Chapter 324 Mid-term Competition

"But I understand why you don't want to become an immortal..."

Li An smiled slightly, with a hint of bitterness and complexity in his eyes, and said: "The calamity of becoming an immortal is indeed terrifying..."

Xu Yuan said: "Brother, is your indescribable... serious?"

Li An said: "Many strange scales have grown under my armpits. Now it won't kill me, but the road ahead is unpredictable. Now it's already so difficult to become an immortal. What will happen when I reach a higher level in the future?"

His eyes were full of sorrow.

Xu Yuan murmured, "When I reach a higher level, maybe one day, I will no longer be myself..."

But he sensed Li An's gaze and immediately forced a smile, "Brother, don't worry too much. There are so many masters in Zixiao Mountain. Not to mention just immortals, even Xuanxian and Tianxian can break through safely. There is still a long way to go."

Li An said, "Well, there is no other way now."

He was about to get up and leave, "I will go back to consolidate my realm first. If Junior Brother Xu has figured it out and wants to become an immortal, you can come to me at any time. I will tell you in detail about the precautions."

"In addition, Junior Brother Xu, please rest assured that I will never leak out what you said to me."

Xu Yuan watched Li An leave, thought for a while, and shook his head again, seeming very puzzled.

...

Return to the residence.

Li An sorted out his emotions, cheered up, and focused on making immortal scrolls!

In the immortal path stage, the orthodox immortal path has the saying that the heaven grants the talisman, and the cultivator needs to obtain the talisman from the heavenly tribulation. The strange immortal path is quite different, but it is also obtained from the strange tribulation. In some classics, it is called "the strange god preaching".

Whether it is the heaven granting the talisman or the strange god preaching, it only gives a seed. It still requires continuous practice and perception to make the real immortal talisman.

The cold immortal talisman pen was picked up, and the fairy ink with a strong and strange smell was placed in front of him. The snow-white fairy light paper was already spread out. Li An calmed down. In his dantian, on the immortal flower, the inexplicable illusory talisman shadow appeared. All kinds of perceptions flowed through Li An's heart. After a long time, he put pen to paper.

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"Master, that Gu Fan has achieved true immortality and has become an immortal master."

In a fairy practice, Yuanzhou reported to Leng Rufeng. He was quite surprised when he got the news. After all, in his opinion, Li An was just a scheming ant in the spirit world. Now it seems that this person is actually very talented!

"He was able to join the Gong family when the spirit world was destroyed, and used the Gong family as a stepping stone to come to Zixiao Mountain. How can such a person be taken lightly."

Leng Rufeng smiled slightly and said, "The two most intelligent people in the spirit world have both joined my team!"

The other person he was talking about was naturally Su Yebai.

Since Su Yebai joined his school, his performance has been excellent, which made him like him more and more. He even vaguely became his most valued disciple besides Shen Lanyi and Yuanzhou.

From a certain perspective, what Leng Rufeng said is not without reason. Li An and Su Yebai may not be as good as their peers in the eleventh day in terms of cultivation and talent, but that is due to the environment. In terms of determination, courage, perseverance, etc., Li An and Su Yebai are far better than the people in the eleventh day.

After all, what they have experienced... is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

Su Yebai is the pride of the Dao Sect. He once took charge of the magnificent sect. He has trained his skills and abilities. Even if he is now in charge of Zixiao Mountain, there will be no other problems except that he is not strong enough.

And Li An has risen from the bottom of the Emperor Yuan Realm step by step to the Supreme of the Dao Sect, and finally relied on himself to achieve what he has today. His wisdom, ruthlessness, and cold-bloodedness are definitely beyond the cognition of ordinary people.

When entering Zixiao Mountain and filling the gap in resources, he will naturally show his true strength.

"What's the news from Shen Lanyi?" Leng Rufeng continued to ask.

Yuanzhou said: "Master, according to the news sent back by Senior Brother Shen, there have indeed been some cases of demon cultivators killing people in Zixiaozhou recently. After checking, it is found that Shangguan Shengxian should have indeed practiced Taotian Dafa, and this woman's cultivation level was only Xuanxian two years ago. From the recent point of view, she should be close to Tianxian!"

"This Taotian Dafa is really evil!"

In two years, from Xuanxian to Tianxian? This is simply shocking.

Of course, it is also possible that the cultivator has already reached Xuanxian perfection, and has made further progress after practicing Taotian magic.

"Under the Golden Immortal, one can advance by leaps and bounds."

Leng Rufeng was not surprised and said: "Keep investigating. The Golden Immortal is a watershed. After this person breaks through the Tianxian, if he wants to become a Golden Immortal, the things he needs to devour are not so simple. At that time, it will be our chance to set up a trap."

"Yes, sir!"

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Six months passed. Li An's treatment has been adjusted. His monthly allowance has soared from 50 exotic crystals in the Tribulation Crossing period to 1,000 low-grade exotic crystals!

Generally speaking, when a disciple breaks through the immortal level, his monthly allowance will increase by one level. After all, the cultivation of the two is very different, and the consumption is also very different, but ordinary immortals only have 500 exotic crystals.

True immortal disciples are treated better. For every extra petal of the immortal flower, the monthly allowance will increase by 100. Li An has a total of seven petals, so the number is 700.

The other 300 are because of his identity as an immortal master.

One thousand low-grade exotic crystals, this amount is enough to make ordinary immortal disciples jealous, but for Li An... it is still not enough.

He has to consume 2,000 low-grade exotic crystals every month.

There is still a gap of 1,000...

Fortunately, he still has a lot of savings from selling Xuanxian medicine, otherwise he would have run out of money on the spot.

"After leaving Dengyun Palace and having my own cave for cultivation, I will have to put the matter of growing blood-nourishing medicine on the agenda..."

Blood medicine plus immortal talismans, these two side jobs that earn exotic crystals should be enough to support his cultivation.

"I hope I can succeed today!"

He adjusted his state and started making talismans again!

In the past six months, he had been trying for the first three months, but achieved nothing. In the next three months, he had been meditating and enlightening himself without writing.

The first immortal talisman he tried to make was defensive in nature.

There is no fixed method for immortal talismans. For immortals, each immortal talisman master has a different understanding of the way of immortal talismans and different Taoist fruits, and the immortal talismans they make are also different. It can be said that everyone's talismans are unique.

In fact, Li An has stayed in the strange world for the longest time and has achieved the most perfect Dao fruit, so his understanding of the immortal talisman should be far beyond that of ordinary immortal talisman masters, but he still hasn't made a talisman in half a year, and has wasted dozens of immortal light papers... just because he has too high requirements.

There are many defensive talismans, some mobilize the power of the five elements, some build the gate of the eight trigrams, and some imitate the change of nature... but Li An wants to combine many advantages in one.

"The power of the five elements is mutually generated, and the order is different, and it needs to be called accurately..."

Li An carefully used the immortal ink to outline five simple and mysterious symbols on the immortal light paper, corresponding to gold, wood, water, fire and earth respectively, and the size, weight of ink, and speed of each symbol were very different, but in the end they were unexpectedly harmonious, and the immortal aura flowed between the five symbols, supporting each other.

The last stroke fell!

"It's done!"

Li An took a deep breath and smiled.

Three months of practice, three months of breathing, and half a year of hard work finally completed the first immortal talisman.

The immortal talisman has been completed, and the immortal light is hidden. It only needs to be slightly stimulated to exert the corresponding power.

This talisman uses the power of the five elements, and unlike ordinary immortal talismans that can only call on one power, his immortal talisman has all five elements, and all the talisman comprehension is integrated into it. Once activated, the power of the five elements bursts out, forming a light shield to protect itself. If it is against the immortal level, Li An is confident that the opponent will definitely not be able to break it!

Just don't know how effective it is against the true immortals and the mysterious immortals?

He cherished it and put away this first talisman.

"I'll call you the Five Shield Immortal Light Talisman!"

He gave it a name.

There is no fixed form for immortal talismans. The immortal talismans of each immortal talisman master will be slightly different from those of others, so the name is also self-chosen.

Li An then took a deep breath and continued to meditate and regulate his breath. It is very difficult for a fairy master to make talismans. Generally speaking, if he can make more than five fairy talismans a year, he is considered very productive.

There is no other reason. Each fairy talisman condenses the power of creation, which consumes a lot of energy for the fairy master. Every time he makes a talisman, it takes a long time to recover.

Although Li An's recovery power is stronger than that of ordinary people, it still takes time.

A month later.

Li An picked up the pen again and made the second one!

Based on past experience, his principle for fairy talismans and formations has always been the more the better.

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Half a year has passed.

Li An already has seven "Five Shield Fairy Light Talismans" in his hand!

He is very satisfied with his output.

However, among these five or seven talismans, four are of low quality and can only be regarded as "Three Shield Fairy Light Talismans".

First, he didn't have enough time. If he made all of them into high-quality Five Shield Immortal Light Talismans, he could probably only make four or five in half a year. Second, he did it on purpose. The Five Shield Immortal Light Talisman was more suitable for keeping as a trump card. The Three Shield Immortal Light Talisman was no less than an ordinary one. It would be good to use it in battle or to hand it in to complete tasks in the mountains.

He planned to stop making defensive immortal talismans for a while.

Next, he planned to start trying offensive immortal talismans.

"I have to add some more immortal light paper and immortal ink..."

He had no choice. Immortal light paper was difficult to make, so it was expensive. Unfortunately, Li An didn't have time. Otherwise, if he made it himself, he would save a lot of exotic crystals, but the time he spent making it himself would be more cost-effective to use it to make talismans... After all, the exotic crystals still had to be spent.

He left Dengyun Palace and went to purchase some Xianxia ink and Xianguang paper. The middle-aged man who received him was still very enthusiastic towards him. He did not doubt Li An's frequent purchases. Instead, he reminded Li An that beginners should not be anxious. After completing the study of Dengyun Palace, he would find other Xianlu masters to learn for a period of time, and the success rate would be much higher.

Obviously, in his opinion, Li An was eager for success and wasted a lot of resources and materials.

This time, in addition to Xianguang paper and other items, Li An prepared to buy some immortal pills. The immortal stage is suitable for Xianli pills, which are mainly used to replenish immortal power, but Li An felt that the effect of this pill was too poor, and instead focused on the "Xianyuan Pill" used by Xuanxian!

Xianyuan Pill is very valuable, and one pill costs one hundred middle-grade exotic crystals.

After purchasing Xianguang paper and Xianxia ink, Li An still had more than 400 middle-grade exotic crystals and a bunch of low-grade exotic crystals. He gritted his teeth and bought four at one time!

There is no other reason. Li An's main goal now is the mid-term competition. The enemies he will face at that time are not weak. For example, Yi Linglin is said to be trying to break through the Xuanxian... The strange crystal is used on the blade.

The middle-aged man who received him was very happy. Li An's move was more generous than some Xuanxian.

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Back to Dengyun Palace, Li An practiced writing as he did last time, and then stopped for three or four months to comprehend, and then really started to write.

"It's also the five elements attack--"

Li An calmed down and calmed down. After three days and three nights, the first attack-type immortal talisman was successfully produced.

On the talisman, there are five small spear-like symbols, representing the five forces of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

"Five Spears Break Immortal talisman!"

He also gave this talisman a name!

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Time flies.

The mid-term competition is here!

Early in the morning, Li An went out and went directly to Xu Yuan.

Since Li An became an immortal, Xu Yuan has had less contact with him, and seems to have concerns. Li An also knows the reason, so he is not angry, but more convinced that this little fat man must have some connection with the immortal.

"Senior Brother Gu--"

Xu Yuan was also going out, and saw Li An coming, his eyes were quite surprised.

"Mid-term competition, are you ready?" Li An asked proactively.

"Just try your best--"

Xu Yuan spoke helplessly.

His cultivation is still in the middle stage of the tribulation, and there is no progress at all.

Li An said: "Although Junior Brother has no intention of becoming an immortal, he cannot give up on himself in Zixiao Mountain, otherwise he may have a hard time in the future." He took out two talismans and stuffed them into Xu Yuan's hands, saying: "Take these two talismans, they may be useful during the competition." Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment, but immediately wanted to return them, "Senior Brother, this is too precious!" Immortal talismans are good things. Although they are far less valuable than Xuanxian medicine, it is still easy to sell one or two thousand low-grade exotic crystals for one immortal talisman. Xu Yuan now only has a monthly allowance of fifty exotic crystals. This kind of thing is indeed very precious to him. "Why are you talking about this between you and me?" Li An shook his head and said: "Junior Brother Xu, the things you told me alone are far more valuable than these two immortal talismans!" This is not just a courtesy. The little fat man's understanding of the strange world and that knowledge are indeed very important to Li An. Xu Yuan's eyes flashed with complexity, and he didn't say anything else, just nodded and said: "Okay, then, thank you, senior brother!"

The two of them went hand in hand to the main hall of Dengyun Palace.

In Dengyun Palace, all the hundreds of disciples arrived.

"The mid-term competition is aimed at examining the disciples' cultivation and strength. If they perform outstandingly, they may be valued by the elders and accepted as disciples in advance, so that they can leave Dengyun Palace in advance."

The Golden Wall Immortal spoke and said lightly: "The competition method is that the first round is a melee, divided into four groups. Those who are still on the stage after an hour will enter the next round!"

He waved his hand and led everyone into the martial arts field of Dengyun Palace.

The four huge array platforms have been slowly opened. Fighting in them will not affect the outside world.

Random drawing.

Li An and Xu Yuan are not on the same stage.

Everyone stepped onto the stage, and there were about a hundred people on each stage.

"You must know that holding on for an hour is only one of the conditions. If more than 20% of the people on a stage are left, no one will have a chance to enter the next round!"

"Begin!"

Golden Wall Immortal gave an order and the battle began immediately.

On each stage, immortal magic burst out, immortal light appeared, and the fluctuations of the battle were very shocking, but they were all isolated by the formation.

The formation has its own spatial rules. From the outside, it looks like only a few miles in radius, but in fact, the people in it are in a space of ten thousand miles in radius!

For cultivators of this level, a radius of ten thousand miles is still like a cage for fighting beasts. Any random attack may affect each other. This is why they are forced to defend and attack each other.

"There are many immortals."

Golden Wall Immortal looked at the stage and nodded. The registered disciples of this session are still good.

"What a pity, no Xuanxian appeared."

Another elder beside him looked at one of the arenas with regret. On that arena, Yi Linglin, the proud daughter of heaven, burst out with a powerful light. No one could get close to her within a thousand miles!

It was because Yi Linglin... was a True Immortal!

The Seven-petal True Immortal was well-known in Dengyun Palace. Moreover, she had tried to become a Xuanxian once a year ago.

Although she failed, her cultivation level could be said to have stepped half a foot into that realm.

The top of the celestial being has already formed, and among the many disciples, he is extremely dazzling.

"The only one who can fight with her is Chen Yong..."

On another stage, there is also a true immortal disciple, who is an arrogant young man. No one dares to approach him. He attacks recklessly, and even the immortal-level disciples flee everywhere.

The Jinbi Immortal smiled slightly and said, "Not necessarily."

He couldn't help but look in the direction of Li An.

He kept the news about Li An very secret, and even didn't tell the other elders.

...

In the first round, Li An did not show his true strength.

He exuded the light of the immortal on his body, defending against the attacks of others around him, but he rarely attacked himself. Occasionally, he also targeted some weak cultivators in the Tribulation Period who were almost certain to win.

"Huh?!"

Suddenly, he felt his heart jump, and turned his head suddenly. A female immortal came towards him, with extremely fierce means, and sacrificed a purple bell!

The purple bell was filled with purple clouds, which had the effect of confusing people's minds and could kill the soul. Li An saw that the opponent was coming fiercely and the space was too narrow. He had no way to retreat, so he sacrificed a "Three Shield Immortal Light Scroll". Immediately, the three colors of gold, green and yellow fairy light formed a mixed light shield to cover him.

But the purple bell mainly attacked the soul. His fairy scroll had little effect. It only blocked the power against his body, but could not stop the purple clouds that eroded the soul. Li An pretended to be in pain, shouted, and retreated with his head in his arms. The woman sneered and rushed directly to Li An-

At this moment, three fairy spears suddenly appeared in front of Li An and killed the female fairy-

At the same time, Li An also rushed out!

The female fairy was pale. The fairy scroll came suddenly and she couldn't defend herself. If she was in other places, she might have a place to move, but where could she run here? Leaving the fairy array platform, she would lose!

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and seal, creating a fairy waterfall in front of him in an attempt to stop him, but the three-color fairy spears were too overbearing and directly tore through her defense. The three fairy spears directly pierced her——

"Ah——"

The fairy let out a shrill cry, and even the purple bell couldn't control it and fell from the sky.

Li An grabbed her purple bell in his hand. The purple bell had its own spirit and trembled to resist, but Li An was too strong and it couldn't break free. At the same time, he appeared above the fairy and stepped down, directly stepping on half of the fairy's body and bursting it apart!

The battle between him and the fairy was too fierce, it was a fight of life and death, so it also attracted the attention of others for a while.

The fairy was stepped on by Li An, her lower body was gone, and her upper body was pierced by the fairy spears. Although the magic power of the fairy spears dissipated quickly, the wounds caused were difficult to heal for a while. She was dying, her face was pale, and her eyes were full of fear.

"It's just a matter of winning or losing in the mid-term competition. Why did you use the immortal weapon to sneak attack me and want to kill my fellow disciples?!" Li An shouted loudly, deliberately letting everyone know. He had recognized that this female fairy was the one who spoke for Yi Linglin when he went to ask for the alien crystal back. The grudge must have started from this. Maybe she attacked at the behest of Yi Linglin. In this case, Li An would definitely not be polite. "You..." The female fairy wanted to explain something, but Li An shouted, "I won't offend others if they don't offend me. Since you want to kill me, don't blame me--" After saying that, he directly took off the head of the female fairy and forcibly detained her soul. He slashed with a fairy sword, and the female fairy's soul was instantly destroyed! "How vicious!" "Killed him!" "This person is so powerful!" Everyone around was shocked when they saw this. Li An would have killed someone if he hadn't made a move.

Moreover, he showed no mercy.

"How dare this boy kill someone!"

"Too much!"

Outside the immortal formation, the elders of Dengyun Palace were also surprised.

In the mid-term competition, there were always casualties, but most of them were when the battle reached its extreme and it was normal for them to lose their magic power. However, it was rare to see someone as cruel and vicious as Li An.

"Others tried to kill him first, so it was okay for him to kill them back."

Jinbi Immortal said lightly.

The other elders were slightly startled, and naturally heard that Jinbi Immortal was trying to protect Li An.

Otherwise, Li An would have been punished.

They all stopped talking.

However, in another arena. "No!"

Yi Linglin saw this scene from a distance, her beautiful eyes almost split, her face was extremely angry, and she said: "Gu Fan, you dare to kill her, you dare to kill her!"

Li An turned around, facing her from a distance, shook the head in his hand towards her, and said: "Sister, don't be upset, I didn't grind her to ashes, I will give this head to you later, you can also build a grave for her."

After that, he put the head of the female fairy on his waist and hung it like that.

Yi Linglin was so angry that she wanted to rush over and cut Li An into pieces.

She attacked frantically, and the others also suffered an unprovoked disaster and were swept out of the ring one by one.

On Li An's side, other cultivators were afraid and did not dare to trouble Li An.

This boy is too cruel!

...

An hour later.

The first round ended.

In the second round, the remaining dozens of people drew lots and fought alone!

"Whoever fights Gu Fan and can help me kill him, I will give him a Xuanxian medicine!" Yi Linglin said directly. Many people were tempted! The battle started. Li An did not fight against Yi Linglin at first. His opponents were also strong, but as he expected, no one could break his three shields of immortal light, and few people could stop his three spears of breaking immortals. "Next round, Gu Fan, against Yi Linglin!" Finally, Yi Linglin faced Gu Fan. Everyone was paying attention. The two enemies were already angry. They stepped onto the stage. "Gu Fan, I will make you wish you were dead, but not alive--" She gritted her teeth and hated it to the extreme, saying, "You dare to kill my sister..." But before she finished her words, Li An had already moved, and the three spears of breaking immortals came towards Yi Linglin. Yi Linglin became even more angry. She took a step forward. On her forehead, three flowers gathered and spread out. Each flower showed seven petals. As they trembled gently, the power of immortals surged up, almost crushing everything around her. She pointed her finger out, and the void in front of her exploded inch by inch. Everything was about to be dimmed.

Li An's first three-spear immortal-breaking scroll, after so many battles, was finally completely disintegrated by Yi Linglin's finger, and spontaneously burned into ashes. Li An's first three-shield immortal-light scroll was also broken in an instant——

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