In terms of appearance, the three of them looked like young men at first glance. However, even Ji Ning, who was the youngest, had lived for over thirty years in this life, and the other two had been cultivating for more than a hundred years.
"What's this?" Hei Shi Zhen Ren and Mu Chuan Zhen Ren turned their heads at the same time, looking in Ji Ning's direction.
Only to see Ji Ning sitting cross-legged there, but suddenly a gust of wind surrounded Ji Ning, and the fluctuation of 'Dao' arrived.
"What? A breakthrough?" Both Kuroishi and Mokuren were shocked.
They could naturally see that Ji Ning had grasped a complete Dao of the 'Wind Class'.
"It's actually at this critical moment that he has gained another insight, this Ji Ning is indeed formidable. In close combat, both the Knife Slave True Man and Xia Mang Purple Mountain were very strong, but they were all defeated by Ji Ning. Now he has broken through... his close combat skills are probably even higher than mine." Hei Shi True Man calculated briefly, feeling a bit anxious.
In the painting "Bright Moon and Clear Water", he is more at an advantage.
Because in the Mingyue Mountain and Water Chart, what's important is to be able to save one's life, having enough faith symbols is enough! His attainments in array methods can naturally be fully displayed. However, at this time, a one-on-one decisive battle must distinguish between victory and defeat, he was at a disadvantage. His attainments in array methods were not as helpful to him.
"But the Taoist ancestor chooses his disciples, not necessarily the first one." Hei Shi Zhen Ren said quietly, "When the time comes for comparison, I will show all my insights on the formation method, let the Taoist ancestor see my formation power... I believe the Taoist ancestor will choose me."
He is also very strong in close combat, almost on par with Xia Mangzi and Zi Shan.
But he was even more confident in his formation techniques! He had spent too much effort on formations.
……
Ji Ning felt the fluctuations in the surrounding Dao and opened his eyes, revealing a hint of a smile.
The way of the swift wind has finally been understood!
Actually, as early as when I first understood the "Way of Rainwater", the "Way of Fierce Fire" and the "Way of Swift Wind" were already nearly perfect, but these two paths lacked something. However, the help from the numerous battles and tempering over the past year was particularly great, and finally, I successively grasped both the "Way of Fierce Fire" and the "Way of Swift Wind".
"The three paths of rainwater, fierce fire and strong wind are all under control." Ji Ning also understood.
My own understanding is mainly these three paths, and these three paths belong to the simultaneous advancement, being able to grasp them consecutively at the Fairy Fate Conference is not unexpected.
"My swordsmanship has made considerable progress." Ji Ning was delighted.
Previously fought with Xia Mangzi Mountain, indeed made a lot of progress in swordsmanship.
Only the 7th move, 8th move and 9th move of "Three Chi Sword" are greatly improved.
After all, the eighth move is comparable to the standard of ordinary heavenly immortals. The ninth move can even allow the Northern Journey Immortal to exert heavenly immortal combat power with a scattered immortal body!
Ji Ning's current understanding of the sword path, between the seventh and eighth forms, is still far from being able to display the eighth form, but his progress has been very high. At least his combat power has soared by a large margin.
"His Majesty the Emperor gave us one month's time."
"This month, I will try to integrate the three paths of Rain Water, Fierce Fire and Swift Wind into my sword path, making my swordsmanship even more powerful." Ji Ning thought to himself, then immediately calmed his mind and began to contemplate.
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Tianmeng Temple Main Hall.
Everyone is waiting for the three battles after a while, and those three battles will be recorded by the Water Marking Technique for 'Chi Ming Tao Zu' to watch.
"Ji Ning previously fought with Xia Mangzi in the Purple Mountain, and fell into a state of no thoughts. He must have made significant progress. By the time they come out of their closed-door training, Ji Ning's strength will definitely increase again. In terms of attacking and killing, he is probably the absolute first in this Xian Yuan Conference. And Mu Chuan True Man should be the absolute first in defense. Hei Shi True Man, on the other hand, is at a disadvantage, especially if it's a one-on-one fight. His array formation skills are so strong that others can hardly kill him. But this is the Xian Yuan Conference, where they have to fight each other one-on-one." Chi Ji True Lord said calmly. "Calculating, the first place in the Xian Yuan Conference should be either Ji Ning or Mu Chuan True Man."
"Uh-huh."
"Right."
"Hei Shi really got taken advantage of."
Lü Dongbin and others also nodded in agreement.
Xia Huang nodded: "Ji Ning gained another insight during his seclusion in the world of Mingyue Mountain and Water Painting, which should be the result of the battle with Zishan."
"After entering a state of no thoughts and no desires, one's strength increases. It is as expected." The Pure Yang True Immortals were all very calm.
……
Compared to this, the last three matches are relatively less important in terms of winning or losing. Because being ranked first does not necessarily mean that one will be chosen by Zhuangzi.
But undoubtedly...
Getting first place would definitely increase one's chances of being selected. After all, from ancient times to the present, heroes have been judged more on their successes and failures.
Before long, an hour had passed.
Swish swish swish!
Three figures flew out of the painting and landed on the grand hall.
"Your Majesty." Ji Ning and the other two said respectfully.
"These three life-and-death battles, the first one will be between you, Ji Ning, and Hei Shi Zhenren." The Great Emperor of Summer decreed, "After these three life-and-death battles are over, I will arrange for you to go to the treasure vault of our Great Summer Dynasty, where you can choose a divine ability. However, compared to becoming a disciple of the Dao Ancestor, choosing a divine ability is merely a small matter."
Ji Ning and the other two listened silently.
"Let's begin." The Emperor of Daxia ordered.
"Yes."
Ji Ning and Heishi exchanged a glance, then both walked out of the grand hall.
……
Fighting up to this point, Ji Ning and the other two had already used up all their trump cards, everything had been played out, so Lü Dongbin and the others could see it very clearly!
Hei Shi Zhen Ren is skilled in many formations, but Ji Ning just stood there motionless, only deploying a Water Fire Lotus Flower to protect himself. If you, Hei Shi Zhen Ren, show up, we'll have a fight. If you don't show up, I won't make any reckless moves either.
Then...
Hei Shi Zhen Ren began his enthusiastic 'performance', showcasing the abilities of his Zong Shi master, and that seemingly simple Fu Xi staff array actually unfolded one after another large array, either illusory arrays, killing arrays, or sealing arrays. Even overlapping arrays, bewildering and deadly mechanisms were endless.
Ke Ji Ning didn't need to break through the formation, he just needed to wait for Hei Shi Zhen Ren and him to have a battle.
After "performing" some powerful formations, Hei Shi Zhen and Ji Ning finally started fighting each other.
Indeed...
In close combat, Ji Ning, who has made great progress in his strength, finally defeated Hei Shi Zhen Ren!
Ji Ning wins the first round!
……
And in the second game, Mu Chuan Zhen Ren and Hei Shi Zhen Ren fought again, Mu Chuan Zhen Ren was even more shameless than Ji Ning!
Ji Ning stood still, but at least he had a crazy fight with Hei Shi Zhen Ren.
Mokuren's true strength was that he completely interpreted his "immovable as a mountain" and "human-shaped giant tree" no matter how Kuroishi attacked, Mokuren could withstand it. And even counterattacked! Just like that... Kuroishi's divine power was exhausted, and in the end, he had to admit defeat!
The second game, Mok Chiu defeated!
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And in the third round, Ji Ning faced off against Mu Tianyan.
This battle is clearly more intense than the previous two, in the previous two battles, Ji Ning and Mu Chen didn't dare to run wildly under Hei Shi's array. But Ji Ning and Mu Chen, that was a head-on collision!
Ji Ning is the strongest killer in the Immortal Fate Gathering! He has the Crimson Bright Twelve Heaven Diagram, an extremely high Sword Dao, three complete Daos, and even the divine ability 'Plucking Star Hand'!
Mù chuán zhēn rén, nǎi shì fáng shǒu zuì qiáng zhě! Shén mó liàn tǐ sī háo bù chā, gèng yǒu 'qīng mù dà dào' 'yuán shuǐ dà dào' liǎng tiáo dà dào xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng!
Translation:
Wood Transcendent, is the strongest defender! The divine magic body is flawless, and also has two great paths, "Green Wood Great Path" and "Source Water Great Path", which complement each other!
This war...
Ji Ning was displaying his swordsmanship with abandon, crazily pouring out every attack method.
Mu Chuan Zhen Ren initially wanted to counterattack, but was soon forced by Ji Ning to defend almost all the time, occasionally able to fight back once. Because Ji Ning and Ou Ye Zhen Ren were different, Ou Ye Zhen Ren was a crushing tide, but Ji Ning's moves were too agile, his swordsmanship sometimes fierce and violent, sometimes swift and deadly, or soft and flowing...
Long defense will eventually lead to loss.
In a fierce battle, one side is always on the defensive and will definitely be at a disadvantage! The sloppy True Man's 'Layered Wave Secret Art' would collapse. But Ji Ning's swordsmanship wouldn't possibly collapse, his continuous and unrelenting swordsmanship caused Mu Tian True Man to start getting injured, and as he got injured, things only got worse.
In the end, Mugen had no choice but to admit defeat!
"My divine power has been depleted by 70%, and he's only lost after such a fierce attack." Ji Ning also broke out in cold sweat, his own Star Plucking Hand technique had consumed too much divine power, if Mu Tianyan continued to hold on for a little while longer, he feared that his divine power would be completely exhausted.
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Three trials.
Ji Ning won two games! Mu Tianyou won one game! Hei Shi lost!
"We won!"
"Haha, we won! We won! We won!!!" The team from Anping County on the Imperial City Square let out an extremely excited cheer, with all sorts of shouts and applause, and loud laughter that spread far and wide.
The three thousand six hundred counties and over ten million people from all corners of the land gathered at the Imperial City Square, who knew that the matter of 'Daozu collecting disciples' could be counted on one's fingers, for them... winning first place in the Immortal Fate Convention was the most glorious.
"First, first!" Mu Zi Shuo's face was flushed with excitement, "I'm the first, Brother Ji Ning is the first!"
Cangjiang Zhenren couldn't help but sigh: "At the time, I saw Ji Ning's junior brother behead Shao Yan Nong, it all seems like just yesterday. Who would have thought that in such a short period of cultivation, he could actually obtain first place at this Immortal Fate Conclave? Truly... truly remarkable, remarkable!"
"First!"
The five mad immortals excitedly smashed all the wine gourds in their hands to the ground, like a lunatic, wildly excited. "Haha, I'm a disciple of Hei Bai Xue Gong, and I won first place at the Fairy Fate Conference! My Hei Bai Xue Gong has never had this since ancient times, haha, the first place at the Fairy Fate Conference is my Hei Bai Xue Gong's disciple! Haha, it feels great, it feels great, it feels great!"
"Ji Ning is truly incredible." Bei Shan Bai Wei's breathing was a bit rapid, too excited, "Actually won the first place in the Xian Yuan Conference, I didn't even dare to think that Ji Ning could win first place, it's really unbelievable."
"The master is so powerful." Little Qing's eyes shone brightly.
"Big brother......" Bai Shuizhe recalled the scene where Ji Yichuan and Wei Chixiong taught Ji Ning swordsmanship, "Did you see? You taught him martial arts, taught him swordsmanship, and now he's relying on his sword to become the champion of the entire Great Xia Wang Dynasty's Xianyuan Conference! Did you see? Did you see?"
Tears of joy streaming down her face, she was overjoyed.
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