Master, you go first!

Gu Jiu understood that this girl was using her control skills as attack skills again. Just when he was filled with admiration, Li Yuzhu was surrounded and engulfed by the sea of ​​fire.

"Thorns." Shen Nian shook his hand again.

The wave of flames that engulfed Li Yuzhu turned into countless spiritual thorns, holding her upright in the air, unable to move. The attack from the sea of ​​fire had already left her scarred, and many of her clothes were burned. Now, she was erected by spiritual thorns. The countless spikes made her miserable, her clothes were even more tattered, and her body was covered with bruises. Blood stains, very embarrassing.

Shen Nian didn't want to continue and took back his spiritual skills. Li Yuzhu fell from a height of ten feet and collapsed to the ground, losing the strength to fight again.

"You shouldn't be cruel to Shuyi based on your cultivation." Shen Nian said coldly to her.

At this point, the competition is over.

The whole audience burst into applause. Shen Nian's performance was so impressive. The elders on the stage all showed approval. Except for Li Yuzhu's master Feng Hui, she had nothing to say. She was inferior in skills and heard that Shen Nian was so ruthless because of Tan Shuyi's anger. Her apprentice was at fault first.

The presiding elder came to the stage and announced that Shen Nian had won and the competition was over.

Xiaobai cheered. Gu Jiu turned her face to Xiaobai and said,

"Xiao Bai, let me show you something fun."

"Oh, what?"

"Keep an eye on it." After Gu Jiu finished speaking, he drew a talisman out of thin air and made a secret with his other hand. On the competition stage, a colored light circle lit up under Shen Nian's feet and expanded to several feet in size. Gu Jiu pushed the rune in the air and disappeared. As the rune disappeared, the large aperture under Shen Nian's feet rose vertically and a curtain of light shrouded it like a spotlight. Then the light curtain collapsed and turned into a sky full of The spiritual petal ribbon is very beautiful.

"Wow, senior brother, you are so awesome, so beautiful. Teach me, I want to learn this too." Xiaobai clapped his hands and jumped up.

"You can't learn if you don't know how to read. Remember that knowledge can change your destiny. Learn more from your master so that he can teach you more things in the future." Gu Jiu started to act like a chicken, scattering flowers with one hand and picking them up.

"Yeah, I will." Xiaobai nodded crazily, his eyes full of admiration.

In fact, this is just a small formation, or even a small trick that can be done with some special spiritual skills, but there are basically no monks in this world who are bored enough to study these flashy things. Gu Jiu, on the other hand, particularly liked these. He found the messy formations in the inner archives very interesting and would learn some of them when he had time. This would come in handy.

The light effect of petal ribbons instantly ignited the audience, and cheers came one after another. There has never been such a lively scene in a sect competition, and the elders on the high platform were extremely excited when they saw this scene.

Compared with the enthusiasm of the whole audience, Li Yuzhu was at the bottom of her heart at this moment. Although she was still in second place, she lost so badly that she was unwilling to accept it, but she couldn't beat it, so she could only endure it. No matter what, she would not ignore the competition rules and give up resource rewards just for the sake of one breath.

Shen Nian threw a pill to her. The top-grade pill was a healing pill specially refined for her by Xu Yuhong. It was a grade better than the one from the Zongmen Medicine Hall. Li Yuzhu caught the pill and drank it, and began to recover his physical and mental strength. It was impossible to say this politely, but he still had to recover quickly, and the reward resources would be distributed soon.

The presiding elder raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet. Then began the coveted announcement of rewards.

"The first place, the Heavenly Level Cultivation Technique.

Second place, a wood spirit crystal.

Third place, a bottle of high-grade spirit-gathering elixir.

Fourth place, fifth place, three thousand spiritual stones.

Sixth to tenth place, one thousand spiritual stones. "

Li Yuzhu looked disappointed when he heard that the second place was a wood spirit crystal. This is a relatively useless heavenly material and earthly treasure. Its grade is rated to be around the heavenly level. Because it is extremely difficult to refine, even ordinary weapon refiners cannot refine it. If used directly to absorb spiritual power, the effect is not as good as spiritual stones.

Gu Jiu's eyes lit up when he saw this thing. He had read books about heavenly materials and earthly treasures in ancient jade slips. Spiritual crystal-like heavenly materials and earthly treasures were extremely rare in the era of great cultivation of immortality. They were spiritual stones. Accompanying mineral veins. Not every mineral vein can be associated with spiritual crystals. The conditions are relatively harsh, probably because it takes a long time and the environment to be associated with them. Gu Jiu learned from ancient books that in the ancient era of great immortal cultivation, it was only about ten thousand years after the emergence of spiritual energy, so there should be very few spiritual crystals.

However, ancient books record methods for refining spiritual crystals. If you combine weapon refining methods with weapon refining methods, you can refine weapons with energy, just like the "Sword of Xing" that Lu Qian obtained in the secret realm. Gu Jiu suddenly understood that the spiritual stone-like thing on the sword turned out to be a spiritual crystal.

Thinking of this, Gu Jiu quickly pulled Xiaobai over.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai, come on, change into a little fox. Go over and tell the master if you can exchange for that spiritual crystal without any skills."

"Oh, okay senior brother."

Xiao Bai nodded in reply, and saw a burst of pink mist floating up, and a little white fox jumping up and down to find Shen Nian on the stage.

As for the skills, Gu Jiu was a bit scornful. To be honest, he didn't really think highly of the heaven-level skills now. And he knew that the technique might be a trap. After reading the book that Yin Deren dropped, it was no surprise that it was the technique to be rewarded on stage. This was not a good thing, and he only had ulterior motives.

Xiaobai jumped on Shen Nian's shoulder and whispered in her ear what Gu Jiu had just meant. Shen Nian nodded and petted Xiaobai's white fur. The people next to him didn't care when they saw it and thought it was her pet.

Li Yuzhu's eyes were hot when he saw the Heavenly Level Kung Fu, and he felt resentful in his heart. If it weren't for Shen Nian, this Kung Fu would be hers, and she could be stronger, damn it.

However, to her surprise, Shen Nian spoke at this time and said to Yin Deren, who was presenting awards to everyone as a distinguished guest of the Shangzong,

"Deacon Yin, can I take the Wood Spirit Crystal instead of the Kung Fu?"

Yin Deren was stunned. This was his mission. How could he let the chosen person not practice the exercises? He immediately refused,

"It's not allowed. Once it's been determined, you can't break the rules."

"Oh, okay." Shen Nian said helplessly.

On the side, Li Yuzhu was overjoyed when he heard that Shen Nian wanted the Wood Spirit Crystal but not the skills. He secretly came up with the idea that he could ask her to change it later, and maybe he could really get the heaven-level skills that she had been dreaming about. .

After awarding the awards, Yin Deren did not forget to tell Shen Nian to practice the heaven-level skills well, so that she would definitely have a place in the Southern Realm Competition three years later.

Shen Nian could only respond and said, "Okay, okay, okay."

Yin Deren nodded with satisfaction and praised Shen Nian for his extraordinary talent and that he would definitely accomplish something in the future.

Shen Nian responded helplessly, yes, yes.

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