In the corner of the stage, the registered monk asked: "Do you need to rest for a while? If not, will the competition continue?"
The rules are like this. You have to stand on the stage all the time. Either the winning streak ends or you are eliminated. Chen Mo didn't waste too much energy. He nodded and said: "Let's continue!"
Not long after he finished speaking, another number was called out. A young female cultivator jumped onto the stage and glanced at Chen Mo up and down, her eyes showing a bit of solemnity.
"Liang Ying, please enlighten me!"
"A monk at the eleventh level of Qi Refining..." Chen Mo's eyes flickered a few times, ready to use some real means.
"Clang!"
As the bell rang, Chen Mo repeated his old trick. A cold light flashed across his hand, and at the same time, his figure retreated and tore apart a ground trap spell.
Liang Ying had expected it and activated the defensive talisman from the beginning. As she expected, there was a soft "bang" sound, and the embroidery needle magic weapon fell to the ground as if it was stuck on the metal barrier. Chen Mo saw He quickly retreated, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, his movement was quite fast!
However, her years of training were not in vain. As a huge crack appeared under her feet, Liang Ying let out a low drink. She bounced up with strong spiritual power under her feet, and quickly formed seals with her hands in the air, "Go!" Three! A thunderball the size of a lychee turned into three gray lights at this moment, and hit Chen Mo's lower abdomen at an incredible angle in the air. The impact was extremely shocking!
Every time a talisman is shredded, a certain amount of spiritual consciousness is consumed, and different levels of spiritual talismans consume different spiritual consciousness. Otherwise, if there is no consumption, then a wealthy disciple will just throw thousands of talismans into a fight. Who can Can you bear it?
Seeing this, Chen Mo didn't panic at all. He used Shadow Step and retreated to the left. He first dodged the first two incoming thunderballs, and then cleverly used his right hand to follow the target of the third thunderball and raised his right hand. The position is exactly the gravity technique!
Immediately afterwards, a strange scene appeared.
He was mumbling words, and a circle of light green smoke suddenly appeared in his right hand. When the thunderball came into contact, it suddenly condensed and took shape. The thunderball hit it and shot back along the original path as if it had been re-energized!
"Rebound!"
Liang Ying's expression changed again, and the figure that had just landed rolled forward, barely dodging the thunderballs that fired back, leaving a large scorched black mark on the ground.
At the same time, Chen Mo had already stepped forward, splitting light and cutting shadows, and multiple clones were stabbing at him. Liang Ying hurriedly shouted: "Stop! I give up!"
She is not a physical practitioner, and she has not practiced any melee moves. There is no point in continuing to fight. Her killer move, Thunder Ball, was already over after Chen Mo bounced it off. She was thrown into confusion and was in a hurry to deal with it. She only suffered injuries. It won’t be as complete as it is now.
Two of the rebounds were immobilized by his cultivation, and although one could rebound, his body would be assimilated by the residual power of the thunderball. However, Chen Mo, who was fighting with him in front of him, was not affected by the thunderball. What's the impact? This puzzled Liang Ying.
"Winner, number 11200!"
The talents near the ring seemed to have woken up from a dream and clapped their hands in celebration.
This battle only lasted a few breaths, but it was far more exciting than other arenas. Especially the scene where Chen Mo bounced the thunderball completely disrupted Liang Ying's rhythm and tilted the balance of victory to him. aside.
Of course, in this afternoon, how many cultivators have won two games in a row? Chen Mo didn't attract much attention, but was noticed on a small scale.
Next, Chen Mo was assigned to a monk at the tenth level of Qi Refining. As soon as he started, Chen Mo stepped forward and forced him into a desperate situation with a few sword skills. He had no choice but to admit defeat.
"No. 11200, advance!"
Chen Mo walked off the ring, the token in his hand turned green, and the person calling the message told him that he would come back the next afternoon for the second round of competition, and he could go back now.
Zheng Lu had already walked over, with a flash of excitement in her eyes: "Brother Chen, I didn't expect that your alchemy skills are superb, and your fighting skills are not inferior to those of the same level. How did you do it?"
"It's just good luck that I got a few weaker opponents." Chen Mo smiled: "Miss Zheng has a high level of cultivation and is a member of a family of casual cultivators. Have you signed up for the competition?"
"Little sister doesn't like fighting and killing, so she only signed up for the alchemy competition." Zheng Lu replied: "Brother Chen, both of you signed up, right? Although the time is separated, it is very tiring to do two things at once. Can you eat it?"
"It should be fine."
While the two were talking, they had already walked out of the noisy competition ground. Chen Mo estimated that by tomorrow, the number of more than 10,000 people would have shrunk to about 2,000.
Zheng Lu and Chen Mo took the flying boat from the two counties. Originally, Chen Mo wanted to return on his own, but when he thought about having to experiment with earth escape at night, in order to save his spiritual energy, he took another luxury.
It was almost evening when they arrived at Hengfu County. The two parted ways on the main street. Chen Mo returned to his residence. Mu Zhanying and Zhao Shu hadn't come back yet. He closed the doors and windows and took out the jade slips he got from the exchange meeting. , resting on his forehead.
Chen Mo looked at it for half an hour, and after confirming that there were no doubts, he let go of the jade slip. The latter was indeed what the female foundation-building cultivator said. The next moment, it turned into crystal light and dissipated in the air.
"It looks interesting... I'll try it out first."
Chen Mo muttered the words according to the formula on the jade slip, and layers of spiritual power hit the floor in the house. The floor tiles also became soft, with circles of yellow ripples. Chen Mo touched it with his fingers, and There's no difference if you put it in water.
"Whoosh!"
He jumped into it, and the earth element guided in his body completely merged with the ground, allowing Chen Mo to travel normally within a few feet of the ground. A quarter of an hour later, the ground broke out of the streets in the north of Chen Mo County.
Fortunately, there were no monks or mortals nearby, otherwise he would really have been shocked.
Filling the traces of this place with spiritual power, Chen Mo grabbed two spiritual stones and walked back to the direction where he lived.
"It turns out that the time of stealth is related to the strength of the body, so the senior said that very few people can master it proficiently in the Qi refining stage..."
Chen Mo roughly estimated that it would not be a problem for him to sneak for an hour or two in his prime state, and his speed underground would be much faster than using the flying talisman normally.
The premise is not to lose your way.
There is no vision underground, so he can only rely on his senses to act. For example, because it was his first time just now, he originally sneaked to the south, but ran to the north. If he was chased by the enemy, not only did he not escape, but he was surrounded. , that would be bad.
After almost recovering, Chen Mo found an unoccupied position to perform the Earth Escape Technique again. Compared to the last time, his stealth had improved greatly this time, and the deflection angle was gradually narrowing.
In the first half of the night, Chen Mo was active underground. He drilled more than ten holes in the entire Hengfu County. Once, he actually got out of the boudoir of a girl from a commoner's family, frightening the girl and fainted. , which made him slightly embarrassed.
"Come again."
It was a matter of life. Chen Mo had strict control over the practice of Earth Escape. He started from the center of the county and plunged into the underground world again.
"Huh? The earth element here..."
Not long after he went down, Chen Mo noticed something was wrong. Like the places he passed before, the earth element was gentle and calm. However, in the center of the county, the earth element was shallow. The pressure of sneaking here was actually more difficult than in other places. More than twice as low!
Chen Mo's heart moved, and he changed from horizontal to vertical, and went deep underground vertically. After traveling in the endless dark space for a stick of incense, a yellow light flashed in the top space of the underground passage, and Chen Mo, enveloped by the earth element, fell down, "Plop "He fell to the ground with a sound.
It was pitch dark here, and Chen Mo didn't know that his yellow light had not attracted the attention of the beings here. In just a moment, he used the concealment technique, suppressed the aura on his body, and slowly approached the wall, bit by bit. Moving forward in an unknown direction.
"Where is this?! Why is there a secret passage underground in Hengfu County?"
Chen Mo suddenly had countless questions in his mind, but unfortunately no one could answer them for him.
While walking, he also quietly touched a piece of earth and stone on the wall of the passage, crushed it and felt it. It must have been excavated some years ago, and it definitely could not have been formed now.
"Who dug the tunnel?"
The passage was quiet, as if there was no other living thing except Chen Mo. He stayed for another incense stick, and became bolder. He took out a torch from his storage bag and lit it, while holding it, Observe the authentic appearance.
The cultivation here is very neat, and it doesn't look like it was built in a hurry. In other words, the monks who dug this tunnel had a very clear purpose.
With too little known information, Chen Mo couldn't make a judgment. He walked forward for a while and found that the tunnel, which was two people's width apart and shoulder-to-shoulder, seemed to have no end. He soon gave up exploring and walked through the soil for a while. , returned to the ground.
"Hengfu County, secret passage, excavated many years ago..."
These keywords formed a key message to break the situation, and Chen Mo seemed to understand the meaning: that is, the people who dug the tunnel must have known that Hengfu County would be the venue for the casual cultivator conference before they took action!
"Tomorrow afternoon, I will go to the nearby prefectures and counties and Beihuang County to investigate. If there are tunnels underground in Beihuang County but not in other places, it can prove a lot of things..."
Speaking of which, if he hadn't learned the art of earth escape and happened to practice sneaking in the center of the county, it would have been really not easy to discover this hidden tunnel.
Chen Mo didn't dare to tell anyone about this matter. If it affected the interests of some people, he would jump out during the Qi Refining Period to disrupt the situation. If he didn't die, who would die?
Somehow, Chen Mo felt in his heart that this gathering of casual cultivators would not be as simple as it appeared on the surface. The appearance of the tunnel cast a faint layer of fog behind it, making it difficult to fathom.
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