The first month of the competition mainly consisted of one-on-one matches.
One-on-one contests take various forms, including martial arts, alchemy, weapon crafting, medicine, and beast fighting.
Each disciple can sign up for which competitions to participate in, and the Yunyang Sect will randomly assign opponents by drawing lots.
Before each contestant is defeated, they can choose to continue fighting indefinitely until they are defeated or become the number one.
Qi Yu signed up for three competitions: martial arts, alchemy, and beast fighting, since she wasn't particularly skilled in weapon crafting or medicine.
As for animal fighting...
Qi Yu chuckled, clasped his hands together, and said to the silver-haired man sitting at the table, "Please, please, I'm sorry to trouble you to help me out!"
Although it would be a disgrace to Feng Xiao's prestige to have a phoenix driven around like an ordinary spirit beast on the arena, she really needed these points!
Feng Xiao glanced at her with a detached look.
Qi Yu blinked even more devoutly.
Feng Xiao turned his face away and said in a muffled voice, "If Xiao Yu wishes."
Qi Yu then broke into a victorious smile.
With Feng Xiao, the phoenix, by her side, she's determined to win the beast fighting championship!
After a month of one-on-one matches, the team competition will begin.
It is said that during the team competition, the organizers will randomly send the disciples of the two teams into a secret realm.
In the secret realm, the methods of competition are not fixed.
The first mode is the battle mode, where each team member must do their best to kill their opponent after entering the secret realm.
The second mode is the treasure hunt mode. The organizer will place a treasure in a secret area and give a few hints. The team that finds the treasure and delivers it to the designated location first wins.
The third hunting mode is similar to the secret realm trial mode of the Flying Star Sect's recruitment ceremony. The competition involves killing as many creatures as possible in the secret realm within a specified time. After the time is up, the number of prey in each team is calculated, and the team with the most prey wins.
The last type is the escort mode, where the organizers will give each team an object to escort, which may be a person or an object. Each team must safely deliver the object to its destination, and the fastest team wins.
Of course, if the object being escorted dies or is damaged, then the team will naturally fail.
Thinking of this, Qi Yu couldn't help but sigh again.
Unfortunately, the Undying Wood is the prize awarded to the sect with the highest score in the final points settlement of the sect competition.
This means that even if she works tirelessly like a donkey in a production team, she might not be able to get the Immortal Wood in the end.
Of course, despite her words, she still decided to give it her all.
After all, she will encounter many opponents during the competition, and combat experience is essential if she wants to have a smoother cultivation journey in the future.
"Beep beep—"
The blue pager on the table suddenly made a sound.
A gentle and familiar voice came from the paging stone:
"The competition is about to begin. Fellow Daoists, please place your hands on the paging stone. The paging stone will take you to the Yunyang Sect Martial Arts Hall."
It was Venerable Yangxi's voice; he was probably about to gather all the disciples participating in the competition and announce the competition's rules and regulations.
Qi Yu looked at Feng Xiao.
The silver-haired beauty transformed into a little white bird and flew into her arms.
"tacit agreement!"
Qi Yu smiled and snapped his fingers, placing his hand on the blue paging stone.
A burst of blue light suddenly shone, engulfing Qi Yu.
In the blink of an eye, she appeared in a magnificently renovated hall that was so large that its boundaries were almost invisible.
Inside the Martial Arts Hall, patches of dark light shone in the air, exuding a mysterious aura, seemingly like black holes leading to another world.
Wisps of colorful light swirled and coiled around the black hole, making it look just like a black hole in space.
And these black holes, if counted carefully, number in the dozens or even hundreds.
People were constantly being teleported over, and when they looked up at the countless black holes, they couldn't help but sigh in amazement.
Wen Ru walked to her side and pointed to the black holes, saying, "These are secret realms created by the Yunyang Sect using secret techniques. Those black holes are the entrances to the secret realms."
"These secret realms within the Martial Arts Hall are the venues for the grand competition."
Qi Yu nodded in realization.
Yunyang Sect truly lives up to its reputation as a long-established cultivation sect; its foundation is indeed impressive.
Although the Flying Star Sect is wealthy and powerful, it has never created so many secret realms.
However, the reason is that the Flying Star Sect is known for its alchemy and weapon crafting. Most of the sect's secret realms are used for planting spiritual herbs and mining veins, and there are not many secret realms used for combat.
As for the Yunyang Sect, it can be said that eight or nine out of ten disciples are sword cultivators. In addition to practicing swordsmanship on their own, they also need to be provided with a variety of real-world battlefields to hone their combat skills.
A secret realm would be perfect.
After all, when cultivators fight, it always makes a lot of noise, and it's never good if they damage things in the sect.
But it's different in the secret realm. For a highly skilled secret realm forger, repairing the environment within the secret realm is just a matter of a moment.
In particular, these specially crafted secret realms are not as dangerous as some of the cave dwellings left behind by powerful beings or naturally formed secret realms. Most of the factors in these secret realms can be controlled.
Therefore, the disciples can fight to their hearts' content in the secret realm.
As time went by, more and more people filled the Martial Arts Hall.
Some monks with wide social connections gathered in twos and threes, greeting each other and exchanging pleasantries.
Qi Yu stood in the spot reserved for the Flying Star Sect, lost in thought.
Today is the first day of the competition. She has signed up for three events and doesn't know which category she will be drawn into.
As the crowd gradually filled the area, a group of people suddenly entered slowly from outside the palace gate.
The leader was handsome yet serious. Although he looked very young, he had a small goatee on his chin and exuded a powerful aura.
Behind him stood a tall, handsome young man, elegant and dignified, dressed in a simple blue robe of a Yunyang Sect disciple and carrying a seven-foot-long sword.
He had clear features and a gentle smile. As he walked, he would nod to the passing monks from time to time.
Qi Yu silently pursed her lips.
It must be said that Chu Mo presents himself quite respectably in public.
It's a pity that you can know a person's face but not their heart.
She squinted and searched among the group for a long time, but couldn't find the beautiful woman in white.
Because Burning Heart was transformed from the Broken Jade Burning Heart Zither, it did not know how to use its power in its initial ignorant period. When it participated in the spiritual root test of Yunyang Sect, it did not show any signs of spiritual root.
It was only because Chu Mo, a disciple favored by the sect leader, pleaded on Fen Xin's behalf that he was able to stay in the Yunyang Sect.
However, the special treatment she received from the sect leader's personal disciple made her situation even worse to some extent.
Not to mention Qi Yu, the vicious female supporting character in the original book, even some ordinary disciples had secretly bullied her.
Of course, in the end, all of these people could not escape being slaughtered by Chu Mo, the protector of the flowers.
However, the original book is one thing, but when you actually arrive in this world and witness the scene of Burning Heart casually dismembering his subordinates...
Qi Yu just wanted to say...
Give her back her innocent and naive female lead role!!!
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