Volume 5: Seven Dao Sects Chapter 12 Preliminary Examination Begins
In the light curtain, all you can see at a glance are human figures, dressed in various clothes and with completely different temperaments. When you glance at them, you can find that most of them have very young faces.
This place includes almost all the most outstanding monks in Qingzhou today.
Eyes swept across the sky, finally converging on the giant stele.
There, the Lord of Fufeng City stood with his hands behind his back, suspended in mid-air.
Yes, the presiding monk of the Seven Realms Dao Discussion in Qingzhou this time is none other than the dignified Lord of Fufeng City.
"All cultivators who are participating in the Qingzhou preliminary test of the Seven Realms Dao Discussion Competition, please note that the venue for this preliminary test will be the small world in the Giant Spirit Monument, the Qingzhou Giant Spirit World." A powerful voice came from the mouth of the Fufeng City Lord, echoing in the ears of all cultivators, "Anyone who has his or her name imprinted on the Giant Spirit Monument can enter the Qingzhou Giant Spirit World."
The next moment, the face of the Lord of Fufeng City became serious. "The rules of this preliminary test are also very simple. There are nine layers in Qingzhou Giant Spirit Realm. After you enter, it will begin to shrink continuously. What you have to do is to go to the next layer. Those who fail to enter the next layer before the Giant Spirit Realm shrinks will be squeezed out of the Giant Spirit Realm, which means they will be eliminated. Finally, when there are only one thousand cultivators left in the Giant Spirit Realm, this preliminary test will be declared over."
There are nearly 40,000 monks, and only one thousand of them are selected.
Even though it was just a preliminary test, its cruelty was unimaginable to others.
"But I'd like to make it clear in advance that you must not kill anyone in the preliminary exam!" The Lord of Fufeng City suddenly swept the entire audience with a fierce gaze, causing many people to change color and become silent.
To put it simply, the Qingzhou preliminary examination can be summed up in four words: the last one standing is the winner!
Seeing that the time was up, the Lord of Fufeng City said nothing more. He made a hand gesture and his mind moved.
Suddenly, a large amount of golden light sprinkled down from the giant monument, engulfing all the participating monks in it and making them disappear on the square.
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Here is an island suspended in the air, extremely vast. Nearly 40,000 monks have entered it and are evenly dispersed.
As soon as Lu Qingshan, who had participated in a Seven Realms Discussion, entered the Giant Spirit Realm, his memory of the scene before him resurfaced.
The entire giant spirit world is like a circle at this time, and these people are evenly scattered at the outermost area of this circle, which is the first layer of islands.
Behind them is a layer of golden light.
The area within the golden light shield is a safe zone.
That is, at the moment when these monks entered the giant spirit world, the golden light shield began to move slowly and began to shrink inward at a uniform speed.
Without hesitation, with a whoosh, the gray peach blossom sword flew out of the body.
Without paying much attention to the specific situation, Lu Qingshan, who was familiar with the place, immediately flew up on his sword and quickly flew to the second level of the Giant Spirit Realm.
Not having walked a few miles, Lu Qingshan met the first cultivator in the Giant Spirit Realm. He was a foundation-building cultivator whose identity and sect were unknown.
However, when the monk saw Lu Qingshan's sword light whistling towards him as fast as lightning, he was immediately frightened and quickly moved to the side, making way and avoiding it.
But when he turned around to look for someone again, he found that there was no one around him. The swordsman had already gone far away, leaving only a gray afterimage of sword light.
"I just wanted to say hello... This is the first cultivator I meet. Is he so strong?" The cultivator murmured. The little confidence he had in his heart was almost wiped out at this moment.
It was simply that the monk's sword-wielding skills were so fast that they were beyond his comprehension.
"And why is this person so anxious just after entering the Giant Spirit Realm? Doesn't he even know the specific situation in this world?" The cultivator was puzzled, and then a sense of urgency arose in his heart.
This swordsman is so fast and his actions are so decisive. If I keep hesitating here, won’t I be left further behind?
Thinking of this, the cultivator gritted his teeth and followed the direction the sword cultivator had just gone, regardless of anything else.
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Lu Qingshan rushed straight to the second level of the Giant Spirit Realm. Although he met many cultivators along the way, firstly, this was the first test and killing was not allowed. Second, his sword-riding speed had reached a terrifying level.
Along the way, no one dared to provoke him, and some even made way for him.
An hour later.
The road ahead suddenly stopped and a gray sea of clouds came into view.
Even though he was still far away, he could already feel the storm and pressure coming from the sea of clouds, and there were countless groups of spiritual power wandering around in it.
This is the first level of the Giant Spirit Realm, a chasm that many cultivators find difficult to cross, called the Spiritual Energy Storm Layer.
In the sea of clouds, there are all kinds of irregular spiritual storms with different sizes, powers and directions. If you want to break through this storm layer, you really need some means.
And if one is not careful and is knocked down by the spiritual energy and falls outside the golden light shield below, it means that this preliminary test will be declared over.
Of course, if you choose to wait in the first layer, when the outer layer of the golden light shield shrinks here, you will also be eliminated.
Lu Qingshan was not afraid at all. Without stopping at all, he jumped directly into the storm layer.
Spiritual storms of various forms suddenly surged in the storm layer, with tornadoes and wind shears changing, and horizontal and vertical winds sweeping everywhere, trying to disrupt his direction of advance.
But once Lu Qingshan's powerful spiritual power came out, his body stood still and moved forward in a precise direction.
At the same time, a sharp sword energy left his body and instantly turned into hundreds of sword energy threads, wandering around his body.
Once a wandering group of spiritual power attacked him, the sword energy would fly out of his body like a flying sword and defeat these groups of spiritual power one by one.
This scene is somewhat similar to the meteorite formation in Dayan Palace, but compared with the pressure given by the meteorite formation, these spiritual power groups seem insignificant.
In just a moment, Lu Qingshan had already reached the end of the storm layer.
The surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations gradually returned to normal.
The next moment, Lu Qingshan's eyes suddenly lit up and he leaped forward.
He had already arrived at a slightly smaller island. Looking back, the storm layer's clouds were as thick as cotton wool and unfathomable, and there was still no sign of any cultivators.
This is the second level island of the Giant Spirit Realm.
He had already left the other monks a great distance away.
Lu Qingshan was not complacent. He leaped and moved to the next level of the island.
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In the outside world, as the cultivators entered the Giant Spirit Realm, the spiritual light on the Giant Spirit Monument disappeared completely, leaving only the names of the cultivators shining with golden light, all crowded together, and no difference can be seen at the moment.
Because at this time, all the cultivators in the Giant Spirit Realm were on the first level of the island and the gap had not yet widened. In addition, no one had been eliminated either.
Once eliminated, this person's name will disappear from the Giant Monument.
There are many cultivators who are paying attention to the names on the giant spirit tablet. These people are all close relatives of the cultivators who are participating in the preliminary test, or family elders, or fellow disciples, or masters, or fellow Taoists...
The number of people was so large that it even far exceeded the number of monks participating in the competition. It was bustling and lively.
"It's a pity that we can't see the specific situation in this preliminary test. We can only see the names, which are all listed together. We can't have much intuitive feeling." A middle-aged cultivator who was paying attention to his own disciples smacked his lips at the giant stele and sighed.
"It's understandable. If it's a one-man fight, it's easy to explain. But this time, with so many cultivators participating at the same time, it's really hard to show the details." A cultivator who understood said, "But you're right. Just looking at the name, it's really hard to tell what it is. It's a bit boring."
As soon as the words fell.
On the giant stele, a name suddenly burst out with strong golden light, attracting everyone's attention.
Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, this name surged with light, and with unstoppable force, it overwhelmed all the other names and rushed into the second level area displayed on the giant monument.
That name is:
Lu Qingshan (18 years old, middle stage of Jindan).
