Li Yan sat cross-legged in the training room. The foundation-building competition had ended after four days.
The Qi Condensation Stage Competition will be held in five days. These five days will be a time for the Qi Condensation Stage disciples who are watching the Foundation Establishment Competition to summarize their studies; and secondly, it will be a time for the Foundation Establishment cultivators who were injured in the competition to recover.
After watching the competition among the foundation-building masters, Li Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. No wonder each battle platform was fifty miles long. Even though there were protective light shields outside each battle platform, the fighting inside was also earth-shaking. The protective light shields were constantly flashing blue light due to the attacks of magic.
In this competition, he also witnessed the Sixth Senior Sister's violence and restraint.
When attacking, this cold and beautiful senior sister prefers to use the violent methods of physical cultivation, fighting face to face in close combat. Often, she can knock her opponent unconscious in just a few encounters.
The more cunning cultivators would deliberately keep a distance of more than ten miles when they first entered the battlefield and launch long-range magic attacks. Gong Chenying would then either stop or set up a formation while moving.
This allowed Li Yan to see another side of this senior sister. The formations she set up were ever-changing, often causing the opponent to enter the formation without realizing it during the attack.
In the later period, Gong Chenying was drawn into a group with Chu Weili from Sixiang Peak. The two of them faced off against each other with formations and broke each other with formations, which was a very exciting fight.
In the end, Chu Weili still won the battle with his slightly superior formation. This was also the case when Gong Chenying did not use other magic. Otherwise, it would be hard to say. In that battle, Gong Chenying clearly wanted to decide the outcome by formation and test his own formation.
Gong Chenying did not get the chance to fight against Wang Tian, which made her look at Wang Tian even more unfriendly.
After all, in this competition, each person only plays five games in a round, and the competition ends when the top 49 are decided. The top 49 will not continue to compete for the ranking, which has caused dissatisfaction among many disciples.
However, the sect is obviously considering the picking in the secret realm in a few months. The battle for ranking will only become more intense, and it is inevitable that someone will be seriously injured.
In addition, what surprised Li Yan was Zhao Min. She actually used the same fighting style as Gong Chenying, the same fierce close combat. He didn't expect that such a graceful girl could be so violent.
As soon as she came on stage, she quickly approached her opponent and then launched a torrential attack. People who were not familiar with her would easily be fooled by her pretty and delicate appearance.
If someone is far away from her, Zhao Min will release two strange poisonous insects.
A kind of poisonous insect that is good at hiding its breath, approaching the opponent silently and then delivering a fatal blow. There didn't seem to be many of these poisonous insects, and Li Yan only saw her release three or four.
Each of them has the aura of the eighth or ninth level of the Qi Condensation Stage. They attack extremely swiftly, often attacking people's faces, necks, and exposed arms. A single bite could be fatal.
But Zhao Min had already mastered the control over it. As soon as the poisonous insect touched the opponent's skin, she would stop attacking and just look at the opponent coldly. At that time, the opponent dared not move and was already sweating profusely, so he could only admit defeat directly.
There is also a kind of poisonous insect that is good at attacking in groups. Li Yan later looked up relevant books and found that this kind of poisonous insect likes to eat flesh and blood. After drilling into the body, it eats from the inside out until not even a bone is left of the opponent.
The aura of the poisonous insects that Zhao Min had refined was only at the fifth level of the Qi Condensation Stage, but there were so many of them that once they were released they covered the sky and the earth, so densely packed that it made people feel cold in their hearts just by looking at them.
However, Li Yan only saw Zhao Min release it once, and she stayed away from her opponent, just circling her opponent from a distance. It was obvious that she could not control such a large number of poisonous insects at will.
Gong Chenying and Zhao Min were both among the forty-nine.
The second senior brother Wei Chituo also won all the battles along the way, only meeting Gan Shi from the Four Symbols Peak in the last round. The battle was very fierce. Both of them were in the late stage of foundation building and were evenly matched.
Finally, Gan Shi used his body as a formation and launched a small formation to trap Wei Chituo. After half an hour, Wei Chituo was unable to escape and had to admit defeat, but he also entered the top forty-nine.
Yun Chunqu met Li Changting at the beginning and lost to him in the first round, which made his face even gloomier.
Li Changting is the eldest senior sister of Buli Peak. She was only one step away from breaking through to the fake elixir realm. Coupled with her amazing skill of controlling Gu, it was not unfair for Yun Chunqu to lose.
In the following process, the third senior brother met disciples from other peaks again. With his cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building, he lost one game and tied three games. Finally, he made it into the top 49, but his result should be at the back.
Li Changting passed all the levels easily. Even when he met Gan Shi from the Four Symbols Peak who was good at formations, he still had a headache facing the overwhelming clouds of insects.
With Gan Gan's current magical power, he is unable to set up a large formation of dozens of miles. Even if he traps Li Changting in the formation, he will still have to face the endless cloud of insects.
Because after Li Changting entered the battle arena, the first thing she did was to spread large clouds of insects at the four corners of the arena, and you couldn't hide from them. Li Yan finally witnessed the powerful spiritual awareness and poison-controlling skills of this senior sister from Buli Peak.
Fourth senior sister Miao Wangqing was eliminated after losing three games in a row in the second round.
Wen Xinliang fought to the fifth round with his initial foundation building skills, but was still eliminated. He left Li Yan with the impression of being sinister and ruthless, and his use of poison had reached a certain level.
He could use every opportunity to silently deliver a fatal blow to his opponent, but due to his realm, he encountered several people in the late stage of foundation building one after another. The difference in realm was too great, and even though he had a hundred tricks, he was ultimately defeated.
Wen Xinliang had a battle before, which made everyone in Xiaozhu Peak feel happy.
In the fourth round, he drew Zuo Shengyan from Lingchong Peak, who was the Taoist companion named Wang Tian. Li Yan had been hit by Wang Tian's spiritual sense just because he had glanced at this person, and he almost had to go back and lie down for a few days.
Zuo Shengyan was also very strong and made it all the way to the fourth round, but then she met two strong opponents in succession, and finally Zuo Shengyan was defeated.
By the time of the third match, Zuo Shengyan was already full of anger. Seeing that her opponent was Wen Xinliang, who was in the early stage of foundation building, she couldn't help but want to vent all her anger on him.
She was in the middle stage of foundation building, and with a powerful monster in the eighth level of Qi Condensation, she was definitely going to crush them. Wen Xinliang knew the gap between them, and also knew the power of the black wood scorpion's venom. As soon as she entered the battle arena, she distanced herself from them and kept fighting, making Zuo Shengyan's several attempts to encircle them fruitlessly, and she was so angry that her pretty face turned pale.
The two scorpions exposed on her white belly were trembling as if they were about to break out of her body. She didn't expect Wen Xinliang to be so slippery and difficult to fight.
Zuo Shengyan was originally arrogant, and after failing to reach the initial stage of foundation building for a long time, she suddenly became restless.
However, Wen Xinliang had been waiting for an opportunity. Just when the opponent's black wood scorpion sprayed venom again at close range, he slightly swung his robe sleeves and quietly released the "Two-headed Fly" powder that covered the ground. It was a thin layer, and if you didn't look closely, it looked like the stone pattern on the table.
The black wood scorpion, as a demon beast, seemed to have noticed something. Before it could hiss to warn her, Zuo Shengyan, who was eager to win, had already stepped into its range. When she felt something was wrong, she fell to the ground in dizziness before she could even take out the antidote.
Without the support of its master, the black wood scorpion was only at the Qi Condensation stage at best, and was subdued by Wen Xinliang after several rounds.
When Zuo Shengyan woke up and learned what happened next, she was even more furious towards Wen Xinliang.
It turned out that she was wearing very little to begin with, and when she fell to the ground, due to the powerful medicinal properties of "Two-Headed Fly", her limbs began to twitch continuously and opened up involuntarily, revealing some of her pretty, white parts that should not have been exposed.
Fortunately, the elder supervising the battle acted in time, sending her off the stage with a wave of his hand, and gave her the antidote. Otherwise, it is unknown what kind of attitude Zuo Shengyan would show on the crystal plate.
When Wang Tian found out about this, his eyes turned red, but unfortunately he never picked anyone from Xiaozhu Peak, so he took out his anger on the other opponents, making them complain.
Zuo Shengyan was also eliminated after this battle!
As soon as this incident happened, the rest of the people in Xiaozhu Peak looked at Wen Xinliang with evil and hostility, and the unfriendly looks came from the three female cultivators.
Wen Xinliang was so scared that he quickly explained that he was under pressure and only thought of using a strong poison that would be difficult for the opponent to detect, but he didn't consider...
But no matter how he explained, Miao Wangqing and Gong Chenying just looked at him coldly. Although the female niece behind him did not dare to show it, her eyes also revealed fear, as if this fifth uncle was a beast in human form.
Lin Daqiao was eliminated in the first round of the competition. He only fought four games. Except for the second game in which he won against a cultivator who had just established his foundation, he lost the other three games. This made him feel very sad. He felt that his strength was indeed too weak.
In the past few days, in addition to paying attention to the competitions of his senior brothers and sisters from Xiaozhufeng, Li Yan has been more focused on memorizing the characteristics of each person's moves, applying magic techniques, and so on.
In the past four days, he has benefited a lot and gained new insights into battle formations, poison techniques, and the innate skills of monsters.
Li Yan closed his eyes, thinking carefully about what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and refining the methods and techniques that he could use now.
He had to hurry up, as he had almost no practical experience, and there were so many things he needed to know that he was overwhelmed at once.
At this moment, the token on his waist kept flashing white light, and Li Yan frowned. He didn't want to be disturbed by anything at this moment, as the day of the competition would be in five days.
However, he still immersed his spiritual consciousness into the token, and the next moment, Li Yan's expression froze.
The eldest senior brother said that he had arranged five days of intensive training for Li Yan, which meant that all the senior brothers and sisters would take turns to teach him moves. After seeing this message, Li Yan was stunned.
He knew how precious this kind of treatment was. Teaching and guiding each other was only an occasional thing, even among fellow disciples. It was even rarer for seven people to take turns teaching and guiding each other like this. If his disciples knew about this, they would be extremely jealous.
The five days passed in the blink of an eye, but Li Yan knew what it meant to feel like a year had passed.
For every person who tried to attack him, he would let them attack at will in the early stage, and then he would comment on them. After that, he would suppress their skills and then fight back.
This was the beginning of Li Yan's life in hell. No matter how suppressed his cultivation was, the other person was still a foundation-building cultivator. Whether in terms of vision or understanding of immortal arts, he could not compare to him.
He could never have imagined that his senior brother, who was always humble and polite, could be so vicious. Whenever Li Yan saw Li Wuyi, he felt that the other person was a complete hypocrite.
The fourth senior sister also changed her slender image and let Li Yan know that even if he was a foundation-building cultivator who was not good at fighting, he was still a foundation-building cultivator after all, and she tortured him until he was burnt inside and tender outside.
The ghostly attack of the third senior brother made Li Yan seriously depressed and he felt like he was going crazy; the attack of the second senior brother was like a violent storm and beat Li Yan so hard that he couldn't tell north from south and his face was bruised and swollen. He also kept saying that Li Yan's attack was powerless.
The formation of the Sixth Senior Sister made Li Yan have many hallucinations and lost his mind. When he saw Gong Chenying again, it was as if all his thoughts were seen through. Even when Lin Daqiao took action, she made Li Yan realize the difference between the just-established foundation and the Qi Condensation stage. The indiscriminate attack of immortal arts and poison arts mixed together made Li Yan care not only about his head but also his butt.
For five days, Li Yan was in a daze, but he persisted. A senior brother went down, a senior sister came up, and he stood there, but his movements were stiff. A senior sister went down, and another senior brother came up. He still stood there, but his nose and face were swollen...
However, Li Yan's performance surprised several people even more. When they confirmed it with each other in private, they found that no matter what kind of poison Li Yan was infected with, Li Yan's symptoms would begin to relieve themselves without waiting for them to give the antidote, and he would slowly return to normal after a period of time.
Although this process is very slow, he is recovering by himself. Moreover, once the poison has been administered, the effect will be at least one level worse when used on him next time. In other words, his ability to resist poison has been increasing.
In order to deal with them, Li Yan had to give it his all every time. In this way, they also discovered Li Yan's true cultivation level, the late seventh level of Qi Condensation Stage!
This kind of concealed strength is very common in the world of immortals, but since Li Yan is one realm higher than them, they couldn't even tell. However, no one asked how Li Yan concealed his aura.
What was even more surprising was that Li Yan's magical power was so profound that it had almost reached the early ninth level of the Qi Condensation Stage. He really couldn't figure out this junior brother.