The Foundation Building Banquet is a traditional ritual passed down from ancient times. Tens of thousands of years ago, a cultivator could only be considered an official Foundation Builder if he or she reached the Foundation Building Stage.
Therefore, the foundation-building banquet is to announce to the outside world that the other party has become a formal cultivator, similar to the full-moon banquet for ordinary babies.
The Foundation Building Banquet originally had a complicated process, but as time went on, it was gradually simplified.
Now, except for the competition at the most important banquet, the others are similar to ordinary banquets.
With the outbreak of the demon disaster and the scarcity of supplies, many people no longer hold foundation-building banquets. Only those families with a certain amount of power and background will hold foundation-building banquets according to tradition.
Especially for a family like the City Lord's, it's basically a banquet to officially confirm the successor. That's why so many people attended Lin Yang's foundation-building banquet.
This is to show loyalty. The new city lord has been determined. If you want to live a good life in Guigu City, you have to come!
Originally, this banquet duel was just a formality, to show everyone that Lin Yang was indeed at the Foundation Establishment stage and gain everyone's approval. But unexpectedly, someone actually dared to commit suicide and jumped out during the banquet duel, wanting to play for real.
Lin Yang originally thought that he could not complete the task and was worried, but unexpectedly, Zhao Ning gave him this surprise.
For the first time, Lin Yang felt that Zhao Ning, this dandy boy with a bad temper, was still useful.
Maybe the system has anticipated all this?
"My name is Zhao Zhong. Master Lin, please teach me."
Zhao Zhong is Zhao Ning's cousin. This slap in the face was really severe.
Doesn’t Zhao Ning want to live anymore?
However, it is a good thing for Lin Yang.
Lin Yang has learned a lot and has long wanted to compete with others.
So without waiting for his father or others to stop him, he went on stage to return the greeting.
"My name is Lin Yang, please teach me."
When cultivators fight, they compete with each other in terms of the speed of their clan's magic, the amount of spiritual energy, the types and combinations of spells, etc.
At the beginning of the duel, Zhao Zhongshang cast a defensive spell on himself - Golden Armor, and then threw a fireball.
"Zhao Zhong is only around twenty-four or twenty-five, but he's already reached the peak of the primary foundation building stage. His cultivation is quite impressive. Furthermore, I didn't expect him to have so much combat experience and a very fast spellcasting speed. He must have fought in at least a hundred battles. I've never heard of him like that before! How bizarre."
"I've heard of Zhao Zhong. I heard he was thrown into the Colosseum just after he came of age. Haha, you haven't heard of Zhao Zhong, but you must have heard of the Colosseum's undefeated general, 'Barbarian General.' Let's not talk about the Zhao family's mess. Zhao Zhong's experience in fighting is more than good. Young Master Lin is in trouble this time."
"When a swordsman faces a cultivator, he can usually only deliver one strike, which puts him at a disadvantage. In a duel with strict rules like this, he's even more disadvantaged. I'm afraid Young Master Lin is going to lose."
"I heard that Young Master Lin was only at the sixth level of Qi training a month ago, and he advanced to the foundation-building stage so quickly. Tsk tsk, must he have used a foundation-building pill? He's not even twenty years old yet, and he's already used a foundation-building pill. Doesn't that mean he has no future?"
"With a family background like Young Master Lin's, he can only reach the Foundation Establishment stage. The later stages are useless, so naturally there are no such concerns. I heard that many of the current City Lord's Mansions use the same routine. They let the less talented disciples take Foundation Establishment Pills to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, and then take care of the chores, while the talented disciples focus on cultivation."
"This... Haha, although it's unexpected, it's also reasonable. There are things in this world, alas——"
Lin Yang seemed a little naive and flustered when fighting with others for the first time. It was not until Zhao Zhong had a defensive spell and threw a fireball at him that he reacted and immediately used the willow catkin sword intent to speed up and dodge.
Just as he dodged, another fireball flew towards him, and Lin Yang had no choice but to step down and dodge again. His figure was in a very embarrassed state.
But the audience was amazed.
"Is this... the wood-type spell Willow Catkins Flying Technique? No... this is sword intent... wow... this is truly amazing. I heard that sword cultivation and cultivation are one and the same, and it's true. Using sword intent and sword energy can actually achieve the same effect as a spell. And it's even faster and more flexible. It's incredible."
"Yes! We don't have any powerful sword cultivators in Guigu City. I heard that sword cultivators have become the mainstream in the Shushan Qingcheng area."
"Yes, it's the place where the ancestor of sword cultivation preached. I heard that it's now divided into two factions, namely 'One Sword Performs All Laws' and 'One Sword Breaks All Laws'. Young Master Lin should be from the 'One Sword Performs All Laws' faction. I heard that this faction is the direct descendant of the ancestor of sword cultivation. The number of members is very small, and they pay special attention to talent and understanding."
"I've heard of the 'Performing School' and the 'Destroying School' too. The 'Performing School' has declined now. I heard they've recalled all their disciples, and you can only see them around Mount Shu and Qingcheng. The 'Destroying School' is now the dominant force."
"Who said the 'Breaking Law School' was so easy to learn? It turns out the orthodox 'Performing Law School' deserved this fate."
In the duel arena, Lin Yang kept dodging with the Willow Catkins Sword Technique. He was a little embarrassed at the beginning, but slowly adapted to Zhao Zhong's rhythm. He began to use the Thorn Sword Technique from time to time to counterattack.
Gradually, the speed of the two people slowed down significantly.
"It seems that too much spiritual energy has been consumed. The outcome will soon be decided."
"Young Master Lin is already very outstanding. He just advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage and he's already fought Zhao Zhong to this degree. Young Master Lin has quite a good fighting talent."
"Battle talent... hehe..."
How many of them are trained in combat professions but lack combat talent and combat experience?
This was after the demonic disaster. I've heard that this phenomenon was even more severe before it. Everyone was focusing on empty talk and avoiding reality, pursuing enlightenment and attainment. Combat-class cultivators were, in fact, synonymous with vulgar and inferior people.
Now all the cultivation families have begun to cultivate conscious combat professions. There is no other way. In such a chaotic world, it is too dangerous to have no combat profession cultivators who can fight.
For the sake of family inheritance, even if combat professions consume a lot of energy and yield little reward, they must continue to invest. The more combat professionals, the better, so as to ensure the safety of their family.
"It is detected that the host's spiritual energy has been consumed too much. The spiritual energy reserves in the body are less than 20%. Do you want to consume 10 merit points to replenish the spiritual energy?"
Lin Yang immediately responded in his heart: yes.
This is Lin Yang’s trump card, he is not afraid of a war of attrition.
Spiritual energy can only be restored for free during the Qi training stage, but after advancing to the foundation building stage, merit points must be consumed.
The quality and quantity of the restored spiritual energy had improved significantly, so charging merit points was reasonable. He had found merit points easy to earn anyway, and at least now he rarely worried about it.
Although his spiritual energy had fully recovered, he still pretended that it was about to run out.
Finally, Zhao Zhong used his last spiritual energy to fight back, bursting out with astonishing power. Lin Yang immediately dodged with all his strength, then stepped forward and put his sword on Zhao Zhong's neck. Zhao Zhong lost.
"Beep—Random mission 'Stunning' completed, rewards distributed, waiting to be claimed."
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