Chapter 118 Double First
Li Yu and Jiang Li are inseparable. Her golden elixir is Li Yu's golden elixir. She can borrow it whenever she wants and for as long as she wants.
Accompanying Jiang Li and holding the sign, Li Yu came in front of the two Tiandao Sect disciples.
The two Tiandao Sect disciples were still immersed in the shock that Li Yu had just brought.
This is a formation competition where every second counts. The last one to arrive must be the first to break all the formations and leave. This kid may be arrogant, but he has the capital to be arrogant.
The crowd watching in the square were also paying attention to Li Yu's actions and were extremely puzzled by his behavior at the moment.
"Why did he go there again?"
"Hasn't he already won first place?"
"He wouldn't want to participate in the first-level formation master competition, would he? With his foundation-building cultivation, he doesn't meet the requirements to participate in the first-level formation master competition..."
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At the foot of the mountain, Li Yu handed the sign to a Tiandao Sect disciple and asked, "Can I participate in the third-level formation master competition?"
The disciple held the jade token, was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, it's okay."
There is only one rule for participating in the third-level formation master competition, and that is that the cultivation level must not exceed the Jindan stage. This is because strong people after the Yuanying stage do not need to understand the formation, and can break the third-level formation by relying on their powerful magic power. Below the Yuanying stage, no matter whether it is the Jindan foundation building or Qi refining, as long as they have the trial card, they can participate.
But he is at the Foundation Establishment stage, even if he understands the third-level formation, can he break it?
When the two disciples were confused, Li Yu looked at Jiang Li. Jiang Li stood on tiptoes and the two embraced and kissed each other.
The two Tiandao Sect disciples were dumbfounded.
What is this doing?
Are you bullying them because they don’t have a companion?
Of course Li Yu did not show his affection in public. Soon, he felt something round passing from Jiang Li's mouth into his mouth.
This is the crystallization of all the magic power in the body of a Jindan-stage cultivator . After losing the golden elixir, Jiang Li's aura fell to the late foundation-building stage, while Li Yu's body began to experience fluctuations in magic power of the Jindan stage.
Of course, this fluctuation did not belong to him, but only to the golden elixir in his mouth, not his own golden elixir. Li Yu could only hold it in his mouth and could not even speak.
"What are they doing?"
"Kiss, kiss!"
After a burst of uproar among the onlookers in the square, someone finally understood what was going on.
"He is borrowing the golden elixir!"
"He wants to participate in the third-level formation master competition!"
"That girl is probably only about 18 or 19 years old. Is he a Jindan-stage expert?"
"You don't even know her, but she is the genius of Kunlun's Heavenly Spirit Vein. There is nothing strange about her golden elixir. It is said that she and Kunlun's genius alchemist Li Yu are childhood sweethearts. It seems that the rumors are true..."
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Li Yu didn't have time to listen to people's discussions. He kept his mouth shut and came to the first formation.
He used his own magic power to draw on the magic power of Jiang Li's golden elixir and pressed it at a certain position on the formation. A powerful magic power surged out from the golden elixir and poured into the center of the formation like a devastating force.
The first layer of the formation is broken!
The crowd in the square was in an uproar.
“It’s really broken!”
"His attainment in formation has already reached the level of a third-level formation master. What he lacks is only mana!"
"No wonder it was so easy for him to break the second-level formation just now. It turns out that his main training is not alchemy, but formation!"
Li Yu is well-known in the world of immortal cultivation for his alchemy skills, but he is only a second-grade alchemist. Who would have thought that his attainments in formations are even higher than those in the art of alchemy? If he could form an elixir, wouldn't he be the only third-grade alchemist and third-level formation master in the world of immortal cultivation today...
The formation masters from Huashan, Tiandao Sect, and various factions in the crowd had interesting expressions on their faces.
An alchemist won the first place in the second-level formation master competition and then broke into the third-level formation master competition. Where can these formation masters put their face?
While they were stunned, Li Yu had already broken through three formations in a row and caught up with several third-level formation masters who were slower in breaking the formations.
From this, it can be seen that not only has his attainments in formation reached the third level, he is not even weak among third-level alchemists.
After cracking the third level of the formation, Li Yu's speed of breaking the formation slowed down. The difficulty of the third level formation was one level higher than that of the second level formation, and the position of the center of the formation was unpredictable. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be able to break the formation faster than the second level formation.
He looked forward and saw that the fastest one to break the formation was only at the sixth level, and that one was not breaking the formation but resting.
Li Yu also rested for a while after breaking through a layer of the formation. What troubled him was that the magic power in Jiang Li's golden elixir would be used up as time went by. He had no way to replenish it and might not be able to get to the last level.
In fact, after he reached the fourth level, only less than one third of the magic power in the golden elixir remained.
Sitting on the fourth step, Li Yu saw a young man sitting cross-legged on the fifth step.
The man was wearing the clothes of the Tiandao Sect. He was not very old, but he looked very haggard. After all, breaking the formation requires a lot of precise calculations in his mind. In addition to consuming magic power and physical strength, the brain power consumption is several times that of refining elixirs and weapons. If he does not take elixirs to nourish himself, he will not only be haggard, but also bald.
Beside this young man, there were several figures standing, all of them were members of the Tiandao Sect.
But they don't seem to be formation masters.
Just when Li Yu was wondering why outsiders were allowed to come up to the formation competition, he saw a scene that surprised him.
The young man opened his mouth, and a dim golden elixir flew out of his mouth and was swallowed by an old man. Another middle-aged man next to the old man slowly opened his mouth, and a golden elixir emitting a faint red light flew out and entered the young man's mouth.
The young man got another golden elixir, pressed one hand on a certain place of the formation, and soon appeared on the sixth floor, and the people around him also followed him up.
Li Yu was stunned by this scene.
It's fine to charge with the help of external force, but why does it require a battery replacement?
He looked at a third-level formation master from the Huashan Sect beside him. The formation master knew what he wanted to say and said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do. This is the rule of the competition. After all, he found the formation eye himself, and the others just provided him with mana. His formation theory is actually third-level. At such a young age, he has already comprehended the third-level formation. It's really a gift from the ancestors..."
Then he looked at Li Yu and asked, "This Taoist friend looks a little strange. May I ask which sect he is from?"
There are not many third-rank formation masters in the world of immortal cultivation, so he dare not say that he is familiar with all of them, but he has a basic impression of them. However, the person in front of him is someone he has never seen before, and he doesn't know which fellow practitioner of the art of maintaining one's youth he is.
"Fainting wheel..."
Li Yu had a golden elixir in his mouth and his words were not very clear.
The formation master from the Huashan School was slightly stunned when he saw the aqua blue light oozing out from the gap between Li Yu's lips.
After all this time, it turns out that this is also a guy who can use elixir to break the formation!
What happened to this competition? Why are there so many monsters like this?
The magic power in Jiang Li's golden elixir was slowly dissipating. Li Yu did not waste time. After resting for a while, he broke through the fourth layer of the formation and came to the fifth layer. However, at this moment he could also feel that Jiang Li's golden elixir had less than 10% of its magic power left.
This amount of magic power is not enough to break through the sixth layer.
After all, it was not the golden elixir he cultivated himself, so he couldn't use it perfectly.
In the square below the mountain, Xu Qingxin looked at the scene in the water curtain and said worriedly, "Not good, Junior Sister's golden elixir's mana is almost exhausted."
At this moment, there were a few more figures around them. Bai Qingying and the three Emei sisters rushed over as soon as they heard that Li Yu was participating in a formation competition.
Xu Qingxin looked towards the positions of the referees and walked over slowly.
Li Yu was in trouble when facing the fifth level of the formation.
By this time, he already knew why the young man from the Tiandao Sect who was in the Foundation Establishment Stage brought so many powerful Jindan Stage warriors with him.
When borrowing someone else's golden elixir, the mana will be lost very quickly, and there is no way to replenish it. One golden elixir can only take you to the fifth floor at most. If he had known that he could bring others up, he would have brought Jiang Li and Senior Sister Xu with him.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, a familiar breath came from behind him.
Li Yu turned his head and saw two referees and three figures descending from the sky, passing through the first few layers of formations and landing directly on the fifth layer.
In addition to Jiang Li, these three figures include Senior Sister Xu and Senior Sister Bai.
Jiang Li said with a grin, "We are here to help you!"
After a moment, Li Yu returned Jiang Li's golden elixir to her. Xu Qingxin opened her red lips slightly, and a golden elixir with a pattern on it, emitting a faint aqua blue light, flew out of her body and came in front of Li Yu.
Watching the golden elixir enter Li Yu's mouth, her face turned slightly red.
Li Yu did not waste time and continued to crack the fifth level of the formation.
The crowd around the water curtain was already in a state of excitement.
"How can this be possible?"
“Isn’t this cheating?”
"What do you mean by cheating? Didn't you see that the Tiandao Sect's formation master brought more people with him? This is allowed by the rules. Why are only Tiandao Sect disciples allowed to bring people and no one else allowed to ? Then why hold this competition? Why not just announce that Tiandao Sect is first?"
There were also formation masters who patiently explained to the people around them: "This is a formation competition. The main test is the understanding and mastery of high-level formations, not the cultivation level. But generally speaking, only those who have cultivated to the Golden Core stage and have a strong enough soul can master and understand high-level formations. Those who can master the third-level formations in the foundation-building stage are all formation geniuses that appear once in a century..."
"I see……"
"It seems that Li Yu's comprehension is not only in the way of alchemy, but also in the formation."
However, there are also many people who are not concerned about Li Yu's attainments in formations, but focus elsewhere.
"The one who lent him the golden elixir just now is Xu Qingxin, one of the Seven Sons of Kunlun. Her strength among the younger generation of Kunlun is only second to that genius. Is her relationship with Li Yu so good that she is willing to lend him the golden elixir?"
"Don't you think about the relationship between Fairy Jiang and Li Yu? Fairy Xu is Fairy Jiang's senior sister. How can they not have a good relationship?"
"Look at the one next to Fairy Xu. Isn't that Fairy Bai, the leader of the Four Beauties of Emei Mountain? She also went there. It seems that she has a close relationship with Li Yu."
"I am a disciple of Kunlun. I can testify that Senior Sister Bai from the Emei Sect always goes to see Senior Brother Li every time she comes to Kunlun. Not only Senior Sister Bai, but also the three sisters who look exactly the same as the Twelve Beauties of Emei Sect always stay at Senior Brother Li's house for a long time every time."
"I heard that even the Saintess of the Xuanyin Sect of the Demonic Path favors him. Is that true?"
"Of course, I saw it with my own eyes. That demon girl came to Kunlun twice, and Senior Brother Li accompanied her both times. She also promised a huge profit, trying to lure Senior Brother Li into the magic path, but Senior Brother Li sternly rejected her..."
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For those in the Jindan stage, the Jindan will not be lent out even to very familiar friends, but these proud daughters of heaven from the righteous path are willing to lend the extremely important Jindan to Li Yu, which shows how deep their relationship is.
Not to mention Li Yu's strength, attainments in alchemy, and level of formation, just his connections alone are unmatched in the world of immortal cultivation.
With the help of Senior Sister Xu, it was much easier for Li Yu to break through the fifth layer of the formation. At this time, there were only four formation masters on the sixth layer, including him. Three of them were from Huashan, one was from Tiandao Sect, and the young man from Tiandao Sect and another formation master from Tiandao Sect had reached the seventh layer.
Their attainments in formations are indeed much higher than those of other formation masters.
The four formation masters on the sixth floor all looked at Li Yu in shock.
They also didn't know when such a dark horse appeared in the formation world, who was able to reach the sixth level of the third-level formation master competition with the strength of the foundation-building period. Although he used the golden elixir of others, he relied on his own attainments in formation.
While Li Yu was resting on the spot, four formation masters came forward one after another to break the formation. In the end, only one formation master from Huashan entered the seventh floor.
When it was Li Yu's turn, he succeeded in breaking the formation in just one try. After all, the golden elixir in his body was not his own, and his magic power could not afford to be wasted.
Moreover, after the fifth level, significantly more mana was needed to break the formation. After using Senior Sister Xu's golden elixir to break two formations in a row, the remaining mana was no longer enough to break the third formation.
Bai Qingying felt the change in Li Yu's aura, opened her cherry lips slightly, took the initiative to send out her golden elixir, and said, "Use mine."
Li Yu first returned Sister Xu's golden elixir to her, and then said to Bai Qingying: "Thank you, Sister Bai."
Bai Qingying glanced at him instead and said, "You don't thank Qingxin, but only thank me. What do you mean?"
Li Yu quickly said: "I'm sorry, I was too polite..."
Although he is more familiar with Senior Sister Qingxin, he is also not unfamiliar with Senior Sister Bai. It is indeed inappropriate for others to feel that they are being treated differently when they are helping out of good intentions. Sometimes, it is better to be impolite.
The first spiritual vein that Bai Qingying used to form her golden elixir was the wood spiritual vein. Her golden elixir was surrounded by a faint green light. After Li Yu took it into his mouth, he instantly felt his body filled with strength again.
The magic power of the Golden Core Stage is much more condensed than that of the Foundation Establishment Stage. Although Li Yu has not yet formed a golden core, he has experienced the feeling of forming a golden core very early on.
The center of the third-level formation is almost not fixed. He watched in front of the formation for a moment before finding the pattern of the center of the seventh-level formation. He easily broke it and came to the eighth level.
The two formation masters from the Tiandao Sect were also on the eighth floor at this moment.
Both of them looked back at him, with some surprise and surprise in their eyes, as if they didn't expect someone to reach the eighth floor so quickly. But they didn't pay too much attention to Li Yu. They both sat cross-legged on the ground to regain their composure.
When breaking an array, the consumption of mana is secondary, and the consumption of mind is the key. Being too distracted will only disrupt your rhythm of breaking the array.
A quarter of an hour later, the middle-aged-looking formation master walked in front of the formation, observed for a few breaths, and suddenly took action. The eighth layer of the formation disappeared after a wave, and his figure appeared on the ninth layer.
After exchanging a golden elixir, the young man successfully broke through the formation and entered the ninth level.
After they left, Li Yu pretended to look at the formation for a long time, then followed them and entered the ninth floor.
At this time, Senior Sister Bai's golden elixir did not have much magic power left, so Li Yu returned the golden elixir to her. After such a long rest, Jiang Li's magic power recovered a little, so he passed the golden elixir to him again.
Although she also had a third-level recovery pill, Li Yu did not let her use it. Pills of that level, even if they were recovery pills, were very precious and there was no need to waste them here.
The appearance of Li Yu obviously put some pressure on the two people in front.
Just a quarter of an hour after Li Yu entered the ninth floor, they both broke through the formation and entered the tenth floor. They only needed the last layer of formation to end this competition.
On a high platform below, several referees from various sects could not help but speak.
"This time, they arrived at the tenth floor much faster than before."
"Yes, in the previous competitions, at this time, the most that could be cracked was the seventh level."
"He must have felt the pressure from that Kunlun disciple."
"This is not a good thing. Once the rhythm of breaking the formation is disrupted, they will spend much more time on the tenth floor than before..."
Although the battle array competition is about speed, it does not mean that the faster the better. Every array master has his own pace and needs to allocate his energy reasonably. If he breaks through too quickly in the early stage, he will consume too much energy and will be exhausted when he reaches the tenth level. Compared with breaking through the array step by step at his own pace, he will fall behind...
At this moment, it is the tenth level of the third-level formation master competition.
The two formation masters from the Tiandao Sect were both sitting cross-legged to rest. Their faces were pale and their minds were in a state of confusion.
Originally, the two of them were not able to break the formation so quickly, but the guy who suddenly appeared did put them under considerable pressure and disrupted their rhythm.
However, even so, they did not regard this person as their ultimate opponent.
Luo Yuan looked at the young man and sneered in his heart.
The Yi Wood Spirit Essence was obtained after he went through a lot of trouble and paid a lot of price, and finally got the sect to join this third-level formation master reward. If he was not absolutely sure, how could he have done that?
This tenth-level formation was something he found in an ancient book on formations. It was different from any current third-level formations. Except for him, no one knew the rules of the formation's core.
So what if the talent for formations only appears once every few hundred years? So what if he has mastered all the third-order formations at the foundation-building stage? So what if he has so many golden elixir-stage masters to help him? In this world, talent alone is often useless...
As Luo Yuan was thinking this, he suddenly heard a tide of shouts in his ears.
He looked at the crowd in the square below the mountain, wondering what they were so excited about. Even from such a distance, he could hear their shouts.
Suddenly, as if realizing something, he turned his head abruptly and looked in the direction of the tenth-level formation.
At some unknown time, the guy who appeared out of nowhere and was accompanied by three beautiful women had actually passed the tenth level of the formation and stood at the highest point of the peak.
Luo Yuan's mind went blank.
His unique formation on the tenth level was broken by an unknown kid?
The genius formation master from the Tiandao Sect had a dazed expression on his face. He had never expected that this competition would end up with such an outcome.
As for the immortal cultivators and disciples from various sects who were watching, they had never expected such an outcome.
Li Yu, an alchemist, participated in the top formation master competition in the entire cultivation world and won the first place in both the second-level formation master and third-level formation master competitions. Is there anything more outrageous than this?
Some formation masters in the crowd were so shocked that they began to doubt the art of formation itself.
Who would have thought that the one who defeated these genius formation masters was an alchemist...
On a high platform somewhere, the Jindan-stage elder of Kunlun took out the spiritual conch with trembling hands and said, "Master, good news, great news. Li Yu won the third-level formation master competition..."
Opposite Lingluo, Wang Daoxuan said speechlessly: "Are you confused? Didn't you just tell me about this matter?"
Just as he was about to put down the conch, his expression froze, and he asked again, "Wait, what level did you say?"
