Chapter Eighty-Six: Victory in the First Round
Originally, Mount Kinabalu was much taller than it is now, and it is said that 3,000 zhang were flattened by the sword of the ancient gods and demons to form the flat square it is today.
The huge square can not see the edge at a glance, more than ten miles from north to south, seven or eight miles from east to west, ten test rings about several zhang high, eight of which are divided into eight trigrams, and the remaining two are in the middle of the yin and yang, a total of ten fighting venues. Generally, the participating disciples who are not famous are arranged in the peripheral venues, and the celebrity disciples such as Yuan Bao are arranged in the first round of the yang position in the position of yin and yang, which can be described as a lot of attention, and at least one-third of the hundreds of thousands of Xiuzhen disciples who watched the battle have come closer, and everyone wants to see the power of the legendary reincarnation sword technique.
Not long before the fight, the personal information about Guo Musen, the opponent of Yuanbao, was also dug up by the omnipotent cultivator, who also had something to do with the imperial court, and was the eldest disciple of the Qingliang Daoist of the Wudang faction. Why did he have a relationship with the imperial court, because his grandfather Guo Zixing was the largest leader of the anti-Yuan rebel army on both sides of the Jianghuai River a few decades ago, and the current Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang married Guo Zixing's righteous daughter as his wife, Guo Musen is a generation higher than the current Changfang chief Sun Zhu Yunwen, and the same generation as the prince who has been controlled.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang became bigger, and replaced Guo Zixing's position with Chen Youliang's righteous army, and later Zhu Yuanzhang broke Chen Youliang's claim to be emperor in Jiangling, and he began to kill heroes within a few years. In order to keep the bloodline of the Guo family, Queen Ma secretly sent this little nephew to Wudang Mountain, and what he learned was the Quanzhen family of the Northern Dao.
Most of the cultivators look down on the Northern Dao lineage that has only risen for hundreds of years, because although this vein belongs to Taoism, it is very different from the Sanqing Dao that has been inherited for thousands of years, and it is very close to the human court, even the founding patriarch Wang Chongyang has not become an immortal, although it has developed rapidly in the past few hundred years, but there has not been a figure who can keep pace with the predecessors such as Taixuan Zhenren.
Everyone is speculating that this unlucky Wudang sect disciple Guo Musen will be defeated in one breath or one move.
In the first round of the competition, only Yuan Bao was a famous contestant, and everyone surrounded him, and the other nine fighting venues looked thin.
Yuan Bao and the others finally squeezed in, looking at the crowds of spectators, he seemed to feel what his master looked like when he appeared eighty years ago.
When his master achieved the top three good results in the fight, and later offended the Kunlun faction, the sixteen elders joined forces, although he defeated the sixteen elders, but the injury was not light, and he gave up the battle for the laurel behind, not long after he comprehended the three swords of the Zhuxian style, he returned to Kunlun, and Taixuan Zhenren fought on the top of the sacred mountain, as a result, Taixuan Zhenren relied on the Kunlun Divine Soldier Xuanyuan Sword, broke his master's Sky Cutting Sword, and the two fought to a tie.
"Master, I won't disgrace you!" Yuan Bao took a long breath and muttered to himself secretly in his heart.
"Bell!~" A crisp and pleasant bell sounded, and the surrounding noisy sounds gradually subsided, and a short old man with a white beard walked up on the Yangzi Fighting Dharma platform.
The old man said loudly: "In the first round of the Yang Throne Fighting Competition, Wudang sent Guo Musen to fight against Yuan Shaoqin, the sixteenth generation successor of the Reincarnation Sword Technique, please invite the two contestants to come to the stage." β
Yuan Bao smiled and said to Zhao Wuregret and the others, "You wait for me to come down." β
At this time, a white palm grabbed him, and when he looked back, he didn't know when Situ Zheng and his sister Yuan Shaoru had arrived here.
Yuan Shaoru pulled the ingots to the corner, took out a pair of gloves as thin as cicada wings from his arms, and said softly: "Second brother, these gloves are for you." β
Yuan Bao said: "You don't believe in my strength?"
Yuan Shaoru said with a smile: "I naturally believe that your cultivation is invincible in the world, but there are too many masters to face in this fight, this pair of gloves was originally given to me by you, now you take it back first, and then return it to me when this fight is over." β
Yuan Bao shirked in every possible way, but he couldn't stand Yuan Shaoru's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and in desperation, he could only watch Yuan Shaoru put the silkworm gloves that Bai Su gave him in the palm of his hand, those gloves were the treasure of the demon clan, and when they touched the skin, they suddenly turned into nothingness, and they couldn't see it at all.
After putting on the gloves, he toed a little, and his body slowly landed on the high platform like a crane, and suddenly there was a thunderous applause from the audience, and the applause rang out.
Compared with this, although Guo Musen's rise to power was also an understatement, the applause of tens of thousands of people below suddenly decreased a lot.
The fighting platform is nearly ten zhang high, the area is a hundred zhang in size, it is extremely huge, Yuan Bao looked at the young man standing in front of him, and suddenly his heart moved, this Guo Musen's Taoism is not low, he has reached the middle stage of the out-of-body realm, if he didn't meet himself in the first round, he was afraid that he could enter the top forty and he didn't know, and he was only in the peak realm of divine thought, and it would take a few efforts to defeat Guo Musen.
The white-bearded old man said for a while that the things to pay attention to when fighting were nothing more than stopping at the point, not hurting his life and the like.
Everyone held their roar, and countless eyes stared at the Yang Fighting Platform in the middle.
Outside the temple, the heads of the five major factions and hundreds of respected seniors also looked at the fighting field where the ingots were located.
Zhao Wuya, the burly and tall head of the Zhao family in Xiangxi, twisted his beard to a middle-aged Taoist priest beside him, and said, "Qingliang Daoist, this disciple of yours is not simple, and it will take a lot of effort for Yuan Shaoqin to defeat him." β
Qingliang Daoren, the head of the Wudang faction, smiled bitterly and said: "Senior Zhao, don't be sarcastic about me, just blame him for his bad luck, he actually met Yuan Shaoqin in the first round, and he originally had a certain hope of entering the top forty, but now he ......"
Zhao Wuya shook his head and said: "The Tai Chi Qiankun Dao handed down from the Wudang Sect is mysterious, I think that the founding ancestor Zhang Sanfeng was also a person from the Three Realms back then, and it is not easy for Yuan Shaoqin to defeat you, a disciple." β
In the crowd, Master Li stood alone in the far corner, his eyes staring at the side face of Yuanbao, his face as silent as water, and he didn't know what to think about.
A crisp bell sounded on the stage again, and some of the other fighting venues had already begun, and all kinds of magic weapons shone on the top of the sacred mountain, and cheers were heard from time to time.
On the yang platform, Guo Musen hugged his fists and said: "Wudang disciple Guo Musen, please give advice." β
Yuan Bao smiled slightly and said, "Reincarnation Sword Technique Yuan Shaoqin." β
The reincarnation sword technique is too famous, far surpassing the current Shushan faction's divine sword and thunder true trick, Guo Musen knows that even if he loses, he will lose decently, his hands are folded violently, and he quickly pinched his handprint, and a cyan sword light burst out behind him, it is actually a fairy sword of not low grade!
The immortal sword circled around Guo Musen's body, and then shot directly at the face of the ingot.
Yuan Bao has long thought about the details of the fighting method, neither humble nor arrogant, so that everyone does not know how strong he is, and he can't perform tricks until he has to do so.
In the face of the sword light that shot out, he must have a black light in his right hand, and a black light came out in an instant, more than ten times faster than the sword light, and the tens of thousands of people who watched the battle, only the senior masters who had cultivated for more than a hundred years could see the non-top-notch details of the ingots, and they couldn't help but gasp. And most of the disciples didn't even notice that the ingots had already come out of the sword.
"Bang!" A dull loud bang sounded, and the mana fluctuations dispersed in all directions, but fortunately, the Doufa platform had placed an extremely powerful ban, and all the energy aftermath was controlled and released in the Doufa Arena.
Yuan Bao stood uncertain, Guo Musen's fairy sword was shocked back by the black light, the fairy sword was connected to the bloodline, he suddenly took a few steps back, with a look of horror on his face, he faced Yuan Bao face to face, and he didn't see how he drew his sword!
Of course, he would not admit defeat easily, took a deep breath, stepped on the hilt of the sword in his hand, and quickly held the sword qi in his hand.
Yuanbao's eyes were condensed, he had heard Master Zhuge Kong Fang say, although the Wudang faction is also a Taoist sect, but the magic power practiced is another way, when Zhang Sanfeng was a little disciple of Bodhi Temple, and later by chance at the age of 100 years old, he participated in Zhou Tian's creation, and created the Taiji sword, Taiji palm, Taiji nine palace steps.
It completely subverted the supreme law of the cultivation realm based on fast, and walked with slow to fight fast, borrow strength to fight hard, and attack the enemy later. The Wudang faction is relying on the three great schools, and in just two hundred years, its strength is almost close to the sixteen middle schools in the Central Plains, and it can be regarded as the top three sects in the strength of the Quanzhen line in the Northern Dao.
The first style of the reincarnation sword technique, the sword cutting style, is about one word, fast.
And Wudang Taiji Sword is one word, slow.
Yuan Bao looked at Guo Musen, who was fluctuating in the Nine Palaces of Tai Chi, especially watching him slowly draw a circular sword circle aimlessly, his face changed slightly, and he felt that all the paths around him were within the attack range of the invisible sword circle.
He drew his sword again, and the several sword circles that flew first were crushed, and at this moment, Yuan Bao obviously felt that his dragon slaying sword was actually deviated by the sword circle, so he didn't dare to be careless. At the same time, I also found that the sword technique of the Wudang Sect has many similarities with my own reincarnation sword technique, especially the round sword circle, which seems to imply the way of reincarnation to the ruins.
The Yuan Bao Sword walked violently, stabbing dozens of swords between breaths, but Guo Musen relied on a slow and fast pace, and every time the fairy sword in his hand and the Yuan Bao Dragon Slashing Sword came into contact, he stuck to the sword edge and used his strength to resolve the attack of the Yuanbao.
The ingots have crawled out of the pile of dead people countless times, their minds are firm, and they are not in a hurry at the moment, holding the dragon sword and Guo Musen to see the moves, and several other fighting venues are magic weapons, and the light is flickering, but the most high-profile Yangzi ingot's fighting method is bland, in addition to the first one to show the Yiyi Imperial Sword, the two of them are holding the sword fairy to change the pace of hand-to-hand combat, so that everyone is disappointed. And every time the dragon slaying sword in Yuanbao's hand stabbed out, it happened to be blocked by Guo Musen with a strange round sword circle, and it seemed that Yuanbao was still at a disadvantage.
Under the stage, Zhao Wuregret hurriedly said: "Brother Shaoqin, what's going on, why don't you use the sword to end the battle." β
Feng Daye beside him saw the old way, and said slowly: "You don't have to worry, the elder brother is groping for Guo Musen's swordsmanship and pace, don't you think their swordsmanship and pace are very similar?"
Yuan Bao stepped on the eight steps of Xuantian, while Guo Musen stepped on the Tai Chi Nine Palace Steps, and the two supreme steps were evolved based on the law of reincarnation, which is indeed quite similar.
Although Zhang Sanfeng is a pedantic celestial, he is not a peerless figure who opened the world like the reincarnation of the scattered people thousands of years ago, although the Taiji Sword he created with slow and fast fighting is the same as the reincarnation sword technique of Yuanbao, but it is still far from the artistic conception, and gradually, Yuanbao's fast sword has suppressed Guo Musen's Taiji Sword.
Guo Musen was young and vigorous, seeing that his swordsmanship was messed up, he quickly attacked a few moves, his body retreated again and again, and the fairy sword in his hand came out of his hand, and pounced on the face of the ingots with endless xiaqi.
Yuan Bao smiled slightly, the sword light flashed, and the sword style was used again, with a loud bang, and everyone in the audience suddenly cheered when they saw that the two of them were finally fighting each other.
Yuan Bao just broke the sword, suddenly felt a strong pressure from the opposite side, fixed his eyes and saw that his face changed greatly, only to see a huge Zhou Tian Taiji pattern appeared in front of Guo Musen, Guo Musen once again controlled the immortal sword that was shocked, his footsteps hung in the air, and shouted: "Break!"
The wind was strong, the heavens and the earth changed color slightly, and I saw that the huge Tai Chi pattern flew quickly in the air, and the fairy sword also turned into a cyan long dragon flying on the flanks.
"Tai Chi Palm?!" Yuan Bao didn't expect Guo Musen to have such a hand, he quickly took dozens of steps back, froze violently, and then rushed away with the strength of his whole body, shouting: "Cutting the sky and drawing the sword!"
"Boom!" The Tai Chi pattern collapsed under the black sword light, and the next moment, the fairy sword controlled by Guo Musen had already been from the side, and the ingots did not draw the sword, and the audience exclaimed, thinking that the ingots were about to be seriously injured Under this sword qi as powerful as a green dragon, several friends who were familiar with the ingots were all faces.
But at this moment, Yuan Bao stretched out his hand and directly grabbed the cyan sword light that was only a few inches away from him, the glow dissipated, and Yuan Bao's two fingers were firmly clamped on the blade of Guo Musen's cyan long sword, and the tip of the sword was only three inches away from his left shoulder.
Everyone's eyes widened, and there was an uproar!
Yuan Bao actually took over Guo Musen's powerful sword qi with a pair of "meat palms".
In the distance, Guo Musen's face changed greatly, and he quickly condensed his handprint to control the fairy sword, trying to escape the control of the ingot, but no matter how he urged the fairy sword, the fairy sword was still firmly sandwiched between the two fingers of the ingot, making a dragon-like sword roar.
Yuan Bao shouted luck, fortunately he was pulled to the corner by his sister Yuan Shaoru before he came to the stage and put on a silkworm hand for himself, although he was also sure to resolve the two-sided attack of Guo Musen's Taiji palm and Taiji sword, but he would inevitably be a little embarrassed.
His hand slammed down, and Guo Musen's immortal sword turned into a blue light and shot into the rock of the huge fighting platform under his feet, instantly losing its handle.
Guo Musen's face changed rapidly, and he hugged his fists and said, "I, I lost." β
Yuan Bao landed on the stage, smiled and hugged his fists and said: "I also won half a move by luck." β
In the distance, Master Li frowned, and said to himself: "How did his hand become so powerful, he was able to catch the sharp sword of the immortal sword, it is absolutely impossible! Even if the senior master who has reached the Little Perfection realm, I am afraid that he may not be able to catch the next immortal sword of the middle stage of the out-of-body realm with his flesh palm alone!"
Not only Master Li couldn't figure it out, but the tens of thousands of people watching the battle in the audience were also shocked and confused, thinking that the cultivation of ingots was extremely powerful.
In the distance, the heads of the five major factions looked at each other and saw the doorway.
Yu Xuzi said in surprise: "The one that Yuan Shaoqin carries on his palm seems to be the Demon Clan's holy artifact Heavenly Silkworm Hand, this kind of Demon Clan's exotic treasure has reached his body, these thousands of years,"
Taixuan Zhenren nodded and said: "It's the Heavenly Silkworm Hand, the nine-tailed fox demon Xiaotian's predecessor was passed on to her descendant Bai Su before his ascension, and now Bai Su is now Yuan Shaoqin's sister-in-law, so it's not surprising that he has a Heavenly Silkworm Hand." β
The Kunlun sect has ears and eyes all over the world, and naturally knows the relationship between ingots and white su.
The seniors beside him looked like this, and the palace master of Xuanbing Palace, Zuo Feikong, said angrily: "What else is this fighting, with the Heavenly Silkworm hand on your body, it is difficult for any magic weapon to get close." β
The head of the Five Elements Gate Linghu smiled and said: "Old Zuo, according to the rules of the competition, Yuan Shaoqin won this game, and the next one is your little son Zuo Qingshui, I'm really looking forward to it." β
Zuo Feikong said: "Brother Linghu is really powerful, I don't even know who the next one is, you even know that the next one will be three days later, I will teach the dog at night, and I will be able to break his silkworm hand!"
Yu Xuzi smiled on the side and said: "What's the use of breaking the Heavenly Silkworm Hand, you have to think about how to break the Heaven Cutting Sword Drawing Style, just now Yuan Shaoqin drew his sword twice, except for the seniors of the older generation, the young disciples couldn't see how he drew his sword at all, if he couldn't break this move, no one would be able to win." β
The first round of fighting ended with Yuan Shaoqin's last strange flesh palm sword, although the hand-to-hand fighting between the two was a bit boring, but Guo Musen's move with the Tai Chi palm in the back The fairy sword attack was really powerful, although Guo Musen was defeated, but everyone saw that if he hadn't met Yuan Shaoqin in the first round, he would definitely have achieved good results.
Now there is only one way in front of the eliminated players, that is, the battle for the top ten, but everyone thinks that Guo Musen has little hope of entering the top ten.
After the first game, he walked off the high platform with a smile on his ingots, and won easily, and the two of them stopped at the point, neither of them were injured, nor did they consume a lot of vitality, which made him very pleased.
As soon as he came, Zhao Wuregret took Yuanbao's hand and praised it: "Great, Brother Shaoqin, is your hand okay, right?
Yuan Bao smiled: "You still don't worry about my strength, I will definitely get you a top ten back." β
Zhao Wu regretted and said: "I want you to be the first." β
Yuan Bao's face was bitter, he glanced at Feng Daye next to him, and said: "With him, I have no chance of being the first place, although my reincarnation sword technique is strong, but the confidence in facing the Mo Evil God Sword is still insufficient." β
Feng Daye smiled and said, "Don't worry, Brother Yuan, I've calculated it, even if we meet, we will be competing for the first place, but you can be careful, your opponent in the next game will not be a cultivator like Guo Musen, but Zuo Qingshui, one of the five princes." And the most terrifying thing is that if your intelligence source is true, in the battle that enters the top ten, your opponent should be the cloud rainbow you are most afraid of. Be careful. β
Yuanbao's originally good mood cooled down instantly, he just took a look at his own competition, according to the order of the fighting method, it is the opponent who can deduce the next competition, Zuo Qingshui's cultivation will definitely win in the first round, and the first game of the second round of competition three days later is the duel between himself and Zuo Qingshui, he didn't expect to meet the master so soon, Zuo Qingshui's cultivation may be a little worse than the sword boy and the Dao boy, but it is definitely very strong, even if he wins him by luck, he will definitely consume a lot of true yuan, and then the top ten competition meets the cloud rainbow, and he will be finishedγ That night, he clearly saw that the cloud fairy among the three fairies of the Demon Sect suffered a big loss under the piano of the cloud rainbow!
Among the three fairies, it should be Li Mengxue who relies on the Heavenly Treasures such as the Ice Heart Strange Flower, and the strength is the strongest, and the Yun Fairy and the Blood Fairy should be between the two Zhong, when Dayu Mountain Zuo Qingshui began to suppress the Blood Fairy He Hongyao after three hundred moves, this Taoism made the ingots deeply jealous, and his face gradually calmed down, and the surrounding Dao Xi gradually became inaudible.
The second game of the first round of the competition is about to start, everyone disperses, Yuan Bao knew that the second game had Master Li's competition, just on the periphery of the dry word position, shook his head, and said: "Whatever, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, even if I lose in front, there is still a chance to challenge the top ten in the back, you all disperse yourself, it's almost noon, after playing this game, there are still four games in the afternoon, anyway, a few of you don't have a competition today, go and play by yourself, I'll go and discuss something." β
Fang Ling'er said: "Childe wants to go to see Master Li's competition, right?"
Yuan Bao's face turned red and said, "After all, they are friends, and it is also appropriate to help her." β
Feng Daye said: "What is not a competition, I have to play in the last game in the afternoon! You must come over to cheer for me at that time! Since you are going to see Master Li's fighting technique, I will tell you some news that I inquired about, Master Li's opponent is a young master of Ye Lin, who is under the Qilin Mountain Fire Dragon Cave Tianhuo Sanren, and it is very tight! Especially the Red Flame Sword with fire attribute in his hand I heard that it is an artifact! Let your friend Master Li be careful. β