"Congratulations to Senior Brother Zhao for reaching the quarterfinals."
"Senior Brother Zhao is so brave..."
Zhao Lin walked back to his seat and received congratulations from Dai Viet's disciples.
Several leaders and elders were also smiling. Zhao Lin won this game, ensuring that Dai Viet had a seat in the top eight, and its record was no worse than the previous one.
The expressions of the elders from other countries were not so good-looking. A spot in the top eight would not make them uncomfortable. The key was Zhao Lin's age.
Reaching the top eight at the age of twenty means huge room for growth, and it means that you can still participate in three martial arts tournaments.
Who can control it in the future?
Now it seems that although what Huo Shan did was outrageous, it is understandable. It is a pity that he failed...
The third match was between Borta and Huang Guanglie.
Borta practiced the earth attribute technique, and Huang Guanglie was of the wood attribute.
Wood overcomes earth. Logically speaking, Huang Guanglie has the advantage in martial arts, but in the face of absolute strength, the effect of the conflicting attributes is very limited.
Huang Guanglie did not use detours, detours and other tricky tactics, but put his horse and horse into a head-on confrontation with Borta.
Borta had a body like a giant, but he was not clumsy. Huang Guanglie tried his best and was defeated after only ten breaths.
Next, McQueen, Li Taiqing, He Liancheng, Mu Heli, and Su Mu also defeated their respective opponents, and the top eight were settled.
Wushu, Weizi and Dayue each occupied two seats, Wuche and Xiuzhao occupied one seat.
After the competition ended, all parties had no intention of staying for a long time and left the school grounds one after another.
Back in the other courtyard, the elders helped Zhao Lin and He Liancheng analyze their opponents as usual.
Tomorrow, Zhao Lin's first opponent will be Wu Shu's Mu Heli. If he wins, he will play the winner of He Liancheng or Borta in the second game.
The best outcome would naturally be for the two Dai Viet disciples to meet up among the top four, but everyone knew that this possibility was slim.
He Liancheng's strength is only one level higher than Huang Guanglie, and Huang Guanglie was easily defeated by Bolta today.
When walking out of the hall, He Liancheng suddenly stopped Zhao Lin, "I will try my best to deal with Borta tomorrow and force him to use his true skills."
Zhao Lin knew that this was helping him, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Brother He, but you still have to be more careful, Borta punches hard."
He Liancheng nodded, "I have my own sense of discretion."
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At night, the moon is as cold as water.
Zhao Lin was sitting in the yard, thinking about tomorrow's competition.
As he continues to advance, the opponents he encounters become stronger and stronger.
Tomorrow's first opponent, Muheli, will be tough, but Zhao Lin is confident that he can win.
But it's hard to say for Borta.
So far, Borta has not shown his true strength.
On the surface, Borta's special skills are the Heavy Mountain Boxing and Body Gathering Technique, but Zhao Lin guessed that he also has the ability to beat the opponent.
Thinking about it from his perspective, if he were Borta, practicing earth-based skills and having a huge body, he would definitely practice another armor skill.
Although there are armor-type techniques for each attribute, the one with the best effect is undoubtedly the earth attribute.
This is not a random guess, but a conclusion based on martial arts deductions.
The same goes for Basang. According to the intelligence, he knows a martial art called Wolf-Sealing Slash, but he has never been seen using it.
Zhao Lin was deeply afraid of these two people.
Although with the help of the spirit beast map, my physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people, after all, I have only been practicing martial arts for more than three years and do not have enough accumulation.
Maybe they can reach the decisive battle and win the championship in one fell swoop, but maybe they can stop in the semi-finals.
In his heart, Zhao Lin certainly hoped it would be the former.
You have to become famous as early as possible. No one can predict what will happen in three years.
Once you win the first prize, you will get almost inexhaustible training resources, and you will be able to enter the Yuan realm earlier.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin unconsciously touched a piece of writing left by senior Lu Yuanxiu on the back of the chair.
This court meeting will definitely win the first prize...
"Senior, with your blessing, let us, like you, win the first place in the martial arts competition, and then cultivate all the way to the innate realm."
At this time, there was a noise in front of the gate of the courtyard. The sound was from several heads talking to outsiders, and there seemed to be the voice of Elder Ruan of the Lotus Sect.
"It's so late, what could be happening?"
Zhao Lin felt strange and listened attentively.
Originally this place was far away from the gate, but out of habit, he released ultrasonic waves every few breaths to detect the surroundings, so he could detect it.
"Sect leaders, please excuse me. A gold-eating rat from our sect has escaped and seems to have entered this courtyard. Can we go in and look for it?"
In front of the gate of the other courtyard, Elder Ruan said with an apologetic look.
"Gold-eating rat? Why did it come here?"
Lu Chaohuan frowned with a suspicious look on his face, and the heads of Liyang Sect and Zhennan Sect also looked unkind.
Tomorrow is the quarter-finals, but a strange beast appears at this time. Is it here to cause trouble?
Elder Ruan smiled bitterly and said: "Several leaders also know that among the top eight of our Xiuzhao, only Li Taiqing is the only one, and his opponent is Wei Zi's McQueen."
"Even if we deliberately cause trouble, we are just going to mess with Wei Zi. Why come here? There is indeed a gold-eating rat in our sect that came here."
Lu Chaohuan was still doubtful, "The gold-eating rat is walking underground, how did you know it was here?"
Elder Ruan sighed softly, shook his sleeves, and released a white-furred big-eared fox. The fox's body was not big, but its ears were like two fans.
"This big-eared fox can hear sounds coming from the ground and has a very keen sense of smell. We relied on it to chase us here..."
Gold-eating rat?
Zhao Lin suddenly sat up from his chair, and thoughts came into his mind.
The gold-eating rat is a small exotic beast, so named because it likes to eat metal ores.
There is gold in the name, and uninformed people think it is a metal beast, but it is actually an earth creature.
After absorbing so many beast spirits, Zhao Lin roughly figured out their levels.
Generally speaking, alien beasts are stronger than ordinary beasts, and alien beasts with attributes are stronger than alien beasts without attributes.
Every square in the spirit animal map is valuable, but absorbing earth spirits is still worth it.
The key is to improve your cultivation, which is a real benefit!
The top eight battles and the top four battles are imminent. Absorbing the spirits of alien beasts and improving their cultivation will undoubtedly increase their chances of winning.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin stopped listening and jumped onto the roof. His Adam's apple vibrated and he turned on all his hearing.
Since absorbing the soul of the silver-winged bat, his hearing has greatly improved, and no movement in the entire courtyard can escape his ears.
Ultrasonic waves cannot penetrate the ground, but small sounds from the ground can be transmitted to the ground and then picked up by Zhao Lin's ears.
Contrary to ordinary people's intuition, the propagation speed of sound in the soil medium is much faster than that in the air, and the propagation speed in stones can even reach ten times the speed of sound.
There were rustling, gnawing, and snoring sounds coming from the ground...
Zhao Lin had long been familiar with these sounds. Most of them were made by cave-dwelling animals during their activities, but one sound aroused his alertness.
There was a living creature traveling at an extremely fast speed about ten feet underground.
"The gold-eating rat has a spindle-shaped body, hard fur, and sharp claws. It can quickly break up the soil and travel underground. It must be it!"
Zhao Linxun looked toward the southwest corner of the courtyard.
"Running out!"
He immediately jumped off the roof, climbed over the courtyard wall, and ran after the sound.
He chased him to the courtyard wall, made sure there was no one around him, jumped up and flew outside the wall.
After leaving the other courtyard, Zhao Lin was worried that the gold-eating rat would hear him when he stepped on the ground, so he spread out his body and flew at low altitude. At the same time, he used ultrasonic waves to scan the surrounding area to prevent being bumped into.
The night was dark, one person and one mouse, one on the ground and the other underground, walking towards the mountain.
The gold-eating rat ran underground for half an hour. Perhaps it was tired and suddenly stopped.
Zhao Lin landed slowly, looked around, and found that the ground was bare, with only some large and small stones. Next to it was a forest, and the moon had already climbed to the treetops.
Zhao Lin walked quietly behind a big stone and waited patiently.
The underground is cool and humid, and the air is blocked, so gold-eating rats will come up sooner or later.
After a while, the gold-eating rat finally moved, and the sound of scraping the soil sounded again.
But this time it's not to a certain direction underground, but to the surface.
Zhao Lin perked up, lowered his body, and stared at the ground without blinking.
To his surprise, the gold-devouring rat was extremely careful. When it reached a place ten feet above the ground, it suddenly stopped moving upwards and instead dug horizontally into the soil, digging out a circle shape.
Zhao Lin speculated that the Gold-Eating Rat could not see the ground and was worried about the situation above, so it patrolled underground and would not come out if it heard any movement above.
"The strange beasts are different, they act so cautiously."
Zhao Lin couldn't help but glance at the Gold-eating Rat, and began to think about how to collect the soul very safely.
The gold-eating rat dug three times underground, but heard no movement on the ground. Then it slowly dug up to the ground, less than a foot away from where Zhao Lin was standing.
Zhao Lin breathed evenly, accumulated luck, made a fist with his left hand, and raised a palm with his right hand, waiting for the gold-eating rat to show its head before launching an attack.
"Crack."
The Gold-Eating Rat dug into the ground, and there was a bowl-sized stone just above its head. The Gold-Eating Rat pushed the stone away, revealing half of its head, and looked around.
Zhao Lin had already retreated behind the boulder. The gold-eating rat looked around and saw no danger before slowly crawling out of the hole.
A big mouse with golden hair all over its body, a pointed head, and a body like a shuttle emerged from the ground and breathed out at the moon.
At this moment, Zhao Lin jumped out from behind the stone and struck a Sky Frost Fist.
The gold-eating rat shrank in fright, turned around and burrowed into the hole. However, it soon realized that it was too far away from the hole and immediately used its two sharp front paws to dig at the ground.
The dirt was flying, and half of his body was about to be buried.
As the cold air hit, the Gold-eating Rat's body froze and his movements slowed down a beat.
It was that slow beat that killed it.
Zhao Lin hit the Sky Frost Fist with his left hand, paused for only half a breath, and then swung an air-cutting slash with his right palm.
The wind in his palm was like a knife, and the gold-eating rat flew away.
Zhao Lin is not yet able to use two techniques at the same time, but after long-term practice, there is only a short period of time in between.
The gold-devouring rat eats ore, and its fur is as hard as iron. It may not be killed by one or two hits, so it must be paralyzed with the Sky Frost Fist first, and then hit hard with the Sky Slash.
Otherwise, once it is allowed to burrow into the ground, even if Yuanjing warriors come, there will be nothing they can do.
The gold-devouring rat suffered a heavy blow and shook twice in the air, but was still very much alive.
Zhao Lin kept his hand and struck out with another palm, picked up a stone and hit it hard on the head.
After that, he was still worried, so he picked up rocks and continued to smash them.
After a while, a light yellow spirit rose.
(End of chapter)
