Li Yan's first battle passed quickly, because Lu Qiuting denied being poisoned by the spiritual poison after returning, which made many people lose interest immediately. After all, there were too many people in the Wuliang Sect who used poison, and new poisons often appeared.
After learning that Lu Qiutong inhaled the poison due to carelessness, many people did not take it seriously. Lu Qiutong also deliberately omitted the strangeness of the poison. He did not want to provide others with a means to deal with Li Yan.
As long as he knows this, it will be enough for him. If he loses a game, others will lose with him. Only then will he have a chance later.
The Qi Condensation Stage Competition is still going on. It will take quite a long time for 420 people to defeat 108. In order to speed up the progress, the sect has adopted a different approach from the Foundation Building Competition and continues the fierce battle day and night.
Li Yan looked at the crystal plate in the air, silently memorizing the characteristics of different opponents in his heart. So far, he has fought four games, lost two and won two. The next one will be a crucial one.
In both of the two battles he lost, he encountered masters who had reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation. After fighting hard for a long time, he was still defeated. The biggest reason was that Li Yan's magical power was much weaker than his, while they were only one step away from building a foundation.
What also made the two men feel strange was that the poisons they used had little effect on Li Yan. Often Li Yan would just be a little dazed or slow in movement, and then immediately return to normal. But this also gave the two men time to attack Li Yan.
However, Li Yan felt a little depressed when another Qi Condensation Stage ninth-level disciple faced him. Li Yan relied on a series of Tongqi Lianzhi and continuously cast the fighting technique, and finally made the opponent fall to the ground.
Li Yan estimated the time when he would go on stage. It was already nightfall and the huge moon of the Wild Moon Continent had risen into the sky. In addition, the battle platforms were covered by the light of formations, so the fighting on the stage was also very clear.
Not long after, blue light flowed on one of the battle platforms and slowly condensed into two lines of small characters.
A voice sounded in Li Yan's ears almost at the same time.
"Signed, Nine Battles, thirty-three to twenty!"
Li Yan took a deep breath, released his magic weapon and flew into the air.
Wei Chituo, Long Chenying and the others did not say anything, but gave him an encouraging look. Yun Chunqu also turned his gaze to the crystal plate of the Nine Battles Platform. Li Yan's recent battles also made him feel a little interested.
Under the moonlight, a smile appeared on Zhao Min's face as white as white satin. She looked up at the moonlight. She liked talking to the boy under the moonlight. At this moment, the boy flying in the air seemed to be looking at the distant sky under the moonlight, talking about the Daqing Mountain.
After Li Yan entered the blue array shield, he flew directly to the center of the battle arena. He looked up and saw that the other party had not yet appeared. This time, he arrived first. He put away the spiritual weapon and stood quietly in the center of the battle arena.
After a while, a ray of light came from another direction. When the light faded away, a young monk appeared a few hundred meters away. He was thin and had a handsome face, but there was a deep scar on the left side of his handsome face.
It runs diagonally from the cheek to the temple. Even though a long time has passed, the skin and flesh are still curled up, and the budding tissue looks like a small mouth with its canthus open, which is quite frightening. Li Yan feels that if the scar goes a little deeper, it will penetrate his temple.
Upon seeing the man's face, Li Yan's pupils couldn't help but shrink. He had recognized him, a cultivator from Lingchong Peak, in the middle stage of the tenth level of Qi Condensation. He should also have a compatible spirit beast, a middle stage first level spirit beast, the Ghost-faced Horse.
Li Yan had watched this man fight against a cultivator from Buli Peak. That cultivator from Buli Peak was already in the late tenth level of Qi Condensation. He had gained the upper hand by using a large-scale, intensive attack of poisonous insects.
However, this person instantly spread out a large number of trees, and the smell emitted by the trees confused the large clouds of insects. No matter how the monk from Buli Peak drove them, the clouds of insects still hovered among the trees and were unwilling to leave.
In the end, he was defeated by the combined forces of this man and the spirit beast Ghost-faced Horse. Li Yan had a deep memory of the Ghost-faced Horse and asked Wei Chituo for relevant information about this man.
This person's name is Zhou Guaner, and he is ranked in the top 20 in terms of Qi Condensation combat power at Lingchong Peak. This is not to say that each peak does not have an accurate ranking, but that everyone's progress speed is different.
In addition, Lingchong Peak and Buli Peak account for half of the strength, both of which rely on the mutual growth of spiritual insects and spiritual beasts. The growth rates of spiritual insects and spiritual beasts vary, which will affect the overall combat effectiveness of their masters.
After Zhou Guan'er stopped, he looked at Li Yan for a while, and suddenly showed his white teeth and smiled. The earthworm-like scar on his face looked even more hideous under the moonlight.
"You are Li Yan from Xiaozhu Peak. I should call you Uncle Master, but Uncle Master Wang Tian asked me to beat you so hard that you can't get up. Do you think that's okay?"
Li Yan frowned. He didn't expect that the first sentence the other party said when they met would be like this. Wang Tian hasn't forgotten the battle between his fifth senior brother and Zuo Shengyan. He wants to take revenge on himself. It seems that Wang Tian is really a narrow-minded person.
"Oh, come on then!"
Li Yan spoke calmly, which surprised Zhou Guaner. He didn't expect that the person opposite him was even more arrogant than himself.
"Well, it would be more satisfying to beat up the so-called uncle-master. Who told you that your realm is lower than that of your nephew? Hehehe..."
Zhou Guaner let out a weird laugh in the night, and when he waved his hand, a huge black creature appeared out of thin air. It was a strange horse with a completely black body and some bright red spots.
The horse's face looks very strange, with drooping eyes and nostrils occupying half of the entire face, but its mouth is like a woman's, a cherry-sized mouth. This strange appearance makes people feel a chill on their backs.
"Good boy, let's go!"
Zhou Guaner quickly formed a hand seal with one hand in front of his chest, and Li Yan felt his whole body tighten. A sense of danger quickly rose from the bottom of his heart. He quickly took off into the air. Although a Qi Condensation cultivator could not fly yet, he could still glide in the air for dozens of feet.
Just as he was in the air, Li Yan heard a scream, like a woman's shrill howl in the dark night, which made him dizzy and his body froze in the air.
Li Yan quickly activated his magic power and suppressed his mind. At the same time, he saw a flash before his eyes and several green lights were coming towards him.
Several hideous and twisted skulls appeared in the air. As soon as they appeared, they spewed green fire from their mouths and hit him in the face. If he was hit by the fire, the green fire would spread all over his body in an instant.
Li Yan had seen this before. It was the attack launched by the Ghost-faced Horse.
The Ghost-Faced Horse's cherry-like mouth continued to emit a woman's extremely shrill screams, which gave Li Yan an unbearable headache and made him very upset.
The ghost-faced horse roared miserably, and tiny twisted skulls continued to spew out of its huge nostrils. The skulls swelled in the wind and instantly grew to the size of an adult's head, and pounced towards Li Yan.
Li Yan endured the piercing screams and used his spiritual sense to protect his heart. He was about to block the attacking Phantom Flame Skull when he suddenly felt his ankle tighten. He didn't know when several long vines like thin snakes had emerged from the ground below.
At the moment when Li Yan's mind was disturbed, Zhou Guan'er had already used magic to attack at the same time, directly entangled one of his ankles.
The next moment, Li Yan felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and then a wave of nausea rose in his stomach. He was shocked and thought that this was caused by the poisonous thorns of the spiritual plant penetrating into his body.
Li Yan quickly waved his right hand forward, and a rain curtain appeared, blocking the approaching green skulls. At the same time, his left hand pointed like a knife and slashed towards the ground, and a green wind blade flashed out.
With the sound of "chi chi...", several thin vines at the ankle were cut off, and more thin vines emerged from the ground like crazy weeds, shooting towards Li Yan's legs one by one.
Without waiting for these thin vines to catch up, Li Yan pointed downwards with his left hand again, and the ground was instantly covered with a layer of grass. These grasses seemed to have formed a dense net at the roots underground, firmly holding the thin vines that were stretching towards the air with their fangs and claws bared.
As the two sides were in a stalemate, the grassland began to undulate. More thin vines underneath wanted to break out of the net, but they were suppressed by the grass.
Li Yan took the opportunity to dodge and appeared ten feet away, but his body was obviously much slower. The poisonous vines had already seeped into his body through his ankles.
After Li Yan dodged the attack, he once again infused his hands with mana to control the rain curtain and the grass. The ghost-faced horse in the distance stopped spitting out the green skeletons when it saw that its attack was blocked. After a louder scream, the red spots on its body began to flicker, and then the red spots left its body and quickly hit the green skeletons. The green skeletons instantly glowed green, and red smoke came out of the green light.
Suddenly, the green skeleton of Phantom Flame advanced a little faster. The rain curtain was becoming thinner little by little while smoke was rising. The "maggot attached to the bone" poison with extremely strong adhesion that Li Yan unleashed in the rain curtain was showing an unstoppable trend.
Zhou Guaner's eyes flashed with coldness, and he pointed his finger at the ground again. The grass undulated more violently, and it seemed that he could not be suppressed anymore.
"So your other spiritual root is also wood, but you never used it before. Do you want to keep it for this last game? But it's a pity that it's an auxiliary spiritual root. Besides, you want to suppress me and Guai'er with your little mana? Let me show you the difference in realm."
After saying this, his magic power was poured in again. Suddenly, with a "crackling" sound, countless thin vines broke through the fine net on the ground woven by the grass and rushed towards Li Yan who was ten feet away.
A flush appeared on Li Yan's face and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. It was obvious that his magic power was far inferior to Zhou Guaner's. He had to use part of his magic power to resist the ghost-faced horse.
Fortunately, the magic power condensed by the Guishui Sutra is much deeper than that of the cultivators of the same level. His current magic power is almost the same as that of the ninth level of the Qi Condensation Stage.
Zhou Guan'er is a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Condensation. If there hadn't been the simultaneous attack from the Ghost-faced Horse, with the powerful resilience of the Guishui Sutra, Li Yan would have been able to delay the attack and find more opportunities to counterattack if he went all out.
Under Zhou Guaner's fierce attack, Li Yan's magic power to control the grass immediately collapsed, and he was no longer able to prevent the underground vines from breaking through the ground.
Seeing this, Zhou Guaner laughed softly.
"Your realm is low, and I haven't used my full strength yet! That's why Master Wang Tian said to let you suffer enough before injuring you severely. Otherwise, you would have been crippled long ago."
Although he said so, he did not stop attacking and carefully avoided the grass. He did not want to follow in the footsteps of Lu Qiutong and the others. Although the grass had gradually disappeared after losing the control of magic power, he was still extra careful.
The thin vines that emerged from them attacked even more violently, and many of them, along with the green skeletons of Phantom Flame, plunged into the rain curtain in front of Li Yan, causing the rain curtain to shake.
Seeing this, Zhou Guaner slapped his storage bag with his other hand, and a green flying knife appeared in the air, and he let out a light shout.
"go!"
The flying knife, with a streak of green light, shot towards Li Yan's chest.
In fact, at this moment Zhou Guaner was not as relaxed as he said, he was already extremely surprised.
"The poison in this person's rain curtain is really strange, and it is more difficult to deal with than the protective spiritual light. No wonder Lu Qiutong and the others were unable to break through it. I really don't know what kind of poison he used to make it, and how can it have the ability to entangle and block. Moreover, why is this person's spiritual power so strong?"
He was confused for a moment, and immediately released his spiritual sense to scan Li Yan several times. It was undoubtedly that he was still in the middle stage of the sixth level of Qi Condensation. This made him at a loss for the reason for a moment.
Li Yan saw another flying knife flying towards him. It was a spiritual weapon of high grade. Whether it was a spiritual weapon or a magic weapon, the most difficult thing to guard against was a small flying needle or flying knife.
Li Yan had no choice but to use all his strength to turn the rain curtain in front of him into a round shield, covering himself firmly in the middle, and at the same time releasing a protective aura.
However, this would greatly increase the rate at which his mana would be consumed.
Some people watching the battle in the audience couldn't help but sigh.
"That Master Li from Xiaozhu Peak is going to lose. Although his strange rain curtain can protect us for a while, it can't last too long. Moreover, he uses the protective aura and rain curtain together. His cultivation level is still too low."
Another disciple said sarcastically.
"With such talent, he can still be our uncle? What a joke. Apart from the strange water poison, I haven't seen how capable he is."
"I heard that this person has only been cultivating for a short time, and he has reached this level in just a few years. Can you do it?"
A beautiful female disciple said unconvinced.
"Heh... I want a Jindan master, do you think I will be inferior to him?" The man sneered.
"Then why didn't any elder or peak master accept you as a disciple?"
Another fat monk next to her supported the beautiful female monk.
"Fatty, are you going to gain three more pounds immediately..."
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Zhao Min stared at the crystal screen, a trace of worry appearing on her face.
"It seems that the Fragmented Poison Body is not invincible in the same realm. At least after crossing three or four realms, it can no longer make up for the lack of mana. It seems that Junior Brother Li is really going to lose!"
Li Changting stood aside and saw her appearance. With a charming smile in his eyes, he put his arm around her shoulders.
Zhao Min glanced at her, then turned her head back, thinking.
"I just think that the Fragmented Poison Body Legend is so powerful, and it's a pity that he lost the game because of the huge gap in realm. Is that why you have such an expression?"
But she was indifferent by nature and didn't want to explain.
In another area, Lin Daqiao saw that Li Yan could only shrink and hold on in the rain, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, and then he could only sigh.
Wei Chituo also looked at the crystal plate with some worry.
"This battle will be difficult, little brother!"
Because he could see that Li Yan's expression at this time was not fake, he was really struggling, and his face began to turn pale, which was a symptom of the process of mana consumption.
Yun Chun had been watching Li Yan's competition this time. Seeing this, he actually said something.
"He needs more feeding moves!"
Gong Chenying stared at the crystal plate and saw that every time Zhou Guaner moved forward, he would carefully explore the surroundings and shook his head slightly.
"The Fragmented Poison Body can only help him temporarily. Once the other party takes precautions, it will be difficult to be effective!"