Chen Mo only wrote down most of the names of the second-level herbs, which were about more than 700 herbs. Judging from the situation on the field, even if he only answered these, it would be enough for him to enter the top 100.
"Can you hand in the jade slip in advance?" Chen Mo raised the engraved cyan jade slip high in his left hand, standing out in the square, and said to the five old men on the high platform.
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked. Countless eyes instantly shot in Chen Mo's direction, with different expressions of doubt, surprise, and ridicule.
"It's only been an hour..."
"Haha, isn't it too difficult? This guy just gave up and deliberately used psychological tactics to distract us!" The monk who spoke answered more than 60 medicinal herbs, and he was a kind of optimistic person. .
"He spent some spiritual stones to get here. Isn't this a waste of money?"
"As expected of Master Sun's disciple, he is indeed so strong!" Zheng Lu's eyes were filled with envy.
Gao Yuan and Lan Fuxiu were also stunned. They didn't expect it! In order to save his life and leave, this kid actually handed over the jade slips in advance, which caught them off guard. Could it be the same as him? The two of them thought about it and decided to forget it. It would be bad if they failed the test instead of killing the person and lost the rice.
"quiet!"
The leader, the old man, once again shocked the audience with his spiritual power: "It's okay to hand it in in advance. You can leave. Don't affect other contestants!"
"Yes!" Chen Mo thanked him with a cupped hand, and immediately walked out of the square array and left the square through a side road, disappearing without a trace.
Time is running out. He has to go to other prefectures and counties to perform earth escape skills and investigate the existence of underground passages. If Gao Yuan and Lan Fuxiu join forces to block them, the situation will not be good.
Quietness returned to the square, and the elders on the high platform looked at each other. Is it possible? He is Mr. Sun's...
The leader of the old man grasped the void with his five fingers, and Chen Mo's green jade slip was sucked into his hand. The other four famous alchemy masters also quickly came over. They also wanted to see what the boy who left the scene early had written.
Seeing the actions of the five people on the high platform, some of the monks competing below not only secretly regretted it, why didn't they think of it! This was obviously an excellent opportunity to show off, but that boy actually snatched it!
"Humph, it turns out that it was a cover-up!"
"I just answered this..."
One of the old men shook his head and sighed: "This guy thinks he can win our attention by doing this. On the contrary, this is extremely stupid!"
"No, he still has some knowledge." The old man in charge glanced around again: "He was a little careless and made two wrong answers, both of which were simple details. But judging from the speed of the engraving, the movements were still very fast. It's fast, I'm afraid it's just to attract our attention. He should have practiced this move a long time ago. Overall, it's okay, considered average."
The conclusion of the leading old man was probably in line with the psychological thoughts of the other alchemy masters. Hearing the words, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement. What he said was reasonable.
As everyone knows, Chen Mo deliberately wrote those two mistakes out of fear of arousing their suspicions. Only by allowing him to draw conclusions on his own can the effect of fishing in troubled waters be achieved.
Two hours later, the alchemy competition ended. The five old men jointly judged all the jade slips in the venue in just one stick of incense, and then loudly announced the list of the top 100:
"First place, number 672, answered 1,764 medicinal herbs!"
Zheng Lu was standing in front of the desk to stretch her body. After sitting for three hours, her mind was a little dizzy, and the results read out by the old man made her even more puzzled!
"What! The first place is not Brother Chen, but me?"
The rankings were still going on. Zheng Lu only heard a general idea. Gao Yuan and Lan Fuxiu were both on the list, ranked within the top ten. Following them were the casual cultivators who had worked hard the day before. She heard that they were ranked 68th. , she got the number she wanted.
Zheng Lu was confused: "Brother Chen, what's going on?" No, she wanted to find out. After the old man announced that the next round of competition would be tomorrow, she hurriedly left the square and went to the city lord's palace to take a flying boat.
During this period, Lan Fuxiu and Gao Yuan, who were both from a family of casual cultivators, said hello to Zheng Lu. They all recognized this girl from a family of casual cultivators in Chu State, but because of her skin color, they had no interest in her. After a few words of warm-up, everyone took their positions and flew to Beihuang County.
At the same time, Chen Mo also arrived at the city gate of Beihuang County.
He was lucky, there were no indiscreet roadblocks and robberies on the roads outside the county, so he returned here smoothly.
After Chen Mo left the scene early, he sneaked into the underground of another nearby prefecture and county. No tunnel was found there. Fearing that it was a coincidence, he speeded up and went to a farther location. After escaping, he was still there. Nothing was gained.
This undoubtedly confirms the specialness of Hengfu County and Beihuang County from the side.
"There are many people during the day, so I'm running around underground. It would be terrible if someone discovered me. It seems I can only wait until evening to move secretly..."
While thinking about it in his mind, he had already passed the inspection at the city gate and headed towards the arena for the county competition.
"There are not many Qi-refining monks who know how to escape from the earth. Even if they really exist, who would go deep several feet deep and discover that secret passage when they know that there is a ban on protecting the state and county underground..."
Maybe you are the only one who noticed something strange?
"Dong dong..."
A rush of war drums sounded, marking the start of the second round of the ring competition. After yesterday's fierce elimination, the number of people participating in the competition was reduced by more than half. A rough estimate with eyes showed that there were less than three. Thousands of looks.
Opposite him, Lan Fuxiu also noticed Chen Mo, but it was the time of fighting in the ring and he had no time to trouble him.
The rules are the same as yesterday, but today is a duel, and five monks need to be eliminated to advance to the third round.
Today, the trump card of some monks is no longer hidden. The monks at the tenth level of Qi refining are also powerful against the monks at the eleventh level of Qi refining. If they are careless, many young talents will hate it.
But for the disciples of the casual cultivator family, the battle was overwhelming. Led by Long Xuehan of Yan State, who was at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, Gao Yuan, Lan Fuxiu, and Ji Ming from South Korea faced no opponent at all. Without the strength to resist, we can only surrender.
The Rogue Cultivator Conference clearly stipulates that only one person from each country's aristocratic family can participate in the battle, and until the end of the battle, there will be a situation where the Rogue Cultivators from the two countries are fighting each other. This will give the other Rogue Cultivators space to compete, and will not lead to seven families. monopoly.
But even at the worst, the seven families of casual cultivators combined would still have three fate-defying pills in their account.
At this moment, dozens of people were watching a ring, and two people were standing on it. One of them was a young monk with red hair and black robes. His eyes were full of rebelliousness. With his evil face, it attracted many people. The existence of a female monk.
Chen Mo, who was also attracted by the crowd, took a few glances and was secretly shocked: "How could this be a wild cultivator?!"
Just now, he quickly defeated three monks at the eleventh level of Qi refining, which caused everyone here to exclaim, "I am not happy, this man is the hero who cleared the obstacles for them at the tenth level of Qi refining!"
His opponents pale in comparison.
A monk at the eleventh level of Qi Refining, although he looked like a handsome young man and a well-educated scholar, the red-haired and black-robed man with a fierce aura was immediately suppressed.
"Are you sure you want to fight?" The red-haired man didn't take him seriously at all: "I don't know if you saw it... The people who fought with me were all seriously injured."
"Psychological tactics..." Chen Mo thought in the audience and put pressure on the enemy before the war started, sowing the seeds of defeat.
"Hmph, let's fight if we want! There's so much nonsense!"
The monk obviously saw the red-haired man's plan, snorted coldly, and took the lead in preparing for the battle.
The red-haired man laughed: "In that case, let's do it! In this battle, I only use 30% of my level!"
Immediately, the man's momentum changed again, and a suffocating and depressing atmosphere quickly spread in the ring!
"Clang!"
At the beginning of the competition, the scholar felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. The folding fan in his hand flashed with gray light, and the eight fan bones formed a biting cold air, biting towards the red-haired man like a cold snake. In just a blink of an eye, he took the opportunity and blocked all the red-haired man's hiding angles!
"That fan is a second-rate magic weapon!" someone exclaimed.
The red-haired man chuckled at this, without any panic look on his face. The wind roared with a flash of his palm, instantly forming a blue billowing wave. The eight cold rays that came towards him had no time to change direction, and they plunged into the disappearing shadow. Without a trace, the remaining wind blades naturally became rootless pods, unable to function as a killing move and flew away.
"It's not over yet!" The scholar had already expected that his first move would not really hurt this person. He used his spiritual power to activate a black sandalwood staff with a light gray ribbon attached to it from a distance. There was a loud noise, and several black gases suddenly appeared from the ribbon. Appearing in the fog, they were three stinking zombies with empty eyes and rotting bodies!
What he just did was just to gain some guidance time to summon them to appear.
"Three zombies with tenth level of Qi refining, are these your trump cards? That's interesting!" the red-haired man laughed.
The scholar snorted coldly: "I'll see if you can still laugh in a while. Corpses, attack!"
In an instant, as if they had received the order from their master, the three zombies rushed towards the red-haired man from all angles. Their claws were extremely sharp and covered with purple-red liquid. They would inevitably fall if they touched them. A very poisonous ending.
The red-haired man didn't answer any more. He made a spell with both hands, and three fireballs the size of a child's head were fired instantly. "Avoid!" The scholar obviously didn't expect that he could condense the spell so quickly. He only controlled the side of two zombies. He passed his body, and the other one made a "bang" sound, colliding with the incoming fireball, causing dirty flesh and fire to splash out, and the zombie was quickly burned to ashes.
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