Cultivate with an African God
Chapter 19 Getting Started (7)
Mu Xinghe heard the other party's name and instinctively began to think about how to deal with it. He thought of dozens of ways, but none of them made him very sure.
That person's realm should be the highest among those who participated in the competition, because Mu Xinghe couldn't see his cultivation base and internal energy anyway, and could only guess that he was a whole realm higher than himself.
In this world, the next stage of the qi training period is called the pulse condensing stage. After the spiritual energy of the sky and the earth can naturally blend with the true qi in the body, one can try to break through to the pulse condensing stage.Practitioners in the pulse condensing stage have already gained a deeper understanding of spells and true qi, so they no longer need to borrow foreign objects to use learned spells, and can use them as easily as innate spells.During the Qi training period, although practitioners can already use some low-level spiritual weapons, they need auxiliary means to avoid being backlashed by them, and they can already use them freely in the Pulse Condensation period.
Not only that, but the strength of the same spell used in different realms is very different. For example, Xiao Qingfeng Jue, he used it to attack Liu Ping. For your own use, this is the gap in realm.
Mu Xinghe was thinking, would his scheming be as ridiculous in front of that person as a child playing scheming in front of adults?
Mu Xinghe rarely felt his heart beating faster.
This is tension, but also excitement.
The will to fight boiled in his blood.
Mu Xinghe's heart was still pounding, but the plan had been made, so he stopped thinking about it and focused on watching the competition.
The fourth round of the competition was more dangerous than the previous round. There were very few instant kills. Almost every match was a competition of scheming and true energy. No one had used Xiao Qingfeng for a long time. Tricks and tricks.There is not much difference in strength, everyone is carefully looking for flaws and waiting for opportunities.It's just that it's also very regrettable that an aggressive player like Li Han was eliminated in the last round. If he was there, how hearty would the scene be when facing these people?
But Li Han was out after all.
Some people think that he is really unlucky, and he just met the hardest bone. If he meets other new outer disciples, he should be able to win easily.
For example, when I met this Ren Jing who was about to compete.
Ren Jing's cultivation is really weak, and his tactical methods are also very simple. He won the next two rounds of the competition not easily, and it was very difficult to squeeze into the fourth round.
Ren Jing stood on the Yujing Terrace, facing him was a young man who was also dressed in splendid clothes. He had a pair of peach blossom eyes and smiled at him: "Brother Ren Xian, it is a coincidence that we met here, please enlighten me."
This person is Ren Jing's old acquaintance, Gongsun Twelve.Gongsun's family and Ren's family are both families with some status in the Yunfu Sect. Gongsun Twelve's father is the Jindan Grandmaster of the Yunfu Sect, and so is his uncle.Therefore, although the two of them could not say that their friendship was very good, they still knew each other after all.It is said that this Gongsun Twelve was a few years earlier than him, and he spent his life as a domineering, this year, after being severely scolded by his mother, he finally cultivated well.
Although this person is not doing a proper job, but with years of accumulation and his family background, he can always surpass many outer disciples who have explored by himself, so he has also entered the final round.
I didn't expect to run into Ren Jing.
This is very interesting, these two people are the children of the family, who didn't give enough benefits and didn't dredge the relationship?
Some people laughed off the field.
I don't know if it was because Ren Jing heard these whispers, his face turned cold again, and he said to Gongsun Twelve stiffly: "Please enlighten me."
Gongsun Twelve still smiled, cupped his hands and said: "Young man, please do it first——I'm afraid that if I do, Uncle Ren will beat me."
Ren Jing didn't evade any more, simply summoned a five-day thunder sound formula, and went straight to Gongsun Twelve Faces.
As soon as the twelve Gongsun retreated, a talisman was thrown out, and a layer of golden light shield isolated the Five-day Thunder Sound Art, and then collapsed together.
In fact, Gongsun Twelve did not lose any advantage by letting Ren Jing take the first shot. After all, anyone with eyes can see that Ren Jing only knows the five-day Leiyin Jue and the Xiaoqingfeng Jue. So what about his innate skills?
It was nothing to the well-prepared Gongsun Twelve.
He gave up the initiative once, and it was considered as merciful and righteous. He used the talisman in his hand again and again, and his moves continued. Ren Jing could only dodge under such a continuous offensive, and there was no gap for his innate magic skills.
Ren Jing fell into such a one-sided decline, the people below were whispering, occasionally ridiculing - after all, Ren Jing has family power in the sect, they must not be as unscrupulous as they laughed at Mu Xinghe before.
There was silence on the high platform, not even a discussion.Someone turned his head and took a meaningful look at Ren Changtian. He was Ren Jing's uncle. Although he was not the head of the Seven Peaks, he still had an extraordinary status in the sect, so he was also qualified to come here to review these outer disciples.Ren Changtian closed his eyes, but suddenly said: "You don't need to look at me. He never asked me for help before the competition."
"Oh?"
Ren Changtian opened his eyes, he didn't look at the two contestants below, but looked at Qiu Gaotian, who was so blue without impurities: "The path of cultivation can only be walked alone, the sooner he knows, the better for him. "
Mu Xinghe looked at the bewildered Ren Jing, and suddenly had a strange thought.
——Although everyone knows that Ren Jing has a backer and a backer, and he can have many high-level talismans when he likes it, but he is like this now, so he doesn't use it, he just wants to use his own strength, right?
The more Mu Xinghe thought about it, the more likely it was. He has always been very clear about this kind of young mind.Young people are eager to win, and sometimes they want to prove to the world that he relies on his own strength, not everything else.
This is the mind of a young man, the arrogance of a young man.
But sometimes strength is strength, and there is no need to prove it.When you have enough strength, anyone's opinion has become insignificant.
Ren Jing sometimes thinks about one thing, which is naive to say, but it always makes him think about it.
Is everything he owns because of himself or because of his family?
Do the people around him really think he is good, or are they just trying to please him because of the family behind him?
He couldn't figure it out and couldn't ask.
So he fell in love with cultivation. Only cultivation can let him know that he really exists and not a shadow under the family. It can make him clearly realize that he is truly alive and working hard for something.
It's just that his persistence seems wrong.
Gongsun Twelve's cultivation base is a bit higher than him, and he might not be able to win with some tactics. Twelve came with countless talismans.
Gongsun Twelve's talismans were attacking him, and every talisman seemed to be asking him—"Do you regret it later?"
Of course he knew that Gongsun Twelve didn't mean that, he was just happily showing off the high-level talismans he possessed, how amazing it was to be able to use so many new thaumaturgy.Ren Jing was already tired of coping, Lei Yinjue was good at attacking but weaker at defending on the fifth day, he dodged left and right, he was so embarrassed that he didn't look like himself.
He didn't know if he would regret it, but even if he still had one breath left, he didn't want to admit defeat.
Ren Jing was out of breath from avoiding it. The disciples in the qi training period have not yet started physical training, and their physical fitness is just like ordinary people. They will be tired and unable to support themselves.His eyes were fixed on Gongsun Twelve, and sweat fell drop by drop from his forehead.
Gongsun Twelve was still calm, and he used another talisman, and a scorching light burst out from the talisman.
Ren Jing couldn't recognize what kind of spell it was.Behind the infinitely scorching light is the blue sky without any impurities in the early autumn, with wind from time to time.
He suddenly remembered that in such a sunny and occasionally windy weather, he and his uncle were standing under the ginkgo tree, the golden leaves were falling one after another, and his uncle's white hair was trembling in the wind. Shortcuts, what you want to gain is what you will lose. Behind every powerful person is hard work.A strong without support is a castle made of paper, and it will be overturned when the wind blows.
When he was in a daze, Gongsun Twelve's technique hit him, a scorching feeling swept over his body, and his true energy seemed to be burned at that moment.
This feeling was not enough to make him feel uncomfortable the day he lost to Mu Xinghe, but it was enough to wake him up.
It's nothing more than a castle made of paper.
Ren Jing raised his head and used a five-day thunder sound formula.
His cultivation level was almost the same as that of Gongsun Twelve, and he also needed real energy to activate the talisman, so he waited and procrastinated, waiting for Gongsun Twelve's real energy to run out, before giving him a thunderous blow!
Ren Jing is still dodging constantly, and his actions are getting slower and slower, but now his spirit is completely different from before.Although his zhenqi was consumed a lot in the attack that he couldn't dodge, he still had a chance.
Seeing that Gongsun Twelve could not attack for a long time, he seemed a little anxious.He suddenly crossed his arms, looked down at Ren Jing, and then sighed: "Okay."
Gongsun Twelve unexpectedly stopped using talisman seals, Ren Jing supported his knees with one hand and couldn't hold his breath, and took out a blank talisman seal with the other hand, and a five-day thunder sound formula was about to be activated.
Five-day Thunder Sound Jue is a tyrannical spell that is rare among innate spells. Gongsun Twelve naturally couldn't activate any talismans with empty hands. He didn't believe that Gongsun Twelve dared not hide!
Gongsun Twelve really didn't hide.He stood there looking at the five-day thunder sound formula, when the thunderstorm was about to fall on him, a small tripod fluttered out of his sleeve, and the thunder fell into the tripod naturally.
Countless blue smoke floated from the cauldron, lingering around Ren Jing's side one by one. Ren Jing seemed to be in great pain, and waved around in disgust, but couldn't drive away the shadowy smoke.
There was already a commotion in the field.
"What is this?! A magic weapon!"
"How could it be a magic weapon? Aren't we able to use magic weapons at most during the Qi training period!"
"It's over, even the magic weapon has come out, this is the first time I've seen this thing in my life."
"Ren Jing is done this time."
On the high platform, someone said with a smile: "Old man Gongsun really spent his money, and gave everything to his son."
"Gongsun Twelve has been neglected for several years, and he finally wanted to practice hard. Brother Gongsun tried his best to help him enter the inner sect. That's a matter of course—shouyuan is limited, who would want to waste his life in the outer sect."
Ren Jing didn't seem to hear these words, the smoke lingered around him, getting thicker and thicker, he could hardly be seen, let alone judge his expression.
Suddenly, countless thunderbolts erupted in the center of the densest smog. Pure silver lightning slowly invaded Yujing Terrace, and the smoke gradually dispersed. The center of the countless thunderbolts was Ren Jing, who was kneeling and supporting the ground with one hand!
"Myriad Tribulation Lightning Formation!" Someone blurted out, and his face had already changed color.
If the Five-Day Thunder Sound Art is a rare and tyrannical spell among innate spells, the Myriad Tribulation Lightning Array is the most tyrannical spell among all spells!Someone's innate skill can be this!
Others thought that Ren Jing only awakened one innate spell, but only Ren Jing knew that he awakened two, and he never said that it was because the Ten Thousand Tribulation Lightning Formation was never driven by him, and it was sleeping in his blood as if dead. .He quietly checked the jade slips in his family's books, which said that even the innate spells might not be able to be used freely, because the spells did not recognize his master.
He felt so humiliated that he never mentioned it.Now even if it is humiliation, he still wants to mobilize, even overdraw all his power, and ask this spell to wake up!
Lightning gradually filled the Yujing Terrace, and Gongsun Twelve backed back again and again, because he had exhausted his true energy by using magic weapons when he thought he had the chance to win, but now he couldn't even use talismans to resist, so he had to admit defeat loudly.
When the thunder light dissipated, Ren Jing knelt on the ground, with ragged clothes and disheveled hair, not at all like the usual rich young master.As soon as others touched it, he fell limply.
A disciple in the qi training period drove something that he could not use, and there was always a price to pay.
Gongsun Twelve is like this, so is he.
He closed his eyes and passed out peacefully.
He was so stubborn to prove himself that he didn't waver even though he knew he was naive.
The author has something to say:
Because I changed a name that is difficult to describe, I will update a chapter today...
I feel dark about this name, don’t mention it, it’s very likely that you won’t even lose the six-star Yuhun, let alone draw the Bianhua, and it’s a big problem, so it’s still to be determined. Go to practice and take the system to practice non-chieftains, practice, record the counterattack of cultivation (????), etc. Everyone is welcome to give their opinions...
The level of naming is very difficult to describe, please don't care about it_(:3」∠)_... I hope that such an ugly name will not bring psychological harm to everyone_(:3」∠)_
That person's realm should be the highest among those who participated in the competition, because Mu Xinghe couldn't see his cultivation base and internal energy anyway, and could only guess that he was a whole realm higher than himself.
In this world, the next stage of the qi training period is called the pulse condensing stage. After the spiritual energy of the sky and the earth can naturally blend with the true qi in the body, one can try to break through to the pulse condensing stage.Practitioners in the pulse condensing stage have already gained a deeper understanding of spells and true qi, so they no longer need to borrow foreign objects to use learned spells, and can use them as easily as innate spells.During the Qi training period, although practitioners can already use some low-level spiritual weapons, they need auxiliary means to avoid being backlashed by them, and they can already use them freely in the Pulse Condensation period.
Not only that, but the strength of the same spell used in different realms is very different. For example, Xiao Qingfeng Jue, he used it to attack Liu Ping. For your own use, this is the gap in realm.
Mu Xinghe was thinking, would his scheming be as ridiculous in front of that person as a child playing scheming in front of adults?
Mu Xinghe rarely felt his heart beating faster.
This is tension, but also excitement.
The will to fight boiled in his blood.
Mu Xinghe's heart was still pounding, but the plan had been made, so he stopped thinking about it and focused on watching the competition.
The fourth round of the competition was more dangerous than the previous round. There were very few instant kills. Almost every match was a competition of scheming and true energy. No one had used Xiao Qingfeng for a long time. Tricks and tricks.There is not much difference in strength, everyone is carefully looking for flaws and waiting for opportunities.It's just that it's also very regrettable that an aggressive player like Li Han was eliminated in the last round. If he was there, how hearty would the scene be when facing these people?
But Li Han was out after all.
Some people think that he is really unlucky, and he just met the hardest bone. If he meets other new outer disciples, he should be able to win easily.
For example, when I met this Ren Jing who was about to compete.
Ren Jing's cultivation is really weak, and his tactical methods are also very simple. He won the next two rounds of the competition not easily, and it was very difficult to squeeze into the fourth round.
Ren Jing stood on the Yujing Terrace, facing him was a young man who was also dressed in splendid clothes. He had a pair of peach blossom eyes and smiled at him: "Brother Ren Xian, it is a coincidence that we met here, please enlighten me."
This person is Ren Jing's old acquaintance, Gongsun Twelve.Gongsun's family and Ren's family are both families with some status in the Yunfu Sect. Gongsun Twelve's father is the Jindan Grandmaster of the Yunfu Sect, and so is his uncle.Therefore, although the two of them could not say that their friendship was very good, they still knew each other after all.It is said that this Gongsun Twelve was a few years earlier than him, and he spent his life as a domineering, this year, after being severely scolded by his mother, he finally cultivated well.
Although this person is not doing a proper job, but with years of accumulation and his family background, he can always surpass many outer disciples who have explored by himself, so he has also entered the final round.
I didn't expect to run into Ren Jing.
This is very interesting, these two people are the children of the family, who didn't give enough benefits and didn't dredge the relationship?
Some people laughed off the field.
I don't know if it was because Ren Jing heard these whispers, his face turned cold again, and he said to Gongsun Twelve stiffly: "Please enlighten me."
Gongsun Twelve still smiled, cupped his hands and said: "Young man, please do it first——I'm afraid that if I do, Uncle Ren will beat me."
Ren Jing didn't evade any more, simply summoned a five-day thunder sound formula, and went straight to Gongsun Twelve Faces.
As soon as the twelve Gongsun retreated, a talisman was thrown out, and a layer of golden light shield isolated the Five-day Thunder Sound Art, and then collapsed together.
In fact, Gongsun Twelve did not lose any advantage by letting Ren Jing take the first shot. After all, anyone with eyes can see that Ren Jing only knows the five-day Leiyin Jue and the Xiaoqingfeng Jue. So what about his innate skills?
It was nothing to the well-prepared Gongsun Twelve.
He gave up the initiative once, and it was considered as merciful and righteous. He used the talisman in his hand again and again, and his moves continued. Ren Jing could only dodge under such a continuous offensive, and there was no gap for his innate magic skills.
Ren Jing fell into such a one-sided decline, the people below were whispering, occasionally ridiculing - after all, Ren Jing has family power in the sect, they must not be as unscrupulous as they laughed at Mu Xinghe before.
There was silence on the high platform, not even a discussion.Someone turned his head and took a meaningful look at Ren Changtian. He was Ren Jing's uncle. Although he was not the head of the Seven Peaks, he still had an extraordinary status in the sect, so he was also qualified to come here to review these outer disciples.Ren Changtian closed his eyes, but suddenly said: "You don't need to look at me. He never asked me for help before the competition."
"Oh?"
Ren Changtian opened his eyes, he didn't look at the two contestants below, but looked at Qiu Gaotian, who was so blue without impurities: "The path of cultivation can only be walked alone, the sooner he knows, the better for him. "
Mu Xinghe looked at the bewildered Ren Jing, and suddenly had a strange thought.
——Although everyone knows that Ren Jing has a backer and a backer, and he can have many high-level talismans when he likes it, but he is like this now, so he doesn't use it, he just wants to use his own strength, right?
The more Mu Xinghe thought about it, the more likely it was. He has always been very clear about this kind of young mind.Young people are eager to win, and sometimes they want to prove to the world that he relies on his own strength, not everything else.
This is the mind of a young man, the arrogance of a young man.
But sometimes strength is strength, and there is no need to prove it.When you have enough strength, anyone's opinion has become insignificant.
Ren Jing sometimes thinks about one thing, which is naive to say, but it always makes him think about it.
Is everything he owns because of himself or because of his family?
Do the people around him really think he is good, or are they just trying to please him because of the family behind him?
He couldn't figure it out and couldn't ask.
So he fell in love with cultivation. Only cultivation can let him know that he really exists and not a shadow under the family. It can make him clearly realize that he is truly alive and working hard for something.
It's just that his persistence seems wrong.
Gongsun Twelve's cultivation base is a bit higher than him, and he might not be able to win with some tactics. Twelve came with countless talismans.
Gongsun Twelve's talismans were attacking him, and every talisman seemed to be asking him—"Do you regret it later?"
Of course he knew that Gongsun Twelve didn't mean that, he was just happily showing off the high-level talismans he possessed, how amazing it was to be able to use so many new thaumaturgy.Ren Jing was already tired of coping, Lei Yinjue was good at attacking but weaker at defending on the fifth day, he dodged left and right, he was so embarrassed that he didn't look like himself.
He didn't know if he would regret it, but even if he still had one breath left, he didn't want to admit defeat.
Ren Jing was out of breath from avoiding it. The disciples in the qi training period have not yet started physical training, and their physical fitness is just like ordinary people. They will be tired and unable to support themselves.His eyes were fixed on Gongsun Twelve, and sweat fell drop by drop from his forehead.
Gongsun Twelve was still calm, and he used another talisman, and a scorching light burst out from the talisman.
Ren Jing couldn't recognize what kind of spell it was.Behind the infinitely scorching light is the blue sky without any impurities in the early autumn, with wind from time to time.
He suddenly remembered that in such a sunny and occasionally windy weather, he and his uncle were standing under the ginkgo tree, the golden leaves were falling one after another, and his uncle's white hair was trembling in the wind. Shortcuts, what you want to gain is what you will lose. Behind every powerful person is hard work.A strong without support is a castle made of paper, and it will be overturned when the wind blows.
When he was in a daze, Gongsun Twelve's technique hit him, a scorching feeling swept over his body, and his true energy seemed to be burned at that moment.
This feeling was not enough to make him feel uncomfortable the day he lost to Mu Xinghe, but it was enough to wake him up.
It's nothing more than a castle made of paper.
Ren Jing raised his head and used a five-day thunder sound formula.
His cultivation level was almost the same as that of Gongsun Twelve, and he also needed real energy to activate the talisman, so he waited and procrastinated, waiting for Gongsun Twelve's real energy to run out, before giving him a thunderous blow!
Ren Jing is still dodging constantly, and his actions are getting slower and slower, but now his spirit is completely different from before.Although his zhenqi was consumed a lot in the attack that he couldn't dodge, he still had a chance.
Seeing that Gongsun Twelve could not attack for a long time, he seemed a little anxious.He suddenly crossed his arms, looked down at Ren Jing, and then sighed: "Okay."
Gongsun Twelve unexpectedly stopped using talisman seals, Ren Jing supported his knees with one hand and couldn't hold his breath, and took out a blank talisman seal with the other hand, and a five-day thunder sound formula was about to be activated.
Five-day Thunder Sound Jue is a tyrannical spell that is rare among innate spells. Gongsun Twelve naturally couldn't activate any talismans with empty hands. He didn't believe that Gongsun Twelve dared not hide!
Gongsun Twelve really didn't hide.He stood there looking at the five-day thunder sound formula, when the thunderstorm was about to fall on him, a small tripod fluttered out of his sleeve, and the thunder fell into the tripod naturally.
Countless blue smoke floated from the cauldron, lingering around Ren Jing's side one by one. Ren Jing seemed to be in great pain, and waved around in disgust, but couldn't drive away the shadowy smoke.
There was already a commotion in the field.
"What is this?! A magic weapon!"
"How could it be a magic weapon? Aren't we able to use magic weapons at most during the Qi training period!"
"It's over, even the magic weapon has come out, this is the first time I've seen this thing in my life."
"Ren Jing is done this time."
On the high platform, someone said with a smile: "Old man Gongsun really spent his money, and gave everything to his son."
"Gongsun Twelve has been neglected for several years, and he finally wanted to practice hard. Brother Gongsun tried his best to help him enter the inner sect. That's a matter of course—shouyuan is limited, who would want to waste his life in the outer sect."
Ren Jing didn't seem to hear these words, the smoke lingered around him, getting thicker and thicker, he could hardly be seen, let alone judge his expression.
Suddenly, countless thunderbolts erupted in the center of the densest smog. Pure silver lightning slowly invaded Yujing Terrace, and the smoke gradually dispersed. The center of the countless thunderbolts was Ren Jing, who was kneeling and supporting the ground with one hand!
"Myriad Tribulation Lightning Formation!" Someone blurted out, and his face had already changed color.
If the Five-Day Thunder Sound Art is a rare and tyrannical spell among innate spells, the Myriad Tribulation Lightning Array is the most tyrannical spell among all spells!Someone's innate skill can be this!
Others thought that Ren Jing only awakened one innate spell, but only Ren Jing knew that he awakened two, and he never said that it was because the Ten Thousand Tribulation Lightning Formation was never driven by him, and it was sleeping in his blood as if dead. .He quietly checked the jade slips in his family's books, which said that even the innate spells might not be able to be used freely, because the spells did not recognize his master.
He felt so humiliated that he never mentioned it.Now even if it is humiliation, he still wants to mobilize, even overdraw all his power, and ask this spell to wake up!
Lightning gradually filled the Yujing Terrace, and Gongsun Twelve backed back again and again, because he had exhausted his true energy by using magic weapons when he thought he had the chance to win, but now he couldn't even use talismans to resist, so he had to admit defeat loudly.
When the thunder light dissipated, Ren Jing knelt on the ground, with ragged clothes and disheveled hair, not at all like the usual rich young master.As soon as others touched it, he fell limply.
A disciple in the qi training period drove something that he could not use, and there was always a price to pay.
Gongsun Twelve is like this, so is he.
He closed his eyes and passed out peacefully.
He was so stubborn to prove himself that he didn't waver even though he knew he was naive.
The author has something to say:
Because I changed a name that is difficult to describe, I will update a chapter today...
I feel dark about this name, don’t mention it, it’s very likely that you won’t even lose the six-star Yuhun, let alone draw the Bianhua, and it’s a big problem, so it’s still to be determined. Go to practice and take the system to practice non-chieftains, practice, record the counterattack of cultivation (????), etc. Everyone is welcome to give their opinions...
The level of naming is very difficult to describe, please don't care about it_(:3」∠)_... I hope that such an ugly name will not bring psychological harm to everyone_(:3」∠)_
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