After Xu Ziqiao returned to the sect safely, all the matters in the Snow Valley were finally resolved. Nie Yanchen personally ordered that all official business in the sect be put on hold, and together with Jin Nanfeng, he supervised and taught the disciples headed by Chu Qiurong to prepare for the competition.
Over the years, the competition has been divided into seven categories: sword, talisman, formation, elixir, weapon, medicine, and medicine. It selects the seven most mainstream ways of cultivation among the three sects and seven schools, which are also relatively powerful ways of cultivation.
Of course, this does not mean that there are only seven methods of cultivation, but methods like the art of taming beasts, the art of music, etc., these miscellaneous methods are mostly used by some independent cultivators. Since they do not join a sect, there is no need for them to include their cultivation methods in the competition.
Taking various factors into consideration, the competition requires that each participating sect must send at least three disciples in each of the seven competitions, but no more than ten disciples. This is also the most important reason why Jixue Valley has missed the competition in recent years.
Just imagine, when disciples from other sects are already vying for those ten places, Snow Valley can't even find three to make up the number. How embarrassing would that be?
However, in this competition, thanks to Tu Nian's imaginative efforts, this embarrassment was finally compensated for.
Although there are only more than 30 disciples in Jixue Valley, and less than 20 of them can participate in the competition, almost everyone has signed up for multiple projects to make up the numbers. However, as long as it is a project within their own field, the one from Jixue Valley is always at the top of the project.
Tu Nian naturally prepared talismans and formations.
With years of design experience under her belt, the only difficulty for her in the talisman competition lies in her spiritual awareness.
Ever since she had practiced hard in the Endless Tower of the Bihai Gate, her spiritual awareness was now on par with cultivators of the same level, so all she had to prepare now were some novel ideas. As for drawing talismans, that was easy.
Therefore, before the competition begins, her main task is to study the flexibility of the formation. As long as she can get an upper-middle ranking in the formation competition, she will have successfully completed the task... right?
It should have been like this, but when everyone in the Snow Valley was busy preparing for the competition, something went wrong on Xu Ziqiao's side.
Since most of the competition was comprised of individual events, everyone trained independently and in a targeted manner. However, there was one exception: the only team event in the competition, the Factional Battle.
The rules of this melee are very simple. Five people from each of the three sects and seven schools are sent into the secret realm together. Each camp is set up and they have to search for five tokens hidden in the secret realm within two days and one night. At the end of the time, the sect that obtains the most tokens wins.
It is not difficult to understand, because there are no restrictions on the methods of practice, and no one is allowed to bring objects beyond their ability, this project requires not only personal strength, but also cooperation among fellow disciples.
Simply put, among the five people, in addition to the sword cultivators who are good at attacking, the control of the talisman cultivators and formation cultivators, the assistance of the weapon cultivators and alchemy cultivators, and the endurance of the medical cultivators and medicine cultivators may all play a key role in this competition.
With five people and seven specialties, how to make decisions and how to arrange them will determine the outcome of this project.
Even though there is only one team project, it occupies the largest weight. Every year there are sects whose individual projects perform mediocrely, but they can jump to the top of the rankings in the team project.
For example, the Misty Rain Pavilion, which is full of beautiful female assassins, is the best example. Although their superb concealment and assassination skills cannot be fully utilized in the arena, in the secret realm with complex and changeable terrain, they are definitely as deadly as venomous snakes with one blow.
In short, at this stage of preparation, other training can be carried out according to the rules, but the sect melee requires coordination together. It was during the process of preparing for the team project that everyone discovered a very fatal problem: Xu Ziqiao was useless.
At the beginning, according to Nie Yanchen's idea, although Xu Ziqiao came back injured this time, he had taken two Wanhua Guiyuan Pills, so he had no doubts about him joining the team in full condition. All the sword-fighting events and sect melees were designed for his participation.
Everyone waited one day, two days, and when Xu Ziqiao still hadn't arrived on the third day, they started to get anxious. They thought, "Even though your swordsmanship is superb, and a few days of slacking off won't affect your individual performance, the team still needs some time to get back on track, right? What if you're so overconfident and stumble?"
The most anxious one among them was Tu Nian. On the third day, he skipped the training and came to Xu Ziqiao to urge people to come.
But when I went into the room, I saw that this guy had just woken up! Then I looked again and saw that all his spiritual power had dissipated completely. He wouldn't be able to recover for at least half a month.
Nie Yanchen and Chu Qiurong arrived shortly after. When they saw the situation, they immediately united with Tu Nian. The three of them surrounded Xu Ziqiao and asked him a lot of questions. Finally, after his difficult recollection, they got an answer that made everyone extremely devastated.
"I was ambushed!" The truth was revealed. Xu Ziqiao was in a coma not only because of Yuqing's abuse, but also because he was poisoned by the Yuqing Sect.
The person who said this was gritting his teeth and full of regret.
Who is listening to this?
Two of them were already sweating profusely, searching for someone to take the blame. The remaining one was lost in thought, "According to the script, wasn't this guy supposed to be caught for dozens of chapters? Why did my arrival just give this reckless guy a boost? What was originally going to happen in five chapters, now it's three?"
Then, before she could finish feeling depressed, Nie Yanchen immediately made the decision and asked her to take the blame for Xu Ziqiao.
Tu Nian was shocked, his eyes, nose and mouth all twisted into a ball exaggeratedly, looking at him with an indescribable expression, "Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"
Asking her, a painter, to compete with those gifted swordsmen, what's the difference between this and asking her to run naked in public?
Nie Yanchen was not panicked and patiently encouraged her, "Compared to other events, our Jixue is still relatively advantageous in swordsmanship. We should strive to be the best in this area."
"Those disciples who didn't sign up for swordsmanship haven't even touched a sword. Just go and make up the numbers, disciples. Who knows, those extra two points might even seal our sect's victory?"
You know what, Tu Nian was really persuaded by these words.
She had worked so hard for such a long time just for this big competition, and now it was finally time for the acceptance, just one step away.
After much deliberation, Tu Nian finally compromised and agreed to Nie Yanchen's arrangement.
For the rise of Snow Valley, isn't it just running naked? She accepted it!
In this regard, in addition to studying the formation and team coordination, Tu Nian also began the devilish training under Nie Yanchen.
After seven days and nights of countless blood and tears, the long-awaited competition in the world of immortal cultivation finally arrived.
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