Chapter 22: The Competition

Early in the morning three days later, everyone knew that it was time for the competition to begin, and most of them did not practice again, some started talking, and some stood up and walked around a little.

At this time, just after midnight, before dawn, the three green-robed monks stood at the edge of the square. One of the monks in the middle stage of Qi refining began to remind everyone loudly, and followed him to the competition hall in three columns.

A group of more than 2,000 people did as they were told, and the three of them walked forward side by side, row by row. The introductory test is not only a test of the fighting method, but also difficult to ensure that it will not be tested by Hua Tianzong in other aspects.

Wang Xian was also in the team, following the monks of Huatianzong out of Huanan Town, heading in the direction of Huatianzong, along the way, there were monks from other teams who were also moving forward one after another. After walking for about half an hour, we came to the foot of a hill, where there was a flat land that could accommodate more than 30,000 people, and there was a high platform at the foot of the mountain.

Under the guidance of the Huatian Sect monks, everyone passed through fifty spirit measuring points, holding a jade plate in one hand and pressing it on the spirit measuring pillar with the other, and instantly performed the gong once.

Soon, according to the results, the monks next to the pillar put the monk's spiritual root surname, the high and low values of each spiritual root, and the classification of the beginning, middle, and late stages of qi refining or mortals into the jade plate, marked the jade plate number, and guided the monks of the heavenly spirit root and the alien spirit root to an open space under the high platform.

The spiritual root test soon came to Wang Xian's turn, Wang first looked at the test results displayed on the spiritual pillar, and sure enough, it was a miscellaneous spiritual root, the value of various spiritual roots was not much different, basically between 14 and 16, and the 5 spiritual roots added up to about 70, although the total score was high, a single spiritual root was very weak, and the spiritual root qualification should be within the bottom hundred.

Although the monks in the same team around them were queuing up in turn, they were also paying attention to the monks around them, wanting to understand the spiritual root testing of others, and to have an intuitive judgment on what position their spiritual roots were relatively in.

As a result, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Wang Xian emerge with a rare miscellaneous spirit root. Several people thought so in their hearts: "It turns out that the opponent's spiritual root is still so bad, there is really no worst, only worse, it seems that I still have hope of success in the competition, and I should not be arrogant." ”

Paradoxically, they all looked at each other with contempt and mocking smiles, and the words of one of the monks spoke to the hearts of several of them.

The man said to Wang Xian in his heart: "You have such a poor spiritual root, and you still want to enter the Huatian Sect to cultivate, don't waste the precious place, you must meet me when you compete, give me a chance, make you look good!" Wang Xian shook his head with a wry smile, and under these gazes, he reluctantly left the spirit measuring pillar and continued to move forward with the team.

After the spirit root test, seven heavenly spirit roots and twenty-nine alien spirit roots were found from tens of thousands of people, of which three heavenly spirit roots and eight alien spirit roots were still mortals.

These more than 30 lucky people were led to the open space next to the high platform and stood and watched. Mortals below the Three Spiritual Roots were also gathered in one place, and the Outer Gate Monks brought back to South China Town, where they were allowed to serve as miscellaneous laborers. The other thousands of mortals who did not have spiritual roots were all dismissed.

Mortals are no better than cultivators, and if they want to participate in the Huatian Sect Spiritual Root Test, they can't participate if they want to. First, there must be people who have contributed within the influence of the sect to recommend, and second, it must spend a lot of money to make up and down. Moreover, many of the mortal spirit roots that participated in the test were in a state of half-existence and half-nothingness.

These people were originally full of confidence, but when the family spent a lot of money to invite monks to use the spirit stone for private testing, it seemed that the spirit stone had a spirit root reaction. But when it came to Huatianzong's retest, it was gone. This is caused by the very low value of the spiritual root, for example, the spiritual root value is only within 3, which is the case, which comes and goes, and is not easy to detect.

According to the rules of Huatian Sect, the value of the spiritual root is within 5, unless it is a heavenly spiritual root and a different spiritual root, it is regarded as having no spiritual root. It is conceivable that when cultivating, their spiritual roots are unstable from time to time, and their spiritual power will inevitably be intermittent when they are exercising.

The flat land at the foot of the mountain is divided into a waiting area and a competition area. Under the guidance of the Huatian Sect monks, the monks in the waiting area were standing in a tight column one after another, and a large area of the competition area was vacant.

There were more than a dozen Huatian Sect monks on the high platform, in the center was a Jindan period monk in a red robe, and seven monks in the foundation building period wearing green robes on the left and right. Most of the monks were sitting in a precarious position, and only two monks were talking to each other with their heads bowed, using the jade slips in their hands to summarize and analyze the results of the spiritual root test. Soon, the two of them made a plan for the group competition.

Seeing that the teams were finished, no more monks entered the field, and the competition plan had been formulated, a square-faced green-robed monk who had been sitting upright stood up with a smile and walked to the position in front of the middle of the high platform.

He hugged his fists and saluted everyone in the audience and said: "I Huatianzong Huatianfeng Outer Gate has completed the repair, Xi is the host of this entry competition, welcome all Taoist friends to come to participate in the entrance test of this door, poor Dao wishes you a successful start and a smooth entry." ”

Bi Xiu paused for a moment and began to read out aloud the arrangements for this competition. At this time, 1,200 cubic pale white transparent light curtains rose in the test area, and each square was shrouded in a square box with a radius of six zhang by the light curtain.

The 1,200 light curtains in the field were connected into a large array, and each of the 12 foundation building monks on the stage controlled 100 light curtains.

Each match is decided by the monk who controls the light curtain, and the time limit is half an hour, and if the opponent cannot be clearly defeated within half an hour, the adjudicator will judge the winner by comparing their injuries and damage to the magic weapon, and if they are equal, they can also judge the draw.

If it is not necessary, you must not continue to pursue and seriously injure the opponent after defeating the opponent, otherwise you will be awarded a loss. Those who were judged to lose should immediately leave the field and go to Huanan Town to leave, and those who were injured should also be bandaged off the field for a while, and then carried to Huanan Town to heal their injuries before leaving.

The two monks who formulated the plan were responsible for recording the results of the victory and defeat, and arranging for each round of the game to be drawn by random lots. The divine consciousness and mana of the monks in the foundation building period are many times stronger than those in the qi refining period, and there is no problem for one person to control a hundred light curtains.

More than 23,000 monks participated in the competition, of which more than 18,000 were selected in the early stage of qi refining, 200 in the middle stage of qi refining, and 300 in the final stage of qi refining.

Wang Xian couldn't help but secretly speak, the early stage group of qi refining was simply a group of death, with an average of more than a hundred people choosing one person, and the spiritual root was generally low in cultivation, if you want to enter a top-level sect like the Seven Great Sects, you really have to shed your skin if you don't die. In the mid-stage group of qi refining, he chose one person out of more than ten people on average, but he only needed to play four or five games. At the end of Qi refining, the monks only need to play two or three games, and there are even fewer.

At this time, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, the sky had just brightened, and the presiding monk had begun to read out the number arrangement of the battle aloud, Wang first was the number 397 of the mid-stage group of Qi refining, and the first round of the match was drawn to the number 513, which was divided into the second batch of the field, and the field was in the twenty-third column of the eighteenth row of the box array.

There were more than 11,600 matches in the first round, and the first batch of 2,400 people played in half an hour, and there were only more than six hours of matches during the day, and the first round of the competition could be completed in one day.

Wang Xian silently watched the first batch of monks on the sidelines. I saw that the monks quickly jumped in front of the light curtain of the venue they were assigned to, took out the jade plaque and waved it on the light curtain, and the light curtain opened a crack and let the monks in, and immediately returned to its original state.

The adjudicators of each field have taken their swords in the air, standing above the hundred squares under their control, so that they can observe, adjudicate, and dispose of them in time.

Wang Xian, like other off-court monks in the same group, is also observing the matchups in this group, so that he can have a good idea when he faces them in the future. There are 358 people in this group, and the venues are connected together, but at the same time, they can't watch so many games, and everyone can only choose someone they know or are interested in to take a closer look.

Wang Xian glanced at each venue and found that everyone really went all out as soon as they came up, leaving no one behind. After all, everyone has been cultivating for so many years, and they are looking forward to this opportunity to leap into the dragon gate and become a disciple of the top sect.

The monks of the Seven Great Sects, when walking outside, even if the cultivation is low and the cultivation is high, it will make people feel extra scruples. Unless the monks outside can kill the monks of the Seven Great Sects without leaving a trace, no one generally dares to provoke.

I heard that some of the monks of the Seven Great Sects have reached a certain level of cultivation, and before they fall, there is a secret method to let the sect know who the enemy is, and many enemies have been chased and killed by the masters of the Seven Great Sects, and most of them cannot escape the end of the fall.