He was about thirty years old, with a calm face and a simple gray robe.
"Bai Xin, please advise."
The man cupped his fists and saluted, his voice low and powerful.
"Bai Xin? The one who got a bye in the first game?"
Tian Kun's eyes lit up.
"It is said that he has been practicing abroad and rarely returns to the sect."
Liu Qingshan clenched his fists.
"Earth Palace Realm is even better than Dai Hongmao at its peak, maybe."
Bai Xin didn't waste any time and directly drew out a red spirit sword.
The moment the sword was unsheathed, the temperature of the entire competition ground seemed to rise a bit.
"Red Flame Sword Technique: Burning Heaven!"
Bai Xin's sword was as powerful as a rainbow, and the red sword energy intertwined into a fire net in the air, shrouding Ling Xiao.
Earth Palace Realm's peak pressure was completely released, and cultivators with lower cultivation levels on the sidelines retreated one after another.
"So strong!"
Liang Yu exclaimed.
"The power of this sword is already close to the Earth Palace Realm!"
Gu Sheng looked at Bai Xin's stance and silently closed his eyes.
He could already foresee the outcome.
Sure enough, facing the overwhelming fire net, Ling Xiao simply raised his right fist, and then - blasted out!
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, the fire net was easily torn apart.
Bai Xin didn't even have time to change his moves before he was hit in the chest by the aftermath of this punch.
The whole place was silent again.
"Concession."
Ling Xiao still looked calm and calm, as if he had just swatted away a fly.
Bai Xin climbed up with difficulty, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
He took a deep look at Ling Xiao and cupped his fists.
"Thanks for showing mercy."
Dai Hongmao stood on the sidelines, the wooden fan in his hand trembling slightly.
As the strongest player in the team second only to Bai Xin, he originally wanted to show off his skills in the assessment, but now...
"Do you want to come again?"
Liu Qingshan asked in a low voice.
Dai Hongmao Take a deep breath.
"Go! Even if you lose, you must lose beautifully!"
He jumped onto the ring and unfolded the wooden fan with a swish.
"Ling Xiao Fellow Daoist, please enlighten me!"
"It's Thousand Leaf Flying Flowers who caught senior brother!"
Some disciples recognized this trick.
Dai Hongmao injected all his spiritual power into the wooden fan, and the fan instantly expanded to a size of three feet. Countless blade-shaped spiritual blades roared out and shot towards Ling Xiao overwhelmingly.
Ling Xiao put his hands behind his back and shuttled between the leaves, but none of them could touch the corner of his clothes.
"The speed is good."
Ling Xiao commented.
"What a pity."
He suddenly stopped and tapped the void with his right index finger.
"Crack!"
There was a crisp sound, and all the blades exploded at the same time. Dai Hongmao flew backwards with his fan, and fell heavily on the edge of the ring.
"I surrender"
Dai Hongmao said bitterly, struggling to get up and salute.
Ling Xiao wins three games in a row!
According to the rules, this means that Gu Sheng's team has three more places, and the top six can all enter Qinghe Holy Land!
"Great!"
Liang Yu jumped excitedly.
"We can all enter the Holy Land!"
"Senior brother Ling Xiao is too strong!"
Other disciples also cheered and looked at Ling Xiao with admiration in their eyes.
Even those lower-ranked cultivators couldn't help but cheer for Ling Xiao.
In this world where the strong are respected, strength is the best pass.
Gu Sheng quietly retreated to the edge of the crowd, his eyes inadvertently scanning the Holy Land disciples high up.
Wang Chenyu was lowering his head and whispering to a few people around him, with a cold smile on his face.
"Something's wrong." Gu Sheng's heart trembled.
"What are these Holy Land disciples planning?"
He decided to be more low-key in the upcoming chaos and let Ling Xiao attract everyone's attention.
In Qinghe Holy Land's competition arena, Ling Xiao stood with his hands behind his back, his robes windless and automatic.
His eyes were like lightning, and he scanned the people in the audience with a smile on his lips.
"Who else?"
Ling Xiao The sound is not loud, but it reaches everyone's ears clearly.
The cultivators in the audience looked at each other, no one dared to respond.
Just now, four people came on stage to challenge one after another, but without exception, they were knocked off the stage by Ling Xiao.
The overwhelming momentum was like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, and no one could stop it.
"I'll do it!"
A burly man jumped onto the ring, it was the slightly famous Body Cultivator master Zhao Tieshan.
Ling Xiao didn't even raise his eyelids.
"Please."
Zhao Tieshan roared angrily, his whole body glowed with bronze luster, and his fists hit Ling Xiao's face like a hammer.
This blow contained so much power that even the air exploded.
"Too slow."
Ling Xiao sighed softly, and in a flash, he was behind Zhao Tieshan, and slapped him on the back of the heart with a light palm.
"Bang!"
Zhao Tieshan flew out of the ring and hit the ground hard, stirring up a cloud of dust.
The audience was completely silent.
"The fifth one."
Ling Xiao counted the numbers lightly and turned to the only two people left in the audience - Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan.
These two people looked extremely ugly.
They were originally the favorites for this selection, but at this moment they were having difficulty breathing under the pressure of Ling Xiao.
Tian Kun gritted his teeth.
"That's all, I'll come first!"
He jumped onto the ring, with a long gleaming knife in his hand.
The blade of the sword trembled, emitting a Qingyue dragon roar.
"Tian Family Wave-Breaking Saber, please enlighten me!"
Tian Kun said in a deep voice, the spiritual power all over his body was surging, and it was obvious that he had used his full strength.
Ling Xiao finally looked at him and nodded.
"Finally a decent one."
Before he finished speaking, Tian Kun had turned into an afterimage, and the sword struck Ling Xiao's neck like a sword.
This knife was as fast as lightning, and everyone in the audience felt their eyes blurred. The blade had reached three inches from Ling Xiao's throat.
"Qiang!"
The sound of gold and iron clashing echoed throughout the audience.
Ling Xiao used only two fingers to clamp the powerful knife without moving at all.
Tian Kun's pupils shrank suddenly, and before he could change his move, he received a seemingly light slap on the chest.
"Pfft——"
Tian Kun spurted out a mouthful of blood, flew backwards, and fell heavily on the edge of the ring.
"One move."
Ling Xiao retracted his palm and shook his head.
"Next one."
Liu Qingshan's face turned pale, but he had no choice but to fire the arrow.
When he jumped onto the ring, he already had a pair of short black halberds in his hands.
"Liu Family Twin Flood Dragon Halberds, please——"
"No need to register a number."
Ling Xiao interrupted him.
"It's all the same."
Liu Qingshan was furious, his two halberds crossed and made a cross, and his spiritual power surged like a tide.
This blow contained his lifelong skill, and even the ground of the arena was blown by the halberd wind to create cracks.
Ling Xiao finally moved.
He clenched his right fist tightly and punched out with a simple straight punch.
"Boom!"
The fists and halberds collided, and air waves exploded.
Liu Qingshan felt an irresistible force coming from his hands. The two halberds flew out of his hands, and his whole body was shot backwards, hitting the protective formation at the edge of the ring and sliding down.
"The sixth one."
Ling Xiao flicked his wrist, turned around and was about to leave the stage.
"Wait!"
The assessor suddenly spoke out. He was an old man with white hair and beard, with a complicated look in his eyes. "
Ling Xiao, you have won six games in a row, and according to the rules, you can take away six places. But"
He looked at Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan who were collapsed on the ground, with pity in his eyes.
"How about giving them a chance?"
Ling Xiao paused in his steps, turned back and raised his eyebrows.
"Oh?"
The examiner coughed lightly.
"I decided to change the rules temporarily. The last spot will be determined by the duel between Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan. Can you make it happen?"
There was an uproar in the audience.
Those monks who had been eliminated were even more ashen-faced, especially those in the top three rankings such as Jiang Dashan, whose fists clenched loudly.
Bai Xin smiled bitterly and murmured to himself.
"I'm twenty-nine and I'll be too old if I wait three years."
He looked at the ring with unwillingness in his eyes.
Ling Xiao looked at the examiner's serious expression, then glanced at the people in the audience, and suddenly smiled.
"Forget it, just give the Holy Land some face."
He jumped off the ring gracefully and walked towards Gu Sheng, who had been waiting for a long time.
"It's a pity. I wanted to cover all the places."
Ling Xiao said via voice transmission, with a hint of regret in his tone.
Gu Sheng grinned and patted him on the shoulder.
"You kid, don't be too arrogant. Be careful if you enter a holy place and someone wears your shoes."
"What are you afraid of?"
Ling Xiao doesn't take it seriously.
"Let's just try to get some training resources first."
The two looked at each other and smiled, causing several nearby Holy Land disciples to look sideways.
One of them whispered.
"Senior Brother Wang, if this Ling Xiao really gets started, I'm afraid he will do it in the future."
The young man known as Senior Brother Wang had a handsome face and smiled mysteriously when he heard this.
"I have my own arrangements."
He looked deeply towards the ring, where Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan had stood up again and faced each other.
"Thank you, Mr. Examiner, for making it possible!"
Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan saluted the old man together, with the fire of hope rekindled in their eyes.
The examiner nodded.
"Let's get started."
Tian Kun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and held the long knife horizontally.
"Liu Qingshan, only one of you and I can go down today!"
"Just what I wanted!"
Liu Qingshan picked up the two halberds, with fighting spirit in his eyes.
The two of them burst into flames at the same time, and the light and shadow of swords and halberds instantly intertwined.
Unlike Ling Xiao's one-sided battle, this battle became intense from the very beginning.
"Clang clang clang!"
The sound of gold and iron clashing was like a torrential downpour. Tian Kun The sword skills are great, and every sword has the potential to split the mountain Mountain Breaker.
Liu Qingshan's double halberds are like dragons going out to sea, capable of both offense and defense. In the blink of an eye, ten moves had passed, and both of them had a few wounds on their bodies, but they became more and more courageous as they fought.
"Happy!"
Tian Kun laughed, the sword's power suddenly changed, from hard to soft, and the blade wrapped around Liu Qingshan's double halberds like flowing water.
Liu Qingshan was caught off guard, his right halberd was deflected by the force of the sword, and his chest was exposed.
Tian Kun seized the opportunity, gathered all his spiritual power with his left fist, and struck the opponent's abdomen hard.
"Bang!"
Amidst the dull impact, Liu Qingshan spat out a mouthful of blood, staggered back a few steps, but gritted his teeth to steady his body, and crossed his halberds in front of his chest to protect him.
"It's not over yet!"
He roared angrily, and the two halberds suddenly flew out from his hands and flew straight towards Tian Kun.
Tian Kun was shocked and hurriedly blocked with his sword.
There were two "dang-dang" sounds, and the halberd blade flew past his cheek, leaving two traces of blood.
Before he could take a breath, Liu Qingshan was already rubbing his body, fists and feet coming down.
"These two people"
Liang Yu, who was watching the game in the audience, came close to Gu Sheng.
"Who do you think will win?"
Gu Sheng touched his chin.
"Let's open it five to five and see who can't hold on first."
In the ring, Tian Kun and Liu Qingshan were at the end of their strength, but neither of them wanted to admit defeat.
Strong winds stirred up sand and dust, and thousands of rounds of fierce fighting left the entire site full of cracks.
Tian Kun's fists were condensed with light cyan aura, and the corner of his mouth evoked a sneer that showed he was sure of victory.
"Liu Qingshan, your journey ends here!"
Tian Kun shouted loudly, his body was like lightning, and he rushed straight into his opponent's open abdomen.
Liu Qingshan staggered back, with a look of panic on his face, but from an angle that Tian Kun couldn't see, there was a cold light in his eyes.
His muscles bulged slightly under the worn clothes, and his skin glowed an abnormal dark golden color.
"Bang——!"
The muffled sound of fists hitting each other shook the whole place, followed by a deafening explosion.
Smoke and dust rose into the sky, covering the entire arena.
In the spectator seats, Liang Yu and others had already stood up and were ready to cheer.
"Liu Qingshan is finished!"
Liang Yu patted the railing excitedly.
"Tian Kun This punch is enough to break Xuan Tie!"
Gu Sheng was still sitting in his original position, tapping his fingers on the armrest.
"Not necessarily."
"What's wrong?"
Liang Yu turned around and stared.
"Gu Sheng, don't you think Liu Qingshan can still——"
Before he finished speaking, a blood arrow suddenly spurted out from the smoke, followed by a heavy impact.
The strong wind suddenly rose, blowing away the thick fog, revealing a scene that stunned everyone——
Tian Kun fell on his back on the edge of the ring, his chest was sunken, and blood continued to flow from the corners of his mouth.
Although Liu Qingshan's clothes were torn and his body was covered with injuries, he stood firmly, with heart-stopping physical fluctuations exuding from his body.
"This is impossible!"
Liang Yu exclaimed.
Liu Qingshan slowly walked down the ring, each step leaving shallow footprints on the bluestone ground.
When passing by Gu Sheng, he nodded slightly, with a tacit smile on his lips.
"Gu Sheng has seen it a long time ago?"
Liang Yu asked in disbelief.
Gu Sheng has deep eyes.
"The muscle texture of a body practitioner is different from that of ordinary people. Liu Qingshan deliberately showed weakness, causing Tian Kun to attack his abdomen with all his strength - that is the hardest part of his training."
There was an uproar in the spectator seats.
Those disciples who were originally grateful that they had easily obtained a spot now looked at Liu Qingshan with awe in their eyes.
"It's hidden deep enough."
Someone sighed in a low voice.
At this time, a round figure squeezed over, it was Wang Yun who was ranked eighth.
He approached Ling Xiao with a smile on his face.
"Senior Brother Ling, thanks to your guidance, I was lucky enough to get a spot! I will definitely work hard from now on!"
Ling Xiao patted Wang Yun with satisfaction, enjoying the envious looks from around him.
Just when the atmosphere calmed down a bit, the examiner stepped onto the stage with a loud voice.
"The second wheel battle of the third round is officially over! This year Qinghe Holy Land is recruiting disciples to compete here——"
"Wait!"
A cold shout interrupted the announcement.
The crowd parted automatically, and a young man wearing the uniform of a Qinghe Holy Land disciple strode forward with jade pendants jingling around his waist.
Ling Xiao As soon as he saw this person, his face suddenly changed and his fists clenched unconsciously.
"Wang Chenyu!"
Ling Xiao gritted his teeth.
Wang Chenyu didn't even look at Ling Xiao. He walked straight to the examiner and saluted with clasped fists.
"Uncle Master, this year's competition is too childish. Especially in the second round of formation assessment, some people obviously cheated, but no one was held accountable."
The examiner frowned.
"Chen Yu, what do you mean by this?"
Wang Chenyu turned around and pointed his finger directly at Gu Sheng.
"This person's formation skills are mediocre, but he won first place in the second round. In the third round, he avoided the important and never showed his true strength! I suspect he used some kind of cheating method!"
The whole place was in an uproar.
Gu Sheng's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes gradually became colder.
"You are so slanderous!"
Liang Yu jumped out first.
"Gu Sheng's strength is obvious to all!"
Wang Chenyu sneered.