After learning from his master that the opponent he was competing against in the ring was Qi Ruoxuan, the woman in red dress from Meng Cailou, Yanxuan had been feeling a little worried.
She has naturally told several of her companions about this matter, because Qi Ruoxuan has been in Meng Cailou before. Not to mention Yanxuan, most people in the sect know very little about this woman and do not know what her methods are. , what is his temper, so after hearing this, Qian Chao took the initiative to ask about Qi Ruoxuan.
Tonight, after talking about how to deal with Jing Jie in the future, the topic naturally turned to Qi Ruoxuan.
Qian Chao had already found out some news about Qi Ruoxuan and said:
"It is said that Qi Ruoxuan asked to come to Wuling Sect to avoid getting married. The news I got from her said that the elder of Meng Cailou found a Taoist companion for her, and the other party was a man named Wei from Muyang Sect. Well, Qi Ruoxuan She was quite temperamental. She pretended to agree, and then when the other party went to Meng Cailou to meet him, she almost killed the man named Wei while the two were alone. Fortunately, someone discovered it early, otherwise she would have really succeeded. But even so, it is said that the man surnamed Wei was seriously injured by her. For this, Qi Ruoxuan was severely punished by Meng Cailou. Later, after a hundred years of tribute, Qi Ruoxiao came to our place. Also, I found out This woman is really a rival to Sister Yan. It is said that she freely practices the art of controlling fire, but it is only said that her skills are good, but the specific details are unknown. Well, there is also Qi Ruoxuan in Meng Cai Tower. She is a well-established person who belongs to the first class of big dandies, but there are no bad comments about her in the news I have inquired about. I think this woman still behaves according to her rules."
"She also practices the art of controlling fire." Yanxuan finally knew the main method of his opponent at this time, and said with some worry, "She is a person with deep roots in Meng Cailou, so she should be studying under her elders. , I think this woman’s methods must be quite strong.”
Yanxuan was always unsure about the upcoming competition. It was no wonder that although she followed the four companions and participated in all the big and small fights, but after experiencing all the fierce fights, There are always four partners around her who fight side by side, and they always take care of each other, but this also makes Yanxuan unconsciously dependent on these four partners, so even if she has started killing, even if Her hands had been stained with blood more than once, but when she thought about the battle with Qi Ruoxuan, she could not rely on any of her four partners. When she had to face an opponent who was probably very clever, she felt... It was unavoidable to be uneasy. Although she had never been lazy in her previous practice, she was always a little unsure when faced with it alone.
There is another point that Yanxuan is worried about. After all, she is the senior disciple of Zhong Yao. What she is worried about is that if she loses in the ring, it will be okay if she loses face, but she is very unwilling to embarrass her master. .
Tang Ping saw the reason for Yanxuan's uneasiness and said:
"Sister Yan, you don't have to think about how powerful Qi Ruoxuan is. She is also from another big sect. Lou Qingyao is still a very influential figure in the Lion House, but what about her? She is just a He’s just a little better than the average person, don’t think too much of those people.”
Lou Qingyao, five people had talked about her more than once after Tang Ping defeated her. In the opinion of the five people, Lou Qingyao's methods may be average, but she must be a very scheming woman. As soon as she came to Wuling Sect, she had a close relationship with her. Zong Xi, the head of the dandy, was almost inseparable. In Tang Ping's opinion, Lou Qingyao definitely did not fall in love with Zong Xi at first sight, but was just taking advantage of Zong Xi, pretending to be in love with him.
But in Yanxuan's eyes, this just highlighted Qi Ruoxuan. Qian Chao had secretly observed Qi Ruoxuan, so Yanxuan knew something about her in the Wuling Sect. Lou Qingyao was with Zong Xianrui every day, but Qi Ruoxiu seemed to deliberately keep a distance from those dandies. This kind of distance between her and the dandies of Wuling Sect was not only a little cold, but also Meng Cai, who came with her. She rarely interacted with the people on the floor, and her attitude was not cold and cold, but she was very polite and did not interact with those people. If such a person is not naturally withdrawn, then he must have a real personality. He relies on his talent and knowledge, but he is arrogant. From this, it can be seen that the future competition with Qi Ruoxuan will be extremely difficult.
Seeing that Yan Xuan still had a worried look on his face, Lu Pingchuan said:
"I tell you, sister Yan, you don't have to worry at all. You'll know how good that woman is when she gets on stage. I don't think she is your opponent at all. When the time comes, you just need to use all your methods. Don't worry, you will definitely be able to do it." Win this one."
Li Jian also said:
"Miss Yan, it seems to me that you attach too much importance to the result of this competition with Qi Ruoxuan. You are probably worried that if you lose, Senior Zhong will be disgraced. In fact, Miss Yan, there is no need for Senior Zhong to arrange for you to appear on the stage. I just want to see how good your skills are, and I don’t necessarily want you to win. In the competition between the disciples in the arena, there will be wins and losses. Who is Senior Zhong? How can he value the outcome of a mere competition between Qi Refining disciples? , you have achieved something in this competition, that is what the senior teachers are gratified about, so Miss Yan, when you get to the stage, you only need to use all you have learned over the years. Well, in my opinion, the benefits of the competition are It lies in mutual confirmation. When you compete on stage, your opponent is actually a mirror for you. Only after you compete can you see yourself clearly and clearly, and then you can know your strengths and weaknesses. Only after the competition can you gain insights and gain something. It’s the ultimate goal of the competition.”
Lu Pingchuan is aggressive and enjoys the excitement of fighting with others. Although Li Jian is also the same, he values his improvement after fighting with others more. That's why he said this. Yanxuan nodded with understanding after hearing this. .
Qian Chao thought differently. He said:
"Sister Yan, I remember you said that the opponent that Senior Zhong arranged for you was a disciple of Elder Jiang Chen of Qixia Mountain. How much does Sister Yan know about the original opponent?"
"Elder Jiang Chen's youngest disciple is named Ke Chu, and his cultivation level is slightly higher than ours. Senior Brother Ke is a disciple at the seventh level of Qi Refining. His methods are said to be good. I don't know much about the others." Yanxuan said.
"Well, Senior Brother Ke is at the seventh level of Qi Refining. I don't seem to have heard of this person in Jiuxuan. Sister Yan, among your Qixia Mountain disciples, when it comes to the art of controlling fire, should Senior Sister Cui Yin be the leader?"
"Yes, but Senior Sister Cui is the granddaughter of my Uncle Li, and she is from the same sect as me, so there is no arrangement for me to compete with her. Besides, Senior Sister Cui is already a high-level Qi Refining disciple who is close to foundation building, so arranging her to compete with Qi Ruoxuan is a bit awkward. OK, it seems like he bullied her."
"What about...Senior Sister Mei and Senior Sister Min? They are quite famous. How about their fighting methods?"
"Sister Mei Min is famous mainly for alchemy, but when it comes to fighting with others, they seem to be a little inferior."
"Well," Qian Chao suddenly smiled, "In that case, Sister Yan has a high chance of winning in this competition."
"Oh, why?" Yanxuan asked in surprise.
"Haha, I learned that Qi Ruoxuan's cultivation level is higher than ours, but not much higher than ours. It is very strange that she did not participate in the Hundred Years of Consecration but directly participated in the Cheng Guan En Examination. This is equivalent to her and Jiu Ruoyuan's cultivation level. The original Bai Fu is the same. He directly participated in this Chengguan Enexamination as a disciple of the Five Spirits. This must be the result of some deal reached between our sect and Meng Cailou. As for Bai Fu's situation And unlike Qi Ruoyuan, the Wuling Sect and Jiu Gen are in an alliance. At least in the near future, because of the relationship between Mu Yang Sect, Jiu Gen will be inseparable from our Wu Ling Sect, and we also need to There is a solid ally to the north of Muyang Sect, so this alliance will be very strong, so Bai Yan's status and situation in Wuling Sect are very transcendent. Like Senior Sister Yan Shuang, she will be valued by the sect, so she not only directly participates After Chengguan Enshi, he will soon become a disciple of Senior Tang Bo. But Qi Ruoxi is different. Meng Cailou is not Jiu Genyuan. In the past and now, they are mainly attached to Muyang Sect and have no covenant with the sect. And I heard that privately There are still a lot of discords in the world. Times have changed. Even if Meng Cailou is determined to close the relationship with the Five Spirits Sect this time and let an extraordinary figure like Qi Ruoxuan directly become a disciple of the Five Spirits, the sect is still against them. It must be different from how we treat Jiu Genyuan."
"After all, Qi Ruoxiao's current cultivation methods have nothing to do with the Five Spirits Sect, right? According to the centuries-old rule of worship, the condition for Qi Ruoxiao to stay in the Five Spirits Sect is to lose two games out of three. Now, no matter whether she is She took the initiative to stay or Meng Cailou asked her to stay. It seemed that Meng Cailou took the initiative to show weakness and offered up his important disciple as a hostage. However, our sect does not seem to appreciate this very much. Even if Qi Ruoxuan is left behind, she will have to stay. To show that she is not as good as Bai San, she must at least show some indifference towards Meng Cailou. The way to achieve this goal is to defeat her in the ring, and she must find someone who seems to be inferior to her in cultivation but is Those who can beat her should defeat her in public, so that they can tell everyone that Qi Ruoxuan will definitely be kept even if she follows the centuries-old rule of consecration. Meng Cailou's initiative to send her to the Five Spirits Sect is just a smooth sailing and a trick. It's nothing more than a favor, not a real show of goodwill to the Wuling Sect. I think the elders in our sect are still wary of or don't fully trust Meng Cailou, at least for the time being, they don't want to get too close to Meng Cailou. Qi Ruoxuan She is practicing fire control. It is not appropriate to find Senior Sister Cui Yin to deal with her. Sister Mei Min is not good at fighting with others, so Sister Yan stands out. Haha, she must be Sister Yan’s original opponent, that In the opinion of the elders, Senior Brother Ke is not strong enough to defeat Qi Ruoxuan, so they asked Sister Yan to deal with her."
After Qian Chao finished speaking, Yan Xuan felt relieved, but then asked uneasily:
"Then what if the sect is planning to make good friends with Meng Cailou this time and get closer to each other? Then the elders will definitely find someone who is not as good as Qi Ruoxuan to deliberately lose this battle. If you say so …”
Tang Ping said:
"Sister Yan, what Mr. Qian said makes sense. Our sect should indeed accept Qi Ruoxuan this time to get closer to Meng Cailou, but at the same time, we should show that this matter is optional."
Seeing Yanxuan's confusion, Tang Ping said carefully:
"In fact, not only Meng Cailou, but also in Lion Grove and Motian Cliff, they are now divided into two factions. One faction still advocates maintaining the relationship with Muyang Sect and is secretly our enemy, while the other faction is leaning towards our Five Spirits Sect, but the force that is leaning towards our Wuling Sect has been declining, but after we formed an alliance with Jiu Genyuan, we worked hard to force Mu Yang Sect back and save Jiu Genyuan. Among these three sects, they are leaning towards us. The power of the Wuling Sect has increased a bit. Well, a few days ago, I heard my sixth grandfather say something about Qi Ruoyuan. Two of Qi Ruoyuan's closest relatives and elders have always advocated friendship with the Wuling Sect. They seemed to be ostracized because of this. Later, those who advocated attachment Regardless of the objections of Qi Ruoxuan's two elders, the people of Muyangzong found a Taoist companion for her in Muyangzong, that is, the boy named Wei. This was naturally forced on her, hoping to marry Qi Ruoxuan to contain her. Elder. As a result, the person surnamed Wei almost died in the hands of Qi Ruoxiao, so the matter was over. Now that Qi Ruoxiao has come to Wuling Sect, even if she deliberately failed during the hundred-year consecration, she will still stay here. Instead of doing this, it would be better for Meng Cailou to do her one last favor and directly ask the elders of our sect to let her become a disciple of the Five Spirits. This would make Meng Cailou surrender to the Five Spirits sect. Humph, it's a good plan! Our sect I naturally welcome Qi Ruoxuan, but I have a different attitude towards Meng Cailou.”
After taking a sip of tea, Tang Ping continued:
"Well, it is indeed as Qian Xiaozi said. Our sect is very cautious about Meng Cailou now. It will take a long time to break up the alliance formed by the Muyang Sect. It is impossible to trust them so quickly. Besides, we have to have friendship with our Five Spirits. Sending just one Qi Refining disciple is naturally not enough. They are not in the same situation as Jiu Genyuan. But I guess Meng Cailou cannot have other actions for the time being, or he is unwilling or afraid of the Mu Yang Sect. reaction, but our sect must be lukewarm or even dismissive of Meng Cailou's performance when accepting Qi Ruoxuan. This is also in order not to irritate Mu Yangzong who is very nervous, but it is currently the easiest to do this. The best way is to show it by defeating Qi Ruoxuan in the ring. Well, it is necessary to keep Qi Ruoxiao, but also to show dissatisfaction with Meng Cailou by defeating her. This actually makes Qi Ruoxiao very embarrassed. If she participates in the subsequent centenary ceremony , it doesn’t matter if she loses on purpose, because she lost as a disciple of Meng Cailou at that time, and no matter who she competes with in the Chengguan En Examination, I guess she will give her best, because her identity at that time is Wuling The disciples of the sect, with the fierce temper shown by Qi Ruoxuan before, must not be willing to lose. The elders of the sect must have considered this before carefully selecting their opponents, and finally sent Sister Yan to compete with Qi Ruoxuan. Those elders must have considered this point. Everyone is discerning, that’s why Elder Jiang went to Senior Zhong to talk about this matter, so I think Sister Yan will definitely win when the time comes.”
I have to say that after hearing these remarks, Yanxuan felt new tension in his heart. He originally thought that if he failed in this competition, his master would not look good, which would be very difficult for Yanxuan. It was an uncomfortable thing, but now that she knew that her competition was a clear attitude expressed by the Wuling Sect towards Meng Cailou, she became even more worried.
Li Jian smiled and said:
"Miss Yan, why don't you think about it now. Once you get on the stage and focus on your opponent during the fight, all these things will disappear. At that time, all you can think about is how to defeat her."
Lu Pingchuan even said:
"That's right, when it comes to fighting, who would think about anything else but how to defeat the opponent?"
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After dawn, the competition on the jade bluestone arena downstairs in Chengguan continued as usual.
The Cheng Guan En Trial has been going on for many days. After today, the first round of competition is over. The next competition is to regroup the disciples who won the competition for the second round of competition. The competition will be carried out in total. After three rounds, all winners in the third round will no longer be scheduled to compete. At that time, the Cheng Guan En Trial will be over. There will be certain rewards for all the winner sects. Of course, the disciples do not value these. What they want is to get the attention of the elders on Chengguan Tower, so that they can hope to become a disciple in the future.
Also, people like Qian Chao and Li Jian who have been challenged and won will not enter the second round of the competition unless someone challenges again. Of course, even if there are some disciples in the sect who are not convinced by the five of them, they have no intention of launching a challenge. They are reluctant to give up the spirit stones. After all, if you want to challenge Qian Chao, you must first give out a thousand spirit stones. This number is just After scaring off many people, the methods of Qian Chao and others were revealed. No one would challenge rashly without being sure of victory.
Before this day's competition, the five people still came to the downstairs of Chengguan early. Yanxuan still looked uneasy. Tang Ping was also helpless about this. There were some things that couldn't be persuaded, and encouragement could only be given. It can have a temporary effect, but only after Yanxuan personally breaks through this level will her temperament become calmer.
There was nothing particularly exciting about the competition on this day, but one of the disciples on stage was someone they knew, so they paid special attention to that competition.
It was Lei Xian who took the stage. (If readers have a vague impression of Lei Xian, you can refer back to the chapter about the storm in Ruixuan Town in Volume 5)
Lei Xian's qualifications are good and he has already passed the Xiaowu level. He originally did not want to participate in this Chengguan Entrance Examination, but Buyan Yao said to him: "Do you want to stay here as a helper all the time? What's the point?" Come on, you should give it a try. If any senior elder with dizzy hair falls in love with you, wouldn’t it be your destiny? If you want to avenge your Lei family in the future, then you can't just hang around here all the time. You have to be really capable!
These words aroused Lei Xian's bloody temper, so he also signed up to participate in this Cheng Guan En Examination.
Surprisingly, Lei Xian's performance in the ring was quite eye-catching. He used various methods skillfully, became agile in the timing of the fight, and used various spells intensively and violently. He actually defeated his opponent very quickly, and then he was stunned. He stood on the stage for a long time before realizing that he had won, and his face turned red with excitement.
When they were leaving the stage, Qian Chao and others called Lei Xian and chatted for a while. As they were chatting and laughing, they heard the Foundation Establishment monk who presided over the Cheng Guan grace test loudly announced:
"Next game, Qixia Shan Yanxuan versus Qi Ruoxuan!"
