Chapter 31: Fighting Intent Surges Si Junjian's heartbeat suddenly became noisy...

On the day of the Immortal Sect Competition, at the Jiuxiao Martial Arts Arena.

The monks from hundreds of immortal sects stood outside the martial arts arena. The place was crowded with people, and the young monks in disciple uniforms were discussing today's battle enthusiastically.

"It is said that today's group battle will start with the Qingxuan Sword Sect at the Tianlin Party!"

"Wow, two first-rate sects are already facing off on the first day! But the Qingxuan Sword Sect is the leader among the hundreds of immortal sects, so I'm still betting on it this time!"

"Don't be too hasty to place your bets yet. I heard that Lan Jue, the Qingxuan Sword Sect's first disciple, has already reached the Nascent Soul stage and can't participate in the battle, but Si Junjian of the Tianlin Sect is still going to take the field!"

"Luoxizhou Sijunjian? I heard he has a pretty face, but I don't know his true strength..."

"Hey! Look! It's the people from the Qingxuan Sword Sect coming on stage!"

Everyone looked intently and saw four monks in dark green disciple uniforms stepping onto the Nine Sky Cloud Stairs, led by Gu Congxing with his black hair tied up high.

He strode up the stairs, with flowing clouds all around him, and wherever he passed, he heard the conversations and exclamations of the surrounding monks.

"Who is that disciple in the front? Why haven't I seen this person before?"

"It is said that it is Gu Congxing, the youngest son of the Gu family, and this is his first time participating in the Immortal Sect Competition."

"This person is so smart and elegant, yet has such a sharp temperament. It's really rare..."

Voices of admiration or curiosity came along with the wind. Gu Congxing's sleeves fluttered, and his eyes were full of romantic spirit.

"As expected of you, senior brother. You're so popular." Zhong Ming came closer with a smile.

Mei Ci snorted coldly and said, "They are all superficial people."

Tao Xueting stood beside him, a smile flashing across his eyes: "It's just the pot calling the kettle black."

Mei Ci's eyebrows jumped and she started arguing with Tao Xueting.

Gu Congxing's gaze wandered among the high seats outside the fighting arena, and he indeed saw a patch of dark green, with Lan Jue in the center.

The two looked at each other from a distance, smiled and nodded.

Zhong Ming quietly observed Gu Congxing's expression, then suddenly said, "Come to think of it, Senior Brother seems to be different now than before."

Gu Congxing was drawn back to his attention by his words: "What's the difference?"

"When Senior Brother first saved me, he was also very aggressive, but his expression was often cold. Now, it seems... not so cold anymore."

Gu Congxing raised his eyebrows in surprise: "I haven't noticed that."

"Senior Brother is smiling more than before." Zhong Ming stood beside him and said softly, "Seeing Senior Brother like this, I am also very happy."

At this moment, a red light surged in front of them, and a loud shout was heard: "The people from the Tianlin Sect are coming on stage!"

The red-robed disciples of the Tianlin Sect emerged, like a blazing cloud drifting from afar. Surrounded by them was none other than the radiant Si Junjian.

The young man was dressed in red and silver armor, with a sharp temperament and a beautiful face. He caused a burst of exclamations as soon as he appeared.

Gu Congxing looked at him from afar, but his first reaction was: He is not riding Tiaotiao this time?

Si Junjian's eyes met Gu Congxing's. His expression remained unchanged, but he quickly turned his gaze away.

Seeing him like this, Gu Congxing couldn't help but think that things were indeed different from his previous life.

In his previous life's team battle, he did not fight against Si Junjian, but when they were on the periphery, their eyes met and they looked at each other from a distance.

He had thought that seeing his former life companion again would cause ripples of emotion in his heart, but unexpectedly, at this moment he felt extremely calm, and even had some eagerness to fight.

"Tsk, just pretending." A sarcastic voice came from the side. Gu Congxing subconsciously thought it was Mei Ci, but when he listened, he found out it was Zhong Ming.

"Junior Brother?"

Facing Gu Congxing's surprised expression, Zhong Ming blinked and chuckled, "Brother, we must not hold back later."

"Of course. Remember to disguise the dragon blood vine well."

When they discussed tactics before, they had agreed to disguise Zhong Ming's dragon blood vine as an ordinary spiritual vine to avoid trouble.

"I'm already prepared, brother."

The two teams stood facing each other, and Gu Congxing scanned them one by one based on the intelligence he had collected.

Si Junjian, the one holding the wine gourd is Xie Duyin, the female cultivator is the sword cultivator Gong Yun, and there is also a demon master named Xu Ke...

When he saw the monk with a slightly childish face, Gu Congxing's pupils shrank.

It turned out to be the red-robed monk from the previous life's encirclement and suppression! In the previous life, it was this person who spoke harshly to him and instigated the other monks to start the war!

It really is retribution, the time for revenge has come!

The elder of the Ganyang sect stood in the middle, rising up on his sword and speaking in a booming voice: "The Immortal Sect Competition Team Battle begins!"

"Swish!" As soon as the elder finished speaking, Gu Congxing and Zhong Ming flew out!

"Flowing Clouds, Myriad Things!"

The Whale-Slaying Sword flew out with a roar, and Si Junjian immediately took up his longbow and shot an arrow to block it, but unexpectedly the long sword passed by him and attacked Xu Ke directly!

"! Why are you coming for me?!"

Xu Ke swung his whip and immediately summoned a black panther monster in the Jindan stage!

"Ah--" The monster roared, using its demonic power to resist the force of the Whale-Slaying Sword, and its demonic power and spiritual power formed a strong impact wave!

"Junior brother, Tao Xueting, take down Xu Ke first!"

Before Gu Congxing finished speaking, Zhong Ming stabbed Xu Ke behind the monster with his sword like a bolt of lightning!

Xu Ke took a step back in fear, but Zhong Ming moved even faster. Just when the tip of his sword was about to touch the man in red, an ice arrow talisman came straight at him!

Zhong Ming immediately spun around to avoid it. Xie Duyin, with his fox-like eyes narrowed, said, "That was a close call! Why didn't you play by the rules? Do you have a grudge against Junior Brother? Oh my god!"

A talisman carrying a burning flame suddenly attacked Xie Duyin's heart!

Xie Duyin frowned and immediately threw out a spiritual ice talisman. The two talismans collided in the air and merged into bursts of white smoke.

Tao Xueting raised his eyebrows at Xie Duyin in the smoke, his pretty face full of fighting spirit.

"Tianlin Sect Talisman Master, your opponent is me!"

While the battle is going on here, there are also dark waves in the other corner of the battlefield.

Mei Ci stood alone behind the Qingxuan Sword Sect members, staring ahead nervously.

And a man in red had quietly emerged from the white smoke, with the sharp sword light heading straight behind Mei Ci!

"Varied--?!"

Mei Ci immediately turned sideways and flew to avoid the attack. He frowned and saw that the person coming was actually the sword cultivator Gong Yun!

"Humph, a sword cultivator sneaking up on an alchemy cultivator, how shameless!"

Gong Yun, holding a long sword, said indifferently, "I've heard about the discord within your team, so I guessed that you, an alchemy cultivator, would end up in a lonely place!"

She held the sword in both hands and jumped high: "If you want to blame someone, blame your teammates—"

The sword tip suddenly came down from the air, but the look of fear on Mei Ci's face disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Instead, there was a hint of mocking sneer.

"Gu Congxing was right. There really are fools who fall for it."

“Oops!”

Gong Yun's heart trembled, but he could no longer retract his sword move. At this moment, Mei Ci had already swung out two silver needles, both imbued with the pure sword energy of the Golden Core Stage!

——Gu Congxing used his full strength to strike with his spiritual power!

"Ah!!" Gong Yun faced the two sword forces head-on, cried out in pain, and was knocked out!

The long sword fell to the ground, Gong Yun was out!

The monks outside the Jiuxiao Cloud Steps burst into cheers!

Using the opponent’s tactics against them, what a clever move!

Si Junjian saw Gong Yun being helped down, and turned his cold eyes to Gu Congxing who was fighting against the monster. He held an arrow in his right hand and the bowstring was fully drawn, like a full moon.

“Swish——”

The spiritual arrow, carrying a tremendous flame, attacked Gu Congxing's back like a stream of fire!

Gu Congxing felt the heat coming from behind, but his steps were like a ghost, and he turned around and retreated in an instant!

The monster was about to chase forward, but was firmly fixed in place by the vines that suddenly grew under its feet!

It roared and struggled, but the long sword had already flown from a distance and hit its body!

"roar!!!"

The monster let out a long roar of pain and immediately disappeared from the spot.

"What a despicable trick! He actually used Senior Brother Si's spiritual arrow!" Tsui Hark cursed.

Zhong Ming sneered, and more vines broke out from the ground under Xu Ke's feet and wrapped him in place.

Gu Congxing had already approached silently, the Whale Slaying Sword in his hand emitted a humming sound, and golden light entwined around it——

"now you!"

He shouted loudly, and swung out a golden sword, hitting Xu Ke's left shoulder!

"Puff——" Tsui Hark immediately spat out a large mouthful of blood!

Damn it! The monster was gone, yet Gu Congxing was still going to do such a cruel thing! At that moment, he almost thought that the sword light was coming for his heart!

"Tsui Hark!" Si Junjian shouted, and immediately put three spiritual arrows on the strings and shot them out!

Gu Congxing felt the fierce fire coming from behind him, looked at Zhong Ming, and flew up.

"Snap!" Gu Congxing swung the sword in his hand and cut off the two spiritual arrows!

Another spiritual arrow was approaching his back. Zhong Ming shouted and shot down the spiritual arrow!

However, the spiritual arrows carried the spiritual power of the Golden Core Stage. Zhong Ming was still in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage, so he was still impacted when he was directly hit, and his arm was burned by the flames.

Gu Congxing saw the situation on his side and immediately said, "Junior brother!"

Zhong Ming's eyes lit up, and he was about to respond when he heard Gu Congxing continue, "Tao Xueting is at a stalemate. Junior brother, it's up to you!"

"Yes! Senior Brother!" Zhong Ming did not hesitate and immediately ran towards the place where the talismans were fighting.

At this time, Si Junjian had arrived with the Lotus Bone Bow in his hand. He frowned and shouted, "Gu Congxing!"

Gu Congxing looked back with the sword in his hand, and the figure of Si Junjian was reflected in his black glazed eyes.

"Xu Ke's monster is gone, why do you still want to do such a cruel thing to him!"

Hearing his question, Gu Congxing raised his eyebrows: "Is it not okay for me to hate him?"

"you!"

Si Junjian raised his longbow, and at this moment, Xie Duyin's loud shout came from not far away:

"Jun Jian! Use that move now! I can't hold on any longer!"

"It turns out there is a backup plan." Gu Congxing held the Whale-Slaying Sword in his hand, and spiritual power surged throughout his body.

Si Junjian's eyes became fierce. He placed a long red arrow on the bow, hooked the bowstring with two fingers, and pulled it to the fullest. On the arrowhead, the red lotus karma fire suddenly rose and expanded rapidly!

“Swish——”

A huge flame fell from the sky!

Zhong Ming saw the fire not far away and shouted, "Brother!"

"Hehe, this is only part of it—" Xie Duyin said to Zhong Ming, who turned and glared at him, "Boy, once you use this move, you're guaranteed to win!"

And just as Xie Duyin said, Si Junjian had just shot an arrow when he shouted, "Tiao Tiao!"

“Ouch—”

The mighty silver wolf monster, with the power of Nascent Soul, came with a long roar!

The corners of Xie Duyin's mouth curled up.

The combination of Si Junjian's full-strength attack and the ancient monster's surprise attack is invincible!

But the next moment, his face went blank due to excessive shock——

The ancient monster actually turned around and stood in front of Gu Congxing, sweeping away Si Junjian's arrow of karma fire!

“Tiaotiao!!”

The voices of Gu Congxing and Si Junjian sounded at the same time, both of them were extremely surprised.

Si Junjian looked at Gu Congxing in disbelief, but at this moment he felt the surging sword intent.

He looked up and saw five golden blades condensed above him, hanging high in the sky, reflecting the scorching sunlight.

"The Endless Art of the Phantom Sword——"

Gu Congxing's voice sounded slowly, giving Si Junjian no chance to react.

"fall!!"

He swung his sword, and five golden lights suddenly fell!

Si Junjian's pupils shrank, and he suddenly summoned a long, completely black arrow without an arrowhead, which was placed on the lotus bone bow in an instant!

"Mysterious Spirit Arrow: Full Coverage!!"

The black arrow flew out, and spiritual energy materialized in the air, condensing into a boundless shield like black iron.

"boom--!!"

The golden blade clashed with the black spirit shield, unleashing a surging wave of energy! !

The long blade broke into pieces, and the spiritual shield was broken layer by layer!

At this moment, Si Junjian heard a faint sound of wind in his ears. It turned out that Gu Congxing was attacking him like a ghost!

Oops, too late—

Si Junjian stepped back, but saw Gu Congjian raising his right arm and suddenly stabbing at him!

"Flowing Clouds, Myriad Things!"

Si Junjian immediately turned around and leaned back, but tripped over a vine, lost his balance and fell backwards.

“Snap!”

The Whale-Slaying Sword chased after him, cut off his temple hair, and stabbed into the stone brick next to his head!

Si Junjian's eyes suddenly widened.

“Ka-!!”

At this moment, the golden blade and spiritual shield above shattered together, and golden and black spiritual fragments fell from the sky.

"You were so careless that you almost got stabbed by me."

Si Junjian heard the young man who was supporting him say this softly, and then saw him smiling in the rain of broken gold, with a dazzling light reflected in his black eyes.

"In this battle, the winner is me. Do you accept it?"

Si Junjian's heartbeat suddenly became louder, even louder than the cheers of the monks outside.

The smile of the person in front of me was extremely proud and wanton.

Yet, it is extremely brilliant.

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Author's words: Xie Duyin: [Clown]

Tiaotiao:?

Zhong Ming: Tsk, it didn’t hit, what a pity