Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 103 Dark Horse
What is a dark horse? Li Zhen is the darkest dark horse.

After Li Zhen performed the "Shenxiao Thunder Method", coupled with his mastery of close combat swordsmanship, his fame jumped to the top three among all the contestants.

The reason why he was in the top three instead of first was because Li Zhen was a little weak in personal cultivation. The fourth level of Qi training was the lowest level among the contestants.

When he came down from the ring, the other contestants looked at him with more awe in their eyes, especially the two captains of Tianchang No. 1 Middle School, Jing Zhengtian, and Tianchang No. 2 Middle School, Wei Wenshan.

Jing Zhengtian and Wei Wenshan are the strongest players here, but they are not sure they can kill other cultivators in the late Qi training stage with one move. Two cultivators in the late Qi training stage have been killed instantly by Li Zhen.

On the fourth day of the challenge, the fifth and sixth rounds will be held in the morning.

There were fourteen contestants participating in the fifth round. Li Zhen's opponent was only at the sixth level of Qi training. He did not use any other means and defeated him with just one sword.

This round, the 'lucky fish' Tan Yaya finally came on stage and was defeated without any surprise.

However, considering her ability, being able to enter the fifth round is already an excellent result, and it also wins more resource allocation for all her schools in the coming year.

There were seven contestants participating in the sixth round. Finally, luck came to Li Zhen this time and he got a free draw.

He sat on the sidelines during the last match of the morning, watching his opponents fight to the death.

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but the two strongest players, Jing Zhengtian and Wei Wenshan, were not grouped together this time.

So in the afternoon semi-finals, the four contestants were Jing Zhengtian, Wei Wenshan, Li Zhen, and Ming Lanxin, a female student from Tianchang No. 1 Middle School.

Four people stood in a row, waiting to be divided into groups.

The audience looked at the four people, especially seeing the thirteen-year-old Li Zhen standing with the other three who were almost adults, and felt a sense of disharmony.

Li Zhen uses his ability to sense spiritual objects. At such a close distance, he can sense the aura of spiritual objects on the other three contestants, and from this he can guess the hidden methods of these contestants.

The grouping results came out, he faced Wei Wenshan, and Jing Zhengtian faced Ming Lanxin.

At this moment, there is only one ring left in the venue, and the rest have been dismantled.

Li Zhen and Wei Wenshan went up to the ring. There was also a referee on the ring. From his aura, it could be judged that the referee was a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"You can fight with all your strength, and I will protect you when you are in danger!" said the referee in a deep voice.

Although the arena is equipped with protective devices, when two monks with the combat power of the late stage of Qi training fight each other, the arena's protective devices may not be able to provide timely protection.

Therefore, in the semi-finals, there were referees at the Foundation Establishment stage present to prevent casualties in the ring.

Li Zhen and Wei Wenshan stood more than ten meters apart. Li Zhen held the Qingsong sword upside down in his hand and adjusted his breathing calmly.

Wei Wenshan's eyes were sharp, and in her left and right hands were a flying sword and a shield respectively.

Li Zhen didn't even need to use his perception of spiritual objects to determine that the flying sword and shield were both first-grade, top-quality magical weapons.

In addition, the aura on Wei Wenshan's body was far from the seventh level of Qi training as stated in the information he obtained, but the eighth level of Qi training.

Don't underestimate the difference of one level. A cultivator at the eighth level of Qi training is enough to suppress more than two cultivators at the seventh level of Qi training.

Li Zhen even noticed a pair of gloves on Wei Wenshan's hands. He had seen Wei Wenshan fight, but had never used this pair of gloves before.

"The battle begins!" said the referee in a deep voice.

Wei Wenshan raised the shield in her hand, which quickly grew larger, forming a crescent-shaped shield in front of her.

At the same time, Li Zhen's "Shenxiao Thunder Method" fell and hit the shield.

The shield blocked the lightning, but the shield, as a metal weapon, would still divert some of the lightning.

When the lightning followed the shield to Wei Wenshan's hand, it was blocked by the gloves and had no effect on Wei Wenshan.

Wei Wenshan still had time to summon her flying sword and shoot it towards Li Zhen.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh when he saw that 'Shenxiao Thunder Method' had no effect.

Although the resources of the Immortal Kingdom are scarce, the Immortal Kingdom has a history of at least 10,000 years of cultivation. The scarcity of resources is relative to the current population of cultivators. Tianchang No. 2 Middle School is one of the key middle schools in Tianchang City. Wei Wenshan, who was selected as the captain of the challenge in this school, has resources that other students cannot imagine, no matter her background or the care she received in school.

Li Zhen demonstrated the 'Shenxiao Thunder Method' just yesterday, and today Wei Wenshan already has a magical weapon that can block thunder and lightning.

Of course, this is also because his cultivation is too low. A cultivator at the fourth level of Qi training uses the "Shenxiao Thunder Method" to deal with a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi training. The difference in realm alone greatly reduces the power of the powerful thunder method.

Not to mention that there was a magical weapon specifically designed to help with thunder magic, allowing Wei Wenshan to take on the thunder magic without any injury.

In the first confrontation, although it was Li Zhen who launched the attack, he suffered a great loss.

A 'Shenxiao Thunder Method' consumed half of his spiritual power, which meant that he could not delay the battle and it would be best to end it as soon as possible.

Li Zhen rushed towards Wei Wenshan and blocked the flying sword with his exquisite swordsmanship.

Wei Wenshan threw a handful of seeds in her hand, and immediately a large area of ​​thorns appeared in front of Li Zhen, completely blocking Li Zhen's way forward.

"How luxurious!" Li Zhen was also shocked by Wei Wenshan's generosity.

He felt that he had a lot of wealth, but he was not as generous as Wei Wenshan, who could use so many first-grade, top-quality Mo Yue Thorn seeds to perform the entanglement technique.

A group of Black Moon Thorns formed by at least five first-grade superior Black Moon Thorn seeds is just enough to restrain melee cultivators like Li Zhen.

Li Zhen's solution was beyond the expectations of all the cultivators present. He stretched out his hand and emitted a green light.

The green light fell on the group of Black Moon Thorns. It was visible to the naked eye that the Black Moon Thorns shrank rapidly, and in just two breaths of time they shrank back into seeds.

Most of the audience at the scene did not realize how difficult this move was, but both the contestants and the invited guests could see how powerful this move was.

Wei Wenshan dared to use the "Entanglement Technique" in the ring battle, which showed that her mastery of the "Entanglement Technique" had reached an extremely high level.

And for Li Zhen to transform the Mo Yue thorns she created with the 'Entanglement Technique' into seeds again, he would need to surpass her mastery of the 'Entanglement Technique', and not just a little bit higher, but a lot higher.

However, two breaths of time were enough for Wei Wenshan to launch multiple flying sword attacks.

Li Zhen blocked all of Wei Wenshan's flying sword attacks, and consumed a lot of his spiritual power in the process.

The group of Mo Yue thorns disappeared, and even though Wei Wenshan dodged, Li Zhen still got close to her.

Wei Wenshan was also helpless. The flying sword he launched was infused with spiritual thoughts by a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi training. It was more flexible and many times more powerful than the flying sword driven by a cultivator at the middle stage of Qi training.

But when facing Li Zhen's block, no matter how flexible the flying sword controlled by spiritual thoughts is, it will be accurately blocked by Li Zhen.

Wei Wenshan used her spiritual thoughts, while Li Zhen used his own mastery of swordsmanship as well as the strength of his body.

After Li Zhen got close, he used his sword skills to their full potential.

The sword light condensed from the Qingsong Sword swept across the shield magic weapon again and again.

What made Wei Wenshan most nervous was that the Qingsong Sword hit the shield magic weapon at the same place every time.

The shield weapon blocked the "Shenxiao Thunder Method" just now, but it was not without cost. The spiritual imprint in the shield weapon was severely weakened, which greatly reduced the controllability of the shield weapon.

A blue light flashed on Wei Wenshan's body, and then a rain of ice appeared out of nowhere and fell towards Li Zhen.

This is not the harmless rain like the 'Little Cloud Rain Spell', but the water-based area attack spell 'Ice Rain Spell'.

'Ice Rain' is an upgraded spell of 'Ice Arrow' and belongs to the category of first-level intermediate spells. It is not a common spell either.

At such a close distance, the 'Ice Rain Technique' covered Li Zhen's entire body within the attack range.

In her opinion, Li Zhen had no defensive spells or defensive magic weapons, so any icy rain from the "Ice Rain Spell" that hit him could pose a threat to him.

When Li Zhen saw the 'Ice Rain Spell' falling, a ball of fire condensed in his hand. The flame instantly grew larger and met the 'Ice Rain Spell'.

This is the free control of the 'Fireball Technique' that can only be achieved after mastering it to the Xiaofa realm or above. The price is that he consumed 10 points of spiritual power at once, and his spiritual power dropped to about 20 points.

(End of this chapter)