Chapter 40: Sect Competition (End)

  Time passed bit by bit. At midnight, a bright moon hung high in the sky. On Xiwu Peak, the arena duel continued.

  After the seven rounds of duels ended and the top 100 were determined, a new round of drawing lots began.

  In the first match, Shen Qingluo's opponent was a ninth-level inner sect disciple with a gold spiritual root, who was good at swordsmanship. The two fought for several rounds. Shen Qingluo used the Tianyuan Yanjin Jue to break through the opponent's defense and successfully won, entering the top 50.

  In the second match, her opponent was the ice spiritual root female cultivator named Lou Yuying, who had previously defeated Yao Molian in a duel.

  The duel began, and the two attacked at the same time, the Silent Fire Jue versus the Thousand Miles Ice Sealing Jue, with extreme cold and heat alternating on the stage.

  After a stalemate, the sea of ​​fire gained the upper hand, the ice melted into water, and then evaporated in an instant, disappearing without a trace.

  Lou Yuying's face changed slightly, and the sea of ​​fire approached. She could clearly feel that her skills were suppressed.

  Among the five elements, water can overcome fire. Ice spiritual roots are derived from the mutation of water spiritual roots, and can also overcome fire to a certain extent, but now it seems that everything is reversed.

  Lou Yuying immediately understood that this was because the fire-based skills used by Shen Qingluo were very special.

  As a result, the ice-based skills that had been used to defeat the enemy in the previous rounds of fighting were completely useless in this match.

  Realizing this, she quickly made hand gestures and applied a thick ice defense around her body. Then, she flipped her right hand and a white jade flute appeared in her palm.

  Almost at the same time, Shen Qingluo also waved his sleeves to take out the wind flute.

  The next moment, two flute sounds with completely different tunes came out, attacking the consciousness directly.

  Both sides felt a tingling pain in their sea of ​​consciousness and accelerated the circulation of spiritual power.

  The sea of ​​fire had not disappeared yet. Under the high temperature, the ice melted quickly. In order to avoid being hit by the flames, Lou Yuying had to stop playing the flute and defend herself again.

  As soon as the flaw was revealed, Shen Qingluo seized the opportunity and the sound of the flute suddenly increased. Lou Yuying's figure stagnated and her movements slowed down for a moment. The raging fire spread close to her in the blink of an eye. At this moment, the ban was triggered and took the woman away from the ring.

  Shen Qingluo won and entered the top 25.

  In the third game, her opponent was very good at talismans. His fighting style was similar to Situ Lan. At the beginning of the fight, he took out a lot of talismans and activated them, throwing them at Shen Qingluo.

  Such means had little effect in front of the Heaven-level skills. With a series of loud bangs, all the talismans were burned to ashes by the sea of ​​fire.

  Later, the opponent used the most powerful means, the talisman array!

  The talismans formed an array, and the power doubled. However, the moment the array was formed, it was directly broken by Shen Qingluo using the Tianyuan Yanjin Jue, and he was also injured. Unable to resist the sea of ​​fire, he was directly teleported out of the ring.

  Shen Qingluo won again and entered the top thirteen.

  In the fourth game, although she did not have a bye, her opponent who drew lots was seriously injured in the previous fight and had not recovered yet. He had no choice but to give up the fight, and her ranking entered the top seven.

  In the fifth game, Shen Qingluo's opponent was a cultivator with five spiritual roots and a ninth-level Qi training.

  This person had a great opportunity. The skills he practiced involved the five elements. As soon as the fight began, he trapped Shen Qingluo in the small five-element array.

  The five elements rotated and changed constantly. Shen Qingluo knew very little about the formation and was unable to break out of the formation for a while.

  This was the first time she encountered a cultivator who could directly transform the formation with his skills.

  Unable to find the center of the formation, she simply tried to break the formation with brute force and launched an attack at one point.   

  The rumbling sound kept reaching her ears, and the formation changed again.

  Countless sharp stones fell from the sky, and this scene was similar to the falling stone formation.

  However, the falling stone formation was a second-level formation, and the small five-element formation transformed by this technique was only a first-level formation, so its power was not as strong as the falling stone formation.

  Shen Qingluo held the Lingyun Sword and chopped the stones falling on her head into pieces one by one.

  A very small number of them were missed, and the green jade hairpin worn in her hair was activated immediately to block the attack.

  The scene changed again, and Shen Qingluo suddenly felt suffocated. What she saw was a vast blackness. At some point, she was buried underground. Without any hesitation, she used all her spiritual power and blasted upwards with a palm.

  The suffocation disappeared instantly, and the wet mud around her also disappeared, replaced by a burst of icy cold sea water.

  Shen Qingluo immediately hold her breath.

  The transformation of the skills into a formation consumes a lot of spiritual power. At a certain moment, she clearly felt a spiritual power fluctuation coming from a certain direction on the right side of the formation.

  Shen Qingluo immediately took action and slashed the corresponding position with all her strength.

  The next moment, the scene in front of her was shattered, and the ring reappeared in her sight. The formation was broken!

  The opponent's face was pale at this moment. Seeing this, she quickly made hand gestures with both hands, and a golden sword quickly condensed in the air and slashed at his head.

  The ring restriction was triggered in an instant, teleporting the opponent out.

  Shen Qingluo won and entered the top four.

  The sect competition is coming to an end. On Xiwu Peak, more and more monks are watching the battle.

  Except for her, the remaining three are all inner disciples.

  After the draw, they fought two by two. Shen Qingluo's opponent this time is called You Ling, who is a rare water and fire dual spiritual root.

  Water and fire are incompatible. When cultivators with only these two spiritual roots practice, they must always pay attention to the balance of water and fire spiritual power. If they are not careful, they will be backlashed. At the least, their meridians will be damaged, their cultivation will regress, and at the worst, they will die on the spot.

  If single spiritual roots and mutant spiritual roots are blessings bestowed by the way of heaven, then dual spiritual roots of water and fire are curses.

  Influenced by the spiritual roots, You Ling acts very cautiously, which is also reflected in the fight.

  She knew about the original confrontation between the talismans and treasures, so she knew Shen Qingluo's strength very well.

  The quota to enter Yanlan Dongtian has been obtained. In her opinion, the outcome of the fight is not very important. If she can beat them, she will fight. If she can't beat them, she won't force it. Before getting hurt, she can just admit defeat.

  She did so. When Shen Qingluo used the Jiemie Linghuo Jue, she immediately realized that her water and fire skills were suppressed, and she took the initiative to retreat from the ring and end the fight.

  At this moment, on another stage, the fight was still going on. It lasted for a stick of incense. The two sides decided the winner, and the wind spirit root cultivator named Feng Yu won.

  The competition for the first place in the competition began. Shen Qingluo walked onto the stage, and her opponent was Feng Yu.

  This person practiced a special body method, combined with the wind system skills, his body turned into a residual image when he moved. Even the Tianyuan Yanjin Jue could not lock the target and attack.

  Shen Qingluo tried three times, and her attacks failed every time.

  There was a whistling sound beside his ears, and Feng Yu appeared from behind her and stabbed with a sword.

  The crisis came, Shen Qingluo turned her steps and quickly moved to the side. At the same time, she waved her sword forward, and the gold system spiritual power secretly operated and attached to the sword body.

  With a loud noise, the sword held by Feng Yu directly cracked a small gap.

  His face twitched, and he took back the sword with some heartache, and the person turned into a residual image again and disappeared.

  At this time, Shen Qingluo waved her sleeves, and controlled the Lingyun Sword to hover in the air with her spiritual sense. Her hands quickly made hand gestures, and the entire arena was surrounded by a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

  Feng Yu, who had originally turned into a residual shadow and moved randomly, was affected by the sea of ​​fire and his speed was slightly reduced.

  Sensing his trace, Shen Qingluo's spiritual sense moved, and the Lingyun Sword flew out with a whoosh and stabbed at the opponent.

  The latter's body flashed with precious light, blocking the attack.

  Shen Qingluo used the Tianyuan Yanjin Jue again, and the golden sword containing sharp sword energy condensed in the sea of ​​fire that had not yet subsided, and slashed at the opponent's head.

  The precious light around Feng Yu flashed again, but this time the light quickly dimmed, and finally shattered with a bang.

  At the same time, the arena ban was triggered, teleporting him out.

  Shen Qingluo won again, and with the eighth level of Qi Refining, she won the first place in the sect competition!