Chapter ninety-six, two years of low profile
Time flies, and two years have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past two years, Qingshi has been keeping a low profile and working hard.
Thanks to the treasures of heaven and earth such as dragon blood and Baihua Jade Liquid, Qingshi's Qi cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds. Three months ago, he had already reached the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation Realm, and he will break through to the Yuan Dan Realm just waiting for an opportunity.
Shen Binghong's cultivation level has also reached this bottleneck, and Duan Xiaoyu has already broken through to the Yuan Dan realm a year ago. Stepping into the Yuan Dan realm at the age of less than twenty naturally shocked the entire Tianlong Academy and even Chao Ge. city.
Like Teng Shouqian, Qingshi never participated in various ranking competitions in the academy. In the practice of martial arts, apart from fighting against trial puppets, Qingshi basically competed with Chen Tianye. Qingshi often competed with Xiang Wuji in terms of formation technique, but he immersed himself in studying the weapon technique on his own.
At this time, Shen Feiyun had graduated. Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian occupied the second and third positions on the Tianlong Ranking. The first place was still Jiang Chenxiu.
Since Qingshi reached the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation Realm half a year ago, his combat power has basically been equal to that of Chen Tianye, so that every time they compete, Chen Tianye is always amazed by Qingshi's progress. You must know that Chen Tianye is already at the third level of Yuan Dan Realm. Yes, his talent is among the top in the academy, and his progress is not slow.
However, Qingshi has grown from a young monk in the Qi Gathering Realm to being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Chen Tianye in just a few years. Such talent is indeed unprecedented in the entire Tianlong Academy.
The sixth school year is about to come to an end, and Qingshi is finally going to participate in the inner courtyard dragon and tiger ranking competition.
Because, according to time, the six years of study in Qingshi Inner Academy have been completed. If he wanted to stay in the academy, other than becoming a preparatory elder of the Academy like Na Zhiyong, the only option was to enter the Martial Arts Academy.
Naturally, Qingshi would not choose to work for the academy for thirty years. Then there was only one way to enter the Martial Arts High School. And to enter the Martial Arts High School, one of the important test items is the record on the Dragon Tiger Ranking or Tianlong Ranking.
Qingshi does not intend to compete in the Tianlong Ranking. Although he thinks that he can definitely fight with Jiang Chenxiu, who is number one on the Tianlong Ranking. However, the people on the Tianlong Ranking are all Yuan Dan realm practitioners. Qingshi does not want to go too far. .
Qingshi signed up to participate in the Inner Academy Dragon and Tiger Ranking. This list is commonly called the Martial Arts Inner Academy Dragon and Tiger Ranking. In fact, inner academy students from the three schools of Shudao can also participate.
Qingshi had never participated in the Dragon and Tiger Ranking of the Inner Court, so he was not familiar with the rules. On this day, Zhang Hao came to the East Tenth Building to get elixirs, and Qingshi invited him to drink tea in the Nine Buildings and asked him about the Dragon and Tiger Ranking. matter.
A few months ago, Qingshi had entrusted the automatic alchemy device to Zhang Hao for management. At this time, Zhang Hao was already a second-level alchemist. He was very talented and had entered the Martial Arts High School for three years. In terms of connections and emotional intelligence, Zhang Hao He is also number one in the academy. He accounts for more than half of the academy's elixirs and other businesses.
Zhang Hao took a sip of tea and praised: "Brother's tea and wine are really wonderful, but it has been harder to drink them in the past two years. What are your orders, boss?"
Although he is older than Qingshi, and even though he has hundreds of younger brothers, Zhang Hao has always regarded Qingshi as his eldest brother, and even faced Jiang Chenxiu's recruitment, he did not change his family. Qingshi believes that this is not only Zhang Hao's loyalty, but also his intelligence. He didn't even know how well Zhang Hao knew him and how many secrets he knew about him.
Qingshi also took a sip of tea and said, "I'm going to take the exam for the Martial Arts High School. Please tell me how the inner court's Dragon and Tiger Rankings are ranked."
"Congratulations, boss," Zhang Hao said with a smile, "I have been keeping a low profile for so many years, and now I am going to become a blockbuster!"
"I'm too lazy to deal with all this!" Qingshi wrote lightly, "It's best to have battle results to enter the High Court. I have no choice but to participate. However, since I want to fight, I have to get first place."
"Okay!" Zhang Hao said excitedly, "It should have been like this a long time ago. Some of my short-sighted brothers often say that I worship a three-no big brother. This time I will let them know what my vision is."
"Brother Sanwu?" Qingshi asked curiously, "Are you talking about me? How about Sanwu?"
"No fighting power, no fame, no background!" Zhang Hao laughed.
"Tch! These bastards!" Qingshi also said with a smile, "But why do I feel like I'm talking about you!"
"How can I compete with the boss!" Zhang Hao said, "These bastards are short-sighted. In their eyes, my combat power is not weak. After all, I am in the High Court, but you are still in the Inner Court. As for your reputation, within the scope of the academy, My reputation is still very good, to be blunt, I am more famous than you. As for my background, that is because they don’t know your background, my boss.”
"What?" Qingshi said, "Do you know my background?"
"I don't know," Zhang Hao said, "but I can guess pretty much."
"Oh?" Qingshi said with a smile, "Then come and listen!"
"I guess the eldest brother is Dean Mo's disciple, right?" Zhang Hao said tentatively.
"Wrong!" Qingshi replied.
Next, Zhang Hao carefully explained the ranking competition rules of the Inner Court Dragon and Tiger Ranking to Qingshi.
The Inner Academy Dragon and Tiger Ranking holds a ranking competition at the end of each school year. Everyone in the Inner Academy can register. Those who were not originally on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking will be randomly assigned to five groups after registration. Generally, each group will have 20 to There are about thirty people, because every year there are about one hundred to one hundred and fifty new registrations.
Everyone must randomly draw lots within the group and play against ten opponents based on the results of the draw. Then, the ten people with the best results in each group will be grouped together again with the fifty people on the original Dragon and Tiger list to compete again. These one hundred people will be divided into ten groups. The top ten people on the original Dragon and Tiger list will be the seed players, and the distribution will be divided into ten groups. In the ten groups, the other ninety people were randomly divided into groups.
After that, there will be a single round-robin, with each player playing nine more games. The top five in each group will be the top 50 in the new Dragon and Tiger rankings.
After the top fifty were determined, the college management council ranked them from one to fifty based on their performance. This ranking was obviously not accurate enough, so the final ranking still needs to be challenged and fought against.
Each of the fifty people on the list has up to three opportunities to challenge you. At the same time, everyone must challenge you at least three times, unless there are no three people to challenge you.
Finally, if you want to be number one on the Dragon and Tiger list, you need to unconditionally accept all challenges after ranking first. Of course, the challenger must be among the top fifty.
After listening to Zhang Hao's introduction, Qingshi discovered that this ranking competition on the Dragon Tiger Ranking does not seem to be entirely a reflection of strength. There is also an element of luck, challenge and fighting skills, which will also affect the ranking.
In addition, there are too many battles to be played. Under normal conditions, each person will have to play more than 20 games, and this is exactly what the academy hopes to achieve.
On the first day of the last month of this school year, the Dragon and Tiger Ranking Competition begins. Every day, the college announcement office will post the personnel and time schedule for the battle on the second day. Qingshi’s first battle is scheduled on the The afternoon of the second day.
On the second day, when Qingshi came to the battle arena, the ten battle arenas in the central square of the college were crowded with students, and battles were going on in each battle arena.
Qingshi came to the No. 6 battle stage. At this time, two students on the stage were fighting. Qingshi didn't know these two people, and judging by their clothes, they were both from the inner martial arts academy. Judging from the momentum they exuded, the male was in the fifth stage of Qi Condensation Realm, and the female was in the seventh stage of Qi Condensation Realm. It was obvious that the female students had a huge advantage. Sure enough, After less than twenty moves, the male student voluntarily gave up.
The next game was also one-sided and lackluster.
"Qingshi, a second-year student in the Qi Dao Inner Academy!" the referee elder on the stage read while holding the roster, "Wang Xiaotian, a first-year student in the Martial Arts Inner Academy."
Qingshi pushed aside the crowd and walked up the stairs to the stage, but Wang Xiaotian jumped directly from the crowd, landed on the stage early and registered first.
Qingshi took out his student card and handed it to the registered elder to check the registration. There are three elders in each arena, one for registration and identity verification, one for the referee, and one for the supervisor.
After registering, Qingshi walked to the center of the ring, only to hear his opponent shout in surprise: "Hey, Brother Qingshi! Is it really you? I am Wang Xiaotian! Do you still remember me?"
Qingshi was stunned for a moment, then looked carefully, and saw that his opponent was a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old. He was not tall and thin, with delicate features and clear eyes. He was the same boy he met on the speed train when he was traveling from Yahua City to Liangyuan. Wang Xiaotian, the talkative young man, hasn't seen him for six years. Except that this boy has grown a little taller, he hasn't changed much.
"It turns out it's you!" Qingshi smiled, "What a coincidence. When did you enter the academy?"
"I was admitted directly to the inner academy three years ago," Wang Xiaotian said. "It's a pity that I didn't know you were also in the academy, or I would have come to see you a long time ago."
Qingshi thought to himself that he was in the limelight in the first few years when he came to the academy, but in the past two years, he has been practicing hard and keeping a low profile, so much so that Zhang Hao's younger brother called himself the Sanwu eldest brother. No wonder Wang Xiaotian didn't know about him.
"Are you competing or reminiscing about old times?" the referee said angrily, "The game begins!"
Wang Xiaotian stuck out his tongue and smiled at Qingshi: "Be careful!" After saying that, he held two sharp swords, one long and one short, and rushed towards Qingshi.
Qingshi took out a long sword and fought with Wang Xiaotian.
The students have already known the rules of the competition. Weapons and armors can be used, elixirs, poisons, etc. cannot be used, and no intentional injury is allowed until the winning point of the competition is reached.
As soon as Wang Xiaotian's body technique was activated, his momentum was released. Qingshi immediately saw that his Qi cultivation was about the middle level of Qi Condensation Realm. Judging from his weapons and martial arts, most of them had water attribute Qi. His moves were based on It is characterized by fast and dense.
Qingshi calmly unfolded his long sword to fight, using a yellow-level middle-grade sword without attributes, using Xuan Sword Technique.
At this time, Qingshi had already practiced Xuan Swordsmanship to the fourth level, and his sword moves had been streamlined to sixty. The sword moves moved at will, and no matter how fast Wang Xiaotian's two swords were, they were easily resolved invisible.
Qingshi didn't want to embarrass Wang Xiaotian, so he let out his momentum. When Wang Xiaotian saw that he was already at a high level of Qi Condensation Realm, he was immediately discouraged. After a fierce attack was ineffective, he decisively retreated and admitted defeat.
After the battle, Qingshi and Wang Xiaotian talked for a while and learned that Wang Xiaotian was not doing well in the academy. There was a disciple from a rival family who kept troublesome with several people, so Qingshi took him to find Zhang Hao and asked Zhang Hao to Come forward and resolve it.
Wang Xiaotian knew Zhang Hao well, and knew that he was the senior of the High School, the biggest boss in the college’s elixir refining trade, and had hundreds of subordinates. If you can establish this relationship through bluestone, you will no longer be afraid of being bullied by your enemies.
Wang Xiaotian admired Zhang Hao so much that he even wanted to make Zhang Hao his eldest brother, and Zhang Hao naturally refused. Wang Xiaotian got what he wanted and was filled with joy. When he heard Zhang Hao call Qingshi his eldest brother, his eyes widened and he couldn't figure out what was going on for a long time.
