Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 192 The Dissension Between the Two States
Before the Five States Martial Arts Show began, there was chaos in Qizhou City, but even so, the Five States Martial Arts Show withstood the pressure and was held as usual.

This shows how fully prepared Qizhou was for the Five States Martial Arts Show, and also indirectly shows the huge amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources spent on this Five States Martial Arts Show.

Correspondingly, precisely because of the huge price paid by the host state, there is a corresponding tacit understanding among the five states, that is, the host state enjoys some decision-making power over the martial arts performance to a certain extent.

For example, small adjustments to the competition system, the determination of rewards, the right to negotiate with relevant Taoist academies, etc.

It was precisely because of these reasons that, once Qizhou was confirmed to host the Five States Martial Arts Show, it quickly approached the Qixi Taoist Temple, which was the Taoist temple closest to Qizhou and had the closest ties with Qizhou.

This is how the monks from Qixi Taoist Temple came to Qizhou and performed martial arts in the Five States.

However, no one expected that the Five States Martial Arts Show held in Qizhou also encountered "uninvited guests".

Qixi Taoist Temple, as the name suggests, is located west of Qizhou.

Although it is located west of Qizhou and the Taoist temple is named Qixi, the connection between Qixi Taoist Temple and Qizhou is only general, far less than its connection with Yuzhou.

The reason for this situation is because of the Qixi Desert.

To the west of Qizhou is the edge of the Qixi Desert, and to the west of the Qixi Desert is the Qixi Taoist Temple.

If it is distributed only according to geographical location, Qixi Taoist Temple should be called Yudong Taoist Temple. However, for some unknown reason, Qixi Taoist Temple was named in this way and became a Qixi Taoist Temple far away from Qizhou.

On the other hand, it is precisely because of the existence of the word "Qi" in the four characters of "Qixi Taoist Temple" that although Qixi Taoist Temple is far away from Qizhou, it has some subtle connections with Qizhou.

Because of this, people from Qizhou account for a relatively high proportion in Qixi Taoist Temple.

The cultivator named Lian who was ordered to come to the Wuzhou martial arts performance this time was a native of Qizhou.

The former National Daoyuan is generally divided into two categories based on the performance of the warriors when passing the Jade Cultivation Channel Trial.

One type is the Taoist temple that tends to recruit monks with strong bodies. This type of Taoist temple tends to focus on body training during the disciples' training process.

One type is the Taoist temple that tends to recruit Qi Condensation monks. This type of Taoist temple has the opposite style to the previous type and tends to focus on Qi Refining.

The core practice of Qixi Taoist Temple is Liusha Jue, which is a relatively typical Qi-refining practice.

When the Quicksand Technique is cultivated to perfection at the initial stage, the true energy will be like sand and its power will be greatly increased.

When the Quicksand Technique is cultivated to perfection, the true Qi will flow freely like sand, and its power and control will be greatly increased.

When the Quicksand Technique is cultivated to perfection, the true Qi will be like sand, flowing freely, and the Qi will be solid, integrating attack and defense.

The current director of Qixi Taoist Temple is a cultivator in the Ximing realm, and he has cultivated the Liusha Jue to perfection in the true realm.

The Dianlin Taoist Temple is different from the Qixi Taoist Temple.

The Dianlin Taoist Temple relies on the Dian Forest and possesses many wood-attributed skills, but its Taoist temple is built on a volcano near the Dian Forest.

When the Taoist temple was first established, the first dean of the Dianlin Taoist Temple combined the many wood-attributed basic skills that relied on the Dian forest with fire-attributed skills to create the core skill of the Dianlin Taoist Temple, the Fire Forest Technique.

The Fire Forest Art possesses both fire and wood attributes. Once unleashed, the fire harnesses the power of the wind, and the wind fuels the fire, enabling a devastating attack. The Fire Forest Art is a unique technique, the core practice of the Dianlin Taoist Academy. It possesses both offensive and defensive capabilities, with a foundation of wood-based defensive techniques, while its release emphasizes fire-based offensive techniques.

Unfortunately, due to the late establishment of Dianlin Taoist Temple, its first dean naturally established the Fire Forest Art late as well. To this day, the Fire Forest Art is still just a not very mature martial art.

Except for the first president of Dianlin Taoist Temple who cultivated the Fire Forest Art to the true realm perfection, the subsequent presidents were unable to make further progress, and most of them stopped at the level of initial perfection.

It was precisely because of this embarrassing situation of the Dianlin Taoist Temple that after the departure of the first dean, the Dianlin Taoist Temple became worse and worse, and the number of monks willing to go to the Dianlin Taoist Temple to practice also dropped sharply.

The Dianlin Taoist Temple has now reached a low point. If it continues like this, it may face the end of having no one to accept it and closing down and extinction.

The difference between Dianlin Taoist Temple and Qixi Taoist Temple is that since the departure of its first president, the gradually declining Dianlin Taoist Temple has begun to huddle together with Dianzhou for warmth.

The Dianlin Taoist Academy focuses on training Dianzhou monks who are willing to enter the Taoist Academy, and the city lords of the Dianzhou City Lord's Mansion also intend to send the new Dianzhou monks who have passed the Jade Cultivation Channel trial to the Dianlin Taoist Academy.

Year after year, the composition of the disciples of Dianlin Taoist Temple gradually changed into two parts.

The first part, of course, consists of the monks from Dianzhou.

The second part is the cultivators who tend to practice the wood and fire attributes.

This has led to a phenomenon, that is, the number of disciples in the Dianlin Taoist Temple is very small, but the proportion of monks with outstanding strength is very high.

It was precisely because of these reasons that the Dianlin Taoist Temple suddenly appeared at the scene of this year's Five States Martial Arts Show, which not only surprised the monk Lian from the Qixi Taoist Temple, but also surprised the director Yan of the Qizhou Martial Arts School.

"What's going on with Dianlin Taoist Temple this year? Aren't they only recruiting disciples in Dianzhou?" Director Yan pondered to himself.

"However, quite a few warriors from Dianzhou came this year, much more than in previous years. There were also Dianzhou warriors among the top three in the peak group."

"However, even if a Dianzhou warrior made it into the top three of the peak group, Dianlin Daoyuan could just come forward and take them back. Why would they need to contact Gao Rubang, who isn't a Dianzhou warrior?"

The more Director Yan thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

However, compared to the doubts about Dianlin Taoist Temple's contact with Gao Rubang, there is one thing that Director Yan can be sure of.

In this five-state martial arts performance, Dianzhou probably broke the rules that had never been broken before.

That is the winning warriors, including the top three warriors, which should be coordinated by the host state.

As for the Five States Martial Arts Show, which Taoist temple Gao Rubang and others will go to for training should be coordinated and decided by Qizhou City, or to be more precise, by the Qizhou City Lord's Mansion.

At this moment, the monks from Dianlin Taoist Temple appeared at Mi Cui Peak, which meant that Dianzhou had broken the default rules and began to unite with Dianlin Taoist Temple, reaching out to outstanding warriors outside Dianzhou.

"Dianzhou has sent a far larger number of warriors to participate in the martial arts performance than ever before. The Dianzhou warriors have achieved better results than ever before. The Dianlin Taoist Academy, which works closely with Dianzhou, has sent monks to contact the top-ranked warrior..."

By connecting the five states' martial arts performance in Dianzhou with the practices of the five states, Director Yan vaguely got some information.

But he didn't dare to think too much about it.

(End of this chapter)