Chapter 347: No Tied First Place on the Yuanlong List
The bet between Xie Jingxing and Helian Weizong was reached.
The other three men at the scene were witnesses.
The identities of these three are also extraordinary. Two of them are from Danyu, and they are also the leaders of super sects like Danshan Sect, while the other one is the leader of another major sect in Lumoyu.
With these three as witnesses, Xie Jingxing and Helian Weizong would naturally not breach the contract.
Now, it all depends on the outcome of this battle.
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In the clouds above the sword fighting arena, Yun Anlan's eyes were shining brightly at this moment. The strength displayed by Chu Ning was indeed very strong, no wonder he was so confident.
After a few days, the bets on Jiang Zuo's victory had reached 1.2 million, while the bets on Chu Ning's victory were 240,000.
If Chu Ning wins, the company will be able to earn millions of spirit crystals.
One million spirit crystals is an extremely terrifying amount of wealth for any top sect.
If she earns a million spirit crystals, her voice in the business will be expanded.
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Sword fighting arena.
Chu Ning and Jiang Zuo stared at each other from a distance of a hundred meters.
There was also silence in the audience.
At this point, everyone stopped talking and just wanted to quietly watch the upcoming exciting battle.
Ever since Jiang Zuo ranked first on the Yuanlong List three hundred years ago, except for the first hundred years, there have been people who challenged Jiang Zuo. A hundred years later, Jiang Zuo's first place has never been shaken.
The nine Central Region cultivators have recognized Jiang Zuo as the best in the Nascent Soul Stage.
This time, when the news came out that Chu Ning of Danshan Sect challenged Jiang Zuo, many cultivators present did not think that Chu Ning could defeat Jiang Zuo. They even thought that Chu Ning should have broken through and reached the twelfth place on the Yuanlong List, and they became arrogant all of a sudden.
I'm afraid Chu Ning and Jiang Zuo are far behind.
However, now, the monks at the scene have changed their minds.
Chu Ning might be worse than Jiang Zuo, but he is definitely not far behind, just a hair's breadth away at most.
Even if Jiang Zuo wanted to defeat Chu Ning, it wouldn't be that easy.
This battle is bound to be an exciting one.
Jiang Zuo carried two long swords on his back, and his eyes fell on Chu Ning: "Now I admit that you are qualified to challenge me, but you are only qualified, and the final outcome will still be the same."
Chu Ning smiled slightly: "I still say the same thing, when there are no heroes, the little ones become famous."
If Jiang Zuo is conceited, then Chu Ning is arrogant.
Arrogance to the extreme.
Chu Ning's words hit almost all the strong people on the Yuanlong list.
If Chu Ning had said this thirty breaths ago, a group of people at the scene would have ridiculed Chu Ning, but now the top 100 cultivators on the Yuanlong list just had gloomy faces because they could not refute Chu Ning.
It now seems that Jiang Zuo and Chu Ning are unique in the entire Yuanlong list. These two people have surpassed them by far.
Jiang Zuo's eyes narrowed: "It's meaningless for you to anger me at this time."
In Jiang Zuo's opinion, Chu Ning said such arrogant words in order to deliberately provoke him so that he would lose his mind in the battle.
"I'm just speaking my mind. There's no need to use such a crude provocation to deal with you."
Chu Ning put his hands behind his back, and his attitude towards Jiang Zuo was no different from that of the previous ones.
"In that case, then take my sword first and see if you are qualified to say this."
Jiang Zuo was not good at talking, he always used his sword to express his opinions.
As Jiang Zuo patted his shoulder, the long sword on his left shoulder was unsheathed, an astonishing aura burst out, and everyone saw a long sword with a white blade floating above Jiang Zuo's head.
"Black and white swords, Jiang Zuo is preparing for a quick victory."
For sword cultivators, the strongest weapon is always the sword, but this does not mean that sword cultivators will not use magic.
If a sword cultivator does not use his sword but instead uses magic to fight, it can only be said that this sword cultivator is not giving his all.
Only when using the sword does a sword practitioner become serious.
Seeing Jiang Zuo draw his sword right away, the cultivators present understood that Jiang Zuo was not going to fight a fierce battle with Chu Ning, but decided to end the battle quickly.
"cut!"
Jiang Zuo shouted angrily, and the white sword shone brightly, instantly sweeping away the surrounding spiritual energy. Many sword cultivators even felt the swords behind them tremble slightly.
"Brother Jiang's sword intent has become stronger."
The disciples of Wuliangjian Mountain who were watching the battle felt the sword energy and had admiration in their eyes.
Sword cultivators cultivate the sword intent.
The light of the white sword dissipated, and was replaced by a huge sword energy, which caused the space of the sword fighting arena to begin to distort.
The sword energy was a hundred feet long and looked earth-shattering. Under this huge sword energy, Chu Ning's figure seemed very small.
The white sword, carrying a hundred feet of sword energy, slashed down.
Chu Ning's clothes were rustling, and sword energy was all around him, blocking his way back and away.
He could only take this sword head-on.
But Chu Ning didn't think of hiding.
Behind him stood Nian Tangshan, the graves of four powerful gods, and the graves of so many of his fellow brothers Yuanying. What could he possibly lose?
Facing the violent sword energy, Chu Ning's mountain power circulated in his body, the Green Mountain Armor appeared on his body, and his whole aura was constantly rising. This aura directly caused the surrounding sword energy to dissipate.
The next moment, Chu Ning rushed towards Jiang Zuo like a walking Tyrannosaurus Rex, in the shocked eyes of the monks watching the battle below.
Wherever it passed, the sword energy roared and shattered.
Wherever he passed, there was only a residual shadow left, and in the blink of an eye he was in front of Jiang Zuo.
Boom! When he was still three meters away from Jiang Zuo, Chu Ning threw a punch. This punch evolved into a mountain, which crashed towards Jiang Zuo with a force that soared into the sky.
All this seemed to take a long time, but it actually happened in a flash. Jiang Zuo saw that Chu Ning actually withstood his sword. His pupils shrank, but he did not retreat, and his expression became ferocious.
"Then let's fight it out."
Jiang Zuo's right hand held a black long sword, which was the second sword on his back.
There are only a handful of Yuanying realm cultivators who can let him draw his sword, and there has never been anyone who can block his sword.
Instead of retreating, Jiang Zuo advanced, swung out his black sword, and it collided with the mountain.
The two of them collided like meteors, and a terrifying energy exploded at this moment, directly revealing the true appearance of the spirit shield of the sword fighting arena. The entire spirit shield continued to expand in many places, and the light directly filled the entire sword fighting arena. The dazzling light made the cultivators below couldn't help but close their eyes and choose to watch with their spiritual sense.
However, before their spiritual consciousness could get close to the sword fighting arena, they were strangled by the energy released from the arena. Many monks whose spiritual consciousness retreated slowly turned pale and blood flowed from the corners of their mouths.
"The sword fighting platform's spiritual shield has been broken!"
A disciple from Wuliang Jianshan spoke with shock, saying that if the spirit shield was still there, the energy would not be able to be released.
The sword fighting arena was built when Wuliangjianshan was founded. It has gone through many generations of disciples and countless geniuses fighting, but the spiritual shield has never been broken.
It is absolutely impossible to break the spiritual shield below the level of transformation.
Now that the spiritual shield has been broken, it means that the energy used in the battle between Chu Ning and Jiang Zuo has surpassed the limit of the Nascent Soul stage and reached the Spirit Transformation stage.
On an unknown mountain in the distance, Xie Jingxing and Helian Weizong's expressions changed at the same time. They looked at each other, while the other three people beside them had strange expressions.
"It seems that both of you have lost this bet."
“We both lost and we both won.”
With the strength of the five of them, they already knew clearly the outcome of the sword fighting arena at this moment.
Both sides suffer.
Helian Weizong did not speak. Seeing that Helian Weizong did not speak, Xie Jingxing also remained silent.
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Sword fighting arena.
The roar was earth-shaking.
"Everyone retreat a thousand feet."
The referee, a powerful god-transforming master, appeared at the edge of the sword-fighting arena. He could not stop this energy, otherwise the outcome of the fight would be unclear. All he could do was to let the onlookers retreat, while he stopped the energy from continuing to vent from a thousand feet away.
The watching monks quickly retreated a thousand feet away. The powerful god-transforming cultivator formed seals with his hands, and a new spiritual shield appeared, but this time the range had expanded a thousand feet.
“This battle was really unexpected.”
"In fact, it can be predicted that these two are far superior to ordinary Nascent Soul Peak cultivators. A collision of this level is likely to break through the limit."
There is a common theory in the world of cultivators that when two cultivators work together to attack the same target, the power will never exceed one realm. However, if these two cultivators are at the peak of a certain realm and they attack without reservation, the power generated by the collision and explosion of their spiritual power has a very small probability of exceeding the realm.
But no cultivator would do this, even if it was to break the formation, because such an unreserved attack would inevitably result in mutual destruction.
Unless it comes to a real life-and-death situation and they are forced to do so, and both of them must have reached the peak of their realm.
The possibility of meeting all these conditions is too low. In the entire monastic world over the years, there have only been a few such cases.
After fifteen breaths.
The violent energy slowly subsided, and the dazzling light also dissipated. All the cultivators immediately turned their eyes to the sword fighting arena.
"Are these two still standing?"
When the monks present saw the two figures standing upright on the sword-fighting stage, they were all dumbfounded.
Such violent energy has already surpassed the limit of the Nascent Soul Realm, but these two people haven't fallen yet?
How is this possible? On the sword fighting stage.
There were sword marks on the ground, and these sword marks surrounded Chu Ning in the middle like petals.
On the opposite side, Jiang Zuo was also standing there, but the difference was that there was a huge deep pit in front of Jiang Zuo's feet.
Jiang Zuo was like standing in front of an abyss; one step forward would mean eternal damnation.
"Are you two willing to accept a draw in this battle?"
The referee did not go onto the sword fighting arena. Although the two had just collided, their qi were still pulling at each other at this time. If he entered the sword fighting arena, he would disrupt the balance of the two.
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There are many powerful gods who are watching this battle, even the leader of Danshan Sect is there, and these little tricks cannot be hidden from them.
In the sky, Yun Anlan's eyes lit up when he heard this.
Tie?
If the game ends in a tie, the company wins the bet.
She was most satisfied with this result.
The monks watching the scene felt a little disappointed about the result, but after thinking about it, they could accept it.
Jiang Zuo proved his strength as the number one on the Yuanlong list.
Chu Ning also proved that he was not arrogant, but really had the strength to compete with Jiang Zuo.
"There has never been anyone ranked first on the Yuanlong Ranking."
After a while, Jiang Zuo spoke, and Chu Ning's mouth corners slightly raised: "You're right."
The two's voices reached the audience, and all the monks became excited again. These two still want to fight? "What's wrong with Chu Ning? It's okay to choose a tie."
Yun Anlan in the sky was a little anxious. If it was a tie, you would get more of the stakes, so why were you so stubborn and continue to fight to the death?
At this point, Yun Anlan no longer felt that Chu Ning had a chance of winning.
Chu Ning must have underestimated Jiang Zuo's strength before, which is why he was so confident. But now the battle has come to this point, and both of them are obviously at the end of their strength. There is no need to fight anymore.
A draw is already dazzling enough.
After all, jumping from twelfth on the Yuanlong list to first on the Yuanlong list is a completely acceptable result.
Yun Anlan didn't understand why Chu Ning insisted. In fact, Chu Ning had also thought about a draw, but when he thought about the series of actions taken by his sect master over the years, although he didn't know what the sect master's purpose was, he knew one thing: this draw was definitely not something the sect master was willing to accept.
He doesn't care about fame or fortune, but he cannot let down those who are good to him.
The Sect Master was very kind to him and found four Divine Transformation cultivators for him to bury in Nian Tang Mountain. If he accepted a draw, wouldn't it hurt the Sect Master's heart? The most important thing was that he had not used up all his trump cards.
More importantly, this is just a clone. Even if he really fights to the point of only having one breath left, the worst that can happen is that he can return to Tangshan to recuperate.
But what he was curious about was, did Jiang Zuo have any other cards up his sleeve?
"As long as you can take this move, you win."
Jiang Zuo looked at Chu Ning deeply. Not only did his aura not recover, but it was decreasing at a rapid rate.
The breath is becoming weaker and weaker.
Chu Ning also began to form seals with his hands, the Dieshan Seal, which was his most powerful magical power at present.
However, it takes time to perform the Dieshan Seal.
"Why did Chu Ning's spiritual power recover so quickly?"
The powerful gods who were watching the battle in the sky felt the speed at which Chu Ning's spiritual power recovered, and there was surprise in their eyes.
Both of them were injured by energy in the collision just now. The scars caused by this energy that surpassed their realm were not simply caused by the exhaustion of spiritual power. Even taking any elixir to restore spiritual power would be useless. It would take enough time to heal the scars.
But now, Chu Ning seemed to be unaffected at all, and his spiritual power returned to normal in just a few breaths.
These strong men didn’t know that this was because of the power of the mountain in Chu Ning’s body.
"What kind of magical power did Jiang Zuo use to reduce his vitality to the lowest level? If I can't control it, I'm afraid it will affect my future breakthrough to the Spiritual Transformation stage."
After becoming puzzled by Chu Ning's spiritual power recovery speed, these powerful gods could no longer understand Jiang Zuo's condition.
Only a few elders of Wuliangjian Mountain seemed to have thought of something, with anticipation in their eyes.
Nameless peak.
"Are you sure you won't stop me?"
The three middle-aged men who were called in as witnesses looked at Xie Jingxing and Helian Weizong. It was obvious that Chu Ning and Jiang Zuo's final trump card might be out of control.
If we continue to fight, I'm afraid there will be casualties.
"Since the two of them have chosen to continue fighting, let's just leave it to fate."
Helian Weizong expressed his attitude and looked at Xie Jingxing. Xie Jingxing narrowed his eyes slightly and finally smiled casually: "Let these two guys decide for themselves."
On the sword fighting stage.
Chu Ning's Dieshan Seal has reached the twenty-seventh level, and the highest level of Dieshan Seal is thirty-two. With each additional level, the hand seal becomes more complicated.
There will be no signs before the mudra is formed.
On the opposite side, Jiang Zuo's breath had become so low that it was almost impossible to sense it with spiritual consciousness, and at this moment Jiang Zuo's expression became a little dazed, but the next moment, Jiang Zuo suddenly roared to the sky.
The sound shook the sky and exploded across the entire sword fighting arena like thunder, deafening.
The spiritual energy of the entire world began to twist and rotate, and gathered into a huge vortex above Jiang Zuo's head.
A vortex appeared, and suffocating energy vented out from it. At the same time, all the sword practitioners on Doujian Peak found that the spirit swords behind them flew out uncontrollably and hovered in the air, with the tip of the sword pointing towards the direction of the vortex.
It's not a provocation, it's a worship.
Dozens of spiritual swords bowed towards the direction of the vortex. This scene shocked many monks present.
You must know that this is not the spiritual sword of a Foundation Establishment Alchemy cultivator, but the sword of a Nascent Soul Sword cultivator.
The spiritual sword is the most powerful weapon for sword cultivators.
It would be unacceptable for a sword cultivator if his weapon was out of control, because it meant he had chosen to surrender in the face of the enemy.
The sword of a sword cultivator can only be controlled by the sword cultivator himself, because from the moment a sword cultivator embarks on the path of swordsmanship, he will be with the sword and become one with the sword in mind and spirit.
Even a strong man in the early stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm cannot forcibly control the sword of a sword cultivator in the late stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
But now this is what happened.
"Sword!"
Jiang Zuo didn't look at the whirlpool above his head, but roared with a ferocious expression.
As the roar resounded, Jiang Zuo slowly flew up and sank into the whirlpool.
After three breaths.
The vortex dissipated and all the energy disappeared.
The sword fighting arena seemed to have regained its tranquility.
At the same time, a sword light cut through the void and slashed towards Chu Ning.
No one could see clearly where the sword light came from. It was as if the sword light had crossed the void and suddenly slashed out.
"One of the three great magical powers of Wuliangjian Mountain: the Void Body Sword."
In the sky, Yun Anlan had a trace of worry on her face. She didn't expect that Jiang Zuo had actually comprehended the most difficult magical power in Wuliang Sword Mountain.
In the entire Wuliangjian Mountain, among the ten generations of disciples, perhaps there is one who can understand it.
The void-drawing sword.
Using himself as a sword, he shattered the void and slashed out a sword that surpassed his own realm.
The power of this sword has completely reached the level of spiritual transformation.
On the opposite side, Chu Ning's Dieshan Seal was also formed at this moment. The thirty-second level of Dieshan Seal, a black shadow appeared in the void.
The moment the black shadow appeared, the entire space seemed unable to bear it and began to collapse and separate, as if some terrifying giant beast in the void was about to tear through the void and appear at this moment.
Nameless peak.
Helian Weizong's figure instantly disappeared from the spot. Xie Jingxing raised his hand slightly, but finally put it down.
"Jiang Zuo lost this battle."
On the sword fighting arena, Helian Weizong appeared. With a wave of his sleeves, the sword light and the black shadow in the void instantly disappeared into nothingness.
PS: Jiu Deng is not good at writing about fighting scenes. I have deleted and revised this chapter several times after writing it. I have also been constantly learning how to fight recently. I will combine the two chapters into one. The number of words is a little less. I will make up for it with an update of 10,000 words tomorrow.
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