As a miracle among the outer disciples, Gu Xueqing finally lost the duel with Xu Yan, and this result did not seem to be unexpected, so all the disciples present accepted this fact very calmly. They didn't burst into cheers for this, nor did they congratulate Xu Yan on his victory, they all felt that this matter could only be taken for granted if it produced this result.

For a small number of people, Gu Xueqing's victory or loss in the process of 'eight into four' has long been unimportant, because her birth is the most important.

Gu Xueqing knew that she had lost, but now she only instinctively felt a little uncomfortable, but compared to the final result, she accepted it calmly.

She knew that even if she tried everything she could think of, she still couldn't suppress him even a little bit with her own cultivation, and in terms of swordsmanship, she only felt that she was beyond her reach, because the other party was like a great sword master who had gone through the practice of swinging the sword day after day and countless times, whether it was fighting against her sword moves, or just the latter made an incomparably simple defense against her, his sword speed was faster than hers, and it was also more accurate and in place.

Gu Xueqing exhaled a little melancholy, and then realized that she felt more like she had a sense of relief, it was like she had foreseen that this would be the result a long time ago, she had just waited for a long time for this, and now it was finally over completely.

She was amazed at the thought in her head at the moment, and then turned into anger and shame, but no matter what she thought, she had indeed lost the competition, and she was convinced.

But what she didn't know was that in fact, on some levels, she had won a victory that none of the participating disciples could get.

After the place in the top four was announced aloud by the linesman elder, Zhao Bailian turned his head to look at Song Yu beside him.

This is an extremely calm glance, but the feeling given to Song Yu is like an extremely straightforward and cold question, as if asking him, why does he obviously have such outstanding outer disciples under his sect, but he doesn't know about it at all;

This sudden, uneasy in his heart, made Song Yu's face slightly pale, and he glanced at Zhao Bailian with a panicked expression, only to find that the latter had already withdrawn his gaze from himself.

Song Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his mind gradually regained his composure, but the fear did not completely disappear from his spirit, and then he could not suppress a burst of anger in his heart, half of which was annoyed by his stupidity, and the other half was annoyed by those sinister people who were secretly carrying him behind his back, but secretly splitting the power in his hands.

He looked at Gu Xueqing, who had already sat back in the Chunzi Sect's viewing area, with a look of amazement on his face, for the first time he did not feel regret because of his disciple's 'defeat', at this moment, even if he was stupid, he had fully understood that the appearance of this Gu Xueqing was simply an extremely secret hint brought to him by Zhao Bailian, making him understand how bad his current situation was.

Or is it more of a silent warning to him?

Song Yu looked at the nine people gathered around Gu Xueqing again, and immediately found that if it weren't for this selection competition, he didn't even know anyone. Of course, this doesn't matter, the important thing is that with their strength, no matter which faction they are placed in, they are already enough to become a real inner disciple.

When Song Yu thought of this, the anger in his heart became even worse, and then a name came to mind in his mind. He gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart: "This damn Zhou Manting!"

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After successfully breaking through to the top four, the next round is the sixth round of competition, which is quite a difficult journey for the four people who have successfully come to the present, but none of them will complain about this, because the next two competitions will determine which three of the four of them can take the rich rewards given by the sect in turn.

Zhou Xian was the first to pull out the bamboo skewer from the bamboo tube, and then he tore the paper wrapped on it, revealing the words on the bamboo skewer, "Sixth round, first game!"

After the linesman recorded, immediately after, Chen Qinghe did not hesitate at all, and reached out and pulled out the second bamboo stick, but what was written on it was, "Sixth round, second game!"

Seeing this, Bai Bing turned his head to Xu Yan beside him and said with a smile: "Little junior brother, it seems that it is really not easy to fight with you!"

Then he reached out and drew a third bamboo stick, "Sixth round, first game!"

Seeing that it was this battle order, Zhou Xian, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but squint slightly, and then said coldly to Xu Yan: "You are really born to step on shit luck, but don't lose, otherwise I won't have a chance to teach you a lesson in the open." ”

With that, Zhou Xian had already turned around and left.

Since it has been determined that Zhou Xian will face Bai Bing, Chen Qinghe will naturally face Xu Yan, which is something that Chen Qinghe did not expect, so when they left their separation, he said to Xu Yan in a calm tone: "Little junior brother, it seems that people who want to meet you in the next round can't meet you." ”

Chen Qinghe was one of the few people in the Lotus Sect who could make a good impression on Xu Yan, so he quipped back: "Why, didn't Senior Brother think about drawing me? After all, compared to those two, my strength is much weaker. ”

When Chen Qinghe heard this, he shook his head with an extremely serious face, and said: "Little junior brother, you are too humble, in fact, senior brother knows that you have never gone all out along the way, but I hope that in our competition, I can let you go all out." ”

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When Xu Yan returned to Liuyun Courtyard, it was still early, after all, there were only four competitions today, so naturally he no longer needed to play a full day every day like before, and then, he returned to his room by himself, and began to recall Gu Xueqing's sword moves that he had fought against him today.

But then he shook his head secretly, and gave up his plan to practice the opponent's sword moves, because he found that the sword techniques used by the other party were not profound, and they should all be taken from the ordinary sword tricks in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.

Xu Yan knew very well that as an outer disciple, there were really not many opportunities for them to choose, even if they were successfully promoted to the inner disciples, if they could not be selected by the elders as their own personal disciples, and teach them to each other, then it would be difficult to have the opportunity to come into contact with the truly unfathomable sword technique, and a disciple like Li Ku, who had a family background in itself, was in the minority after all.

As soon as he thought of Li Ku, Xu Yan had to sigh, the other party's set of sword techniques from his own family was really a little extraordinary, so it was the last 'flying goose silent', if it weren't for his unparalleled combat experience and keen sense of life and death crisis, he might have been hit hard by the other party's sword at that time. But the blame is that the other party doesn't know at all, Xu Yan is not only a sword cultivation genius in the way of the sword, but also the ancestor of the way of martial arts, and if you really want to talk about Xu Yan's talent in the dual cultivation of sword and martial arts, which kind of talent is higher, then there is no doubt that his talent in the martial arts is much higher than his attainments in the way of the sword.

However, at that time, using the endurance of martial arts to exhaust Li Ku's strength was not Xu Yan's original intention of budgeting at the beginning, but as a last resort, after all, the other party's cultivation was too much higher than him, and even after Xu Yan's test today, he found that Li Ku's strength was even higher than that of Gu Xueqing.

Because Li Ku is the kind of person who is only half a foot away from breaking through to four floors.

But in the end, Xu Yan only sighed softly, and didn't want to think about anything about Li Ku, after all, the other party had been completely abolished by him.

The only thing he has to care about now is the battle between himself and Chen Qinghe tomorrow. He knew very well that if he wanted to get the reward that only came in the top two, Pei Yuandan, then he had to win the competition between him and Chen Qinghe.

One is known as the first person among the inner disciples, and the other is a sword cultivation genius that is rare in a hundred years.

Which is stronger and which is weaker?

Before the war, no one knew.