Chapter 321 Black Gold Gilded Knife
In the second round of the game, Su Ziyi watched every game.
Being able to enter the second round shows that the practitioner's methods and strength are still good. And because the second round of competition was more intense than the first round, the practitioners who originally had reservations no longer cared about it at the moment, and used their skills to press the bottom of the box one by one, feasting the eyes of the onlookers.
However, seeing this in Su Ziyi's eyes, she couldn't help but frown.
As early as the first round of primaries, he discovered that although everyone was working hard, there was still something missing compared to the one between him and Guo Xie. Everyone had reservations, so they kept testing during the competition, prolonging the time of the competition. After each other figured out the other's tricks, it would be a matter of who was quick and cruel.
Therefore, in the preliminary round, you can see at most 80% of the strength of the participating cultivators.
But now, with everyone except Ou Wang trying their best, Su Ziyi watched all nine games and found that most of them were not as strong as Guo Xie. Most of those who succeeded were disciples of the Xuan Cang Sect, and after winning the second round of the competition, these Xuan Cang Sect disciples looked a little embarrassed, but their expressions were as usual, and they obviously did not encounter any big problems.
Su Ziyi mentally compared the list of people participating in this competition, and found that, except for Guo Xie, none of the other disciples from Xuan Cang Sect were eliminated.
This is very telling.
The territory of Dai State is not small, so there are also a lot of cultivator forces. If you count them carefully, there are as many as seventeen who can be named. And in this cultivation competition, all seventeen forces have their factions. People. There are also some unknown small forces participating. Although they do not expect to get a ranking, they still want to use this competition to get into the eyes of other forces.
In the first round, all the cultivators from these small forces were eliminated. Except for a few lucky ones among the seventeen forces, the ones at the bottom were basically eliminated. Now in the second round, the kind of luck that purely depends on luck is no longer feasible, and all the major sects headed by Xuan Cang Sect practitioners have been eliminated.
Therefore, at the end of the second round, among the ten practitioners who qualified to enter the third round, four seats were occupied by the Xuan Cang Sect, two from the Qi Bao Pavilion, one from the Royal Family, one from the Yizhou Army, and one from the Nanming Sect. One, and finally Su Ziyi who had a bye. These forces are well-known in the entire Dai Kingdom, so after the competition list came out, Su Ziyi felt that everyone's eyes on him were a lot more complicated.
Maybe everyone is thinking that if Su Ziyi hadn't been lucky enough to get a bye, he might be the one sitting in this position now.
Su Ziyi didn't care at all what others thought. He pretended that nothing was wrong. After the game, he went to the small hall to participate in the third round of drawings, and this time he drew Zeng Ming from Nanming Sect. The strength in the early stage of foundation building is about thirty years older than him, so he has two swords in one hand. The aura on his body is not strong, and it is obvious that he is still a long way from the middle stage of foundation building.
It is worth mentioning that in this lottery, the cultivators of the Qibao Pavilion were drawn to the Qibao Pavilion, and the cultivators of the Xuan Cang Sect were drawn to the Xuan Cang Sect.
As soon as the results came out, Duan Muyu, the member of the royal family, could no longer hold back the smile on his face. The hands hidden in his sleeves clenched tightly into fists. It was obvious that it had taken him a long time to restrain his emotions. Great strength. However, this is normal. After all, who told him to be unlucky enough to draw Ou Wang?
But after all, he was from the royal family. After struggling with his heart for a moment, the expression on his face returned to its previous appearance, and he even smiled at Ou Wang when Ou Wang looked over.
Just for this aspect of him, Su Ziyi admired him a little.
Compared with Duanmuyu, those who had played against Ou Wang before were really far behind.
Cang Ming, who was in the early stage of foundation building in the Yizhou Army, seemed to have a natural lack of expression on his face. After learning that his opponent was from the Xuan Cang Sect, he only raised his eyelids for a glance and then immediately withdrew his gaze. If it weren't for him, The aura around him was too condensed, and it might make people think that he didn't take his opponent to heart.
Therefore, among the several forces present, only Qibao Pavilion was really relieved.
Although they were competing against their peers, no matter what, if they made it to the top five, they could go back and give an explanation to their superiors. Their Weapon Pavilion's influence is spread throughout the entire Dai Kingdom, so they know a lot more than the average cultivator, so they naturally know that their chances of winning against these members of the Xuan Cang Sect are very slim.
It’s enough to compare with the above and the lack of it than with the below.
The two foundation-building practitioners thought like this.
After Zeng Ming of Nanmingzong heard that he had won Su Ziyi, his face was stunned for a moment, and then there was a burst of obvious joy in his eyes. He obviously felt that he was lucky. This joy came and went quickly, but Su Ziyi, who happened to turn his head and looked over, was still caught in the eye, and his heart was filled with excitement.
It seems that I have been underestimated.
That day, Su Ziyi was seriously injured in the battle with Guo Xie, but he had a bye in the second round and he had enough pills in his hand, so he had already adjusted his physical condition. And because he gained new insights from the competition with Guo Xie, he will only be more difficult than before.
After announcing the list, the old man rolled up the list, stuffed it into his sleeves, and then said to everyone: "With that said, the third round of the Foundation Building Competition will begin tomorrow, and the two who draw the number 1 will You can start preparing now." Compared with the second round, the third round gave everyone a longer test time, so only number one was mentioned.
But as soon as the old man finished speaking, the face of Zeng Ming, who was drawn into a group with Su Ziyi, changed.
There was no other reason, because it was he and Su Ziyi who drew number one.
Although he has not finished today's game, the injury left in him from yesterday's game has not completely healed yet. So when he thought that he would go into battle with an injury early tomorrow morning, he could not help but feel a little nervous. He immediately couldn't help but frowned and asked, "Why don't you rest for a few days?" Two consecutive rounds of competition caused discomfort to everyone. It was a small impact that would take time to heal, so he felt it was reasonable for him to voice out the issue.
The people of Xuan Cang Sect have obviously thought about this problem a long time ago. Therefore, even if the old man was only in his Qi refining period, when he was questioned like this by a foundation-building cultivator, his expression was not flustered, and he still said calmly in his long tone: "Return to this senior, this charter It has been decided from the beginning." The hidden meaning behind his words was that the rules had already been set, and it was not something he could say.
And after he said this, his eyes vaguely passed over the others, clearly saying that the others were the same. They just finished the second round of the competition, and they were all the same. Why don't others have this problem? It's just your business. many?
Zeng Ming, who noticed this, was immediately so angry that his breath froze.
However, compared to Xuan Cang Sect, their Nan Ming Sect was still too weak, so no matter how much resentment he had in his heart, he had to hold it back. In the end, he actually glared at Su Ziyi, obviously directing all his anger on Su Ziyi, who had a bye in the competition.
Su Ziyi blinked, feeling very innocent.
But no matter what Zeng Ming thought, the first game of the third round went on as scheduled the next day.
I don't know what happened last night. After Zeng Ming stood on the ring today, Su Ziyi found that the panic in the opponent's eyes had completely disappeared, replaced by a kind of confidence, which immediately made Su Ziyi wary, especially when the opponent did not call out his own destiny Instead of using the magic weapon, he took out another pair of double knives from the storage bag.
This pair of swords is completely black, but when the human eye looks at it, some gold can be faintly seen in it.
Su Ziyi knew very little about weapon refining, so this glance could not infer what materials the two swords were made of, but it was enough for him to judge that the two swords were of a high grade, higher than Zeng's. Ming's natal magic weapon is even higher.
So, is it because of these two swords that the opponent has become so swollen?
Zeng Ming's change of knife also fell into the eyes of people above the stands, especially those sitting in the box. There were many well-informed practitioners who could sit in the box, so as soon as he showed the things, he had already guessed the source of the things.
"Huang Li is really willing to give up." Sitting in the box, Xia Zheng sneered coldly. At this moment, there are not many people in their box, but there are a few more than last time. If Su Ziyi were here at this time, he would find that Guo Xie, who had fought with him before, was also here at this time, carrying a Teacup said calmly: "After all, Zeng Ming is his only apprentice."
Xia Zheng snorted coldly, obviously he didn't like Zeng Ming or Huang Li.
"It's just that Huang Li's black gold gilded sword is indeed extraordinary." At this time, Zhu Lian on the side took over the conversation. He turned to Guo Xie and asked: "If it were you, how would you face Zeng who used a black gold gilded sword? Ming, how sure are you?" Although he was smiling when he spoke, his tone was very serious.
After hearing what he said, Guo Xie couldn't help but put down his teacup, clasped his hands and began to think. After a while, he shook his head and said: "In terms of strength, I don't think Zeng Ming can match me, but if the other party has I don't think my chance of winning the black gold gilded sword will exceed 60%." Sixty percent is already his ideal result.
"Really?" Zhu Lian said lightly, seeming to be asking Guo Xie rhetorically, and also seemed to be stating something that had nothing to do with him, but when he was talking, his eyes fell on Su Ziyi, and his eyes darkened.
I don’t know, how will you deal with it?
Chapter 322 Black Smoke
The black gold gilded sword was extraordinary, and Su Ziyi could naturally feel it.
However, the competition had already begun as soon as the opponent took out the black gold sword, so he didn't even have time to think about it and raised his sword to block Zeng Ming's frontal move.
Zeng Ming regained his confidence and his mind was much clearer. After this move was blocked by Su Ziyi, he immediately retreated.
After he retreated, the figure captured in Su Ziyi's consciousness became somewhat illusory. Su Ziyi looked stern, knowing that this was when the other party started to use his own technique.
Nanming Sect is a little different from the sects nearby. Because of their different mental training methods, they have a magical ability that can blur their sense of existence with the help of surrounding spiritual power. Although they are not like assassins who can completely hide their bodies, they can still blur their bodies by relying on their footwork. Their physical existence gives the enemy some headaches.
Su Ziyi had observed before that Nan Mingzong's footwork was no worse than his Zhiyi Sword Jue's footwork.
Therefore, after several shadows appeared in his consciousness, Su Ziyi became fully alert.
Suddenly, Su Ziyi felt the hairs on his back stand up. Without thinking, he turned around and swung his sword backwards, just in time to collide with the two swords coming from behind. Zeng Ming seemed to have considered this situation for a long time. With a strong effort, his two swords pressed Su Ziyi's long sword down at a tricky angle. The blades of the two swords were almost close to Su Ziyi's face.
Su Ziyi's breath was stagnant, and he wanted to use his spiritual power on the long sword to push out the two knives. However, the moment he attached his spiritual power to the long sword, suddenly the spiritual power in his entire body and the long sword were suppressed. Bao's spiritual power stopped for a moment! Although it was running freely in the next second, it was enough for Zeng Ming to take the opportunity to press down the two swords, and with the help of the spiritual power on the two swords, he scratched several blood marks on Su Ziyi's face.
Suddenly, Su Ziyi's face was covered with blood, looking extremely terrifying.
The moment Su Ziyi recovered, he pushed the person out with a swipe of his long sword. As soon as Zeng Ming succeeded, he didn't want to get too entangled. He raised the corners of his mouth in a proud manner, and with the force of Su Ziyi's swing, he once again disappeared into the surrounding area.
At this moment, Su Ziyi was in a terrible mood.
Although the scars were not deep and only scratched on his cheeks, which did not affect his sight, Su Ziyi became a little angry when he thought of the other party's arrogant behavior. But after all, he knew that this was not the time to let his emotions take over. After taking a few deep breaths, his breath returned to normal.
In the stands, everyone's reactions were also different.
Bian Qing and Su Yulang jumped up the moment Su Ziyi was injured. Xia Zheng, who was in the box above, clicked his tongue: "The power of this black gold gilded sword has not been fully used yet. Su Ziyi is probably going to lose." Zhu Lian next to him glanced at him and did not answer. , but the smile on his face is gone.
After Zeng Ming became virtual, he did not plan to take the opportunity to make another big move. Instead, he used the sect's magic to continuously attack Su Ziyi from all angles, just like he had done in the previous two games. And because of the ability of the black gold gilded knife in his hand, he succeeded several times, leaving a lot of bloody wounds on Su Ziyi's body.
At this moment, no matter how slow Su Ziyi was, he could tell that there was something special about the black gold gilt sword.
This should be the ability of the black gold gilded sword itself. However, this is enough to show that the black gold gilded sword is of high grade. At the very least, it is a magic weapon. Otherwise, it would be impossible to suppress him in such a comprehensive way. . In front of the black gold sword, the long sword in his hand was like a piece of iron. Although he could barely resist the opponent, that was because the opponent's own strength was not very high.
Thinking about it this way, I'm afraid it won't work to deal with Zeng Ming in the same way as before.
The ability of the Black Gold Gilded Knife is based on spiritual power, and the condition for activating its ability is that the magic weapon connected to it must have spiritual power attached to it from the same lineage as the cultivator. If the practitioner does not attach spiritual power to the magic weapon, On the other hand, this ability will not be activated just by fighting the magic weapon itself against the black gold sword.
But during the competition, how could the cultivator not attach spiritual power to the magic weapon?
Not to mention that only after the spiritual power is integrated into the magic weapon can the power of the magic weapon be better exerted. But as far as the magic weapon level is concerned, if Su Ziyi didn't use spiritual power to attach to the long sword, the long sword in his hand would have been broken into pieces. Therefore, using spiritual power to injure oneself, but not using spiritual power to completely destroy one's body, neither of these results is what people want to see.
But fortunately, Su Ziyi had no such worries.
The long sword in his hand is not his natal magic weapon. It will break if it breaks. There are four or five of the same treasure in his storage bag. So after he saw through the ability of the black gold gilded sword, he really only used the long sword to compete with the opponent, but every move and every move he made contained the sword intention of Zhiyi Sword Art, that sharp sword Although the sword energy could not break the black gold sword, it also caused a lot of trouble for Zeng Ming, stabbing the man's hand until blood dripped.
"Crack-"
After another long sword was scrapped, Su Ziyi decisively took the sword into the air. Before the opponent could catch up, he took out another identical long sword from the storage bag. And because of the elixir, his injuries healed faster than Zeng Ming's, and his spiritual power recovered faster than Zeng Ming's, so the further he hit him, the more he jumped out of his previous restrictions.
However, their competition was quite boring in the eyes of others.
If Zeng Ming relies on his black gold gilded sword to show off his fierceness and bravery, then Su Ziyi relies on being an alchemist to be confident.
After seeing that Su Ziyi had taken another pill and the wounds on his body immediately formed scabs, Guo Xie, who was sitting in the box, couldn't help but said, "Is this fellow Taoist Su an alchemist or something? Why are his hands like this?" Lots of pills." His words attracted the attention of Xia Zheng and Zhu Lian, but they ignored him, glanced at him, and then returned to the ring.
On the contrary, Chen Qiuci, who had been afraid to speak because the atmosphere was too serious, now made a small noise: "Senior Su is indeed an alchemist, and his rank is not low." When he said this, he looked towards His senior brother Cui Yu glanced over, and Guo Xie followed him. The gazes of the two made Cui Yu cough uncomfortably and said, "Senior Su is already a fifth-grade yellow-level alchemist." "
Hiss— -" Suddenly, Guo Xie gasped, turned his head to look at Su Ziyi in disbelief, and murmured: "But he looks much younger than me..." Chen
Qiu Ci didn't know whether he was too careless or because he didn't pay attention, but another sentence directly hit Guo Xie's heart: "Furthermore, the elixir refined by Senior Su looks very good, better than those refined by ordinary alchemists." He said. After saying that, he also sent an echoing invitation to Cui Yu: "Brother, you have taken Senior Su's elixirs so many times, so you must have noticed it a long time ago." Cui Yu is not
a heartless Xie was shocked when he saw it, but Chen Qiuci was like a child, pestering him to give the answer, so he could only nod hastily: "Indeed." He recalled the pill Su Ziyi gave him Medicines are basically either middle-grade or top-grade, and there are even top-grade elixirs. Except for a few exceptions, there is no trace of low-grade pills at all.
If Su Ziyi hadn't processed the low-grade elixir separately, the refining efficiency would have been quite terrifying.
Guo Xie was so shocked by the words of Cui Yu and Chen Qiuci that he could not recover for a long time. When he came to his senses, his eyes when he looked at Su Ziyi became more and more complicated.
This person is really unlucky.
Zeng Ming, on the other hand, was also stunned by Su Ziyi's "big move" after Su Ziyi took out pills several times to stabilize the situation. But then he became anxious, especially when the competition lasted longer and longer, and the spiritual power in his body dropped by nearly half, while Su Ziyi always seemed to have not consumed much, this feeling of anxiety became more and more intense. It's becoming more and more obvious.
From this, when he stood on the ring and saw Su Ziyi controlling the sword in mid-air, his eyes couldn't help but change, and he poured all the spiritual power in his body into the black gold sword with a hint of burning the boat. .
This was the first time in this competition that Su Ziyi saw Zeng Ming pouring spiritual power into the black gold sword.
He immediately became extremely vigilant. He didn't intend to give Zeng Ming a chance to fully exert himself. He rushed down with his sword, and the "Spreading without Trace" was performed from his sword at the same time. Suddenly, there was a burst of shattering sounds from the entire arena. Faced with such a domineering Saru Wuhen, Zeng Ming did not raise his hands to resist, but still used his two swords to dodge. Even though half of his body was severely injured by Su Ziyi's blow, the movements of his hands did not stop.
No matter what, he must be in the top five this time.
With one move, the spiritual power in Su Ziyi's body dropped without a trace. Although it caused Zeng Ming a lot of problems, it still could not stop his actions. Su Ziyi wanted to use "Spread without Trace" again, but Zeng Ming was already ready. He roared in his throat, and a burst of black shadows suddenly erupted from the black gold gilded knife, rushing towards Su Ziyi with overwhelming force. Come on, wrap up Su Ziyi in one go.
The black shadow was so fast that Su Ziyi only had time to move before he was swallowed up by it.
It was only after being swallowed that Su Ziyi discovered that the black shadow was actually a ball of black smoke, but the black smoke was as weird as the black gold sword itself. Su Ziyi just stayed inside, and the spiritual power in his body continued to escape. , engulfed by black smoke. And after swallowing the spiritual power, the black smoke itself began to change. The soft mass became sharp, like a sharp needle and a blade.
Now, Su Ziyi knew that things were completely out of control.