After the two parties signed the life and death agreement, a golden bell rang twelve times in a row. The sound was clear and could be heard by everyone inside and outside.
There is a viewing platform outside the gambling house. The lady in red stands in front of the platform and says, "Place your bets on the fighting arena. Once you place your bets, you will not be able to wait for the time being."
Soon after the golden bell rang, people began to come in one after another, and the whole building became noisy.
The rules of the gambling house are that whenever there is a fight between two people, the gambling house will be the banker and start the game.
Gu Fuyou and Yu Dongsheng This is the first session of the market, and it is relatively quiet. When the market is at its busiest, it is crowded with people, and there is no extra space in the stands.
After signing the life and death agreement, both parties prepared themselves.
Gu Fuyou looked at Zhong Michu's long hair, supported his face with his arms and pondered.
Zhong Michu asked: "What's wrong?"
"Sister Zhong, for the competition later, it's better to tie up your hair and long sleeves."
Convenience and activities.
Zhong Michu touched the black hair on her shoulders and said, "Forget about the hair, but how about tying the sleeves?"
Gu Fuyou rummaged through the storage bag and took out an arm strap. After hearing Zhong Michu's question, he knew that she didn't know how to use the arm strap, so he took the arm strap and went forward to help her.
Zhong Michu didn't know what was going on, and when he saw her coming towards him, he took a step back.
Gu Fuyou said with a smile: "Senior Sister, don't hide, I will tie your sleeves for you."
Zhong Michu stopped hiding. Gu Fuyou said, "Open your hands."
Zhong Michu: “…”
After a while, Zhong Michu opened her eyes as she was told. Gu Fuyou pushed up her long sleeves on both sides, revealing a section of her forearms, which were white and beautiful. She was not completely thin like a woman, but because of years of sword training, her skin was tight and her forearms were beautiful.
Gu Fuyou glanced at her silently, and praised in his heart: "Beautiful, it is indeed Senior Sister Zhong, flawless white jade, beautiful in every way."
After tying the arm strap for her, Gu Fuyou ran to take a look at her odds. She was facing Yu Dongsheng, and Yu Dongsheng was 1 to 1, while she was 10 to 1.
When I came back, Yu Dongsheng had already left the stage and the golden bell rang again.
Gu Fuyou took a deep breath, took out two talismans, gave one to Zhong Michu, and then cut his fingertip with the sword and dripped a drop of blood on the talisman in his hand.
When she looked at Zhong Michu, she scratched her middle finger with her thumb, and a wound like a red line appeared on the fingertip, from which blood oozed out. She smeared the blood on the talisman.
Then the two men exchanged the talismans in their hands. Gu Fuyou took the talisman with Zhong Michu's blood and placed it against his heart, while Zhong Michu took the talisman with Gu Fuyou's blood and put it in his waistband.
Zhong Michu called out softly, "Gengchen."
The sword flashed, Zhong Michu grasped the hilt and handed the sword to Gu Fuyou. Gu Fuyou took it in his hand.
How heavy can a three-foot-long sword be
After Gu Fuyou took it, he felt as if a mountain weighing more than a thousand pounds was pressing down on his hand.
She gripped the hilt of the sword, using all her strength, her face flushed, but she couldn't lift Gengchen up.
The weapons of external cultivators are spiritual. Apart from the owner, anyone else who wants to pick up this weapon must have a higher level of cultivation than its owner.
Gu Fuyou said: "Good Gengchen, good Gengchen, we have to get along well from now on, you! Don't! Get! mad!!"
Gu Fuyou said to drag it a little, but it didn't drag at all.
Zhong Michu called out coldly: "Gengchen."
The long sword suddenly seemed to shiver and flew up abruptly, surrounded by spiritual light, which made its size several times larger. The sword body turned and carried Gu Fuyou down from under the stands.
Zhong Michu followed suit by pointing his toes and flying down on the wind, and the two of them landed on the fighting stage with their swords.
The golden bell rang three times, and many spectators gathered in front of the four-story fence. The lady in red stood on the highest stand. She said loudly: "The two sides will fight until one side admits defeat or is unable to fight anymore. Only then will the winner be determined."
As soon as the lady in red finished speaking, cheers rang out from the stands.
Yu Dongsheng knocked the ground with his dry wooden staff, and the fighting stage was filled with spiritual light.
Gu Fuyou held up a sword and faced Zhong Michu, looking very confident. He said to Zhong Michu, "I won't be able to protect you when the fight starts. To avoid being affected, stand on the edge of the fighting platform."
Zhong Michu really did as he said and retreated to the edge of the fighting stage.
Yu Dongsheng glanced at the two of them, his eyes were a little confused, and finally fell on Gu Fuyou. He snorted coldly and said, "Sword cultivator? If you can't get close to me, what can a sword cultivator do?"
As soon as he finished speaking, vines rolled out from the spiritual light. They were as thick as wooden barrels. The vines were flexible as if they had life, and each one was like a giant python that could swallow the sky.
Wanyao Pavilion cultivates all kinds of spiritual plants and refines elixirs. Most of the people inside have spiritual roots of water, wood, and fire. Yu Dongsheng has both water and wood spiritual roots.
He did not directly suppress Gu Fuyou with his spiritual power, but instead carefully distanced himself from him, protecting his body and preparing for battle. As for Zhong Michu, he did not bother much.
Gu Fuyou held Gengchen and cut off the attacking vines one by one. His sword moves were continuous, crisp and neat.
When others looked at her, they thought she was a sword practitioner with a high level of skill.
How could he know that it was not the man who controlled the sword, but the sword that controlled the man.
Gu Fuyou was just putting on an act; the one who truly controlled Gengchen and contributed spiritual power was Zhong Michu.
Gu Fuyou's legs had become weak due to the spiritual power unconsciously emitted by the two Jindan-stage cultivators, and he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
But Yu Dongsheng had already taken the bait. No matter how uncomfortable it was, he had to try his best to hold on and not reveal any flaws before Zhong Michu made his move.
Although Yu Dongsheng is in the late Jindan stage and is proud of his abilities, he is not overly conceited. At the beginning, he just tried carefully.
External cultivation is more difficult than internal cultivation. There is a principle in the world that one can achieve great success through accumulation. External cultivators with the same level of cultivation will be stronger than internal cultivators.
If the levels of cultivation are similar, the inner cultivator will always be afraid of fighting with the outer cultivator in close combat.
Therefore, Yu Dongsheng kept a backup plan and was not willing to fight with all his strength at the beginning. However, precisely because of this, he fell into Gu Fuyou's trap.
Zhong Michu had already circled from Gu Fuyou's side to the edge of the fighting platform on Yu Dongsheng's side.
Yu Dongsheng saw this but remained indifferent and ignored her. He just chopped down the dry wooden stick and summoned his spirit beast.
It was a spotted poisonous snake that crawled out from the summoning circle with its tongue spitting out. It only slightly raised its upper body and it was as tall as Zhong Michu.
This spotted venomous snake was already in the early stages of fasting, and was more than capable of dealing with Gu Fuyou, but the person it encountered was Zhong Michu.
When the poisonous snake crawled out, its fangs were exposed, its eyes were sharp, and its head was held high. As soon as it approached Zhong Michu, it immediately lay flat on the ground.
The people watching the game on the highest level of the stands were surprised and asked, "Why is Master Yu so cautious with a Qi training cultivator, but doesn't take the Jindan cultivator behind him seriously at all? What's the logic behind this?"
"And that spirit beast is in the Qigong stage after all. Why didn't it resist at all and let that Jindan stage cultivator get close to its master's back?"
"Is it a fake match?"
Boss Biao smiled while fanning himself with a palm leaf fan, "Not really. From the look of things, hey... it seems like he's been blinded by a leaf."
The lady in red said, "Boss Biao is very knowledgeable."
Boss Biao stroked his chin and said, "I just don't know why Master Yu's spirit beast didn't resist at all."
The lady in red looked at the figure on the fighting stage, smiled slightly, and said nothing.
On the fighting stage, Yu Dongsheng made continuous attempts, but Gu Fuyou only defended and did not attack. He became more and more timid as the fight went on, with rapid breathing and disorderly steps.
Yu Dongsheng finally felt something was wrong, and used half of his spiritual power to control the vines to whip over. The force was so strong that Gu Fuyou felt pain in both wrists and lost his grip on Geng Chen, so Geng Chen flew to the side.
The vines wrapped around Gu Fuyou's waist, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Yu Dongsheng woke up as if from a dream, his face changed color and he said, "One leaf blinded me!"
He was fooled by this little trick without realizing it.
The so-called "blindness" is to cause cognitive impairment to the other party.
Yu Dongsheng could see the cultivation levels of Zhong Michu and Gu Fuyou, but after being blinded by a leaf, his cognition was confused. He only remembered that one of them was a golden elixir and the other was practicing qigong, but he could not clearly tell which one was the golden elixir and which one was practicing qigong.
The words that Gu Fuyou said at the beginning seemed to be spoken to Zhong Michu, but were actually spoken to Yu Dongsheng.
Gu Fuyou asked Zhong Michu to stand behind him, as if to protect her.
Yu Dongsheng has been affected by the blindness and his thinking has become rigid. The information he got from Gu Fuyou's words was that Gu Fuyou was stronger than Zhong Michu. With his directional thinking deliberately guided by Gu Fuyou, he naturally thought that Gu Fuyou was in the Jindan stage and Zhong Michu was in the Qi training stage.
The magic of blinding the eyes was hidden in the talisman. Before Gu Fuyou and Zhong Michu went down, they had exchanged talismans contaminated with their own auras.
Talismans are things that store spells. How powerful a talisman is depends on the level of cultivation of the person who makes it.
The blindness created by Gu Fuyou, who has such a high level of cultivation, is naturally not as good as those of the powerful ones, which can be mistaken for the real thing.
The gap between her and Yu Dongsheng's cultivation level is too great, and this talisman used to confuse Yu Dongsheng will not stand the test at all.
As long as he got close to Yu Dongsheng, he would immediately notice it. Or if he used his spiritual power to put pressure on him from the beginning, Gu Fuyou would immediately show his true colors.
But Gu Fuyou knew that the people in Wanyao Pavilion were divided into five categories, which were distinguished by the inlays on the blood vine bracelets they wore, from high to low, jade, gold, silver, and copper. Those with inlays of these four categories were people of status, and those without bracelets were apprentices and subordinates.
Yu Dongsheng wears a blood vine inlaid silver bracelet, and he must have dozens of apprentices under him. They are of high status, and have dual spiritual roots of water and wood. They are in the late golden elixir stage and are very proud of themselves.
Since they are proud of their status, he won't really care if they have one more Qi training stage left, nor will he take this person in the Qi training stage too seriously.
While he was working in the Wanyao Pavilion, he had to take care of the spiritual plants, which could not have even a little more water or sunlight. When he was refining pills, the fire could not be too strong, and the amount of medicinal materials could not be less. These were all meticulous jobs, and he must have been a cautious person.
Since he is a cautious person, when competing, he is most likely to choose to advance step by step rather than rushing forward.
It was just as Gu Fuyou thought. Yu Dongsheng realized that one of them was a sword cultivator, so he immediately distanced himself from them, set up barriers, and carefully tested them.
He didn't approach the two, nor did he use his full strength at the beginning. As a result, the blindness that Gu Fuyou had cultivated was so fragile in front of him that it broke at the first touch. However, he missed the best opportunity to break Gu Fuyou's plan and was deceived.
Among all these, if Yu Dongsheng took any step contrary to his usual behavior, Gu Fuyou's plan would be ruined.
But he didn't.
Gu Fuyou's blindness only lasted for a cup of tea. After all, his skills were quite shallow and Yu Dongsheng had already discovered the clues, but it was enough.
Zhong Michu had already circled behind Yu Dongsheng, and the spirit beast did not dare to move. As soon as Zhong Michu used his spirit power, the vines immediately lost moisture and quickly withered.
When Geng Chen in Gu Fuyou's hand was knocked away, the sword body rotated a circle and returned to Zhong Michu's hand.
Zhong Michu grasped the hilt of the sword and attacked quickly like lightning.
Yu Dongsheng waved the withered wooden staff and all his spiritual power burst out.
Gu Fuyou couldn't stand such pressure and spat out a mouthful of blood. Blood also flowed from his ears. Even though his whole body was covered with defensive talismans, he still felt that his internal organs were about to be crushed into blood foam.
Zhong Michu was keeping an eye on her, and seeing this, she immediately controlled the wind with her left hand, erecting a protective barrier around Gu Fuyou to prevent Gu Fuyou from succumbing and getting seriously injured before she and Yu Dongsheng decided the winner.
Zhong Michu held the sword in his right hand and took a step forward. The ice flowers under his feet bloomed and the solid ice spread in an instant, freezing the vines that were pressing down like raging waves into ice in an instant.
With a slash of her sword, the ice broke and she rushed forward.
Originally, she and Yu Dongsheng were only a few steps away, but after breaking through this layer of vines, Zhong Michu was already in front of Yu Dongsheng.
Although Jindan-stage cultivators can perform magic spells as they please, their swordsmanship is even more swift.
Even though Zhong Michu's cultivation level was one level lower than Yu Dongsheng's, since they were close, the chances of her winning or losing in a contest with Yu Dongsheng would be equal.
What's more, Yu Dongsheng has lost the initiative and his mind has been disturbed by the blindness of a leaf. His body and mind have not yet fully recovered.
He couldn't dodge Zhong Michu's sword.
Zhong Michu put the sword against Yu Dongsheng's neck and was slightly out of breath due to the full-strength attack just now.
Yu Dongsheng stared at her and asked, "Are you practicing both inner and outer cultivation?"
Before Zhong Michu could answer, he shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "I lost. I admit defeat."
The golden bell rang again in the stands, and the lady in red said, "The winner has been decided."
There was a lot of booing and sighing from the stands.
Gu Fuyou won unexpectedly, causing countless people to lose their bets.
Zhong Michu took a step back, bowed to Yu Dongsheng, and then trotted towards Gu Fuyou.
Gu Fuyou was suppressed by the spiritual power of the two people and became drowsy. When she woke up, she saw Zhong Michu shaking her.
When Zhong Michu saw that she had woken up, her eyes were slightly bright, her eyebrows were relaxed, and her expression was bright. She said, "Gu Fuyou, we won."
She had never fought anyone to the death like this. She felt happy when she won against someone of the same level of cultivation, and she felt not only happy but also satisfied when she won against someone who was one level higher than her.
She thought her heart was as calm as an ancient well, but at this moment, she could still feel the stalled beating in her chest, the uneven breathing, and the comfort throughout her body.
Gu Fuyou saw her smile again, but it was different from the last time. That time her smile was quiet and gentle, but this time it was full of youthful vigor and vitality. This smile was so bright and dazzling.
Gu Fuyou thought he was not awake yet, so he lay back down: "Maybe I am not awake yet."
The author has something to say: It's a dragon egg. Who guessed it? It seems that few people guessed it right. What the hell are those people who said it was the senior sister's eggshell