This water unicorn is a prehistoric spirit species, an ancient strange beast. When it showed its power, the situation suddenly changed, and the originally blue sky darkened in an instant.
As it took the first step towards the steps, the calm mountain wind turned into a strong wind, whistling sharply, and rolled over the peak of Tongtian Peak.
And in the clear water pool closest to the water unicorn, the water surface changed even more. It began to tremble from being as flat as a mirror, and then suddenly turned violently. In the depths of the vortex, there seemed to be a rumbling sound.
A moment later, everyone heard a loud noise, and a jet of water suddenly shot up from the depths of the vortex. It was as thick as three people hugging each other, and it condensed and did not disperse. As if compelled, it landed in front of the water unicorn, resembling a swimming dragon, crystal clear, spinning and swimming in the air.
At this time, none of the members of the Qingyun Sect standing on the steps, including Qi Hao and others who had the most profound cultivation, could keep calm, and all of them changed color, and some even turned pale and trembled slightly.
The reason why the water unicorn was able to become the powerful help of Qingye Patriarch thousands of years ago in eliminating demons and subdue demons, and was extremely revered by Qingyun sect for thousands of years, its strength was fully revealed at this moment.
Among the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, the water unicorn is the ultimate spiritual creature of the water system. Just look at its ability to control water out of thin air. Hovering in mid-air and swimming endlessly without the slightest expression of exertion, the strength of his spiritual power and the purity of his thoughts have already far surpassed those of ordinary human cultivators.
Even in the Qingyun Sect, where there are so many masters, not to mention purely using the power of thought, there are not many people who can achieve this level with the help of magic weapons.
At this moment, all the disciples of the Qingyun Sect were stunned and at a loss when they saw the thunderous fury that had never been seen in more than a thousand years from the Lingzun Shui Qilin.
It was too late to say it, but Shui Qilin roared incessantly, his eyes widened, and the color of fury and hatred in his eyes became more and more intense, as if he felt something deeply vengeful or extremely loathsome, and he wanted to fight to the death with it, and he would never die.
And the speed of the thick water column hovering in front of this giant beast is getting faster and faster, suddenly there is a loud noise, "boom", the huge water column hits Qingyun disciple on the steps overwhelmingly with endless momentum .
At this critical moment, a cry came from midair: "Spiritual Venerable, calm down!"
A dark green figure, as if appearing out of thin air, suddenly appeared in the midair between Shui Qilin and Qing Yun's disciples.
I haven't seen him for five years, and his demeanor of the crane bone has not changed at all, but he is frowning at this moment, obviously also extremely puzzled by the sudden attack by the water unicorn.
But the situation is urgent at this moment. Behind him are dozens of the best young disciples of Qingyun Sect, and the water column roaring in front of him bursts with waves of light, and the shadows of various ferocious giant beasts are faintly looming, obviously killed by the water unicorn in the past. After the death of the fierce beast, the soul was ingested into the body of the water unicorn, and it could not be reborn.
At this moment, being used in the water column by the water unicorn, it will increase its power even more, with Daoxuan Daoxuan's ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, one cannot but be shocked.
Seeing that the water column was approaching, Dao Xuanbi had no way to avoid it, so he had to take a deep breath, and recited in his mouth: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!"
He raised both hands, held the ball in the air, and formed sword fingering formulas with his left and right hands. He seemed to be in a hurry, and drew a picture of Tai Chi in front of him. For a moment, the pattern glowed in the air, bursting with white light, full of aura, and then Daoxuan Turning around, the dark green Taoist robe on his body bulged without any wind, and suddenly floated down from him, and the Taiji diagram in the air immediately rushed to the Taoist robe as if driven, and was immediately branded on the Taoist robe.
This dark green Taoist robe seems to be a treasure of the immortal family. After being exposed to the Tai Chi diagram, it made a "hoo", and it grew when it saw the wind.
"Wow", there was a loud bang, the water unicorn's water column hit the enlarged dark green Taoist robe, only to hear the roar in the water column again and again, it seemed that the souls of those monsters were furiously screaming, and under the heavy blow of the dark green Taoist robe, they retreated After a distance of several feet, the part of the Taoist robe hit by the water column bulged deeply, showing the huge force.
As for the young disciples of Qingyun standing on the steps who were almost dumbfounded, they felt a sudden gust of wind blowing in, and all of them were unable to stand firmly, except for a few who had advanced cultivation and barely supported, most of them fell from left to right.
Everyone couldn't help but turn pale. If Master Daoxuan hadn't blocked Shui Qilin's thunderous blow, I don't know what the consequences would be.
Zhang Xiaofan's complexion was pale, his footing was unstable, so he fell to the side, Lin Jingyu saw it out of the corner of his eyes, he just wanted to reach out to help, but unexpectedly his body tilted, but he also fell to the other side, too busy to care for himself.
Zhang Xiaofan turned pale with fright, subconsciously let go of the hand that was holding the "burning stick" in his bosom, and stretched out desperately to find a place to support it, but he didn't notice the icy coldness when his hand left the burning stick. The feeling just disappeared.
In the air, Reverend Daoxuan looked solemn, waiting for the formation, but behind him, "swipe, swipe, swipe" a few times, and more than a dozen figures appeared, standing in the air behind him, the leader was Reverend Cangsong, and the rest were The head of the six veins and the elders of each vein, Tian Buyi and Suru were among them, all of them looked serious.
The masters of the Qingyun sect are all here at the moment, looking at the world, anyone would be terrified of such a situation, but this water unicorn, under the gaze of the chief elders of the Qingyun sect, did not have the slightest fear color.
But under the gaze of everyone, Shui Qilin's eyes that were burning with anger suddenly calmed down, showing a strange look instead, as if he was puzzled, and the huge water column in front of him also gradually shrunk, and finally lost control and died. When it fell to the ground, there was a "crash", and the ground was wet.
At this time, the water unicorn has no momentum, but its huge body stands still, it is still quite scary, it ignores the elders in mid-air, its eyes only stare at the young disciples on the steps, and its eyes sweep back and forth , and sniffed the air with his nose, but he didn't seem to smell anything.
After a while, after repeating this weird behavior many times, the water unicorn seemed to give up at last, shook its huge head, turned around, wobbled to another open space, and lay down. He leaned his head on his lap, narrowed his eyes, and after a while, there was another snoring sound.
Everyone in the Qingyun sect looked at each other in blank dismay.
Taoist Cangsong was the quickest to come back to his senses, quietly moved to Daoxuan's side, and said in a low voice: "Brother sect master, it's not appropriate for the disciples to stay here for too long."
Daoxuan came to his senses, glanced at Cangsong, nodded, and said, "Take your disciples up first, and I'll go see what's going on with the Lingzun?" After speaking, he folded his body and flew towards the water unicorn.
Cang Song turned around, and said loudly: "Just now, Lingzun made a joke for everyone. Don't be nervous. Now, all the disciples participating in the martial arts test should go to Yuqing Hall one by one!"
All the disciples responded in unison, restored order, and walked up.
But in my heart, seeing Shui Qilin's shocking blow just now, I'm afraid few people would believe that it was a joke!
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Following behind the crowd, Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu walked into the majestic and spacious Yuqing Palace. Standing in this hall, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly felt that the memories of the past five years were turned upside down.
"Jing Yu." Zhang Xiaofan suddenly whispered.
"What?" Lin Jingyu looked at Zhang Xiaofan.
Zhang Xiaofan said in a low voice, "I suddenly remembered something, have you seen Second Uncle Wang in the past few years?"
Lin Jingyu's complexion suddenly darkened, and then he shook his head and said: "No, today is also the first time I have returned to Tongtian Peak. Three years ago, I asked Qi Hao about the situation of Senior Brother Wang Ershu, and I heard from him that he still looks crazy , running around on Tongtian Peak all day long, but with Nagato’s senior brother taking care of him, there should be no problem.”
Zhang Xiaofan was silent for a while, said: "After this competition is over, I want to go and see him, do you want to go?"
Lin Jingyu nodded and said, "Okay, I really want to see him too."
At this time, above the main hall, a green shadow suddenly flashed, but Daoxuan Daoxuan flashed in from outside.
The eyes of all the elders of Qingyun Sect fell on him, Taoist Cangsong walked forward and asked: "Senior brother, Master Ling..."
Daoxuan raised his hand to stop him, and made a gesture to him, Taoist Cangsong understood immediately, and stopped talking.
Immediately, Master Daoxuan turned around as if nothing had happened, and said to the dozens of young disciples of the Qingyun Sect standing on the main hall with a pleasant face: "Everyone come! Good, good."
All the disciples bent down and saluted together, saying: "I have seen the real master."
Reverend Daoxuan smiled slightly, walked back to his seat, and glanced at Taoist Cangsong. Taoist Cangsong immediately stepped forward and said loudly: "Everyone, you are all outstanding members of the Qingyun sect's younger generation. So far, it has been more than 2,000 years. It is actually the orthodox Taoist school and the leader of the righteous way. But the ancients said: "Prosperity comes from diligence, and waste from play." There is also a saying: "Row against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat." I sent generations In order to warn future generations and guide young disciples, the patriarch passed down the grand event of the Qimai Martial Arts Competition, and it has been a full twenty years."
"Ah", there was a burst of exclamation among the disciples of the Qingyun Sect. The 20th session, counted once in one Jiazi, would be 1,200 years old.
Taoist Cangsong looked at everyone's reactions with satisfaction, and said again: "To this day, my Qingyun Sect is prosperous and prosperous under the leadership of Daoxuan sect master brother, far better than the previous life, and there are countless outstanding people among the younger generation. After discussing with the leaders of the various branches, the senior brother has specially increased the number of people in the big test to sixty-four, so as to avoid any regrets."
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help looking at Tian Buyi, and saw Tian Buyi sitting at the head of Daoxuan Daoxuan, his face was expressionless, but there was a look of impatience in his eyes, after all, the matter of increasing the number of people in the competition was said to be with the leader of each branch After discussing, in fact, Daoxuan and Cangsong have the final say.
Cangsong Taoist continued: "This time, the number of people in the big test has doubled, so there are some changes in the lottery. Please take a look."
As he spoke, he pointed to the open space on the right side of the main hall. Everyone looked there and saw a big mahogany box, square and square, with only a small hole on the upper side for one's arm to reach in.
"In the mahogany box, there are sixty-three wax pills, each of which is wrapped with a note, with numbers from one to sixty-three written on it."
All the disciples suddenly made a commotion, Cangsong Taoist ignored it, and said again: "After the lottery is completed, the competition will be conducted based on the number, number one is against sixty-four, two is against sixty-three, three is against sixty-two and so on. By analogy, in the second round after that, the winner of No. 1 and No. 64 will face the winner of No. 2 and No. 63, and so on until the final decisive battle. Do you understand?"
The disciples of the Qingyun Sect standing in the hall were silent for a while, and suddenly someone shouted: "Excuse me, Master Cang Song, there are obviously sixty-four people, but why are there only sixty-three wax pills?"
Taoist Cangsong seemed to have been prepared for this question, coughed dryly, and said: "The rule of this competition is that nine people from each of the seven veins of the Qingyun Sect, and one more person from the Nagato, but, ahem, because there is one There are only eight disciples sent by Mai Tong Sect, so one person is missing, so there are only sixty-three disciples."
For a moment, everyone's eyes fell on the face of Tian Buyi, the first member of the Big Bamboo Peak. An angry look flashed across Tian Buyi's face, but he sat upright and didn't move at all.
The disciples of the Qingyun Sect downstairs suddenly started to make noises, and there were many discussions.
After everyone's voice calmed down a bit, Master Cangsong said seriously: "However, this is not a difficult task. Among the sixty-three wax pills, as long as there is a disciple who draws the first number, it will be extremely lucky, because There is no opponent No. 64, so he has a bye in the first round."
As soon as this remark came out, there was another uproar among the disciples of Qingyunmen, but Qingyunmen is a famous sect after all, and the family education is very strict. Although this method seems rather funny, no one objected.
Reverend Daoxuan stood up, looked around, his master, the head of the sect, fell silent immediately. Reverend Daoxuan nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's go draw lots!"
Above the main hall, everyone's eyes fell on the mahogany box. First, ten disciples from Nagato's line came out, walked to the box one by one, each took out a wax pill, and then Longshoufeng Disciple of the same vein.
Lin Jingyu greeted Zhang Xiaofan and walked out, Zhang Xiaofan glanced at his back, then turned his gaze to the seven chiefs sitting on the top and all the elders.
Among these people, from Taoist Daoxuan down, Taoist Cangsong, Taoist Tianyun, Shang Zhengliang, Zeng Shuchang and other leaders of each line, he has met five years ago, only the one sitting on the last chair on the right The female Taoist has never met, but judging from this, she is probably the first Shuiyue master of the famous Xiaozhufeng.
Zhang Xiaofan often hears his seniors mention this uncle, he heard that Xiaozhufeng is the only branch in Qingyun sect that accepts only female disciples, master Shuiyue himself is also very profound, he is very famous in Qingyun sect.
And the disciples from Xiaozhufeng also performed well in the previous Qimai martial arts test.
Zhang Xiaofan took a few more glances at Master Shuiyue, and saw that she was about thirty or so in appearance, about the same as his teacher's wife Suru, with an oval face, thin eyebrows and nose, a pair of almond eyes, and a moon-white Taoist robe. It was graceful to go.
And behind her, there were no elders standing, but a female disciple standing there, dressed in white as snow, extremely beautiful, with a long sword on her back, the scabbard and hilt were sky blue, bright in color, There is a faint wave of light flowing, and one can tell it is a treasure of the fairy family.
He was watching in a daze, the young woman seemed to feel his gaze, she suddenly turned her head, her gaze was like lightning, and she stared at Zhang Xiaofan coldly. Zhang Xiaofan's heart trembled, as if he was shocked by electricity, his eyes seemed to be stabbed.
He was startled, his face flushed slightly, but seeing the woman's expressionless face, but there was a hint of contempt in her eyes, he quickly lowered his head.
At this embarrassing moment, someone from the side suddenly reached out to pull him, only to hear Tian Linger's voice saying: "Xiaofan, why are you so dazed! Let's go to draw lots."
Zhang Xiaofan quickly said: "Yes, yes." After speaking, he didn't dare to look at Master Shuiyue, turned around and followed Tian Linger to the mahogany box.
At this moment, there were only Dazhufeng and Xiaozhufeng left on the main hall that had not drawn lots, the people from Dazhufeng headed by Song Daren walked to the box one by one, took out wax pills, and then walked back to the hall.
Afterwards, when everyone checked the numbers they had drawn, eight female disciples walked out from Xiaozhufeng's lineage, including Wen Min, and the woman in white standing behind Master Shuiyue bowed her head and said to Master Shuiyue In a sentence, Master Shuiyue nodded and said, "You go too!"
The woman in white responded, and walked among the girls in Xiaozhufeng, smiled with Wenmin and others, walked to the redwood box together, and took out the last nine wax pills.
At this moment, on the main hall, all the disciples checked the wax pills one after another, and the elders of the various veins sitting at the top couldn't help but get nervous. They all stared at the disciples of their own veins, hoping that the disciples would draw a good lottery. The note of "one" is naturally the best.
As if responding to the mood of the teachers, the young disciples of the Qingyun Sect made their voices one by one.
"Ah! I am twenty-six."
"I'm thirty-three, hey, how much are you?"
"Oh, I'm forty-seven, I don't know what number my opponent is, I'll do the math..."
The disciples talked for a long time, but no one said that they got the precious No. 1 note.
Taoist Cangsong frowned, coughed twice, and said loudly, "Who got the first lottery?"
His voice was loud, suppressing all voices for a moment, and the hall was completely silent.
After a long time, a small voice suddenly came from among the crowd, with a hint of surprise and caution, as if he didn't even believe it himself, said: "Reply, return to Uncle Cangsong, here, here with me."
Everyone looked together, not feeling stunned, saw Zhang Xiaofan standing in the crowd, holding a note in his hand, standing there blankly, but looking at Tian Buyi, said timidly and authentically.