No hope for eternal life

"Such rules are reasonable." Mu Changsheng nodded slightly after hearing this, which was regarded as his approval of the rules of the third round of competition.

Things like grouping depend more on luck. If you are lucky and are grouped with a group of weak people, your hope of advancing is greater. If you are unlucky and are competing for the only spot with a group of strong people, your hope is extremely slim. Now that a challenge mechanism has been added, it is much more reasonable and can give those with unlucky people an extra chance to enter the top 100.

"I didn't expect the third round of this martial arts test to be like this..." Everyone present was talking about it, and they seemed to be dissatisfied with the rules of this competition. Ten people were competing on the stage together, which was too uncertain, and there was only one subsequent challenge opportunity. It would be better if there were more.

"I know that even so, some of you will still think it's not fair." County Lord Gao Xuan said loudly: "But this is how the world is. There has never been absolute fairness. Giving each of you an extra chance to challenge is also testing your vision to see if you have the vision to choose a weaker opponent. If you are not strong enough and your vision is not good enough, even if you are eliminated, you deserve it."

"That makes sense." Mu Changsheng nodded secretly in agreement.

After County Lord Gao Xuan finished speaking, the county lieutenant behind him stood up and presided over the third round of the competition on behalf of the county lord. He announced: "I declare that the third round of the martial arts test has officially begun. The next ten people whose names are called will quickly go on stage. Those who do not go on stage after ten breaths will be eliminated directly."

"Muxun, Sachuan, Wang Xuan..."

"You are always the first to go on stage. You are really a big shot." Mu Changsheng couldn't help but teased Mu Xun.

At the same time, Mu Changsheng judged again in his mind that the grouping order this time seemed to be based on the order of appearing on stage in the previous round of competition. By this calculation, he should also be ranked in the front few groups.

Mu Xun on the side nodded and went on stage again.

After Mu Xun and ten other people came on stage, the referee also came on stage and said to Mu Xun and others: "The competition rules of our Shenfeng country have long been agreed upon. It is not allowed to use defensive spiritual tools, elixirs and other external forces. Once I find that you are violating the rules, it will be regarded as cheating. If there are still people who don't understand, please raise it now."

"No." Mu Xun and others shook their heads. They were obviously very clear about the rules of the competition. To put it bluntly, they could not rely on external forces during the competition. Even if they used talismans, they had to be talismans made by themselves.

The referee nodded and announced: "During the competition, those who are knocked off the ring, seriously injured and unable to stand, or admit defeat will be eliminated."

"The competition officially begins!"

Following the referee's order, the nine people on the ring, except Muxun, united together in a very tacit understanding. They all realized the gap in strength between themselves and Muxun, so they wanted to eliminate Muxun first.

"Let's attack him together." A man in white among the nine people suggested, and then he performed a secret magic and attacked Mu Xun.

The other eight people did the same, using either magic or close combat to attack Mu Xun together.

The black sword in Mu Xun's hand had already been unsheathed. Even facing the nine people joining forces, he was not afraid. He said to himself: "Let me show you what I have done."

"The return of the human element."

In addition to simple sword techniques, the Sanyuan Sword Technique also includes several matching secret techniques, and this "Return of the Human Yuan" secret technique is one of them.

As soon as the secret technique of returning to human form was performed, waves of spiritual energy rippled around Mu Xun's body, and quickly spread outwards, sweeping away the attacking spells and monks.

A monk holding a knife who was swept by the ripples of Mu Xun's spiritual power was horrified and said in horror: "What's going on?"

He discovered that most of the spiritual power in his dantian had inexplicably disappeared.

"It's related to the ripples of spiritual energy." The sword cultivator realized something in an instant.

At the same time, everyone else on the stage also felt the disappearance of their own spiritual power. Even the spells they cast collapsed on their own as their spiritual power was drained away.

"Don't let the spiritual power ripples get close to us, it will steal our spiritual power." A man in white warned.

"It's too late to realize it now." Mu Xun said to himself, and shouted: "Return."

As Mu Xun used the secret technique of returning to human form again, the ripples of spiritual power that had originally spread out in all directions instantly shrank and returned to Mu Xun's side. Along with the ripples of spiritual power, the huge amount of spiritual power that it had stolen also returned.

Mu Xun pointed his sword at the huge spiritual power that did not originally belong to him, and took it for his own use. At the same time, he used the black sword to release a large amount of sword energy to entangle with it, and once again performed a secret technique: "Three Yuan Sword Life."

As Mu Xun performed the secret technique again, the huge amount of spiritual power condensed into countless spiritual flying swords in the air.

"Go." Mu Xun waved his sword and pointed it at the nine people in the distance. Countless spiritual swords flew away in response, carrying an extremely sharp aura.

"Block the attack, block the attack." The man in white who spoke earlier gave orders frantically.

The nine people were stunned by the means displayed by Mu Xun. They knew that they had to put aside all distractions and focus on fighting the enemy.

"Mysterious Shield" "Heavy Water Defense"...

The nine people showed off their unique abilities and used defensive measures to try to block the attacking spiritual swords.

"Crack, crack..." A series of shattering sounds were heard, and more than a dozen defensive measures were broken in an instant like paper. There were still dozens of spiritual swords left, attacking nine people respectively!

"Damn it." The man in white who had been active all the time cursed inwardly. Most of their spiritual power had been stolen, and now they had almost no extra strength to defend themselves. He now had only two choices: either take those powerful spiritual flying swords head-on and be seriously injured; or take the initiative to escape from the ring, which was equivalent to admitting defeat, but at least there was still a chance to challenge again.

The man in white decisively chose the latter. If he was seriously injured, it would be useless even if he had another chance to challenge.

Of the other eight people on the ring, six made the same choice as the man in white. The remaining two either did not have time to think or were unwilling to believe in evil and chose to confront the attacking spiritual flying swords head-on. The result can be imagined. If the referee had not intervened in time to block some of the spiritual flying swords, the two men might have lost their lives.

After saving the lives of the two men, the referee first looked at Muxun strangely, and then officially announced: "Muxun wins."

After hearing the referee's voice, many audience members in the audience came to their senses. The expressions on their faces were extremely interesting, ranging from disbelief, shock, uncertainty, and so on.

Even the county lord Gao Xuan who was sitting on the high seat was a little surprised. He already knew that when Mu Xun won thirteen consecutive victories in the martial arts arena, he had revealed a profound secret technique that could temporarily enhance the strength of cultivators, but the secret technique he used this time was different.