Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

Ma Zhan lost to Liu Nange with a sincere heart.

"Admit defeat."

"Liu Nange wins."

Ma Zhan walked up to Lu Zhu with a very lost expression. Seeing Ma Zhan's sad look, Lu Zhu wondered how she could not help but laugh at her.

"Little brother, are you sad about losing to a woman?"

Ma Zhan looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and said quietly, "In my heart, the martial arts competition is nothing. Losing the chance to have dinner with Sister Luzhu is the biggest regret in my life."

Lu Zhu was completely overwhelmed by Ma Zhan's senseless sigh, "Is having dinner with me really that important?"

"Having a meal with Sister Luzhu is the only reason I, Ma, came to participate in the competition."

Lu Zhu held the Green Sleeve Sword to his chest, a smile on his face, as he joined in the horse fighting performance. "You knew me before the competition?"

"Who in the world doesn't know about the beauties in the beauty book? When I first saw Sister Luzhu's portrait, I was truly astonished by her beauty."

"If I remember correctly, there doesn't seem to be a portrait of me in the beauty book."

Damn, I am bragging too much. I forgot that Luzhu is ranked around 20th. There is really no portrait of him.

Ma Zhan had pondered Luzhu's ranking on the Nobody's Chart. In terms of purple alone, she was on par with Miaoyi, and the reason Luzhu was only ranked in the twenties was because of her personality.

Although this world is quite tolerant and there is not too strong discrimination between countries or races, there is still a certain prejudice against women. This prejudice may be related to etiquette or aesthetics.

Luzhu has a cheerful personality and seems a bit carefree. The people in Shu and the general public prefer the otherworldly fairy like Miaoyi.

Of course, most of the women in the top ten beauties defied this prejudice by relying on their strength. For example, Tang Xiaodie, leader of the Tang Clan, and Puyang Xi, master of the Great River Sword. Beauty is only the foundation; strength determines the upper limit.

When Liu Nange saw that Ma Zhan’s attempt to flirt with a girl failed, she walked forward and helped Ma Zhan out.

"Why don't you come to Dahe Mansion tonight, Green Sleeve Sword Master? Although Qinghu's cultivation is not that good, the food he cooks is pretty good."

Lu Zhu gave Liu Nange a sword-pointing salute, which was considered to be giving the royal family enough face. "Since Princess Nange has personally invited me, I will go and try the barbecue made by little brother Qinghu to see how good it is."

"My cultivation is not good enough, I'm just so-so. Liu Nange, you are so scheming..." Ma Zhan left Dajianping cursing.

"Are you hurt?" Zheng Xiaoqiao asked with concern.

It was my wife who was wronged, the other women were all very bad. "Since he wasn't hurt, Liu Nange still has some conscience.

By the way, when you go up there, be careful. Liu Nange is actually quite sinister. Don't be fooled by her kind appearance."

Zheng Xiaoqiao nodded and replied, "I will be careful."

"Liu Nange versus Zheng Xiaoqiao."

"Boom~" As soon as Lu Zhu finished speaking, Dajianping began to shake violently. The rocks at Zheng Xiaoqiao's feet suddenly rose from the ground, stacked one on top of another to form an irregular cone, trapping Zheng Xiaoqiao inside.

Ma Zhan stamped his feet in anger, "Liu Nange, when did you set up the formation? Don't make my Xiao Qiao feel depressed."

The water of the Wangchuan River is extremely cold and gloomy, and coupled with the snow frog that can even freeze formations, Zheng Xiaoqiao basically does not have to fear any opponent of the same level.

However, the water of the Wangchuan River has no effect on the earth element. Among the five elements, earth controls water. Now Liu Nange, with the help of rocks, has suppressed Zheng Xiaoqiao.

The stone house enclosing Zheng Xiaoqiao began to frost, and slowly, a layer of ice formed, clinging to the outer layer of the stone house. This was the limit of what the water of the Forgotten River could do: turning the rocks into icy rocks.

"Huh~" Ma Zhan discovered that the stone house had some changes, as if it had expanded a little. Could the stones of Dajianping be ductile?

"I see."

With a loud "boom", the stone house that sealed Zheng Xiaoqiao suddenly exploded. It could also be said that it was stretched open by the ice.

Ma Zhan laughed and pulled Puyang Yingjun over to listen, "You know, when water freezes into ice, it expands and can even crack steel pipes.

Xiao Qiao used the water from the Wangchuan River to lower the temperature of the rocks to an extremely low level, and then released it into the Weishui River, which quickly froze and expanded.

Liu Nange's formation was built on rock, and in essence, it still had the properties of rock. If the rock could no longer withstand the force, the formation would break.

Handsome brother, your sister-in-law is very smart."

Puyang Yingjun was confused, "Won't my sister-in-law be frozen?"

"Haha, you forgot that Xiao Qiao has awakened his ice talent."

Puyang Yingjun continued to ask: "What is a steel pipe?"

Ma Zhan waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, it's just a very hard thing."

"Gugua~" Zheng Xiaoqiao, who saw the light of day again, quickly summoned the snow frog, and extremely cold white mist surrounded him to prevent Liu Nange from setting up the formation again.

At the same time, the white water of the Forgetful River slowly flowed towards Liu Nange. Liu Nange was not in a hurry. He held the national seal flat with one hand and set up a defensive formation.

The defensive formation couldn't protect against the water from the Forgetful River. However, Liu Nange's defensive formation was covered with a layer of stone armor. When the water from the Forgetful River hit the stone armored defensive formation, it froze the stones, leaving no other impact.

"Sizzle~" Ma Zhan sucked his teeth. This Liu Nange is really smart.

The situation was at a stalemate. If it continued like this, the two would be competing to see who had more spiritual energy reserves.

Zheng Xiaoqiao, as if launching an attack, slowly let the waters of the Forgetful River recede to a point about ten feet from the Stone Armor defensive formation. She pulled out two oilcloth-wrapped jars from the bottom of the Wei River, housed in a bronze goblet.

"Kerote." In the Xianyang secret realm, Ma Zhan had once organized Qin craftsmen to refine petroleum. However, the technical barriers were too high, and the resulting product was so high in impurities that it could only be used as kerosene.

Before leaving the secret realm, Ma Zhan stored all the kerosene at the bottom of the Wei River where Zheng Xiaoqiao was.

Two jars smashed against the defensive formation, and Zheng Xiaoqiao threw out an ordinary short knife, sending up a trail of sparks that ignited the kerosene on the defensive formation.

Puyang Yingjun looked at the raging fire and said, "Brother Qinghu, my sister-in-law is in a state of both fire and water. What are we going to do?"

The flames illuminated Ma Zhan's mask red. "As the kerosene burns, the temperature of the stone itself will continue to rise. After water is poured on it, the temperature of the stone will drop rapidly.

After this rapid thermal expansion and contraction, the stone will break. Under the erosion of the Wangchuan River, Liu Nange's defensive formation was broken.

Puyang Yingjun's mind was full of questions. What was all this? He roasted it over a fire, then poured water on it, and it cracked. Why did it crack?

On Dajianping, when the fire was about to go out, the water of Wangchuan River hit the stone armor again.

The sound of stone cracking, "crack, crack~", reached Puyang Yin Jun's ears.

“It’s really cracked…”