In addition to the spirit stones, the spirit power also has a spirit gathering array to extend the endurance. The spirit pattern ancient wood strips in the body are used as the transmission route, which is very convenient.

If we talk about the characteristics of the Five Elements Pawns, it is that they have no characteristics.

In other words, it is balance.

There is no outstanding aspect in terms of attack, defense, spiritual power, speed, etc.

This was done deliberately by Ning Zhuo.

Without outstanding items, there will be no obvious restraint.

The second round of the palace examination had just begun, and he needed to try to gain more experience in the competition. Therefore, this kind of mechanical creation with balanced performance would have a chance of defeating anyone and could last longer.

Ning Zhuo made enough fire spirit firecrackers to push the ammunition capacity of the Five Elements Pawns to the limit.

After completing this step, he still had a cup of tea left before the deadline.

The actual results were even better than what he had imagined in his mind.

He closed his eyes to rest for a while, then opened them and used the free time to check the five elements pawns from the beginning.

He also used a lifting string to manipulate it and tested its performance in various aspects.

The control only lasted for a short while, and after Ning Zhuo confirmed that it was correct, he stopped there.

Before the battle, we cannot do too much testing. After all, as soon as the mechanical creations start to move, they will start to wear out.

After the actual practice, Ning Zhuo still had some time left.

He carefully checked the table and the tools for making the mechanism, but found nothing new.

In the last short period of time, Ning Zhuo closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and waited for time to end.

When the time came, Ning Zhuo opened his eyes and found that the scene in front of him suddenly became clear.

He saw his opponent.

He was a short man, dressed in martial arts clothes, with his face covered, revealing only a pair of small eyes.

Ning Zhuo immediately recognized the other party's identity: "Feng Feidao, one of the three leaders of the City Lord's Mansion Renovation Team."

Feng Feidao was a little flustered.

The time limit was up, but he was still making arrows for his mechanical puppet.

But after the time limit was reached, the arena sent both of their mechanical puppets to the middle area.

Ning Zhuo stared at the other party's mechanical puppet.

This yellow-green doll is tall and thin, holding a longbow, carrying a quiver on his back, and two small quivers tied around his waist.

There were plenty of arrows in the quiver, but it was not full.

Seeing the Five Elements Soldier with a burly figure and a large amount of charcoal-baked clay piled on its surface, Feng Feidao immediately pulled his wooden arrow hero back towards him.

In the center of the ring, the Mechanical Wooden Arrow Man exploded backwards, quickly widening the distance between himself and the Five Elements Pawns.

"This speed..." Ning Zhuo couldn't help but frown.

The Wooden Archer was as swift as the wind and easily created distance.

In terms of speed, its advantage is obvious.

Ning Zhuo quickly judged: "From the appearance and this action, the other party used materials mainly made of ancient wood with spiritual patterns."

"It seems that heavy objects like fist gold and charcoal-baked clay have been completely abandoned."

“So, it performs quite well in terms of speed!”

After keeping some distance, the Wooden Archer quickly bent his bow and drew his arrow, starting shooting at the Five Elements pawns.

whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

When arrows were shot, some of them exploded with a bang, while others instantly turned into ice cones, which had a piercing effect.

It turned out that Feng Feidao used fire essence and frost flower droplets to make arrows.

Ning Zhuo controlled the five elements pawns, moving forward step by step, and was constantly shot in the process.

Fortunately, he put a lot of thought into defense.

Almost the entire frost flower droplet was used by him to set up the formation, hiding in the bodies of the five elements soldiers, flowing like blood.

Large droplets of frost gushed out and quickly condensed into a huge round shield, covering almost the entire body of the Five Elements Soldier.

Most of the arrows hit the shield, with little effect.

There was a gleam of brilliance in Feng Feidao's eyes, but he was not panicked.

When he designed the Wooden Arrow Man, he considered how to deal with iron lumps like the Five Elements Pawns.

The next moment, he moved his fingers frequently, controlling the Wooden Archer to take out three arrows from the large quiver behind him.

The Wooden Archer put all three arrows on the bow and fired at full blast!

The three arrows did not hit the Five Elements Soldier, but fell at its feet.

The arrows took root in the ground of the arena, grew rapidly, and turned into countless thorns that quickly spread towards the Five Elements pawns.

Ning Zhuo quickly pushed back his hand and pulled the Five Elements pawn back a few steps.

At the same time, he moved his fingers frequently, commanding the five elements soldiers to reach into his belly and take out a handful of fire firecrackers.

Firecrackers were scattered and exploded with a bang.

The bushes were blown up and the ground was black.

The Five Elements Soldier took a step forward and continued to move closer to the Wooden Arrow Man.

Feng Feidao frowned.

He had exhausted all his means of attack, but was unable to defeat his enemy.

"The only solution now is to fight a war of attrition to gain a chance of victory."

"Ning Zhuo's mechanical creation is heavy, and its spiritual energy consumption with every move is much greater than mine."

"Also, its shield is heavy and large. Maintaining such a huge shield surface consumes a lot of spiritual energy."

"On the other hand, my Wooden Arrow Warriors are almost all made of ancient wood with spiritual patterns. They are much more efficient in absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy than their opponents. They also have a spiritual gathering array in their bodies. In terms of spiritual energy consumption, I have the advantage!"

Ning Zhuo's Five Elements Soldiers moved forward with shields, while Feng Feidao's Wooden Arrow Warriors maintained their distance and continued shooting.

The two sides were attacking and defending, and the situation was quite obvious.

The space on the ring is limited, and Ning Zhuo took advantage of this and carefully designed the movements of the five elements pawns, gradually closing the distance.

Feng Feidao was also quite experienced. He made use of the round corners of the arena and was always moving around without any mistakes in his positioning.

Ning Zhuo's expression remained unchanged, and he began to control the five elements soldiers to throw mechanical firecrackers frequently.

These firecrackers have a built-in killing range, which forces the Wooden Archer to keep rolling and jumping, increasing the consumption of spiritual energy.

The Wooden Archer fought back with his bow and arrows, but most of them were blocked by Ning Zhuo's water shield.

Occasionally a few arrows would hit the body, but the effect was minimal due to the charcoal-baked clay.

Feng Feidao's face gradually darkened.

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He discovered a disadvantage of his own - he was running out of arrows! On the other hand, Ning Zhuo's fire spirits and firecrackers seemed to be endless.

For Feng Feidao, the time he had to refine the mechanism was not enough, but for Ning Zhuo, he had more than enough time.

In terms of mechanism manufacturing, Ning Zhuo's advantage was retained and was reflected on the battlefield at this moment.

Feng Feidao realized this and immediately reduced the frequency of shooting, using each arrow carefully.

Seeing the opponent's performance, Ning Zhuo immediately reduced the area of ​​the water shield until it was the size of a regular shield, able to protect half of the body, instead of almost the entire body as before.

"This water shield can actually shrink. It's not just one form!" Feng Feidao received bad news again.

The smaller the water shield, the less spiritual energy it consumes.

Feng Feidao forced himself to remain calm: "Even so, my absorption of spiritual power is still much higher than yours!"

"In this protracted war of attrition, I will be the ultimate winner!"

Ning Zhuo looked serious.

Of course, he also analyzed where the opponent's advantages lay.

So, every time he threw the firecrackers, he did it with all his strength.

As time went by, the middle-grade spirit stones in the Wooden Arrow Hero's body had been exhausted, and he could only move by relying on the external spiritual energy he had absorbed since the beginning of the battle.

Without sufficient spiritual power to support it, its speed dropped significantly.

Ning Zhuo's situation was far from as bad as Feng Feidao had imagined.

Under normal circumstances, the Five Elements Pawn's medium-grade spirit stones would have been consumed long ago. But now, it still has 10% of its spirit stone reserves.

This is because Ning Zhuo adopted the arrangement of the five elements. Every time he used the water shield of the water element, the firecrackers of the fire element, and the surface protection of the earth element, the mana consumed was much less than direct consumption.

The Five Elements Soldier's spiritual energy reserves allowed him to catch up with the Wooden Arrow Man and not be left behind.

At this moment, the balance of victory began to gradually tilt towards it.

The Wooden Archer's speed has been greatly reduced, making him more vulnerable to the range of the Fire Spirit's firecrackers.

These damages accumulate over time, destroying the spiritual pattern and causing it to continuously reduce its efficiency in absorbing external spiritual energy, which is like adding insult to injury.

In the end, the slow-moving Five Elements Pawns forced the Wooden Archer, whose speed had been severely reduced, into a corner.

The two sides engaged in close combat.

The Wooden Arrow Man's fists hit the Five Elements Soldiers, scraping off layer after layer of stone skin.

Every time the Five Elements Soldier punched down, there was a bang, leaving fist marks on the Wooden Arrow Man.

The gap is too obvious!

In the end, the Five Elements Soldiers beat the Wooden Arrow Man so hard that his legs and hands were broken, and he lay paralyzed on the ground, motionless.

Feng Feidao stared at the scene, his hands shaking, veins exposed, and he almost had cramps.

In the melee stage, his control was pushed to his personal limit. After all, the Wooden Archer was weak in melee combat. In order to maintain the situation, he had to make more operations.

He was so busy that his fingers were almost tangled together, but in the end, he still tasted the bitter fruit of failure.

Ning Zhuo defeated the first enemy and gained some achievements.

New information came, allowing him to rest for half a cup of tea.

He was teleported to the square.

Standing outside the ring, he found that there were fights in almost all the rings.

Even the arena where he had just been became blurry and unclear. It was obvious that two other monks were competing with each other.

There were only two people in the square.

One is Ning Zhuo, and the other is a Jindan cultivator from the City Lord’s Mansion.

There is no need for communication between the two parties.

Ning Zhuo's heart was slightly moved: "After the first round of palace examinations and before the second round of palace examinations, another foundation-building cultivator was attacked and killed."

"That is to say, there are actually only 22 people participating in the second round of the palace examination."

"But there are only two people in the field, which means that this spot still exists. This also means that I may encounter this vacancy in the next competition."

Just now on the ring, Ning Zhuo couldn't see clearly what was happening below the ring, otherwise he would have figured it out long ago.

"As stated in the message, everyone will have to fight against everyone else once. Although one person was lost, the quota is still reserved, the same as the first round of the palace examination."

"So, it can still be counted as twenty-three."

Ning Zhuo counted on his fingers: "In this case, the total number of battles has reached 253."

"There are ten arenas. Assuming the fights start and end at the same time, there will be 25 rounds."

"This is just the first round of the competition. According to Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, there will be at least three rounds of the second round of the palace examination."

"Counting the rest time between each round, the total duration of the second round of palace examinations will be at least ten days."

(End of this chapter)