The next morning, Xu Huaigu drank wine last night and wanted to have a good rest, so he did not practice but fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, after not sleeping for a long time, he slept until the sky was dark and the earth was dark. Xu Huaigu was still in bed until three o'clock in the morning.
There was a rapid knock on the door, and Liu Waner urged: "Xu Huaigu, come out quickly. We agreed yesterday to draw lots. Let's see how you sleep!" When Xu Huaigu heard this, he suddenly woke up from his sleep and jumped up. He got up, hurriedly put on his clothes, and responded: "I overslept, and I'll be out right away!" Liu Waner slammed the door a few times in annoyance, and Zhuang Yeyun beside her said with a smile: "Wan'er, you seem to have a good relationship with him. Yes. I think he is polite to all of us, but he seems to be familiar with you." Liu Waner said with a straight face, "That's not true. After all, I have known him for more than half a year. He passed out in Qingfeng Valley. In a month, if I hadn't made soup for him every day, he would have starved to death." Lu Wei defended: "A monk doesn't need to eat, he will be hungry at most, but he will definitely not starve to death." Liu Waner rubbed it Her hair, saying: "What do children know? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense." Lu Wei was unhappy and gently
"Oh", Xu Huaigu rushed out of the room. Seeing everyone waiting for him outside, he immediately apologized with an embarrassed smile: "I'm sorry, everyone, I kind of overslept." Liu Waner didn't give him a good look. , without saying a word, he led the group of people forward.
Xu Huaigu knew that she was probably still angry with Zhuang Yeyun about last night, so he just smiled helplessly and followed the others.
They had already been to the place where lots were drawn last time. This time they knew the route and arrived quickly. The person in charge of drawing lots was an elder. There were many yellow paper charms in front of him. On the paper charms were the information of the participating monks.
Anyone who goes to draw lots just needs to take one piece at random, and whoever is on that paper will be the one to play against.
Xu Huaigu took a yellow paper talisman from the elder in charge of drawing lots, walked aside, and started to read.
There is a portrait on it, and there are some words under the portrait. The portrait shows a young woman with broad features and a tall figure. She is not a gentle beauty by any means.
However, this competition was based on each person's skill, not their appearance. Even though Lu Jin had a good-looking face, he was eliminated in the first round, but this woman made it to the second round.
Generally speaking, even if female monks are not good-looking, the changes in temperament brought about by practice will make them look more attractive, but this woman is definitely an exception.
Xu Huaigu read further curiously and saw her sect and name. He frowned in confusion and said to himself: "King Kong Sect? Which sect is this?" Liu Waner looked over and said: "King Kong Sect is a sect in the west of Fusang Kingdom. It is established in a desert and is also the east Fuyao Continent. A second-rate sect. This woman is quite famous. Her name is Cao Zhichun. She is at the peak of the Five Realms. She should be the most powerful disciple of the King Kong Sect. The King Kong Sect practices physical fitness, which is somewhat similar to that of a martial artist. You know the saying between martial artists There is a slang saying, "With one punch, all the monks in the world will be lower than me", right? This kind of monk who practices physical fitness is the most difficult to fight in close combat. It will be a tough battle for you to face her, so be careful. "Xu Huaigu nodded solemnly and looked at Liu Waner's lottery, only to see that it was a person in the middle stage of the fifth realm. His cultivation level was one point lower than her opponent in the first game. He couldn't help laughing and said: "Why did you draw it again? Won such a person? Wan'er, you are so lucky." Liu Wan'er was naturally happy because the opponent she drew was not strong, and said: "We can't take it lightly. After all, that person is also someone who has passed the first round. Maybe he is similar to you and me. Is he also an unborn genius?" Xu Huaigu glanced at her inappropriately and said, "You are praising yourself, right?" Liu Waner pouted, jumped up and patted his shoulder hard to relieve her hatred.
After the two of them looked at each other, they came closer to Du Lezhan, but when they saw his serious expression, they suddenly thought something was wrong.
Du Lezhan's signature was drawn on a man from the Fuyao Sect, with peak strength in the Five Realms. He had met him in Qingfeng Valley before, but he hadn't spoken to him, and he didn't know what his strength was. But since he was from the Fuyao Sect, he must be a troublemaker. people.
Xu Huaigu advised: "Actually, a fight is unavoidable. You are both sword cultivators at the peak of the Five Realms, and he is not that Yin Zushi. It is not certain who will win. And if the Fuyao Sect is very sure, it will not go to Qingfeng." Gu came to test." Du Lezhan nodded solemnly and said, "In the next few days, I will warm up my sword spirit." After Xu Huaigu said this, he looked at the two people from the Plum Blossom Sect over there, and saw that Lu Wei had already opened the If you win your own lottery, the opponent is also a person at the top of the five realms. It seems that after being eliminated in the first round, the remaining people are not weak.
But Lu Wei didn't worry too much. After all, her first match was against a fifth-level peak person, but that person still lost to her.
At this time, she was more concerned about who Zhuang Yeyun's opponent was, but Zhuang Yeyun had been nervously holding the piece of paper since he got the lottery, and he still didn't dare to look at it.
Xu Huaigu approached Zhuang Yeyun curiously, and Liu Waner and Du Lezhan also approached, both wanting to know who Zhuang Yeyun was facing.
Zhuang Yeyun took a deep breath, seemed to have made up his mind, and finally slowly unfolded the paper talisman, only to see that the portrait on it was of a pale-faced thin woman with a long ponytail, and she seemed to have several talismans on her right wrist. Silver chain.
Her expression and temperament were outstanding. When Xu Huaigu saw her for the first time, he only thought of two words in his mind - deserted.
These two words are usually associated with arrogance among monks. And people who are arrogant must have their own pride.
Zhuang Yeyun's vision moved downwards and he looked at the words written under the portrait. She was shocked, first she showed a look of disbelief, then her eyes turned gray, her face turned ashen, and the hand holding the paper charm began to tremble.
Xu Huaigu saw writing underneath the portrait of the woman. Fan Xuan is a disciple of Zixia Sect. Everyone had sympathetic looks on their faces. After all, their luck was too bad. There were only four candidates to win the championship. Unexpectedly, Zhuang Yeyun met one of them. It was really hard to tell.
That Fan Xuan is the mutated Thunder Heart Lake, which is most consistent with the Five Thunder Heaven Method of Zixia Sect. In fact, strictly speaking, the born sword fetus can be regarded as a special mutated heart lake, but their heart lake has turned into a flying sword.
In this way, Fan Xuan's talent can be compared with that of a natural sword fetus, and everyone knows that there are tens of thousands of monks in the entire Central Realm, but there are only seven natural sword fetuses, which shows how good Fan Xuan's aptitude is.
A genius of that level was no different from a legend to Zhuang Yeyun, who only practiced in a second-rate sect.
She knew that she had absolutely no chance of winning when she met Fan Xuan. Does his path to Taoism stop here?
So the dream of going to Middle-earth was so shattered? Zhuang Yeyun was unwilling to give in. Her mind was in confusion. She crumpled the paper talisman into a ball and looked forward with cold eyes.
Lu Wei knew that Zhuang Yeyun wanted to go to Middle-earth. Seeing her look like this, he felt a little scared and asked tentatively: "Sister Zhuang?" Zhuang Yeyun lowered his head with a lonely expression and said to everyone: "I'm going to go outside to relax. , you don’t have to follow me." After saying that, she strode away alone and walked deeper into the mountain.
Xu Huaigu sighed and looked at Liu Waner, only to see Liu Waner's expressionless face. The two looked at each other and left the place, going back to the attic in Camelback.
...It was already evening, and Zhuang Yeyun was sitting alone on an unknown cliff deep in the Zixia Sect, watching the sunset and sunset in the distance.
After seeing that her opponent was Fan Xuan in the morning, she left everyone with excuses and wandered around the mountains of Zixia Sect alone.
On the way, she met several new male monks from Zixia Sect. They all greeted them with a smile. Zhuang Yeyun was heartbroken and ignored them. It was at this moment that she felt that her previous actions were meaningless. .
They are all smart people who can represent their sect and come to Zixia Sect to participate in the Taoist meeting. No one will give her a place to go to Middle-earth for a woman they have just met for a few days.
She had deliberately approached those people before, but it was probably stupid in their eyes, and it would have been all in vain in the end.
She just looked at the beautiful scenery of Zixia Sect and felt that she was really pitiful, but no one would pity her.
Zhuang Yeyun buried his head in his sleeves and shed two tears. Then he brushed them away with his sleeves and looked up again, as if nothing had happened.
She began to remember her situation. In fact, she didn't have a good relationship with the Lu sisters. She just came from the same sect to attend the meeting, so she would take care of what should be taken care of.
And Xu Huaigu treated her with a polite sense of alienation, just like what she said to Liu Waner this morning, and he didn't seem to like her either.
And some of the so-called friends she made in Zixia Sect were just coveting her appearance, and no one really cared about her.
It wasn't until today that I saw that my opponent was Fan Xuan that all these dreams were shattered. She knew that she had no chance of defeating Fan Xuan, and she would never have the chance to be among the top twenty people and go to Middle-earth.
But she must go to Middle-earth. She cannot stay in East Fuyao Continent. She has a secret that she has never told anyone.
The sky was clear with few clouds. Zhuang Yeyun looked at a small isolated cloud on the horizon and thought of the Yeyun in his name. Does it mean that he should live so alone apart from others?
She thought about a lot of things, and finally strengthened her determination, raised her head, and said to herself: "Zhuang Yeyun, you want to go to Middle-earth, and you have to survive." She had thought about it, and she would do anything to go to Middle-earth. , even if it’s your own dignity.
The woman, who couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, stood up, patted the dust off her body, and stood up straight.
The sun had completely set, and it was getting dark. She used the last ray of light from the sun to see clearly the direction of Camel's Hump, then took steps back to the attic.
