The competition proceeded according to schedule, with two theoretical rounds and three actual rounds. Since it was the last round, even though it was only in the theoretical stage, the competition was in full swing and the contestants all performed bravely.
The most eye-catching ones, of course, are the Jixue and Yuqing families.
Chu Qiurong's level was comparable to Luo Qinghe's, which quickly made him the second focus of the scene. Especially his sword, which revealed a momentum that was comparable to Luo Qinghe's Wanyan sword when he attacked.
You should know that this Wanyan sword was Feng Qi's sword back then. Later, Feng Qi focused on refining weapons and passed the sword to Luo Qinghe. Needless to say, its power is great. What's more rare is that this sword has been proven to be pregnant with a sword spirit. Therefore, a sword that can compete with it is particularly rare.
The audience was discussing Chu Qiurong's background and his sword. The details of the conversation spread into the venue, making the Yuqing disciples feel very upset. Among them, Sheng Yiming was the most exaggerated. He had already started a verbal battle with Jixue's people. Su Youzhi was relatively calmer, but he couldn't help but say something harsh to Tu Nianfang.
"Jixue can't win." She said, standing straight and looking towards Tu Nian.
"A slap in the face hurts." Tu Nian said it in the same concise way.
She said this not out of arrogance, but because she had never taken this competition seriously from the beginning.
As a speedrunner, she clearly knows the strength of each key character at each stage.
For example, Luo Qinghe, the miserable second male lead in the original novel.
In this competition, he was originally supposed to fight with the strength of the fifth level of the Nascent Soul, and in the subsequent sect melee, with the guidance of Su Youzhi, he helped Yuqing win the championship of this competition. As the second male lead, such a plot is considered a highlight moment, but unfortunately, the script has an extra snow.
Chu Qiurong's current cultivation level was at least at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul Stage, essentially the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage. Coupled with the Longquan Sword, as long as she didn't underestimate the enemy or act foolishly like the young men she had previously plotted against, she would have no problem defeating Luo Qinghe, let alone destroying him.
So when everyone was still anxious about the outcome of the competition, Tu Nian was already leisurely thinking about the sect melee the day after tomorrow.
"Five Nascent Souls..."
Thinking about several difficult sects, Tu Nian couldn't help but feel a headache.
Yuqing was a natural choice. With Luo Qinghe as their leader, and Su Youzhi and Sheng Yiming as their assistants, three of the five were sword cultivators, making them the most aggressive and powerful faction in the sect battle.
After that, it was the Underworld Tower. After the talisman competition that day, Tu Nian had asked Bo Qiu about the man who had won first place, the Nascent Soul Talisman Cultivator named Yan Xiao.
The answer was that, if her talisman technique was used as a unit of measurement, this person's strength was roughly equal to or greater than seven or eight of hers. With such a person in the Underworld Tower, coupled with several peak-level Jindan sword cultivators within the sect, they could be considered a formidable offensive force alongside Yuqing in a sect-wide melee.
And then there's the Misty Rain Pavilion. Just judging by their fighting style, they're already the most formidable of the three sects and seven schools, not to mention the addition of a Nascent Soul swordsman. Right now, the Misty Rain is like a venomous snake, ready to bite anyone who comes its way.
Then came Liu Yuzhu from Tianyin and Duan Linsheng from Yinyuetang, one was an elixir cultivator and the other was an instrument cultivator, both of them were auxiliary masters at the Nascent Soul level. No matter whether it was an elixir or a magic weapon, once they took it out, it could be a killing weapon that turned the tide of the battle.
Finally, there's the seemingly unremarkable Bihai Clan, a persistent fixture in this year's competition. This is due to the unique nature of their formation cultivators: the more they are, the more sophisticated and varied their formations become. Bihai Clan often employs four formation cultivators, managing both offense and defense, with a medical or medicine cultivator providing endurance. Even if their cultivation isn't exceptional, their combined abilities, combined with the cunning and ever-changing nature of their formations, can effectively trap their opponents within the complexities of the formation and the terrain.
Thinking about it from beginning to end, it seems that only Danyang, Baihua and Shennong are relatively easier to deal with. This is also the case if we ignore their annoying guerrilla tactics and their superb endurance.
The more Tu Nian thought about it, the more melancholy he became, to the point that he felt a little dazed and ignored the hidden strange smile on Su Youzhi's face.
At this moment, with the sudden cheers in the venue, the duel between Chu Qiurong and Luo Qinghe officially began. Even if Tu Nian no longer felt any interest, it would be difficult to ignore such a high-end duel in such an atmosphere of national enthusiasm.
To put it simply - the fans were too noisy, so she chose to join in the fun.
But you need someone to join in the fun, right?
With so many people around, Bo Qiu had nothing to talk about anyway. Tu Nian looked around again. Aside from a familiar fellow disciple, there were still many people around. It wasn't like she could pick a stranger to talk about how powerful her second senior brother was, right? That would be too ironic.
But this familiar one...
Looking at the man standing among the group of disciples in the snow, Tu Nian, who was always carefree, hesitated for a long time before going up to him.
"Based on the pace of their match, the outcome will probably be decided in less than half a cup of tea." She crossed her arms beside the man and said casually.
“…”
In response to Tu Nian, there was a long silence.
Tu Nian moved his mouth and nose slightly awkwardly and tried again, "Second Brother fought very steadily in this match. He was always half a head higher in momentum..."
"The outcome is decided."
Suddenly, this person blurted out these words, which completely frightened Tu Nian. Then he turned expressionless and seemed to be lost in thought.
"……call."
Tu Nian held his breath until he really didn't seem to intend to continue the topic. Then he blinked and let out the breath in his chest.
"Strange, very strange."
She muttered softly, raising her hand to fan her head to cool down the fire.
The man beside her, whose name was inexplicably unclear, was the last disciple to participate in the sect's melee in the snow. His name was Chi Wenzhao. He was a rare and strange person who made Tu Nian hesitate whether to communicate with him.
Chi Wenzhao is recognized as a man of few words within Jixue. Moreover, his few words are not the cold type like Yuzhe or Luo Qinghe, but an extremely gloomy, detached, and almost pathological type.
In short, in Tu Nian's opinion, it is not so much that he is unwilling to interact with others, but rather that he is a little afraid of interacting with others.
It was this difficult person to communicate with, who had a talent for swordsmanship that could not be ignored, and a superior Golden Core peak cultivation level, who was eventually chosen by Nie Yanchen as one of the contestants in the Jixue Sect's melee.
It’s just that personal strength is one thing, but teamwork is another.
Winning a martial arts competition is a long journey.
Tu Nian was thinking about this and was about to think about the sect's melee, but unexpectedly at this moment, Chu Qiurong, the person she was most confident in, had a problem amid a burst of exclamations from both inside and outside the venue.
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