Volume 5: Seven Dao Sects Chapter 45: A Person of the Hour
Lin Kui, who was on the ring and facing Lu Qingshan's flying sword, could better appreciate the horror of Lu Qingshan's flying sword.
His pupils shrank slightly, and his vision was filled with the sharp sword light.
Lin Kui quickly turned his hands over, and spiritual power surged out. Several instant wind-based defensive spells blocked in front of him. At the same time, his body was shining with spiritual light, and the defensive magic weapon emitted a golden light shield.
With a flash of sword light, the flying sword in front of Lin Kui directly shattered the defensive spell he had hastily cast, and then hit his defensive magic weapon.
Although the golden light shield did not collapse immediately, its light became much dimmer.
Lu Qingshan watched this scene from afar, and an idea came to his mind. He did not give Lin Kui any time to breathe. He raised the Peach Blossom Sword in the air, quickly regained its momentum, and shot towards Lin Kui again.
With his cultivation in the late Jindan stage and the killing sword intent, the lethality of his flying sword has reached the pinnacle of Jindan sword cultivation, infinitely close to the Yuanying level.
Lin Kui had to use all his strength to block a flying sword of this power.
But with his whole body and soul devoted to resisting the flying sword, Lin Kui had no energy left to plan a counterattack or anything else, and lost all initiative.
The only chance of victory seems to be a protracted war. After all, exerting the power of artistic conception consumes a lot of spiritual energy.
When Lu Qingshan's spiritual power is exhausted and he still has strength left, there is still hope of a turnaround.
However, although with the powerful spiritual power cultivated by the Taoist techniques, few Jindan cultivators could defeat Lu Qingshan even in a protracted battle, but unfortunately, Lu Qingshan had no intention of fighting a protracted battle.
He is ready to fight quickly and decisively!
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Lu Qingshan, who still had some strength left, had his spiritual power vibrating slightly. Hundreds of sword energy threads shot out from behind him, attacking Lin Kui like a dragnet.
Ding ding ding ding!
The sword energy was like a flying sword the size of a hair, hitting Lin Kui's defensive weapon, making a continuous sound of metal collision.
And the Peach Blossom Sword also came out.
Click!
The next moment, the peach blossoms twisted, and the layer of spiritual light shield finally shattered.
"Bang!"
Lin Kui's protective spiritual power exploded, and a ray of spiritual light appeared on his body, blocking Lu Qingshan's subsequent sword rain and flying swords, and also wrapped Lin Kui up and rolled him out of the ring.
There was no doubt that they won with a one-sided crushing victory.
From the beginning till now, in just ten breaths, Lin Kui hadn't cast a single decent spell and was completely caught up in Lu Qingshan's rhythm.
Lin Kui stood up with a pale face, looking at Lu Qingshan on the ring, a little lost, "The gap between him and me... is it so big?"
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"Wasn't he still in the middle stage of the Golden Core when he took the retest? How come he broke through to the late stage of the Golden Core in just three days?" A cultivator in the crowd noticed the change in Lu Qingshan's cultivation and gasped in disbelief.
“I knew this would happen. Lin Kui and Lu Qingshan are simply not on the same level. Lu Qingshan ranked third in the Spirit Sealing Tower re-examination, and countless people believe that he will eventually be among the top ten in the Seven Realms.” Some cultivators were still in shock and sighed silently.
"After this battle, I'm afraid no one will be so blind as to challenge Lu Qingshan. He is too strong. He should be the strongest in our group. The group challenge is just a formality for him. His real stage should be the final final..." asserted a third-sequence cultivator who had already been eliminated.
The first-sequence monks will not fight each other in this round of group elimination. This statement does make some sense.
And what this cultivator guessed was correct. After defeating Lin Kui, Lu Qingshan unexpectedly became a taboo in the eyes of the sixth group of cultivators.
The second game, the third game, the fourth game...
In the following challenges, everyone consciously avoided Lu Qingshan.
This second round of eliminations took much less time than the first round because there were fewer people involved and the difference in strength among the monks was more obvious.
At midnight, no one challenged the first-order monks anymore.
Even though there were quite a few second-sequence monks who did not use up their one chance to challenge, they knew that the gap in strength was too great and eventually gave up the challenge.
Challenging a strong person does help a cultivator's practice, but that is based on the premise that the strong person is only slightly stronger than him.
If the gap is too big, being simply crushed will not only be of no benefit, but even those with weak wills will suffer damage to their Taoism and lose their momentum .
However, it is worth mentioning that in this second round of eliminations, no monk from the second sequence succeeded in overcoming the strong and counterattacking to win a place in the first sequence.
This also shows that the eyesight of the high-level monks of Dao Sect is indeed very accurate.
The one hundred first-sequence cultivators selected based on their subjective opinions are indeed the one hundred strongest cultivators among the seven realms participating in this discussion.
"The group elimination round is over! Congratulations to the little guys who are still in the first rank," Taiyin Sect Leader stood in mid-air and announced slowly again: "You are the top 100 in this seven-region discussion. As a reward, you can all freely choose one of the seven major sects to join, and you will receive a mid-grade heavenly artifact provided by Daxia."
"At the same time, you will enter the final round to compete for the top ten spots and the championship position in the Seven Realms Forum."
"Next, I will announce the rules for the final competition. There will be a total of 100 monks participating in the final competition. The competition will adopt a single-win system, one-on-one competition. The winner will advance, and the loser will be eliminated directly."
"Of course, in order to avoid the factor of luck and ensure relative fairness, we want to avoid the situation where two overly powerful monks meet each other early, causing the monk who should have obtained a higher ranking to be eliminated early. Therefore, the opponents and groups for the final competition will not be randomly assigned, but will be discussed and arranged by us personally."
"It will begin in the Dao Discussion World in five days, and will also be open to all cultivators. The specific groups will also be announced then!"
After announcing the established rules, the figure of Taiyin Sect Leader gradually faded from the void. At the same time, countless spiritual lights appeared, covering all the cultivators in the Dao Discussion World, and a very faint repulsive force was generated.
The next moment, the space and scenery changed, and all the cultivators left the Lun Dao Realm and appeared in Lun Dao City.
This round of group elimination was very easy for Lu Qingshan. After only one battle with Lin Kui, he was able to advance to the final competition.
But who could have imagined that in the previous life, this was an insurmountable chasm for players?
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In the group elimination round, although the gap in strength between the first-sequence monks and the second-sequence monks was very obvious and they did not show too many means, a lot can be seen from their performance in the re-examination.
Based on the tip of the iceberg of their demonstrated strength, some curious people have already begun to calculate the top ten in this Seven Realms Discussion. Some smart people have even quietly opened the betting.
The cultivators in Lundao City are all top figures of the younger generation of the human race, and many of them come from large sects or large cultivation families.
These cultivators are wealthy and when they are in the mood to have fun, they are generous in spending money on this kind of betting. In addition, the ranking of the Seven Realms is a huge gimmick in itself, so this kind of betting opportunity is actually quite large.
