Today is the last day to register for the Tongcheng City Martial Arts Competition. The preliminary rounds will officially begin the day after tomorrow.
This year's martial arts competition has received sponsorship from Baida Real Estate, a well-known real estate developer in Tongcheng City, making the prize money even more generous than last year.
In order to sell their houses better, Baida Real Estate also hung up huge posters in Baida Plaza, the most prosperous shopping mall in Tongcheng City, to promote their properties. At the same time, a competition registration point was also set up there.
The bull demon and the dog demon arrived at the registration point.
The bull demon explained his purpose, showed his forged identity document to the staff member in charge of registration, and then asked the staff member to fill out a registration form for him. Finally, the bull demon wrote the two characters "Niu Er" crookedly on the registration form.
The registration process is now complete.
Dog Three also had a forged identity document, but he lost it at some point. Since he needed to show his ID card to register for the competition, he had to give up.
After registering, Niu Er and Gou San strolled around the square for a while. As it got dark, they ended their search for the day and went back to the convenience store.
...
The room was dimly lit, and the bones and bits of flesh on the floor emitted a sour stench.
The cool moonlight shone through a corner of the window into the dark room in the Longqiao neighborhood.
Inside the room, the imposing figure exuding the powerful aura of a demon general sat cross-legged with its back to the window, crouching low and secretly consuming something, causing a series of soft rustling sounds to emanate from the dark and decaying room.
...
Knock knock!
A knock came at the door, and then two tall, burly figures silently slipped into the dark room.
The tiger demon, who had been crouching and sitting cross-legged, immediately straightened up and turned its back to the person who entered, saying in a dignified and deep voice, "How's the search going?"
"Reporting to Tiger Demon Boss, we've been searching all day but haven't found any suspicious targets yet."
"Keep searching!"
"yes!"
After reporting their work for the day, the bull demon and the dog demon left the room.
The tiger demon turned its neck slightly, glanced sideways, and confirmed that Niu Er and Gou San had left before picking up the unfinished pure white packaged beverage and taking a slurp!
"Human drinks are so delicious!"
The tiger demon squinted its eyes happily; the taste and texture were just like its mother's milk when it was a tiny tiger.
The pale moonlight shone through the window onto the milky white plastic bottle in the tiger demon's hand, which clearly read: Ad Calcium Milk!
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late at night.
Inside the third-floor room of the Rongxia Courtyard, the lights were still on.
Zhang Yuan was controlling the red flames inside an ancient bronze alchemy furnace that was half a person's height. He was putting the medicinal herbs into the furnace one by one in order.
The crimson flames of the Meridian Opening Realm flickered, calcining and coalescing the medicinal herbs.
Body Protection Pill and Strength Pill are relatively easy pills to refine. After two days of trying and several failures, Zhang Yuan has successfully refined the Body Protection Pill. Now, he is trying to refine the Strength Pill.
As Zhang Yuan practiced alchemy more and more, his understanding of alchemy and his mastery of the fire control technique became increasingly proficient, and his success rate in alchemy continued to improve.
The little sword spirit, its blade bent, flew above the bronze alchemy furnace, watching Zhang Yuan refine pills with great interest.
Just like watching the Immortal Zhengyang refine elixirs back then.
After the battle between Daxing Mountain and the python demon, the little sword spirit has awakened.
In the past few days, Zhang Yuan chatted with the little sword spirit and learned some information about the Zhengyang Immortal, such as that the Zhengyang Immortal was good at alchemy and cultivated to become an immortal by consuming pills!
Therefore, they are not good at fighting!
For example, the little sword spirit once lived with the Immortal Zhengyang for thousands of years.
But some of the questions that Zhang Yuan was most concerned about, such as why the Immortal Zhengyang died in the end, and what level of cultivation the Immortal Zhengyang had reached.
The little sword spirit couldn't remember any of them.
In its fragmented memories, it vaguely recalls a great calamity that seemed to have occurred ten thousand years ago, in which many immortals perished.
The little sword spirit couldn't recall the exact realm of the Immortal Zhengyang, but it was certain that the Immortal Zhengyang's realm was at least at the Yang God Realm, or even higher.
Only by cultivating to the level of Yang Shen can one's lifespan reach over a thousand years!
Inside the alchemy furnace, the flames died down, and the first batch of Mighty Pills was successfully refined.
A fragrant aroma wafted from the alchemy furnace. Zhang Yuan picked up a crimson pill from the furnace and examined it closely. The shape of the crimson pill was exactly the same as the Great Strength Pill recorded in the alchemy notes. Therefore, the Great Strength Pill should have been successfully refined.
Zhang Yuan put the Great Strength Pill into his Qiankun Bag, and then the memory of the fall of the Immortal Zhengyang came to mind.
Even a Yangshen realm immortal could perish, which somewhat dampened Zhang Yuan's determination to cultivate immortality. However, upon further reflection, he realized that as long as he followed the legacy left by the Zhengyang Immortal, diligently refined pills, and leveled up by consuming pills along the way, he should be able to successfully cultivate to the Yangshen realm as well.
Once you reach the Yangshen Realm, even if you can't achieve immortality, you should be able to live for several thousand years.
That's worth it!
It's still better than the short lifespan of humans, which is less than a hundred years.
Moreover, once one becomes an immortal, one possesses all sorts of powerful and awesome abilities, and one's body is free from the afflictions of disease.
Having figured this out, Zhang Yuan's Daoist mind became even clearer, and he rediscovered his long-lost determination and motivation to cultivate diligently.
Following Zhang Yuan's thoughts, the bronze alchemy furnace shrank smaller and smaller in the room, eventually becoming a tiny black dot before disappearing into his Qiankun bag.
Zhang Yuan finished a busy day.
Lying in bed, he practiced sleeping exercises to repair the vital energy consumed during alchemy.
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Colorful flags fluttered in the square of Tongcheng City Gymnasium.
A steady stream of athletes and spectators came to participate in the 2nd Tongcheng City Wushu Competition.
The number of participants this year was double that of the previous year, with more than 80 people signing up. The scale and scale of the competition were quite large, and even local media and radio stations sent people to cover it.
Following the arrangements of the competition organizers, Zhang Yuan and Li Hu went to the contestant registration area to sign in, and after verifying their identities, they received a free set of competition uniforms.
Since Baida Real Estate is the sponsor of this martial arts competition, all the competition uniforms are printed with Baida Real Estate's logo.
After changing their clothes, Zhang Yuan, Li Hu, and the other contestants sat on the competition floor, waiting for the martial arts competition to begin.
The competition consists of three rounds.
Today is the first round of the preliminary round, which will determine the top 8 teams to advance to the next round of the semifinals.
At 9:00 AM, the Second Tongcheng City Wushu Competition officially began.
According to the procedure, the leaders of the Tongcheng City Sports Department and the general manager of Baida Real Estate took turns to speak, and then the host read out the competition rules.
The preliminary round officially began at 9:30.
The preliminary round will use a points-based challenge system.
The 82 contestants were divided into 4 groups, with each contestant in each group having 4 opportunities to compete. Each competition lasted 30 minutes.
The winner is the one who defeats their opponent within 30 minutes and receives 2 points. The loser receives 0 points. If the score is tied within 30 minutes, each side receives 1 point.
The top two players from each group will advance to the next round of the semifinals.
The 82 contestants were divided into 4 groups by computer beforehand, and the list of each group was announced at this moment. Zhang Yuan was assigned to the first group, and Li Hu was assigned to the second group.
Tongcheng Stadium has four competition venues. Except for the first group of athletes who stayed in their original venue, the participants of the other three groups were led to their respective designated sub-venues by the hostesses.
After the contestants from the other three groups left, the referee, who was also the host, took the microphone and announced on the stage that the first group's competition had officially begun.
"Is there any contestant who wants to go up first?"
"If not, the computer will randomly select one."
The twenty-one people in the audience looked at each other, all hesitant.
At that moment, a loud voice rang out.
"I'll go first."
Zhang Yuan stood up and calmly walked onto the ring.
If the selection is done randomly by computer, then the whole day will be spent waiting here. Zhang Yuan wants to save time, finish the match as soon as possible, and go back home.
Furthermore, most of the twenty-one contestants present did not leave a strong impression on Zhang Yuan.
With his cultivation at the Meridian Opening Realm, coupled with the Mighty Golden Light Mantra, as well as the Body Protection Pill and the Mighty Strength Pill, Zhang Yuan was confident that he could advance to the next round of the semi-finals, unless he encountered a cultivator more powerful than him.
Zhang Yuan was completely convinced of his defeat.
"Contestant number 36, Zhang Yuan, deserves commendable courage!"
The referee and host applauded the first contestant to take the stage.
"Which contestant would like to be the first to come up and spar with contestant number 36?"
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