverly conceived, well-conceived, and admirable, I wonder how Qi Qi Daoist friends can have this idea?"

Qi Qi was still as usual, his eyes were closed, but the corners of his mouth showed a smug smile: "Daoyou has won the award, but I don't dare to take credit, this is the occasional whimsical result of the sect elder Zhang Zixing." ”

Some time ago, the new patriarch of the Barbarian Mountain can be described as "shining", it is precisely because of his plan that the forces of Zhuanghua Mountain and the Tianshan Mountain have suffered a lot of losses one after another, and the Barbarian Mountain has the potential to be said today, and Zhang Zixing can be regarded as a great contribution.

Although Zhang Zixing's actions made the two major forces hate, they also had to admit that this person was indeed an extremely rare talent, and if he had realized that this person had such value, he would not have let Qi Qi take the lead.

Qi Qi said, and added casually: "Speaking of which, which of the two Taoist friends do you want to thank, or thank both of them at the same time?" If it weren't for the two Lady Yao who killed Yonghe and killed Zhang Zonglao, my Barbarian Mountain would not have harvested such talents." ”

The pig and the Kundao people showed different colors in unison, and the Kundao people sneered: "What is the matter of this matter, I am afraid that the poor Daoist friends know it in their hearts!"

The pig was originally the most "close" to Zhang Zixing, but he finally missed it, and he was depressed in his heart, and he was even more annoyed when he heard that Qi Qi was beating him upside down, and he also said: "Justice is in your heart!

Now that the three major forces have reached a consensus, this is just a small episode. What is the truth of the matter of the ghost hill and who planned it, it no longer means anything to the three parties, so this dispute will soon be over.

Finally, the three parties announced to the outside world that the competition called "Capture the Flag" will start in March. This competition is by no means comparable to the previous 500-year war, and its scale and the number of participants cannot be said to be unparalleled, but it is definitely unprecedented. The novel competition system aroused the interest of almost everyone, and those true immortals and golden immortals who were not high in cultivation and could only be spectators in the past also had a stage to show their strength, and they were all excited.

In order to stimulate the desire to win, the three sect masters gave the promise of various rewards, and those who performed well could also become the sect elders or even the sect master's personal disciples. This further stimulated the enthusiasm of all the people, and everyone was enthusiastic and began to prepare for the war.

The three of them, Chi Li, Bi Bei, and Dan Feng, were personally invited by the three major sect masters, and when they heard such a novel event, they were very interested, and they also had the heart to witness the battle between the top level powerhouses, in order to further understand, they were invited to go out of the mountain, and organized a group of well-known monks, and began to prepare accordingly in accordance with the rules provided by the three major forces.

Time flies, three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and this competition that the whole ruins have been watching is about to begin.

During this period, the three major forces did not forget to guard against Yangfu, and sent a large number of coalition troops to garrison the fringes of Yangfu's current forces.

According to the agreement at that time, the arena of the game was set in a neutral place outside the three spheres of influence - the Danchen Mountains. The mountains are divided into various areas, such as the competition field and the rest field. There are also coalition forces on the perimeter to protect them from attacking or causing trouble.

But then again, if the game starts, almost all the powerhouses in the ruins will gather here, and who will not be long-sighted to send them to death? Even if that mysterious powerhouse comes, it will definitely not be worthy of the joint attack of the three major sect masters and Chi Xuan, Bi Bei, and Dan Feng.

This "Capture the Flag" contest is naturally a good show planned by Zhang Zixing, and many of the competition systems are based on the rules of later generations, so it makes everyone feel very novel. Of course, his purpose is not really to hold a competition, so that the three major forces can elect the leader of the alliance because of this, but the forces that plan the entire ruins and the true martial arts soap carving flag.

The scale of the competition is indeed huge, and the time spent will be correspondingly long, but it is exactly Zhang Zixing's intentional design. The longer the game, the more time he has to prepare and "cut it short". To be precise, this shortening is equivalent to the end.

Zhang Zixing estimated the approximate ratio between the time when Daji entered the ruins, although not much time had passed outside the ruins, but he had always kept in mind the great danger that could be caused at any time in the thirty-three days, so he wanted to try to defeat the forces of the ruins and capture the Zhenwu Soap Carving Banner in the fastest possible time. In this way, he can have enough time and energy to comprehend the Zhenwu Soap Carving Banner and find a way to leave and return to the ruins.

The schedule of the Capture the Flag Contest has already been transmitted to Superbrain through the secondary body in Mokai. Tianyao is in Yangfu at the moment, and there is no need to think about safety, this time Zhang Zixing can be said to have no worries, and he can give it a go.

With the unison announcement of the three sect masters in Danchen Mountain, the Capture the Flag Contest officially began.

The opening match was the "Fighting Array" of the True Immortal Competition, and the arena was located in an unknown strange mountain in the Danchen Mountains.

First of all, the Wrong Yuan Array of Zhuang Huashan faced the Killing God Array of Tianshan Mountain.

Although the level of the game is not high, because it is the first battle, it still attracts a large number of spectators from the three parties, especially the doormen of Covering Tianshan and Zhuanghua Mountain.

The number of people in the True Immortal Race Formation is limited to less than thirty people per side, which can be as little as possible. With the order of the "referee", the two sides who listed the formation began to act quickly. The number of people in the staggered yuan array is relatively subtle, which is very different from ordinary formations, and can be attacked and defended. The god-killing array is murderous and has extremely strong attack power.

The two formations were like two strange beasts, and after carefully confronting each other for a while, they began to rush forward. A person in front of the Wrong Yuan Array suddenly turned into a huge flat beast body, spewing out a large amount of dense mist, wrapping the entire Wrong Yuan Array, looking mysterious. And several Daoists on the outer edge of the God Killing Array also changed into their true bodies, moving forward and constantly circulating, like sawtooth, cutting into the Wrong Yuan Array.

The light and flame in the dense fog of the staggered array were flourishing, there was firelight, there was crystal light, and there were all kinds of roars, and the two formations slowly staggered, and finally passed through. I saw that the broken limbs flew in the dense fog, and the members of the God Killing Array were missing by one-fifth out of thin air, and the Wrong Yuan Array was still shrouded in dense fog, and the light and flames were scorching. The God-Killing Array immediately changed its method, advancing in two ways, and then overlapping on the periphery, the Wrong Yuan Array was twisted in half, and quickly closed into its original state, but the light was much weaker. Due to the similarity of cultivation, this kind of fighting formation relies on the cooperation of the collective, and if the individual advances too much, it will affect the overall combat effectiveness.

The people on both sides who were watching the battle from the periphery were moved and cheered for their own side loudly, and many of them were eager to play immediately. As for the fierceness of the battle, for these people, it is commonplace and does not care. It was the first time that the true immortals who participated in the competition were noticed by so many people, and their morale was greatly boosted and they attacked with all their might.

In the end, the Wrong Yuan Array was completely wiped out by the Killing God Array, and only about half of the remaining people in the Killing God Array were left. Covering the sky mountain got the first point, seeing the huge "two" on the scorecard, the people in the sky covered the mountain thundered. When the surviving True Immortals of the God Killing Array saw that their fellow sects, including many Golden Immortals, were cheering and celebrating them, the satisfaction in their hearts was indescribable, and they were like victorious heroes, and they held their heads high.

Zhuang Huashan, who had accumulated zero points for failure, looked depressed, and some of the contestants were gearing up and decided to save face for the sect in the next game. In the subsequent game, Zhuang Huashan, who was full of strength, really defeated Wild Mountain in the personal battle of True Immortal and scored two points. The ensuing battle became more and more intense.

On the first day of the event alone, the atmosphere was beyond imagination, and Zhang Zixing, who was watching the game from a distance, couldn't help but smile mysteriously.

(To be continued)