Zhou Mingzhen's movements of pinching the magic formula are not very hidden, and almost everyone on and off the stage can see clearly. Of course, this is also because the magic formula she pinches is not complicated. Like other Foundation Establishment Realm disciples, she uses very basic spells. However, after guessing what spell she was going to cast, both her opponents on the ring and some onlookers below the ring felt very baffled.
The spell Zhou Mingzhen wants to cast is not only the most basic spell, but also has neither offensive nor defensive capabilities. This spell is called the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique. Its main purpose is not to fight enemies, but to promote the growth of herbs. In each sect, only those who are responsible for planting herbal medicines will specialize in learning this type of spells, which are introductory spells inherited from spiritual plants.
However, this is an arena, not someone's vegetable garden. The competition in this arena is about martial arts, not the technique of growing herbs. In this arena, let alone the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique, even if you perform the most advanced Heaven and Earth Rejuvenation Technique, it is still no match for a simple stab from the opponent.
Everyone saw Zhou Mingzhen's actions and wondered if the girl was frightened. After all, she had been chased all over the ring by her opponents before, and there were quite a few very thrilling situations.
However, no matter what his opponent and the audience in the ring thought, Zhou Mingzhen still completed the technique without any sloppiness.
As the magic formula was completed, a green mist spurted out of the small bottle in Zhou Mingzhen's other hand, blending into the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique. Immediately afterwards, a gentle breeze blew across the ring, and countless tiny raindrops condensed out of thin air, and sprinkled lightly on the ground of the ring.
"Look, what is that!" Suddenly, among the audience under the ring, a sharp-eyed person pointed at the ground of the ring and shouted loudly. And at the same time as he said this, others could see the strangeness on the ground of the arena without his reminding.
On the ground of the arena, as the raindrops fell, countless thorns and vines suddenly sprouted up. The skin of those vines is the color of blood, and there are a large number of triangular spikes on them, which look very ferocious like shark's teeth. In just a blink of an eye, those bloody vines covered the arena, making it almost impossible for anyone on the arena to find a place to stand.
Moreover, it is obviously just a plant, but the vines do not grow steadily, but keep swimming like a spiritual snake, constantly entangled with each other and pounce on Zhou Mingzhen's opponent. The disciple of the Wanxiang Sect originally had the upper hand and seemed to be able to defeat Zhou Mingzhen in the next moment, but he did not expect that the person running away at the next moment would be himself. Facing the vines that kept rushing toward him, he felt like he had fallen into a snake's nest, and he could only keep slashing around with his sword.
Looking at Zhou Mingzhen again, her face looked a little pale after casting the spell. After all, even if it was just the most basic spell, the spring breeze and rain spell was not something that people in the Foundation Establishment realm could cast casually. However, she did not take this opportunity to rest. Unlike others, she knows her own methods best and knows that although these vines look scary, they are not as powerful as people think.
The prototype of these vines is actually a relatively common carnivorous plant in the wild, the same as plants such as Venus flytraps. However, in the wild, this vine only catches small animals such as rabbits and mice, and larger beasts can easily break free from its entanglement. Although, due to the use of the Spring Breeze Transformation Rain Technique and the use of special nutrient solution, the size and toughness of these vines have been greatly improved, it is still not enough to deal with the ascetics of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Zhou Mingzhen stuffed the bottle containing the nutrient solution back into the treasure bag at her waist, and when her hand came out, she took out another fist-sized bottle. However, this time, she did not cast any more spells, but directly threw the bottle towards her opponent. The bottle fell on the ground in front of her opponent, but because the ground was covered with vines, the bottle was not broken. It seemed as if she failed this time.
The disciples of the Wanxiang Sect also saw Zhou Mingzhen's movements. However, facing the endless vines, they had no time to stop them and could only watch the bottle fall on the ground in front of them. However, when he saw that the bottle was not broken, he couldn't help but feel relieved and thought it was his opponent's mistake.
The bottle fell into the vines, as if it was sinking into a swamp, and was flipped to the bottom by the tumbling vines in an instant. However, no one saw that after the bottle was turned under the vine, the entire bottle was crushed and shattered in an instant, and the silver liquid inside leaked out. Zhou Mingzhen had long thought that such a situation would happen, so the bottle was actually carved out of ice.
The silver liquid stained some vines and quickly seeped into the vines. Those vines that were stained by the silver liquid suddenly spread silver threads on their bodies. The blood-colored skin and silver threads seem to be just a slight change in appearance, but the inside of the vine has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Suddenly, vines shining with silver light sprang up from a large number of bloody vines, and rushed towards the surrounding Wanxiang Sect disciples with stronger strength and faster speed. Originally, this disciple of the Wanxiang Sect, after blocking it for a period of time, already had a certain feeling about the strength of the vine, and knew that this thing did not pose much threat to him. However, at this moment, several rays of silver light suddenly rushed towards him. He used the long sword in his hand to meet it, but he did not cut off the vines with one sword like before.
There was a "choking" sound, like gold and iron clashing. The sword made of good material by the Wanxiang Sect disciple was blocked by the shining silver vine. Moreover, the vines that blocked the sword even wrapped around the sword, and followed the sword to wrap around the arm of the Wanxiang Sect disciple.
The Wanxiang Sect disciple shook the sword with all his strength, thinking of using this power to knock off the vines on it. However, the sword that was entangled in vines seemed to have suddenly weighed several thousand kilograms, making it impossible for him to exert force as usual. Faced with this situation, the disciples of Wanxiang Sect were decisive. Seeing that the vines were about to wrap themselves around, they quickly gave up their swords and started to use the magic formula.
"Boom!" A ball of fire exploded!
Wanxiang Sect disciples instinctively thought of the most commonly used fire spell when dealing with plants. Although, with the cultivation level of Foundation Establishment Realm, the power of the fire spell casted is not very powerful, but it is still no problem to use it to burn plants.
As the fire broke out, a large number of vines were indeed ignited by the flames. Moreover, it can be seen that this kind of vine is surprisingly easy to burn, and the vine in the flames quickly turns to ashes. This made the Wanxiang Sect disciples feel a little regretful. If they had used this fire spell earlier, they wouldn't have had to resist it so hard just now.
After all, it takes a lot of money for monks in the Foundation Establishment Realm to cast spells, so few people will use spells easily unless they are forced to do so. The same is true for this disciple of the Wanxiang Sect. Although he is already at the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, he can't cast a few spells with his true energy, so swordsmanship is relatively more reliable.
However, this disciple of the Wanxiang Sect was not happy for a long time. Several black shadows in the fire were like long whips, separated by the sound of wind, and the fire waves came again.
"boom!"
A vine that shone with silver light firmly hit the Wanxiang Sect disciple's body, and his clothes exploded as soon as they hit him. You know, the vines are covered with sharp thorns like shark teeth. When they hit the opponent's body, it not only had the effect of a whip, but also felt like a sharp saw. In just this one move, not only did he tear the opponent's clothes, but also tore off no less than two ounces of flesh from the opponent's body.
The Wanxiang Sect disciples suddenly screamed, but this scream was just the beginning. Although some of the vines were burned away by the fire, the loss was nothing compared to the vines all over the arena. The empty space burned by the fire was refilled by the surrounding vines in the blink of an eye, and led by those special silver-gleaming vines, attacks were launched at the Wanxiang Sect disciples from all directions.
"Admit...admit defeat, I admit defeat!" Finally, the Wanxiang Sect disciple, who was entangled in the vines like a cocoon, shouted with great difficulty to admit defeat.
When Zhou Mingzhen heard that the other party had admitted defeat, she took out another bottle from the treasure bag, uncorked the bottle and spilled another liquid inside on the ground. The liquid only spilled a small area and only contaminated a few vines, but it spread quickly to the surroundings like a virus. After a while, the vines on the entire arena, including those special silver vines, withered before my eyes and turned into a shriveled withered vine.
As the vines withered, the Wanxiang Sect disciple also escaped from the layers of wrapping. He glanced at Zhou Mingzhen with a very ugly look on his face, and jumped off the ring with a staggering step.
"The winner of this competition is... Yuqing Sect disciple Zhou Mingzhen." Beside the ring, a person from Taiyi Sect, who played a role similar to a referee, announced to everyone with an equally ugly face.
After all, this is the main match. In order to be more fair and prevent some people from playing sideways and breaking the rules, each arena has a person from Taiyi Sect as the referee.
Of course, strictly speaking, Taiyi Sect's approach cannot truly guarantee fairness and justice. At least people from Taiyi Sect will definitely turn a blind eye when they meet them. In addition, the last thing the Taiyi Sect wanted to see was for someone from the Yuqing Sect to win the competition. Therefore, if someone from the Taiyi Sect serves as a referee, they will definitely favor the opponents of the Yuqing Sect and try to eliminate the people from the Yuqing Sect.
However, there is really nothing illegal about Zhou Mingzhen's scene. In this arena competition, since there are no restrictions on the use of magic weapons, talismans and other items, Zhou Mingzhen's use of plants in this way cannot be considered a violation.
Therefore, seeing Zhou Mingzhen win a match like this, how could the Taiyi Sect referee's face look so good
After Zhou Mingzhen stepped down, several inner disciples who were familiar with her immediately gathered around her. Then, in the envious eyes of many people, Zhou Mingzhen was given the best Recovery Pill. After taking a Recovery Pill, Zhou Mingzhen's face, which was originally a little pale due to the loss of real energy, returned to its original state in almost the blink of an eye.
That was a top-quality elixir, even if it was just a relatively low-level Recovery Pill, but it only reached the top grade, and its value was not affordable by ordinary people. However, in the Jade Qing Sect, even the inner disciples, eating top-quality elixirs are like eating jelly beans. This alone is enough to make outsiders envious and jealous.
At this time, Yu Leyang and Feng Zhengming on the other side finally decided the winner after a back-and-forth fight. Yu Leyang stood behind Feng Zhengming, holding a revolver in his hand.
The muzzle of his gun was pressed against the back of Feng Zhengming's head, and he said with a smile: "Senior Brother Feng, I accept the concession."
Feng Zhengming sighed helplessly and said with a wry smile: "I never expected that Junior Brother Yu would actually understand the artistic conception of the art of archery, and he won't be unjustly defeated for my brother."
That's right, although Yu Leyang's magic weapon, or to put it directly, the firearm, has considerable power, it is difficult to truly exert its full power against an opponent who is very strong in artistic conception. For example, if a person comprehends a dark artistic conception and directly blocks Yu Leyang's vision, without detection glasses, Yu Leyang will definitely suffer.
Although the tidal artistic conception comprehended by Feng Zhengming is not closed to the power of Leyang's five senses, it does have a unique application method in disrupting perception and weakening the power of firearms. If Yu Leyang relied purely on firearms, even if he was a sharpshooter, he would probably be defeated by Feng Zhengming in this battle.
However, neither Feng Zhengming nor those who discussed Yu Leyang on the Internet expected that after Yu Leyang devoted himself wholeheartedly to the study of firearms, he unexpectedly and logically understood the art of archery.
This method of archery originally refers to traditional bows and arrows. It is said that after reaching the extreme of this method, one can achieve the point where arrows have no missed shots. The fact that the arrow is perfect is no longer a question of whether the shot is accurate or not, but that as long as you think about it, you can hit it no matter what. Legend has it that in ancient times, a mortal who had reached the ultimate level of archery used the bow and arrow in his hand to even shoot down the Golden Crow, which caused a severe drought in the world.
Of course, people now have no way of knowing what the legend is like, and almost no one even thinks that this legend has much authenticity. The art of archery that Yu Leyang understood was far from reaching the legendary level, and could only be considered an entry-level level. However, relying on this understanding, Yu Leyang can eliminate interference to a great extent in his own shooting artistic conception, and at the same time enter a shooting state similar to concealment.
After all, for a shooter, if he wants to finally hit the target, in addition to his own accuracy, he must also avoid being discovered by the target as much as possible. Not being discovered by the target about his whereabouts and not being discovered by the target about his shooting intentions are all abilities that a shooter needs to possess.
It was with this ability that Yu Leyang finally got behind Feng Zhengming through calculations, illusions and other methods, and pressed the barrel of the gun against the back of the opponent's head. Of course, if it was really a life and death fight, Yu Leyang would not have to do this at all. He could just find the best shooting angle and pull the trigger. However, this is an arena after all, and the opponent is his fellow disciple, so he uses this method to win.